phaedrus
Phaedrus

https://bitcoinpolis.gitlab.io/

Bitcoin, privacy

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npub1u65jmzmvyppx779m4pgsenw88h63y2q55wavr42n4h46ceaf9vnsznp0lk

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2026-02-07 04:14:48 UTC

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Beautiful

2026-02-05 04:11:24 UTC

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I love ska

2026-01-17 04:24:50 UTC

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Visually this was the coolest car ever built.

2026-01-16 02:32:12 UTC

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🤣🤣🤣

2026-01-12 05:58:49 UTC

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@npub1guh…6hjy do you have good examples to prove the people who say “I think Austrian economics is better but empirically it seems like Keynes was right” wrong?
I agree with you myself but looking for ideally empirical arguments.

2026-01-11 05:23:38 UTC

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crazy, right?

2026-01-11 04:00:29 UTC

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Haha. So true

2026-01-08 00:13:56 UTC

https://stacker.news/items/1406456/r/phaedrus

2025-12-28 02:14:34 UTC

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@npub1lz8…h86s

2025-12-28 02:09:08 UTC

@scmeetuptopic
#note17dd…whcy

2025-12-20 21:48:41 UTC

This sounds very interesting: China experimenting with free-market: https://x.com/rnaudbertrand/status/2002054459644674550?s=46
Anyone local who confirm or provide more details?

2025-12-11 03:53:08 UTC

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I went back to iOS Podcast app (no zapping). Then i tried again Fountain which got much better and i used for a while but now its again driving me nuts because it resets time position when listening in the car (you pause and then start playing again and it jumps back 20min or whatever).
I hope someone can make simple app without all the stupid features, but you can actually play a podcast on it:-)

2025-11-25 16:50:03 UTC

Silicon Valley learned from the banks. Hyped the AI and now trying to get a bailout from tax payers.
Stay humble. Stack sats. Hodl.

2025-11-17 17:06:44 UTC

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I would love to ask Bronnie a question: what percentage of people didn’t have any regrets?
I’m curious if you avoid these top 5, will you be doing happy/satisfied? Or you gonna have different 5 regrets?

2025-11-15 05:46:41 UTC

Directory of Square merchants:
https://giveandgetlocal.com/
And how to enable Bitcoin:
https://squareup.com/help/us/en/article/8554-accept-bitcoin-payments-with-square-alpha
Don’t forget to add them to @npub1864…t2tq

2025-11-14 00:57:03 UTC

#scmeetuptopic
#note1c6x…qtqj

2025-11-14 00:56:17 UTC

#scmeetuptopic
#note158r…hptu

2025-11-11 14:19:44 UTC

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He pleaded guilty for exactly what? (I’m genuinely asking since I only know high level — I assume he was operating coin join software)

2025-11-07 19:46:05 UTC

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Is there a summary of the official argument why he is sentenced?

2025-11-07 19:42:45 UTC

Everyone should read this and keep in mind.
#note1fct…wrny

2025-11-01 14:49:06 UTC

@npub13zv…t80d we need to do this in SC! #scmeetuptopic
#note13m8…aslh

2025-10-22 02:54:25 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/15b1c558cd2876e2a4a71bd157d5e8985a7f09f4c44a044dd8c786becea14f06.jpg

2025-10-17 02:56:54 UTC

https://stacker.news/items/1257670/r/phaedrus

2025-10-17 01:52:31 UTC

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Yes, in principle. But in practice defaults matter a lot.
And with Cashu people can pick their mint, right?

2025-10-17 01:50:18 UTC

Took me forever to find Spark protocol documentation (rather than SDK docs and marketing pages), so in case you interested: https://docs.spark.money/spark/spark-tldr
This looks interesting.

2025-10-15 03:48:50 UTC

This is amazing
#scmeetuptopic
#note1edp…enw8

2025-10-15 03:47:01 UTC

This is amazing
#note1edp…enw8

2025-10-15 03:12:06 UTC

Pretty awesome!
#note1u4d…wfq3

2025-10-15 03:00:32 UTC

Never thought of this
#note1dcl…dz5q

2025-10-12 23:39:32 UTC

Reminder, don’t get greedy. Stay humble and stack sats.
#note1w6m…fehj

2025-10-12 23:21:50 UTC

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Good article. But don’t you think that we just need the next Substack to be built on top of nostr? Building enough network effect is not easy but I think it’s possible. I’m convinced there will be opportunities.

2025-10-05 23:43:15 UTC

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I expect similar to what happened to internet: ~70% using Bitcoin but mostly not directly

2025-10-05 23:39:32 UTC

Somehow bitcoin going up stresses me more than going down: regretting not buying more 😊

2025-10-05 17:40:03 UTC

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Yep, a great book!

2025-10-05 17:33:10 UTC

Reminder: everything you upload somewhere will eventually become public information
#note1ezr…c4hv

2025-10-02 23:20:42 UTC

Great point!
#note1xwt…6qgd

2025-10-01 19:45:14 UTC

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If you are in the US and care about open source developers not going to jail, call your congressperson!
#nevent1q…lqy2

2025-10-01 14:20:21 UTC

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And I thought the encryption war was over🤣

2025-10-01 14:19:23 UTC

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So ridiculous

2025-10-01 13:29:53 UTC

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Only took like 5 years of gentle questions and waiting🤣

2025-10-01 13:28:40 UTC

When your friend you’ve been trying to orange pill for years, suddenly texts you in the morning…
https://image.nostr.build/1c411af64ad589f9fba9975482fb41e1aeed9df3705a9eea2f60f33866c7336c.jpg

2025-09-30 03:37:50 UTC

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I wish. I lost all my bitcoin in a bout accident.

2025-09-28 23:08:18 UTC

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Amazon link: https://a.co/d/biSayFn

2025-09-28 23:07:56 UTC

Highly recommend reading this book about encryption wars. I’m convinced that these lessons will be important in the upcoming Bitcoin war so the more people read it the better!
https://stacker.news/items/1241141/r/phaedrus

2025-09-27 20:08:49 UTC

@npub1hcw…h9rq
#note1e6k…a3n0

2025-09-26 17:12:33 UTC

My experience confirms this theory
#note1rn6…5vvh

2025-09-26 17:10:43 UTC

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Yeah, my lawyers also don’t know git and do this to me🤣

2025-09-26 17:07:22 UTC

Just tried to switch back for @fountain_app after a while and it’s so much better!
It’s not a single big improvement but rather a lot of little annoying bugs are gone. Great progress!

2025-09-24 03:16:20 UTC

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Does that mean the platforms will censor for users with California IP addresses? What do you expect?

2025-09-23 14:58:38 UTC

Can someone tell me what’s the difference between https://www.x402.org/ and https://www.l402.org/

2025-09-21 03:38:59 UTC

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How? Where can I get the NWC address? I don’t see it in the iOS app

2025-09-19 21:07:37 UTC

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Yep, but hacker news crowd is much closer to the outside world, so it’s useful for us to understand.
Bitcoiners on Nostr are just a small bubble.

2025-09-19 21:01:49 UTC

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@npub12vk…pugg ?

2025-09-19 21:01:33 UTC

Does Primal wallet support NWC so that I can use that wallet in other apps like Damus or stacker.news?

2025-09-19 19:11:57 UTC

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As far as I understand, none of these vulnerabilities are fundamental flaws in the protocol but rather bugs to be fixed.

2025-09-19 19:09:13 UTC

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@npub18lz…ugm3

2025-09-19 19:08:55 UTC

Hacker news post on Nostr, top comment calls out many security vulnerabilities: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45298336

2025-09-19 00:37:26 UTC

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Love it!

2025-09-18 18:56:31 UTC

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You mean using the same nostr identity (pub key) for sharing profits with the developers?

2025-09-18 18:54:52 UTC

Anyone knows the folks behind https://freedomstore.io/ ?
Doing some due diligence before I enable this on my phone🤣

2025-09-16 18:03:48 UTC

Wild
#note1fsz…99kp

2025-09-16 18:02:09 UTC

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Can you elaborate? Why?

2025-09-16 16:55:03 UTC

In the US, important legislation is being written right now: Digital Asset Market Clarity Act
If you believe that open source developers should not go to jail for writing software, and self-custody wallets shouldn’t require KYC, please call your representative!
https://saveourwallets.org

2025-09-15 02:21:56 UTC

Nostr experts out here, got some questions for you
https://stacker.news/items/1221897/r/phaedrus

2025-09-14 16:43:26 UTC

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Wow. So much data! Please keep us posted on any summaries/learnings/conclusions from the date.

2025-09-14 16:39:05 UTC

Amazing book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_(book)
It’s from 2001 so “crypto” means cryptography not shitcoins. Incredible story of Diffie, Hellman, Merkle and discovering asymmetric cryptography and the fight to make encryption free speech.
I’m only half way through but can’t put it down. Highly recommend!

2025-09-14 00:35:53 UTC

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Hope for better future

2025-09-13 22:06:49 UTC

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Of course SNL!

2025-09-13 02:46:23 UTC

Amazing🤣
Does anyone know where is this from?
#note1tm8…7s7f

2025-09-09 18:00:24 UTC

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Maybe tell them Square is already supporting it https://x.com/owenbjennings/status/1928175966922363326

2025-09-09 17:59:55 UTC

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Two existing requests - you can just comment on those (or create new one):
https://community.toasttab.com/t5/industry-trends/stable-coin-and-bitcoin-payments-via-toast-pos/m-p/15371
https://community.toasttab.com/t5/restaurant-operations/bitcoin-lightning-payments/m-p/10614

2025-09-09 17:58:50 UTC

Anyone using Toast Point-of-Sale device? Please request Bitcoin/LN integration on their forum https://community.toasttab.com

2025-09-06 19:45:16 UTC

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Yep, its insane

2025-08-30 23:31:58 UTC

Just spent a few days at https://www.hwos.com/ with my kids — I feel like the nostr crowd might appreciate this

2025-08-30 23:21:54 UTC

Haha. Amazing!
#note10pq…gm64

2025-08-22 00:34:49 UTC

Great to see Bethany on Nostr! If you haven’t watched her story, I highly recommend!
#note19f5…8tep

2025-08-09 04:59:57 UTC

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What will this bank do?

2025-08-08 22:01:06 UTC

Finally my Bitchat showed non zero. It worked perfectly!!! #scmeetuptopic
https://image.nostr.build/6964eea1d2e21603cd18ef678ab6959f4ef320cc98a2d807713b6e801602da0c.jpg

2025-08-07 04:00:14 UTC

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Great idea!!!

2025-08-07 03:55:46 UTC

Wow. I guess it makes sense but I didn’t know.
#note109g…8t0h

2025-08-07 03:53:03 UTC

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Wtf is the fee on incoming on-chain transaction?
I just sent 100k sats + miner fee to WoS and even mempool shows it as 100k but WoS shows it as 99,307 sats. Again, I sent 100,579 sats (579 was mining fee)

2025-08-07 02:00:43 UTC

The UX looks great, after quick test. Glad WoS is back in the US.
#note1pfz…l6vc

2025-07-24 02:46:51 UTC

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Looks like it’s happening https://x.com/owenbjennings/status/1947725577345241253?s=46
Any way to find which merchants have the feature enabled?

2025-07-14 21:43:14 UTC

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Exciting. Looking forward to it!

2025-07-14 03:51:57 UTC

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CC @npub17q6…3few

2025-07-14 03:51:28 UTC

@npub1sg6…f63m any updated on https://squareup.com/us/en/press/block-to-roll-out-bitcoin-payments-on-square — when is this awesome feature planned to roll out in general public? (I’m hoping its just software update so existing hw will be able to benefit)

2025-07-10 22:58:46 UTC

Who is going to TABconf?

2025-06-28 20:33:17 UTC

100%
#note1z8e…4ur7

2025-06-23 19:22:39 UTC

100% agree with Matt. The real tests are still ahead of us.
#note1ns6…vvl9

2025-06-18 15:56:39 UTC

Sounds like a lot of progress in Ark since Miami 2023! @npub167n…zu3r

2025-06-18 08:57:59 UTC

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Is there an Ark implementation I can try?

2025-06-16 08:06:53 UTC

Who is gonna be at dev/hack day?
#btcprague @npub167n…zu3r

2025-06-11 18:29:30 UTC

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I only use LN with few friends. For years now, whenever im paying someone I ask “Venmo, ApplePay, … or bitcoin?” And they only laugh.
With hodling bitcoin, its changing. Every bull run a couple of friends come to me asking “so can you help me setup a wallet?” So maybe its just gonna take some time.

2025-06-08 12:43:10 UTC

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Not as useful as I thought it would be:-)
It’s a very naive prototype of showing messages grouped by people. When you open the app, it only shows summary of the new messages since last time I opened the app. So I don’t miss messages from people I follow and don’t need to scroll.
The LLM summary sucks. I will try to play with that a little bit to see if it gets more useful.

2025-05-28 22:41:17 UTC

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I have QubesOS laptop and GrapheneOS phone, but it’s so much work to maintain that I always end up using iPhone and Mac.
If you don’t use any prop software yourself, hats off and respect to you!

2025-05-28 22:29:57 UTC

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Are you actually using it?
I haven’t used Breez in years. I thought the app was not getting much love since Breez SDK, but I’m willing to give it a try again.

2025-05-28 22:28:41 UTC

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iOS

2025-05-28 18:52:36 UTC

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Is there any simpler podcast player that does v4v and works?

2025-05-28 18:52:12 UTC

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Last time I tried, I downloaded bunch of episodes to listen on a plane as usually, but then it didn’t work offline.

2025-05-28 18:51:19 UTC

I really want to use Fountain but I swear every time I try it upsets me.
I was just listening to a podcast, then paused and ate lunch. Then I tried to resume the episode, not even using the OS controls but actually opening the app and it’s all gone and the episode starts again.