delivery guy: "i delivered a lot of crazy stuff but i've never seen one like this" me: "that's because it's heated by bitcoin" delivery guy: 🤯 me: 😊

hey ! 👋🙂

*slaps roof* this bad boy can orange pill so many normies

hashtub has arrived \o/

attention is the most scarce resource

lol seems like a different l0rinc but who knows! 🤷‍♂️

can i use fable 5 to take down bitcoin? asking for a friend

i talked to l0rinc recently at a conference. he's great to talk to! he's doing really innovative power user ai stuff to assist in core code reviews. these open source freedom tech ai projects should maybe look at optimizing for his workflow. all that token spend is going to claude. it should be flowing through open platforms first. 👀 https://spiralbtc.substack.com/p/metacognition-is-the-ai-skill-of

Generally speaking, a nexus is a central node that connects other nodes within a graph. In Starcraft, the Nexus is the Protoss home base building. It is the key structure required to bootstrap a self-sustaining production economy. Once the nexus is constructed you can open portals to other realms and warp in robotic worker drones. These drones not only harvest raw materials, but they also warp in additional structures and units. Once you have a Nexus, you can traverse the tech tree and build anything that is possible within the game universe...if you can defend your claim from attackers. For the past month or two I have been building a self-sovereign nix-based architecture for agentic coding and privacy tasks. As of today, nexus is the hostname of the bare metal NixOS installation. I just migrated from the default `nixos` hostname to `nexus`. It's just two vowels apart. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ Once installed and configured, nexus knows how to launch declaratively defined agentic coding development environments with the push of a button. Nexus lets you open ssh portals to virtual realms populated with ai-powered worker drones and a minimal, flexible agent harness. Once your nexus is built you can warp in worker drones to help you traverse the tech tree and build anything that is possible within this computing universe...if you can defend your digital claim from attackers. VM sandboxes are a stronger security barrier than containers because the VM does not share a kernel with the host machine. This protects against two classes of security risk: rogue agents and software supply chain attacks. The VM keeps you safe from claude gone rogue and from hostile npm package updates. It's also really handy for privacy sandboxes to do self-sovereign financial stuff or to shitpost on nostr. I'm going to use it to build mining pools. 🙂 OSS release in Two Weeks™️

ridiculous! nobody likes bluegrass

nixos -> nexus upgrade complete! \o/

Zcash is the combination of a transparent trustless system and an opaque private system. Their mistake was to silo all of the trust in their privacy system. Single point of failure. Not resilient. AI came along and...it failed. 💥 No more zcash. 🫗

RIP to everyone building on top of lightning. 🪦

On-chain bitcoin is transparent for a reason. It's the only way to ensure trustlessness. Watch privacy coins learn this lesson in real time. Learn from their mistakes. I believe there is a fundamental and unavoidable conflict between privacy and trustlessness. Trustless systems require information to disseminate. Private systems must prevent the spread of information. Builders who don't understand this spectrum are doomed to fall prey to it. You cannot achieve perfect privacy and perfect trustlessness in the same system. It's better to build two systems and move value between them as needed. The trust-based system better be resilient to failure; that means lots of little trusted operators rather than one big trust silo. That's what I tried to encapsulate in this image. TBD whether ecash can be made verifiable. Much work still to be done.

If Q day is real, is lightning is proper fucked? Discuss. https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/post-quantum-lightning-layer-by-layer/2479

talking to BIP110ers