This is completely untrue. The very first implementation of direct messaging was heavily critisized but it had end to end (e2e) encryption which is the minimum it should have.

This means no one but the intended recipients could read the messages, and no url manipulation could change this. Only how you handle your nsec, if you expose or leak that data, could compromise your private messages.

This is one of the things that was criticised, as well as how much metadata could be extracted, anyone could see "who was talking to who" and "when" and potentially get a rough idea of "how long those messages were".

This is much less information than that which staff at X potentially has access to. They can actually read the messages, the difference is that they reportedly keep that data private.

Being able to have private communications online across public infrastructure, not relying on false promises by companies and without unintended consequences such as leaking who you are talking to is the dream, and no one but #Nostr devs are working on this because #Nostr provides a public infrastructure to build for that isn't just "the internet" that doesn't require everyone to run a server. This has brought new life to these idealistic goals.

I think we are very close to getting almost everything we want, but we don't yet have the dream DM solution. We have a good solution that many nostr clients support called "gift wrapped messages", but I am most excited on an implenentation that builds on top of the Signal (yes the e2e messaging app) technology. It will provide much more security and privacy and even allow for private group messaging.

Btw, I don't know any client that supports private group chat, but I would be very cautious about how it worked.

....

#Nostr isn't a chat platform, many people think DMs should never have been tried, but it was tried, it serves a purpose but it isn't as fit for whistleblowers and humanitarians. Btw, X has never been fit for them either.

The fact that it existed meant people debated it and now we are getting something better. That something better will be probed and tested and it will be improved constantly as we discover problems over time.

1. Don't use #NOSTR for DMs, it was never its primary purpose anyway.

2. Don't use X for it either, it is actually worse.

3. Use Signal or SimpleX for chat, if you want to use Nostr as your contact list, then look into 0xChat or KeyChat for Nostr as more security focused applications.

4. #Nostr actually has a chance of being the base of the most secure and useful DM/Chat protocol we have ever had. Support that. For yourself and for people who have never had this type of tool but are living in dystopian nightmares today.

5. We have only just begun.


#asknostr
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A brand new open source NFC hardware wallet is about to hit the market!

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As a verb, I'd say "post".


A note.


I use Brave and don't need to turn anything off.

Are you using a browser extension like nos2x?


I use Brave and don't need to turn anything else.

Are you using a browser extension like nos2x?


I recently discovered this. Under permissions you can create an "app" and you get an nsecbunker url that you can use once.

Once the website has connected, it will communicate with your Amber remotely.

You may need to enable internet for Amber as I had to on Graphene OS. Amber doesn't need internet to sign for Amethyst, but it does for remote signing.


Zap.store is also promising.


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Per customer.


But don't you send the encrypted content to the bunker and have it return the decrypted content?


They will remain bored I'm afraid.


And they said the machines would take our jobs.

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Dirty floor = sauce and wet stuff.
Actual dirt = dry dirt.

You'd be just as ishy if you had to walk through wet mud.


There is the new bolt 12 lightning address, but I don't think it is compatible with zaps. 🤷♂


I understand this *now*, thanks for enlightening me, but what do most relays use for data storage these days? Gotta be something with an index right?


This is pretty amazing.

Zapping commits is 🤯.


So they DO give more sats sometimes.


$3 per mo? $36 per annum?

Feels more resonable... that's 5000 sats per month right now.


You can also quickly filter and zero in on hashtags by tapping the "All Follows" text at the top and choosing the hashtag you want to focus on.


So wait, a client will first search a small set of your preferred relays for your profile, then it will look for your follow list.

In the follow list, it has info about user profiles it finds your follows' profiles from your preferred relays and then in each profile, there is an outbox.

Now your client is querying for data across many relays for many people (optimising where it can) and aggregating that data before presenting it on screen.

Is that the gist of it or are there any technical mistakes?


Of course, photos cannot be owned unless you keep them to yourself which makes them useless.

But this idea compared to traditional auth has these benefits:

1. You can host anywhere.
2. Data is encrypted at rest, so no leaks from unauthorized hackers.
3. You own the keys at all times, never share.

Downside would be that potentially large data is being sent back and forth from your nsec bunker server.

That is, if I understand the nsec bunker model correctly.


SOMEBODY EXPLAIN THIS OUTBOX MODEL PLEASEEE!


Am I being dumb, or could nsecbunker allow us to act as our own access control for other people?

For example, you can provide an nsec bunker url to a friend which is preconfigured with access controls.

They use it to log into a nostr based encrypted photo gallery.

They can only see the friends folder and your signer will not decrypt anything else.

You can revoke their access at any time.

#asknostr


prerending to be Jack Dorsey, attempting to communicate privately with victims.


Yup


My First Bitcoin needs your help

We are in danger of running out of funding before some longer-term funding kicks in at the end of the year. If nothing changes, we will run out of money in September.

How did we get here? Well, in order to remain independent, we leave A LOT of money on the table

But for this post I want to give greater transparency into our expenses

With time we will make financial transparency part of our official SOP and publish everything on our website, but in the meantime, some context

Expenses are varied—we rent a house which we converted into school, we develop various open-source curriculum, we give sats to students as part of classes, we host 50+ meetups per year, we are building a Learning Management System (LMS) that anyone will be able to use, and lots of other expenses but I want to focus on payroll, which is our largest single expense

We have 20+ paid staff in addition to project-based contract work we hire for on an as-needed basis. Teachers are the largest and most obvious group, but this number includes some less visible roles as well. We pay developers & designers to build out infrastructure to help independent educators across the world. We pay lawyers, accountants and auditors to help us be compliant in multiple jurisdictions. We pay creators of open-source curriculum, lesson plans and activities.

This staff is the backbone of an emerging global movement. The commonality among them all—they are all underpaid. Not only did every current staff begin as a volunteer, many of them have quit much higher paying jobs to work here—often earning less than half of what they made in their previous job. Our payroll is about $24,000 per month

We need your help to maintain and make it to the end of the year, when some new longer-term and more sustainable funding will kick in.

if you do want to donate, visit our campaign on nostr:npub1kmwdmhuxvafg05dyap3qmy42jpwztrv9p0uvey3a8803ahlwtmnsnhxqk9

https://geyser.fund/project/miprimerbitcoin


I can't imagine the size of his root ball. 🤣🤣🤣

Can't wait for that episode of serial killers to come out.


That and massages.


Hotel California.


Dunno.


Yo


I got one like that... I ignored it.


This event will be deleted!


If mathematicians can imagine i as a number, then I can imagine glass blue. It is a blue colour but also semi transparent. No one else has designated that as a colour but now I have.


Not sure, there are some Monero supporters that created their own clients that zap monero.

They are still on nostr, we still see their posts, they still see ours, but I think we just can't zap each other because one only pays and accepts in btc, the other only in monero.

Also there are a lot of people who don't post a zap lightning address, so we can't zap them either.


Hola


Can I pay with Dogecoin?


SimpleX.

If people are jumping from Telegram to Nostr, people are stupider than I thought.


> “Encryption items can be used to maintain the secrecy of information, and thereby may be used by persons abroad to harm U.S. national security, foreign policy and law enforcement interests. The United States has a critical interest in ensuring that important and sensitive information of the public and private sector is protected.

Lol WAT?

Encryption items can be used to maintain the secrecy of information... 👍

and thereby may be used by persons abroad to harm U.S. national security, foreign policy and law enforcement interests. 🚩

The United States has a critical interest in ensuring that important and sensitive information of the public and private sector is protected. 👍

This is complete double speak. Are they suggesting that you being able to keep a secret harms my ability to keep a secret?


I wouldn't know, but if so, awesome.


1millie is my general target/rule. For now.


Aw shucks. Thanks for the zap 🤗


Is Damus now illegal in France?


Using zap.store and it reminds me that I have too many follows, I follow people I don't necessarily trust and those follows could easily one day impersonate by name and profile pic someone I really trust.

WoT needs work still.


I'm sure that's not true... heck, people said that about the covid police...


Thinking about how this could be useful.

My sister tells me she and her cousins keep live location on through Google so they can always tell where they are in case of emergency.

This doesn't do live reporting, but the thing that is interesting is being able to do this with a nym.

Better would be to use derived nyms. To the public, all location posts are from random nyms, but to them, they can see everything clearly.

But then there are timing attacks, distance based common sense that can deanonymise the data.

The best thing really is a private group between them.

So then what is this useful for?

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This scares me.


Is it me, or has nostr:nprofile1qqs2auxkkgfgylem580xrztp8ek5sf83s86k0vfq2feuz6y4lkhskgcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcwzxyf3 been telling all of his guests that they will probably be the last one and then releasing them in whatever order he likes?

Feels like every show is the last one... are they even ending it?!?!


Satire. Can't be anything else. APOLOGISE TO ME FOR MAKING ME SAY "FRONT HOLE"... WHAT'S NEXT? CALL MY BABY IT UNTIL SHE CAN CHOOSE HER OWN GENDER?!?!


Ideas like Mcafee with Pomp on a boat?


I'm triggered.


We doin' bitcoin origin stories?

I was born in West Philadelphia, and raised there too. I spent most days on the playground, usually playing basketball.

Anyway, one day a couple of guys came to me and started making trouble and my mom got scared. She sent me to live with my aunt and uncle. I begged and pleaded, I didn't want to go. But she packed my suitcase and sent me on my way.

I took the flight my mom booked for me, it was first class and they served me orange juice in a champagne glass. I was pleasantly surprised and figured this might not be so bad.

Now, I heard my uncle's family was prissy, bourgeois and all that, is this the type of place that they should send this cool cat?

Anyway, long story short, I eventually pulled up to the house about seven or eight, and I yelled to the cabby, "Yo holmes, smell you later!".
I looked at my kingdom, I was finally there
To sit on my throne as the prince of Bel Air.

And then I discovered Bitcoin some years later.

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Hahaha 🤣

Telegram is not "a privacy focused social media platform" 🤣🤣🤣💩. Never has been.


I see your note on my timeline.


Missed the sleep lines... or are their computers really that slow? 😥


I'm interested. 👀


C?


The media is not my eyes and they are not my ears. Nor are they the part of my brain that makes decisions.

Always be congisant of the difference between your immediate reality and "information" presented to you and the world as "truth".


nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqgmwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxyarr94kxjcnjv9e8jtnrdaksfdrqw7's conversation with nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqgmwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxy6t5vdhkjmnsv9exktnrdaksz8rhwden5te0dehhxarj9ekh2arfdeuhwctvd3jhgtnrdaks9hhj2c was absolute fire 🔥, watch it at 7 hour mark on.

Zapping everyone that comments and spreads the word.

https://www.youtube.com/live/uI38gUNaJLY


Your honour, the jury finds the defendant innocent on account of it being the banks' fault. We are in total agreement after looking at the evidence and listening to 10hrs of my podcast.


#asknostr

Where can I read about this "outbox model" thing? I need a top to bottom explanation of what it is, how it works, and what it provides.


This seems like a plot from a movie... where the owners fight back and the companies need to abort the plan.

The first communication should not be "you are losing your home" it should be "we are thinking to build this train for you but it would go through these properties... here's our offer"


Always carry a knife so you can always cut the mf who did this. 👀


Oh lol, just saw this: "helped create twitter"... so like Jack's version of Steve Job's Steve Wozniak


We got vegan, vegetarian, nut free, oat milk, when seed oil free options in the supermarkets and restaurants?

Edit: I see the problem, I meant for food in general and because I wrote milk I'm getting replies about just raw milk 🤦♂.

I know about raw milk but I was venting to say we should have a "seed oil free" label on foods at the supermarket if there are so many of us agreeing on this.


1. What restaurant serves that.
2. My grocery stores don't srll that.
3. Do I only eat and drink raw cows milk?
4. Actually, does even full fat milk, semi or pasturised have seed oils in it?!!


We got vegan, vegetarian, nut free, oat milk, when seed oil free options in the supermarkets and restaurants?


They have the money right? They have the most powerful economy in the world, they can afford 2 wars at the same time.


Already passed.


Woah


Nostr is a cool new band protocol


Fortunately nostr isnt a platform 😁


If you're talking about what rabble said, I still agree that the platform shouldn't rank, auto block etc. your posts.


Communities is a good middleground imo. Both open and closed. Let anyone be a moderator.

Not everyone needs to be everywhere.


Not sure if we should be building tech that helps people wrap themselves in their own bubbles.

Isn't that what legacy social media does?


We need follow groups.


Interesting "you need to earn my attention".


I think people are talking past each other. Crying censorship happens by those who just don't understand how an open protocol works.

They think o noes, they will let people block me and it will be systemic.

But no one can make snap decisions based on people's problems on an open protocol and people should be able to express their opinions so that protocol decisions can be informed.


Don't block, resist.


Set an interaction PoW requirement to reply to you?


Someone say volcanos in El Salvador?

https://image.nostr.build/5c787ed459e0d68ef8a97a6e2fb6c96504ad4d70378fa71009a8aa0fe66fb1b1.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/a5b3c2b26c4a20bda697372bc6626fe630953ce6202797ea6b4c9b109c2c1a1f.jpg


Ouch


We have reached peak twitter replacement. There is so much content people finally cannot keep up and are admitting it.

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First 3 digits is nse. Everyone has seen one of those.


What does the circle represent? There's a whole lotta things in what I can control, but I gotta focus on the circle, WHAT IS IT?!?!


Another one?


GrapheneOS baby!

It asks you if you want to enable internet when you first install any app. I must have figured this app didn't need internet way back when.

And it works with #Amethtyst without internet... how awesome is that!


You'd never guess what it was 🤦

https://image.nostr.build/f4f8ecb363644cb8eaa40c88d7a520010865e2ad2e659a1248fdfb5de286e7c7.jpg


Missed it again 💀


Here is your second one second chance: reply in one second or less.


Yes, I gave you a chance a second ago but you missed it.


First time for any red to be in the quadrant and no green yet. 👀


I tried disconnecting VPN (mulvad), and changing from WIFI to 5g connection.

Does this mean that it is having issues connecting to the relay?

https://image.nostr.build/f3581fdfb83b5716ded4c27fa1e2ecbcfa306199e91c5ec96fa71ebe0391cf9c.jpg


Yeah wss://relay.nsec.app and Amber version v1.3.0-free


I tried all combinations, I just tried again after restarting the app.

I don't get any feedback. The website I am trying to access is https://metadata.nostr.com/,


Ugh! I can't get it to work and I have no idea how to diagnose. Can nostr:nprofile1qqs827g8dkd07zjvlhh60csytujgd3l9mz7x807xk3fewge7rwlukxgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qgswaehxw309ahx7um5wghx6mmd9usjfpck can help?

I do notice this error in the logs but I was able to load the url in the browser fine, so not sure what's up there.

Using Graphene OS and ntfy.

https://image.nostr.build/b64d9bd19d91342ab728155e97d52b9a2135b930a9ad805894fc2e579224ec56.jpg


Holy mother of! I did not know it could do that 🤯


If I use Amber for my remote signing, how do I log in? This is my number 1 pain point at the moment, that I can't use any nostr web app on my phone. 😥


Okay, the day after tomorrow is okay aswell then.


I just want a 100x increase. Tomorrow.... is that too much to ask for?


Ah, on profile page it isn't the same, there's no equivalent 👍


Scroll up a little if you don't see the bottom nav bar, then tap the home button to get to the top of the page.


BritishHODL.


I don't spend any time looking at BCH, but I would imagine that mining is fairly centralised, so I'm curious if that is the case and if so, why forks would happen so often?

My initial guess is that there are dominant miners taking food out of the mouths of the non dominant miners.

Maybe we can learn some from them just as much as they could learn from us.


nostr:nprofile1qqs2sqvyjfcqh2sls4lgsrc3nchwpr2yq3hwta5gstk36qrmev4zpjcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtc34ufvu how does a zap fail due to "already spent"? I don't understand it.

https://image.nostr.build/e74933cb7c52ae78077e26366a94b9633865b6d768fc9450612363b1670c0eb5.jpg


I assume this is less about understanding Bitcoin's potential and more about coming to terms with a limitation or issue with BCH.

What was the straw that broke the camel's back?

I don't know if there are other questions worth asking but of course it is polite to say welcome to our helpful, informative community now that you will be asking really constructive and curious questions and not "gotcbas".


I have been trying to run my own node with an external drive for a while now. Almost a year. On a pretty beefy chromebox turned linux box.

In that time, the external USB drive randomly disconnected 3 times and needed me to manually fix it. Worse still, Fulcrum, the electrum server I was recommended, just refuses to function after that and I need to restart the whole indexing.

I have retired the node temporarily and will replace it with an internal drive going forward. I don't recommend an external drive in general.

In the past I had an external drive (NVME inside an enclosure) connected to a raspberry pi and that straight up died. The NVME wouldn't function as a drive at all, so I couldn't even recover any of the data including Lightning channel states. Fortunately I was still able to recover most of the funds.


Can nests be replayed? I alway miss live events.


Are they trustworthy re: no data collection?


Taxes


Well, people choose the relay they interact with, but if that relay advertised themselves and became trusted, they could abuse that trust.

Also people can and probably should choose to connect over tor or vpn.


Nah, what you did is 100% right.

We all have our own life experiences, and we can only learn from one another if we disagree.


Plot twist, this man died in 1970.


Gfy


nostr:npub1vp8fdcyejd4pqjyrjk9sgz68vuhq7pyvnzk8j0ehlljvwgp8n6eqsrnpsw in 2027, ₿ still yet to hit 100k https://image.nostr.build/b2643d711140a94436970c8e8178a85edc10544f8f651105aae92d79290b9d0b.jpg


Can't imagine getting into the "why" loop after that.


An honest answer, "this is money. It isn't the only money, there are different monies all over the world but here we mostly use this. When we want something, people want money in return and we get our money by going to work. It is how we could buy this house, this sofa etc."


Create a nym and post about all the things walking forward. Express yourself, be free.

You don't need an ID to do it, so you don't need to worry about getting identified and being sent to prison.


Gm. It has arrived. Can't wait to review it. 🔥

https://image.nostr.build/2f2b1200dfa4d39ebe20f6287c86871c8e17115515f43ab374054801652ede31.jpg


Just like #Bitcoin, #Nostr will just exist and it will take time, but people will be hearded in bit by bit until all of the "target audiences" are using it.

People don't need to get on #Nostr, products and applications do.


Oh no. I didn't know who this guy was, but I looked it up and found out he was.... Big Barry?!

https://nostrcheck.me/media/0d97beae567fcec9c6574f1c6ef6126ea969d4992c3198e51c0fac52c5274a14/44c3264af144d2af8a342f71499888ffd171ce60699acfc682fa74a3588602dd.webp


The people there get the USD, they don't have an appetite to stop using it, even with #Bitcoin as legal tender people don't have the apetite to migrate.

No one wants to get #Bitcoin nationalised by force.


Meow.


2025 because why the fuck not.


You connect the miner to a pool, but I think many people connect it to a software called solominer (I think).

Here you configure the template creation and everything. Maybe it can also be configured to notify you.

Sorry, not a very confident or fully informed answer. I haven't got one yet.


Wait 'till they're 5, there's a lot of content out there for 5 year olds.

"I'll tell you when you're older". - Dad.


This insistence of using the word "transactions" is raising flags for me. But even if not, the mention here of the secure element is also curious... on android certain things cannot be put in the secure element because it does not support secp256k1. Wonder if that will have issues too?


What do you know?

https://nostrcheck.me/media/0d97beae567fcec9c6574f1c6ef6126ea969d4992c3198e51c0fac52c5274a14/d38a5f466c50c9c1c72454c02cf5eb358e3773fee77a963e7fba804bb1c944e3.webp


Interesting... so what you're saying is that even if many of us self custody, if society as a whole choose to use custodial solutions where rehypothecation might really be happening, then it will naturally affect the value of Bitcoin.

The only way to fix it is to require payment in cold hard bitcoin.

And the only way to fix gold would be the same, except the markets for gold are in financial services... for using gold as a store of value.

So we gotta both encourage Bitcoin as a MoE over SoV, and eliminate the custodians. 🫡


Also, I hope it will be compatible with other apps for general use one day. 😇


Apart from all that, I think the device is beautiful, has a nice weight and I am already pondering over the pros and cons of such a device vs using seed words. 👍


In some cases, the app knows where it is at, in others, it forgets.

I had to verify my email, so you send me a code, but it was on my other profile, I switch quickly, get the code, switch back and the app loads back to the previous screen. So I type my email again, type the code I got before and it doesn't work.

I had to pull out my laptop to complete this step. 😥


Resetting the device is a little scary and not clear enough.

There is a bit that says "Resetting my device means that I will not be able to use it to set up my wallet on a new phone."

It had me wondering if this was really a brick- https://nostrcheck.me/media/0d97beae567fcec9c6574f1c6ef6126ea969d4992c3198e51c0fac52c5274a14/f3bb4b9edeb7ea6703f6d98a2091efa97d80ed57d8341ca6c8d4a8a309f5abc6.webp me operation.

Maybe this one is a subjective one, but I think I could see many people concerned about using this.

In my case:

- I was in the middle of setting up,
- but needed to use the app on a different profile to move on
- and had to reset the device to restart on the new profile

...because of the firebug issue.


It relies on Firebase notifications (Android) to set up a device. But it doesn't tell you, it just crashes. Fortunately Graphene lets me see the crash report and I figured it out... had to continue on my other profile that has google play services.


First, the opensource app is a recovery only app, it shouldn't have the same name and look and feel as the official app. My 2 sats.


Playing with the #Bitkey by Block. nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9uhxtnyd9nkwmm09e3k7mgprpmhxue69uhkvet9v3ehgu3wdehhxarjxyhxxmmdqywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytndd9jxgmrfdenjumtev3h8xtn2wqergaw8

I have notes ✍📜 👇


Impossible. You were already at max speed.


Watch it again.


Yes. Calling from heaven above.


Privacy is not achieved by deleting evidence. It is achieved by practicing self awareness and controlling what you do and where.

To say "someone might doxx themselves, therefore we must change the laws of science and create some provable way to delete content" is naive.

No one, and no protocol is going to actively protect your identity. Only you can do that. And if you find yourself in some trouble, you must address it head on.

You can always create a new nym at any time, but keep in mind that yes, you will need to build it from scratch, it will take time and effort, and this is the cost of staying private from your agressors.


Something something something #shitcoin


I know, right?


Just to be super pedantic, you can be your own King Elon, it is still a step in the right direction.

What I might be a bit unclear of is how people consume your content... they just subscribe to your mastadon server right? And then how do we cross communicate? Can other King Elons fuck with you and your followers if not all of your followers are using you as tbeir King Elon?

If not, then this isn't the argument I would make. It's more about self signed messages and how portable, robust and redundant your notes are because of it.


Sure. Dm me and let's coordinate.


Trust me... you don't.


Abomination. Kill it with fire.


And Queens.


Is there a compatible live stream live now? Can we see it embedded? 🤞


oPeN sOuRcE
https://image.nostr.build/1d02a9da642b866253469ea0c3c797ea1219f2f017d124ee10aea0a22002e7ca.jpg


Hmm, I use Amethtst and it renders embedded in my client. Sometimes its more about what your client of choice supports and not what the protocol as a whole can enable.

Here is how it looks in my client:
https://image.nostr.build/da286426632f6c9b33134e55c33335b57b953d265c4b6998a2f02e115c108f80.jpg

I am linking to a nostr note, not a website, it is nostr native, not like a link to youtube.


Here is a reply with an active live stream, using to capture a screen shot.

nostr:naddr1qqjryd3kxfskyv3h95ckydny956rsde394snzdf595crwce4xqmnve35x5urxq3qeaz6dwsnvwkha5sn5puwwyxjgy26uusundrm684lg3vw4ma5c2jsxpqqqpmxwzad2lh


Use your client to find the note id (usually in a menu somewhere) and paste it into the message you are writing.

Like this:
nostr:nevent1qqsqq0mr9gaw6cpn3qrk5fyfvkpczxr2qcz5aqkh8lrnkn47dg62vnqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgsy3dgwghq6qjdttwsw4dpcru9rk6ep6zd24gdw56c79khj067a02crqsqqqqqp4rjwnc

It usually looks like this when you are typing:

nostr : nevent1 ........ xyz

But without the spaces.


Like this?

nostr:naddr1qqjrwe3sxsmxzd3h956kvef5956rzwpc94skvvrz94snxwt9xu6xxc3j8y6njq3qeaz6dwsnvwkha5sn5puwwyxjgy26uusundrm684lg3vw4ma5c2jsxpqqqpmxwka67f4


Not sure I agree. He is implying that free markets is affecting politics, but it is politics that has captured the free market.


I agree that msats are not as clear to most people as it should be, but LN is not on any slippery slope afaik.

The reason is that every payment on LN is atomic, meaning it can't fail half way, while at the same time, all completed payments will result in "close transactions" that basically give either participant to unilaterally exit on chain without the need for any coordination with their peer and without permission.

The nature of LN using co-signed bitcoin transactions to back its state at all times means that LN is BTC.

With the caveat that msats are not.

Fungibility: satoshis are fungible. On the lightning network, if I send bob 1 sat to give alice to give you, then bob will get my sat, but you will technically get yours from alice. Sounds pretty fungible to me if Alice's sat is equivalent to mine.

Public ledger: the purpose of having a public ledger is for one reason alone: how do we know that there are no extra units of Bitcoin being produced in a block? Bitcoin data has a massive amount of integrity, transactions are signed, blocks provide order backed by energy.

A transaction on chain must always balance out, N BTC in, N BTC out (when including fees). Not only that, but we must ensure that signatures match utxos so that you can't spend my bitcoin ans vice versa.

But a utxo can belong to multiple people, and a transaction can simply represent a settlement of many economic transactions. LN allows us to perform many economic transactions over time and settle only when necessary due to its technical assurances that ensure you cannot get rugged even if you keep a channel open for a long time.

This is a performance optimisation that leads to cheaper more affordable use of bitcoin. In this model: while the base layer will enforce with 100% scrutiny that settlements are sound, a transaction backed state and a protocol that requires coordination to change the state with a 2-party system (not as easy for 3 or more), is how the intermediate transactions are kept sound.

In a 2 party system, I keep you accountable, you keep me accountable, and there is no majority voting system to game. And in the global scale, Bitcoin itself ensures that even if we work together, we cannot cheat the base layer.


No. A lightning channel is 1 UTXO, lets say it is 1BTC.

Then we have 2 computers (Lightning nodes) that have copies of pre-signed transactions that will divvy up the balance based on what we agree, so let's say:

Me: 0.49999999BTC
You: 0.49999999BTC
fees: 0.00000002BTC

(Obv 2sat fee is unrealistic but small numbers help me math)

We also have an unofficially agreed balance between us, so actually, the balance is:

Me: 0.49999999,400BTC
You: 0.49999999,600BTC

Note that millisats always get rounded down even when it is more than 500msats

So it becomes useful when I make a payment to someone for 1000 sats and the fee you charge is 600msats

New balance becomes:

Me: 0.49998998,800BTC
You: 0.50001000,200BTC

Without the fee, it would be:
0.49998999,400
0.50000999,600

Keeping in mind that we always drop the msats when we settle, you just got an extra sat from the transaction. If the balances were different, then I might have saved a sat.

My point is, that while the channel is open, the msats add up in either direction but until the msats you see in your balance add up to a sat, you really don't have any extra money other than a subunit that will help get you the next sat in the next transaction.

After the 1000sat with 600msat fee transaction, we both have a new set of pre-signed transactions:

Me: 0.49998998BTC
You: 0.50001000BTC
fees: 0.00000002BTC

After every transaction, we both have enough data to just exit if we ever disagree on something.

So the msats aren't technically cryptographically secure, but we can both do maths, and if we disagree about the result balance after a transaction, like I believe I should have 1 sat more and you disagree, then the payment just fails and whoever feels cheated can just exit using the last agreed balance.

Nothing lost except a relationship between you and I. You will most likely no longer trust my node and you'll open a channel with someone else and you can always make the payment again through another channel or wallet or whatever because the transaction never completes unless we both agree... we keep each other accountable.

We don't find many (if any) nodes trying to cheat this way in the wild because it hardly benefits anyone.


You know how the price of gas/petrol seems to include a fraction of a cent/penny?

There is no half pence anymore but your petrol bill can go: 1.5p, 3p, 4.5p... and then get rounded up or down at the end. If you didn't have the fractional penny, then you couldn't go from 1p to 3p, it would go 1p, 2p. So petrol stations benefit when batching fractional units of a good and consumers do too, because without fractional units, the price would just be 2p, 4p, 6p...

So bitcoin only has sats, but in lightning, you are going to make lots of incoming and outgoing payments and when you ever close the channel, you will settle to sats then.

Until then, we can be a little more expressive and allow for subunits of bitcoin which we find useful for keeping routing fees low and accurate.

1sat = 1000msats.


No, we are not all engineers and programmers, we are also not all physicists, but gravity still affects us and a non-physicist still cannot fly.

I wasn't trying to be snarky, I was prompting to pique your interest in the hopes you would search/ask a more interesting question like "why can't we simply turn off the internet".

If I ask: "if I found the gold at the end of the rainbow, how rich would I be?"

Do you follow the premise that there is gold at the end of the rainbow and make up an answer, or do you correct the premise in the hopes of addressing the misunderstanding that lead to the question that otherwise makes little sense other than as a fictional one.


Do you even know what the internet is? Because if you knew what the internet was, you wouldn't be asking this question.

One does not simply "turn off" the internet.


No. Because Bitcoin will reach its potential anyway. Why suffer for something that you don't need to?


I know, i know, not nostr, but I think talking to this guy is your best bet.

 https://twitter.com/GaryJordon7


I love it... as a white british man. 😎


Lol


Good mobility exercise.. not the best, but it's something. 😅


But hopefully you get the point that NOSTR is an incremental improvement in that:

- someone can copy your content and spread it, but they can't put words in your mouth.

- NOSTR helps you to get your content shared naturally... a word of mouth or peer to peer sharing network.


Always have been.


Its pointless. Politicians are shameless. They'll go to shows like "I'm a celebrity get me out of here" to eat kangaroo dick and win the favour of the sheep.

And I'm pretty sure it works.


As long as you use a reputable mint and not just your own fake one...


As many as the developer can afford. There's a difference. You could argue that you just move funds from one bot to another when it becomes widely known and blocked as a bot, but then we have time. The longer the funds have lived at the pk, the more you trust it is a real nym and not an attempt to game accounts.

It's similar to what joinmarket uses for Sybil resistance.

A JayZ with 1Btc for 1 year is more reliable than one with 1 BTC for 1 week.


It can also serve as proof of human. How many bots will back their accounts with bitcoin?


2 things:

1. You create the data in whole. It is signed, so your own computer could be the server if you want and it still shows up on your friend's client. Platforms like X take your content and present it on their apps and lock it down so that Mary can't show fake content as if Matt wrote it. With signatures, Mary still can't do it and we don't need to trust X to protect us.

2. Your data can be sent to many servers. We already know they can't create fake content or modify your content, so all they can do is delete it or withold it. Sending it to many computers is better than just one in this regard.

3. I'll say it again, nostr is different because you can trust your own computer. If you do that, then it is nothing like cloud. Yet because nostr is a protocol, not a closed platform, you can be part of nostr, you don't NEED to trust another computer and people can download your content on their computers and not trust your computer etc. (Although it does makes sense to trust the computer of the author of some content.)


Companies use a falling knife as a baseline of what is profitable or not. It is a falling knife because it is a constant underestimation of what inflation is, or worse still they may not consider inflation at all.

So a company makes $10,000 more profit last year, they seem to be doing well, stocks are up, but this year they find themselves working harder than ever to break even.

When you invest, do you see a 5% annual growth and think: nice 5% growth, or fuck 5% loss?

Inflation is not 2%, 3%, 5%, it really depends on what your lifestyle is like to know for sure, but to be safe, we can say it is really 10%.

Unless you are managing your own accounts and making mad gainz, you are probably doing on average as well as the indexes. They are constantly growing, not because companies are innovating so well, but because they are managing to beat inflation. And then you have some companies in the index in the name of diversification that are profitable but not past inflation that drag it all down.

Diversification made sense when industries could go bang. Tech is cool, but it could be a phase, so diversify to energy and newspapers. Oh newspapers are dead, thank god I diversified to tech.

The thing that is the next tech boom, the next industrial boom, the next automobile industry, is Bitcoin. The other benefit to diversifying was maybe Ford would be king, maybe Mercedes, well Bitcoin has no competition.

Nowadays, no one is making money, the money is a black hole reaching terminal velocity. Bitcoin is the only thing that outpaces consistently and when companies use Bitcoin as a baseline, and when they use it as their treasury to fund things, then they will start to outperform Bitcoin by being productive on a stable base money that isn't a falling knife.

Bitcoin may also be boring by then, perceived to be just stable because everything is relative. Standing on the dollar, Bitcoin is volatile to the up-right. Standing on Bitcoin, the dollar is volatile to the bottom-right. $1 profit is profit because $1 is percevied as $1 even if it dropped to only be able to buy $0.40 of things. 1BTC = 1BTC because it is 1/21M forever. Can't say that about the dollar.

With stocks, you'll see the number go up, you'll feel richer, but it won't last and you will either always be chasing higher highs, or you'll realise that you only got poorer slower than your friends.

With Bitcoin, you'll see your spending power go up.


In times of crisis, unless you were early, you may find that you cannot do anything with your stocks, they are frozen and then they go down with the ship.

If we're not thinking systemic crisis, then the stock can just become next to worthless before you can get it sold.

Here's a crazy story: Celcius was a crypto exchange that had in its terms that your crypto was your crypto. Then they started to go bankrupt and a lot of people withdrew (bank run) and then it froze. Many could not withdraw. The courts ruled that the crypto belonged to Celcius and that it should be used to pay investors before customers.

If it stopped there, that would be a complete story, but then they recently started suing anyone who withdrew a few months before they could freeze assets... people who took their funds into self custody are being sued so that the company can claw back more of their customer's money after the customers felt like they got out safe. These customers did nothing wrong. Banks and trading platforms can behave the same. They just have insurances and other systemic assurances that stop them from doing such drastic things... in many cases, that stop them from going bankrupt. Those assurances are not free, it steals from the poor (and maybe a bit from your left hand) because it fuels inflation.


Here’s more Portraits
Git ur own, for 30k Sats
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And mouth.


Bitcoin is cryptographic technology, but if bitcoin is cryptocurrency, then it is the only one in that category.

There is a distinct definition of a metal which Gold safisfies.

Bitcoin is not a subset of "crypto" as cryptography, it is a product of it.

"Crypto" as cryptocurrency is not well defined, so how can we know what else is or is not a cryptocurrency? Do you just need a blockchain? Or is an oracle database that uses cryptography for authentication does...


Saying "Crypto" instead of #Bitcoin is not like saying "Metals" instead of Gold, it is like saying "Golden painted shiny things" instead of Gold.


** takes deep breath **

Bitcoin mining is often simplified to the point where the definition is basically meaningless. I will try to explain it as simply as possible but first we need to unlearn some unhelpful things.
## The goal of Bitcoin mining is NOT to earn bitcoin
If we start with the premise that the goal of mining is to earn bitcoin, it makes everything 100x harder to explain. It's a nuanced point however, miners DO mine to earn bitcoin, but in the grand scheme of things, the main goal of mining is not to create or earn bitcoin.

I like to think of Bitcoin as a complex clock or watch, there are many small moving parts all coming together to keep the system working flawlessly. Take out one small part and the whole thing might fall apart. ***The goal of mining is to provide "immutability" and "finality" to all the events that occur on the Bitcoin network.***
## Understanding the anatomy of Bitcoin
Before we can understand the purpose of Bitcoin mining, we must first understand a little about the anatomy of Bitcoin and some of the properties it must uphold to be useful.

Consider your bank account; there is a balance associated with your name, but what gives that data integrity? Usually it is the fact that the data is coming from an authoritative source, a trusted third party. If I could get a copy of the bank's database, would you trust that the same data sourced from my machine was correct? Could I have modified the records before showing it to you?

Bitcoin does not rely on any authority. This is a very important part of its design and it is what allows Bitcoin to remain independent of any company or government. To achieve this, it relies on checks and balances to be embedded within the data that it contains. Bitcoin is fully transparent in order to ensure that anyone can audit its data. The most important thing to check, of course, is that the books are balanced, but beyond that, Bitcoin introduced personal digital signatures to ensure that records are authorised by individuals directly, and it introduced an ordering system.

Digital signatures not only prove that a record was created by the owner of the bitcoin being spent, but if the record is ever altered, the signature no longer matches; this means that we don't need to trust anyone to execute our requests faithfully.

Order is important to ensure that everybody can agree with which payments are valid and which are not. Imagine I write two identical cheques to give all of my bank balance to two different people. One will settle, the other will bounce. With a traditional bank, one banker will decide which came first and will decide which settles and which bounces. In a decentralised (not centralised) system like Bitcoin, we need to be able to introduce a robust and reliable ordering system that does not rely on a trusted authority. Beyond just ordering, there also needs to be some integrity to the data so that not only an order can be agreed upon, but also there can be no re-ordering. Determining an order without preventing re-ordering is basically useless.
## Ordering records
You may have heard of the "blockchain". This technology is just a data format, but Bitcoin uses this technology to help lock in an order into the record system. In a blockchain, records are grouped into blocks, and each block must have a link back to its previous block, creating a chain of blocks; pretty self explanatory in hindsight.

Imagine somebody deciding to become part of the Bitcoin network, they wish to get a copy of all the bitcoin records, but there is a problem:

1. One person shows a series of records that fully balances, has all the other checks and balances, and it shows a payment from me to you.
2. Another person provides a similar series of records that also fully balances but it does not show that payment from me to you, it shows a payment from me to me in its place.

Which one is correct? Both pass all checks, but if I choose the first set of records, then the payment from me to me becomes invalid because it attempts to spend money that has already been spent, while if I take the second set of records, the inverse becomes true.

The blockchain allows us to declare an order, but we still need a way to lock that order in, such that if someone provides an alternative set of records with a different order of events, we can all use some robust and reliable set of rules to choose the same record set without needing to coordinate with one another or rely on some trusted authoritative source.

This solution also needs to be resistant to being gamed; one elephant in the room is the idea of relying on dates and times, but computers are terrible at agreeing on time and although data can travel at the speed of electrons, there are still bottlenecks that can lead to data arriving in a different order between different computers.
## Using a game of chance to prevent changes
The most fair way to make an arbitrary decision such as this, where there is no real right or wrong answer (remember "date sent" can be gamed, so we can't base any decisions on that), but a decision still needs to be made is by introducing something that is *statistically* hard to undo.

![image](https://yakihonne.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com/0d97beae567fcec9c6574f1c6ef6126ea969d4992c3198e51c0fac52c5274a14/files/1723152243382-YAKIHONNES3.png)

You may know the game of Boggle. This is a game where you have a set of dice inside a tray with letters on the sides instead of numbers; you place a box cover over it, shake it, and then allow the dice to fall into a mould at the bottom so that they are all sitting alongside each other in a square formation (usually 4x4) with one letter facing up per die. Let's re-imagine that the goal of the game was simply to shake the box, align the dice and remove the cover and if there was a 4 letter word on each row, you win, and if not you must shake again.

This is analogous to Bitcoin mining. It is a pure game of chance, and if we had a bunch of them, we could turn the game into a race: *who can create the longest chain of winning boggle shakes in a row!*

To illustrate how the blockchain creates links between blocks, we can add an additional rule that the first die in a Boggle tray (we will call them blocks going forward) must match the last die in the previous block. This way, we know that the order of blocks cannot change as the link is being built up.

Here is an illustration of a chain from this game:
![image](https://yakihonne.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com/0d97beae567fcec9c6574f1c6ef6126ea969d4992c3198e51c0fac52c5274a14/files/1723152255123-YAKIHONNES3.png)

Finally, let's make it more interesting: *the goal is to have as many blocks as you can on the longest chain.* If you notice that someone else has a pretty long chain, you can abandon your own and start to build blocks for their chain instead. If you create a block that satisfies the rules and your first letter matches the last letter of their last block, your block can go on top.

We will start to notice the following things:

1. People will quite quickly start to abandon their own chains and work on top of one faster growing chain.
2. The chain with the most people working on it will naturally grow at a faster pace.
3. Those competing too hard to maximise the number of blocks they have in a chain will see their chain fall behind the fastest growing chain.
4. It takes a non-negligable time between rounds and usually one person wins at a time, there are rarely any moments where two people create a valid block for the same chain within moments of one another.
### Using forks to change history
![image](https://yakihonne.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com/0d97beae567fcec9c6574f1c6ef6126ea969d4992c3198e51c0fac52c5274a14/files/1723152273296-YAKIHONNES3.png)

It gets interesting when someone notices something like an offensive word in the chain, let's call it "DUCK". A lot of people don't care, but a large group of individuals do, so they choose to "fix" the rules, making that block and all the blocks after it invalid too (because they all eventually link back to the invalid block).

They create a new block that continues off from the block before the offensive one, creating what we call a "fork". This new chain will inherit the same past as the original chain, but it will still be shorter than the original chain because during the time it took to create this alternative block to replace the offensive one, the rest of the players continued to build blocks on the original chain as normal.

Since this game is mostly based on chance, the chain that grows the fastest will be the one that has the most players contributing to it. Even if the smaller group appears faster for some time, over a long enough time, statistics will prevail; it is the same as how over enough coin flips, we will observe that there really is a 50/50 chance of heads over tails, even if the first few flips were mostly all heads.

If enough players are motivated to contribute to the shorter, profanity-free chain, then that chain will grow faster and eventually become, and remain, the longest chain. The other indifferent players will then jump ship and join the new longest chain in order to maximise the number of *their* blocks in the new longest and faster growing chain.

Fortunately, the more likely scenario is that the offended group is a *minority* and the original chain remains the longest and fastest growing chain. This natural phenomenon ensures that the history of events cannot easily be changed for simply arbitrary reasons. On a global scale, this phenomenon is ever more present, because not even laws, politics, nor what is considered moral can be agreed across the world.
### Cheating
In a game like the one above, there are opportunities to cheat. Maybe you could choose not to shake your box, but place the dice by hand. Unless someone is constantly watching you, no one would ever know.

With Bitcoin mining, there are simply no such shortcuts. The fastest and cheapest way to produce a block is to play fairly. Let's dive into what Bitcoin mining really is.
## What exactly is Bitcoin mining?
People often use analogies to describe mining; "it's like a lottery", "miners solve complex mathematical problems", "miners guess random numbers". The problem with analogies are that they tend to omit key details that ultimately mislead the reader.

Miners perform a series of tasks repetitively, simplified:

1. Collect the records that users create and compose them into a file.
2. Add a reference to the previous block.
3. Add a random number to the end.
4. Check if the file satisfies a certain special criteria.
5. If not, replace the random number with a new random number and repeat from step 3.

To check if a file satisfies our special criteria, we pass the file through a special program called "SHA256" and the program reveals a large unpredictable unique number. We check to see if that number is below a pre-determined target and if so, it has satisfied the criteria (i.e. given SHA256(FILE1) = 123 and TARGET = 20, is 123 < 20?).

SHA256 is a known as a mathematical "hash function". Although its output is unpredictable, it is also "deterministic", which means that given the same input file, it will always produce the same number. It is unpredictable because given the same file with even a small change will produce a completely different number altogether. We use these type of algorithms to give our files identifiers that make them resistant to tampering; it is very useful when downloading from torrents, where files can be downloaded in parallel, from multiple places, be reconstructed, and the file is only accepted if it resolves to the same identifier, ensuring that you get exactly what you asked for.

These files containing records are traditionally called "blocks", and once an acceptable block has been produced (aka mined), it is shared with all the online Bitcoin nodes and we all move on to mining the next block. As we observed before, attempting to ignore the latest mined block is counterproductive and would result in a fork and put you on a path of creating blocks for a new chain that no one would care about and that everyone would simply discard as invalid data.

As you can imagine, this process is very repetitive. One round is hardly power intensive, but the chances of success are so low, that it takes many cycles to find a successful block. The process of mining is very power intensive due to the nature of the process being a repetitive process with a low chance of success.
## The incentives
Many people who focus on the "number guessing" and "repetitive nature" side of things tend to consider this process to be pretty arbitrary, however this repetitive chance-based system is key to ensure that it cannot be cheated. As we have discussed, it introduces order, and solidifies it to bring robustness and reliability to Bitcoin.

This process also incurs a cost. Computers draw electrical power to perform their operations, and when people are competing with one another, this power draw becomes non-negligible very quickly.

Miners do earn bitcoin when they mine. As they create blocks, they include an entry allocating bitcoin to themselves. This is their incentive to add the most number of blocks to the chain, as the more blocks they add, the more bitcoin they can earn.

The amount that a miner can allocate to themselves is based on two things:

1. Transaction fees (aka fee market): users can see what transactions are waiting to be mined, what fees they are offering, and can offer a competitive fee to get their transactions prioritised. Miners will often pick the transactions that offer the highest fees to include into their blocks; this ensures that they are earning the most amount of Bitcoin that they have available to them at all times.
2. Block reward: Every block can issue a fixed amount of new bitcoin which the miner can allocate to themselves. Around every four years, the amount of new bitcoin that can be issued is reduced in a controlled manner, and in the year 2140, there will be no more bitcoin left to issue, meaning that miners will need to remain profitable using transaction fees alone.

The block reward satisfies two purposes:

1. Bitcoin must be distributed fairly; there are no licenses or authority based limitations that restrict who can mine bitcoin. Anyone with access to energy, a computer and internet can participate, and therefore new bitcoin can land in the hands of almost absolutely anyone around the world, based purely on fair chance.
2. People must be incentivised to participate in the running of the Bitcoin network, Bitcoin is nothing without a diverse and distributed mass of people running it. Early adopters earn more, while as we get closer to the year 2140, we expect that a critical mass of people will rely on Bitcoin and a plethora of tools, technologies and infrastructure have been built to support it.

These incentives are why people think the goal of mining is to produce more Bitcoin. While for a miner, the main goal is to earn bitcoin, for the system as a whole, mining serves a very different, important and distinct role and the rewards are there merely to ensure people are motivated to do it.
## The difficulty adjustment
To get a complete view of Bitcoin mining, the "difficulty adjustment" feature of Bitcoin addresses the elephant in the room: as more people compete to mine bitcoin, wouldn't blocks get produced more quickly?

Bitcoin blocks are produced every 10 minutes on average. Every 2 weeks, or more precisely, every 2016 blocks, a "difficulty target" is redetermined based on the historical production rate of the previous 2016 blocks. All the participants who help to run the Bitcoin network are able to follow this well defined rule automatically on their own computers and will come to the exact same result.

The difficulty target is a way to change the odds of the chance based game, such that we can maintain the average of 10 minutes per solve. Doing this on a regular basis, ensures that even if more miners enter, or if the hardware becomes more efficient, or if they get access to even more energy and computing power, or even if many miners exit, the network can adjust itself and ensure that the network runs smoothly and at a constant pace.

There are also many extra rules that ensure that even this part of the system cannot be gamed. Many developers, mathematicians and philosophers have evaluated Bitcoin deeply and have not found ways to easily game the system.

The 10 minute pace of the system is important for a number of reasons:

1. The issuance of new bitcoin as a reward should not happen too quickly; people need time to discover and adopt bitcoin in order to ensure that bitcoin can be distributed as fairly as possible.
2. Chance is unpredictable and there are cases where multiple miners do find blocks within moments of one another, and this creates forks in the system. The chances of this happening consecutively is rare, and this allows the network to very quickly settle on a single chain and continue operating without issue. Reducing the 10 minute average interval would amplify this situation, causing problems with the smooth running of the network.
3. Considering that blocks can be up to 4mb in size, 10 minutes is ample time for it to be distributed to all bitcoin computers across the world wide web, even over slow network infrastructure and old hardware. 10 minute block times ensure that all computers can remain up to date and not be left eternally catching up as more blocks are being produced faster than their computers can download and validate.

With the difficulty property, the Bitcoin network can grow at a constant pace, and yet everyone can still tell which chain has had the most effort contributed towards it. When a computer comes across two chains, two versions of history, it does not look to find the "longest" chain, but it looks for the one that has the solved for the most amount of difficulty. The result is the same, the chain of data that is considered official is the one that has the most amount of man and electrical power behind it.

How does Bitcoin mining work? I don't get it.

This is a long form article, you can read it in https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqrvhh6h9vl7we8r9wncudmmpym4fd82fjtp3nrj3crav2tzjwjs5qqxnzdejxvcn2vfcxq6njdeeulss2h


Catching up on some Bitcoin conference presentations, and as I am listening to @alexgladstein, say "bitcoin users cannot be structurally adjusted", it occurs to me that we just saw bitcoin dip based on some concerns about Japan's actions.

Bitcoin is international, but also it is not. In countries where trading bitcoin happens using local exchanges over international ones like Coinbase, if a massive debasement encourages people to behave infavourably to bitcoin and sell, then the value of bitcoin CAN be affected negatively by events like structural adjustments.

Sure it won't be long term like fiat, but we shouldn't forget that not everyone can afford long time horizons and Bitcoin is not a panacea. It's the best we got, but not good enough to say blanket statements like "bitcoin users are safe from structural adjustment"


A draft to delete


Zaps in all the apps. This shit is amazing! Right now, it feels like this is the killer app for bitcoin. Tip your app waiter, but you'll need some sats to do it. 🤷♂⚡


There is a great episode on nostr:nprofile1qqsw3znfr6vdnxrujezjrhlkqqjlvpcqx79ys7gcph9mkjjsy7zsgygpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz8thwden5te0dehhxarj9ekh2arfdeuhwctvd3jhgtnrdakj7qgkwaehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvshspg7dju's podcast about this topic. Well worth the listen.

https://fountain.fm/episode/yqj4ouCyEv6n24nIO7ej


NORWAY IS GOING TO BAN BITCOIN MINING WITHOUT PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS -
WE NEED TO ACT NOW

Norway's Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Administration responded to @ODFoundation that it "has no plans to conduct a public consultation" on a ban on cryptocurrency mining.

There is no doubt that the ban designed to target #Bitcoin mining. Unfortunately, that's a stance of the @Stortinget and the Norwegian government.
https://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Publikasjoner/Innstillinger/Stortinget/2023-2024/inns-202324-383s?all=true#m2

🔴 Why we should protect our #freedomtech Bitcoin in #Norway NOW:

(1) Norway is fully integrated in the European Single Market throught the European Economic Area (EEA) and Schengen Agreement. It means Norway can provide its legilsative approach as an input for new legislation for the EU/EEA both:
- during the preparatory phase, when the @EU_Commission is developing proposals;
- during work of expert groups and committees of the European Commission;
- submitting proposals and comments to European Free Trade Association on upcoming legislation.

(2) As a co-founder of the @OECD , Norway sets an example of regulation worldwide and provides its legislative recommedations for global standards.

(3) Norway has historically been a place to meet, share experiences and educate human rights defenders and bitcoiners from around the world.

Norwegian goverment will present its investigation a ban on cryptocurrency mining by the end of 2024.

🔴 What we should do together to prevent Bitcoin mining ban:

(1) Repost this post and join our #BTC Coalition to educate local communities and media about social benefits of Bitcoin mining in Norway and worldwide;

(2) Help us pool resources and best practices to convince Norwegian politicians and media to explore the social benefits of Bitcoin to prevent this repressive regulation;

(3) If you are a Norwegian citizen: write a letter to your legislator and government asking for public consultation and providing arguments about the social benefits of Bitcoin mining for Norway.

🧡 https://video.nostr.build/8c4d22ba81461b980e8de30b0b4d90831eba257efd45e501408fdd26836ee9f0.mp4


> For one, I've fallen out of love for Bitcoin and the industry.

What exactly are they thinking to pivot too?


#Nostr, #Nostr everywhere!

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We all work for sats. If you buy sats, you do it with something you worked for.


Don't miss Antoine Riard in our next monthly meetup!

The evolution of MultiSig since BIP-341 @ Tuesday 6th August 2024 in Holborn, London.

https://www.meetup.com/bitcoinology/events/302613851


Don't miss Antoine Riard in our next monthly meetup!

The evolution of MultiSig since BIP-341
@ 7th August 2024 in Holborn, London.

https://www.meetup.com/bitcoinology/events/302613851


Is good.


Erm... merged-in-name-only?


Barely. It's so bad 💀.


Hopefully the associated mind reset that accompanies bitcoin.

Anyone who really dives into and gets Bitcoin begins to understand what being sovereign means, what not being sovereign has created, and this mind reset has the potential to create a culture of people pushing back more than when we got off the gold standard.

🤞


A link to a pic is a pic.

Nostr notes can only handle text so images are links but most clients for users scrolling will display the image instead of the link.


#Amethyst has 'em. Both public and private.


He can. 🤷♂


Getting creative is what they do best. Eg. they don't outright ban cigarettes and foods they want us to avoid, they tax them. They initiated the war on drugs, they are well experienced.


Sent 🛫 Muchas Gracias amigo.

https://files.sovbit.host/media/0d97beae567fcec9c6574f1c6ef6126ea969d4992c3198e51c0fac52c5274a14/c7fcf28fb38637c86098b7ca7d7142b3a35d9cce57f0344fc327e5284b202d1e.webp


Lol. Wanna pass with a message?


One mistake is that I won't really know when he is receiving money, I would love to know if anyone does it.

Also would be cool to see how well bolt12 works and what wallets are being used... assuming right now only #phoenixwallet and nostr:nprofile1qqsrf5h4ya83jk8u6t9jgc76h6kalz3plp9vusjpm2ygqgalqhxgp9gpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt4w35ku7thv9kxcet59e3k7mgpzemhxue69uhkkmr0vd4k2mn8vyh8xmmrd9skcqguwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxy6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctylktc with LND will work?

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Just onboarded Kurt, my AirBnB host in Cancun, onto Phoenix Wallet. Sharing his bolt 12 address. Let's give him a big welcome.

tintedwhip47@phoenixwallet.me

#Bitcoin #welcome

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Don't give the market so much credit. The market is dumb and unpredictable and irrational.


Contratian thought: yes Bitcoin is decentralised, but that might not be enough to survive "getting off a ___ standard for war".

During times of war, the government is a propaganda machine for sure. They will sweet talk you. You may not trust the government, but many do.

So we all have our Bitcoin and we all custody it, but how many of us truly understand why we custody it?

The government sweet talks us, says, yes, the bitcoin was good, but we need to use govcoin because reasons and everyone should go trade it in now.

Also businesses must start accepting govcoin by mandate and there will be taxes for using the bitcoin for altruistic reasons of course.

It for sure can't destroy Bitcoin, but I don't see why bitcoin cannot go through a similar journey to Gold.


I don't believe Satoshi really cared all that much about NgU. It is just a side effect of good money being compared against bad money.


They try to explain that Bitcoin is for saving and monero is for spending but it still has its own token. I don't think monero is a free lunch like they do. I vote shitcoin but open to be shown otherwise.


Donald is not a pleb. You don't get Bitcoin? Cool. You're open to learn about it? Amazing. You're here to fix it? Step away.

We don't treat Donald much differently but he is a person with great influence. We apply more scrutiny.


> And yes they taste just as good as they look.

Looking, looking... cannot see any cookies 🤔.........

🫨 YOU DID NOT???!


Condoms?


There is a big difference between a pubkey and a username, and a privkey and password.

For example, you can't pick your own username, you won't be able to recite it to others, users will immediately know it is not a username.


Nah you can fuck right off!

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It isn't a checklist of items per sey, it is more like taking the time to think deeply and challenge your own misbeliefs.

This can happen while reading book, listening to podcasts, and even while simply meditating to digest new information.

You have to search, discover untruths or opposite truths, consider, re evaluate, and come to your own conclusions. It may not be the exact same and yours or mine, but the hope is that it will be logically derived and always open for re-interpretation later on too.

Last night, reading Lyn Alden's book: Broken Money, she breaks down why banks aren't "printing money" when they create loans. She added a bunch more detail to my understanding of the banking system and I will need to think on it for a while to fully grasp it. Until then, I would have said with absolution tbat loans are new money printing.


Hi, just tried to fund it through WoS.

Shows as pending but payment was done a minute ago.

Used default mint.

https://image.nostr.build/379267e7e3860ea08d14508263d490efd900c24c3335e031507a21d6c44fb3c1.jpg


That was a while ago... where were you all this time?


Well that, and probably because it requires knowing an official government name too?

Plus it is really a political tool. No one in economics ever did anything noble, peace worthy or useful. Usually they just found a way to extract more money from us secretly.


These tools/procedures are widely used for other reasons including at border crossings. They get training to use it. Law enforcement also often uses them illegally for unjustified search and seizure targeting those who have done nothing beyond crossing a border or journalism. The groups of people using tools from Cellebrite or competitors are often the ones breaking the law or using them for criminal reasons. Many of the people using these tools are criminals breaking the laws of the land.

Even if they say it's only for certain governments and law enforcement clients, it doesn't and won't stop them getting out. There are likely militias, juntas, or criminals in the world with access to these tools as long as they are powerful enough. If Cellebrite isn't available somewhere, something else will take it's place. If we can get documentation, someone far more powerful could get far more.

Defending against tools like these being only valuable to the criminals is a narrative for authoritarianism. Don't let them attack you this way.

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Okay, at this point, we need one of those websites where it says:

"THE KILLER APP ON NOSTR IS..." and then the follow up text rotates between "you can't get banned", "you choose the algorithm" and all the other reasons people have put forward.


Hey guys, WEN BOLT12 BOLT CARDS??

Bolt12 can do withdraws too right?


I need context, lookup charts, everything seems to be named to be confusing, but how do they each compare to popular closed source models and what are they each better at?


Tne note is the app?


Whap!


So... it's always scary to jump for you?


Be safe, I know #Amethyst will accept posts offline and send them when internet becomes available.


I recently had a medical issue and I need to bring pain killers in case it comes up again while I am in Mexico.

It is codine. I have a letter that lists the drugs I should have but it isn't in spanish (as some website say it should be).

What's my best course of action? Bring it in checked luggage? In hand luggage? Buy condine in Mexico (can it be done over the counter?)

#ASKNOSTR


Nostr as a privacy layer is new and untested. This should not happen.


Zap and replenish with double.


Currently 5/6, but more importantly, 125 blocks in the backlog (exc. The 7 on display).

Lowest I've seen since I have been looking. https://image.nostr.build/9315f4475864dd16886c76d44777275d909214a00f6052a0199a59a7be3c7573.jpg


And so too will the tech 🔥


Yes, happens with my FUTO Keyboard. It may also happen with older GBoard keyboards.


Politicians were always supposed to be lived people first and politicians after... career politicians are the problem. Well... one of the problems.


You can choose freely.

If you're not doing it then you didn't want to put in the effort to obtain your dream career. That's a different problem.


I saw about the trump shooting on Nostr. Nostr also beat twitter in discovering $25 Bitkeys by Block.

Still hoping that they honor my order, we're not sure if it was a deal or a bug in the system. 🤞


Okay, but I have a holiday coming up, maybe just a couple more.


Everything was perfect until I saw the WoS instead of nostr:nprofile1qqsrf5h4ya83jk8u6t9jgc76h6kalz3plp9vusjpm2ygqgalqhxgp9gpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt4w35ku7thv9kxcet59e3k7mgpzemhxue69uhkkmr0vd4k2mn8vyh8xmmrd9skcqguwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxy6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctylktc  😭

✊💪🔥🔥⚡


Violence is also a word. Which means... urm... yes.

https://image.nostr.build/df3a3c41a34f9034a28e6237b05f98ce6c829e35973b3d8b84967f7eb6d56da6.gif


Not sure how well it works but... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=icloud+notes+linux+youtube&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DWBa-DuiaLOI


Had to go incognito since as probably most of us here, he blocked me... but ya can't block public access.. and Twitter needs to entice people to sign up by letting them see things. 😅
https://image.nostr.build/0a4bf54a220e8ca94807e08b4d91ed2717f6eda8854b3345763a6173da3eed01.jpg


I chuckled when I saw it. Saw the same "oh I missed it" posts (maybe they really did miss it) then left. I was only there to see if Craig had tweeted that he was a fraud and AFAIK he didn't.


This is how the rich keep us poor poor.


I still don't think I understand what MEV is and what it isn't. 🥲


No, but it feels intuitive that something that serves one purpose (AFAIK) would have less attack vectors than one that has many endpoints.


I saw twitter discovered it today.


Oh has it? 😅


1. US only
2. Seems to work on Safari best 🤷♂
3. If on a Mac and it's not working, try go to developer mode and simulate iPhone 😆

Find a postal service that can receive parcels and forward it on for you


So you're saying I can pay to crash your node?

Crash-as-a-service? CaaS?


Surprising to hear that considering all the different components that can be attacked and abused...

- Peer discovery
- mempool
- utxo set db
- bitcoin script
- pinning attacks

Etc.


It probably has a lot to do with the AlGoRyThM too.


Bitcoin must be much worse still.


I think he meant view count.


Maybe Brink? Wasn't there a Pineapple fund years ago, basically someone so early that they had way more money than they could figure out what to do with and they started donating to loads of stuff... haven't heard about them for ever.


FUCK! URGH! PUT IT AWAY! PUT THE MASK BACK ON! COVID IS BACK GUYS, MANDATORY MASK MANDATE NOW!


Last I checked (yesterday) blocks in the backlog was 128. Now 133. Looks like it ain't moving too quickly towards empty yet.


Few!

I thought you missed 2 weeks of pods nostr:nprofile1qqsxaux68qxcjtw86gxqarqt2yzz8vm2uyy8hgkmdg4uw83aerf7eecpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcj4q49k (or nostr:nprofile1qqsvf646uxlreajhhsv9tms9u6w7nuzeedaqty38z69cpwyhv89ufcqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcvd6gmf)?

Glad to see a new one this morning.


Oh, and I'm not even talking about guzzlers, just a normal petrol car that is a few years old and is considered a pollutant.


They are well known to be simply money making machines. At least in the UK, they and with 20mph speed limits ~32kph all over the place, they're taking the piss.

Also another would be the emissions zones stuff, again supported by cameras. The people in the areas that it was done in were basically all against it. People were vandalising it, I think by now the power of "the next thing" has distracted the masses, but no one wanted it.

Basically, if you have an old car and you live around the skirts of london, you have to pay every day you take the car to work.


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Speed cameras.


Will read... thank you.


What is the outbox model? 🙏


It seems to work on safari on iphone. If it doesn't work, go incognito and try again, if not close all incognito windows, close the safari app, open again, incognito again and refresh the page etc.

It also only works when you choose the US as your country.

Maybe it doesn't work anymore... a lot of us think it was a bug and the order may not be honoured.


Thinking out loud again. Afaik (from #Amethyst anyway) it seems like it is good practice to connect to just a few good relays, like maybe 3 or 4.

But I have been thinking about this "censorship resistance" property, and that would suggest that you either run a relay, or you post to as many relays as you can. Also that relays should be freely sharing all the signed data with one another.

This isn't really how nostr works today. I am connected to so many relays and recently connected to another because there were notes quoted that I couldn't see. I have no idea which relays are the best, but I know of 2 that I have paid for.

Let's say a good, reliable relay has been captured and is taken down for no good reason. There can be many relays, but only a few will be quality. How do I find its replacement?!

What if relays kept a list of recommended alternative relays? Not alternative such that all data on one must be on tbe other, but such that this/these other relays are well known and considered reliable to that relay.

If a relay goes down, its data still remains, so before you go from 3 relays to 2 to 1 to dead, you can heal your relay list.

Maybe clients can use these lists if it is standard to auto heal or at least warn the user if a relay seems to be down or unreliable so tbey can patch the issue and improve their experience.

I guess an alternative is to get relay lists from your follows/followers instead of your relays.

What is the current state of relays? Is it solved already and I am being slow? How well do you trust the redundancy of your data? Is your data safe? Is it accessible to everyone you want to be able to see it?


Pretty interesting. My first thought is that we would need to figure out how to avoid trolls that want to take payment and still block. But also less malicious, if a tor node goes offline or decides you are abusing their bandwidth, how quickly can you recover by recalculating a path?

Hmm, and then with automated payments, I imagine this will go through a few iterations to mature and become robust.

Really cool idea though!


One day? Is there something you know? Or are you dreaming? I like your dream.

Right now I want 2 always on vpns on my phone... Looking at an idea to use holepunch as a workaround.


I'm kinda glad, I was thinking of buying more than I need. 😓


https://www.stackry.com/

I read that they are expensive, but at this price how expensive can they be?

I just hope it goes through customs and lands with me with no problems and no damage (unlike a shipment I once got from Canada 🫠)


HOW???!

What browser? Incognito? Did you have to refresh a lot?

I can't see it no matter what but I want to gift it to some people 😭


Yup it depends. This is a problem space that we are starting to think deeply about, but it is still a new problem.

We may learn a sweet range, like 10,000 sats - 200,000,000 sats where its always going to be not too big and not too small. Then wallets will just manage this for us.

Until then, we are guinea pigs. 😆


I'd prefer it today. I want to open a new chapter in my life but I also need to be able to spend my Bitcoin slowly so I can use it to buy me the time to open that chapter and start a new career and continue my saving journey.

$1m bitcoin will afford me that time without me starting from zero by the time I get there.


Privacy.

Utxos are like individual coins... gold dust is not very convenient to use for sales while a gold bar that can have nuggets cut from it is more convenient and therefore cheaper to use as money.

If you have a (bitcoin) bar too big, and remember that the blockchain is public, then it makes you a target. Whatever someone can do to demystify who owns that bar, they will do and then they will try to use that information to target you. Also having lots of smaller bars in the same address is proof that 1 person owns all that bitcoin.

Addresses are like pockets, and you have infinite pockets in the blockchain. If you are being robbed physically, you might have cash in 2 pockets, but you pull out the cash in 1 pocket and the robber leaves. But if you put all of your cash in that pocket, they will see it when you try to short change them and demand all of it.

Separating nuggets of bitcoin (utxo) into separate pockets (addresses) is good for overall privacy and security.


I discovered something weird... I am using Graphene OS and their default browser.

VPN set to USA.

When I visit the webpage I see $ prices and "shipping to united states"

When I use incognito mode........ it shows £ and "shipping to united kingdom".

HOW IS INCOGNITO MORE REVEALLING THAN NORMAL?!?!


And of course, you don't need to do that shit here. Welcome to #Nostr, welcome to freedom.


It is probably pointless today, algorithms are much smarter than people think but historically these algorithms would look for key words and flag them to someone to review and maybe ban you.

Now it is all automated. The bots needed to be smarter to get there... not only did they have to find f*ck and sh*t, but they also had to be more nuanced and tell the difference between "that was rad as f*ck!" and "I will f*ck your wife!".

But yeah, all in all, it is to reduce the chance that you get demonitised or shadow banned or banned by the platform.


Everything is silos and group think, but there are always overlaps. Someone will be here for Bitcoin, someone else will talk about flowers and now people are talking about more than one thing.

If we go from Bitcoin to Bitcoin and Monero I guess its an improvement, but I'm more bullish on monero freaks discovering the other content.


This post is marked as sensitive. If it doesn't show as such, then your client doesn't support it. Sent from #Amethyst.


Yes.


We're fucking back baby! I can feel it.


Well, with Lightning you can split a single sat into msats. Not sure you can do that with any of the existing ecash mints.


There were deaths involved. This is definitely not coming out as a staged event or even a setup.


Hedgehog is the other alternative but I don't know enough and it is theoretical/experimental tech for now.


I believe so. But at least the difference is that the payment can be pending and be collected asynchronously.


You can redeem it straight to lightning.

What is in Nostr is an ecash locked to your pubkey. Usually you redeem it for a new and unique unlocked token and store it locally (hopefully encrypted) so that you can hand it to someone else in the future.

But you don't need to trade ecash for ecash, you can just submit a lightning invoice paired with your ecash and the mint will pay the invoice.

You can think of ecash as a partial request packet that needs to eventually make its way to a mint if you like, only when you redeem it for something, be it a new never before seen ecash or a lightning payment, you can assume you haven't been paid yet.


It depends what you are willing to accept as money.

If you want private money, ecash is it and it has some great properties for payment.

If you want sound money, ecash ain't it, but it is redeemable for sound money so you can always have both and interchange and without worrying about conversion rates or anything like that.


SOUNDS LIKE PREMEDITATED MURDER


I think it was the drinking alone in a bar that has just opened and nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgprdmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucnfw33k76twwpshy6ewvdhk6qg5waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t0qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aq93vhd7 was the first customer. 🤔


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I have two things I want to give feedback for on #Amethyst:

1. I often have to exit a note I am writing because someone I want to tag is not showing up. Then I try to search for them, or go to my followers list, scroll a bunch, whatever until rhe client can find the user. Then I can come back to the note and finish my post. Is there a better way? Will the app find the user if I just wait?

2. The relays stuff used to just be a list of relays, now it's many sections, most telling me to pick 3 relays, but I have a gazillion collected over time in 2 sections and the rest of them are blank, like the DM relay list is blank. I don't like to make changes until I understand what exactly I am doing, so although the instructions are there, I still don't feel like I can make informed decisions about what relays I want where. Is there a blog, post, out there to demystify this?


But we want redundancy right?


What encourages relays to share data with One-Another?

What encourages people to push data to multiple relays?


This is the most cringe beer video I have seen yet.

AND I LOVE IT!!!

🥳🥳🥳🤪🥳😂

nostr:nevent1qqsge2pta4k886t79sxt6qlhanvyrpcpra0rpe569x0kj25ef72zxygpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchsygqyey2a4mlw8qchlfe5g39vacus4qnflevppv3yre0xm56rm7lveypsgqqqqqqs6cvsvy


nostr:nprofile1qqsdxm5qs0a8kdk6aejxew9nlx074g7cnedrjeggws0sq03p4s9khmqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujum3sx5mhytnrd36kyqg4waehxw309a5xjum59ehx7um5wghxcctwvsq32amnwvaz7tm9v3jkutnwdaehgu3wd3skueq7kaaxd just added shipping and contact forms for purchases!

When purchasing an item, you can now enter your shipping information or a way to contact you to finalize the sale, and you no longer have to be signed in to pay with Lightning.

Message querying and Cashu token rendering within payment messages have also been updated.

https://shopstr.store


Dick picks incoming.


I watched this movie after seeing all the memes... It was BORING as FUCK!


https://cdn.satellite.earth/e70446cf153da148af0d2a4664622a5cfa91707855e23030941fab0bd73b6a4b.jpg
#meme #memes


Well shiii' 2 🩷's (and 1 ❤ 🤫)

https://image.nostr.build/a1cdbdae61f950f9433174bd725c92e9d10d28d7739c4e6456c6574e13775ed7.jpg


I was imagining a wallet with a self custodial balance and an e-cash balance (yeah, I know nostr:nprofile1qqsd79ejwuvz7v246danxqs3hgw7f2q4qrqz6x27je8er0nhfmykwzqpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0p9paq9 😁)

The idea being that you can use your e-cash in bad internet areas, and use either balance when you have good connectivity. The wallet would manage the split for you.

Then it occurred to me how ironic it would be that offline p2p payments require a custodian, while online payments are the real peer to peer transactions 💩

I broke my brain.


I just saw a video by nostr:nprofile1qqs034ppyjnjakycjcj84kgj737aw6kxkmxazrlp0r67qjk0atgdfgspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtccc0her where he could have done with such a feature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KFFc6CythU

nostr:nevent1qqswnpcspkc969vnmpzz0xv7nctam8euej4qn49m0fdwgp7ggvsluqcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgspnzhy9x60m7m66rg9c6rhcwev0k66ahllj72xst799l2sar8wy7srqsqqqqqp6762cx


After clarifying my understanding of it with nostr:nprofile1qqsgdp0taan9xwxadyc79nxl8svanu895yr8eyv0ytnss8p9tru047qpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgqg0waehxw309ahx7um5wghx6mmdqyv8wumn8ghj7ur4vfkxjcewwfjkccted9hxwtnfdu4kpvp3, I agree.

If it isn't used when copying from client to client (it shouldn't be according to the spec, instead you should get a bitcoin:uri to share), then I don't see what purpose it has.

You won't say it over the phone, you won't type it on your limited keyboard, so it might as well not be there other than to signal that it is a BIP-353 address, and I'm sure designers will have their own ideas on how to express that more cleanly.


I don't get it..

> Snowflake blamed the data thefts on its customers for not using multi-factor authentication to secure their Snowflake accounts, a security feature that the cloud data giant did not enforce or require its customers to use.

Does every AT&T user have a Snowflake account or did AT&T not use 2FA?


Nevermind, I have read BIP21 💩


Okay, so with BIP353 implicitly comes support for BIP21 which I have not read through yet 🙈.

This would make sending bitcoin://sjors._bitcoin-payment.provoost.nl sensible then. Since the OS will find the appropriate wallet for the protocol. 👍

Also the protocol is bitcoin:// (obviously) 👍

Now I follow completely.

Thank you.


I interpret it as "If Bob wants to 'share in a human readable format', give him the B prefixed string, but if unsure, clients SHOULD give the URI by default".

If the interpretation is that when I wish to SHARE my or your lightning address on a communication channel like nostr, I should be given the following to send:

<what-protocol?>://sjors.user._bitcoin-payment.provoost.nl

Instead of:

Bsjors@provoost.nl

This is even more confusing imo!!!

I know I'm adding an extra step here to introduce the problem, if Bob just copy/pasted what Alice gave, then everything would be fine, but I just know that users will do what I described because humans are trouble makers through and through. 😅


Real.


Reading the spec more carefully, here is what I see:

> However, wallets providing users the ability to copy their human-readable address information MUST include the ₿ prefix (i.e. copy it in the form ₿`user`@`domain`).

The spec dominates over LNURL rather than intending to be backward compatible. As soon as a <user>@<domain> address is identified as BIP-353 compatible, it is effectively 'upgraded" indefinitely.

Imagine the scenario: Alice wishes to receive payment from Bob and his friend Carol. Alice sends payment information to Bob, who pays, and then passes payment info to Carol. Bob has a BIP-353 compatible wallet and the wallet prepends the ₿ prefix and Bob chose to copy payment info from his client. Carol has an older wallet and the payment fails because it doesn't understand how to interpret the prefix. Alice is confused because she set up both LNURL address and BIP-353 and gave a cross-compatible address to Bob.

LNURL addresses are not protected by DNSSEC, arguably making BIP-353 an upgrade and not an alternative. I think this is what the spec implies too in hindsight.

> This work is intended to extend and subsume the existing "Lightning Address" scheme ... Wallets implementing this scheme MAY fall back to existing "Lightning Address" logic if DNS resolution fails but SHOULD NOT do so after this scheme is sufficiently broadly deployed to avoid leaking sender IP address information.

The spec intends to "subsume" LNURL addresses. This is likely a good idea for security reasons, but then there is this weird migration period with teething issues as illustrated above.

Also, when it comes to copying the address, the client is expected to determine the user's intent:

> Wallets providing users the ability to "copy" their address information generally SHOULD copy the underlying URI directly in order to avoid the DNS indirection. However, wallets providing users the ability to copy their human-readable address information MUST include the ₿ prefix (i.e. copy it in the form ₿`user`@`domain`).

I have some closing thoughts about this:

1. As nostr:nprofile1qqs9pk20ctv9srrg9vr354p03v0rrgsqkpggh2u45va77zz4mu5p6ccpremhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet59uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp069f2j4 mentioned, the ₿ symbol is hardly human typable, does this really qualify as human readable?

2. This almost appears to be a versioning flag. Parts of the spec may need to change, such as the URI format in the future. Is it worth acknowledging that this is effectively versioning and then adding more flexibility to that versioning scheme?

3. I am very curious how wallets will obey or disobey the copy/paste parts of the spec.


Oh wait... You were looking at something different... I thought I had seen a post by you about moirè patterns.

Maybe worth looking into 🤓.


AHAHAHA. I just asked chatgpt about this and it started talking about Moirè patterns... So now I know what you were searching for 😅


Turns out it is an exclusive club. wss://relay.westernbtc.com


I'm glad you told me that. 😁


With ecash, even email can be fixed.


why not sjors₿sprovoost.nl ?

It does seem confusing as a prefix, and especially if it is optional, then it is almost useless if most people choose not to use it.

Maybe sjors@₿.sprovoost.nl where  "₿." is the identifying keyword.


Fuck you!

Yeah maybe 🤔😁


Because fuck you.

Also because we are free to say and do whatever we want here, we don't have pent up rage and everyone just follows, blocks and moves on.


Yeah, I think relays need an incentive model to share data with one-another. That way if you want to switch to another relay, you can without worrying about data loss.

Assuming you are paying for spam filtering and content quality and not for "hosting".


It's kind of funny to see FDroid, Obtainium and zap.store all fight for who will give me the latest version of an app first.

I honestly thought there would be a clear winner but it isn't always the case 🏆🥇🥈🥉


Except your client does not live in a bubble. It needs to communicate and send emails to other clients.

In order to combat spam, many popular email providers rank messages using an array of criteria, coming from a known and well publicised email provider is one such criteria and not coming from a well known provider is one such criteria that redirects your email to many people's spam folders.

So the question remains, how do we ensure that nostr relays don't start to use exclusionary metrics to avoid spam and abuse?


No, but maybe look at keet.io


It is CLEARLY Snoop Dogg.

https://giphy.com/gifs/XbUSlxcdG4KqEan6b7


Are... Are you DM'ing people and then just ghosting their replies and spamming them instead???


Yup, it can also be a request or a command for another app or service to pick up too.

For example DVMs use nostr events, notes containing cashu token strings (ecash) could be considered money. Backed money, trusted money, but still money. Also NWC (nostr wallet connect) uses nostr events to remotely command your lightning node to make a payment (used for zapping mostly).


I saw this before I saw the Wasabi news. Now I understand.


Speak. I am listening.


?? Using it with OneDrive.


Yanis and yarrel. (Or something like that) I can hear both depending on how I want to hear it. It is more clear when I want to hear "talking".


Can I get an APK from source? Like via GitHub releases?


Gm. A friend was laughing at me for listening to Bitcoin themed songs. He said "it's just a currency".

Obviously, music, art and culture have been pivotal to the growth of Bitcoin as a way to normalise it and make it socially acceptable.

But actually upon reflection, Bitcoin is not just a currency, #Bitcoin is a movement.


It bypasses NAT by using a message bus instead of direct p2p communication. A Nostr relay is that middleman and you probably want to run your own relay, so that needs to be accessible past the NAT (could be hosted on a VPS, or you could spam someone else's relay).


For one, holesail is p2p and can handle more than just http traffic.


1. Offer interest. Make them whole enough... Especially if they were never going to invest that into bitcoin anyway.

2. This way you are not inflating the supply of currency.


I can see all the Bitcoin... Run a full node sir?


Blockchain Ice Tea. Same shit. Automated bots.


So, it's okay to touch garbage and touch each other but covid requires masks, 2 feet of distance and the elimination of cash eh?

I hope they eat without washing their hands immediately after.


What you on about? We got a green woman right at the beginning... Talk about a minority, are they going extinct? I haven't seen one of those in the wild.


Also npub.pro uses login codes that they send via DM to authenticate you.


I use Amber on android with Amethyst.

I use GrapheneOS with the defaultbrowser and TRY to stick to open source software.

Is nos2x an android app you can get on the play store or a browser extension?


How are you not?

What is nostr to you?


Nostr login doesn't feel free and open.

I either have to give my nsec or use some obscure login procedure that never seems to work on mobile.

This one requires an extension making it a desktop only app.

If we only really need an npub for stuff, let that be how we log in.

For everything else, nostr login is still an unsolved problem.