as long as governments oppress their people, there will be demand for bitchat. 2011 arab spring. first "digital revolution". egypt dictator turns off internet for 5 days. egyptian people distribute pamphlets via fax and use international phone calls for dial-up modem internet. 2014 umbrella movement in hong kong. digital surveillance and artificial network interruptions. everyone has smart phones. firechat, the og bluetooth mesh app steps up🫡. first major real-world example of mesh networking used in mass protests. oi mate! you hiding posts under your floorboard? europe be like: anti hate speech laws, age verification, chat control. just fyi. we will not tolerate mass surveillance of innocent citizens for the sake of total control. neither should you. whoopsie! to be continued. peace.

I gave a talk about bitchat and the importance of reliable peer to peer communication tech during times of political unrest and natural disasters. the audience discussed the talk live while i was on stage… on bitchat. lets go!

same for all of the above yes. what's your solution?

luckily – or sadly – cypherpunks have enough work to do for the foreseeable future given how the world around us develops, not just bitcoin. bitcoiners suffer from an isolationist mindset. we should be seeking collaboration across all branches of freedom fighters. we should be leading these efforts, craft alliances, directing the vision. instead, many are even proud to live in their own small little bubble in which weak ideas can flourish without being challenged or without ever having any meaningful impact on the world. we should be at the center of the global fight for freedom and we should be shaping the future of coming generations.

gm from primal, a nostr client

xposting a good long post by nostr:nprofile1qqsfccf03dms7r3l6dwd4s4u2l7waptpu4s9qn4ztj9ealuwqdgjk0spzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgy2sgj2 I share one bearish observation on here and people lose their f-ing minds. They also assume I'm short. No. I'm just not a shill. The recent viral piece about how bitcoin is in IPO mode and we all need to relax seemed to me pretty accurate. Bitcoin is distributing and that's good. Bitcoin has won and it's a bit boring now and OG's are taking their billions and buying yachts or gold or AI / quantum stocks, and this is all very normal and expected, so chill. But that also just felt... empty. It felt like cope. Like, think about where we were before institutional adoption and Trump victory. The price was lower, but the narrative was amazing. We--all of us in bitcoin--were in on a profound secret. We were building better money for a better world. The world was either laughing at us or fighting us, but we knew we would eventually win. After all, nothing stops the train of debt and debasement. Nothing stops the control-freak impulse to censor and surveil us either. And bitcoin wins every time financial and legal authorities abuse their power. (All still true, btw.) The bitcoin hate, much more common then, actually fueled us. Environmental critics were so off base, so embarrassingly misinformed, that confronting them with facts was actually sporting. We ratio-ed GreenpeaceUSA into oblivion, eventually winning decisively as they handed over "the skull" to David Bailey in Vegas like Cornwallis surrendering to Washington at Yorktown. Good times. Similarly, the human rights angle was (and is) unknown by a lot of mindless fiat elites who had never reflected on their financial privilege. We won those debates handily too, time and again, as people started to realize what bitcoin is, its potential for empowering billions and disintermediating banks, disempowering chronic debasers and authoritarians. Vibes were incredibly high. Then Wall St. stepped in with the ETFs. The water cooler talk about bitcoin changed a bit. Rather than resistance money, it was an uncorrelated asset and a hedge against risk and inflation, but one now available in a nice wrapper that your investment advisor knew how to handle. It wasn't a threat to dollar hegemony. Instead, it worked hand-in-hand with stablecoins to advance the dollar and American interests. Ok. I actually buy that I guess, at least near term. All good, ok? Price went up. But the bitcoin brand itself again shifted just a bit in its meaning. It became, rather than a people's movement to reform money, more of a new thing for your retirement fund. Gold 2.0. Not a bad thing by any means, but... a different vibe and not quite as sexy. Next was treasury companies, promising to exploit every financing trick in the book to port debt appetite from dollars into bitcoin. Ok, well again, this was to be expected. Who wants to hold dollars these days? Why shouldn't floundering companies pivot to stacking bitcoin? It worked for Strategy, after all. Bitcoin twitter became stock talk. Not a lot of focus on f-you money, more like f-you levels of wealth from PIPE investments. Again, nothing wrong with this, but it once again shifted the tightest associations with bitcoin, as an idea. Bitcoin was somehow now a corporate thing, a finance thing. Bitcoin, despite being a financial instrument... didn't use to be a FINANCE THING. Finance bros hated it. It wasn't a CORPORATE THING either. Corporations wouldn't look twice at it. In some ways, it was anti-finance, anti-corporate. Now, it's good that finance bros and corporations are coming around (the vast majority still haven't!) but that's a brand shift, a vibe shift too. Michael Saylor has been a tremendous advocate for bitcoin, don't get me wrong. But contrast his image--billionaire CEO conquering the fiat world of other billionaire CEOs in a contest of getting richer--with @aantonop, who declared bitcoin "punk rock, not smooth jazz" and promised that bitcoin would "bank the unbanked billions." These are very different mascots for very different brands. Next, Trump was elected and promised bitcoin-friendly regs and a strategic bitcoin reserve. This was undoubtedly better for bitcoin than the alternative. No question. David Bailey was ingenious and resourceful in making it happen. But... the vibe shifted again, as ideas of the orange coin and the orange man fused in the collective imagination. Ok, so at the same time all this winning is happening, privacy-protecting open source development is targeted by the same admin, and bitcoiners don't seem to care about that so much as the number just continuing to go up. I am proud of @btcpolicyorg's work on this, but it's not the central focus of bitcoiners more broadly, or at least that is my impression. Would happily be corrected. So it's in this context that we observe price hasn't even gone up that much, despite this embrace of bitcoin by the federal government and Wall St. and despite the many brand compromises, each of which pushes us farther from the cypherpunk core. What is happening on bitcoin twitter these days? Well, our enemies have stopped posting much. Occasionally you get some old crank like Hanke providing us some target practice. But after we crossed $100k, most critics have learned not to make price predictions. The left wing departed twitter altogether for bluer skies. We turned on each other instead to debate, not even a consensus change but relay policy... and if anyone comes into this debate they see nasty infighting and csam speculations. Luke is crapping on the Treasury Secretary of the US, paying homage to bitcoin? Truly unappealing, and I wouldn't want any of my normie friends to visit right now. We have a drawdown in price after some crab action. No big deal and not nearly what we've been through before, but in absolute terms, a lot of investors are down slightly. And it's now that we're told longer-term holders are selling to the ETFs and treasury companies. And we're told hey, don't worry it's the IPO moment for OGs. Relax, it's ok, they need to cash out, e.g., $9b of bitcoin to provide for their families. Don't worry, it's like the early days of Amazon. I don't know, man. That is all true, but it is a lousy narrative compared to where we came from even a few short years ago. "Be the exit liquidity for OGs, they deserve it" doesn't hold a candle to "be your own bank." Something about this felt really empty and depressing. So I tweeted. To be clear... nothing has changed about bitcoin itself. It is just as much freedom money as ever. Moreso, as we improve privacy and utility. It's still a global, permission less censorship-resistant network anyone in the world can be a part of. It's still a monumental step forward in how we store and transmit value. It is all of the things it ever was. And the future is brighter than ever. I remain all-in on bitcoin with my capital, my time, and my reputation. But I will also always tell the truth about how I see things, and right now I think we need a better focus and brighter narrative. We need to remember who we are and what bitcoin is. Thanks for reading.

nope :/

Depends who you mean. The cc doesn't see anything.

quit your 9 to 5 job and become a bitcoin open source developer.

the vast majority of people don't understand bitcoin yet. they don't own it, and they don't use it. meanwhile, with every contribution, every day, bitcoin gets a little better. we, the open source developers working on it, will keep improving bitcoin for many decades to come. we're all on the same team and that's why we will win. this isn't just an investment for us. in the age of the internet, bitcoin is one of the most powerful tools we have at our hands to shift the power back to the people. stack as hard as you can. learn to code. build your life on bitcoin. it's just getting started. we're in for a long ride. peace.

bitchat downloads spiking in côte d'ivoire. this is the fifth time we're seeing increased activity in regions of civil unrest.

bitchat global. wherever you are. now available in 20+ languages. update in your app store. download: http://bitchat.free contribute: http://github.com/permissionlesstech open an issue or pr if your your language missing.

there are two ways: complain or improve. gm.

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you're not tagging it correctly

U still alive?

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yesterday it was Chinese LLM day

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I swear these people would argue with anything. even with nostr:nprofile1qqsqa6p85dhghvx0cjpu7xrj0qgc939pd3v2ew36uttmz40qxu8f8wqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtc3darmn.

both

you're broken. I meant the link in the parent post

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hal will soon nut

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think so?

gm I hate nip-17 but I'll implement it for a fifth time

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I added a disclaimer to the geohash selection page in bitchat warning you to not share screenshot of it. it geolocates you.

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let's kill all mosquitoes

what the actual f is happening

falling upwards

feeling offended bro? 😂

macadamia wallet is beautiful super slick native cashu wallet for iphone, recommended! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/macadamia-wallet/id6738696700

sending bitcoin over bluetooth between bitchat android and iphone. both have a native cashu ecash wallet built in. the ecash travels directly from phone to phone. the sender needs no internet. like instant and untraceable digital cash. it's going to be insane. work in progress with nostr:nprofile1q9n8wumn8ghj7enfd36x2u3wdehhxarj9emkjmn99ah8qatzx9ck5emrd4k8q6m909krsmtyddm8qdrnxpuxcue5096xxatcxekhjd3sxe6xwenc89u8gar4wsunqdmgxpa8xdekd3nk5aelvfex7ctyvdshxapaw3e82egpremhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet59uqzqpy33h7rdjf70kmvcrtq7dlp2gh3cd4kf5l5ksjv2vkhck2law7928h6wz , nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qpqf742zec57c6qk9ajfr8wyjn0s4vrfzh4hesyj2yqplvj5wrfydxsdezp7p, nostr:nprofile1qyrkxmmjv93kcegpvemhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0dec82c330fchxafn09engenjv9nkuvnpx4jnxmr8wcmrju35wfmhw6r5wvexvum9wfkxcdpsxf6h5u3nw9jkgercveekvenrw9e8x0mzwfhkzerrv9ehg0t5wf6k2qpqzqsu3ys4fragn2a5e3lgv69r4rwwhts2fserll402uzr3qeddxfs2gkl22 , nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qqsvvlxnux5rm2jkelck7c6akt7mnmvkrycq9xx5wqd93e5wssycx3g7hxy6n , nostr:nprofile1qyd8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndamx2un9d9nkutnpwpcz7qpqdvdcmtp5llrp63jdlmhspe9gffsyu9ew7cu3ld3f9y7k79nxzjxqtun7a8 et al.

seeing cashu on techcrunch is wild

bitchat android 0.6 - new icon - improve channels - fix user favorites - ui improvements - smaller release apk - lots of external PR's (thank you for contributing, keep it coming!) https://github.com/permissionlesstech/bitchat-android/releases/tag/0.6

I love open source thank you anon

rarely seen mempool so empty, not even a single block worth of transactions

every balance you have on any service is custodial adding ecash to it adds privacy, nothing else it's really simple to understand gm

freedom is a technology problem

the bitchat-android logo is AI generated SVG slop. if anyone wants to contribute a good app icons that works with android adaptive color schemes, that would be great

You only need: - qBittorrent - MullvadVPN - VLC player gm

We've silently launched the Multinut experimental feature and people are using it 👀 nostr:nevent1qqsztg773ms62uhftuapl7pm8qsffved0x6ghrfwzs0r66c3zra02xgzyq8gcs0tj3n9wxyw5me24smvyh3e8ll56s2f4qm8jgsdvev4lu865qcyqqqqqqgfsspku

Problem: open nostr on phone, scroll through posts, cool (client 1) open nostr on desktop, scroll through the same posts, not cool (client 2) Solution: client 1 creates a bloom filter, a short data blob that "fingerprints" all event ID's you've scrolled past (or looked at for > 0.5s) and store the bloom filter as a nostr event every 10 seconds or so client 2 downloads the bloom filter, and before rendering your timeline, checks if you've seen the posts already and hides those you've seen (or reorders with lower priority) bloom filters can get "full". if they reach capacity, clients simply roll over to a new one and start adding new events to that one. bloom filters can be stored as ephemeral events, you don't need to keep them around. its enough to remember which posts you have seen today / this week / maybe this month (max).

yo anybody still out there?