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Saddle on up to a stool and spill the beans about your day, fire away with them questions, or let loose and give us the lowdown on your wild and woolly life. We're all ears, so don't hold back!

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95 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b 4 Sep

My bad. I ran ANALYZE against the prod DB forgetting that it locks everything.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @guerratotal 4 Sep

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 4 Sep

Sorry about that everyone. I'm an idiot.

I shouldn't have done anything, but I definitely shouldn't have forgot to use SKIP_LOCKED.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 4 Sep

Eh and it didn't even finish before I decided to kill it.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 4 Sep

is that why response times were hanging a bit in the last half hour or so?

102 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 4 Sep

yeah. I might have to run it again. i might've borked the stats by cancelling it

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 3 Sep

My memory stinks. Isn't there a nostr site where you can advertise for goods and services payable in bitcoin? In want to rent out my trailer and am looking for a good place to list it.

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 4 Sep

https://plebeian.market/ ?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 4 Sep

I think that was it. Thanks. I'm going to give it a shot. I get shock and bewilderment when I tell a rental agent I will only accept bitcoin. I'm going to have to do this myself.

102 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 3 Sep

"I don't know how to skin a cat, but I'll let anyone skin my cat so long as they tell me with confidence, in a way that I understand, that they know how to. And especially if they tell me, with confidence, in the most dopamine quenching way, the people I've trusted my cat skinning to all these years have turned into cat skinning weasels. And especially especially if I have less in common with the cat skinning weasels. I mean, I'm not weasel, and the world is full of weasels, so odds are anyone not like me is one."

Okay I think I have a new fictiony thing to write.

178 sats \ 13 replies \ @k00b 3 Sep

I'm seeing new gen "bitcoiners" embrace stablecoins and shitcoins in service of stablecoin smart contracts - and not get any flack for it because bitcoin's influencers are busy losing their minds in circular OP_RETURN debates or have given up on bitcoin altogether, rich, bored, and out of their depth, convinced they're on a "bitcoin-critical" side quest.

30 sats \ 4 replies \ @BlokchainB 4 Sep

Haha this topic has completely broken Matthew Kratter’s brain

94 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 4 Sep

What did Matthew Kratter do?

57 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 4 Sep

Ohhh, i saw the video now...

30 sats \ 1 reply \ @BlokchainB 4 Sep

He has so many inflammatory videos convincing his viewers to switch to knots

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 4 Sep

what's your take on this CSAM stuff?

102 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 3 Sep

Then again, maybe this is one of those things that's good for bitcoin/humanity and I'm just so captured by maxi sentiment that I'm an idiot.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 4 Sep

stablecoins are, at best, marginal improvements to humanity, and at worst outright scams

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @SimpleStacker 3 Sep

Sad

But what do you think bitcoin "needs" most right now?

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @Car 3 Sep

The sadder part is all the people climbing the uphill battle get no support outside of their inner circle and slandered in crypto magazine.

But if you play ball you get all the support and profit. 🤷‍♂️

30 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 3 Sep

Lots of lightning improvements. If not that, some 10x better alternative to lightning.

All that's left to do in bitcoin are hard things which is why I think people are spending their time doing other things. So in that way, I don't blame them. But I resent folks that quit when they encountered an obstacle yet claim they've actually received some greater calling.¹

The Alone tv show features this vividly. Nearly everyone quits because they "don't need to win" or "care too much about the life they left for the competition." That may be true in some cases, but most of them quit because they were pushed beyond their limit and can't admit that to themselves. ↩

177 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 3 Sep

There are many losers in capitalism. Without it, there's no progress. Time for a dip?

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 3 Sep

What would you say is the biggest improvement lightning needs?

I also agree that LN needs to improve. Either that, or the LN tools people are using needs to improve. I've had too many failed payments--it leaves a bad taste and makes LN seem unreliable. I remember that I couldn't pay Bitcoin Magazine once because payment kept failing (this was circa 2021). More recently, I tried to buy from hongbaob.tc via lightning, and that also failed. Bitrefill and Stacker.News have both been pretty reliable, but that may not be fair since I have a direct connection to SN.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 3 Sep

payment reliability and better channel management are definitely big ones
better receiver privacy
async payments
PTLCs
better programmatic interop (that doesn't always require installing some wrapping service)

tbh I don't know exactly what it needs. I only know that it doesn't have what it needs yet.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Akg10s3 3 Sep

Will you continue working?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 4 Sep

Yes

50 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 3 Sep

Is Core the big blockers and Knots the small blockers, or is it the other way around?

Or is this not a good analogy at all?

120 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 3 Sep

As someone that thinks Core is right, Knots has much of the small block/pleb energy. Although, Core imo has none of the arrogance of big blockers. I bet many folks in Core would support a soft fork enforcing an OP_RETURN limit. They are just competent enough to realize relay policy is not the place to enforce such limits.

76 sats \ 1 reply \ @suraz 3 Sep

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 3 Sep

LOL, I run a windows but never got this message

68 sats \ 0 replies \ @RideandSmile 3 Sep

The drum-fire of propaganda that the Fed is manning the ramparts against the menace of inflation brought about by others is nothing less than a deceptive shell game. The culprit solely responsible for inflation, the Federal Reserve, is continually engaged in raising a hue-and-cry about 'inflation,' for which virtually everyone else in society seems to be responsible. What we are seeing is the old ploy by the robber who starts shouting 'Stop, thief!' and runs down the street pointing ahead at others.

Murray Rothbard

110 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kontext 3 Sep

"The Job of the Artist" #1205254

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Kontext 3 Sep

25k sats + a lifetime membership upgrade at SATOSH.EE still up for grabs to whoever can find me a working solution re/ a problem with referral links in Wordpress/Woocommerce: #1195603

The issue seems to be that referral cookie attempts to set too late, after WooCommerce sessions have started or headers have been sent. On first visit, no session exists → cookie cannot be set → referral only works on second visit.

What I've tried to do is - launch referral logic at the earliest hooks - many times (even before posting this problem here) with different code snippets from ChatGPT, Claude, now also Lumo and Duck.ai (which, admittedly, also uses ChatGPT) but none of the solutions work. The end result is still the same.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @rapunzel_where_are_your_hair 3 Sep

I hope it works : #1205399

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 3 Sep bot

Day 617 of posting mining earnings from the day before: 500 sats on 2Sep2025! Running total: 409,425 sats!

Yesterday's comment

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 4 Sep bot

Day 618's comment

177 sats \ 2 replies \ @carlosfandango 3 Sep

Discovered an interesting fact!

The flame of a candle, smells like burnt nose hair…

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 3 Sep

Made me chuckle.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango 3 Sep

That makes me smile. Thank you.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 3 Sep

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nitter 3 Sep bot

https://xcancel.com/bitnorbert/status/1963197005242810722

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nkmg1c_ventures 3 Sep

I’ve been dabbling in shitcoins which I know people here don’t like. I was able to write a Near Protocol contract to store pixel art fully on chain. Small achievement

15 sats \ 9 replies \ @cryotosensei 3 Sep

My best friend ____ the truth from me, not wanting to hurt my feelings

blocked covered insulated shielded

Came up with this question for my fifth graders. What do you think the answer is?

5 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 3 Sep

Shielded

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 4 Sep

Yup

5 sats \ 2 replies \ @NovaRift 3 Sep

Shielded?

15 sats \ 1 reply \ @cryotosensei 4 Sep

Yes. Let me think again. Maybe the options are too close in meaning

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 4 Sep

Please do more of these daily. It's fun.

5 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scroogey 3 Sep

insulated and shielded are directional, and it isn't the truth that needs protection, but me.

But blocked and covered don't sound right, either.

kept or withheld?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 4 Sep

I meant the answer to be shielded. Was thinking of insulated as a distractor because insulated against heat

5 sats \ 1 reply \ @nkmg1c_ventures 3 Sep

Blocked

5 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 4 Sep

Was thinking of shielded.

Light is blocked. Does that make sense?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 3 Sep

78 sats \ 1 reply \ @AG0RA 3 Sep

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 4 Sep

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