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FRANCIS - BULLBITCOIN.COM

We've entered the "Imperator Calligula" stage of crypto. Corruption and degeneracy no longer need justification. The industry acts a powerless senate mindlessly applauding, whoring its legitimacy with the plebs to remain in the inner circle of power Virtue is kept alive by a few philosophers in exile.

2025-01-20 02:31:25 UTC

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he changed his mind quite radically since
I think personally it's because saifedean and me argued with him about climate and covid

2025-01-20 02:24:02 UTC

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Dictator by Robert Harris book 3 of Cicero series

2025-01-20 02:23:19 UTC

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the correct version is probably chichero

2025-01-20 02:21:11 UTC

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as you can imagine, for many reasons, including the fact that I am to my knowledge the only person having been blocked TWICE by Taleb, and also that Taleb's books were probably the most influential on my intellectual and business development.... this is one of my most prized possessions.

2025-01-20 02:17:51 UTC

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sissero obviously

2025-01-19 23:59:38 UTC

STRIKE WHEN THE IRON IS HOT
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2025-01-19 18:29:56 UTC

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happening!!

2025-01-19 02:06:56 UTC

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CLBoss is amazing

2025-01-18 16:46:49 UTC

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meant to tag @npub1ds3…hzcn whoops

2025-01-18 16:45:26 UTC

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bull Bitcoin a son propre wallet self-custodial !

2025-01-18 16:44:24 UTC

@npub1ds3…ough competition in the market for bitcoiner-made artisanal beef jerky 😁
from @npub1e86…dhu9
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2025-01-15 23:12:48 UTC

when your brand is so strong that your are feature in an article from a country you have no business presence in, about another country where you also have no business presence in
@npub18ul…dcl9
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2025-01-15 23:05:22 UTC

more non-french people need to get to know the Indiana Jones of Bitcoin mining Seb Gospillou
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/mining-bitcoin-in-the-congo-and-beyond-the-journey-of-bigblock-datacenters-s%C3%A9bastien-gouspillou

2025-01-15 20:37:34 UTC

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dm'd

2025-01-15 20:20:00 UTC

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DM'd you

2025-01-15 20:19:02 UTC

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yeah that's about right. @npub148u…ty0w going to the printer tomorrow

2025-01-15 20:15:52 UTC

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👀

2025-01-15 20:14:35 UTC

anybody wants to make 100,000 sats to design a physical sticker for me? basically just using an existing logo I have and adding a bit of text to it and make it into a nice shape I can send to a printer? must be done very quickly and require zero effort on my part

2025-01-15 14:45:25 UTC

live later tonight at 6PM EST
https://www.youtube.com/live/8-i0UQ4oVN4?si=mGkPjvjbrkjqDBH8

2025-01-15 14:43:07 UTC

back in the @CBP tonigiht with my homies @npub1s63…tl0j and @joey

2025-01-15 14:41:55 UTC

back in the @npub1w4d…3vhw tonigiht with my homies @npub1s63…jand @npub1w9d…56ya

2025-01-14 21:48:27 UTC

PFC mixed martial artist lightweight world champion Olivier Aubin Mercier was the first and only professional athlete sponsored by Bull Bitcoin. Become world champion right after we sponsored him 🐂
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2025-01-14 21:46:05 UTC

just created a Nostr feed that is only photos of steaks lmao and guess what... it actually does show me pretty much just photos of steaks. and apparently there are lots of photos of steaks on Nostr 😂
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2025-01-14 18:32:29 UTC

Bull Bitcoin sera présent à la Bitcoin Expo, organisée par NormandieBTC, le vendredi 24 janvier à Rouen.
N'hésitez pas à nous rejoindre pour une journée de conférences et d'ateliers autour de Bitcoin!
https://lu.ma/gluk14gm

2025-01-14 02:11:11 UTC

phenomenal video @npub1dzq…sjd3
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2025-01-14 01:46:36 UTC

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it's easy in every country where I live 😎

2025-01-13 01:29:45 UTC

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pros: extremely easy, very low fees, payments always work
cons: custody risk, privacy risk

2025-01-12 20:32:55 UTC

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then nobody pays with Bitcoin and the merchant loses nothing

2025-01-12 19:10:56 UTC

The personal, as everyone’s so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally.
Get angry.
The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin.
If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them.
Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across.
That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous.
And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous marks the difference - the only difference in their eyes - between players and little people.
Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate.
And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it’s just business, it’s politics, it’s the way of the world, it’s a tough life and that it’s nothing personal.
Well, fuck them. Make it personal.
- Takeshi Kovacs (Altered Carbon)

2025-01-12 18:56:01 UTC

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app.bullbitcoin.com
it's live

2025-01-12 18:39:35 UTC

"What's the ROI?"
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2025-01-12 18:21:27 UTC

got some new toys. what mean? I don't know
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2025-01-12 00:31:19 UTC

Now reading the Cicero series by Robert Harris. Book 1 "Imperium" was really good. I am enjoying it because I studied and translated Cicero's speeches from Latin when I was a youth. I went to Rome to visit the forum and was reading his speeches on the trip. might fuck around and bring back the Roman republic who knows

2025-01-12 00:24:45 UTC

"When in doubt, eat a goddam steak"
I have never failed to follow this advice by
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2025-01-11 23:32:48 UTC

@npub1yzv…rf8q mobile app was very good and easy to use to publish my article

2025-01-11 18:40:55 UTC

I have just added my article "The Hard Path" to Nostr #naddr1qq…wv8d

2025-01-11 18:18:12 UTC

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I will try that thank you

2025-01-11 18:15:52 UTC

What app should I use to write long-from content on Nostr?

2025-01-11 09:29:21 UTC

I haven't been keeping up with Bitcoin mining at all. What makes foundry so "special" that if can capture the market? I bet it's some stupid reason like they have a neat accounting dashboard or something.
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2024-12-31 16:40:40 UTC

cool! Joinstr wallet library in Rust. I'm excited with Nostr as a protocol for wallets to communicate and Bull Bitcoin is happy to support projects that leverage nostr for this purpose.
Bull Bitcoin has also been working (stealth) on our own protocol for wallets to communicate over Nostr for another purpose which doesn't have anything to do with collaborative transactions... I think it will be a huge breakthrough in Bitcoin wallet user experience. coming soon... but yes the Bull Bitcoin will have a Nostr component soon (but it won't be for social media, since that area is already well covered by Primal Damus etc.)
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2024-12-29 14:29:13 UTC

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no, Payjoin implies that you transact with someone else. self-spend with Payjoin does nothing

2024-12-28 20:00:19 UTC

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2024-12-28 16:45:38 UTC

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oui

2024-12-28 16:33:10 UTC

Bull Bitcoin becomes the first mobile Bitcoin wallet that allows users to send and receive asynchronous Payjoin transactions without needing to run their own server, using BIP77!
I am very excited about this new and bleeding-edge feature, because it has been a long-standing ambition of Bull Bitcoin to become the first Bitcoin exchange to process Bitcoin withdrawals via Payjoin (Pay-to-Endpoint) transactions.
However, it was hard to justify Bull Bitcoin investing time into building this feature since there were no commercially available end-user Bitcoin wallets that were able to receive Payjoin payments.
Indeed, in order to receive Payjoin payments (BIP78), a Bitcoin wallet needed to be connected to a full node server and be online at the moment the payment is made. This means in practice that only merchants, professional service providers and advanced full node users had the capacity to receive Payjoin payments. This is, we believe, one of the major reasons why Payjoin had failed to gain significant traction among Bitcoin users.
For this reason, the Payjoin V2 protocol (BIP77) was conceived and developed by Dan Gould, as part of the Payjoin Dev Kit project, to outsource the receiver's requirement to run his own server to an untrusted third-party server called the Payjoin Directory. In order to prevent the server from spying on users, the information is encrypted and relayed to the Payjoin Directory via an Oblivious HTTP server.
Bull Bitcoin’s Payjoin ambitions had been put on hold since 2020, until there was more adoption of Payjoin receiving capabilities among end-user Bitcoin wallets…
But it turns out that in the meanwhile, Bull Bitcoin developed its own mobile Bitcoin wallet. And it also turns out that the open-source Bitcoin development firm Let There Be Lightning, which we had collaborated with in the past, had itself collaborated with Dan to build a software library for Payjoin that was compatible with and relatively straightforward to integrate into our own wallet software. All that was missing was to put the pieces together into a finished product.
Thanks to the collaborative open source effort of the Payjoin Dev Kit team, Let There Be Lightning team and the Bull Bitcoin team, the Bull Bitcoin wallet has now become the first commercially available end-user mobile wallet on the Google Play store to implement the BIP 77 Payjoin V2 protocol.
Moreover, the Bull Bitcoin wallet has also implemented asynchronous Payjoin payments, which means that a Payjoin transaction can be “paused” until the receiver or the sender come back online. This way, the receiver's mobile phone can be “turned off” when the sender makes the payment. As soon as the recipient’s phone is turned back on, the Payjoin session will resume and the recipient will receive the payment. This is a major breakthrough in the mobile Payjoin user experience.
We would like to thank the Human Rights Foundation for allocating a generous bounty for the development of a Serverless Payjoin protocol and its implementation in a mobile Bitcoin wallet, as well as OpenSats and Spiral for supporting the work of Payjoin Dev Kit, which made this all possible.
Why does this matter?
Payjoin, also known as Pay-to-endpoint, is a protocol which allows the Bitcoin wallet of a payments receiver and the Bitcoin wallet a payments sender to communicate with each other for the purpose of collaborating on creating a Bitcoin transaction.
I first heard about Payjoin (then called Pay-to-endpoint) in 2018 and it completely blew my mind. What I liked most about it was that it was not a protocol change to Bitcoin, but rather it was an application-layer protocol that allows wallets to communicate in order to create smarter and more efficient Bitcoin transactions.
Whereas in a normal Bitcoin payment the transaction is created by the sender, and all the inputs of that transaction belong to the sender, in a Payjoin payment both the sender and the receiver contribute coins as inputs.
In the Bitcoin whitepaper, Satoshi wrote:
"some linking is still unavoidable with multi-input transactions, which necessarily reveal that their inputs were owned by the same owner"
With Payjoin, this assumption is no longer true. With Payjoin, we have fixed one of Bitcoin’s most fundamental privacy problems... without changing the Bitcoin protocol!
In a Payjoin transaction, the output amounts visible on the blockchain does not necessarily reflect the value of the payment that was actually exchanged. In other words, you can’t easily tell how much money one wallet sent to the other. This is great for users that are concerned a malicious third party may be attempting to obtain sensitive information about their finances without their consent. This does not however pose an accounting problem for the Bitcoin wallets involved in that transaction: since both wallets are aware of which coins they used as inputs and outputs, they are independently able to calculate the "actual" value of the payment that was sent even if the payment on the blockchain appears to be a of a different amount.
Payjoin breaks the common input ownership heuristic, an assumption used by hackers and fraudsters to track ownership of addresses on the blockchain. The neat thing about this property of Payjoin is that it benefits everyone on the network, not just the Payjoin users themselves.
It allows the receiver of a payment to opportunistically consolidate his utxos when he is receiving funds, in a way which does not necessarily appear to be a consolidation transaction on the blockchain. Depending on the configuration of a payment transaction, it can also make a regular payment look like a consolidation.
In addition to these benefits, the introduction of collaborative peer-to-peer transaction protocols opens up exciting opportunities for the creation of Lightning Network channels, as well as efficiencies for transaction batching.
How to use Payjoin in the Bull Bitcoin wallet:
It’s so seamless, you may not even realize you are using it!
To receive via Payjoin, simply navigate to the “Receive tab” using the network “Bitcoin” and you will see a Payjoin invoice. When you want to get paid, send this invoice to the payer, or show them the QR code. If the sender’s wallet is compatible with Payjoin, it will be up to the sender to decide whether or not they want to use Payjoin.
To send via Payjoin, simply paste the receiver's Payjoin invoice, or scan the associated QR code, in the Bull Bitcoin wallet. If you decide that you don’t want to pay with Payjoin, simply turn off the Payjoin toggle.
Original post: https://www.bullbitcoin.com/blog/bull-bitcoin-wallet-payjoin
Download the wallet: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bullbitcoin.mobile&hl=en-IN
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2024-11-25 23:50:11 UTC

officially a NodeRunner
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2024-11-21 01:07:55 UTC

@npub1mea…nglh
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2024-08-09 20:33:22 UTC

follow @npub18ul…dcl9 !

2024-06-14 10:00:30 UTC

how did I get 12000 followers? I assume of bunch of that is bots?

2024-04-09 19:56:33 UTC

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weird, that is an actually retarded opinion to have

2024-04-09 16:45:34 UTC

there is a contrarian position on this... the Bitcoin Core clique of devs is very hermetic and exclusive, and one could argue that giving too much money to the same clique of people is counterproductive in the long term but if this was true one would also fund other groups of devs simultaneously (e.g. Knots, BDK) and especially one would also fund non-protocol developers as well. I have no confidence in the Bitcoin Core development process at all (especially since speedy trial).
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2024-04-04 22:08:43 UTC

I blindly followed everyone in the replies and who like this note
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2024-04-04 18:29:40 UTC

shill me your favorite people I should follow and I will follow them. can be yourself, unless you are lame and cringe.

2023-05-27 19:45:43 UTC

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Damn this is so good.

2023-03-21 22:34:50 UTC

Keep Nostrica in Costa Rica!

2023-03-21 22:14:35 UTC

I posted a 2,1 million sats bounty for adding wasabi coordinator announcements over Nostr almost 1 year ago and I think Kukks can now (or soon) claim it
#[0]
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2023-03-17 21:10:02 UTC

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I will! #[4] is one of the vendors, she is my cacao dealer 😁

2023-02-22 23:49:19 UTC

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Thats the food I miss most.

2023-02-22 23:47:42 UTC

No twitter for March. We doing this or what?

2023-02-16 04:04:11 UTC

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Plot twist: the endgame was the genocide of French Canadians.

2023-02-14 01:12:56 UTC

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Lmao guys you crashed it
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2023-02-14 01:01:39 UTC

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My work appreciates you... 😁

2023-02-13 17:58:45 UTC

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Zapped back! Made it work! With breeze. Failed with Bitcoin Jungle wallet

2023-02-13 17:09:09 UTC

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People willing to test emerging projects and provide real liquidity

2023-02-13 03:48:48 UTC

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Pics??? Yes you're clear

2023-02-13 03:15:16 UTC

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Lol i figured

2023-02-06 14:22:11 UTC

The likelihood that a mining pool is going to be the first one to put child porn on the blockchain is equivalent to their hashrate, unless they run a filter like ordisrespector (Luke-jr's patch), then their chance of distributing child porn to the world, forever, falls to zero. Even if mining pools filter out the gaŕbage, can't prevent people from inscribing crap in the blockchain, but then the vandals will have to run their own mining pool.

2023-02-05 15:12:39 UTC

Pura Vida
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