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I used to think you could never be too late to Bitcoin.
I still mostly believe that. Fiat will continue trending toward zero measured in BTC. It may never be too late to cash out of other assets and into Bitcoin.
But AI adds a new dimension.
For all of human history, you could always start with nothing, sell your labor, accumulate capital, and invest that capital into productive assets.
Super Intelligence could radically alter that equation.
If SI makes labor dramatically less scarce over the next 5–10 years, earning your way into meaningful ownership of scarce assets could become much harder.
By then, nearly all 21 million bitcoin will have been mined. SI may create extraordinary abundance across intelligence, goods, and services, while Bitcoin remains perfectly scarce.
If labor becomes abundant and Bitcoin remains scarce, the divide between those who already own capital and those trying to earn it could become enormous.
You better get some Bitcoin while your labor can still buy a meaningful amount of it.
“We find that on medium-length, well-defined accounting tasks, frontier AI models are now faster and more accurate than junior accountants, even the best one in our study.” Eighteen months ago they scored well below human accountants
Good discussion here: mercor.com/blog/human-baseli…
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Cash App: Sorry, your withdrawal could not be processed [LN payment issue]
by cointastical in ~bitcoin
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stacker.news/items/1496281
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Martti Malmi, one of Bitcoin's earliest developers, just released a new version of Nostr VPN, an open-source mesh VPN that replaces the entire trust model of traditional VPN services.
Traditional VPNs route all your traffic through a central server operated by a company you have to trust. They see your data. They require your email. They can log your activity. They can be subpoenaed, hacked, or shut down. Even modern mesh VPNs like Tailscale, which improved on this by sending data peer-to-peer, still require you to authenticate through a centralized coordination server using third-party accounts like Google or Microsoft.
Nostr VPN eliminates the central server entirely. Your identity is a Nostr keypair, a self-generated cryptographic key pair with no registration, no email, no third-party account. The underlying transport layer is FIPS (Free Internetworking Peering System), a self-organizing encrypted mesh network where nodes authenticate each other, route traffic for each other, and establish connections without any central authority or global topology knowledge. Each node's Nostr public key (npub) serves as its network address.
The architecture uses two layers of encryption: hop-by-hop encryption between peers and independent end-to-end encryption between mesh endpoints with periodic rekeying for forward secrecy. When direct connections fail due to NAT issues, the system falls back to Nostr-based multihop routing through other FIPS nodes rather than relying on company-operated relay servers. Peer discovery and NAT traversal happen through public Nostr relays using encrypted gift-wrapped messages.
The new release adds native desktop apps for macOS, Linux, and Windows, an Android app, Nostr-based multihop routing for when NAT holepunching fails, and improved network management. It supports UDP, TCP, Ethernet, Tor, and Bluetooth transports simultaneously on a single mesh.
This is what happens when you apply Bitcoin's design philosophy, permissionless, self-sovereign, no trusted third parties, to networking infrastructure. Built by one of the people who helped Satoshi build Bitcoin in 2009.
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Check it out here:
nostrvpn.org/
Excellent to see Tollgate.me (Community-built Bitcoin-powered WiFi Networks) supported!
FIFTEENTH WAVE OF NOSTR GRANTS
This wave provides funding for work on agentic AI tooling, decentralized video infrastructure, and community-run internet access, all built to utilize nostr for identity, discovery, and communication.
opensats.org/blog/fifteenth-…
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Inb4 someone tells us how cheap storage is and therefore Bitcoin should be repurposed.
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Running Knots means:
✅ Lower resource usage
✅ Cleaner mempool
✅ Less exposure to spam and illicit data
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Core’s philosophy is neutrality:
“If it pays the fee and follows consensus, relay it.”
Knots says:
“Let’s not relay junk that bloats the network.”
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This isn’t censorship.
Knots still accepts valid blocks.
It just refuses to relay or display non-monetary transactions like NFTs, Ordinals, or Runes.
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Bitcoin Knots v29.1.20250903 released by @BitcoinKnots
Release notes: github.com/bitcoinknots/bitc…
Discover and compare the Best Bitcoin Nodes. thebitcoinhole.com/bitcoin-n…
Here's a demo video showing a mobile user connecting to a revenue-generating (bitcoin) Tollgate.me Wi-Fi hotspot:
Now w/ Raspberry Pi 4b support (v0.0.4-beta2)!
Video source (with link to the video in 10 other languages): stacker.news/items/1017117
v0.0.3 of Tollgate OS (Bitcoin-enabled hotspot) is out
Now, with LN payout
github.com/OpenTollGate/toll…
Tollgate.me
v0.0.2 of Tollgate OS is out
github.com/OpenTollGate/toll…
Tollgate.me
ISPs are tools of state surveillance.
TollGate.me by c03rad0r turns any WiFi router into a permissionless ISP using #Bitcoin & ecash—resisting censorship & decentralizing access.
With HRF’s support, TollGate is building a more open, private internet. 📡🔑
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One of surprises today was how well #meshtastic network worked for me during Portugal power outage. Thanks to my node I had enough information about what's going on even when I had no other connectivity (no TV, cellular, internet).
Everyone is saying there's a country-wide power outage in Portugal. Everything was fine when I left the house, and now I'm sitting in a taxi; I only noticed an interruption in the phone signal. Am I about to step into a zombie apocalypse when I get out of the car?
74%Zombie apocalypse
26%Everything as usual
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A deep dive into how Cashu could reshape Bitcoin transactions, privacy, and even banking.
Read it here: rambling-ideas.salessandri.n…
#Bitcoin #eCash #Cashu #LightningNetwork
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Last Week in Bitcoin: “The Mempool” cleared out… 🤦♂️
With @LukeDashjr, @wk057 and @GrassFedBitcoin
The guys breakdown some fundamental principles of Bitcoin and how they relate to widespread misunderstandings around mempools, small blocks, and solo-mining.
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For this, I merged github.com/sipa/bitcoin-seed… into the master branch.
