They waste more in a single second than I have earned in my entire life this far.


I believe this is spam/scam. I got the same message a while ago without having any NOSTR related subscriptions.


The 1.5 % fee has to be higher than the usual credit card fees, right?


Wunderschön


I don't think they help against this any more than regular sun glasses. Reflectacles are designed to reflect Infrared, while this program is based on ai video analysis.


They are all just Testnets for Bitcoin


Why? You can buy everything you could buy 50 Years ago. And you have a lot more options now. Sure, the standart american diet is terrible, but you don't have to eat that stuff.


What do modern times have to do with it? I think it would have been much harder even 50 years ago not to mention 200 years ago.


Warum nur 3/4?


1. What


Screenshot pls


In the absence of the phytochemicals like those found in plants , nitrates turn into nitrosamines, which are carcinogenic.


The predictoors will never learn


Banana milk


So you're saying I can't just buy a few bitaxes and stop working?


Reminds me of Nick Szabo's blog post "The trouble with books". You can get a lot more thought per word by prioritising shorter content from different authors. If you don't find any let an Ai read the book for you and summarize the Key concepts.


Alle


What? My Brave blocks 99% you probably need to adjust some settings.


Last time I tried I got 50. But I hate large sets like that. So I mostly bench.


I could do 500, but why would I?
There are much more productive ways to challenge myself.


Very kind, spam bots need love too


Even the spam Bots?


Unverzeiliche Gräueltaten müssen gerächt werden


I think the algos and general ingroup vs outgroup thinking made opposition on legacy platforms ineffective anyway.
We just need to keep letting people know, that other views exist. When they are ready to listen, they will find us where ever we are.


buT nOsTr DoEsNt HaVe A tOkEn...


What do you classify as social Media? Without YouTube I would not have found Bitcoin or been as insprired to take care of my health and fitness. But it also took away many hours that I could have used to learn important skills.


Lazyness: leaving it on an exchange or not thinking of backups.


I doubt there is a single "independently verifyable objective truth that everyone agrees on".
There are always some crazy people who will disagee with even the most obvious truths out there. And throughout history there were many cases where both the majority and the experts have been proven wrong.

So instead we should focus on verifyabiliy and objectivity.

Nothing in life is verifyable to the same degree for everyone. If I don't run my own node I can't verify if I actually own any Bitcoin. If I run my own node I still trust in the source code to be honest with me. If I learn to read the code I still have to trust that my computer is actually running that code and not malicious softare inserted by an attacker. So ultimately verifyabiliy breaks down to something being highly probable and it is often impossible or highly impractical to fully verify something as truth.

I guess the best approach is to verify as much as reasonable and to be open for new evidence to present itself. And that is exactly what the early christians did. They heard about some guy who was crucified and came back to life. So they verified as much as possible, they spoke to eyewitnesses, checked the existing scriptures and came to the conclusion that god raised him from the dead. The greek word "pistis" which is often translated as "faith" was originaly understood as "being persuaded/convinced by argument".

So contrary to your claim christianity is actually based on verification instead of bindly following an idea no one can agree on.


That's a good approach. Don't want to spoil it for them by forcing it.


Extra slippy = extra fun 😅
You wife trains too? That's awesome. Maybe in a few years you can bring the kids with you and train as a family.


Yes, much easier to keep the intensity consistent that way.
Only problem is the anoying gym music.


Lol 😂 that's why I only do NoGi


You do bjj in a sauna?


Ummm, no?


Is this the same talk he did at BTC Prague?


They can print more money.
I can't print more time.
That's why I save in Bitcoin.


Deutsche gibt es hier einige, die meisten posten aber auf Englisch. Ich habe ein bisschen gebraucht um mich an den fehlenden Algorithmus zu gewöhnen, aber mittlerweile genieße ich es. Ich werde nicht mehr andauernd mit Schwachsinn, über den ich mich sowieso nur aufrege, zugemüllt.


Virtue signaling at it's best.


I mean, technically he is right...


Sorry, not really https://image.nostr.build/425412f0bc5cf3bf914a433014d1212af4c5e814fe539687c2f1f8330bd97c4e.jpg


Yes, non stop action from both players. I love it.


It is run by some Saratoshi guy, he will take all your money.


Please don't make babies if you can't take care of yourself. (That includes maintaing a loving and healthy relationship with your wive)


For some reason I only see current pupular notes most of the time. Sometimes the other ones are available too, but I can't rely on that. Any Idea why? I'm already on "global" #asknostr


Nicky Rod seems to be the favorite and Downey is out now. Don't know about the other side of the bracket, maybe the underdog Kanard?


Any reason for the two options?
As an untrained person I would prefer something optimised for stabbing: straight, pointy, sturdy, handguard


Lots of action for sure. Who do you see in the finals?


Watching at my gym right now.
A lot of exiting matches, Bradley vs Boehm was so close.


This song slaps 🔥


Note to self:
Send future wife to gym BEFORE you make babies.

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Welcome to the party 🥳


German here, havn't heard of Nostr outside of a Bitcoin context here. But a few influential accounts have switched entirely from X to Nostr.
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Thanks, good thing that testnet exists


Does anyone have a guide on how to set up a timelocked multi-sig? #asknostr


I wish there were tools like liquid or ecash but in a trustless way. Coinjoins are cool, but get too expencive in a high fee environment.


Homie to Homie


Yes, that's how channels work: Imagine a string with pearls on it. As you push some of your pearls towards your partner he now has some pearls he can push back to you.


Staatlich finanziere Schulen gehören abgeschafft. Privatschulen sollen selber entscheiden, wie sie das regeln.


Facinating book. I'm a bit more than half way through it right now.

It seems like their predictions are off by a few years, but they are shockingly accurate.


So, a stateless signing device avoids that trust completly, right?

At the cost of UX because you have to Input the seed for each signing Session.


Where can I get this?


Ok Leute, das hier könnte das wichtigste Tutorial eures Lebens sein!

https://youtube.com/shorts/gTLr3S4a0Rk


Ok Leute, das hier könnte das wichtigste Tutorial eures Lebens sein!

https://youtube.com/shorts/gTLr3S4a0Rk?si=fiDq1BsWC4_J84Gb


You'd probably find someone to do it, but at a much higher price. Also automation becomes more viable at those high prices.


Wait, 100k USD from a 1.5k electricity bill? That guy must have some next gen ASICS.


First up, I want to recognize that this is an uncomfortable topic!  Bitcoin is inevitably changing towards user-pays, and that's not all positive.  But facts we don't like are still facts: can't engineer a solution if we can't think about the problems.

There are three kinds of bitcoiners.
A. Those who can afford any fee.
B. Those who can afford a UTXO, but not often.
C. Those who can't afford a UTXO.

Nobody worries about the A group (and in the early days, that was everyone).  Obviously Lightning (my area!) caters to the B group, and we want it to be as large as possible.  To do this we can (1) make lightning as resiliant as we can so onchain spends are rare, (2) make bitcoin as efficient as possible so we can cram as much as we can into what we have.

(1) Making lightning more resilient and reliable is engineering.  Lots of people working on this, even before we get soft-forks which could help further.

(2) More efficiency has two benefits: obviously if your own onchain spends are 20% smaller, that's 20% cheaper.  But if *everyone's* onchain spends are 20% smaller, that means fees are lower *for everyone* too (and it's non-linear).  So we really care about all Bitcoin usage!  Some things are obvious wins: Taproot so you can avoid even putting the script onchain in many cases, FROST so you can cram your 2 of 3 or other scheme into a single key and signature.  We know we want to get more aggressive with sharing one signature across multiple inputs (Cross Input Signature Aggregation), but that needs a lot more research, and a soft-fork.

But even with all these, the math is clear: some people, even if you somehow gave them their wealth in a UTXO, it couldn't afford its own fees to spend.  The C group is real.  Spoiler alert: we don't have an answer for this!  But let's look at some approaches people have tried.

Firstly, there are attempts to move these people into the B group: give them long enough that maybe fees will reach a point they can afford.  This seems unlikely to me:
1. As fees increase everyone will start doing the work to take advantage of low fee times, and that itself means that low-fee times won't be so low.
2. These schemes tend to increase onchain footprints, so they need fees to drop a lot to overcome that (typical is 2x the transaction size, so you need fees to halve to gain anything).
3. If you really can't afford the fee, you probably also can't afford to wait.
4. You still haven't actually dealt with those who really, really can't afford the fees.  Ever.

Another suggestion is that someone (e.g. a lightning service provider) will lock up funds which would cover fees, in case something goes wrong.  This doesn't work economically, because nobody is paying $100 for a $5 user (not at scale), but it doesn't even work mathematically: the reason some people will have small UTXOs is because there are not enough sats for 10 billion people with any realistic distribution.

There are two basic approaches left:
1. Group people, so they fall into the B category (i.e. onchain tx is possible, but expensive).
2. Trust someone, but rely on incentives.

1. Grouping people is possible, but they need to work together if somenthing goes wrong.  So grouping inside a community is probably better than grouping with randos.

For example, there are various tree-of-transaction schemes where you go onchain only if the coordinator fails/goes rogue, and how much it costs you depends on whether anyone near you in the tree pays to get themselves out.  These are basically free if nothing goes wrong (one UTXO required for thousands of users!).  But this is subject to ghettoization, where the coordinator makes sure all the C people are grouped together, knowing none of them can afford the transactions they need to get their funds back.  It's particularly bad because the coordinator can insert its own fake "whales" to make it look like it's not ghettoized.

You can play with incentives here, too: more research needed.  The details matter!

2. Relying on incentives.

As a simple example, lightning-connected e-cash mints.  They can't rug individuals very easily, they have to rug everyone together (or go fractional and rug the last ones to exit).   Maybe with enough anonymity and reputation, these would be Good Enough.

More ambitious would be a single UTXO held for multiple people by a coordinator.   Can we make it so that if a coordinator is dishonest, you can force them to burn your funds?  Maybe burn more than your funds (ie. a bond)?  Won't get your money, but it aligns incentives so they're not motivated to rug you.  The details here really matter!

There's a cute scheme which has been proposed where the coordinator pays a temporary bond, and asserts that they actually have everyone's signature to transfer the funds.  If nobody challenges within a week, they get the bond back and the funds move.  If someone challenges, all the signatures are put onchain, and if they're not all valid, the bond gets half-burned and half-given to the (successful) challenger.  This is hard to make work, though.  Someone needs to get the money to challenge (hard if you don't have the money in the first place, plus it's hard to prove to someone you *didn't* sign something!), and then make sure nobody gets the challenge bond before them (in particular, a dishonest coordinator, seeing the game is up, completes the successful challenge *themselves* and gets half their bond back), and make sure someone can't grief and delay the settlement indefinitely or bankrupt the coordinator.

More research needed, here, too.

Summary

A longer post than I had expected to write.  And it's buried in the middle of a thread nobody will read.  (I do this sometimes.  I suck at marketing I guess!)

Sub-fee bitcoin amounts will have tradeoffs, involving trusting someone who has more money than you (at least, in someone's competence, even if their *financial* incentives can be made to match yours).  This is difficult to build well, and not a very exciting thing to build today, so it hasn't really happened (custodial things are much, much easier!).

This is also a key reason I believe we need to make Bitcoin more expressive: if we can do *more* with our own UTXOs, we can build better solutions.  And by "we" I mean "someone smarter than me" of course!

Feedback welcome!


Yes, loans and taxes. Remember everyone has to pay taxes in $.
Another aspect of slave money.


Yes, the answer is yes 😬