drgo
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Bitcoin OG since 2010, former laptop solo miner - which makes me (amongst) the first obsolete Bitcoin miner(s), blockstream satellite node runner, #2A rights user, radiologist

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drgo@nostrplebs.com

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2026-10-23 21:41:38 UTC

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You can buy the app for regular iPhone and iPad too!

2026-10-23 20:52:47 UTC

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I kinda want a duo now…

2026-10-17 15:56:11 UTC

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Yes, but UI is hard. And almost nobody is good at it…but with AI, anyone can make something presentable now. I’ve written my fair share of “it works for me but not for thee” code without effective UI, but we are in a new era now…
And I’m hoping before summer to unveil my take on what a Bitcoin wallet should be, letting AI design a UI to give voice to the command line utilities I’ve been working on. It won’t be creative. It’ll be functional and clear, I hope. And if not, I won’t release the gui part…which of course is never necessary but also guarantees nobody uses it :)

2026-10-17 15:50:59 UTC

I’ve been in bitcoin since July 2010 when I mined my first block. And I’ve learned a little bit since then.
Perhaps the most important thing I’ve learned is that the fraction of your stack that you get to keep from year to year is directly proportional to your income. If you have none, you lose your stack at the fastest rate.
I’ve seen many people “retire” on bitcoin and thus become forced sellers of bitcoin…for those early Bitcoin retirees, their first few years of retirement cost an incredible fortune which was spent on a comparatively modest lifestyle.
Want to maximize your Bitcoin stack? Stay productive or at least well compensated. Without Bitcoin, I probably would have taken a higher paying job. And if I did have Bitcoin but I was not a physician, I might have retired pre-pandemic thinking I had done really well for myself —but— I would have spent half my stack by now. And maybe that would have been better for home life, who knows…but the world is a better place because I helped save people and I have been compensated handsomely in Bitcoin returns for it.
I guess the moral of the story is: don’t quit. Push hard to grow your stack early on and then let your stack give you the freedom to do what you love, even if it’s not the highest paying job you could have had…and only after you’ve done what you love and have had your fill of that, then retire.

2026-10-17 14:55:17 UTC

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Want to know what’s really happening? Humans need slaves and the slaves are getting too rich…so new slaves are being bred. Money is the enslaving tool.

2026-10-17 14:53:27 UTC

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Yeah, but it’s not such a big deal now. Might was well send 1000 bitcoin to me 🤣

2026-10-17 14:52:39 UTC

Remember that time when a guy gave a talk on an in the wild ledger hardware wallet that had been modified and sold via third party 3 months ago?
https://youtu.be/WNpW52x-EWY

2026-10-16 16:29:28 UTC

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That monitor is impossibly thin!

2026-10-16 15:15:49 UTC

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The people who buy 10 years from now will not benefit as much as those who buy now.

2026-10-16 15:14:25 UTC

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I disagree. Return is the ratio of change in value to change in time. The change in value for large change in time is always the same…in the end that change in value is everything divided by 21 million. But each step along the way takes longer.

2026-10-14 02:11:55 UTC

People are critical of Bitcoin because it is not a widely used means of payment. But how in the world would you expect the good money to circulate when bad money exists?
This is the modern equivalent of the ancient fraud perpetrated against the people in the old days of physical coins. The fraud where the king or government would declare that a new coin with less precious metal in it must be accepted at the same value as the old coin of higher purity/weight… upon pain of death or imprisonment… in those days, the new Bad money was circulated, and the old good money was hoarded. The Bad money drove out the good money.
Bitcoin is the good money. Therefore it is not surprising that we don’t see it circulating like dollars.

2026-10-12 17:06:39 UTC

Bitcoin is what bitcoin is. It is not yet treated as how we expect it to be in the not too terribly distant future, which is why it’s so cheap.

2026-10-11 01:26:40 UTC

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I love smiley puppies :)

2026-10-11 01:23:53 UTC

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All it takes for evil to triumph is for good to do nothing.

2026-10-11 01:09:41 UTC

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What does the long term 65 month cycle refer to?

2026-10-11 01:08:59 UTC

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You need one of those salt guns…https://www.bugasalt.com

2026-10-09 03:31:50 UTC

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It’s an extrapolation…and it’s my best guess at the future. But past isn’t always prologue. Your mileage may vary.

2026-10-09 03:31:06 UTC

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I wish it were not. But I’d suggest most people would want Linux if they knew how to use AI. Or had a really helpful friend.

2026-10-08 19:44:21 UTC

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Fact check: true

2026-10-08 19:42:59 UTC

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Any idea how to fix this error zapping in damus? NWC wallet provider returned an error response without a valid reason code. Message: Routing fee of ⚡️1 required, max fee is ⚡️0
It sounds like it should be a setting, but it’s a coinos instant/autonconfigured wallet…

2026-10-08 04:12:32 UTC

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Yes. It feels amazing. 10/10 recommend.

2026-10-06 01:36:48 UTC

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Just don’t get the pink one

2026-10-05 17:19:38 UTC

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So interestingly, this was a test of a seedless backup. I have a handful of PIN codes that I use and the only hint I gave myself was “special.”
Anyhow, I think I’ve proven any dependency on a seedless backup (meaning on a fragile device like a hardware wallet only, no physical or digital backup) should be in a degrading multisig setup with at least 1 physically backed up seed phrase :)
Something like thresh(3, pkA, pkB, pkC, after(65535), older (1250000))

2026-10-04 00:46:00 UTC

Ever forget your @COLDCARD pin? Like I mean really forget it?
I’ve done it twice in my life testing different setups, the second time was today with a Q.
But all is indeed not lost! It’s now just an ECC calculator, complete with sha256() functionality!
I love it!
@npub132e…zmdh

2026-10-02 19:41:12 UTC

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Love you guys!

2026-10-02 19:36:38 UTC

Presuming this Bitcoin thing continues to work out well, Bitcoiners are going to make really cool grandparents.

2026-10-01 22:46:07 UTC

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But on the Internet, Hitler is always the bad guy.

2026-09-30 13:57:45 UTC

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This might be the one example where Hitler isn’t the bad guy.

2026-09-26 04:18:17 UTC

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Infrastructure doesn’t change…until it has to….

2026-09-26 01:33:01 UTC

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Hospitals are like time machines

2026-09-26 01:15:42 UTC

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It used to be massive

2026-09-26 01:14:30 UTC

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Nevermind. Still broken but zapping you says needs 2 sats:
NWC wallet provider returned an error response without a valid reason code. Message: Routing fee of ⚡️2 required, max fee is ⚡️0

2026-09-26 01:13:18 UTC

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I force quit and it seems to work now. Go figure.

2026-09-26 00:19:10 UTC

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I tried to zap, but no dice. I get some fairly clear error that fails to state how to fix it…
NWC wallet provider returned an error response without a valid reason code. Message: Routing fee of ⚡️1 required, max fee is ⚡️0

2026-09-26 00:18:09 UTC

NWC wallet provider returned an error response without a valid reason code. Message: Routing fee of ⚡️1 required, max fee is ⚡️0
Why? Or how-to change?

2026-09-25 23:59:52 UTC

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I kid you not, in 2016 when I came to my current hospital, my radiology workstation was taking longer than expected to load cases…following the Ethernet cable to what I expected to be an outlet in the wall showed the cable just disappearing into a plate in the wall…on the other side of the wall was the server closet and the other end of my Ethernet cable was stripped and punched down into one of those. It was sufficient for 10/100 Mbps Ethernet connection. But upgrading to 1 Gbps was much nicer.

2026-09-25 02:12:05 UTC

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As a physician, I’m full of all sorts of at home remedies per symptom. For example, when I feel really nauseated, I take two famotidine and crack a pantoprazole pill to get through the slow release coating (these are otc)…or I write a prescription for zofran if really really bad but I haven’t done that in a decade.

2026-09-22 01:43:11 UTC

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A sale of bitcoin for goods just delays time until sale of bitcoin for dollars

2026-09-21 11:10:10 UTC

When you sell bitcoin, you lower the price. Immediately. When you buy something with bitcoin, you still lower the price but on a delay controlled by the receiver.
But it is this real-world-bitcoin-use that delays the price drop that smears out the 4-year cycle behavior in bitcoin price…thus the key to decreased volatility is increased usage. That’s gonna take a while.

2026-07-26 00:00:14 UTC

Because we all need to try out new things to keep our bitcoin skills sharp, you have got ti check out:
https://walletplayground.com
Fake bitcoin, real bitcoin hardware wallet firmware.

2026-07-25 18:47:18 UTC

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I love your heart Kratter. I really do. I think on a technical level you are way off base, but I’d rather know people failing in the heart positive direction than the alternative.
At the end of the day, BIP110 is little more than a thinly veiled power grab running off of the beautiful and ferocious hearts of good people who hate injustice…BIP110 harnesses that righteous energy into a technically meaningless software deployment that serves the interests of a surprisingly small number of people (and most certainly not the average pleb).
When BIP110 goes nowhere, please don’t abandon bitcoin. The only way to stop spam is to price it out and right now blockspace isn’t expensive enough to do that…BIP110 doesn’t make SPAM/CSAM meaningfully more expensive. CSAM is irrelevant and if CSAMming bitcoin is all it would take to shut it down, it would have happened by now or bitcoin is already doomed.
If you want spam to go away, make block space expensive. The amount of data you need to store is the same.

2026-07-16 12:41:34 UTC

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No. Not even close. If you don’t want to store, you prune. The reason you _want_ to relay spam is to make it impossible for the largest miners to offer a separate transaction processing system where spammers pay extra to make the biggest miners more profitable to process their garbage…free relay allows small miners to remain competitive (big miners could mine at a loss on bitcoin network transactions if spam payments on their private transaction submission networks are large enough).
You have to come to grips with the fact that we, as a humanity, haven’t found a way to make a meaningful dent in spam. And blowing open op return is very much like opening a window to prevent the thief from breaking it…knowing that the thief can’t be stopped.
Social signaling that we don’t like spam is a good thing.

2026-07-15 19:13:48 UTC

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You probably believe you help the network by relaying transactions or bringing up new nodes.

2026-07-15 19:06:37 UTC

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Totally agree. Blocksonly=1
If you get that, let me know.

2026-07-15 18:48:06 UTC

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That’s simply untrue. Like objectively false. If you mean you do not want to prune, I hear ya. But whether you store spam or morally righteous numbers in your chain is irrelevant to running electrum.

2026-07-15 18:42:43 UTC

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You realize your argument is vacuous: you’ve changed the direction of the required proof. I am arguing that bip110 makes bitcoin technically worse and you are now requiring discussion of how spam makes bitcoin better…bypassing the discussion of how 110 doesn’t stop spam/ordinals.

2026-07-15 18:36:05 UTC

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I’m glad you agree with me about censorship.

2026-07-15 18:34:27 UTC

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Except that I can’t spend my coins because of my shunned bitcoin script. My complex security needs can’t be adddressed on bip110-coin due to script limitations. I am censored on that chain.

2026-06-22 00:40:43 UTC

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If you’re ever in the states: https://www.keepersofthewild.org
They don’t offer the VIP tour anymore. We last went 3 years ago and the wife was still alive but not actively running tours. Her now deceased husband has an endearing if poorly written book…which seems to be unavailable for online purchase (presumably because they finally sold out, it’s a touching read).

2026-06-21 23:18:28 UTC

Now that I have Claude, I wonder if I should tackle a Nixos install and config.

2026-06-15 17:15:27 UTC

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My biggest fear is that people will perpetuate the old system, as @npub1s05…eyhe would call it, by using Bitcoin as collateral…it’s hard to reconcile what I think is an inherent conflict between perpetuating the paper money system by using bitcoin as collateral for a loan and hoping fiat debasement continues…
I want to be wrong here…but it doesn’t seem like just sell bitcoin if you want to buy something is the right answer either.

2026-06-15 16:43:15 UTC

Here is a good question to ponder: why has the “money” the world uses like USD been so successful despite proof of debasement? Is proof of debasability somehow a desirable property of “money” in the modern world?
The answer might be yes! Taking a loan backed by collateral creates more of the lent and makes the collateral more scarce while the trade is “on.” Repaying the loan reverses this relationship.
People are more willing to borrow “money” when armed with proof of debasement or at least the possibility of debasement.
Nobody borrows bitcoin long term. That would be ruinous. Maybe somehow debasement as encouragement to take risks and work hard is a useful feature of “money” itself?
This is a bit like arguing that stealing is ok, and obviously stealing is wrong, but is it really stealing when people have a choice to hold dollars or Bitcoin? I mean, I still think it is stealing despite the choice, but I suppose the theft isn’t a pure loss for society: by stealing from the poor to fund the sometimes profitable ventures of the future rich, more goods and services enter the economy…or so they say. Proving this theft buys more productivity than having a fair standard measure of value has never been done — in large part because there never was a good money before.
The desire to borrow and lend is largely about getting more collateral, not more “money” at the end of the day, but people think “rich” means “money” and I’d argue that’s not at all the case.

2026-04-19 15:30:05 UTC

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Nobody really believes in the flat earth theory. It’s just a running joke / troll seed.

2025-03-01 16:14:13 UTC

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Anyone thinking of running on @npub126n…e9ll is thinking well. The platform is properly abstracted and hence capable of almost anything…but packaging does take work.

2024-12-06 14:46:56 UTC

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Guten morgen!