My hypothesis is that these climate activists are paid to block roads in order to propagate legislation that will allow for the arrest of protesters who impede traffic. And that this will give the state new weapons to better combat inevitable future protests (e.g. the truckers, farmers etc.) https://cdn.nostr.build/i/63a88c3585446ff0685bef87c2802d929911c25e7526a9e4ab2ed40f19a63e0d.jpg


Meet me under the Merkle tree and we'll hash it out, peer to peer


👀👀👀👀👀

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https://fountain.fm/episode/fhJEv7Cn0RlE8hliFdHX


On the podcast?


It's Patriot Act day!


And the bombs planted on the George Washington bridge.

https://youtu.be/3u3JSEqNtlg?si=7YzX_c6Gv4mz7FQB


Nothing physical


😋 https://image.nostr.build/7125c3059897666d2892b5ef61661b8ef6a3b86c39b0c5d07a80f20dcd0e94d3.jpg


I definitely prefer the term graffito


There's no point in them accepting it to just swap it for fiat though.

It's also infinitely more important that the demand for Bitcoin as payment comes from those who produce, not the middle men who sell.

If manufacturers (basically just China) and farmers (all over the world) demand payment in Bitcoin then that's all we need to kick off a global Bitcoin standard.

Want stuff? You need to have Bitcoin. Want food? You need to have Bitcoin. Merchants will want Bitcoin because they need it to pay for the goods they are selling. Likewise, employees will demand their employer pays in Bitcoin because they need it for food etc.


The place we failed as Bitcoiners is merchant adoption. I cannot even describe how bad it is, I have all these fancy non-custodial wallets I use and I even contribute to one but I can't use them to spend anywhere because nobody wants/accepts Bitcoin.


NEW EPISODE OF NOSTROVIA! nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft and nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc talk about how the most crazy engineers in Nostr and Lightning are converging on Madeira for 2 months to work on the next wave of freedom tech.

It starts on January 8 and runs through till March 1st when Bitcoin Atlantis begins.

Want to know more? Listen now:

https://fountain.fm/show/EHr7oroKVhkIAWNTGGRn

https://open.spotify.com/show/3FKrua9rST5DDKv0WeAqWn

https://podcasts.apple.com/hk/podcast/nostrovia-the-nostr-podcast/id1678531266?l=en

https://anchor.fm/s/d8e8d5a4/podcast/rss

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Really nice work


🎉 excited to update this and organize our collective knowledge!

If you have any ideas, please share 🙏

The guide is open source, ever-evolving and open to your input. nostr:note1l88xzlyfe0ssz69pr4n7clxyd90vx4vjemsdfaavsfna6z258kks3u6jvx


Democracy with American characteristics is very confusing to foreigners.


Also you're 3 beers behind, time to catch up


This is the original Budweiser. Very interesting story of how this beer made it's way to America.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_Budvar_Brewery

Someone using a different client tag Derek Ross, I'm using amethyst so tagging only works on Tuesdays (someone tag Vitor too maybe).

https://image.nostr.build/b538b18182ba2b19b0bfe8154499bf469c3955f3e1a663f0fe52e1320afccdb7.jpg


So, you don't publish the 27235, you just encode it into the auth header, right?


Has anyone implemented NIP98 for any standard web server or reverse proxy, e.g. apache, nginx, haproxy, etc?

ping nostr:npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj nostr:npub1melv683fw6n2mvhl5h6dhqd8mqfv3wmxnz4qph83ua4dk4006ezsrt5c24 nostr:npub1v0lxxxxutpvrelsksy8cdhgfux9l6a42hsj2qzquu2zk7vc9qnkszrqj49


Do you know what the reasoning was for not accepting cash after hours?


It's been two Friday's in a row now that Hong Kong has been totally shut down by the Nostrovia podcast.

Last Friday a typhoon rolled through Hong Kong after hearing that nostr:npub16c0nh3dnadzqpm76uctf5hqhe2lny344zsmpm6feee9p5rdxaa9q586nvr was coming on to talk about Primal.

This time it's 24 inches of rain and massive flooding in response to nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft and nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc.

I have to be more careful who I let on the show.


The neocons are aware of it too. This is partly why Hillary implicitly (via Syria) promised all out war with Russia in her election campaign.


You sick bastard!


Also blending pineapple and freezing it is kind of like an alternative to sorbet type things. Add mango to make it more creamy.


Just recorded a fun episode of Nostrovia with nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft and nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc to discuss the thing they are doing in Siberia. Here's a preview!

https://media.nostr.build/av/0a4ce9352884fadf327b64d507f670c3a37731c1edab0d5e2b56064a967e39ec.mp3


Favourite Nostr Podcasts:

Disclaimer: I'm an expert on listening to podcasts (listening to ~ 35 pods religiously) and a rookie podcaster myself .... so do NOT  take my advice esp. while having my 3rd drink :)

- Nostrovia by nostr:npub1mygerccwqpzyh9pvp6pv44rskv40zutkfs38t0hqhkvnwlhagp6s3psn5p  is exceptional podcast, the no bullshit approach, very direct and in your face, and an exceptional unique voice.....
Favourite episodes:
* Bitcoin and china with Joseph Yang
* Erik Voskuil

- Nostr Talks by nostr:npub1kuy0wwf0tzzqvgfv8zpw0vaupkds3430jhapwrgfjyn7ecnhpe0qj9kdj8 , curiosity is next level, listening skills and deep dive
Favourite episodes:
* Nostr based highlighter by nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft
* any Max webster episode

- Thank God for Nostr by nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn The zen feeling, super genuine and pragmatic too
Favourite episodes:
* What is Nostr part 1 & 2
* Fiatjaf has opinions nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6
* Rabble nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240

I wonder what is your fav. Nostr podcast?


This changes everything

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Holy shit that's amazing


That's just when you settle the bill.


My computer is acting like an 83 year old man from Idaho.

Whenever it goes to sleep there's only a 50% chance it wakes up again, I usually need to power cycle it.


Git branches are just another word for "technical debt".


GitHub is bullshit though, it's just the Facebook of code.


Dust has finally settled on the “Primal censorship” drama. That’s good to see, but I don’t want to sweep this episode under the rug. It is probably appropriate to do a post mortem, assess what has happened and see what we can learn. Let’s make sure that Nostr is a better place after this episode.

Two weeks ago, Primal’s trending algorithm was attacked by bots. The attacker generated hundreds of thousands of reactions, propping his note to the top of our trending feed. At the time, our only defence was a simple “can’t trend” list, so we put the attacker on it. He immediately posted on Nostr, accusing us of censorship, but his note never took off. The attacker then selected a few well liked Nostr accounts and started stuffing the ballot box for them. We saw a bunch of bogus notes with massive bot engagement, so we resorted to the only blunt tool we had. The attacker jumped on the opportunity to publicize the fact that some well liked accounts were being suppressed on Primal and accused us of “shadowbanning”. The whole thing exploded on Nostr.

What followed was a pretty tough week for Primal. Many of our users turned against us. They took the idea of shadowbanning seriously, as they should. Most feedback was in good spirits, people making fun of Primal via memes. But we also got a fair bit of hate from complete strangers, which was super-weird. All in all, Nostr users were clear about what they think of censorship. This was the Nostr immune system reacting. Being on the receiving end of it really sucked, but still it’s beautiful to see!

The crazy part is that those “shadowbanned” accounts were actually perfectly visible throughout the entire Primal site. They had *exactly* the same level of visibility as they do on Damus, Snort, Coracle, and other Nostr clients. They just couldn’t show up in our trending bar. I tried to explain, but there was little room for nuance with the drama in full swing.

So we decided to disengage temporarily, focus on building, and let our product do the talking. We made our trending algorithm more resistant to bots and removed everyone from the “can’t trend” list. We also built a new content moderation system for Nostr, giving complete control to the user. This is our best take on how to do content moderation on such a radically open network. I cover the features and our reasoning in my blog post below.

So Primal is strictly a better product after this episode. But what about Nostr itself?

Attacks can be useful. While they disrupt our systems and really suck for us and our users, they do force us to improve and become more competent at operating in an adversarial environment. However, we should be careful about making it socially acceptable for Nostr devs to attack other projects in broad daylight. That’s not the most productive way to collaborate. It also creates weird vibes which I think we don’t want here. Nostr is in its infancy and the way we act will set the tone for things to come. There is so much to build and we are all working as fast as we can. At Primal we build open source software and run services for Nostr. If you don’t like the way something works, fork it and do your own thing. If you want to contribute, we accept PRs. If you have found a vulnerability, there are multiple good ways to disclose it.

As for Nostr users, I think you all reacted perfectly. Push back hard at any whiff of censorship. When in doubt, mercilessly create memes, point out things that are wrong, and don’t let up. Even if the target is Primal.

If Primal is real, it can stand the pressure. 🤙💜

https://habla.news/u/miljan@primal.net/1693416828339


Fiat mining is like being in a prisoner of war camp.


Tell me how to exit vim.

The most hilarious answer gets 2k sats.


1) immediately suspended the account of someone who contributed to my project

2) forced me to use personal access tokens

3) forcing me to use 2fa

4) I can see where this is all going: GitHub is going to KYC their users


Really like the idea, super cool, almost as impressive as the mustache.


The only reason it's limited to those entities is because they are honest and Bitcoin is not under attack.

Bitcoin is a marketplace for immutable transactions. Censorship resistance is a function of fees, if those 11 entities start censoring transactions, it just means fees go up until enough hashpower comes online to put the censored transactions into a block (motivated by the fees)

Mining is designed to scale between being centralized (more efficient) and decentralized (less efficient) depending on how hostile the world is to Bitcoin. It always operates as centralized as it can given the circumstances, because that's most efficient.

If it comes under attack, decentralization increases until it's sufficiently distributed such that censorship isn't possible.


I don't think it is at all. The tooling is annoying, and the language gives you bad habits.

In any case, you should select a language based on what problem you are trying to solve.

If you want to build frontend stuff, start with JavaScript.

If you want to do systems level stuff or data processing etc, start with Go.

Use a book to learn the fundamentals, but apply everything you learn to an actual project you want to build as this is what will motivate you to push through the more difficult and less enjoyable aspects.


Best tip I can give you is don't use python


test


That's weird, but thanks!

I don't think I'll ever get back to one episode a week, but one every two weeks would be a nice compromise


I joined various Shitcoin spaces over the years and I can confirm that people love to own full coins. I heard one woman say that she ant afford a bitcoin because that's more than her salary, but she can afford thousands of Doge. Unit bias is a mental challenge but it's also an educational issue.


RFK on Lex Friedman


🤯 nice find


I usually only react with a hotdog OR Stalin, but this one deserves both

https://cdn.nostr.build/i/74253dd961db2a80929a01d010ddef7a0b1b6e3a438313b05837cfe884102098.jpg


The institutions our civilization relies on for sense making have been debased.


Spicy episode of Nostrovia. Great to hear some bearish cases against nostr. nostr:npub1mygerccwqpzyh9pvp6pv44rskv40zutkfs38t0hqhkvnwlhagp6s3psn5p holding down the fort though 🤙

https://fountain.fm/episode/Bl5zcvDXKyUgyUYdAori


Korus didn't know what to expect, but it's not like he had a choice. He just stood there frozen in terror as the air around him quickly filled with tiny black drones.

The drones moved with purpose,  swarming like bees around a lifeless adult body which now appeared to be levitating about a meter above a steel workbench in the middle of the room.

"We have blood flow, but not all the organs have ramped-up yet..." announced one of the engineers, frantically probing the floating body with a variety of Creeper tech.

--------- ZAP TO CONTINUE READING ----------
This is an experiment. The next paragraph will be published if this note gets 5k zaps.


People keep talking about BTC dominance compared to shitcoins, but the set of "shitcoins" is totally arbitrary and has no clear definition.

Here's a BTC dominance metric that actually has some form of meaning. It's 0.39% (and growing) against banker/government money. This is the number to watch.

Side note: China's market cap is almost double the US. The flippening has already happened.

fiatmarketcap.com

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Not bad.

7/10


How to reply to a PoS shitcoiner:

PoS has been around for thousands of years, it's nothing new. Government money is proof of stake, as are company shares.

Egyptians, Romans, and Chinese were using this 2000+ years ago. Italian city states perfected it 800 years ago. Stake based systems are not new.

Using stake to solve the Byzantine General's Problem is also not new. Cypherpunks have been working on this shit since the late 80s.

The cypherpunks on the mailing list (that Satoshi sent the white paper to for peer review) are literally the people who created the *entire body cryptographic of work* used by proof of stake coins today (stake based byzantine fault tolerance).  They are well aware of the fundamental limitations of stake based BFT because they are ones who came up with it in the first place...

If Bitcoin was proof of stake *you would never have heared of it* because it wouldn't have survived 5 minutes of peer review by any real cryptographers.

Time-based difficulty-adjusted PoW *is* the breakthrough and is the *only* reason you and anyone has ever heard of a "blockchain".

The failure modes of stake based BFT are well known, and it fails *every time* for a number of reasons, but if you are betting on a shitcoin to increase in value then the failure mode will probably involve the fact that stakeholders have an incentive to increase the supply to benefit from the cantillion effect.

Mathematical fact: you cannot deploy external capital to defend a system that is secured by internal history (stake). This is why stake based BFT does *not* secure against attack by a state or central bank, which means *anything* secured by PoS MUST comply with governments.

Bitcoin's value proposition is that Bitcoin let's you do things that bankers and governments *don't want you to do*. If bankers and governmensts can nuke your shitcoin, then you do what they say or they nuke it.

What's the value proposition beyond CBDCs if your shitcoin ultimately has to comply with governments and bankers?

You cannot out-stake a bad actor who has aquired sufficient stake to fuck with the system, your only option is to fork them out. Then it becomes a competition between charismatic personalities convincing the market to follow their authority (their fork) instead of the other guy.

So how do you solve the problem of removing a bad actor without requiring some form of authority? Read the Bitcoin white paper. Satoshi knew exactly how stake based systems fail, that's *exactly* why he used proof of work instead.


Let's see what this thing is all about