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Helping run >_OpenSats Bush Bash Japan organiser: bushbashjapan.fyi Living in the mountains of Japan

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OpenSats

2d ago

Fast, reliable, scalable, and interoperable. That's Lightning today, and it's bound to get better still. An OpenSats impact report.
https://opensats.org/blog/advancements-in-lightning-infrastructure

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Max DeMarco

3d ago

Testing @buzzbot 6009

If this works after 24 hours the bot automatically pays 80% to the highest zapper of this post. 10% to a random npub that liked this post. And 10% to a random reposter of this post.

Total bounty is 6009 sats 🫡

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OpenSats

3d ago

New wave of nostr grants: Swae, HAMSTR, Vertex, Nostr Double Ratchet, and Nostr Game Engine. More to come.
https://opensats.org/blog/eleventh-wave-of-nostr-grants

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waye

1w ago

we built something for open-source devs who are doing *a lot*.

it’s called OS Reboot [Freedom]—an 8-session program from May–September to help you reset, reflect, and work in a way that actually feels good. Backed by @HRF & @opensats means your contributions are your ticket to entry and we have 7 spots left.

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bitcoinbushbash

3w ago

Only 2 days left until the Beechworth Bitcoin Bush Bash!

We’re excited to announce that Robbie P, the Most Toxic Bitcoin Maxi, will be joining us for a special 'bit-hop' performance over the weekend. Robbie’s unique blend of creative lyrics and passionate beats will bring additional energy to the event, and we’re honoured to have him share his talents with us.

As everyone makes their way to Beechworth, we hope you have a safe and smooth journey. We can’t wait to connect, learn, and share in the true spirit of the Bitcoin community.

An updated schedule is attached below, the final presentation schedule will be released in the coming days — stay tuned for more details.

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Thank you for being part of what promises to be an unforgettable weekend. We’ll see you all very soon!

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4w ago

Only three weeks until Bush Bash Japan!

bushbashjapan.fyi

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OpenSats

1mo ago

Sustainable scaling requires local, targeted, and specialized support. No single organization can or should fund everything.
https://opensats.org/blog/let-a-thousand-flowers-bloom

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bitcoinbushbash

4w ago

We’re so pleased to share the schedule of presentations for the upcoming Beechworth Bitcoin Bush Bash. This weekend is all about learning together, sharing experiences, and growing as a community.

We’ve put together a diverse range of talks and sessions, each one aiming to deepen our understanding of Bitcoin. These presentations are not just about education, but about sparking conversations and building relationships that will strengthen our collective journey in the Bitcoin space.

Among the many insightful sessions, we’re especially looking forward to the Libertarian Party’s presentation, marking the first time a political party in Australia has shown a real interest in Bitcoin. Jordan Dittloff, the lead Victorian senate candidate, will be there to discuss the first Australian Bitcoin Policy that was recently launched at the Bitcoin Alive conference in Sydney. This policy was crafted alongside the Bitcoiner community by a regular Bush Basher, and it’s

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BoltC

1mo ago

You can just invite bitcoiners for a weekend in the countryside in Japan. And they'll just sign up!

https://bushbashjapan.fyi/

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1mo ago

ブッシュ・バッシュ・ジャパン - 2025年4月12日-13日
ビットコイナーが日本の南の田舎で週末を過ごす。

Bush Bash Japan - April 12-13 2025
For Bitcoiners that want to get together for a chill weekend in the countryside of southern Japan.

https://bushbashjapan.fyi/

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ODELL

1mo ago

LAST YEAR BITWISE PROMISED 10% OF ETF PROFIT TO SUPPORT OPEN SOURCE CONTRIBUTORS.

TODAY THEY MADE GOOD ON THAT PROMISE. $150K SPLIT EVENLY BETWEEN OPENSATS, HRF, AND BRINK.

AS ALWAYS OPENSATS WILL NOT BE TAKING A CUT OF OUR PORTION OF THAT DONATION. 100% OF FUNDS DONATED TO OPENSATS ARE GRANTED TO OPEN SOURCE CONTRIBUTORS.

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OpenSats

2mo ago

Incredibly grateful for @HRF 's trust and support. https://opensats.org/blog/additional-ops-budget-from-hrf

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2mo ago

SatsNFacts last week in Chiang Mai was 🔥 I enjoyed meeting so many high signal people as well as a bunch of OpenSats grantees. There is so much to be excited about in bitcoin and nostr.

There were many great presentations but @bitshala stood out - they have done an incredible amount in two years and their passion was infectious. It was inspiring and made me want to contribute more. Speaking of...

An ice cream and coffee shop with a dedicated area for bitcoin events has been on my mind. Three of my favorite things! Building a space like that seems somewhat ridiculous in the middle-of-no-where Japan but @btcschellingpt said he would come for ice cream so it'd be worth it 😄

Plus there is only one lonely shop on the entire island of Kyushu that accepts Bitcoin - building a circular economy has to start somewhere.

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OpenSats

2mo ago

9th wave of bitcoin grants: Kibo, El Tor, Nutstash, rust-bitcoin 🌊
https://opensats.org/blog/ninth-wave-of-bitcoin-grants

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OpenSats

Dec 30, 2024

Grateful for every donor, grantee, open-source developer, freedom fighter, self-sovereign user, inquisitive reader, and all of you. Our year in review:
https://opensats.org/blog/2024-year-in-review

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OpenSats

Nov 18, 2024

We are thrilled to announce our third wave of education grants, dedicated to advancing Bitcoin literacy and education across the globe.
https://opensats.org/blog/3rd-wave-of-education-grants

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1A1z

Oct 22, 2024

We just released our first report covering how Bitcoin Core development is funded. Part 1 covers the organizations that raise and distribute funds to core devs.

Download the report from Dan O'Prey and Mas for free here:
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http://1a1z.com/fund.html

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OpenSats

Oct 15, 2024

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Oct 11, 2024

I've been learning Japanese on and off for well over a decade at this point. I primarily brute forced my way to a reasonable level of competence using a spaced repetition system called Anki. It's essentially a fancy electronic flash card system. Anki requires a high level of grind and a high pain threshold to keep it up for extended periods of time. I've started and stopped many times over the years. I had never tried LingQ, which is surprising given how long it has been around. I looked into it when I saw this post by @jack.

The key to language learning is huge amounts of input - primarily listening to and watching native content. This is contrary to the way many people learn languages - we often focus on speaking and writing over listening and reading. As an aside, this is one of the reasons I

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BoltC

Oct 10, 2024

I met a couple in my neighbourhood in the countryside of Japan. In their 70s.

As I was walking by they were working in a large garden. We had a chat and they said they moved from the city four years ago to start farming. In their 70s.

The husband said each day is hard and I asked what he had did before - he said he worked in semiconductors. The guy retired from what was likely a lucrative career and he and his wife decided to take up farming. In their 70s.

I can't stop thinking about it. No one decides to take up farming when they retire. Most people probably just watch some TV, read a few books and travel. These two decided to try their hand at farming & they seemed happy to be out working the land. In their 70s.

Incredible.

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Anita ⚡️🏳️‍🌈

Oct 4, 2024

Yesterday I helped someone in Lebanon to download and install a Bitcoin wallet. I was in the USA. After about one hour back and forth we sent emergency relief money that was received within seconds.
The answer was: „today I won’t be able to sleep 🤯😇“ expressing the surprise that this really works.

#FreedomMoney

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Minibits

Oct 2, 2024

New Minibits is here!

Redesigned wallet screen, fiat rates, improved performance and storage reliability. And new golden theme for true gold bugs - until we'll get gold ecash!

This is a native release so upgrade from Google Play or grab it from our Github.

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OpenSats

Oct 2, 2024

"The euphoria I get from contributing to something as important as I believe Lightning is, is incredible⸻I'd trade all those lost savings and sleepless nights for it all over again."
@Dusty Daemon
https://opensats.org/blog/dusty-daemon-receives-lts-grant

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HODL

Sep 28, 2024

Stacking sats is easy. It’s staying humble that’s hard.

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OpenSats

Sep 27, 2024

Bitcoin Jungle, Bitcoin Indonesia, Deciphering Bitcoin, BOBSpaces Residency, Statsie's Pocket Guides, and Africa Free Routing. Announcing our latest wave of education-focused grants: https://opensats.org/blog/second-wave-of-education-grants

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OpenSats

Sep 24, 2024

7th wave.
8 more projects.
Free and open-source.
https://opensats.org/blog/bitcoin-grants-september-2024-7th-wave

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OpenSats

Sep 26, 2024

"Against a backdrop of increasing dystopia, control, censorship, surveillance, conflict and oppression, Bitcoin is fundamental. It needs continued vigilance, review, maintenance, and improved decentralization, robustness, privacy and user experience."
—Jon Atack
https://opensats.org/blog/jon-atack-receives-lts-grant

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No Bullshit Bitcoin

Sep 24, 2024

🌊 OpenSats Distributes Seventh Wave of Bitcoin Grants

"We are excited to announce our seventh wave of grants from our General Fund, furthering our commitment to supporting open-source projects that advance the Bitcoin ecosystem."

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/opensats-distributes-seventh-wave-of-bitcoin-grants/

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calle 👁️⚡👁️

Sep 25, 2024

I had a chat with @preston about Bitcoin, Cashu, nostr, and privacy, and it was pretty good!

Thank you for having me 🫡

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OpenSats

Sep 19, 2024

The grants will continue until morale improves. Nostr Arduino, White Noise, futr, Notedeck, Keystache. More to come.
https://opensats.org/blog/7th-wave-of-nostr-grants

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Vitor Pamplona

Sep 16, 2024

@OpenSats delivering their payments every month

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OpenSats

Sep 12, 2024

OpenSats is proud to provide long-term support for Jason Donenfeld, a pivotal figure in developing essential cryptographic and networking tools.
https://opensats.org/blog/jason-donenfeld-lts-grant

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Leon

Sep 6, 2024

At this year's Baltic Honeybadger in Riga, I discussed how the #realestate sector can benefit from incorporating bitcoin into their financing strategies.

You can watch the full presentation in the recorded live stream:

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BoltC

Sep 10, 2024

Start9 OS update:
- Bitcoin Core, electrum, Core Lightning and Mempool up and running.
- I love that I have my own instance of mempool.
- Sparrow testing up next

#asknostr Nostr relay question I see Nostr RS Relay as the only option in the Marketplace. Last release was Nov 2023. Any other options I should consider?

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Sep 9, 2024

@Start9 OS update - Bitcoin Core installed and synced. The first 24 hours I made it to 66% so thought I'd be done in a day and a half, but the last third took another 36 hours for a total of about 60 hours. Not bad. I now have ever one of your transactions on my SSD!

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Electrum installed and syncing. After that I'll connect and test Sparrow.

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Daniel Batten

Sep 8, 2024

While EU has been busy gaslighting bitcoin, Japan has been busy researching it.

Kenji Tateiwa, president of Agile Energy X Inc., based in Tokyo

“Green energy producers have to operate their businesses on the assumption that part of the power they generate is wasted,” he said. “If bitcoin were to provide a new source of income, that would prompt more green energy to be introduced.”


https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/15397216

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🚚 Pleb Deliveries 🚚

Sep 6, 2024

Replying to @Stephan Livera

Paused YouTube to have a scan through Nostr and you were the first note on my feed. So while I’m here just want to thank you both @Gigi 🙏
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Sep 5, 2024

@Start9 running and Bitcoin node syncing. Took me less than 5 minutes to swap to the 2TB SSD & have Start9 OS installed and up and running.

I'm on Starlink which means I don't have any wired connections available - there aren't any on the router. Which means I can't change my country in the settings as it requires a wired connection - not a big issue but I thought it was interesting.

I was able to get wifi up and running without too much issue.

So far so good. Once I've got the whole blockchain downloaded - it's kind of mindblowing to think I'll have every Bitcoin transaction that has ever occurred sitting on my laptop - I'll move on to setting up a Lightning node & Nostr relay.

Not sure what else I'll try out - having my own mempool instance sounds good too.

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Sep 3, 2024

Getting ready to setup @Start9 on an old Lenovo. 2 TB SSD is in the mail and USB with the x86 nonfree iso is loaded. Is that the right version? https://docs.start9.com/0.3.5.x/flashing-guides/os-x86

Once I get it setup, I'll get Bitcoin & Lightning nodes as well as a Nostr relay up and running. Let's see how this goes...

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Sep 2, 2024

Aso, Japan - one of the largest calderas in the world. It was formed by multiple volcanic eruptions over thousands of years.

Hard to capture the feeling of seeing it in person.
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OpenSats

Aug 28, 2024

"We believe everyone should be able to explore the internet with privacy. [...] We advance human rights and defend your privacy online through free software and open networks."
@The Tor Project
https://opensats.org/blog/tor-receives-support-grant

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OpenSats

Aug 29, 2024

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No Bullshit Bitcoin

Aug 29, 2024

OpenSats Announces Support for The Tor Project

This grant will expand The Tor Project's onion service team to enhance DDoS protection and ensure reliable, anonymous communication, crucial for Bitcoin and nostr users in censored regions.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/opensats-announces-support-for-the-tor-project/

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OpenSats

Aug 19, 2024

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OpenSats

Aug 14, 2024

In keeping with our commitment to supporting the Bitcoin ecosystem, OpenSats is pleased to announce a new round of grants focused on Bitcoin Core development.
https://opensats.org/blog/caring-for-bitcoin-core

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calle 👁️⚡👁️

Aug 6, 2024

I'm gonna tell you a life hack.

- go to duckduckgo
- open their AI chat thing
- choose one of 4 models (got 4o mini is great)
- chat with that thang

Free. No tracking. No accounts. Open source models included. Did I say free? And no accounts.

I have an OpenAI account but this is the only thing I've been using for a few weeks. Privacy feels great.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=test&t=fpas&ia=chat

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OpenSats

Aug 7, 2024

More grants. More projects. More options. More freedom.
🌊 💜
https://opensats.org/blog/nostr-grants-august-2024

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OpenSats

Aug 6, 2024

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Jul 24, 2024

Wow. This is great news. Send BTC with just an email address.

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Also cool: "we still keep a proportion of Proton’s financial reserves in Bitcoin."

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No Bullshit Bitcoin

Jul 23, 2024

OpenSats Grants Long-term Support for fiatjaf

"This LTS grant will enable fiatjaf to focus on some of his nostr side projects, such as nostr-tools, nos2x, go-nostr, khatru, eventstore, njump, loure, wikistr, patch34, nak, gitstr, song, mmm, and promenade."

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/opensats-lts-fiatjaf/

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OpenSats

Jul 22, 2024

Yes, we already announced a wave of grants in July. Yes, this is another one. There's no stopping this nutty train! 🌊🥜⚡
https://opensats.org/blog/bitcoin-grants-july-2024-6th-wave

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final [GrapheneOS] 📱👁️‍🗨️

Jul 20, 2024

These details should tell you that if you consider these types of groups (sophisticated adversaries with limitless physical access) as a part of your threat model, then you should:

- Use the most recent phone you possibly can

- Upgrade your phone to the newest possible generation as soon as possible after release if you can help it.

- Use the latest version of GrapheneOS ASAP. Do not delay.

- Use a strong, high entropy passphrase to make bruteforcing the device credential impossible if secure element is ever exploited.

- Set GrapheneOS auto reboot time accordingly so encrypted data goes back at rest when the phone reboots, which makes AFU exploitation impossible. The lower the better.

- Enable duress password. Set it to something easy to trigger but not easy to misfire.

- Turn your phone

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BoltC

Jul 19, 2024

I'm falling behind - there's so much going on that it's impossible to keep up with everything. I just started playing with @Minibits and watched @BTC Sessions tutorial. ecash looks cool - I can see why it improves custodial payments.

And now @calle 👁️⚡👁️ is talking about sending ecash over Signal and https connections over nostr and it sounds like it's pretty big. Where does this go? Do we end up with a completely decentalized internet that's similar to Bitcoin infrastructure where each node can join as they please? Run whatever rules they want? Censor (or not) as they see fit?

What infrastructure is being made obsolete right now?

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OpenSats

Jul 19, 2024

Thank you for your ongoing contributions, @ hodlbod. Happy to support you for the long term 🫡
https://opensats.org/blog/hodlbod-receives-lts-grant

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OpenSats

Jul 15, 2024

Including these eleven projects, we have now issued a total of 57 grants to various nostr projects, plus five long-term support grants for @PABLOF7z, @Stuart Bowman, @hzrd149, @jb55, and @Yuki Kishimoto. More to come soon. 👀
https://opensats.org/blog/nostr-grants-july-2024

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Jul 12, 2024

Looking forward to Bitcoin 2024 - come say hi at the OpenSats booth!

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mcshane

Jul 7, 2024

nostr takes the mainstage July 27

prepare for mass onboarding 🫡

@ODELL @HODL @jb55
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Jul 7, 2024

Bitcoin was the first time I believed in something in a long time. It helped me see the world in a different way.

OpenSats was the first time I felt I was meaningfully contributing in a long time. It helped me see work in a different way.

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Jul 6, 2024

Grateful to be part of OpenSats and the good that comes from it.

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OpenSats

Jul 5, 2024

We believe that high-quality educational resources should be available to anyone interested in learning about Bitcoin. Free and open, as it should be.
https://opensats.org/blog/announcing-the-opensats-education-initiative

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OpenSats

Jul 2, 2024

10 more grants. 10 more FOSS projects. Much more to come. Thank you for your tireless work & support 🫡
https://opensats.org/blog/bitcoin-grants-july-2024

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OpenSats

Jun 21, 2024

More long-term support. More utility. More privacy. More freedom tech. We're proud to support @calle 👁️⚡👁️ for the long term.
https://opensats.org/blog/cashu-calle-receives-lts-grant

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Vitor Pamplona

Jun 21, 2024

Don't donate to politicians. Donate to Opensats.

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May 2, 2024

At #Nostrasia there was an app doing on the fly translation from English for the Japanese audience. Does anyone remember what it's called?

I am starting a Bitcoin Meetup in Kyushu and would like to use it for presentations. My conversational Japanese is reasonably good but I'm not confident I can explain Bitcoin!

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andre21

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i exit

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