nitesh

Tbf to most bears, Bitcoin is kinda hard to understand. Everyone just has their aha! moment and it just depends on when you have it. Some bears might never have it. Anyway, fuck the bears!

I got Ark client working with React Native. I think I'll take this up seriously and build a mobile wallet.

I started making react native bindings for Ark, the implementation by "Second". Hopefully I can make an Ark mobile wallet soon since we all think lightning is dead anyway.

I made a Tor Daemon and Onion Routing Client for React Native using C++ Nitro Modules! I think Nitro Modules is an underrated project to build super fast native modules for react native.

https://nitro.margelo.com/

https://github.com/niteshbalusu11/react-native-nitro-tor

For all the smart devs out there, can anyone give me ideas on how to debug a segfault at runtime. The scenario is, I built a rust lib that calls into some C code. I compiled it into a static lib for ios and shared lib for android.

On ios, it works fine. On android it segfaults saying null pointer dereference. Weird part is, if I build and use a static lib for android it works fine. Now I have no idea how to debug this issue because I am not getting any logs or traces. I don't want to use a static lib for android because it makes the apk larger, ideally I want to use a dylib.

It's funny how people go to great lengths to argue about chemistry and biology but are so irrational when it comes to 5th grade math.

It's funny how so many of us simped for Saylor but now we are shitting on him for saying the word crypto. Y'all didn't know this day was coming? What did you expect?!

If we get a crypto reserve or whatever and XRP is part of it, I'll still forgive Trump because he kept his word to free Ross.

I think deepseek won't succeed as much as it is hyped on the internet because the west thinks anything built by the Chinese is malware. They'd just pay 10x more and use OpenAI.

Trump is the President, Ross is free, we are getting some crypto stockpile reserve and Bitcoin's over a 100k. Happy New Year. Everyone's happy. Can we now go back things like CTV and OP_CAT that are very important to get done?

I have literally seen everything in life now.

https://www.moanmyip.com/

Lmaoooo. These people run our country? 🤣🤣

We went from freedom maxis to defending meme coin launches. They're scamming people right in front of us but we wait for Monday for him to be sworn in as president. We don't want to fix our country but defend a tiktok ban. We don't want scaling and want a strategic reserve. There is really no difference between the hawk tuah chick and Trump. Yet, we want one in jail and the other to be president. We have fallen. Very low.

America moment. https://image.nostr.build/6246dd386da976d00e0e3af85ff82b00aad960624d9fd170b66b4cfc63aba9d1.jpg

Can't handle a social media app and wants to control how people interact with the digital world. The US is no different from China after the TikTok ban. Land of the free, my ass!

If you want to improve your reading skills, build patience and endurance just work on react-native projects for a few months. You'll come out as a different person.

Stop using analogies to make an argument or to defend one. You're just using them to hide the fact that you don't have a real argument.

Ubuntu's Gnome desktop is a piece of shit.

$95k is the new $58k.

I've been waiting for the year of Linux desktop for like 4 years now. It's 2025 and it is still terrible.

I need a list of pubkeys to follow who are not Bitcoiners and are on Nostr and talk about things other than Bitcoin. I don't mind even if they are leftists.

The H1B system today is like tax laws for rich people. When there are loop holes, it gets abused. The system was broken for a very long time starting with the lottery process. The people were never the problem, the system was.

One other thing that isn't talked about much is how a lot of American companies have stopped doing in-house hiring of engineers but instead started outsourcing almost all projects to companies like TCS, Infosys, Accenture and Cognizant who have massive bases in India and naturally these companies bring in thousands of workers on H1B and underpaying them or simply use the offshore model.

From my understanding the reason companies started going this route is because hiring in general is hard and imagine hiring 25-30 engineers to do various things for a single project but then also have them on payroll for a long time even after the product is ready because firing isn't easy either. So companies just pay extra to outsource all this work to these software services companies.

Everyone: Lightning is a failure

This makes no sense to me because I don't even understand the criteria of saying it's a failure. Nobody even uses Bitcoin to make payments, that's not lightning's fault. And for the 1% of 1% who actually make any payments, lightning is the only L2 that exists and is the only one that actually works. We can call lightning a failure when we create a circular economy of Bitcoin where merchants accept it and people actually pay with it and then lightning doesn't work in such an economy. The only circular economy we have is white dudes posting tik tok videos of buying coffee in El Salvador and lightning seems to be working fine there.

Guys I know shitcoins are fun and all but please have better standards than XRP.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Indians are the largest population of Bitcoiners on the planet. We would give away our lives just to buy gold for absolutely no reason.

Passing on complexity to Layer 2 and application devs and expecting them to perform miracles on top of Bitcoin is generally a bad thing. The more complex your code is, the higher the chance of bugs and vulnerabilities. We have to separate out Bitcoin the network and Bitcoin core here. Bitcoin network needs to be dumb and simple like it already is today. Bitcoin core can do a lot of heavy lifting for layer 2 and app devs by supporting simple op_codes. Ultimately it's the user who will win because their chances of losing money is lowered.

2024 bull market

Does Saylor not want OP_VAULT? I mean it's literally what he should support, right? coz it protects all the coins his company is buying non-stop with investor money.

When we activated Taproot, people were raving about it and tweeting by tagging miners when they would signal for it, yet 99% of the people had zero idea of what it would bring to the table. Today simpler soft forks don't get consensus. It's all about marketing, every single time.

What truly gets you a vote on the Bitcoin network is a miner, not a Bitcoin node.

A lot of people probably know Bernoulli's principle and how airplanes get off the ground by fast moving air resulting in a pressure difference causing a lift, this doesn't mean you're qualified in having a say on airplane wing design. Same with Bitcoin, you probably aren't qualified enough to having a say in a softfork getting merged.

Imagine how broken fiat system must be that a random coin on the internet made by a random dude is about to hit $100k in 15 years.

Real men play video games.

The problem with switching to Linux from Mac is that, there is always 1 app or feature that you love more than your woman and only works on Mac and Windows and you miss it so much that you hate your life.

This 98k is playing with my emotions.

I've setup a windows machine today after like 7 years and the setup process is like a massive advertising campaign.

• 4 different things to sell and each one pops up in a separate screen.
• every single advertising and telemetry setting you have to OPT OUT!!
• mandatory sign in to Microsoft to use the machine.

Windows can get away with all this shit because Macs are expensive and Linux has poor laptop/desktop choices unless you boot from USB and GNOME still sucks after all these years!

If illegal immigrants are deported we are going to have a massive Uber eats and doordash problem. Andrew (Jose) won't be there deliver your food anymore.

By the end of this decade, people will start to realize Bitcoin is just for Michael Saylor, Blackrock, Governments and whoever got in early. You might not like it but this is the direction we heading right now.

A lot of this is true. Imo any open source project makes less progress without a leader, someone who steers the ship and has the final say. Bitcoin core is at a point where core devs just want to avoid all controversy and stay silent and let people fight out. We need more versions of core in other programming languages built from the ground up and implement all consensus rules similar to btcd. Bitcoin core needs more competing implementations where you have leaders who are willing to hit the merge button and publish a release with CTV for example so that people can run the fucking thing.

https://x.com/jamesob/status/1857049961235403101

It is kinda wild that Bitcoin is casually just hovering around $90k. It feels like it wasn't that long ago that I watched it trade for a few hundred dollars. Time flies!

The one thing in life that I was consistently right about for several years in a row was to buy Bitcoin!

Bitcoin's market cap is like 60% of the total crypto industry's market cap. That is how far ahead it is over anything else out there. Imagine one company having 60% market cap of the entire S&P 500. That is Bitcoin. There is literally no second best.

Anyome has data on coins available in major exchanges and the situation at OTC desks?

As the bull market seems to be starting, an important distinction to note is that, Bitcoin has security, decentralization, scarcity, network effects and more buy orders than sell orders. Shit coins just have more buys orders than sell orders.

There will never be a point where Bitcoin is not available for sale because of lack of supply. Everyone has a selling price for some or all of their stack.

If America was racist or believed in fascism, Obama wouldn't have won with an incredible majority. There could be a small population that thinks a woman shouldn't become president, but that isn't enough to change an election result. The margin of Trump's victory says it all.

Going to get drunk after election results. Donald Trump is not my president.

How did we all accept to paying for subscriptions and then watching ads? And it's even worse now, it's political ads! 😑

I actually really like MKBHD's Panels wallpaper app now. After recent changes and fixes, it's really good!

Election day in 3 days, reminder that there is no red and there is no blue. It's always them vs you!

Idk what to celebrate. Diwali or Halloween.

We need a new form of Bitcoin-core.

• You propose a consensus change with a BIP and code to show for it.

• Every consensus change should have a review period of max number of days (maybe like 200).

• Have a pool of maybe 200 devs who are smart enough of review proposals.

• Its the responsibility of the proposer to advertise their proposal and get ACKs.

• Get enough tACKs in this window, then merge it.

• Miners will eventually just upgrade and it'll get activated.

• Stop involving finance people with software decisions.

• No debates on twitter, they go nowhere. If people have issues, then show up to talks and debate it live.

Make soft forks normal again.

My hot take: Bitcoin core kinda sucks because it's decentralized. I prefer projects with leaders who can set the direction and make decisions.

Good morning! https://image.nostr.build/28e572d08652b1b491804eae782b7ba6db3f177c17e4b9fa4947f5c6e96a17a4.jpg !

X's election algo is so messed up. It's not just posts, even replies to posts are just specific to right or left wing. If you support Trump or Harris, try liking a few posts favoring the opposite candidate. It'll totally mess with your head!

Guess I'm not going to ask a woman out anymore. I'll just tell her time and place and tell her to show.I'll up.

Lets be real, we all like price pump action only because our friends and family will think we are a genius to get in early and for us to laugh at other people who didn't believe in what we have been saying.

I want Kamala Harris to win so that we can go back to $58k.

If I type "joe rogan trump interview" on YouTube it seems to popup fine. Most of the search term was also auto completed by YouTube. Tho the weird part is, if you remove the word interview, it goes back to showing clips.

Good morning! NextJS is a piece of shit, stop using it for everything. Vite + React + your own backend is the way to go.

I think the new goal of millennials and Gen-z should be to convince at least one boomer to stop watching CNN, MSNBC and ABC.

You like it or not, marketing and compliance are important for Bitcoin companies to win.

TabConf 2024:

• Rollups
• ZK Proofs
• Ark
• More sidechains with 0 use
• Fixing mempool
• Paul Sztorc is the new savior of Bitcoin
• Want covenants but will never get them
• Lightning sucks
• Amazing people
• Lots of fun and alcohol