nostrnaut

gm & pv 💜

everywhere, at each moment, you have the option:

to accept this event with humility,

to treat this person as [s]he should be treated,

to approach this thought with care.

tfw you realize J.P. Morgan Chase is tacitly implying that their CEO Jamie Dimon is a deeply non-serious moron

get ready for Kim Jong Deux

vive la France?

the new Tesla Roadster 👇

🥱

why is a disproportionate number of Oliver’s absolute twats?

in control.

so they targeted self-custody bitcoin, right?

to get you to move coins to exchanges, yeah?

where all the bitcoin will be sitting, correct?

the mark of a great search engine in the 1990’s/2000’s was how quickly it would return search results

the inverse is true now with agentic AI; the longer an agent takes with a task, the greater trust and credibility I give it

critical thinking is value again

v 2.0

if you didn’t play these titles in your youth, I feel genuine sorrow for you

https://www.freesamourai.now/

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gm & pv,

if your job doesn’t involve querying Claude Sonnet 5 on a daily basis to summarize Azure DevOps bugs, propose implementation plans, and execute on them, and perform other tasks based on interconnected MCP servers that have access to your company’s internal KB systems, you’re NGMI

🤙💜

Social Capital.

gm & pv 🤙💜

a short-story from X:

ftr, I lifted this graphic from BIG BITCOIN’s post over on X

Billions Must Comply

(if a specific colour combination offends you, I would kindly ask you to untwist your knickers)

$80,000+

gm & pv 💜👋

this Monday morning is brought to you by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent getting absolutely rinsed by the US10Y

🇺🇸🫡

good morning

Netflix are prodigiously bereft of moral fiber

tmw you realize Trump is effectively promising to buy every American adult a 2TB iPhone Duo with a ~$1,500 kicker left over to sweeten the deal

have we had enough of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent being a house yet?

pro-tip:

if something frivolous costs you anything more than 1% of the value of your bitcoin in cold-storage, weigh the options very, very carefully

full-page ad in today’s WSJ

h/t

+ The Nakamoto Project

hot take:

it's still disturbing to me how many respected bitcoiners refuse to use a Coldcard

they will really say bitcoin is trustless money, then say they can't trust Coinkite anymore in the same breath

the absence of sufficient entropy was the issue - period

get out of the mid curve; it’s just embarrassing

9/11 was a terrorist attack

“negotiations” “retaliation”

opt-out

buy bitcoin

since I started my job in February, after being laid off for 4 months, I've:

• purchased 0.098 BTC
• for $9,068.36 CAD
• at an average price of $92,315.98 CAD ($67,137.92 USD)

including Shakepay rewards, total accumulation is 0.106 BTC

that’s 8% more sats stacked from just rewards

DCA the bottom with the best 💙

https://shakepay.me/r/XSOGAYW

it was, after all, inevitable.

Aug 17, ~11:00am UTC

WTACTUALF

new COLDCARD firmware is available: 5.6.1 for Mk4/Mk5 and 1.5.1Q for Q.

following this update, every newly generated seed now requires one source of user entropy:

• at least 65 key presses with unpredictable timing,
• 50 physical dice rolls, or
• 128 physical coin flips.

this input is combined with fresh entropy from the STM32 TRNG, SE1, and SE2

goodbye, $60k’s bitcoin 👋

heavy breathing 🫦

one for the history books 📸

WHAT DID I TELL YOU

WHAT DID I FUCKING TELL YOU

the bottom’s in

send it 💯

for those that need to hear it, buying bitcoin at $58k versus $63k makes no difference

$63k is just 8.62% higher than $58k

an 8.62% increase higher than the prior bear market low of $17k is $18,466

🥜

“I went forward in time…to view alternate futures. To see all the possible outcomes of explaining a 3-of-5 multi vendor multisig to a normie.”

“How many did you see?”

“Fourteen million six hundred and five.”

“How many did we win?”

“…One.”

Dr’s Perrenod and Santostasi’s latest bitcoin Power Law/log periodic analysis shows:

• $73k in 12 months
• reclaim $100k by end-2027
• $203k in 24 months
• next major peak ~Jan. 2030

the thesis:

bitcoin’s long-term price follows a Power Law, while its deviations from that trend exhibit log periodic/scale invariant structure

these are model-based projections, not price forecasts

thank you, bitcoin red team 🟥

In tesseris confidimus

BIP-110?

that was today?

oh.

are all the cool kids going to unilaterally stop using BTCPay, now?

what do we want?

MASS ADOPTION!!

when do we want it?

MULTI-VENDOR MULTISIG!!

very much looking forward to revisiting this in 6 months, 12 months from now

if you think all Coldcards are now paperweights... if you threw out or even destroyed your Coldcard... if you'll never use one again, even though it's patched... if you think Coinkite will die as a result of the entropy attack...

you have an exceedingly high time preference

🤷

gm & pv

the bull market can commence

bitcoin - for individuals and institutions alike - was never ready for prime time as a rinky-dinky hobby-money jury rigged together and maintained by vendor devs who answer to no-one

improvement through fits and bursts, painful though they are, is what gets bitcoin to $1m+ a coin

just when you thought it can’t get anymore fucking fucked up…

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

using Claude Sonnet 5 to review code and identify bugs hits different this week

fire is a wondrous technology

it’s inspired folklore, spiritual awakening, sparked thoughts of consciousness, warmed our ancient ancestors, cooked our spoils, in turn allowing our brains to grow faster than ever

it can also reduce you and your environment to ash in an instant

call me crazy, but I’m continuing to use Coldcard:

• I updated the firmware on my Coldcards (Mk4 and Q)
• I wiped the seed on the Q and created a new 24 word seed with 100 dice rolls and recorded it
• I then wiped that seed, created a new 12 word seed with 100 dice rolls and recorded it as two passphrases
• I’ve moved all UTXOs to the new wallets, noting each of their keys and their respective master fingerprints before doing so

entropy was the issue; it never affected me, but I still took precautions to redo my setup

in dice we trust

mood.

I rolled 100 dice and use passphrases that I created on an Mk4 around ‘22/‘23

I divided UTXOs based on KYC, no-KYC, and coinjoin

what should I do?:

• nothing; funds are SAFU with dice
• send it all to exchange; fuck it
• send each UTXO to a hot-wallet (Sparrow)
• generate a new dice-rolled seed using my Q (f/w 1.5.0) and move coins there
• send all UTXOs to my wife’s Jade

self custody should be vendor agnostic

a truly Biblical multi-layered attack on self-custody would involve scare tactics that force those who have perfectly good cold-storage into “temporary hot-wallets”, while the adversary coordinates a mass attack on trusted/credible hot-wallet services, à la Sparrow, Nunchuk, etc.

talk about out of the frying pan, into the fire

• do not act brashly

not your dice, not your coins

🎲

years ago I rolled my 24 word seed phrase with 100 dice and used passphrases based off that seed

and I still this morning went ahead and wiped my Q (I have a spare Mk4, same setup), updated the firmware, created a brand new 24 word seed with 100 dice, and seriously considering moving everything there, with brand new RNG-generated passphrases

I’m not taking anything for granted at this point

hello darkness, my old friend

I have a loved one who:

• has an Mk4
• generated their seed (w/o dice) in the last year
• has not spent from the wallet
• is tech savvy, but no so much in terms of bitcoin

my course of action at this point is to guide them to do the following:

• update their Mk4 firmware
• generate a new hot-wallet on Sparrow desktop
• send the bitcoin to Sparrow wallet
• wipe their Mk4 device
• generate a new seed, preferably using 100 independent dice rolls
• send their bitcoin from Sparrow back to their “new” Mk4

this IMO is the lowest barrier to entry for loved ones that are/may be affected

🫂

this last-minute $19.99 decision you made at checkout 5 years ago either saved you or cost you everything

blinking

Q

Mk4

100 dice

passphrases

treat your cold-storage op-sec with respect:

always be humble study the landscape conduct maintenance be always 3 steps ahead don’t underestimate others consistently deny everything never broadcast your intentions

it all started the go pear shaped when the butch lesbian got a red card

the game: rock, paper, scissors

Jude plays paper Messi plays rock Jude mogs Messi, explaining how paper > rock Messi gives the rock to Fernandez who proceeds to smash Anderson in the back of the head with it

live shot of Dan Burn heading Lionel Messi out of the Atlanta stadium tomorrow

too many mans tryin’ to do what I do but they can’t it’s clear.

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mood

wishing France the best of luck tomorrow in their quarter-finals match against Argentina

1. WHAT

5 hours ago

called it

up England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

HEY JUDE!

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

the last time England won a World Cup match after conceding first, it was 1966

iykyk

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lmactualfao.

didn’t even know I was blocked 🤣

GTA VI - Nov 19 Star Fox - June 25 Halo: Campaign Evolved - July 28 Star Wars: Galactic Racer - Oct 6 Legend of Zelda: OoT Remake - Oct/Nov Pokémon TCG: 30th Celebration - Sep 16

they’re trying to keep you forever nostalgiamaxxing

break your descendants out of generational poverty

bitcoin plummeting to $61k, bids in the mid-$50k range stacked, Summer of blood in the streets locked in

GTA VI, Legend of Zelda: OoT Remake, Star Fox, Star Wars: Galactic Racer, Pokémon TCG: 30th Celebration, all releasing this year within 5 months of each other

which way, Western Millenial Nerd?