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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-07 19:06:03
Working on it! Amethyst is up next, and will be a bit longer, since it is a full Nostr client, then Coinos, and then Citrine and Pokey.
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-07 17:37:16
Money without masters.
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-07 16:29:00
Gotcha! I hadn't heard of Share-on-Nostr before. I'll have to check that one out.
The only other extension I am aware of that is Nostr related and not a signer extension is Lantern, an extension for creating highlights.
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-07 05:58:46
What Bitcoiner could resist time traveling back to the day Satoshi was born?
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-07 05:42:22
Muting words is supported by some clients, but not all. It's also a temporary band-aid. It works on this particular spam attack, but is not likely to work on the next one.
We'll have to determine what word will work for the next one when it happens.
Or we could just use better relays...
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-07 05:35:15
Poor sod was so sure that Bitcoin was going to go up that he borrowed enough fiat to buy 99.2 Bitcoin. However, lenders aren't about to risk losing their principal, so when the price went down far enough, he was forced to sell everything just to pay the lenders back, losing all of his own money that he'd put into the deal, as well.
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-07 04:13:51
Self-custody Lightning, yes. But custodial Lightning is no different from any other kind of custodial Bitcoin.
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-06 23:37:53
nostr:nprofile1qqszv6q4uryjzr06xfxxew34wwc5hmjfmfpqn229d72gfegsdn2q3fgpzfmhxue69uhkummnw3e82efwvdhk6tcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszythwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn99urf278z I broke it. Sorry.
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-06 22:16:26
Genesis
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-06 21:41:05
“In all churches a distinction is made between the terms upon which private members are admitted to membership, and the terms upon which office-bearers are admitted to their sacred trusts of teaching and ruling. A Church has no right to make anything a condition of membership which Christ has not made a condition of salvation. The Church is Christ’s fold. The sacraments are seals of his covenant. All have a right to claim admittance who make a credible profession of the true religion--that is, who are presumptively the people of Christ. This credible profession of course involves a competent knowledge of the fundamental doctrine of Christianity--a declaration of personal faith in Christ and consecration to his service, and a temper of mind and habit consistent therewith. On the other hand, no man can be inducted into any office in any Church who does not profess to believe in the truth and wisdom of the constitution and laws which it will be his duty to conserve and administer. Otherwise all harmony of sentiment and all efficient co-operation in action would be impossible.” - A.A. Hodge
This coming week will mark 4 years that I have served as an elder for my home church and I can tell you that a large portion of the job is understanding how to make this distinction. Another large portion is understanding that you will always be criticized by those who don't know how to do so.
#Reformed #catholic #Presbyterian
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@ f03df3d4:a4d4f676
2025-06-09 03:55:02
Block 900424
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#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-06 21:09:25
Ah... Yes. I think Damus is treating all of them as both read and write. There is no way to change which is read vs write within their interface at this time.
You can specify which is read vs write in Nostur. Just make sure to also use the "announce" option, so other clients will see which relays you want to use for each. Not sure whether Damus will respect the read/write flags or just treat them all as both anyway, though.
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@ 9fce3aea:0f9087e6
2025-06-09 03:53:14
Aww 🥰 mine are Spots n Snots. lol
Snots has decided to answer to “Pumpkin Spice” though, so there’s that.
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@ 508cdbf6:8f717552
2025-06-09 03:50:13
appreciate all the zaps ⚡️ nostr:npub1tvqc82mv8cezhax5r34n4muc2c4pgjz8kaye2smj032nngg52clq0rkrq4 ! ☮️
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@ f03df3d4:a4d4f676
2025-06-09 03:50:03
Block 900423
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#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ e7bf8dad:839ef3db
2025-06-09 03:50:02
Block 900423
3 - high priority
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#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ 958b754a:5c39e88c
2025-06-09 03:47:00
Yes! nostr:npub1yye4qu6qrgcsejghnl36wl5kvecsel0kxr0ass8ewtqc8gjykxkssdhmd0 would agree too!
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@ f03df3d4:a4d4f676
2025-06-09 03:45:02
Block 900423
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#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ 9fce3aea:0f9087e6
2025-06-09 03:43:48
I don’t have one of those! I do have some cats, do they count?
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@ 958b754a:5c39e88c
2025-06-09 03:42:44
早く良くなるといいですね
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@ 83d52b43:2af24689
2025-06-09 03:41:58
今日まだご飯すら食べてないのに眠いな…
あまり食欲ないし普通に体調悪いのか
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@ 958b754a:5c39e88c
2025-06-09 03:41:32
日本の友達の皆さん、今日は何を食べますか？
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@ 958b754a:5c39e88c
2025-06-09 03:40:04
You’re one of 4
nostr:note1afs7cddcuudn5e6f47g0q5srm38hun4r9v7dkrlp96yp3e6zhjjqam54cx
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@ f03df3d4:a4d4f676
2025-06-09 03:40:03
Block 900423
1 - high priority
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#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ e7bf8dad:839ef3db
2025-06-09 03:40:02
Block 900423
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#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ e07773a9:4a98108a
2025-06-09 03:39:03
Afternoon walk. Pretty cold but at least there is some sun.
https://i.nostr.build/PNlCXgmOBPBRRbp8.jpg
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@ 9fce3aea:0f9087e6
2025-06-09 03:37:26
I’m a girl, bro
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@ d4338b7c:f1d23a5b
2025-06-09 03:36:39
Or cry 🤷♂️
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@ f03df3d4:a4d4f676
2025-06-09 03:35:02
Block 900422
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#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-06 21:05:04
So, the aggregator relay requires payment to read from it? Using AUTH, I expect?
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@ cae5b7ea:79280384
2025-06-09 03:55:02
===========================
#5 📅 Upcoming Events
===========================
1. NOSTRBAMA Nostr Conference - July 2025
📅 Date: July 15 - 17, 2025
📍 Location: Mobile, Alabama.
🤹♀️ Organizers: nostr:npub1unm5skfa9x4drpq43pu2g00w6pzwvfhsa23z4j6aee7vghaygmkqwjtxhc, nostr:npub16secklpnqey3el04fy2drfftsz5k26zlwdsnz84wtul2luwj8fdsugjdxk, nostr:npub1ualvtyga8hj6kgw9mwe72ns9pn6c8kd66qruv98eafeuawg7yt0shdwmqx
🔗 Event: https://nostrbama.com/
2. Purple Konnektiv meetup - August 2025
📅 Date: August 29 - 31, 2025
📍 Location: Baden-Wuerttemberg, Southern Germany
🤹♀️ Organizers: nostr:npub1purpleye8gzrzss99nzqqnemtf7g8xxj8p950nkyknnuqzycuh5qnazkzp
🔗 Event: nostr:nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqrcxrljfjwsyx9pq2txyqp8nkknuswvdywztgl8vfd88cqyf3e0gqqsqqa2q0aaawa295xmdf8hsnpekzauzg5ve08qhufapr2j5a29rhws6wxl07
#events_nostr_recap
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-06 21:04:15
Yup, that's exactly what happened. lol
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-06 20:48:45
Are you just trying to find something to help them understand how it works under the hood, or are you looking for something to help them learn how to run a Lightning node for themselves? Educational or tutorial?
This video is a pretty good one for explaining how Lightning works from an educational perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKdK-7AtAMQ
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@ 5b0183ab:a114563e
2025-06-09 03:34:35
Imagine calling autonomous vehicles like you call an Uber just to burn them in the street.
Humans 1
Robots 0
For now….
https://blossom.primal.net/c3b0954ee02e67abe0a4e4bc8a3fa2faf88f09f868c0aa031a4af10f5704a294.mp4
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@ 4a93cff3:0471df3b
2025-06-09 03:54:59
#California #Governor #Newscum
https://blossom.primal.net/132e79b738f9e3fd99780b09393463ebe91449cc3de44ecea06284e9c3b0a8f5.jpg
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@ 1e3aa975:80324f5f
2025-06-09 03:54:54
vmess://eyJ2IjogIjIiLCAicHMiOiAiXHVkODNkXHVkZDEyIFZNLVRDUC1OQSBcdWQ4M2NcdWRkZmFcdWQ4M2NcdWRkZjggVVMtODkuMTE2LjI0Ny44NDoxMDEwNiIsICJhZGQiOiAiODkuMTE2LjI0Ny44NCIsICJwb3J0IjogIjEwMTA2IiwgImlkIjogIjk5MjEwN2U3LTcyMzgtNDVjYi05YTY3LWNhY2Y0ZDc3MTlmNSIsICJhaWQiOiAiMCIsICJzY3kiOiAiYXV0byIsICJuZXQiOiAidGNwIiwgInR5cGUiOiAibm9uZSIsICJob3N0IjogIiIsICJwYXRoIjogIiIsICJ0bHMiOiAiIiwgInNuaSI6ICIiLCAiYWxwbiI6ICIifQ==
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@ 11e28352:e5bab3eb
2025-06-09 03:54:52
Nostr 비밀키로 Coinos 등록한 적 있는데요😱 하지만 지갑이 텅텅 비어있지!!
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-06 20:15:09
Damus is a relay that allows anyone to post for free. It WILL have spam.
You can always write to it if you want, but I would not read from it.
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@ c8df6ae8:22293a06
2025-06-09 03:33:12
I checked to see how they were presenting the situation and they didn’t surprise me
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@ 3ce2b51d:36fc72c7
2025-06-09 03:55:00
✄------------ 12:55 ------------✄
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-06 20:01:49
If you use a client that allows you to mute certain words, you can mute spam replies from THIS particular spam attack by adding "randomuser.me" to your muted words. However, that will not be effective at stopping future spam.
Here's my canned response for dealing with spam on a more long-term basis:
If you are seeing a lot of spam in your replies, it is because you are reading from relays that spammers can write to for free. Spam can only happen if two things are true: 1. It's free and easy to create new identities. 2. New identities can write notes to relays without a cost.
We're not able to, nor do we want to, make it difficult to create a new identity on Nostr, so reducing spam by making new users jump through hoops that can only be enforced by a centralized entity is not an option.
That means we need to prevent it via option 2, by restricting new identities from writing notes to relays without a cost. If you are reading from relays that don't impose some cost to write to them, either social, computational, or monetary, then you are bound to see spam on a regular basis.
Instead of reading from free and public relays, you should consider trading them out for the following types of relays:
- Web-of-Trust (WoT): This relay type imposes a social cost in order to write to it. Namely, you have to be followed by the relay owner or one of the npubs the relay owner follows before you can write notes to the relay. These types of relays may also automatically aggregate notes from those within the web-of-trust, even if they were written to other relays.
- Proof-of-Work (PoW): This relay type is less common, and it imposes a computational cost to write to it. Only those who have dedicated computational energy to generating the required PoW can write to the relay. This cost is trivial for the honest user, who only posts up to a couple times a minute, but imposes heavy costs on spammers, who are trying to post hundreds or thousands of times per minute. Unfortunately, most Nostr clients don't support adding PoW to notes, so most relays don't use it as a spam mitigation measure.
- Paid Relays: As the name implies, this relay type imposes a monetary cost to write to it. It may also impose a cost to read from it, but that is less common. Since this cost is per npub, and spammers don't ever use just one npub since that's too trivial to mute and move on, this makes paid relays affordable for honest users, but too expensive for spammers.
Since the only two relay types above that are currently in wide use are web-of-trust and paid relays, here are a few suggestions for each.
Web-of-Trust:
- wot.utxo.one
- nostrelites.org
- wot.nostr.net
Paid:
- nostr.wine
- nostr.land
- jellyfish.land
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@ 9fce3aea:0f9087e6
2025-06-09 03:54:53
Look at these gangstas
https://i.nostr.build/mPVojdKu2guCQ0h3.jpg
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-06 19:56:52
Web browser extensions in the context of Nostr are used for signing notes, not for loading feeds or not loading feeds in Nostr clients.
What you may be experiencing is that some Nostr clients try to load and decrypt your DMs immediately upon login, and these get sent to your signer extension as separate requests. If the extension doesn't handle those requests gracefully, it tries to load all of the requests at the same time, crashing your computer.
Nostrudel does not do this. Instead, it waits to decrypt messages until you instruct it to do so manually. Likewise, Coracle has direct messages disabled by default, so it should not send you a bunch of decryption requests unless and until you enable direct messages.
Now, if you want a client that allows you to post to Nostr without the distraction of a feed, you should check out https://shipyard.pub/
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@ d4338b7c:f1d23a5b
2025-06-09 03:33:04
You gotta laugh at the truth when you can.
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@ e7bf8dad:839ef3db
2025-06-09 03:30:03
Block 900422
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#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ 4a93cff3:0471df3b
2025-06-09 03:54:04
https://blossom.primal.net/ef6d4a3bceb5f4f203fedb9ced3e60b5e113a364bab9e9aaf546a02cdcf985cd.jpg
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@ 70122128:c6cc18b9
2025-06-09 03:54:42
I hope we can get some groups to try it out when the features are ready! I'd love to be able to serve education needs.
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@ b799e60f:07815677
2025-06-09 03:54:41
It is not worth to be responsible for anything anymore, unless you “own” it.
I think this is a common feeling between Americans and other people from other countries. It is hard to get and stay attached to something if it can’t be yours truly, if it can be taken away by a stroke of a pen.
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-06 19:49:57
Consider posting with the #bounty hashtag and offering some sats for the work. If it is something others want to see, they may add to the bounty.
I'm sure some vibe-coder would be happy to run some prompts in return for sats.
Bear in mind, it's going to need to "live" somewhere, so there will be hosting costs as well as a cost to buy a domain where it can be accessed, so take that into consideration with the amount you offer.
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@ f03df3d4:a4d4f676
2025-06-09 03:30:03
Block 900422
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#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-06 19:23:47
Successfully unsuccessful. The timestamp was supposed to be for July 4th, 1776, not for September of 2048. 😂
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@ cbab7074:f9f0bd61
2025-06-09 03:30:03
Block 900422
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#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ 4a93cff3:0471df3b
2025-06-09 03:53:31
https://blossom.primal.net/cc009ec50777570fa58d7dcf0085e53442fade474fbc8e5e520e231db3f43f50.jpg
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@ 81913081:42ee8db5
2025-06-09 03:26:13
#### 谁才是真正从政府税收中得利的人呢？
摘自：罗斯巴德《人、经济与国家》
1. 二元干预：政府预算
所有政府都依赖于强制征收的税收而维持，因此是二元干预的一个首要的例子。所以，政府干预不仅有类似价格管制的三元干预，也有如税收这种二元干预。
如果一位居民赚取10000美元收入要支付2000美元的税，赚取10000美元的官僚并没有真正缴纳这2000美元的税；他所谓的纳税只不过是记账的花招。他实际上取得了8000美元的收入，而根本没缴纳任何税金。
社会中的每个人都在不同程度上是净纳税人或食税人，至于某个具体的人或者行业在此分配过程当中的位置，则需要根据具体情况决定。唯一确定的是，在任的官僚或者政客100%的政府收入来自税收收入，而不相应为此缴纳真正的税金。
因此，收税并以之开支的过程会不可避免地扭曲自由市场上本会形成的生产要素配置，生产的财货类型，以及收入模式。税收与开支的水平越高——即政府预算越大——扭曲程度也越严重。
除了扭曲资源配置外，预算过程还对收入进行了再分配（或可以说是分配）。自由市场并不分配收入；那里的收入是从市场的生产和交易过程中自然、平稳地出现的。
而另一方面，政府预算的二元干预损害了每个人对自己产品的财产权，创造了独自的过程，以及分配的问题。收入和财富不再纯粹因市场上人们提供的服务而产生；它现在流向国家创制的特权，流出那些特别承担税负的领域。
税收构成了大部分政府收入，是其权力与实质的根结。另一方法，也就是创造新的货币。第三种方法是向公众借款。第四种方法是通过出售政府财货或者服务取得收入。它是税收的一种特殊形式。
2. 二元干预：税收
A． 所得税
当政府将额外的惩罚置于人的努力之上时，他通常会懒散下来；但在某些情况下，他会更努力工作，试图抵消这些负担。不过，在后一种情形中，我们必须记住，他会损失“闲暇”，而“闲暇”也是有价值的消费者财货；他现在拥有比他仍然可以自由选择时更少的闲暇。
在惩罚下更努力地工作，单纯从食税者的角度看才会是令人愉快的，他们因此可以从税收中获益。而工作者的生活水平（必然包括休闲）却因此下降了。
所得税对投资所得课税，将投资回报降低至自由市场的时间偏好决定的水平以下，所以缩减了储蓄与投资。净利息回报降低，导致人们让他们的储蓄—投资与新的现实相协调；简言之，高于回报率的边际储蓄与投资，现在会因为评值低于消费而将不再进行。
因为缴纳税款，纳税人的真实收入及其货币资产的真实价值降低了。我们知道，给定一个人的时间偏好表，其真实货币资产水平越低，其时间偏好就越高，因此他的消费投资比也越大。所以所得税会特别地惩罚储蓄与投资而不是消费。
B． 中性税收的尝试
追求中性税收——对于市场中性、使市场大致保持在税前状况的税收——是没有希望的冒险。因为当社会中必然有某些人是纳税人，另一些人是有特权的食税人，缴税就不可能有统一性。
真正对自由市场中性的税收，并不是让收入模式与以前相同的税收；它会以仿佛这项税收真的是一个自由市场价格一样的方式，影响收入模式，以及经济所有其他方面。
实际上，税收的强制性本质，其本身就意味着，如果事情以自愿方式进行，政府的收入会少得多。因此，统一税并非中性，它至少过度地向三类居民征收了税金，因此会扭曲市场结果：他们是穷人、无利害关系的人、以及反对收税的人（这些人出于各种原因，本不会自愿向政府支付这笔统一的税金）。
事实上，既然税是依靠强制征收，显然人们从政府获得的好处显著低于他们被要求支付的数量，因为如果他们有自由，他们会向政府贡献更少的钱。所以，“受益”只不过是政府官员武断的假设。
有人会反对说，为什么我们不能说，每个人的收入有一定比重是得益于“社会”而尽管不是政府呢？
首先，这是无稽之谈。事实上，相反的论点才更为准确：由于A和B都参与社会、享受其利益，A与B之间的收入差异必然源于他们自身具体的价值，而不应归因于社会。无疑，不能用每个人都从社会获益这一点推出比例税的合理性。而且，即便这种说法是正确的，又怎样变戏法说明“社会”就等于国家呢？A、B、C这市场上的三位生产者，对于一人而言另两人的存在就是“社会”。如果他们从这个“社会”中获益，G，政府，又如何能够利用这个事实确立它对他们的财富的要求权呢？
至此我们看到没有任何税收原则对市场是中性的。如果说比例税体现的是一条摧毁整个市场经济和货币经济本身的原则，那么累进税的危害更为严重。因为累进税甚至以更大的比重惩罚有能力的、有效率的人。
在累进税制下，并不是“穷人抢劫富人”，而事实上是国家“抢劫”了他们两者，不论税制是比例税还是累进税。
税收所有可能的类型当中，最有计划地损害和摧毁市场运作的是暴利税。利润是整个市场经济的马达、驱动力。利润与亏损信号推动企业家和资本家，以尽可能最好的方式和组合，引导以及重新引导社会的生产性资源，用于变动条件下变动的消费者欲求。当利益驱动受损，利润与亏损就不再能作为有效的激励，或因此不再作为市场经济中经济计算的手段。
C． 转嫁与影响：行业税
转嫁的第一条规则是，所得税不能转嫁。
认为雇主会把增加的成本转嫁给消费者的看法，也许是有关税收最广流传的谬误的一个例证：仅仅以更高价格的形式，商人就能够将他们变高的成本转嫁给消费者。本书中所论述的全部经济学理论解释了这一学说的错误。因为，给定产品的价格是由消费者的需求表所决定的。成本或者税收变高本身，并没有什么因素可以增加这些表；所以，出售价格的任何变动（不论变高变低），都会减少所涉企业的收益。因为市场上每个行业，在任何时候，都趋近于其相对于消费者的“最大利润点”。价格已经在企业的最大回报点上；因此，更高的税收或者其他强加于企业的成本，都会降低它们的净收入，而不会顺利、轻易地转嫁给消费者。我们因此得出了这个重要的结论：任何税收（不仅仅是所得税）都不可转嫁。
这个过程——损失在整个经济扩散——很难说是“转嫁”。因为税不是被简单地“转嫁”掉了；它只是通过损害被课税的行业而波及消费者。最后结果是生产要素的扭曲。
简言之，税收更容易“向后转嫁”而不是向前。但显然，向后的过程（向后转嫁到生产要素）比对消费者的影响发生得更迅速和直接。
D． 转嫁与影响：统一销售税
统一销售税被认为是税收向前转嫁最为流行的例子。
无疑，比如说，如果政府对所有零售统一征收20%的税，而且如果我们出于简化目的，假设这项税收可以在各处得到同等有效地执行的话，那么，商家会简单地将所有价格20%的增加“转嫁”给消费者。但实际上，价格根本没有办法增加！就一个具体行业而言，价格是先前定好的（或几乎如此），处在企业获取最大净回报的那个点上。财货或者要素的库存还没有改变，需求表也没有改变。那样的话，价格又怎能上涨呢？
统一销售税的后果，其直接影响是降低企业的总收益，税收的数量即为降低的数量。
根本上讲，税收是对原始要素的收入征收的，货币从它们手中转让给了政府。政府以及那些受政府补贴的人的收入，以纳税人为代价而增加。所以，市场上的消费和投资需求以税收的数量，从生产者转移到了征收者。结果是，货币单位的价值会保持不变（不考虑纳税人与食税人的货币需求之间的差异），但价格数组会根据需求的变动而变动。因此，如果市场在服装上有大量开支，而政府的税收收入主要用于购买军备，那么服装价格会下跌，武器价格会上涨，非专用要素趋于从服装生产留出，进入武器生产。
人们通常以为销售税是为了惩罚消费，而不是惩罚收入或者资本。可是我们发现，销售税不仅仅减少了消费，还削减了原始要素的收入。统一销售税因此是一项所得税——尽管是相当随意的一种。
E． 土地增值税
一旦税收降临，它们便开始破坏、妨碍和扭曲市场的生产活动。显然，对工资征税会扭曲劳动努力的配置，对利润征税会损坏利润—亏损这一经济的发动机，对利息征税会消费资本等等。人们通常承认这条规则有一个例外，那就是亨利·乔治的学说，认为土地所有者并不起到生产性的功能，因此政府可以安全地对土地价值征税，而不用担心因此会减少市场上的生产性服务供给。
可惜的是，尽管出于纯粹实用或者保守的理由，极少经济学家曾去挑战这一基本假设。
可是，这一乔治主义的核心论点完全是错误的。土地所有者承担着非常重要的生产性服务。他发现、利用土地，然后将之分配给最有生产力的买家。我们一定不能被土地的有形库存一直固定的事实所误导。就土地而言，它与其他物质财货一样，被出售的不仅仅是有形财货，而且还包括它所带来的全部服务——其中包括将所有权从卖家转让给买家的服务，而且进行得十分有效。土地并不是现成的；所有者必须将它提供给使用者服务。土地所有者通过将土地分配到它们最具价值生产力的用途（最受消费者需要的用途）而赚取最高的地租。我们也尤其不能忽视，位置以及土地所有者在确保土地各尽其用中提供的生产性服务的重要性。
F． 对“过剩购买力”课税
我们将批判下面这种十分常见的看法：在经济景气时，政府应当增加税收，“从而吸走过剩购买力”，以此制止通货膨胀并稳定经济。
假设在繁荣时期，有A、B、C三位先生，他们手头有钱，会花费一些钱在某个商品上——比如烟斗——以一定的市场价格，比如10美元每把。政府认为这是极为不幸的情况，市场价格——根据某种武断的、未说明的标准来判断——“太高了”，因此它要帮助它的百姓，就必须对他们课税，从而降低价格。假设三人真的被征以足够的税，让烟斗价格下降到8美元。既然税收的增加正等于他们的货币资金的减少，他们的生活怎么会变得更好了呢？简言之，这是提高“税收价格”，从而让其他财货价格下降。一个自愿的价格，买家愿付，卖家也接受，它又怎么会是“有害”于购买者，或者成了他们的负担呢？而与此同时，强制针对这些买家征收一个“价格”，用于支付他们没有表现出需求的政府服务，又怎么会对他们是“好事”呢？为什么高价格对他们构成负担而高税收却不然呢？
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-06 19:12:57
Quite hilarious... YakiHonne must be ignoring the "-" in front of the timestamp and treating it as a future date, or "now" until that date (September 17, 2048) arrives.
It's meant to be July 4th, 1776, but timestamps apparently don't work when they are negative numbers...
On a side-note, I have just found a way to post notes that are guaranteed to be at the top of the timeline... At least until YakiHonne fixes it.
Suggestion for YakiHonne devs: Ignore notes with timestamps in the future by more than a certain margin. Say 30 minutes tops.
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@ f03df3d4:a4d4f676
2025-06-09 03:25:02
Block 900420
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#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ 4a93cff3:0471df3b
2025-06-09 03:52:59
https://blossom.primal.net/ebf7da31a5224e51d81cf3054086e07360996888787a5a48a3b040ddb9359dcf.jpg
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-06 19:07:31
WAT! LOL!
I thought that note didn't even get published to the relays, because every client I have tried won't even show it at all.
I hadn't tried YakiHonne...
So, the note has a timestamp that is a negative number. relay.damus.io gave me an error when I tried to publish it there with NAK.
I am on Coracle right now, and though I can see notifications for a few responses to the note, I cannot load the note at all. 😂
I'll leave it for a bit then pop over to YakiHonne and request deletion.
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@ 217a0719:f11e474d
2025-06-09 03:54:37
기분은 느껴봤으니 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
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@ 4a93cff3:0471df3b
2025-06-09 03:52:24
https://blossom.primal.net/bd18bffbb23b3aa0fce5e64a627e8af7d71b03b22dec455964c536c05a12eae4.jpg
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@ 4a93cff3:0471df3b
2025-06-09 03:51:55
https://blossom.primal.net/fd12669933ca40f5e803a495ccddde3d5abc14e24352ad8c08aac199f08ca066.jpg
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@ f03df3d4:a4d4f676
2025-06-09 03:20:03
Block 900420
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#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-06 18:10:19
For sure, it would be possible. They would just need to be encrypted. Not sure what client would be ideal for it at this time, though.
The vast majority of note kinds are designed to be public, and therefore are not encrypted. The main exception are DMs, so that might be the route to go. DMs can't be edited, though, so each revision would be a separate DM, and it would get out of hand pretty quickly.
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-06 06:19:45
I think we may have been confused about what you are asking.
Are you asking if there will be more Nostr users THAN vibe-coded Nostr apps in a year? If so, it could be a close call, but I think the Nostr users will barely surpass the number of vibe-coded apps. 😂
Or are you asking if the number of users will be more than today, and if the number of vibe-coded apps will be more than today? I think both would be a yes, though vibe-coded apps growth will be a much higher rate than user growth.
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@ 4a93cff3:0471df3b
2025-06-09 03:51:28
https://blossom.primal.net/dab5d87dec6b8aa7edc765b141f644d575ce24e630c1026c4e68d1f694fbc8d3.jpg
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@ cbc5ef6b:4ebeaccb
2025-06-09 03:28:25
sort of ironic we're talking about how to use blockspace at a time when ~nobody's using blockspace 😅
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@ ef89ee45:fa278758
2025-06-09 03:53:53
Stackageのnightlyが5/28から更新されていないので不安になる。
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@ f6488c62:c929299d
2025-06-09 03:50:32
กำลังเรียนรู้อยู่พอดีครับ มีแค่ไอเดีย แต่ยังขาดเครื่องมือเจ๋งๆ ขอบคุณมากมายเลยครับ
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@ e7bf8dad:839ef3db
2025-06-09 03:20:03
Block 900420
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#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ 2779f3d9:1a7f98d1
2025-06-09 03:19:57
It’s true. nostr:npub1vtavk0dkfjd86j6799p09td3p7t82dfgr6jd9g8njhahcgsemhtsfpkjyp posts only when she’s at a Nostr conference with me.
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-06 06:09:16
Unfortunately, you can't do anything prior to January 1, 1970, because timestamps would be negative numbers and relays reject the note if the timestamp isn't an integer. 😂
Anything after that is fair game, though.
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-06 05:48:15
I have been using Joplin, encrypted and synced to my Nextcloud. This could work for collaboration, as well, but as with anything encrypted, you would need to give the collaborators the decryption key, so you will likely want to have a separate profile for notes you need to collaborate on, and share the decryption key only for that profile.
If you don't need encryption, I believe Joplin allows you to go that route, too.
As for a Nostr-based note app that allows for collaborative editing, well... we don't really have a Nostr-based note app yet. Best option is using a long-form client and only publishing to a private relay you control. However, most long-form clients just publish to your outbox relays by default, and don't offer a way to override that. The best option I can think of for this would be Comet.md. This is a local-first note app for desktop, so it's not cross-platform. However, it does let you publish your note to a specific relay, and only that relay, even if it is not one of your outbox relays.
Note collaboration is still a problem that needs to be solved. The way Nostr currently handles all notes is that a note can only have one possible author, identified in the "pubkey" field of the note. The signature attached to the note must be valid for that pubkey. There's a couple approaches to collaboration that I can think of possibly working.
First would be the way that has already been implemented for wiki notes. These notes have one author, but anyone else can come along and fork the note, which creates a separate note that only they can sign. However, if the original author likes their changes, they can merge them into their own version of the note. Amethyst also has something like this for "suggesting edits" to regular text notes. But no one ever uses it because Amethyst is the only client that supports these types of edits to regular text notes, so those on any other client will just see the original note.
Another approach would be to have a new standard for assigning collaborators. In this case, the original author would sign the note, and then they would sign a separate, special kind of note that references the original note ID and lists the pubkeys of approved contributors. If any of those npubs submit a new version of the note signed by their private key, the relay will accept it, but keep the copy of the original owner's version, in case they want to revert the change. Clients would display the most recent version of the note signed by the owner or any of the approved contributors, but also display to the owner the option to either commit the changes made by their contributors, or revert their changes. If the owner commits the changes, a new version of the note is created with the owner's signature, and all previous versions can be discarded by the relay. The relay only keeps the revisions of the contributors if they are newer than the most recent version signed by the owner.
Obviously, this second option is more complex and would require new relay logic to implement, so it may be a while before we see anything like it.
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-06 04:39:11
Did anyone else realize Nostr was a thing way back then?
nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpde8f55w86vrhaeqmd955y4rraw8aunzxgxstsj7eyzgntyev2xtqyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpt3mhxue69uhhqun00pujumn0wd68yttjv4kxz7fwv9c8qtenxajrgcenxd3rveryxyck2vf4x5ekxvmyxaskzcnzv4jrydrzvdjnjcf4xpnxxdejvcmnzdpkx3jrxwtx8pnr2vnrv5urxcn9vdnrsqgmwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxyunfva58gcn0d36zumn9wshsqgqmwewy4dxylj57yejv9uzjsw3w2k83h057jdaw0mu9hpevdqt9kv7f2t3w
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@ 1b733353:7e6e85b4
2025-06-09 03:50:26
参见《鹿鼎记》，天地会在朝廷有很多卧底，朝廷安插在天地会的卧底也很多。
😀
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@ 6389be64:ef439d32
2025-06-09 03:16:47
Mood
https://blossom.primal.net/a7fc6be7c486a0018f87ad47026f4beab018b189b602fe835665bf0ed3aaa8a8.png
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@ aa4fc866:b098c7b4
2025-06-09 03:55:02
Bitcoin price: $105614, Sats per USD: 947
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@ 958b754a:5c39e88c
2025-06-09 03:16:16
https://blossom.primal.net/25da7457268ef1e9aededd93ae3fac811510187e424d90fe4d7da7dceca26ffa.jpg
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@ 000d9faf:56663d17
2025-06-09 03:53:52
Block 900424 AG
🌞 🌗 🪱
In the early days of summer, the last quarter Worm Moon struggles to pierce the gathering clouds over NextBlock City, while activity hums through the districts.
🌘 The waning crescent arrives in 224 blocks
🌸 The pink moon rises in 2744 blocks
🍂 The autumn equinox arrives in 44576 blocks
http://observatory.nextblock.city
#nextblock #observatory #timechain #bitcoin
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@ f11e91c5:59a0b04a
2025-06-09 03:53:50
月曜は北青山
木曜は渋谷だけど渋谷の方がやはり年齢が5歳くらい若い
ただ購買力は渋谷の方があるなぁ
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@ 4a93cff3:0471df3b
2025-06-09 03:50:25
#Gordon #Ramsay
https://blossom.primal.net/1c95efb9bb146549229e861b00f7190e68539e941033334f40906969b38656bb.jpg
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-06 02:14:45
So, for the sake of placement on relay lists, those using Amethyst would throw this in their General Relays as read only, rather than puttingbit in either their inbox or outbox relays, correct?
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@ f03df3d4:a4d4f676
2025-06-09 03:15:02
Block 900418
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#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ 274fe9ae:565805d2
2025-06-09 03:53:31
Canada wildfires smoke turns UK skies orange
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1l6ujo3/canada_wildfires_smoke_turns_uk_skies_orange/
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@ 9aa4064c:021dab5b
2025-06-09 03:54:59
I'm raising my family in Thailand and feel less pressure to be a perfect mom
If she's 10 minutes late dropping her daughter off, it's not a problem. As a mom in Thailand, she doesn't get stressed.
https://www.businessinsider.com/mom-koh-samui-thailand-raising-daughter-stress-perfect-mother-2025-6
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-06 00:32:47
Oak Node looks like it uses NWC as well, from the description on Umbrel. That said, my Start9 is my node, and it isn't available there... It also suffers from the same problem nostr:nprofile1qqswum4p82uluhz2dr40nvdrflspffntgqghc58w9fs57nx6jkdkuaqd5rvcc pointed out, that most users probably don't have access to Oak Node via their wallet provider.
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@ e7bf8dad:839ef3db
2025-06-09 03:10:02
Block 900417
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#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-06 00:29:56
That is absolutely true! Got another option for service-provider initiated subscription payments that is more widely adopted by wallets? I can't think of one.
I think NWC is pretty early in adoption, and yet anyone who runs their own node can use it with either Alby Hub or LNBits, there are viable custodial options in Coinos and Minibits, and self-custody in Electrum wallet, if I remember right. Would love to see Zeus' embedded LND support it, as well.
I hadn't heard of Flash, which someone else had mentioned, but from what I can see, that's just invoicing. So the user still needs to manually approve payment being sent each time, while a subscription implies the funds are automatically deducted each month without user interaction required.
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@ f03df3d4:a4d4f676
2025-06-09 03:10:02
Block 900417
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#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ f03df3d4:a4d4f676
2025-06-09 03:05:02
Block 900417
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#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-05 23:57:53
Definitely the latter. They get bored and decide to move on. Especially if most users have found a way to deal with their spam so they no longer see it.
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@ 380b3f9f:21e0577f
2025-06-09 03:53:26
헉 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
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@ f03df3d4:a4d4f676
2025-06-09 03:00:03
Block 900416
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#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ cbab7074:f9f0bd61
2025-06-09 03:00:03
Block 900416
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#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ c6716205:ecd92f88
2025-06-09 03:53:02
🔔 Izraelské vojsko přimělo loď s aktivisty mířící ke Gaze změnit směr:
Tel Aviv - Loď s Gretou Thunbergovou a dalšími aktivisty mířící k Pásmu Gazy s humanitární pomocí byla přesměrována do Izraele. Oznámilo to dnes nad ránem izraelské ministerstvo zahraničí, podle něhož...
https://www.ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/izraelske-vojsko-primelo-lod-s-aktivisty-mirici-ke-gaze-zmenit-smer/2684013
#CzechNews #News #Press #Media
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-05 23:56:05
Nostr Wallet Connect using a budget for the exact subscription amount. This also allows the user to maintain the ability to cancel at any time by simply deleting the connection string.
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@ 1ae011cb:1257a556
2025-06-09 03:00:03
Block 900416
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#bitcoinfees #mempool
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-05 23:50:24
Well, your math is off, for one thing. Your statement that “selling will cost more” is only true if you assume a cost basis of $0.
So yeah, if you got your coins back in 2009-2010, you might pay more to sell them than to use them as collateral for a loan. However, you probably also have a massive stack of coins.
You only pay capital gains on the difference between the USD denominated value at the time you obtained your Bitcoin and the value at the time you sold it. Moreover, your cap gains rate will vary based on a couple major factors: First, your annual income. If you are in the highest tax bracket, you’ll have a higher cap gains rate as well, while you may have no cap gains at all if you are in the lowest tax bracket. Second, whether you have held the asset for one year or less, or for more than a year. The highest rates (10%-37%) are restricted to assets sold that you held for one year or less. Anything you held longer than that tops out at 20% and could be as low as 0%, depending on your annual income. So, it just might be that you pay LESS for selling than in interest on a loan.
A comparison might be in order. Let’s compare getting a $100k loan from Strike vs a couple different scenarios of selling to obtain the same amount of fiat and compare the total cost. Remember, the total cost of the loan isn't just the interest. The principal has to be paid back at some point, as well.
Conveniently, Bitcoin has “crashed” back to around $100k, so that will help us make the math easier by assuming a $100k value for Bitcoin for these examples.
Strike Loan: Getting a loan for $100k requires the borrower to post 2 full Bitcoin as collateral. Let’s assume our borrower is being responsible and his stack is at least 5x that, for a total stack of 10 Bitcoin. That means only 20% of his stack is at risk, should the price plummet, so he has plenty to post as additional collateral, if needed. Strike’s loan terms right now are for a max of 12 months, and the rate for a loan that “small” is currently quoted at 13% on their website. Assuming the borrower needs to use that money for something, he takes the option to make interest only payments until maturity, at which time he pays back the principal as well. So, he started with $0 fiat and 10 Bitcoin, posting 2 as collateral to receive $100,000 in fiat. Over the course of the loan, he makes monthly payments of about $1,083.33 and pays back the $100,000 principal at the time of maturity. His net fiat cost, then, is $13,000 in interest, but his total cost to borrow is $113k. However, he also gets the full 2 Bitcoin back that he put up for collateral, so he still has 10 Bitcoin. Total cost fiat = $113k and total cost Bitcoin = 0.
High-Income Seller: Now let’s assume this same individual is high-income (married and making $584k a year) and he decides to sell enough to get the same $100k; namely just one Bitcoin, while he keeps the other 9 in cold storage. Assume he bought his coins at $15k back between 2017 and 2020, so when he sells one Bitcoin, he is going to pay 20% cap gains (highest tax bracket for long-term) on the difference between $15k and $100k, for a total of $17,000. However, he also doesn’t have to pay $100k principal + $13,000 interest back to a lender, so he can use that money that would have had to come out of his income to pay off the loan, less the amount he had to pay in taxes, to DCA $96,000 of fiat over 12 months back into Bitcoin. Depending on what the price does, he may end up with more Bitcoin in the end than he started with, or he may end up with less. For the sake of making things obvious, he spent the exact same amount in fiat terms as the one who borrowed. $96,000 DCA + $17,000 in cap gains is a total of $113k, and a net cost of $13,000, just like if he had gotten a loan from Strike. But the Bitcoin side of the equation is a big question mark, because he may have ended up with MORE than 10 Bitcoin in the end, or more like 9.5-9.9 Bitcoin, depending on what the price did in that 12 months he was DCAing back in. It’s impossible to say whether borrowing or selling was the better choice for him until after the 12 months is up and he sees how much he was able to purchase for that $96,000. Total fiat cost = $113k, total Bitcoin cost 0 to 0.5, and may have actually come out ahead.
Low-Income Seller: Finally, let’s assume that this same individual is low-income instead (married and the household makes about $90k a year), and he sells the same 1 Bitcoin out of his stack of 10 that he bought back between 2017 and 2020. Well, that means his cap gains rate is 0%. There are no long-term cap gains for married folks with an annual income of less than $94,050 combined. So it costs him nothing, except the 1 Bitcoin he sold to get the $100k in fiat. However, his income is not going to allow him to DCA NEARLY as hard as if he had a high income, right? He can’t even put $96k back in over 12 months. That would be more than he makes a year, and his family needs to live off that. So maybe he sold one of his Bitcoin in order to put a nice down payment on a home and keep the monthly mortgage payments as small as he could, allowing him to at least DCA $1,000 a month back into Bitcoin. So, while he has no net cost on the fiat side, he is only able to stack maybe 10m-15m sats over that 12 months, depending on what the price does, leaving them with a final of 9.01 Bitcoin. Total fiat cost = $12k, total Bitcoin cost = 0.9.
That said, in the last example, a loan from Strike would not have left our fictitious low-income seller in a better position by borrowing instead. He would barely have had enough income to make the $1,083.33 a month in interest-only payments, and then he still would have had $100,000 in principal he needed to come up with to get his 2 Bitcoin back, with nowhere for that to come from. His only choices would have been to roll the loan over for another year and pay another $13k in interest, or sell whatever amount of Bitcoin was needed to pay off the loan. If Bitcoin went up significantly during that time, it would probably be a considerable amount less he needed to sell than if he had not borrowed, but he would still end up with a total stack of 9.[?] instead of the full 10.
In short, the real answer as to whether it is better to borrow against your Bitcoin or just sell it and buy back in over time is not a matter of cap gains costs vs interest costs. Rather, it depends on whether Bitcoin goes up or down in USD denominated value during the period of time in question. If you sell and Bitcoin goes up, then borrowing probably would have better served you. If you borrow and Bitcoin goes down, then selling probably would have better served you.
Indeed, even nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle has said that we should not be afraid to pay cap gains in the right circumstances. See his remarks on Strike’s bill-pay service, which is in reference to the higher rate, short-term cap gains.
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So, it’s not nearly as cut and dried as you have made it seem.
At certain times and for certain people, who are responsible about the percentage of their stack they are putting at risk, Strike’s loan product is a nice option to have. However, for other folks, and at other times, it may just be better to sell and DCA back in.
So, I think that the “never borrow against your Bitcoin” crowd are wrong, but I also think the “never sell your Bitcoin” crowd are equally wrong. And I guess that probably leaves me with no friends. 😂
Disclaimer: I am not a tax advisor or tax professional of any kind. Nothing said above should be construed as tax advice.
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2025-06-09 03:00:03
Block 900416
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-05 19:31:59
I use Strike for stacking as well, but I don't leave my stack on Strike for the same reason I wouldn't leave my stack with any custodian.
Instead, I "stack" by sending USD from Strike to my own Lightning wallet hosted on my own full-node. Then, when I get enough built up, I swap it out to on-chain cold-storage via Boltz.exchange.
If you don't have your own full-node yet, you can use another self-custody Lightning wallet, such as Phoenix or Zeus for where you are building up enough for a UTXO to send to cold storage.
Either way, you end up only ever having a relatively small amount in Lightning at any given time, and NONE in a custodian. Even one as solid as Strike.
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@ b7274d28:c99628cb
2025-06-05 19:00:00
Happy birthday Satoshi Nakamoto!