Barbie and Oppenheimer are two of the best films I’ve seen in a long time
Think I’ve only just got over post barbenheimer-induced depression
Still spending a lot of time thinking about what both of them meant
Technically yes because Phoenix (and Breez)
But ‘not really’ for a few reasons - mainly unsure about where to get inbound liquidity and if that’ll be worth it, not super confident about managing a node, and want to know the backup/recovery process well before putting money at risk
I’m convinced history will remember the 20th century thru now to ? as the period of the American Empire.
They don’t think of themselves in imperial terms, but the existence of the empire will be obvious when it collapses, the absence of the thing making the thing apparent
Nah, file system doesn’t fit. Nostr is a new protocol sitting alongside email and HTTP, starting with genuinely different principles.
I’d pragmatically define a FS as anything you could write a sane FUSE for
Any softfork that privileges or distinguishes miners from other nodes.
IMO this is actually the main thing that’s objectionable about BIP300/301, not the concept of Drivechains in themselves
Having a new type of message and payments that go to a miner “I want to start/merge-mine a drivechain” means you need to *know* who the miners are, and they need to handle the BMM in the coinbase tx. This is very different from all nodes equally and blindly passing transactions and blocks around to each other, not caring if the other end is a miner or not.
To me, it is critically important that people can mine without being (easily) detected.
In a sense it subtly, but quite possibly fundamentally changes the economics and incentives around mining, which *could* have bad unintended effects that *could* be irreversible
Reminds me of the “socialism is like baking a soufflé” or “making an omelette” – “sometimes you burn it or have to crack some eggs” (non)argument
Oops we cracked 10,000,000 eggs and still don’t have an omelette to show for it – better try again with a slightly different technique!
Is there a thing I can set up that Zaps everything I 🤙 react to given Apple suck and I’m mostly on #damus?
Happy to self-host, not going to cry if I need to use Alby/similar to do it (i.e. custodial)
#zap #zapathon
We don’t use the word, but Bitcoiners strongly disliking the IMF, World Bank, Fed, CFA, UN, Cantillon effect beneficiaries, fiat finance, authoritarianism, financial abuse of the developing world, US hegemony and interventionism et al. are expressing a political opinion that it’d totally be reasonable to call “Progressive” – against inequity, exploitation, colonialism, repression, injustice. It’s just that those from a Libertarian background don’t use that vocabulary and are conditioned to dislike those who do because it often comes packaged with non-voluntarist/statist socialism.
Bitcoin and the Occupy movement had an affinity for each-other because of this common ground - the progressive aspect of Bitcoin is undeniable
Also playing with tinygrad https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad from the magical people at https://comma.ai
Liking it a lot so far, but it is also some to the fugliest python I’ve ever read 😂
C++ people are built different
Just come across https://github.com/karpathy/cryptos which is an educational implementation of Bitcoin (ish) from scratch in Python, similar to @jimmysong ‘s awesome book “Programming Bitcoin”
Counter: in-app browser is a separate cookie file, so e.g. for X, Nostr, whatever you don’t start collecting shit tracking cookies from sites you open (like MSM links) that then hang around for ages in your system browser, they’re sandboxed separately
Very strongly recommend using Coldcard’s Seed XOR to split and back up the seed as multiple parts that can then be physically separated and hidden: https://seedxor.com/
If you can import the multsig wallet into another client like Sparrow you can sign in the Coldcard using a SD card instead of NFC, so funds shouldn’t be stuck. Sparrow won’t need to have any of the keys imported or whatever IIRC
Hrm, don’t really want to start this argument up again 😅 but SeedSigner has a lot more hardware risk than a ColdCard, except (perhaps) for targeted supply chain attacks — because a SS is widely available off the shelf stuff, it has ‘herd safety’ whereas CC is obviously only for Bitcoin so has a clear incentive to be attacked. SeedSigner is also more closed hardware than the ColdCard is (RasPi is very closed), though neither are fully open as CC give schematic but PCB layout is closed and Secure Elements are mega closed and the ST Microprocessor is also closed.
Similarly, for the software risk, ColdCard software stack is way way fewer (orders of magnitude) lines of code than what’s in a SeedSigner which AFAIK is running an entire Linux. CC firmware can be deterministically built, whereas SS doesn’t and that might be tricky to achieve.
So while both are great, they have slightly different security characteristics and for *most people* the ColdCard comes out as the stronger option
Not sure I agree, would you buy an nsec from me knowing that I could easily keep a copy and continue to use it?
What are you getting by having the nsec that you didn’t have with the npub? (other than being able to read DMs and create new events with it)
Fair point. I don’t really have a counter other than the lazy “Nostr DMs are kinda broken already” and that spam on Nostr is going to be a lot like email
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