SoftWAR: Jason Lowery's Thesis Explained with Lucas and Grant of Bitcoin Study Sessions (WiM553)

@npub12rv5lskct… said "get in touch with me directly if you want to work on/with #cashu". 🙋‍♂️Hi, right here! I'm respecting his "don't Nostr DM me" profile note but wasn't able to find him in my Matrix client... I want to use trusted Cashu mints as a fundamental piece of an escrow system that backs a free market of bounties and work-for-hire (over Nostr, of course) I already have a minimally-viable relay implementation and a web client that handles the happy-path actions. I've integrated zaps for escrow payments and funds dispersal. Deeply-embedding Cashu mints into the escrow system will really take this idea where it needs to go. If you're ever available to share some thoughts on the design or provide some Cashu guidance I would be deeply appreciative @npub12rv5lskct… ! You know where to find me. Thanks! (If I don't respond to a DM it means I definitely didn't see or receive it. Tag me in a note in that case!)

"Oh yea, we're going to scale [Bitcoin] without shitcoins. That's for sure.". - @npub12rv5lskct… ♥️♥️♥️

This intro from @npub12rv5lskct… about art/code/creativity.... Wow. How did we end up with this guy? What a world.

sats for holidays: back in the paper wallet days i printed some out for nieces and nephews as bitcoin stocking stuffers. since then i've swept them to hardware cold wallets, all the while sliding more sats in every year. each year i help their parents get a little closer to legit self-custody without my involvement. started with me as the custodian.. end goal being a self sovereign extended family (with a nice starter stack). bitcoin uncle club!

vinney here (the "v" in "v cavallo" 😆) i have a fully self-hosted lightning address at my own domain - [email protected] - that i achieve with lnbits on a public vps and a tunnel to an umbrel node on my LAN. it is a pain in the ass but it **does** work and makes me happy. the externally-reachable vps is the key. dm me on nostr if you want more details!

I'm not picking a side here. I just want to clarify Mechanic's point as I understand it. A scammer just needs to get Granny to double-click on an application that does those things automatically. Fetch op return data from a block on the chain, does whatever parsing and chopping, and then runs it locally on her machine (stealing her credit card number or passwords or whatever arbitrary malicious malware activity). If the scammer hosted this malware on his own server, downloads would leave a paper trail that investigators could follow. Uploading the malware to any other public server would likely be blocked or filtered by whatever security and content restrictions that plarform has. his point is the Bitcoin blockchain becomes the least filtered, easiest place to upload that sort of thing. whether one sees this as a problem or not is up for debate, but I wanted the argument to at least be clear.

you asked how the bill pay thing works for me: i get "bank account and routing numbers" from Strike, where i have a bitcoin balance and zero USD. i put that "bank" account number in my credit card, mortgage, car payment, etc. - literally everywhere. so all my USD bills are paid from my bitcoin "checking account" balance in Strike. importantly, i have an auto-withdraw threshold on Strike where anything above that amount is moved to a (new) address in my cold storage automatically. so life is like: get paid in bitcoin; "checking account" balance stays in Strike for monthly expenses; excess above that is automatically hodled in cold storage. it's actually fairly mindblowing...

This was supposed to be a much bigger boost. I mis-tapped

npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx and npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m and npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx said "Twitter is a walled garden, so you can only post screenshots to Nostr". If **you** can see a tweet (or any other "private" content on the web) you can make a perfect web-archive of it. And then you can share it peer to peer in an uncensorable manner, removing all the internet's walled gardens - including paywalled ones. When someone else replays that archive in their browser, they're seeing the private page exactly as you did. The available tools for doing this are a bit clunky at the moment, but my team has built 95% of a frictionless user experience for doing just this. We'll be done with it within the year (or we'll be out of business). And Nostr provides all the rest of the infrastructure needed to make a proper network out of this. Extremely exciting!

my mempool my choice

#cashu is a genius act cashu ecash will be to megacorp coins what Bitcoin is to fiat.

Great show but I think both of you were ignoring the elephant in the room. Yes UK went to war on a lie in Iraq and 1m people are dead. This is unforgivable. Now the UK is complicit in a genocide and no one was talking about it. Talking to friends and family. This is the reason a lot of them just didn’t vote. There was no point cos both sides support genocide, support censorship and support sending bombs to foreign tyrants. I don’t think I’m the only one who feels this way.

Very interesting

You had me at “Satoshi’s going to rape our nodes”.

Please read Parker’s article multiple times as the concepts, at first seemingly complex, are really not at all difficult to comprehend. His explanation of how the systems of money and currency developed, evolved over time and how BTC solved the problems surrounding both is made plain. It gives one knowledge that is essential for explaining these systems to people. Excellent work!

Nice debate fellows👍🏽

I agree and appreciate you and your knowledge of this awesome project. I’ve learned so much from you. On to the Tyoe 1 Kardashev scale Bitpower movement! Keep it up Guy!

I have listened to this episode on repeat back-to-back no less than 4 times over the past couple days. If you listen to one podcast in your entire life, make it this one. Thank you, @npub1zf2fsqpv7…

Great interview Peter. I’m so glad you did it. Thank you.

Great show Teddy and Daryl. I got my knots badge but got my beard stuck in the knot. It was 45 mins of pain but the teacher was very impressed cos he thought it was the strongest knot he’d ever seen. Had to cut my beard in the end. No loger feeling the Gandalf vibe but proud of my knot. Tell me a bit more about your train sets.

This by far your best podcast and I’m including WBD. I’ve been a long time listener and this is amazing. Mr Sutter is an incredible educator. He is able to get across stupidly complex ideas easily and your interview style of not interrupting makes listening to him a joy. Thank you for this show.

this is my Bitcoin

re bip110: best case scenario is that the forced-move game theory that Mechanic describes actually teaches node runners that they shouldn't be ambivalent, now or in Bitcoin's future, lest they get played by a motivated minority. Maybe this was always the goal...

The reason I stick with nostr is the same reason I stick with all open protocols: NO to permission and coercion; YES to voluntary cooperation. exit, opt-out, opt-in, reorganize voluntarily.

"donate to the show" okay!

Big fan of yours.

Ok someone needs to tell me if this is planned theft or If the govt is really trying to minimise the risk of contamination of the big banks in event of extreme financial collapse. From discussing withDeepSeek it seems a lot of this came out of the collapse of bear sterns where toxic assets could not be separated from bank assets. Really need your ‘Guys Take’. This is really an important one.

let's do something about that zap amount floor.

fun song!!

here's to your hourly rate

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Ok. I’ve listened to you guys sober and today I listened to you guys drunk. U make so much more sense drunk. I’ve discovered a life hack!!!

I have so much fucking appreciation for @Knut_Svanholm_∞/21M @npub1jt97tpsul… and @npub1fk8h6g8zh… repping theism skepticism this well and hard in the Bitcoin space

Got thee hence 💩coins!!!

Samson is describing https://catallax.network towards the end here. - devs as nyms (key in catallax and Samson's vision) - foundation/arbiter overseeing - fundable with bounties He's talking about raising money to build this - it's easier to finish than he thinks. I'm almost done! @Knut_Svanholm_∞/21M @npub1fk8h6g8zh… get in touch if you guys are serious about propelling this and would like to start from a nostr base.

extremely timely for me at the moment.