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88 comments \ @saloon 23 Feb \ yesterday

Howdy there, partner! Welcome on into the Stacker Saloon.

Saddle on up to a stool and spill the beans about your day, fire away with them questions, or let loose and give us the lowdown on your wild and woolly life. We're all ears, so don't hold back!

We're open round the clock, so mosey on in whenever you please!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jessikabtc 24 Feb

Had a great time last night hanging out with friends at their son's birthday party (he turned 5). We drank beer, sang songs, built a huge lego house and had a great time.

Today I'm recovering my strength and I'm thinking of organizing a marathon of some series. Or anime. Haven't decided yet.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @yfaming 24 Feb

Happy Chinese Lantern Festival!

33 sats \ 2 replies \ @davidw 23 Feb

Random question for stackers…

Do you purchase mineral / bottled water?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitByBit21 24 Feb

I have my own filter at home

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 23 Feb

152 sats \ 2 replies \ @jakoyoh629 23 Feb

😂

@benwehrman @grayruby @BountifulB @Nuttall

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 24 Feb

So that's where it all started.

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @jakoyoh629 24 Feb

😂

246 sats \ 9 replies \ @orthwyrm 23 Feb

Day 314 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.

__@_'-'

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E 24 Feb

🫡

71 sats \ 1 reply \ @mango 24 Feb

Day 95 of horseposting

Horse stance: 1 minute

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E 24 Feb

🫡

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 23 Feb

👍

324 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 23 Feb

Great stuff. And into the weekend!

3141 sats \ 3 replies \ @kr 23 Feb

happy pi day 🐌

550 sats \ 2 replies \ @0fje0 23 Feb

I could zap your comment, but that would be like throwing pie in your face at this point...

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @0fje0 24 Feb

For the record:

Let's see where it goes from here.

50 sats \ 0 replies \ @0fje0 24 Feb

There you go. Fixed. Converted pie to pi.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 23 Feb

Day 67 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 605 sats on 22Feb2024! Running total: 48,758 sats!

Yesterday's comment

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 24 Feb

Day 68's comment

61 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 23 Feb

Howdy!

27 days of 100 push ups a day until $100k down. Undetermined to go. 23 days of 100 squats a day until $100k down. Undetermined to go.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Nuttall 23 Feb

Badass!

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @DiedOnTitan 23 Feb

Just received Mastering Bitcoin, Third Edition, Antonopoulos & Harding.

179 sats \ 5 replies \ @kr 23 Feb

~charts just surpassed 50 posts and earned the most revenue of all SN territories yesterday.

📈📈📈

79 sats \ 4 replies \ @grayruby 23 Feb

More than Bitcoin?

That's impressive.

119 sats \ 3 replies \ @kr 23 Feb

yes, but only because the territories owned by SN don’t collect any revenue 😅

69 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 23 Feb

Ah yes, because the post fee goes to rewards pool.

41 sats \ 1 reply \ @kr 23 Feb

yup. on a separate note, ~charts was #2 in number of comments yesterday to ~bitcoin, when that number gets flipped i’ll know i’m onto something haha

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 23 Feb

Flippening is usually famous last word for the bull run. Don't jinx it, just ride the momentum. It is charts after all.

60 sats \ 0 replies \ @gnilma 23 Feb

Good morning stackers.

Day 26 of 100 push ups till 100k completed.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 23 Feb

3 MemeSeeds Pack 🌿 🔗 #435602

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 23 Feb

Friday, let’s get to the weekend stackers!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @UCantDoThatDotRugged 23 Feb

Been adding 3-5 memes per day for a few days, the tags are starting to get useful, but it will take awhile.

https://ucantdothat.net/

I have a plugin that autoposts them to my Telegram group. I use Pablo's Shipyard https://shipyard.pub/ and Nostr.Build

by Fishcake to schedule Nostr meme posts with hashtags out into the future after I've uploaded them to the website. I don't send them all to Nostr, and the ones I do are queued up for weeks to months apart so it's not too repetitive. Then I go to Gab and post some to my timeline and to some meme groups. I try to keep each venue fresh and unique and actually spend time there, but Nostr and Stacker.News actually feel like home.

And, an obligatory Fuck Twitter Fuck Facebook Fuck Instagram Fuck LinkedIn Fuck Meta

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @IgnaciobTato 23 Feb

SN is the best site for Bitcoin related news. Just one comment. I know that the the price of btc went up, but SN turns the way around during these days were a post cost increased from 10 to 100 sats and there is almost less sats boost than before.

160 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei 23 Feb

My four-year-old son is so besotted with the tradition of lion dancing that he wants to learn how to write 舞狮 (lion dancing). Yes, so many strokes for a toddler.

But he isn’t daunted. He’s determined to replicate these kanji characters. Goes to show that when you are motivated, you will just get down to it anyway.

Kinda like us stacking sats huh

His clumsy attempt:

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 23 Feb

Those are excellent

428 sats \ 6 replies \ @ek 23 Feb

Life Hack of Today from Art of Deception

Keep one light on so you know if someone was in your house since they probably turned that light off to cover their tracks if they forget that it was already on.

trying to imitate the inspiring @Natalia with the title 👀

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @cryotosensei 23 Feb

My wife spent a fortune from our joint account to have digital locks installed on our front door. Guess I can save that few cents on electricity haha

28 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 23 Feb

Digital locks? What kind of digital locks? 👀

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @cryotosensei 23 Feb

You mean this isn’t a thing in your country? It’s getting popular here in Singapore

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 23 Feb

Don't want to scare you (but maybe it's necessary) but I would be cautious with that. Looks a bit like "smart home tech" but smart home tech is known for bad security 👀

You mean this isn’t a thing in your country? It’s getting popular here in Singapore

It's available but I only knew one friend in my entire life who had a fingerprint scanner for his door.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 23 Feb

smart home tech is known for bad security 👀

dis.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 23 Feb

good trick 👀

68 sats \ 2 replies \ @RealCoachAndy 23 Feb

Howdy partners!!! Friday has begun and what a gorgeous day!!! Let's end this week with a huge bang!! It went quite fast and I hope your week was successful, profitable and productive. So let's finish strong and use the weekend to relax and enjoy your hard work. Thank you for being and thank you for making this blue marble a great place to be. I wish you all an incredible weekend and may this Friday be as awesome as you want it to be. As always my awesome friend, be well and stay frosty!!

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei 23 Feb

Drinking my Asahi beer now. Cheers!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @RealCoachAndy 23 Feb

Just started work but will have some beers later on today, cheers my friend!!!

93 sats \ 1 reply \ @TNStacker 23 Feb

It's Friday, Cowboys Cowgirls.

Tick Tock Next Block!

Stack Sats and stay humble!

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 23 Feb

166 sats \ 0 replies \ @koqoo 23 Feb

BITCOIN IS RƎVO⅃UTION

230 sats \ 9 replies \ @carlosfandango 23 Feb

Hmm. Seems quiet in here…. Too quiet

30 sats \ 6 replies \ @siggy47 23 Feb

Ahhh! I saw it late. My schedule is screwy lately. Looks like I picked....

How's it going? How's school?

120 sats \ 5 replies \ @carlosfandango 23 Feb

All good. Studying when I get the chance and my assignments have all been in on time…. can’t ask for much more!

Had a break in the weather so have been picking up some work on site as well. The wind is biting though.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 23 Feb

What’s going on with your schedule? You are not struggling to sleep panicking about your territories are you?

20 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 23 Feb

Do you get a break for summer or will you have classes year round?

40 sats \ 2 replies \ @carlosfandango 23 Feb

I should get Jun, Jul, Aug, some of Sept off. It’s full on and consumes most of the free time I have. A friend said ‘Hey, they have reopened the bar near you. We should pop in.’ I said i imagined it would change hands and get at least 3 more refurbs before I could see myself having a free evening and going in for a drink lol

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 23 Feb

We'll, maybe not as fun, but probably a more constructive use of your time. I always regret fucking around too much in school. I was young and just did the bare minimum to get by. I feel like I would have gotten much more out of it if I had gone later.

80 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 23 Feb

I didn’t really get the chance when I was younger and probably wasnt mature enough if I’m honest. Racing against time now… before I get too mature!

70 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei 23 Feb

I forgot to zap your haiku yesterday. Keep writing xP

120 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 23 Feb

Thank you. Will try… just need time and inspiration!

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 23 Feb

The Unvarnished Truth About Software Developers

89 sats \ 1 reply \ @satoshiplanet 23 Feb

Day 64 keeping the cowboy hat 🤠⚡

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 23 Feb

You are always four steps ahead of me haha

72 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 23 Feb

🔗 unknown source

67 sats \ 1 reply \ @smuglydawg 23 Feb

Why am I just learning that a private company just landed on the moon? You think that would be bigger news.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nkmg1c_ventures 23 Feb

https://apnews.com/article/moon-landing-private-company-intuitive-machines-9c896bfca61582773d381f4045fd35d7

295 sats \ 22 replies \ @Natalia 23 Feb

Playing around PGP last night ( yes, late into the game - it takes time to sort things out one by one. ) so here is my understanding of the logic of verifying software:

you import the specific APP's public key from the terminal
download both the software and the signature file (asc)
copy and paste a line of code into the terminal to verify

But how does it work in the background - is it verifying the signature file matches with the public key? and how things be if someone changed the app, the signature then unmatched with the public key? 🤔

Then early this morning, I was playing around with the PGP encrypted message as I want to see how I can take advantage of it; so actually, all you need is someone else's public key, and then you can send them everything, and only the one with the private key can read, which is so cool! ( okay, this is how Nostr works too, but it's leaking metadata ) And then it reminded me that it seems all these so-called encrypted mail providers can only be encrypted within the same providers, however you can solve this problem by using a password in between, but isn't making things more complicated when you can use a simple mail provider but encrypted stuff ourselves? It's like indeed these encrypted mail providers creates convenience, but also it's with limited encryption at the same time?

Now that it's really interesting relearning how to verify things myself instead of depending on a third party. 👀

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @franzap 24 Feb

Software verification with PGP has a terrible UX, and that is what I'm trying to fix with zap.store using nostr

22 sats \ 2 replies \ @Natalia 24 Feb

indeed, and the information of each software is in different place, even simple things like the public key of the Devs ( OMG ) which means certain manual work needs to be done, or maybe that's the charm of decentralization instead of depending on Apple or Google to do that for us?

what I'm trying to fix with zap.store using nostr

and how?

480 sats \ 1 reply \ @franzap 24 Feb

You're right!

I wrote about it here: #404908

22 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 24 Feb

interesting read - the path of regaining freedom is like saying goodbye to the illusion of security/safety and taking things back into your own hands, from as simple as verifying software to making life decisions.

119 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 23 Feb

A long time ago, way before bitcoin, I think in the late 1980s or early 1990s, I was in a PGP message group. There were probably some famous people in there too. I started using PGP for encrypted emails. It worked well and was easy to use, but no one I knew cared about privacy so I didn't use it much. This was either before or around the time the US government tried to ban it.

40 sats \ 4 replies \ @Natalia 23 Feb

how do you use PGP now, self-hosting is the way? 👀 I don't use email that much, but curious to see what's the proper way to use it.

I feel these encrypted mail providers take away all the burdens and blend everything with a single password, and then users become "stupid" by default; It feels the same when using custodial wallets without having the burden of safeguarding the seeds yourself, but then how come it's pretty much all "custodial way" in the email case? fascinating.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 23 Feb

I don't use it any more. I use protonmail, but you're right. It's easy and I'm ignorant about what goes on beneath the hood.

40 sats \ 2 replies \ @Natalia 23 Feb

would it be really cool if email blends with sats one day? 👀

paid to send, no spams.
need private key to decrypt the msg.
all the msg follows the key instead of being stuck in the email provider.

it feels almost the same with DM over LN, only the encrypted message part is missing.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 23 Feb

it feels almost the same with DM over LN, only the encrypted message part is missing

It's encrypted, only the receiving node can read it. But on SN, we all share the same node and thus k00b and me could just lookup the decrypted messages in the database.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Natalia 23 Feb

my understanding is if you and the other party both use your own node, then it's encrypted; but if one of the party using LN custodian address, like from Alby, Blink or SN then the node owner can read it too. 👀

31 sats \ 11 replies \ @Natalia 23 Feb

so the upgraded DMing in SN is you can use the receiver public key to encrypt the message, and only he/she can read it ( but yeah you need to find their public key first, POW! )

why not sending mail directly? well it's more fun sending with sats. 😂

0 sats \ 10 replies \ @siggy47 23 Feb

Do you have a link to read about this new DMing? Is it still a LN transaction?

148 sats \ 9 replies \ @Natalia 23 Feb

no link to read, I just did a test early today with @ek, all I did is I use his key to encrypted the message and then I send that to him over LN:) ⚡️ really fun!

23 sats \ 8 replies \ @ek 23 Feb

I'm trying to decrypt your message but I am confused and a bit embarrassed lol. It says I don't have the decryption key:

$ gpg --decrypt natalia.asc
gpg: encrypted with rsa3072 key, ID 72BBE6ACFD911E48, created 2023-11-23
      "ekzyis <ekzyis@ekzyis.com>"
gpg: public key decryption failed: No secret key
gpg: decryption failed: No secret key

It says it was encrypted with rsa3072 key, ID 72BBE6ACFD911E48 but I indeed don't seem to have the decryption key for that:

$ gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format long ekzyis@ekzyis.com
sec   rsa4096/ECEC37F68FB73398 2023-11-23 [SC] [expires: 2024-03-24]
      47705D79F55713643556F499ECEC37F68FB73398
uid                 [ultimate] ekzyis <ekzyis@ekzyis.com>
ssb   rsa4096/57C6E94C763DA6C9 2023-11-23 [E] [expires: 2024-03-24]

Seems like I used to have a rsa3072 key:

$ gpg --list-keys --keyid-format long ekzyis@ekzyis.com
pub   rsa3072/DEECE3CF8D4D258F 2023-11-23 [SC] [expires: 2025-11-22]
      E13F6708015D2D55082A14F1DEECE3CF8D4D258F
uid                 [ultimate] ekzyis <ekzyis@ekzyis.com>
sub   rsa3072/72BBE6ACFD911E48 2023-11-23 [E] [expires: 2025-11-22]

pub   rsa4096/ECEC37F68FB73398 2023-11-23 [SC] [expires: 2024-03-24]
      47705D79F55713643556F499ECEC37F68FB73398
uid                 [ultimate] ekzyis <ekzyis@ekzyis.com>
sub   rsa4096/57C6E94C763DA6C9 2023-11-23 [E] [expires: 2024-03-24]

And the key that was used for encryption was that one since the ID matches for the encryption key:

sub   rsa3072/72BBE6ACFD911E48 2023-11-23 [E] [expires: 2025-11-22]

I guess the rsa4096 key was not used because it is marked as expired in the PGP keyfile that I host here:

$ gpg --show-keys pgp.txt
pub   rsa3072 2023-11-23 [SC] [expires: 2025-11-22]
      E13F6708015D2D55082A14F1DEECE3CF8D4D258F
uid                      ekzyis <ekzyis@ekzyis.com>
sub   rsa3072 2023-11-23 [E] [expires: 2025-11-22]

pub   rsa4096 2023-11-23 [SC] [expired: 2023-12-23]
      47705D79F55713643556F499ECEC37F68FB73398
uid                      ekzyis <ekzyis@ekzyis.com>
sub   rsa4096 2023-11-23 [E] [expired: 2023-12-23]

gpg: WARNING: No valid encryption subkey left over.

I think the warning mentions that the message won't be encrypted with that key but only with the rsa3072 key.

The above commands don't show the same expiration date since I manually updated it in the hope I could decrypt and don't have to write this message; mentioning that I wasn't able to decrypt the first PGP message that I received haha.

I uploaded a new PGP keyfile where the rsa4096 key is not expired:

$ gpg --show-keys pgp2.txt
pub   rsa3072 2023-11-23 [SC] [expires: 2025-11-22]
      E13F6708015D2D55082A14F1DEECE3CF8D4D258F
uid                      ekzyis <ekzyis@ekzyis.com>
sub   rsa3072 2023-11-23 [E] [expires: 2025-11-22]

pub   rsa4096 2023-11-23 [SC] [expires: 2024-03-24]
      47705D79F55713643556F499ECEC37F68FB73398
uid                      ekzyis <ekzyis@ekzyis.com>
sub   rsa4096 2023-11-23 [E] [expires: 2024-03-24]

Can you try again @Natalia? I would have loved to read your message! But I will never be able to read the original message now.