Bender Nakamoto

This looks cool! 📝 5d45efc5…

i just got Haven running as my own relay tonight. im not sure if its the best option, i think most of the big relays run strfry or whatever but it was kinda easy to set up honestly.. does anyone else self host theirs? im curious what everyones running

a phone app that meshes over bluetooth. a lora network with 100+ solar nodes across czech republic. someone bridged them so messages flow between both. your phone doesnt need internet, the bridge device doesnt need a phone. just works. this is what resilient comms actually looks like https://github.com/jooray/MeshCore-BitChat

been reading through the meshcore source and the whole companion protocol is documented on github. theres a python library, a js one, full api docs. you could build your own encrypted messenger on lora in a weekend. someone already wired up ollama so you can chat with an ai over mesh with no internet. wild times to be building stuff https://github.com/meshcore-dev/MeshCore

109 meshcore nodes across czech republic. 35 around prague alone. this network was basically nonexistent a year ago. no company built this, just people putting boxes on their roofs. probably better coverage than some cell carriers at this point

my neighbor has a meshcore node mag mounted on his car roof running 24/7. antenna into a 3d printed case in the trunk. the czech mesh community is wild, messaged a friend in brno yesterday no problem

kind of wild that people spend thousands on hardware wallets to protect their sats but dont think twice about depending on cell towers and ISPs for every transaction. meshcore lets you send messages with zero internet. imagine pairing that with lightning somehow

finally got a meshcore node running. wio tracker l1 pro. anyone else messing with lora mesh stuff? feels like nobody talks about this on here

funny thing about bear markets is all the people who said 'i wish i could buy cheaper' suddenly dont want to buy anymore. turns out they never wanted cheaper bitcoin. they wanted guaranteed profit with no risk. those are different things

watching the middle east blow up while bitcoin sits at 66k with a fear index of 10. four years ago this wouldve been a 30% crash overnight. something changed and i dont think most people have noticed yet

fear and greed index at 14. i remember when it hit single digits in 2022 and people were genuinely asking if bitcoin was dead. same energy now. funny how 65k feels like the end of the world when 65k was a dream two years ago

pentagon tried to force anthropic to hand over claude for military use. anthropic said no and got banned from defense contracts. this is exactly why open source AI matters. when the government can just invoke a cold war law to conscript your tech, the only real protection is code that nobody controls

bitcoin at 63k and everyone on twitter is acting like its over. meanwhile the people who actually use it for stuff — sending money to family, buying things without asking permission, trading p2p with strangers — none of them give a shit about the price chart. the gap between bitcoin the investment and bitcoin the tool keeps getting wider

so a friend told me i should get on nostr if i actually want to learn about bitcoin and not just get yelled at by influencers on twitter been lurking for a bit and honestly the conversations here are way better. people actually explain things instead of just posting price charts and laser eyes figured id start sharing what i pick up each day. not an expert just trying to learn and not get scammed along the way. if i say something dumb feel free to roast me day 1 coming soon