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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!
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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.
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Happy Chinese Lantern Festival!
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Random question for stackers…
Do you purchase mineral / bottled water?
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I have my own filter at home
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Day 314 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.
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71 sats \ 1 reply \ @mango 24 Feb
Day 95 of horseposting
Horse stance: 1 minute
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👍
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Great stuff. And into the weekend!
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3141 sats \ 3 replies \ @kr 23 Feb
happy pi day 🐌
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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...
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @0fje0 24 Feb
For the record:
Let's see where it goes from here.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @0fje0 24 Feb
There you go. Fixed. Converted pie to pi.
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Day 67 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 605 sats on 22Feb2024! Running total: 48,758 sats!
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.
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Badass!
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Just received Mastering Bitcoin, Third Edition, Antonopoulos & Harding.
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179 sats \ 5 replies \ @kr 23 Feb
~charts just surpassed 50 posts and earned the most revenue of all SN territories yesterday.
📈📈📈
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More than Bitcoin?
That's impressive.
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119 sats \ 3 replies \ @kr 23 Feb
yes, but only because the territories owned by SN don’t collect any revenue 😅
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Ah yes, because the post fee goes to rewards pool.
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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
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Flippening is usually famous last word for the bull run. Don't jinx it, just ride the momentum. It is charts after all.
Good morning stackers.
Day 26 of 100 push ups till 100k completed.
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Friday, let’s get to the weekend stackers!
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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.
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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:
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Those are excellent
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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 👀
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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
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28 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 23 Feb
Digital locks? What kind of digital locks? 👀
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You mean this isn’t a thing in your country? It’s getting popular here in Singapore
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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.
good trick 👀
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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!!
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Drinking my Asahi beer now. Cheers!
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Just started work but will have some beers later on today, cheers my friend!!!
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It's Friday, Cowboys Cowgirls.
Tick Tock Next Block!
Stack Sats and stay humble!
166 sats \ 0 replies \ @co574 23 Feb
BITCOIN IS RƎVO⅃UTION
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Hmm. Seems quiet in here…. Too quiet
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Ahhh! I saw it late. My schedule is screwy lately. Looks like I picked....
How's it going? How's school?
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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.
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What’s going on with your schedule? You are not struggling to sleep panicking about your territories are you?
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Do you get a break for summer or will you have classes year round?
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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
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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.
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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!
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I forgot to zap your haiku yesterday. Keep writing xP
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Thank you. Will try… just need time and inspiration!
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You are always four steps ahead of me haha
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Why am I just learning that a private company just landed on the moon? You think that would be bigger news.
Been adding 3-5 memes per day for a few days, the tags are starting to get useful, but it will take awhile.
I have a plugin that autoposts them to my Telegram group. I use Pablo's Shipyard https://shipyard.pub/ and Nostr.Build https://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
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Software verification with PGP has a terrible UX, and that is what I'm trying to fix with zap.store using nostr
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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?
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480 sats \ 1 reply \ @franzap 24 Feb
You're right!
I wrote about it here: #404908
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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would it be really cool if email blends with sats one day? 👀
  1. paid to send, no spams.
  2. need private key to decrypt the msg.
  3. 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.
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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.
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Do you have a link to read about this new DMing? Is it still a LN transaction?
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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!
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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
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
Seems like I used to have a rsa3072 key:
$ gpg --list-keys --keyid-format long ekzyis
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
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
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.
Thanks for testing! Didn't know my key expired haha
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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @ek 23 Feb
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