El Flaco

Hey all, after the Sept 19 incident at Blink, we set up a site that publishes the consolidated findings from the bounty we created after the Sept 19 incident to track stolen fund movements by the attacker.

Contributions welcome at [email protected]

We don't have much hope to get the funds back, but we're also not going to leave it untried!

https://bounty.blink.sv

https://www.blink.sv/blog/phase-two-following-the-coins-in-public

Sharing appreciated

https://x.com/blinkbtc/status/2108180658967167439

Caught an intruder in my office.

According to Gemini, it's a Male False Wolf Spider aka Nosferatu Spider https://blossom.primal.net/4caecb4412f5c729644dff7848cfab1a681ee512efc573c2d13bc90ac29ba4bb.jpg

Feel like Ash with a Pokedex 😄

Is relay.nsec.app decommissioned?

Good breakdown of a slippery slope

https://noornote.app/article/naddr1qqw8w6r9dckhg6r994mkzmrv94nxzmrvwvkk6unkdvmnqdn4qgs02f70juxwyc88gfsjzjlkzt50wkjemvvrtmt7gpfnymplvh3r9msrqsqqqa28tggp85

My relay settings have been broken forever. Nihao says they're fixed now. Maybe my nostr experience improves now?

hello from the nostr army knife

I just beat the NORMIE DUEL challenge on

and got 21 sats ⚡

Can you beat it?

https://game.chainduel.net/

Sign in with Nostr → pick a challenge → beat the bot → collect sats.

Published: "Building a Bitcoin Circular Economy: Five Spectrums You Have to Navigate"

Five years of learnings from Blink, Adopting Bitcoin, and OpenMMLN distilled into one piece.

Custodial <> Self-Custodial Spending <> Saving Open Source <> Closed Source Technical <> Non-Technical Push <> Pull

A circular economy is a journey, not a destination. Your community will live across all of these spectrums simultaneously.

https://pretyflaco.github.io/bce-spectrums/

Cypherpunks not dead!

🧡

New Blink skill version 1.4.6 is live on clawhub

Your agent can now pay L402 gated endpoints!

https://clawhub.ai/pretyflaco/blink

X feed is down

Nostr is never down https://blossom.primal.net/713032c0e6cd16e0156daa51be3223d1e1b4fee72518dc2b07983a14e413da69.jpg

Trying wisp

Skill for Openclaw agents to send and receive Lightning payments with

API, supports BTC and USD Wallet.

Set your agent up and let it purchase an email for itself at lnemail dot net to test ⚡️

https://github.com/pretyflaco/blink-claw-skill

I really like NIP-46 NostrConnect - authentication with sovereign ID and great UX. Every app should have it!

But not even every nostr app supports it...

Still seeing too many that offer option to enter nsec...

What's a good open source webapp / PWA that uses Amber sign-in?

Next up: validate your seedphrase for a chance to double your balance

Proto-slop

What options do devs have for building escrow for p2p bitcoin trades?

• hold invoices on LN (hacky, but works - tested in the wild)
• arkade (?)
• rootstock (?)
• fedimint (?)

Anyone got links for the newer (?) options?

Any other ways?

Ideally works with LN nicely, via swaps or other ways...

Ok so where can I find Bitcoiners here on Mauritius?

Has somebody built an

equivalent for iOS? 👀

iOS native app ideally. ✌️

One of the first rap songs that referenced the internet - 1996

Quality of rap declined with internet adoption

HELP NEEDED

is building a Bitcoin circular economy in a rural town in Burundi 🇧🇮

They need stable internet, so we're collecting 5M sats to set up Starlink + Solar.

I know Bely who will set everything up. Any support is welcome, even 1 sat to pump numbers ✌️

https://btcpay.ideasarelikeflames.org/apps/4AH7iwAr9AksP8s2xCBjcrpdSymr/crowdfund

hello

, check your nostr DMs 🙏

#foodstr

https://pretyflaco.github.io/bitcoingovernance/

🧵 I published my perspective on Bitcoin governance.

Where does Bitcoin derive its censorship-resistance from? And how do we preserve it?

Sharing some frameworks I've found helpful 👇

The main insight: Bitcoin's unique value comes from censorship-resistance, and the two magic ingredients to achieve it are:

✅ Free users ✅ Free software

-> Censorship-resistance requires free users -> Free users require free software

Traditional governance asks "who decides?"

These systems are easy to co-opt and can therefore never preserve censorship-resistance.

Bitcoin governance asks "how do we preserve free users?", and this is they key to preserving censorship-resistance.

For developers, this means:

-> Optimize for user agency -> Default to user choice over "optimal" outcomes

Remember: we're building infrastructure for freedom.

These are just my current thoughts - governance philosophy evolves with experience - but it's clear to me that censorship-resistance is a derivative of free users.

There is a leap of faith required in bitcoin’s governance model.

We must trust that when users are given genuine freedom and access to good information, they will make choices that preserve what makes bitcoin valuable.

Users who want bitcoin to remain censorship-resistant will choose software and rules that maintain that property.

Users who prefer other properties may make different choices, but the network’s evolution will reflect the aggregate of all these individual decisions.

When we take the leap and trust that free users will make the right choices, Bitcoin succeeds.

I would love to hear perspectives from builders, users, and researchers working on or thinking about these problems.

One downside of running a bitaxe is that I don't hear the mosquitoes sneaking up on my ear any more

Istanbul cat

Reddit thinks you should see ✌️

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Once upon a time before nostr

I guess it's a sign of nostr adoption and maturing that we have retards now

Why isn't there already a plebqr.com clone in every country 🤔

Who remembers the Lightning Hackdays Istanbul?

200 devs came together in Istanbul Turkey when it was impossible to come together in Europe, organized by Fulmo team

learnt about e-cash from Eric Sirion Burak learnt about Lightning and went on to design Ark

And last but not least, the chad team from

was conceived there

Watch out for

this September!

Github has an outage

https://www.githubstatus.com/

Images future kids will not understand

Kids growing up today will never learn the pain handling change money and coins 😌

Good nostr clients / apps that allow user to connect their own wallet with NWC?

already tested Amethyst, Flash and Damus

No more prizes for predicting rain.

Only prizes for building the arks.

Thanks nostr devs - knowing you guys are out there coding solutions to the upcoming shitsjow helps me sleep better

Where in amethyst do I set NWC connection?

Can't find anymore...

I agree people wouldn't zap car crashes. However, with videos of ballistic missile impacts on the enemy I'm not so sure.

Hung out with smart bitcoin builders for two days. what did I miss?

Recently I heard

celebrate Elon's X takeover, saying "he's absolutely crushing it".

In reality, Elon is helping governments crush the voice of dissent and opposition.

The X block of Istanbul's mayor is coming after his imprisonment by Turkish gov last month.