starting to scale the bitcoin LARP means other people taking responsibility for things that i might have been responsible for in the past and it’s reminding me of the one time that i was head of a big project at Etsy Android. we were on a tight schedule for a company wide launch. i ended up recruiting other teammates to help out with pieces i didn’t have time for. it was a lot of work but everyone had a lot of fun and we made it to the deadline! everyone was really excited, we impressed a lot of other engineers from different teams that worked with us. im still extremely proud of the work we did.

the only person who was unhappy was my manager who’s only feedback to me was that i shouldn’t have delegated work, he was disappointed i hadn’t handled the whole thing by myself.

some people are never going to be happy about the work you accomplish or how you do it. bringing in new people to do work they’re excited to contribute should never be frowned upon. the world is full of people who want to pitch in, and the people creating space for others to fill is as important work as the work itself imo! redundancy in systems is really important, and bringing in people that feel empowered to improve or contribute to a task is the best thing you can do for a project.

here’s to growing more opportunities in bitcoin for everyone 🧡


trying to make more writing happen, here’s last week’s post

https://open.substack.com/pub/niftys/p/mojos-back?utm_source=app-post-stats-page&r=2jfs7&utm_medium=ios


For anyone also making burgers 🍔

nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy x nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8

https://fountain.fm/episode/r65ytgyfZ4JaK0arm3QW nostr:note19kvrplg24sk5ymnn8r7up0huqqjq5u9k63yuk5v6x0jyqz5yq0jq638knm


that sweet sweet drip of sats from mining with nostr:nprofile1qqsq9k04vahllseell55m74n3047y88pzlr0z5yany32st29fapqmgspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz8thwden5te0dehhxarj9e3xjarrda5kuetj9eek7cmfv9kz7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucn89u93ntq6 and getting lightning deposits each block found with bolt12...all with 0% mining fees.

solo mining is cool but you could get some zapping sats too, just saying 🤙

#bitcoin


yes!! floripa 2025 nostr:npub1dwah6u025f2yy9dgwlsndntlfy85vf0t2eze5rdg2mxg99k4mucqxz7c52 is going to be epic! come thru!!


reminding myself that people crave interaction!


sick!!


is this the same one that has a video going around about how he only owns bitcoin and cash because he wants to be free?


will put out some resources once ive got something a bit more robust done!


I have a self hosted version of mempool.space running for a personal signet i spun up for base58 but found it kinda clunky and a lot of compute for what i need for this project

nix-bitcoin has a really really easy to configure fork of the dataserver part of mempool dot space (electrs), with the caveat it’s missing the http transport, its json over tcp


very very excited about what this unlocks ngl! got a little more work to do but really happy that i’ve got all yje parts i need to finish this off now!


nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy's "bucket label" analogy for explaining covenants help my grug-brain so much!

#Lightning #Covenants #eCash #Fedimints
nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzq7q8pqp9qg6mz0y0keaw4u6q7fxr8pzmy3cw0hw8asx5psqxsfj9qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctv9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcqyppz5hkt0m4d838yaufvtfkhv59mqshxxnwdj7rjhqc8j095mz6ygtztr5c


really had been wanting to add some data lookups to a project but mempool dot space API has a limit on how many requests you can make but notably they don’t publish what the limit is. this made me really nervous about relying in them.

the data backing for mempool is an open source project called electrs. it turns out im already running an electrs server due to my nix-bitcoin install.

so all i needed to do was figure out how to interface with it and viola, got the data i need all on my own ♥

big winners here imo are nix-bitcoin and tailscale which makes building personal infrastructure across home servers super easy!! as well as bitcoin being open source. lets go decentralized future!!


not this year! 😞


stressed about things outside of my control lmao 😂


mmh i dunno where i read the original but here’s my memory of it. makes 2 large pint jars

3 large mangoes. cut and slice into big chunks
1.5c half + half milk
3/4c maple sugar
8 saffron threads

- heat 1/2c milk on stove on low with saffron. heat for a minute or two, dont let it boil!
- remove from heat, stir in sugar
- mix in rest of milk 🥛
- put half of mango in blender, pour in half of milk mixture
- blend, pour into pint
- repeat with remaining mango + milk
- freeze and creamify on low sugar ice milk


Walker‘s such a great host!! nostr:note1gg49ajm7atfufe80ztz6d4m9pwcy9e35mnvhsu4cxpunedxck3zqyxj8t3


DOING MAGIC WITH MAGIC INTERNET MONEY

nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy with nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u on THE #Bitcoin Podcast

Fountain: https://www.fountain.fm/episode/r65ytgyfZ4JaK0arm3QW

YouTube: https://youtu.be/z2vZtIZj1MA

Everywhere else: https://bitcoinpodcast.net/podcast


omg homemade mango saffron ice cream in the ninja creami is the perfect summer snack👌


Remember to tell your Lightning node it looks beautiful today 😂😅

https://m.primal.net/KHwT.jpg


just book my travel and accomdation for BTC++

LFG! 🥜🥜🥜


max why not publish them as torrents?


what you do in your twenties is really hard to escape from. i keep watching people (self included) try to break into new roles, only to revert to known patterns


best info you can get is your own personal data (try quitting and see how you feel)


youre biased 🤷♀


you cant help a guy sell a stock unless you’re a broker

cant help a guy buy a house unless you’re a realtor

cant help a guy make a payment unless you’re a money services business

no wonder we’re all so helpless


yeaaaa


even the greeks understood how fucked it is, there’s a reason we find their writings still relevant lmao


politics are so bleak!! 😭 but then you get to know how people make decisions and realize there’s a reason politics are structured that way


this is for uh.. a personal research project on data availability over centuries


tfw you’re hunting the rarest of kills


recent *doh* moment https://image.nostr.build/d6ebb1897391afbe09b0bed9195b3e83b279fb8cfd2d4ff5ef7eaf50fb8a97fe.jpg https://image.nostr.build/f0dc40066e83859c62138df77e96f5433323acb8fc30b01379ed29ee859150d4.jpg


in Texas!


nah these are professional gunny people theyre good at what they do but they did have to suffer the consequences of jokes not landing


ah found it ✌


nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s how do i block on damus 😂


went to see a tiktok comedian i lovr tonight who’s from Boston/NYC (the morning brew guy, dan toomey!). his whole crew was from the Northeast. it was really interesting to see which jokes fell flat: no one reacted to „climate change“ or wokeness in schools. someone tried to joke about how you can say gay and retarded here, and no one reacted. i regret not yelling „america!“ lol 😂


oh thanks! it was such an honor to get to talk to him! i feel lucky he invited me on before the show ended


i think this is the first event where we‘ll have a really decent showing of nostr related talks. im excited about it, it feels really nice to get to showcase how payment innovation is happening in the ecosystem


guys im really happy about bitcoin++ coming up soon!! ecash ecash ecash


if you guys ever want a guest speaker lmkkk!!


working on more exercise because i know it gets betterrr🏃♀


they don’t tell you this but ime giving up coffee, sugar, and alcohol makes life a lot more fun

having normal ass emotions and sleep cycles is great


Want to help bring Bitcoin to over 100M people? We're hiring a Senior Front-End Developer to join the #ProtonWallet team.

Details here: https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/proton/jobs/4378255101


Any Android devs out there? I will pay 2 million sats for someone to implement the option to customize Signal notifications for *reactions* separately from new messages.

Conditions:
1. Ping me first! It's not a race, you gotta get public agreement from me to enter.
2. Gotta get it merged and shipped so I can install it on my Android phone.
3. You have to have fun!

References:

https://community.signalusers.org/t/mute-custom-reaction-notifications/14931/20


ah my node needs some tlc, i took the fwd’ing thingie down…


100%. the guy isn’t treating the husband as a friend despite being close to the wife. if he did he’d at least take the time to communicate. I don’t think you can have someone involved in personal matters if they’re not communicating with one party, and the wife’s being selfish by disregarding his feelings about not being in the loop.

if he feels bad about it his wife should change her behavior!


we’d like to send you some ecash 💰


david chaum please check your email nostr:note1pnacn46mr59dza6fck9r2u9843jqzjymxhsaf9c2xtje327xgh9qpeh3a8


no this is totally normal wth delet this


vamos lá!!


If you would like to see a Nostr panel at SXSW next year (one of the world's biggest normie arts, culture, and tech festivals, tens of thousands of attendees, mostly C-level folks) then you can vote here to make it happen!

https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/155651


very excited to be in Nashville this week with a wonderful crew from @base58btc's LARP facilitator training program, bringing you 3-days of LARPing *at Bitcoin 2024*

join us at 9a at the gaming tables every morning thurs, fri and saturday!

want to guarantee your seat? reserve one ahead of time here 👇

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/base58s-bitcoin-larp-at-nashville-2024-tickets-954135343497


I really want to go to Berlin in October to  nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy's btc++ -- my wife might kill me though -- send help


It's absolutely nuts that we have a nostr:npub1dwah6u025f2yy9dgwlsndntlfy85vf0t2eze5rdg2mxg99k4mucqxz7c52 ecash conference now. Organized by the absolute best in this space nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy.

Possibly the first of it's kind in history. Building on Bitcoin. I can't wait to be there.

https://btcplusplus.dev/conf/berlin24

https://m.primal.net/IGNR.png


should we invite david chaum


super early bird tickets are gone, but you can get in at the next price tier! (just fixed the bug showing 0 left)


we missed you at the austin one!! we typically only do one conference per continent a year 📅


"check's in the mail 📧"  https://btcpp.dev/conf/berlin24


we dont have a webstore up yet!


Nos llega la bitácora de el explorador nostr:npub1zrl8uvj2myhfrgkfzkf5hx35nlpp69w3n43c4ds769dlvhxeh80sexgael que mandamos a 🇺🇸EE.UU. 🤠
 https://image.nostr.build/058050c87f08d1a3e009ef30a8d4305d52c7659eba6276b6c82e3cd91a7420ce.jpg

Al parecer nomas llegar se cruzo con @nachom0n que se encontraba en su laburo como policía allá en Texas, ahora ya sabemos porque estuvo tan ausente en las CC. 😅
 https://image.nostr.build/e01fc17ee9c47a6656c05e7965f1ceb9b1a5d08eaf1ae7cdbd99604421f10275.jpg

Nuestro explorador es muy eficiente on-bordeando gente, solo un día con la policía basto para que ya al siguiente lo reciban con una ceremonia de 21 disparos (3 tiros por persona, eran 7 personas) bien bitcoiner.
 https://video.nostr.build/fe36640f5aa179e3b2c0c123942e400462efd558ba211f088b92989a867bfd71.mp4

Algo que llamo mucho la atención de nuestro guerrero fue como se vendían tarjetas de debito prepagas. ¡Como si fueran caramelos!

🔸 Estas tarjetas ofrecen las ventajas anónimas del cash ya que no necesitan cuenta bancaria, pero sin las desventajas del mismo.

🔸 No son tan facheras como las de @LaWalletOk, eso esta difícil de superar, pero cumplen su función.
 https://image.nostr.build/458981e2d5e565556f806b4680e3ee095be7656821e60ebe87d2ec7a982d97a8.jpg

No podíamos cerrar el hilo sin agradecer el regalito de nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy a nuestro explorador, una hermosa JADE de nostr:npub1jg552aulj07skd6e7y2hu0vl5g8nl5jvfw8jhn6jpjk0vjd0waksvl6n8n

Esto es todo por ahora! 🫡
 https://image.nostr.build/1fa20f3f5c66d6bdbf5972e167c1fce59cc34598fa14186f1af842a0050343c3.jpg


Shoutout to nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy and nostr:npub1vmpf90hq56wzyxht6teg3llpa74rzcepw9suj5unxl3tph24zd4qgtxhm7 for making this possible. Will be making this a meetup event ASAP. https://image.nostr.build/eea65b204e757425452a9dcb71a965a72a96a906a0b8a8bd5de97a50e5960d1f.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/585b7a963aff77a17ceac5fad28e1ec30b0be7407e68308ed7004a722d075c6c.jpg


i was able to follow way more than i thought i would at btc++ 😅

very well worth the time. highest of signal and more than a little inspiring. nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy has built something special


Base 58 LARP training was amazing! Learned so much about the Bitcoin network and looking forward to bringing it to nostr:npub1p7g986pc56qmvryplgzka0fsrpuwlk6mxk3h686w4e46n74e56qqhz88vk. Thanks nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy ! #grownostr #travelstr

 https://i.nostr.build/ml2dG.jpg https://i.nostr.build/EnXel.jpg https://i.nostr.build/J6PZr.jpg https://i.nostr.build/Z5wYk.jpg


Just some babes being Bitcoin nodes 💅

https://m.primal.net/HpxM.jpg


GET YOUR BTC++ TICKETS NOWW THIS IS NOT A JOKE!! (PRICES ABOUT TO HIKE!!)

btcpp.dev/atx24


it’s incredible how truly revolutionary bitcoin is ✨


YALL READY FOR THE BITCOIN IPO!?


retweeting this because i'm extremely proud of the bookkeeping work I put into CLN!

nostr:note1ypp82qq8g87ul34dzhxxdnhaqusc4av9r4a93t3a8ywttd33g3fsd2l30s


*taxes, not codebase sob


tired of traveling. brb gonna go hide out in a codebase for a lil bit👩💻


Just got back from Buenos Aires for https://btcpp.dev/conf/ba24 . Just as high quality of an event as the one in Mexico, @niftynei did a great job organizing. Presentations were solid, mostly about engineering using Lightning for real world scenarios. It was great to get a concrete sense of what the south American community of Bitcoin engineers are like, I was impressed, a lot of very competent people. Bitcoin conferences used to mainly consist of dreamers .. but nowadays I see people that are both normal, and also seem like they could get shit done.

I also finally got to experience the famous "bitcoin LARP" in person (I have some things to say about that, will probably write a separate note).


sorry CSW but you’ve been upstaged nostr:npub1dwah6u025f2yy9dgwlsndntlfy85vf0t2eze5rdg2mxg99k4mucqxz7c52

cc nostr:npub19z2uxvxz8uurr9kqa7vgmek6swurk3vra40ec8kmpf2eemx3lyqq6zfkd4 https://image.nostr.build/f0b07d1ebe7f6ca8ef182dd40aa0b6499252b710b0ee6f34fd41260002eedf7b.jpg


💯 these guys ship


we didn't find out how bad the setup would be until two days before the event; the floor layouts we were sent ahead of time looked like separate rooms

we're doing the best we can with it; thank god nostr:npub1papldckxytp2m8met6hyeh37m0cn6e32j03srl6thy4gq3tqrz3srq8t4n is an audio ninja


first look from buenos aires, really digging the late summer weather feels

just landed for nostr:npub1dwah6u025f2yy9dgwlsndntlfy85vf0t2eze5rdg2mxg99k4mucqxz7c52's first ever “south cone” conference!!

#btcpp https://image.nostr.build/220a7b6a410d54adb1d3b196f7966f2ff078c699cdb5191f8fa1a6764715b3fa.jpg


when you put it that way… 😂


thanks tony!!


thanks nick!!


thanks will!! 🧡🧡🧡


thanks calle!!! 🧡🧡🧡


yes!!


we’re going 🚀


https://image.nostr.build/c2474967f04411efbc87d3f58b39e8b73a9df9614723fb88fed98f4293a1cd35.jpg

Congratulations to all contributors and reviewers on merging v2 opens aka dual-funding as spec in LN. With special mention and thanks to nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcprdmhxue69uhkummnw3ezummjv9hxwetsd9kxctnyv4mz7qpqvmpf90hq56wzyxht6teg3llpa74rzcepw9suj5unxl3tph24zd4q68cy5e  Co-Founder nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3vamnwvaz7tm9v3jkutnwdaehgu3wd3skuep0qyvhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndehhyapwwdhkx6tpdshsqgxtchhkkqwt68l69ju44920qnpct2fkcx5xuxaeen0jeu85a04vevvgs9tr , Splicing creator nostr:nprofile1qyv8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndehhyapwwdhkx6tpdsq3jamnwvaz7tmsw4exzanfv3sjumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qqsy7t0q2j8hpq80xfp50rv7wxwlzs50v95dz76g3grqdyvsmgwy33ck9q33n , @Core_LN Lead Rusty Russell, Matt Morehouse, Antoine Riard, and Acinq CTO Bastien Teinturier.

Explore the merged PR here ⬇
https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/851


#LightningNetwork "Lightning V2” Revolutionizing Instant #Bitcoin Payments with Advanced Channel Protocols (nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy)

https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/dual-funding/
https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/851
https://lightningsplice.com/

https://video.nostr.build/59cd4cf29f9a6177a6d97f5619becafdad273066bb2ee2c4d356baea09cbc101.mp4

More about #LightningNetwork Dual Funding from nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_GxmNZjwhk

#Bitcoin


it’s a really valuable tool for me for running both nostr:npub1vmpf90hq56wzyxht6teg3llpa74rzcepw9suj5unxl3tph24zd4qgtxhm7 and nostr:npub1dwah6u025f2yy9dgwlsndntlfy85vf0t2eze5rdg2mxg99k4mucqxz7c52


*not unlikely


also based on a convo i had with Rene about his research on max payment size limits on LN it’s not likely David Marcus confused 100k sat payments, not 100k usd


After almost 4+ years, 487 comments from 19 reviewers...

the spec proposal for adding v2 opens (aka dual-funding) to lightning is officially merged as spec in LN!!

huge thanks to Bastien Teinturier, Rusty Russell, Dustin Dettmer,
 Matt Morehouse and countless others for their review and input on the spec.

doing spec work is a really long process, that requires so much work and input from lots of different stakeholders. it's probably the hardest type of work a programmer can do, and i'm so so thrilled that we got this over the finish line!

what's next?  splicing and liquidity ads!

https://github.com/lightning/bolts/pull/851


good questionnnn lol


you’re doing it!!


21% through nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy's course. 😎 https://image.nostr.build/36bfbe6dd9c265574cca4111737f5e712221e7755098fe6670faca58d27ff83f.jpg  nostr:note1luzzl0u4aekayz5rpm7s4sdy3mdf38607s4a54uzam22kh7hgh2qqcedag


https://www.udemy.com/course/base58-bitcoin-transactions-one/?kw=Bitcoin+dev&src=sac

This is 🔥🔥🔥


fwiw: we *did* both a 1k seat giveaway and a 50% off deal for the first week the course was launched, sorry u missed it :(


“university student” wat no tuition bux for prof nifty?? 😭


Double-entry accounting is a tried and true method for tracking the flow of money using a principle from physics: the conservation of energy. If we account for all the inflows and outflows of money, then we know that we can build an accurate picture of all of the money we've made and spent.

Bitcoin is particularly good at accounting in this sense, since transaction inflows and outflows are checked by code, with the latest state of the ledger stored in the UTXO set.

What about lightning? Every transaction is not stored on the blockchain, so we need same way to account for all the incoming and outgoing lightning transactions. Luckily for us, core-lightning (CLN) comes with a plugin that describes these transactions in detail!

For every transaction, CLN stores the amount credited and debited from your node: routed payments, invoices, etc. To access this, you just need to run the `lightning-cli bkpr-listaccountevents` command:

```
lightning-cli bkpr-listaccountevents | jq -cr '.events[] | [.type,.tag,.credit_msat,.debit_msat,.timestamp,.description] | @tsv' > events.txt
```

This will save a tab-separated file with some basic information about each credit and debit event on your node.

```
channel  invoice  232000000  0        1662187126  Havana
channel  invoice  2050000    0        1662242391  coinos voucher
channel  invoice  0          1002203  1662463949  lightningpicturebot
channel  invoice  300000     0        1663110636  [["text/plain","jb55's lightning address"],["text/identifier","jb55@sendsats.lol"]]
channel  invoice  0          102626   1663483583  Mile high lightning club
```

Now here's comes the cool part, we can take this data and build a [ledger-cli](https://ledger-cli.org) file. ledger is a very powerful command-line accounting tool built on a plaintext transaction format. Using the tab-separated file we got from CLN, we can build a ledger file with a chart-of-accounts that we can use for detailed reporting. To do this, I wrote a script for converting `bkpt` reports to ledger:

http://git.jb55.com/cln-ledger

The ledger file looks like so:

```
2023-05-31      f10074c748917a2ecd8c5ffb5c3067114e2677fa6152d5b5fd89c0aec7fd81c5
        expenses:zap:1971       1971000 msat
        assets:cln      -1971000 msat

2023-05-31      damus donations
        income:lnurl:damus@sendsats.lol -111000 msat
        assets:cln      111000 msat

2023-05-31      Zap
        income:zap:event:f8dd1e7eafa18add4aa8ff78c63f17bdb2fab3ade44f8980f094bdf3fb72d512       -10000000 msat
        assets:cln      10000000 msat
```

Each transaction has multiple postings which track the flow of money from one account to another. Once we have this file we can quickly build reports:

## Balance report

Here's the command for "account balance report since 2023-05 in CAD"

`$ ledger -b 2023-05-01 -S amount -X CAD -f cln.ledger bal`

```
 CAD5290  assets:cln
 CAD2202  expenses
  CAD525    routed
 CAD1677    unknown
CAD-7492  income
 CAD-587    unknown
 CAD-526    routed
CAD-1515    lnurl
 CAD-614      jb55@sendsats.lol
   CAD-1        tipjar
 CAD-537      damus@sendsats.lol
 CAD-364      gpt3@sendsats.lol
CAD-4012    merch
CAD-2571      tshirt
CAD-1441      hat
 CAD-852    zap
 CAD-847      event
  CAD-66        30e763a1206774753da01ba4ce95852a37841e1a1777076ba82e068f6730b75d
  CAD-60        f9cda1d7b6792e5320a52909dcd98d20e7f95003de7a813fa18aa8c43ea66710
  CAD-49        5ae0087aa6245365a6d357befa9a59b587c01cf30bd8580cd4f79dc67fc30aef
  CAD-43        a4d44469dd3db920257e0bca0b6ee063dfbf6622514a55e2d222f321744a2a0e
         ...
------------
           0
```

As we can see it shows a breakdown of all the sats we've earned (in this case converted to fiat). We can have a higher-level summary using the depth argument:

`$ ledger -M -S amount -X sat -f cln.ledger bal`

```
 sat14694904  assets:cln
  sat6116712  expenses
  sat1457926    routed
  sat4658786    unknown
sat-20811616  income
 sat-1630529    unknown
 sat-1461610    routed
 sat-4207647    lnurl
sat-11144666    merch
 sat-2367164    zap
------------
           0
```

As we can see we made 14 million sats this month, not bad! The number at the bottom balances to zero which means we've properly accounted for all income and expenses.

## Daily Damus Donation Earnings

To support damus, some users have turned on a feature that sends zaps to support damus development. This simply sends a payment to the damus@sendsats.lol lightning address. Since we record these we can build a daily report of damus donations:

`$ ledger -D -V -f cln.ledger reg damus`

```
23-May-15 - 23-May-15         ..damus@sendsats.lol      CAD-46      CAD-46
23-May-16 - 23-May-16         ..damus@sendsats.lol      CAD-73     CAD-120
23-May-17 - 23-May-17         ..damus@sendsats.lol      CAD-41     CAD-161
23-May-18 - 23-May-18         ..damus@sendsats.lol      CAD-37     CAD-197
23-May-19 - 23-May-19         ..damus@sendsats.lol      CAD-35     CAD-233
23-May-20 - 23-May-20         ..damus@sendsats.lol      CAD-28     CAD-261
23-May-21 - 23-May-21         ..damus@sendsats.lol      CAD-19     CAD-280
23-May-22 - 23-May-22         ..damus@sendsats.lol      CAD-29     CAD-309
23-May-23 - 23-May-23         ..damus@sendsats.lol      CAD-19     CAD-328
23-May-24 - 23-May-24         ..damus@sendsats.lol      CAD-25     CAD-353
23-May-25 - 23-May-25         ..damus@sendsats.lol      CAD-36     CAD-390
23-May-26 - 23-May-26         ..damus@sendsats.lol      CAD-37     CAD-426
23-May-27 - 23-May-27         ..damus@sendsats.lol      CAD-25     CAD-451
23-May-28 - 23-May-28         ..damus@sendsats.lol      CAD-25     CAD-476
23-May-29 - 23-May-29         ..damus@sendsats.lol      CAD-12     CAD-488
23-May-30 - 23-May-30         ..damus@sendsats.lol      CAD-29     CAD-517
23-May-31 - 23-May-31         ..damus@sendsats.lol      CAD-21     CAD-537
```

Not making bank or anything but this covered the relay server costs this month!

Hopefully ya'll found this useful, feel free to fork the script and try it out!

A brief overview of lightning accounting with CLN and ledger-cli


hotttt


finally found a favorite song that does *not* sound better on 2x

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISy0Hl0SBfg


that’s right, i am a star 🌟 😉


nifstr!! 😃


#188 👌


ooh ⭐ https://image.nostr.build/13e01ea4a80e8177f42d4e458eecb7b7448b70e023ba91c1c9ab07b365750478.jpg


why does my hair look like that lmao 🤣


ohh. yeah no sorry the giveaway codes for the first class ran out when I launched it in Sept 2022 😂


good news: we’re still taking new signups, at half off til Feb 2nd 🥈


why wait??


hard to predict, honestly. in my experience Base58 classes are usually the start of a long journey


the freebie cap got hit, but we've got a 1/2 off code til Feb 2nd: NGUTECHNOLOGY

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UPDATE: We hit our 1k seat giveaway cap!!

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Use code NGUTECHNOLOGY to get 50%, til Feb 2nd.

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it’s only been a lil over 24hrs and we’re already at over 700 signups. i cant believe it!!! https://image.nostr.build/dc166e94a12f63849a985fbd8950044e81e04e223924c3ae357b7a79a3674626.jpg  nostr:note1k4nakltm7ryrzc03sqtxsk6u6ugfe3sp9x0awqzxv3n7mjlftf0q56an7h


ok it's out! online class about elliptic curves, private + public keys, sighash flags, and multisigs!

also included: P2PK, P2PKH, P2WPKH

use the link below to get into class for free, til Feb 1st or we get 1k signups!

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The transactions course was great, really leveled up my knowledge of how things work at the protocol level.


get ready for the same thing but crypto edition 😉


what is this, community-ism??


thanks for the info!


If it’s not a nixos module, i dont want it 🤷


stop betting against ben 😂


ive got it too 😭


what would you want to see improved in nostr?


seems like their plan is to write all the data into a blockchain; which is definitely one way to deal with consensus and record keeping


yeah and cloud hosted data is *exorbitant*


sir this is nixos, we do not “pip install” anything lmao 🤣


there’s zero incentive for you to archive stuff 🤷


thank you!!


what would make it decentralized?


little worried that relay memories might be unreliable 😆


is there a lil daemon i can run on nixos that will make a personal archive of all my nostr posts?


had a chat with a nice prof today who knows a lot about the internet and he wanted to know if i had heard of a “DSNP” before

whats that, i asked?

he said: “decentralized social network protocol”

so i was like “oh like nostr?”

he had never heard of nostr before!! he knew about bluesky though

it’s gonna be early for a while yall ⚡


finally ~finished the base58 crypto and sigs online class!!!! hopefully launching tmw 🚀 just in time for atx bitdevs


why are we hate watching the davos thing? guys just ignore them, that's how they win lmao


quick life update: i feel 1000% better now (started drinking coffee again)

nostr:note1zmejk79t8sfuwu3tgksl5ecwcezrcnu3fjvwev9gx7jpm4h050vssrzp8z


THE LARPERS ARE COMINGGGG

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lnsocket is a way to build “lightning clients” in the same way we build nostr clients. Except you use the lightning protocol instead of nostr. Cool to see it getting some use! nostr:note1u7s9pl8au60y4ttkuvcp30rmpkwsdx9s4myd20wp0m6c0pgq2utsqxk2v7


incredibly slept in imo


aw yesss!!! 🙌


years?! 🤣


about to head into this week's Lightning Pulse @lightningpulse

https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjxyct9vgmkxdrp94nx2veh956rwdnx95unzdr995ckydnpvvenxv358qmryq3qeaz6dwsnvwkha5sn5puwwyxjgy26uusundrm684lg3vw4ma5c2jsxpqqqpmxwpqv70q


forgets to drink coffee; decides her life is just pain now; spends the weekend fighting caffeine withdrawal 😭

all the advice says to taper but im incapable of following a schedule 🪦


become a regular at a fancy restaurant , a dive bar, and/or a standup comedy club


wtf when did hacker news get on nostr

nostr:note1f7msxzmh38h5wvjxwlqph3my4dl8cm8z34yafprmrm4tsc2j43vq4cdmqv


Devs, scientists, technologists, cypherpunks. I want to follow you.

Send 👋 👇


If you missed my chat with @Jestopher_BTC of @ambosstech on @lightningpulse1 regarding the current state of the #bitcoin #lightningnetwork and various Lightning Network stats, etc:
Video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QLJbACdlF_k
Audio: https://thelightningpulse.com (or your favorite pod player)


would love to get a data source i trust but it does seem to be saying the same thing

hard to tell if it’s mimicking back what i said tho or is actually providing new info based on other sources o.O https://image.nostr.build/716d50ce2c933751027363f230ea8286def54f164a383bcb726bd254350ea2aa.jpg


it’s dated which gives the impression that that’s a moving metric https://image.nostr.build/761b023359dc319df09cf0d785376f7c2bddf5da049dcc0e131d5cb58aaa39d2.jpg


I should really go read the prospectuses but im lazy 🪦


correct me if im wrong but im pretty sure there’s no guarantee how many sats a share in these etfs are worth

on a dollar value, they’ll do fine but on a per sat basis investing into an etf in a bull day dilutes the per share sats value of everyone else in the fund

the reverse happens on bear days, afaict. here’s the lil scenario i walked through to convince myself of this dynamic.

100 shares, 100k sats. current price is $2/sat. $200k total NAV
ea share worth 1k sats

lets say the price moves up, to
$4/sat, $400k NAV, 100k sats

i buy 10 shares,  $40k in, buys 10k sats
110 shares, $440k/110k sats
1k sats/share

market moves: day price is $5. $40k buys 8k sats
110 shares, 108k sats
989sats/share

market moves: day price is $2. $40k buys 20k sats
110 shares, 120k sats
1.09k sats/share

the big question is: is the price per share sold updated for the sats they acquire? or do they just accept money at price X, buy as many sats as they can at day-end and that’s what gets added to the fund?


thanks angela! understanding mining def took me a long time to fully get. will think about how to explain it 🤔


hm good question. i don’t use Docker. what’s the user experience that having it containerized gets you? 🤔


so glad you're here terry!

would love to hear if this mempool vid i made fills in any gaps (or whats still missing if not?) https://youtu.be/uJXNWoqF8ds?si=LnNQhe3PmrB2oaxa


any time i have a concrete project to ship, i struggle 🤔


the gold market was thousands of years old 😉


looks like the gold etf took about 6y before really getting volume. source: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-gold-etfs-have-transformed-market-in-10-years-2013-03-29

https://m.primal.net/HXSq.png


no idea if the Bitcoin IPO will be similar, but generally speaking most IPO launches tend to spike, then fall flat/underperform for 6-12mo

donno if this helps with expectations at all, but may be good to keep in mind


Honestly i hate saving money but love watching my sats stack grow 🤔 nostr:note1e7xu4pxnaxyswjcn5d3g05lyhelcfdcj98mu25yfahtau6h0xmwqatdnq5


can someone explain to me why the ETF is more attractive to investors than the GBTC? like why is this a bigger deal than the GBTC listing?


one possible option for the nostr:npub1vmpf90hq56wzyxht6teg3llpa74rzcepw9suj5unxl3tph24zd4qgtxhm7  LARP boxes arrived today, wdyt?? 🍊

turned every head at nostr:npub1an84q6c03wml5lf0uwcqcr20ydwv0t0lvv0xktlcfs9seattef8sdhz6yg with that color https://video.nostr.build/ef1aa0be1be7efd832b8e7119081680f7e734662cd6298b4422938dbe57821e7.mp4


shoutout to all the awesome people and orgs that support nostr:npub1dwah6u025f2yy9dgwlsndntlfy85vf0t2eze5rdg2mxg99k4mucqxz7c52 year after year

i see you and it literally would not be possible without you ❤


YALL READY FOR THE BITCOIN IPO!?


"im sorry your honor, we had to delay the news. we were compromised"


already? wow


few more things that are banging around in my head recently (about the etf, but also some personal history):

my first ever technical presentation as a "bitcoin dev" was at the Magical Crypto Conference in NYC in May 2019

i was there during consensus, so there was a lot of other stuff happening at the same time. on of those things was a "dragon party" that blockstream was hosting.

this was the trip that i met my first (non-blockstream) famous bitcoiners: i got seated next to luke-jr at a steak dinner, met jack mallers at the party, had to brush off charlie lee in the speakers lounge because i needed some alone time to freak out about my first every public presentation as a 'bitcoin expert'

in this era, jack mallers was talking about hashrate derivatives. a few weeks/months later i'd watch on twitter as he built a mobile app that would grow to be Strike.

i *also* met Gabor Gurbacs of VanEck. He told me he was working on getting a bitcoin etf. i had no idea what this really meant, it seemed like a cool idea. like ok yeah, bitcoin etf!

anyways, it strikes me now that people have been working on this for a very very long time.

the etf might not happen this week, but it does seem rather inevitable (america is a free market still right? right??).

i haven't really been paying much attention up until now and suddenly i'm struck by the thought that hey maybe this will be the week it goes live. seems about as good as any other? guess we'll see.

(in case you're curious about the MCC presentation, it's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4i5cEI1jnc)


so yeah i am really curious where those coins are coming from

where do market bitcoin come from??


when i worked at cashapp ages ago i got to meet the person on the team that was responsible for doing the exchange's OTC trades for keeping the bitcoin float at the right 'level'.

they exchanged buy/sell orders via an encrypted chat on <redacted> messaging app.

the "float" was the margin of bitcoin on the books that belonged to cashapp. the goal was to have enough available so that any incoming buy order was immediately fulfilled, but not too much so that the org was over-exposed to the asset.

so there was a person on the team that bought and sold coins with a real-live trading partner to keep our 'float' where it needed to be

this was 6y ago now; i'm sure they have a different process in place. and i'm 99% sure they've rotated out their trading partner, as the one they *were* using back in the day is now in bankruptcy


wait i just realized that the reason the etfs dont "just buy a bunch of bitcoin ahead of going getting listed" is because they won't have access to the money to buy the coins until after people start putting capital into their funds (post-being listed)

i mean there's probably some initial capital investment happening, they call that 'market making', right?

still thinking about that tweet i saw about thousands of coins moving off kraken in batches this week.  are things moving around ahead of a sale cycle?

this etf thing really has gotten my attention, and i dont know what to think about that. i'm really really curious about where these guys are planning to get their coins from, what are the logistics of their OTC agreements? who are they planning to buy from?

does coinbase have sellers lined up? have the mining companies been called? what's coinbase's take rate for helping their ETF customers close on bitcoin?

weird to think that bitcoin might soon be a rebirth for the 'broker-age' industry -- the person who can actually broker bitcoin deals about to be a rare beast? do they already exist or are we gonna see a whole new ecosystem of coin hunting get born?


yeah i kinda .. miss Base58?

shorter, had ALL THE LETTERS (could make it say coherent things), looked less alien


oooh that's a good one! i think bitcoiners, with all our fancy tech terms, definitely fall a bit in the shibboleth category as well haha


this piece is kinda focused on NFTs, but i think it poses an interesting question

https://niftys.substack.com/p/is-it-ingroup-or-is-it-dynasty


it’s possible that you’d reach a situation where the *only* people selling are miners, but that’s infinitely better than no one


this is one of the brilliant, under appreciated things about the PoW: finite number of a depreciating asset has strong potential for locking up and imploding, but bitcoin was built in such a way that there’s always a network participant that needs to sell coins to fund real world expenses (miners)


is this more or less than MSTR holds??


slowly getting over whatever part of my ego that was convinced michael saylor was just an insane corporate larper

“that dude is too midcurve to be correct, right? isnt doing that share issuance/dilution thing going to get him rekt?? at what point exactly does his board dump his insane ass?”

no no, turns out he’s probably the “right” amount of long term thinking and all in conviction

which is legitimately insane behavior but dear god

correct me if im wrong but one thing that feels very rare thing about saylor, situationally, is that he’s a successful dude who maintained his ability to keep placing interesting bets

seems like other wealthy people stop exploring at some point? or get afraid of losing it all? or are so consumed with other stuff or get weighed down by boards etc that they lose either the ability to bet big or the foresight

bitcoin really has done an insane job living up to being the realm of the self-sovereign 🤔


very confused about how we're going to fill the etfs and also blocks

wont the btc get locked up in cold storage?  what bitcoin is gonna be available to transact onchain??


nostr:npub196w4vxfrjflgpmy43p8f586xwmkxqa0a65x0una50m2wrwq7nr2szxh6l5  starting soon. Nate and Jestopher of Amboss talk about LN news and LN metrics/statistics on #zapstream #lightning #bitcoin

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new Base58 class dropping this spring: Wallets for Devs

Ever wanted to know how HD wallets work, or where xpubs come from? We'll also dig into descriptors, PSBTs and miniscript! (briefly)

online + in-person, first session starts online in March

https://base58.school/classes/wallets-dev


client side validation is where you put a hash into the blockchain as a proof of some statement or a commitment, so rather than being able to just use whats written in the blockchain to understand who owns what, now you need more data to verify ownership

CTV does this: it puts a hash into the chain and you need a separate set of data to prove that that hash actually means *you* can spend (some?) of those coins


the beauty of the LN protocol is that you actually can be the decentralization you want to see in the world, by running your own node


yes, of course it is. we have a strict decentralization verification process.

we guarantee decentralization by having every LN transaction’s route be chosen by a single server, kept in a closet at your mom’s house o.O


it’s soo bullish imo 🔥


whats a “stock settlement system”?

Guessing here but closest thing this sounds like that currently exists is Liquid’s asset issuance platform (securities shipped and held as stuff in your Liquid wallet)


one thing i think bitcoiners lose sight of is that we have successfully launched the largest and most decentralized layer-2 payment network (after credit cards)

there is no other ecosystem that has achieved this. most L2s on other ecosystems dont even get close to the *Liquid* federation’s level of decentralization. they just use centralized servers and a manually coordinated multisig

that brings with it a real cost: decentralization is expensive. duplication is basically the bedrock of decentralization but that also kills “efficiency of liquidity”, which is basically what every post-LN improvement is trying to fix

upgrades happen in phases: we try going left, discover problems and course correct to go more right etc

I’d expect the next iteration of “shared utxo” protocols to be more centralized in terms of liquidity, with the tradeoff of far more consensus design work (who all needs to agree on the current state of the world for us to move forward?)


they’re gonna get it! im very excited about ecash tbh 🙈


ooh 👀


regular reminder that lightning *is* a “shared utxo” protocol that uses covenants (and multisig) to scale bitcoin payment tx thruput

most of the commentary against it points out that it does not scale number of holders in relation to # of utxos. in my mind this is a good sign of the protocol’s success (it shipped and people use it and they found drawbacks with the MVP). It’s also a sign of bad messaging around the applicability of 2-party accounts to certain payment situations (venmo for example)

sometimes it is useful to have multiparty channels; i’d argue that liquid is one such example of this.

federated mints are another one; note that both of these multiparty systems require consensus algorithms to function. fedimints were using BFS, (iiuc they just changed to a new one). liquid uses “nakamoto consensus” aka a blockchain to keep track and agree on shared balance states

Lightning was shipped as the minimum viable product to scale tx thru-put and it succeeded at that. it did this with minimalist, 2-party design as consensus from 2-parties is the simplest case. this meant it could avoid tricky consensus questions and focus on privacy + throughput instead

shipping multi-party utxos at scale will require a solutions for managing consensus amongst stakeholders in the “shared utxo”; see Ark and already existing federations for examples of contending with this problem 🫡


I pointed out your behavior mimics the very thing that i did that disgusted you

ngl the uno reverso attempt is pretty funny 😄


the danger of being specific is you offend someone without intention, but rather than understanding that you … got offended 🤣


you said i was being too general, now u mad im too specific 🤣

maybe we could try, oh i dont know, leaving mom out of it??


ok.


if you’re so tired of it, why you doing it??


no this is much much dumber than that


hope that clears up the “being too general” 🫡


im sorry your mom is bad at tech. mine isnt 🤷


is this from liking people’s responses??


I don’t understand what you’re saying, can you explain how you arrived at this description?


did you look at the PR? This uses existing data already stored in core which is currently not exposed(the mempool sequence) and adds a new interface for accessing it (filter out older txs)


the biggest innovation here is letting a caller filter for new txs since a given “last seen” index number (called a sequence)

the second biggest innovation is returning structured tx data so you can easily scan the mempool’s data for just what you’re looking for


I heard on a space today that the best way to get a PR merged in core is to campaign for it, so this is me starting a campaign for a listmempooltransactions RPC

my rationale for this is that it’ll let you more easily scan the mempool for new transactions that have arrived (since the last time you scanned it)

this is a massive improvement imo for usability of mempool data for apps that want to know about newly arrived txs to their node

there currently is no RPC for quickly fetching out new outputs created in the mempool or inputs spent.

to do this currently you’d have to call getrawmempool, which returns a list of all txids currently in the mempool and then call getrawtransaction on every returned entry. this is painful and unnecessary

I also implemented a feature into a branch CLN using it that would let you scan for interesting unconfirmed txs, to demonstrate its immediate usefulness. more details in the open PR!

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29016


https://image.nostr.build/cda775acbe426bb1bf0fb5e7f7c741010aff161fcdb72ade4619e8fcbe6c4f6b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/652933656015ecd80962fe71458a4ce3a18132bdf7b0a335baa5e6fd862587b0.jpg


wow what a cool mom. i’d bet everyone who does it’s mom is proud of them


it’s lindy for a reason, it probably won’t ever change 😂


i havent been writing a lot of code lately, so you, as a bitcoiner who cares about people who are actually working to improve bitcoin, should definitely unfollow me

I have been working on videos and just published a new class schedule for live/online classes, so go follow nostr:npub1vmpf90hq56wzyxht6teg3llpa74rzcepw9suj5unxl3tph24zd4qgtxhm7 instead 😂


a bitcoin fork wouldn’t be custodial……..


I called out someone on a twitter space earlier for using “his mom” as a foil for a non-technical person who might struggle to understand self custody

this is something I’ve thought about quite a bit — i wrote up some longer thoughts on the overusage of “mom” as a know-nothing tech person 6y ago

tldr: i understand why it’s something people reach for natively but im not sure it’s a good idea to keep casting implicit shade on mother’s capacity for understanding (even if in your case, it’s a true statement)

https://basicbitch.software/posts/2018-08-05-Dear-Mother.html


how do you know about it then?


fun fact: jane jacobs describes the “fork or get priced-out by higher resource transactors” mechanism (in very different words) in her 1980 book A Question of Separatism

this later inspired a longer form book with more details: cities and the wealth of nations, which doesn’t have a wikipedia page, unfortunately 😞 https://image.nostr.build/c91504f4f2051e3e17c45888db85bd3f169725165a739f1f4728731cb47f7eea.jpg https://image.nostr.build/99c1cacf6d7a65d8b87f2c97366ddd3e9a31feb16b1757272e3f46f634346415.jpg


Nice. I remember hearing it got switched out. Did they write it up anywhere?


the reason you can’t afford L1 is because wealthier people crowded you out sneee

the ctv agitators might be onto something about forks being the answer to how to keep bitcoin affordable 🤣


ctv is a primitive that lets you build protocols, like ark

saying ctv gets you “shared utxos” is meaningless without a protocol for *how* that sharing works. ark is one such protocol. you mentioned a diy one — what were you referring to?


hm might be limited to 15 w/ liquid still, i might be misremembering how dynafed works


it’s written explicitly into the chain and made globally available to all nodes via block propagation; see BRC20s


for the record, a “federation backed ledger” is a setup where a small group (3-7 for fedimints iiuc, 15+ for liquid) hold a multisig address

bitcoin is deposited into that address, in return you get a “permission less” account object (ecash/a liquid utxo) that corresponds to the deposit you made

the multisig group runs a redemption gateway that you can claim L1 utxos in exchange for the account object you hold; generally third parties also run swap services where you can exchange your account object for an LN payment (made to a node you or someone else runs)


why isn’t ark using the diy design you outlined then? I don’t understand how an opcode gets you something that ark, built with that opcode, doesn’t?


i think wallet of satoshi would have something to say about that your assertion that phoenix is the whole LN 😂

while i have you: phoenix is monetizing the issues you’ve outlined with liquidity (charging for it). does mutiny have a strategy for how to monetize fedimint usage?


doesn’t ark use ctv?


if you have channels established that you use regularly enough to justify the cost + capital lockup, it’s probably fine 😆


Mutiny is coming out really swinging against end user LN recently to explain their pivot to federation backed ledgers for their wallet (their reasoning makes sense to me, fwiw)

how long til breez + phoenix pivot to federation backed ledgers?

pick a reaction emoji (or reply with one) to vote

🤙 within 6mo
👍within a year
❤ within 5y
👋 after 5y
⚡ never


change my mind: covenants are just one more form of client side validation primitives

its like what taproot assets is doing for shitcoins, except you dont need a whole new data format because the client-side data *is* bitcoin txs


new nostr:npub1vmpf90hq56wzyxht6teg3llpa74rzcepw9suj5unxl3tph24zd4qgtxhm7 (beta) class coming this May: covenants!

3 days in ATX, May 16-18 (after btc++)

https://base58.school/classes/covenants


whoa 😳


how does this differ from ark? seems extremely similar


thinking about talent/eocsystem mismatches 🤔


ah, also: note that in order to setup the covenant, you’re going to need to make a tx. you can’t just start sending hashes around without at least one party committing something to chain ⛓


that’s certainly an ideal form, but i havent seen a protocol proposal that achieves that. i might be behind the times tho

do you have a link to where you saw that proposal?


see what else we just opened up

https://base58.school/#courses


new nostr:npub1vmpf90hq56wzyxht6teg3llpa74rzcepw9suj5unxl3tph24zd4qgtxhm7 class just dropped: building bitcoin bots to snipe the mempool 🔫

online Tuesdays in March

https://base58.school/classes/bitcoin-bots


only spiciness i see here is you calling my posts “drags” 😂


“bitcoin doesn’t have enough girls”
blockstream: hold onto your hats 🧢


love’em or hate’em, but you certainly can’t deny they have taste 😘


over my posting quota for today but recently was reminded that my existence in bitcoin as such is more or less one more contribution of Blockstream to the ecosystem 😆


Paul Storzc is a very well educated economist; I am not aware of his dev skills


there are many paths to greatness, fighting to change what came before you is an evergreen one for sure

definitely makes me reconsider revolutionaries and their movements. GK Chesterton was really onto something with his fence parable i think (if you see a fence, do you knock it down and find out why the fence was there, or do you try to find out “why fence” before taking action)


you follow the chain of the mightiest; the contribution of their might to the cause is what makes the chain great, it is what lets it stand the test of time


bitcoin forks will continue forever, the struggles of the mighty are unending

I fully expect a highly regarded fork to exist by 2050


good news: there’s still the timestamp bug 🐛


ossification is a terrifying thing if you’re young and view it as the old guard shutting out a path for you to take to make a mark on the world


“new” (it’s at least 8yo)


yes. how did you think it works?


i have been in tech for over a decade, and i have watched the “cool new thing” ecosystems struggle with purpose and then devolve into weird political drama again and again and again


sometimes it’s like “nifty why aren’t you into the cool new thing” and it’s like hello have you not been paying attention?? ive made not being into the new tech thing a personality trait

my blog is called basicbitch.software for a reaaaason


in theory paying with promises is less data than paying to pubkeys, so it costs less to transact

the protocol for doing this hasn’t been fully built + proposed yet; Ark is probably the thing closest to existing


no it’s a reduction in the amount of data you need to write to chain; instead of writing in a pubkey you write in the promise to pay a bunch of pubkeys at some point, in the future

and in fact that bitcoin cant be used for anything else

then you have a promise and not a utxo, which is pretty worthless if you want to use that promise to pay someone else

so people are trying to design ways to pay each other with promises instead


o.O


i thought the whole point of using btcpay server was self sovereignty


it says it’s custodial. is that the innovation? https://image.nostr.build/4d00c83bd918cd6dfe648f624b2c2d675786e516f1efbd99c8587aeb2109550f.jpg


(anchor outputs changed this; onchain fees for force closes are now optionally held by each node in a separate account. it’s fully possible to be transacting with coins you cant recover if they go onchain due to lack of sats in your “anchor tank”)


lightning protocol devs are again at a pretty prime spot wrt understanding these challenges and trade offs, as theyve been actively building systems with these constraints for the past number of years

The LN network is a very rudimentary covenants system, no body likes it when they have to pay to resolve those covenants onchain (force closes)

and LN has a pretty easy setup for funding that onchain unrolling, given that there’s only two parties and the “liability” of going to chain is (or at least historically was) fully funded


covenants scale bitcoin by making promises to pay you. typically these promises are ones that you can verify because they’re written into the chain

those promises risk becoming “unenforceable” where youve been promised bitcoin that is forever uneconomical to ever claim outright. It’s worth paying attention to the talk about how easy it is to add fees later to different covenants designs, etc. who pays the fees to make good on that “promise” of the bitcoin belonging to you is generally an open question, and the ability to do so (and how) is under active research/exploration right now (imo)

an old theme of layer-2 design is “whos permission do you need to exit”; covenants add the additional question of “how much does it cost to exit”

a lot of the L2 protocols that “use” covenant primitives (in whatever form) rely on the idea of swapping ownership of those promises. how you update the underlying contracts to reflect that changed ownership is where the protocol design comes in

maybe something worth using as a lens when comparing different protocols that rely on covenants “to scale”


vgr wrote an incredible piece about internets and beefs; i fully believe the way out of mooking is learning the primitives a la a Base58 class or something else that gives you hands on experience with the raw stuff

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/the-internet-of-beefs/

this is why i started nostr:npub1vmpf90hq56wzyxht6teg3llpa74rzcepw9suj5unxl3tph24zd4qgtxhm7


bitcoin is not a democracy: might makes right.

in technical realms we rely on expertise as might, not debate or public opinion


Dunxen really throwing down “consensus is not democracy” on the TL; I needed this reminder re: expert opinions in the consensus process

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7282#section-7 https://image.nostr.build/2ba915e2561c5d2bc6e4c7476c9be5b208e818f98e581c2a69a037d17c7078be.jpg


quantum computers are clever because in the material world you have to physically explore every path of a problem; the quantum realm of branches moves at a tremendously faster rate comparatively (in path exploration) than materially needing to calculate every state

being able to frame questions such that you can access the branching process of particles is an enormous speed up for searching a problem space


it sounds more complex than it is. general idea is that everything is a state machine, and the quantum realm is where the set of “allowed” state transitions are explored (hence the name branch-ial, they branch furiously)

where the branches actually move is what “matters” (get it? matter/material world)

time is the weird moment of collapse of the branchial to the material (i think, kinda guesstimating)


bitcoin layer twos about to mf-ing thrive ⚡⚡


oh might def not be latest at this point lol 😂


i really like his discussion of the branchial space (what he calls the quantum mechanics part of reality); branches world vs matter world is such a nice analogy imo


pretty sure this is what led wolfram to his hypergraph theory of everything 😂 have you seen his latest blogpost on it?


not that i know of 🤷


primal website


*mutiny did build a LN->off-chain stacking wallet, but with e-cash primitives instead (fedimints)


Aqua wallet's "pay me in lightning, and i'll hold it in liquid" plus the ability to have a usd-t balance is exactly the thing i was trying to talk the mutiny wallet team into building last fall lol

(they did it, but on top of e-cash, not bulletproofs)


i am *so* thrilled they launched the "receive in lightning/stack in liquid" feature!! really interested to see how it works


SO EXCITED ABOUT THE ONLINE BASE58 CLASS DROP COMING SOON, APOLOGIES IF I HAVENT SENT YOU A THING I OWE YOU YET


legit feel that one of the craziest and most bullish things about bitcoin is that it's a community that advocates/advertises for itself

there's no central organization of bitcoin messaging that sells you on bitcoin

it's bitcoiners getting the word out
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it's going to be one for the books i think!


awesome. thank you for the sanity check!


loved this detail wrt compressed keys https://image.nostr.build/b31bb4343f255066cb461f9625bb110310d325441ee564bdd095d76960f50c04.jpg


im hoping to launch the nostr:npub1vmpf90hq56wzyxht6teg3llpa74rzcepw9suj5unxl3tph24zd4qgtxhm7 onlineclass with an *awesome* intro to elliptic curves plus sigs on bitcoin next week!!


fun fact: the “1” in secp256k1 denotes the number of subgroups for the curve (eg there aren’t any)

subgroups massively undermine the security of a crypto system!! (you avoid them by picking a prime as your field) nostr:note1yr9tzxprw44k740phrnl6ye52k765zddgyq8gtduddq8g9j0zx4qeytz9h


ok wow this article is shockingly close to what i came up with for the elliptic curve portion of the soon to be released base58 part 2 basics class ❤ (also confirms my understanding of the subgroups + secp256k1 🙌)


ooh. can i fact check myself really fast? im working on my very short intro to elliptic curves for base58, and tell people in the video that the h=1 in the secp paper means exactly this: that there are no “subgroups” for the G group (i think i call them cycles). is that a correct explanation?


i tell people things because it’s fun to see what comes next 🍿


i think technically it’s “chief explaining officer” but i do really prefer “head of instruction”


education as a goal is really off-putting to me; all i care about is “do you now understand what’s going on well enough to do or say something interesting”


I don’t really think of myself as an “educator”, I’m really more of a nerd who will explain you anything if you give me a whiteboard

chief of explanations 🫡


deal! 🤝


send me a lil note if you want one!


a lil late but: commemorative nostr:npub1an84q6c03wml5lf0uwcqcr20ydwv0t0lvv0xktlcfs9seattef8sdhz6yg nye stickers hot off the new pleb printer 👌 https://image.nostr.build/02571d0681f5888ef3a13b214fece78fc24138797bd4a2d4d7cd81a86bc862bb.jpg


ah well he’s very trapped in his own world; doesn’t really have an idea of what ive been up to lol 😂🗺


i wanted one specific thing for xmas but didn’t tell anyone and then he shows up new years day and lets me talk him into driving to the mall to get it ❤

(Nespresso pods, i wanted nespresso pods 😂)


s/o to my dad who has a knack for showing up at the right moment despite himself 😂


that’d basically neutralize stamp’s impact on utxo bloat

I don’t really care enough about the taproot wizards to give a rats ass about where their funds come from, but it’s a good indication of the social network/crypto braintrust/era that those guys are plugged into

says more about who’s attention they were able to access than intentions imo


i thought there was a patch in core that pruned unspendable pubkey outputs from the utxoset but i might be tripping 😂


pretty sure 2024 is a “concrete” year, where all the chaos of 2023 suddenly gels + the real themes of this decade become easy to see


I’ve learned im pretty addicted to it and i need to get my life together fr right now 🫠


logged out of twitter again after 5days of being back in it and it actually hurts this time to log off 😭


satsmath > pimath


welcome to 2024, where 3.125 is the new 6.25


"3.125, you heard it here first"


"the rugpulls will continue until self-soveriegnty improves"


preach


join me and nostr:npub1wmv28sett8kajksl4dn9rf9ufk7ts42329k83hn0sm34khkacp2q9rcnsr on the lightning pulse!  chatting about miner payouts over LN today

https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjrqvehvvcxxv34943xyvf3956xzvt994skgeph95cxvdphxajnsdt9vfskzq3qeaz6dwsnvwkha5sn5puwwyxjgy26uusundrm684lg3vw4ma5c2jsxpqqqpmxwls62he


i really want a video gimbal. for no good reason. i just saw a guy carrying a Mevo around on one a few weeks ago and now it's all i can think about


bruh do you even scroll :P https://damus.io/note17p7dekt620cj0qyruvqwgq38l2pngqzz3dhvsflpnlgvtdejc0ss35q5et


help nifty pay her intern and build LARPs

https://geyser.fund/project/base58sworldfamousbitcoinlarp


hey yall im looking to hire a part time intern this month to help build LARP boxes and do some internet posting for btc++

must be in Austin + able to come into PlebLab

required skills: can count, is crafty, interested in some minor graphic design + comms, reliability also a plus

maybe 30hrs of work, paid in btc

interested? please DM me (here, telegram, twitter)


how am i supposed to read all that?? lol


https://cdn.satellite.earth/6011daa16075490abe99b641d87513c6509eace0b86ac7dd6e91a7d1c68763d9.jpg
At least for some percent of people glancing at this nostr:npub1e4qg56wvd3ehegd8dm7rlgj8cm998myq0ah8e9t5zeqkg7t7s93q750p76's diagram would give them a little more insight on how Nostr works. Where should we place it to make that happen?


this is cute!!


ooh looks great

what were your top takeaways?


iiuc blockstream has basically been eating this cost, maybe at some point tx fees onchain will cover it + help payback what they already spent

definitely a good question about incentives to run sidechains tho — unless you’re taking margin on swaps to/from the chain or issuing a token there isn’t really much incentive to run one, afaict


honestly, big benefit of the way LN contracts are constructed is they dont need onchain refreshes to stay valid over time


I asked Adam about the logic for it last year, he told me the fees go to pay for rotating the federation’s onchain utxos, to refresh the timelocks

if they dont get regularly rotated, eventually the onchain funds can be spent by a smaller emergency keys multisig

it’s a normal cost for any multisig thats using contracts with timelocked emergency spend path. basically every corporate structured multisig works this way, see anchorwatch contracts


i do love a good port number 🚢 here’s to more shipping in 2024 🎉 https://video.nostr.build/730ee82e9a5d9562c6ecd1e466b57785bd79d3cc5ad3b825565f280eb3ff3bbc.mp4


Bitcoin scaling: the forever war


Are you a Bitcoin developer in need of testnet coins? Reply with your testnet address and I'll make you testnet rich!


SIGHASH-NOINPUT got renamed to sighash-anyonecanpay or APO for short


merry xmas 🤶i got u a car 🚗🤭 https://image.nostr.build/1729f9849e74c97c2d7b8a378910badb569d30c069b4a3866a586e89b6a1f774.jpg


there’s a whole exact draft spec of how it’d work too, written alongside the implementation work


fwiw instagibbs built a mostly functional version of eltoo using APO in a fork of CLN. APO has prototypes but no stack of plebs calling for its activation.

i wonder why that is


hate that i feel like im taking style notes from a saylor post 😹 https://image.nostr.build/ca2cba934ea1a08d9aedab40c03f42e7c88ebb3c2070aa427acb1df65a1a3650.jpg


Labor vs Leisure theory of value, pretty sure Veblen nailed it


I cant remember exactly but I think it was Veblen who gave Marx props for coming up with a rhetoric that was extremely correct if you assume the underlying philosophy and almost impossible to refute otherwise

Of course Veblen then goes on to mock it with his Leisure Theory of Value


are nfc taps on the table? 👀


update: still wow’ing us with how slick the UX is

damn i might need another one for myself at this point 😅


was this the parking lot conf?? man that was forever ago 😨


yeah totally! you should see this mac install tutorial i made a few days ago -- "here run all these commands to tell mac it's not malicious software"

when i got started i bought a pre-loaded node mini computer because that seemed so much easier than trying to figure it all out myself.

i think start9 and umbrel are 1000% onto something


Finally unboxed the BitBox02 that I got at the last baltic honeybadger with a friend that's not as technical as i am and *wow* it is *really* nice. kinda feel like they nailed the screen UX

biggest gripe is that it doesn't seem to talk to ios devices, which basically makes it a no-op for me long term 😕


cute gerbil!


The Fed's Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP), the facility that they introduced after the March 2023 banking crisis, now offers lower borrowing rates than the Fed pays in interest on reserve balances.

So, banks are arbitraging this by borrowing from the facility (i.e. from the Fed) at one interest rate, and then depositing that borrowed money with the Fed to earn a higher interest rate, and thus are earning that risk-free spread. They're arbitraging the Fed.

https://m.primal.net/HUun.png
https://m.primal.net/HUuo.png


Oh i jump between nostr clients and it’s cool to see everything sort of work fine across platforms 😎 i just setup zapple pay w/ mutiny and was bouncing between ios clients zapping  posts

pretty cool imo!


ok ok pubkey portability and relay syncs across multiple clients is insanely cool 😎


insane how small the tribe of noderunners is

nostr:note1sdursyve7z59rwvqsqkmfkhsfufaja7ncfxxdg35n3ykms2efwfqfpc5ur


thanks!! hoping to make more public... at some point lol


"how do *i* understand this... oh wait yeah i implemented it"

the depth of my understanding of the bitcoin landscape is very iceberg-y because so much of the work i've done to understand it isn't very public

probably won't be any time soon either, i struggle to get my work published/finished.


no, i have no idea how i'm used to learning anything. it just strikes me a bit odd, looking around realizing i'm wildly fluent in bitcoin technicals and also realizing that the path to get where i am is pretty  uncharted


it's crazy how accessible specs make things, imo


kinda weird to think that a lot of the things i know about bitcoin tech is from implementing a working copy of it for myself


really fun char with Krista over at Access Tribe about what I’m up to!! nostr:note1kmqmwwpt8qzpdgj70rnzfs5uyxmzpvfk4n9g65d934w3xte45yrq9kl374


What are your favorite early stage #privacy projects on The Nostr and Bitcoin? And do they take donations on nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f ?

cc: nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy nostr:npub1qqqqqq0u2gj96tdfvqymdqn739k4s0h9rzdwyegfmalv28j7a5ssh5ntu2 nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc @ all the Bens

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oh i didn’t even think to check studies haha 😂 but wow they really back it up eh lol https://image.nostr.build/d5d02b3e22eaec7a75e58e6cad2963b3f7fc86e53e7168b0622b2fb6eb1720ba.jpg https://image.nostr.build/c7b4502e3810d8e91fe8da18c57c61a1672fbfb545b288800db4928626635a95.jpg


 nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy does a quick walk thru of mempool.space

https://youtu.be/uJXNWoqF8ds


that would require a script to exist haha 😂


pivot to video going great thanks for asking 😭


why am i so bad at talking out loud

brb starting over on these class videos for Base58 🪦


merry xmas to u too!


it’s not worth much without the ozone


it’s more like warpaint tbh


just gave it a shake, should work now!


ozonated olive oil is witchcraft for skin weirdness fyi!


oh thanks! i’ll check on it. they mentioned they were changing some things at Alby


iykyk ;)


alpha leak 🤫 https://image.nostr.build/219a0595c74e9c5b94c5a920b74d555a6e6d7cb1dc8d6959806db0e1fd095721.jpg


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10 more grants.
10 minute blocktime.
10 quadrillion reasons to support open-source devs.

https://opensats.org/blog/bitcoin-grants-december-2023


pommelo!!


guess this is why we post lol


this is one of the reasons @base58btc exists — you wont be able to maintain a trustless protocol without knowledgeable users

and that starts with understanding


this frustrated me a lot working on lightning protocols. most people would see technical disagreements in public and have a bad reaction to the way i said things rather than what i was saying

tone is more accessible than content in pretty much every situation

a lot of the nuances gets lost to outsiders, so you end up falling back to who you like/who says things in a way that you appreciate etc moreso than the underlying decisions that are being made


often times, people that know the most about a project are usually invested in something in that arena

this makes sorting thru discourse about projects difficult to people who aren’t insiders


NgU technology but no one told u it was “number of protocols”


first bitcoin wallet that supports ecash/LN/liquid/mainchain/ark wen 🤣


I am HODLING

10yrs today https://image.nostr.build/6319b16fc04198d4dc418fa1eb3941ab0583d5a2c9dac9c25a4fb33bbc3c1051.jpg


Exactly 10 years ago today. #HODL https://i.nostr.build/Jwo5.jpg


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so hard to tell how it’ll end fr fr


(lowkey amusing to me that deep in my soul there’s linked in levels of motivational content ready to go 🤣)


(also happens to be rule number 6 of Wal-Mart co-founder Sam Walton’s 10 rules of building a better business) https://image.nostr.build/57122b9ccc20006dc625e2eceaa0dfa16b01ed083e200d0a03f10b4237c9ba19.jpg


*today

another way of stating it would be: “celebrate your successes”


ive only ever run two marathons but one of my absolute favorite mental tricks that still brings me great joy is to acknowledge that the distance youve already covered is the farthest youve ever been* and that every additional step is into new territory

i guess i really love trail blazing that much haha 😂


neutral good, true neutral, or lawful evil depending on the day


their existence also makes the right data even more valuable, which is something i think about a lot as a professional “new explanation creator”


which proves your point: theyre data compression/navigation tools

if anything their development makes me even more bullish on privacy/data reduction


can’t remember where i saw it but recently read a post that basically stated that given a specific dataset, all/any LLMs trained on it converged to the same set of “understanding” capabilities


im working on delivery which def could improve, but my audience is pretty much always gonna be a technical one 🤷


sick vid car!


also comes with CSVs export options that are compatible with Koinly + Cointracker and this other thing called “Harmony” accounting standards lol 🤣


millisat level accounting for where every coin goes and it comes standard with every CLN deploy 🧮

it’s useful for node stats but it’s also a business intelligence warehouse for data about where your liquidity is, how it’s being utilized, and what it’s costing you


explained how the CLN bookkeeper works to the great team at Blockspaces today; there’s a lot of alpha hidden in the bookkeeper but it’s missing a good interface still


 nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a asked a great question yesterday: why no temporary softforks?

Here's Base58's niftynei on the difficulty with adding opcodes to bitcoin
https://m.primal.net/HTwk.mp4


its been on my todo list for years at this point 🤣


there isn’t an easy rpc for it, you can do it but it’s ugly (manually build bump tx and sign + broadcast it)


yall made it easy to find on nostr!! 😆


sick tip, ty!!


Twitter doesn’t let non logged in users browse the site which is mind boggling tbh


did my first ever litdevs without twitter, just using nostr posts and it went 👌

links we covered can be found here: https://stacker.news/items/352921


i think they’re working on limiting risk in terms of funds custody


nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy has claimed a territory.
nostr:nevent1qqspu6s0k474sn7j9wzpk0szzmkw82mmj4t8c44mamxe9h2278a0rcspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucm4wfex2mn59en8j6gzyr9utmmtq89arlazew26j48sfsu94ymvr2rwrwuuehev7r6wh6kvkqcyqqqqqqgfent6n


say hello to the latest stacker news territory: bitdevs

https://stacker.news/~bitdevs


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Get your pass today and avoid the hike!

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this would be fine if you could prove that no funds on bitcoin made use of any to-be-deprecated features, but bitcoin hides what these programs are (and what features they're using) until spending time.

this means you have absolutely no way to tell what features/opcodes are currently safe-guarding funds.


what do you do about coins that have locked up funds using features that were deprecated?

bitcoin scripts are essentially user-defined programs, which get run/executed when the bitcoin *are spent*. there is no real going backsies once funds have been locked up to them.


they come programmed as point of sale terminals, we reflash them to make into “miners” for a live bitcoin game!


what kind of morning are you having?? 😭 https://image.nostr.build/c93dfa95ffb95ee65ae7153d9f46e2796de5125594dd528c938f575fac74a18c.jpg


want a gameset?

check out our Geyser Fund for details on how to get one

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The first shipment of LilyGos are here! We got 60 machines for the nostr:npub1vmpf90hq56wzyxht6teg3llpa74rzcepw9suj5unxl3tph24zd4qgtxhm7 LARP build out, enough to make the first 10 gamesets for the Geyser Fund! (Looking to get the first batch ready by mid to late January)

h/t to @DavidRodt of Swan for getting them here!!

stay tuned for more updates 🔜 https://video.nostr.build/c77abd2cc7e41396a1eade834b880eca6cea06a9b6d7683a051e649ba30b7e92.mp4


the miners for the first 10 @base58btc LARP kits arrived today!!!!

h/t to @Davidrodt of Swan for helping get them here 💪

we’re building the first 10kits for the LARP’s Geyser Fund campaign

stay tuned for more updates soon 🔜 https://video.nostr.build/20a854cac4f25c0d32910b07d4bc38f6bfc21f98e584210c91968e9b4838ebf7.mp4


mardi gras beads, frfr


they are distracting you from this https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/section-702-needs-reform-and-oversight-not-expansion-congress-should-oppose-hpsci


number of stampedes in have almost gotten trampled in as a child while trying to catch fancy af mardi gras beads: more than one


came up with an amazing analogy for brc20 minting: it’s like a mardi gras float throwing out plastic beads to the masses

they look great on for about a week and then it’s like wtf why are you wearing plastic beads. the color is gone


honestly this might be the best way to price out the scam coins but wdik


imagine if only every 5th block would include inscriptions.

insane value bump to existing incriptions


“lets make rare art even rarer” bullish af


honestly OCEAN not mining ⛏ inscriptions is so incredibly bullish for art on bitcoin

they really effectively reducing the total available blockspace that can be inscribed. only drives the value of the works up more imo


omg yall this is too heartwarming 😂 nostr:note1x5q4dd7rhkncqpy86d9gkp8c9delrxeecxznt64uct555smqrueqx69njf


this is my brain on drugs (endorphins)


went on a run, first one in too long, and decided that the reason the anti seed oil movement took off is because no one wants to be a soy boy


ok california, tell me youve been breathing forest fire air for too long without telling me youve been breathing forest fire air for too long


alright alright, ill figure out how to get it installed and try it out. appreciate the recommendation


Does anyone know if anyone has done an implementation of secq [*] in code? I'm pretty sure not, but asking just in case.

I can ( and probably will) just do it in python (literally just swap p and N), it'll let me play with algos but 100% useless for anything real. Needs optimised algorithms, even if you ignored constant time implementation.

[*] secq256k1 is a kind of 'mirror' version of the secp256k1 that we use in bitcoin. The curve group  order of secq is the finite field order of secp and vice versa. It's some kind of very deep fact that such 'mirror pairs' of elliptic curves of prime order are much more common than you would expect by chance. Why care? It makes something similar to merkle trees be possible using curve points, which is remarkably powerful.


alright yall, time to stop having boating accidents fr nostr:note1p6urqzzhxdy0j78vxsvfn4l8ky0fafjym5nwe7wngx6l6ltf7g6sp28ex4


i need tmux 🤣


it says “brew install” ?!???

can i get it on nix?? https://image.nostr.build/3f36304007902f851943bdbbb71f157e06bbd29c6a462f71720c91e095f30ce9.gif https://image.nostr.build/b4686de92c13141747b1d7b5af2ed457bb751e965ebabf5072286ef5dd9ee407.jpg


PlebLab is pivoting to video ✌ (w/ @niftynei)

https://streamable.com/l/6x3q0l/mp4-mobile.mp4

#pleblab #buildingbitcoin #bitcoin #atx #austin #buidl #hodl #comeandmakeit


thanks, i'll check this out!


i have a ubuntu machine, a nixos machine, a windows machine and now a macos machine lololol

this is literally just to avoid having to run brew


i really just want something to install/manage the packages i've installed on the machine. does nix-darwin not do that?

what does nix-darwin do lmao


poodle mixes, yes!


 nostr:npub1an84q6c03wml5lf0uwcqcr20ydwv0t0lvv0xktlcfs9seattef8sdhz6yg hood tour with Ginger + Saba

https://m.primal.net/HTIv.mp4


classic!!!


garth brooks concert?!


bullish


i logged out for a bit. if i don’t log back in it’ll nuke it


what you say, what you do, and what you feel are the only things you have control over.

the last one is worth paying attention to


beautiful object on the other hand have a timeless value


even then, translating the wealth outwards is very very hard


art pieces that are related to social relationships and ingroup signaling are very valuable in the moment but one of the worst in terms of long term value unless the ingroup becomes a dynasty


Ooh good idea. Thanks for the alpha 👀


LAUNCH PARTY at nostr:npub1key55ax33gkl50uqemvl4khrtqrhzm7wzpc7fhseutt5ddkcwcrqgxlt3h today!!

Hope to see a lot of you there https://image.nostr.build/a5f8fe984d048261e9515fcdcb363879f9b6afc033ce140efa1a9dc55105f48a.jpg


nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy , thank you very much for recommending your Bitcoin developer basic course to me, and thank you for your work.  I'm already studying it.
I finally became a developer junior in #Bitcoin #Script https://image.nostr.build/a62edff1635dd09f652b6c12dbf2fe190a78d1bd4d64cc4325d67294148ebdaa.jpg


love to see it!!


hiii!!


I wanna do some xmas caroling this year, if anyone can send me events in austin that need altos please hit me up!


competition is good for an ecosystem but miserable to live/build through. just remember the design goals were aiming for: open markets, freedom to transact and anyone can compete to serve


love it or hate it: jack dorsey sponsoring luke’s pool was the biggest accelerationist act of the decade in terms of moving the chess board forward for bitcoin protocol design around tx relay and block construction


rough :/ strong money, stronger haters lol 😂


yeah i really don’t get everyone talking shop about buying sats *now*


watching the price run and god damn do people love to feel like they’re part of a larger thing than themselves (that’s moving in the right direction)


Life hack: set up Lightning channels before you need them.


turns out im bad at logging off 😭


i dont keep in touch with any of the people that had the convos.

i see the coworker that helped paint the closet every time im in town


one time i worked at a really great coding camp, and we had an off week without students

i decided i wanted to clean out the coat closet and turn it into a cozy spot for meetings. the space was an open floor plan and meeting spots were in high demand.

i spent the majority of the week moving stuff out, coordinating give aways of leftovers, another coworker painted it, i rented a car and made hardware store runs for supplies.

while i was doing all this, the majority of my coworkers hung out and had important conversations about how to improve the space.

i dont think anything they planned or discussed came to pass

the cleaned out coat room was well loved and saw a few different makeovers before the org moved to a new location

conversations are important, but action matters more


Base58 is doing a flash sale of our incredible intro to bitcoin transactions course! Get it before it's gone ⏲

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dont build on inefficiencies, fix them


it sucks to know you’re building the best thing you can and that people are probably going to feel threatened by that


you want my honest take on rust? I saw the Builder pattern and ran the other direction as fast as possible


it's not time sensitive, just a personal commitment


got reminded of this explainer I wrote 5y ago about how RBF works https://basicbitch.software/posts/2018-12-27-Explaining-Replace-By-Fee.html


SO BULLISH ON MICROPAYMENTS

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"Bitcoin dominance reaches new heights, Tether gets adopted by the USG as the new Fed. Bitcoin goes parabolic."

Bold prediction!


open_channel2 seems like v2 to me jkjk


dollar sat parity wen


grateful to have lived through the btc -> sats transition


sats sats sats sats


ideally the whole Lightning v2 suite is dual-funding/splicing/splice-to-close

Lightning v2 enables liquidity ads, Tony’s Stable Channels protocol and more?!


coindesk named me one of bitcoin’s “most influential” this year so of course i took the opportunity to rebrand the lightning work Ive done on “dual-funding” and splicing as Lightning v2 lol 🤣

https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/12/04/lisa-neigut-reinventing-lightning-to-reinvent-bitcoin/


initial impressions of C++: the syntax is unhinged as all get out. im v confused about how memory management works.


ok maybe this is my new personal slogan (see nostr:npub1dwah6u025f2yy9dgwlsndntlfy85vf0t2eze5rdg2mxg99k4mucqxz7c52 + nostr:npub1vmpf90hq56wzyxht6teg3llpa74rzcepw9suj5unxl3tph24zd4qgtxhm7 )


me(, to btc core users): i can change your life (if you let me)


day 3 of being off twitter and i find myself working on an absolutely unhinged bitcoin-core PR 😭


1000%!! haha 😂 omg its so funny that you mention it… we have a sticker update coming soon!!


We just published our first update for Base58's World Famous LARP fundraiser, on our Geyser Fund page.

tldr: the first draft of instructor manuals and Bill of Materials for running a LARP are now out on github

https://geyser.fund/entry/2591


Update on the LARP project: we've now got a first draft of instructor guides and a bill of materials list on github!

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oooh lol 😹


back to the drawing board then 🪦


whoa. no reverse engineering ! interesting that it expires 3mo after first use and gives you a 30day warranty https://image.nostr.build/a6ccf6725a592cc3b7a3b620074cb5593ff09464acb0cfcaf11b60cdadbcefd4.jpg https://image.nostr.build/78544e7a2245074687b143252741296766df250d2169bef79554c6261bb5201b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/8bcc71cf19243c5ba34b839ce10a05085e2c120570e3a39ec1e1a1bdde631db5.jpg


pretty happy with how little JavaScript it took to get the auto-update on event callback working


yes i am aware it looks like a kindergartener made it 🤣


accidentally posted this on the conference profile but yolo

working on updating @`btcpp`backend to use core lightning + lnsocket 🫡

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we're going to buenos aires! join us February 22 - 24 in Palermo Soho for three days of hands on workshops, lectures, and hacking

Tickets on sale now! Get them before they're gone.

https://btcpp.dev/conf/ba24


PSA: collecting feedback + suggestions for nostr:npub1vmpf90hq56wzyxht6teg3llpa74rzcepw9suj5unxl3tph24zd4qgtxhm7 class schedule next year on stacker news

https://stacker.news/items/336411/r/niftynei


i logged out of twitter for the month. apparently im not taking the “no social media” thing seriously lol 🤣


while youre here, check out my soundcloud

https://geyser.fund/project/base58sworldfamousbitcoinlarp


lil video of nostr:npub1vmpf90hq56wzyxht6teg3llpa74rzcepw9suj5unxl3tph24zd4qgtxhm7 LARPing around with bitcoin tx at the nostr:npub1dwah6u025f2yy9dgwlsndntlfy85vf0t2eze5rdg2mxg99k4mucqxz7c52 Mexico City last December

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join us next time; april 22-26 at pleblab


ooooh!! try it! try it!


how do i buy shares in olympus


got a lot done at the core lightning hack week last month

#core-lightning
#CLN
#reckless
#hack/week
#pleblab #atx https://video.nostr.build/fc6f86a495e1a60720a5af26ed8611e6f599a16665023dc24174e846e589a845.mp4


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Help us reach our goal of getting hands on understanding of the bitcoin protocol into the hands of thousands of bitcoiners around the globe!

We're looking to raise 27.5k for our initial production run and hoping that this is a number we can drive down considerably as we scale and build expertise in building these kits

By getting 50 kits out into the communities at once, we'll be jump starting the LARP community, and helping them get hands on experience running LARPs while helping us figure out how to open source the project in an easy to replicate way!

If every person in the community that gets a LARP game contributes just $8, we only need 70 people in each community to contribute to reach our goal!


Base58⛓🔓 is excited to announce that we're taking the next step in scaling the World Famous Bitcoin LARP!

We're raising money to build 50 LARP sets that we can distribute to communities and meetups and educators around the world at no cost to them!

🚀

https://geyser.fund/project/base58sworldfamousbitcoinlarp


It's important that the tech we build supports Bitcoin's core values: self-sovereignty through the preservation of anonymity, accessibility, and decentralization. Together, these values build us a system where trustless financial transactions without intermediaries are a tangible reality for all, not an imagined ideal.

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We're committed to funding existing and new builders who can help extend and re-enforce Bitcoin's tools and ecosystem. What will the next decade of infrastructure building bring?

Looking Ahead, by nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy
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latest is they’re moving to bitgo


i really shouldnt shit on Swan because they’re so hapless rn but I’m laughing so hard about them moving custody to the same firm that’s been holding the WBTC stash for half a decade and calling it innovative


no im referring to the expense of opening/closing channels eventually getting out of hand


prediction that coinbase will quickly roll out support for assets on LN, and provide a market for them; and that support for bitcoin on LN is in fact a sideshow to the main event (new exchange volume)


if you want to be a sovereign individual on the LN there’s definitely still time but that won’t always be the case


good news is they’ll finally support taproot soon lmao


guess brian got word of the coin casino coming to LN 🎰 https://image.nostr.build/5378c700c38e21a3ac34055ee304be8a7ad7296a9b0db5094f2bee5a29a56d02.jpg


why don’t you ask rusty? (@rusty_twit on twitter) he was one of Linus’s “lieutenant”s for a long time; he’s now the chief architect of the lightning protocol


Any good books on how Linus did what he did and how he makes it all work?


how am i just now seeing this


buying bitcoin -> pays miners who are selling their coins -> price goes up -> miners invest in building out capacity -> grid demand grows -> more power plants built to satisfy it


 I attended a nostr:npub1vmpf90hq56wzyxht6teg3llpa74rzcepw9suj5unxl3tph24zd4qgtxhm7 course by nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy on Schnorr Signatures and Taproot during TABConf 2023.

The course was amazing and very fast-paced.
I converted my notes on a high-level overview on Taproot basics.

https://realeinherjar.github.io/2023-09-08-taproot/


if you’re cashflow positive, you’re in stack mode


CD108: Bitcoin Dev Education and BTC++ with Lisa, David, and Kody

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https://fountain.fm/episode/gOc183heBu2qTaHBpPPV

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regular reminder that the way bitcoin wins is by bitcoiners holding cashflow positive businesses


Real talk: having your own bitcoin infrastructure at home is such a huge privilege


I scheduled the latest btc++ videos to auto post to YT but would love to make them available earlier for sat streams somewhere — suggestions on what platform i should use?


girard is on my list!


*ends


what book should i read before the year wnds?


@jb55 when photos


so hangry right now


is this the new app for out of context posts about being “hangry”


Your mom


hi patrick!!


ahh thanks! I’ll keep trying lol


also does anyone know how to update my pfp??


absolutely failing at responding to DMs btw, no idea how to reply oops


manifesting deleting PayPal today