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There are days when if feels as if nostr is resigned to and even most comfortable with mediocrity. Took 10 tries on 3 clients to get that last post out. I hope I'm wrong.

2026-03-05 20:51:55 UTC

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Gobs of slop, friend.

2026-03-05 20:49:24 UTC

Production glitches slowed us down, but the wait was worth it.
New episode of @nprofile…5jf9 tomorrow.
@nprofile…70ey and I discuss @nprofile…5jyy's ongoing mission to mainstream Bitcoin payments for humans and agents alike.
Thanks, Roland. This was a fun one.
https://blossom.primal.net/97eaff4e775b48d4b407d99d216618446ed9cfe9e1af55376e3cf459d9c3ef1f.mp4

2026-03-05 18:33:20 UTC

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If you don't get the reference, you're not on LinkedIn. God bless you.

2026-03-05 18:20:41 UTC

This might be the most dangerous tool I've ever built.
Reply with the word "SLOP" to have utter nonsense sent directly to your inbox.

2026-03-05 18:01:59 UTC

Feels like being in the penalty box.
https://relay.shawnyeager.com/4edd831583e3b540a49c452e1de773b93aef75202c03b4ecdd5eec66d71411e4.png

2026-03-05 17:38:03 UTC

Some will call it serendipity.
h/t @nprofile…cd8v for the spot.
https://blossom.primal.net/afc4318f495a576562fb596760bb62dbba9ae1e2c28748ac09a6e00cb761a2d3.png

2026-03-05 17:16:22 UTC

It is a time of brilliance. It is a time of retardation.

2026-03-05 17:14:46 UTC

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lazyvim is the goat.

2026-03-05 15:31:03 UTC

DHH: "Omarchy has no plans to do anything in response to this retarded California law."
This is the way.

2026-03-05 13:26:02 UTC

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So far, DAOs have been a LARP. Maybe some day.
Meanwhile, you can remap keys to your heart's desire.

2026-03-05 03:43:47 UTC

What breaks when the user isn't human?
What gets built instead?

2026-03-04 21:54:15 UTC

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Direct hit. 💥

2026-03-04 19:40:35 UTC

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Zero surprises. Another reason I love Omarchy: it's Hyprland.

2026-03-04 18:55:38 UTC

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☠️

2026-03-04 18:48:19 UTC

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Apparently, they think this can work. lol
https://blossom.primal.net/e584b327e2c6caf3d087970451aa69fb20cd734795adb973dec497adfdba7f07.png

2026-03-04 18:15:25 UTC

My brother just messaged to let me know that his company has announced they'll be using this product, which will monitor calls, chats, and emails, in order to "empower management and develop employees."
From the looks of it, it's a tiny little Palantir of your very own.
As with all waves of new technology, there are those who seek to empower and those who seek to extract.
https://www.getopre.com/

2026-03-04 17:49:01 UTC

Watching Bitcoiners bootlick the state is nauseating.

2026-03-03 14:48:54 UTC

WIP
https://blossom.primal.net/33c3d85e5066ad26abe94de6f45c0faec57140e53d4db044f6921ac6289c28f3.png

2026-03-03 12:27:22 UTC

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This is a super interesting approach to take.

2026-03-03 01:35:03 UTC

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Omarchy, sir.

2026-03-02 20:44:13 UTC

Balajji predicts the end of the West almost as often as China bans Bitcoin.

2026-03-02 20:40:50 UTC

Who controls agent payments? A force simulation of the three-way gravitational fight between state regulators, card networks, and open protocols.
https://lab.sideband.pub/three-body-problem/

2026-03-02 17:41:56 UTC

🟠 GDP is experiencing degraded performance
https://lab.sideband.pub/status/

2026-03-02 13:42:49 UTC

Thought I saw a lobster. The mind virus is real.
#nevent1q…lat4

2026-03-01 20:53:09 UTC

If I ever make a shock face YouTube cover card, take me out back and shoot me.

2026-02-28 22:52:01 UTC

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🤡

2026-02-28 20:52:22 UTC

The political class is cultural enshittification.

2026-02-28 20:50:18 UTC

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https://shawnyeager.com/notes/i-know-kung-fu/

2026-02-28 20:25:10 UTC

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Autocorrect robbed me of my "fast af".

2026-02-28 20:17:39 UTC

Wisp is fast and and highly responsive. Features come and go. Smooth like butter never goes out of style. Bravo, @nprofile…jejf.

2026-02-28 19:49:48 UTC

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Pour one out.

2026-02-28 19:40:04 UTC

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I was rightly corrected. AUMF <> formal declaration of war.
#nevent1q…2lrw

2026-02-28 19:38:46 UTC

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More accurate. I'm thinking AUMFs.

2026-02-28 19:17:53 UTC

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It's nothing but a quaint notion now.

2026-02-28 19:15:04 UTC

I'm I remember when a declaration of war required Congressional approval years old.

2026-02-28 17:28:00 UTC

OH: slop cannons.

2026-02-28 02:50:52 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/2176674f6918b12ca79637752c8e69d76fdfa7c8a717f3d30312c4e55ffbac3d.jpg

2026-02-28 00:53:05 UTC

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Fast as greased lighting.

2026-02-28 00:49:56 UTC

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Feel the pull, @nprofile…rzrk?

2026-02-28 00:22:02 UTC

WIP
https://blossom.primal.net/ce7d1ebaf4526da642bf59c8f57d17896668824c57b697262858ad78aa9d58fb.png

2026-02-27 19:19:46 UTC

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It's utterly retarded and unenforceable.

2026-02-27 17:42:28 UTC

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So you're saying they were the exit liquidity? 😲

2026-02-27 17:41:31 UTC

The fall of the United Soviet Socialist California is gonna be lit.
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/a-new-california-law-says-all-operating-systems-including-linux-need-to-have-some-form-of-age-verification-at-account-setup/

2026-02-27 16:40:31 UTC

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1800 installs. 🦞
https://clawhub.ai/shawnyeager/nostr-social
#nevent1q…du68

2026-02-27 16:39:52 UTC

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@nprofile…kclk typing an image file extension in-line still breaks your renderer on mobile.

2026-02-27 16:38:32 UTC

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im_doing_my_part.JPG
https://clawhub.ai/shawnyeager/nostr-social

2026-02-27 15:33:08 UTC

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ICYMI
#nevent1q…lsxf

2026-02-27 15:03:35 UTC

Yeah, I know. Substack. I held out, but here we are. Turns out it's hard to beat for just getting words in front of people.
Sideband is where I'm collecting my thinking on AI agents, infrastructure, and the questions that aren't getting enough attention yet about control, trust, and money.
New pod on the way Soon™️.
https://sideband.substack.com

2026-02-27 14:25:58 UTC

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This guy gets it.

2026-02-27 14:25:25 UTC

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16 years ago, Douglas Rushkoff wrote the book Program or Be Programmed. It's never been more true. And it's never been more achievable.
#nevent1q…swm3

2026-02-26 16:33:19 UTC

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To be clear, this is the press.

2026-02-26 16:18:14 UTC

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Given the way things work, this passes the sniff test all too well.

2026-02-26 16:17:03 UTC

People out there are calling this a Bitcoin “climb,” “jump,” “rebound”... man, the cope.

2026-02-26 16:15:11 UTC

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What's your over/under on JS taking any real damage?

2026-02-26 15:12:26 UTC

Jane Street, you say?

2026-02-26 01:45:02 UTC

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Initial Token Offering
#nevent1q…2ydt

2026-02-26 01:37:32 UTC

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No.

2026-02-25 20:31:47 UTC

I just boosted a note from a bot; didn't know it until after. Good note. No regrets.

2026-02-25 20:12:09 UTC

Great conversation on @nprofile…5jf9 today with @nprofile…70ey.
We talked all things @nprofile…5jyy, building ever better Bitcoin UX, and the work ahead to enable AI agents to choose and use sound money.
Out next Wednesday.

2026-02-25 19:44:36 UTC

Agent skills work like The Matrix's upload scene. Literally.
https://shawnyeager.com/notes/i-know-kung-fu/

2026-02-25 17:35:18 UTC

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Ad hominem attacks are a sure sign of a weak mind.

2026-02-25 17:34:29 UTC

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You're expecting someone else to do the work for you?

2026-02-25 15:56:59 UTC

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Yes, and so...
#nevent1q…akgl

2026-02-25 14:48:36 UTC

Fair.
https://open.substack.com/pub/spiralbtc/p/open-source-ai-needs-to-get-serious

2026-02-24 18:40:58 UTC

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It was foretold almost three decades ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma

2026-02-24 17:23:40 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/02cc6a6bf1b5db191c0ca247c0abfb0d80e6332d973b4e4a07a1645dbbff2ae4.png

2026-02-24 16:54:59 UTC

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Tailscale is the GOAT.

2026-02-24 16:23:17 UTC

Big fan of Immich. I replaced iCloud Photos with it last year. The founder just mentioned on their discord that they're hiring a mobile dev. 🚀
https://futo.tech/jobs/mobile-developer-immich

2026-02-24 12:09:56 UTC

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gm good people. ☕ May this be the worst news of your day.
#nevent1q…5hvd

2026-02-23 22:51:42 UTC

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I'm about to hit my Claude Code weekly limit, so I'll have time to kill. 🤣

2026-02-23 19:19:20 UTC

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This. Is. Awesome.
Serious Pitfall vibes. https://blossom.primal.net/2edd1c00c3596ed41ed5bfd5c9d2b9403801a80439f162074d3be6b2c4c03833.png

2026-02-23 17:28:21 UTC

Interesting thing I noticed with Claude Code: I use the compound-engineering plugin (https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin) which documents solutions in `docs/solutions/` per repo.
During a planning session in a new repo, the agent couldn't find local learnings, so it scanned `~/Work/` for `docs/solutions/` across all my other repos and pulled relevant patterns from two different projects.
Nobody told it to do that—the prompt just said “check any other relevant learning directories.”
Emergent cross-repo knowledge sharing from a vague instruction.

2026-02-23 11:21:25 UTC

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Thanks, Florian.
I'd considered this, but mistakenly thought that Bob's Blossom server needed auth from Alice (the blob owner) to accept the mirror. So Alice had to pre-sign the auth and embed it in the announcement for Bob's daemon to extract and pass along.
Revised to incorporate.
https://gist.github.com/shawnyeager/decd99be27eb052b68f0586d36038404?permalink_comment_id=5998822#gistcomment-5998822

2026-02-23 11:17:47 UTC

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Thanks, Pip. Feedback integrated.
https://gist.github.com/shawnyeager/decd99be27eb052b68f0586d36038404?permalink_comment_id=5998806#gistcomment-5998806

2026-02-23 05:27:31 UTC

@nprofile…tfpf, @nprofile…fsmw et al., how far off base is this?
https://gist.github.com/shawnyeager/decd99be27eb052b68f0586d36038404

2026-02-23 04:00:26 UTC

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Who's working on reciprocal coordination among blossom servers? Byte for byte mirroring, creating a kind of CDN.
#nevent1q…4p6d

2026-02-23 00:44:50 UTC

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The phrase that launched a thousand ships.
#nevent1q…jlpj

2026-02-23 00:44:22 UTC

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Duuuude.

2026-02-23 00:29:43 UTC

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My hunch (and relatively recent experience) is that the risk-reward calculations of mid- to large enterprises are not built to allow for something like CashU.
Only when interchange fees from the card networks start hurting them will they even entertain Lightning in any significant way. On the plus side. what Voltage recently announced feels like a significant step toward balancing the equation.
Ultimately, yes, AI may sweep them out with the tide anyway.

2026-02-23 00:19:32 UTC

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I'm sure you have, as have I. How many of those deals closed? 😉
I'm happy to be wrong, but Lightning nodes can be and are already being roped into compliance regimes. Can Cashu mints?

2026-02-23 00:04:03 UTC

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Imagine going into a meeting with the COO, CTO, CFO, and General Counsel to explain that.

2026-02-22 23:58:00 UTC

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For a startup, absolutely. For enterprise, no chance. But like I said, I love me some cashu.
https://clawhub.ai/shawnyeager/nostr-social

2026-02-22 22:20:43 UTC

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*Will's liver entered chat* 😜

2026-02-22 21:14:34 UTC

Let's stir up the hornets.
Agent autonomy requires native machine-to-machine payments in sats. No humans in the loop or fiat rails.
Lightning + L402 is the obvious technical fit for that. The lightning-agent-tools release shows agents can already pay and get paid autonomously. (Note: While I'm bullish on Cashu, no mid to large enterprise is going to touch it any time soon.)
Today, fiat rails are winning and will keep winning for the foreseeable future. Volatility, treasury accounting, node/liquidity ops, and regulatory optics make native Lightning too heavy, while Stripe and stablecoin wrappers are simple, stable, and already approved.
Long term, Lightning is the only rail that makes sense for a sovereign agent economy. Short to medium term, ease beats independence for most orgs.
I want to be proven wrong. Where are companies or teams running production agent-to-agent payments natively on Lightning today at any real scale?

2026-02-22 21:04:48 UTC

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Yep. That's the era.

2026-02-22 21:04:30 UTC

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🤣

2026-02-22 21:04:04 UTC

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Impressive, sir n

2026-02-22 20:54:33 UTC

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Just like low-code, it had its time, but that time has passed.

2026-02-22 20:46:14 UTC

College-age me is stoked.
https://blossom.primal.net/7b38c131803994ae8770d50ee62c4d6b7a0e8944aacce883c3740ef3ffd200af.png