Top Posts

1. If governments confiscate bitcoin, it'll resemble gold confiscation. @Signal312 sources news written following Executive Order 6102 which forbid "hoarding" gold.
   • Gold "hoarders" were persecuted in the 1930's, what will happen with bitcoin?
     • 23k sats \ 35 comments
2. @fedelang warns us of worshiping false bitcoin idols. They claim Argentinian presidential candidate Javier Milei is a recent example.
   • Cut the crap and stop creating Bitcoin BS idols
     • 15.9k sats \ 63 comments
3. In this week's episode of passphrases are footguns, @q donates a bip38 protected private key to brute forcers.
   • Brute force and the coins are yours
     • 7396 sats \ 30 comments
4. Mutiny removed a proprietary dependency from their wallet's software stack in pursuit of enabling self-hosting.
   • Mutiny Wallet: Self-hosting fixes this
     • 9743 sats \ 25k boost \ 15 comments
5. @Monotone, who wrote recently about their flight from Russia and paying rent in bitcoin, shares their bitcoin makeover story.
   • How bitcoin changed my life
     • 4863 sats \ 21 comments

AMAs

• We're Max Fang and Philip Hayes, co-founders of Lexe (lexe.app). AMA
  • 27.1k sats \ 41 comments

Book club

• Lyn Alden book club part I
  • 101.7k sats \ 73 comments
• Broken Money book club update
  • 4143 sats \ 6 comments

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• "No" an Open Letter
• BIP324 integration by sipa (merged)
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• Mutiny Gifts!
• Blackrock's gameplan
• Announcing LND 0.17 beta: Tapping into Taproot 🥕⚡
• What have you learned in life THE HARD WAY?
• Introducing Nostr Playground: Dive Deep into the World of Nostr! 🚀
• Private SMS receiving (with sats) service recommendations

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Top meta

• SN release: nostr crossposting, symmetric lud18, quote replies, @ autocompletes
• SN release: image improvements, sub switching changes, and small stuff
• Please add a sub called "macro" or "economics" or similar

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