What fraction of people have issues such as this? 1%? 5%? 10%?

Currently, many people pay upwards of 50% or more of their net income to various forms of tax, and another 6-14% in lost purchasing power due to inflation.

Take away the theft of taxation and inflation, and people will have more than enough surplus income to contribute to these problems. The reason charitable contributions are so low right now is because able people are already being squeezed to death.


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Intelligence is a fitness display 🦚


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Such a scheme could be developed. It would require publishers to somehow hash their posts into the timechain (like with opentimestamps). Then clients (and optionally relays) would check for these hashes and assert that they preceded the pre-specified height.

Not impossible, but it would take some backend work to implement, and front end work to design a UX for both publishers and readers.


I have one of each of these. Never got around to trying them.


Still dumb


Insecure by design.

And while we’re at it, how about stupid restrictions on what characters you can use? Punctuation too good for ya?


How did you make this?


It would not make sense to do so


Nah


What features are you looking for that you haven’t found?


Amazingly, most people in most places believe the mainstream media.


Twitter is the blue pill


Performing elevator maintenance may be a letdown to some, but I find it to be quite uplifting.


I wish I was a little bit taller


That’s some hot edging


Is there a NIP associated with kind 3040?


I misread “10k steps” as “10k pushups” the first time 😬


Fruit is a scam


Running LLMs at home, I’ve switched to running them on my gaming laptop. Its GeForce RTX 2060 with 6GB vRAM is sufficient to run 7B parameter models.

I’m currently running dolphin-2.9.3-mistral-7B-32K via GPT4ALL. It’s quite fast at ~6 tokens per second. Not quite as high quality as the 22B models I’ve tried, but significantly faster.


Right right. Yeah, not going to take the easy way out here. 😅


Ah ok, thanks! Yes, definitely something to avoid.


100%, will definitely have the best characters and plot I can come up with. Just collecting some early data on the probable readership preferences


What do you mean by ex machina/ logical pitfalls?


I haven’t read any of the Foundation series, though I have read plenty of other Asimov books.


The asteroid belt contains all of the raw materials necessary for sustaining itself and its development independently, with the possible exception of helium-3 for fusion reactions. It probably has the deuterium for that form of fusion as a fallback, but generally prefers helium-3 from the moon.

For different entities to settle transactions among themselves beyond the Earth/moon, they must rely on proof-of-work generated there. They can’t participate, only verify. This means that while the asteroid belt can and does manufacture hashing hardware, it can’t benefit from mining. Asteroid belt colonists pay fees that accrue to Earth alone.

To be able to benefit from the fees, the asteroid colonists need a chain with a longer block time. They could spin up their own shitcoin for this, but that would suffer all the known problems of spinning up shitcoins. Lengthening the block time can be accomplished with a soft fork alone.

Regarding sidechains, the problem with any sidechain is the peg and its credibility. A pegged shitcoin is still a shitcoin, and so in my novel, I plan to presume that they’re just as ineffective and undesirable as I find them today.

The overarching tension I want to explore is the Earth-centric concentration of power imposed by the 10-minute block time, and what freedom and decentralization mean in the context of a burgeoning, spacefaring civilization.


This is helpful, thank you!

The world I'm building features a multiplanetary civilization with colonies on the moon and Mars.  Because of Bitcoin's 10-minute block time, mining is only possible on the Earth/moon. Earth has become the centralized hub of finance through which other worlds must transact.

Colonies in the asteroid belt specialize in producing high-end computing hardware (including mining equipment) but can't themselves mine because they're too far out. The main conflict of the novel is the threat of asteroid colonists to execute a contentious fork with a significantly longer block time. This would decentralize mining throughout the inner solar system, undermining Earth's privileged position.

Still working out the details. It's likely that the main antagonist will be the CEO of a major power generation/mining outfit on Earth (uses energy production from lunar helium-3 fusion). Protagonist(s) TBD.


I like a good beer buzz early in the morning.


What additional information would you need to decide?


I’m writing a sci-fi novel that features #Bitcoin prominently and takes place around the year 2100. It builds on predictions made in The Sovereign Individual, The Fourth Turning, What Technology Wants and The Case for Space.

Questions for you:

- Would you read this book?
- If so, in what formats? (Paperback, hardcover, ebook, audiobook).
- How long of a book would you enjoy (max/min page length)?

Please help me collect data by sharing this post.

#asknostr


It's apropos of nothing, he says his name is William. But I'm sure he's Bill or Billy or Mac or Buddy.


Yes. SeedSigner and ColdCard. Allegedly Specter DIY. I don’t know what others (Foundation if I had to guess).


Currently reading “The Great Taking” by David Rogers Webb.

The next financial crisis will be a real challenge to HODL through. Work on those hands, anon. #Bitcoin


“All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die” says a man sitting next to me, out of nowhere.


If it appreciates after you steal it, do you owe capital gains tax?


A+ wordsmithing


Not all heroes wear capes


It’s the silence that lets you hear the notes.


EXACTLY!

Life is uncertain enough.


This would be a great and welcomed nostr feature


If D team was serious about winning, they’d run Al Gore. He’s the only person on their side with experience who also has meme power. His message of environmentalism would play even better today.

He must just not want the job. 🤷♀


What site is this?


I believe that’s the Declaration of Independence. Does it say that in the constitution too?


https://image.nostr.build/0474c72b338062a383a23b411ec247ed9132fbac9fcdfecdcd7f8427b02333c8.jpg
#meme #memestr #anarchy


But does it work?


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Yeah, I believe there are tools that can covert them but I haven’t tried. Once I found that there were already gguf files for the models I wanted to run, I just used those.

If you try the conversion tools, let me know how it goes!


No, sorry, that’s the file extension. For example, this page has some large *.gguf files split into parts (because Hugging Face has a max upload size of 50GB): https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/dolphin-2.9.2-mixtral-8x22b-GGUF

Once you download the two parts, you can combine them into the single *.gguf file that ollama is able to import. Instructions for combining the part files can be found here: https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/KafkaLM-70B-German-V0.1-GGUF


Ah but it does! Once you download the gguf file from Hugging Face, you can use ollama’s create command, passing in a Modelfile that specifies the path the the gguf. Then you can use ollama run to start up the model.

It’s kinda annoying but there are instructions online: https://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2023/10/18/ollama-hugging-face-gguf-models/

I used this technique to run mradermacher/dolphin-2.9.2-mixtral-8x22b-GGUF: https://huggingface.co/mradermacher/dolphin-2.9.2-mixtral-8x22b-GGUF


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Thanks! Will take a look


Learning more about running my own LLM models at home. Apparently, the quantization method impacts performance differently on different kinds of hardware.

This is why, if you’re browsing models on Hugging Face, you’ll see files with suffixes like “Q3_K_S” and “IQ2_XXS”. The number after the “Q” tells you which quantization method the model uses. Some will be much slower than others depending on the capabilities of the CPU and GPU in the machine. #llm


Imagine being a government, having stumbled on some #Bitcoin and then SELLING it for THE VERY CURRENCY YOU ALONE CAN PRINT.

We are fortunate to have such dumbass adversaries.


Temba, his arms wide


Yes, still. It’s too useful a technology to be abandoned.


It would be clever to show green even when muted to trick the candidate into speaking into dead air and looking like an ass hat.

Not that anyone would be motivated by such thoughts.


Gotta play the game you’re in.


Cacheing. Wish the app would cache old messages so that when it starts up it can show something immediately, rather than waiting for notes from relays.


It’s true. No tiers in this system.


paranoimia.

paranoimia - n. music video by the Art of Noise featuring Max Headroom

https://youtu.be/6epzmRZk6UU


That’s a great idea. There are a lot of visualization opportunities


I also didn’t expect his release. Figured he’d get Epstein’d.


Blows my mind that governments would sell the money that’s strictly finite for the currency they produce in unlimited quantity.

We’re fortunate to have such moronic adversaries.


This is so true


Great insight!


Good question! I’m not sure, I’ll have to check.


No, this is just a repurposed, 2018-era Alienware PC.


Great advice


I’ve got 64GB RAM arriving today. I don’t expect it to help with performance, but it should enable me to run bigger models.


Right now, I’m running Mistral through ollama. Takes a while to get responses back. My machine is a 6-core Intel-based 2018 era Alienware gaming PC with 16GB RAM.


Banana republic confirmed


Too soon to make recommendations. All I’ve used so far is llama3 (7B) and mistral same size. I’m downloading the bigger llama3 now.


Yes, an airgapped computer is the way to go. But what software to run on said computer?

This is where I want Sparrow to do 24th word calculations.


Different LLM models recommend different amounts. The ~4GB models want the OS to have ~8GB RAM. The largest models (~40GB) recommend 32GB RAM.

I ordered 64GB which should be arriving today. I figure that should be enough for now. It’s also the max my 2018 era desktop can handle.


I believe you could do this with ollama, yes. It supports saving and loading models, so you could feed it a bunch of info, then begin the bot serving from that point.


Thanks! I’ll check it out 🙏


Yeah, I’ve got llama 3 running via ollama. Downloading the bigger version now. Should be able to run it once my new RAM arrives.

But mostly, I’m thinking about going forward. I plan to download and try out a whole bunch of different models all of which are extraordinarily large data files. This seems like a perfect job for BitTorrent.


Starting to run LLMs on my own hardware. These model files are often 4-40GB in size.

Where are the torrents? #asknostr


Look man, how else am I gonna compute word 24?


BOOO


LFG 🚀


V E R I F Y


Commit to a fixed amount of time, set a timer, then get started. I find this helps me get started with tasks. You don’t have to finish the whole thing, just a short allotment, like 25 minutes, then take a break, then decide if you want to go another round.


Nah. It’s buggy even then.


Welcome to Costco https://youtu.be/ZIFCWpn4qQ4


There is no such thing as “public property”.

There is private property and public tyranny.


Rekt


nostr:npub1hea99yd4xt5tjx8jmjvpfz2g5v7nurdqw7ydwst0ww6vw520prnq6fg9v2 Does Sparrow yet offer a way to generate the checksum word of a BIP39 seed phrase?

In the past I’ve had to resort to using other software to generate the checksum. Would be nice to reduce the number of tools required.


That’s it! 🙏


What’s the name of that #Bitcoin hardware wallet that’s hexagonal and looks like a stone? #asknostr


SVM?


SNED IT


But where am I going to get a billiard table at this hour?


Whew


Wen District 10


Adding another internal drive is still something worth considering, IMO.


Rebalancing my portfolio here.

- 80% #Bitcoin
- 20% sats

GM


To the first question, yes, it should not require bios changes to boot from an external device if you’ve already successfully done that before.

To the second question, I think that will depend a great deal on distro you install. Most I would expect are not going to play well with being booted into a different machine, because during installation and updates etc., it will install the appropriate drivers for that specific machine.

Contrast this with live bootable distros, which are designed to be used on a variety of hardware at boot time.


Could you install another internal drive (SATA) then install Linux on that and dual boot?


Don’t be hatin’ while I’m consolidatin’


Academia isn’t a place for smart people. Intelligence proves itself in the real world.


This is factually inaccurate. The Fed was created in 1913. The first Baby Boomer wouldn’t be born until over three decades later.


I want my own algorithm to not show self-reposts.


@Damus feature request: don’t show me self-reposts (when someone reposts their own post)


People who don’t rewatch The Big Short are doomed to relive it.


100%
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It’s never too early to rewatch The Big Short


Gotta hawk while the tuah is hot.


Don’t “cash out”. Spend slowly.


No


Congrats to you both! 🙏


Your #Bitcoin isn’t an “unrealized gain”.

Your fiat is unrealized sats.

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“Unrealized sats”  LOVE IT


The first rule of the game is to discover the rules of the game.

It is rarely in your opponents’ interest to be honest with you about the rules.


You have to play the game you’re in. Sometimes the rules are what people say they are. But often they’re not.

Figure out what the real rules are, then play the best of your ability.


Vermin


Yeah, it’s proof-of-lightning-node, essentially.


Lightning wallets sometimes have a feature where you can sign a message. Ride the Lightning (RTL) and ThunderHub can do it, not sure which others.

When a site has log-in-with-Lightning, they give you a message to sign. You paste it into your wallet, sign, then copy the result. Lastly, paste the signed message back into the site’s field for that.

This allows you to prove that you control some Lightning node. Sites like Amboss use this to let you add info about your node. Lightningnetwork.plus lets you log in that way to participate in liquidity swaps.


I don’t have time to stay wrong


truth


Or you can just get stainless steel


Neat!


I’m sorry I thought this was America


NFC chip?


Also stuck at 512GB microSD card max. Where are the good 1TB cards?


What is this index?


SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED


What’s in August?


What’s the gist?


Well, ackshually, the Fed was created in 1913 by the adults of the time, who would have been born around the 1880s or earlier. The boomers didn’t start being born until 1945.


I know this is satire, but it’s not far from the truth. When food prices rise, governments topple. To preserve itself, the State must convince you to eat cheaper and cheaper substitutes in lieu of actual food.


It’s pronounced “Rue-gah-blay”


My body is ready


few


Needs log scale


A couple of months ago, I was looking for a code helper LLM that I could run locally, and I couldn’t find anything. Are these new? How do you run them?


What’s codestral?


What do you self-host?


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Cheeseburger is unironically the world’s healthiest food.


LFG


The road is long, and we have the best can-kickers in the business.


The Meg?


Trump himself ran on a campaign of “drain the swamp”. The swamp seems to be doing just fine.

Republican politicians only seem to get serious about issues their voters care about when they are at risk of losing and need the attention. Never when it would make an actual difference.

My claims can be overturned by evidence. What evidence do we have that Republicans have successfully reduced taxes?


Talk is cheap. Republican presidential candidates have promised to lower/eliminate taxes forever. Never happens.


It seems to take people about 6 years from first contact to finally fall down the #Bitcoin rabbit hole.

What do you think, anon? Was it quicker or slower for you?


This is a very typical timeline. It often takes about 6 years from first contact to fall down the rabbit hole.


There are a lot of pessimists masquerading as “realists”.


I know this is fake because uncle Ted’s treatise isn’t nearly that long.


As I understand it, capital gains tax is applied just to the difference in price between acquisition and disposition of an asset. I picked gold for my example because it’s static, and the closest thing to neutral—compared to a business or even a productive asset like farmland.

If your business earns more money over time, I don’t think that’s a capital gain, strictly speaking, but rather profit. There are taxes on profit as well, but those are distinct from capital gains taxes, AFAIK.

I’m not an accountant nor lawyer, so this is just my lay interpretation, and I could be overturned by an expert in such matters.


Capital gains tax is assessed in fiat currency units. So, through monetary debasement, your assets become more valuable in those units, irrespective of the real market value.

For example, suppose you buy a gold coin for $1000 and sell it later for $2000, over a period where the money supply doubled. You owe tax on the $1000 “gain”, even though some or all of that gain may be attributable to the intervening monetary debasement.

Had there been no debasement, your capital gain may very well have been less, zero, or even a capital loss, for which you’d have owed no tax. Capital gains tax, by being assessed in fiat currency units, and not adjusted for monetary debasement, punishes you for the government’s own money printing.


What is it?


E T E R N A L
 R I C H E S


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Yeesh


Capital gains tax is the price you pay for the government printing money.


#meme Just Millennial Things https://image.nostr.build/6077786a9766d830f2c7e6176084fff23031c060a2f68a3aef742c0717752446.jpg


It’s a viral TikTok meme: https://www.tiktok.com/@girl_on_couch/video/7363742421588512043


But did that girl ever find a man in finance?


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the neverending cycle


Classic


What happened? I’ve been off for months


Don’t bother.


My star will continue to rise. 💫


Everyone asks wen moon, but nobody ever asks how moon is doing.


We had a good run bois


We always eat lunch up at Thunder Falls across the bridge and over hill in Jurassic Park. Best food in both parks, IMO.


The longer your prep time horizon, the more you need to get into production, not just hoarding.

Secure the means of production.


What are these? How do you use them?


Ok ok. It’s good that Bitcoin is sufficiently important that at least one serious candidate is courting the Bitcoin vote.

Having said that, I do not expect any politician to ever follow through on anything they say.


Thanks, will check it out. Thinking about shopping for a new one.


Talk is cheap.


GECOME UNBOVERNABLE


It’s true


One of my favorite spots in the park


What it do?


Adding the extension blocks was not needed for Lightning, no. It was a concession to the parties who wanted bigger blocks. Ultimately it wasn’t enough, and they forked off anyway.

In retrospect, we probably should not have added that extra space, but it’s impossible to say with certainty how history would have unfolded if we hadn’t.

We could soft-fork in a reduction that cuts that back out, or makes it smaller. Or we could fork in a reduction to the main block size. It takes a hard fork to go from 1MB to 2MB, but only a soft fork to limit it to 500kb or less.


Here’s a great intro: https://youtu.be/j2AvU2cfXRk


#footstr


What happened?


If his Bitcoin is feature complete, then I guess he’ll be done using it by the year 2106.


Agreed that caution is warranted.

I’d push back though on wanting/expecting a perfect scaling solution. It doesn’t exist. Scaling comes piecemeal.

For example, SegWit transactions are denser than original transactions. Taproot transactions are denser still. Lightning introduced orders of magnitude more throughput, but with different tradeoffs (always online, coin locked in channels, etc.)

These scaling improvements make better use of block space and increase privacy to boot. But they’re not the end of the story. Likewise, whatever comes next won’t be the last word on scaling either.


Covenants are not a “solution” to high on-chain fees. I would not make that claim. If others are making that claim, I don’t know their rationale.

Covenants are a means of increasing the number of people who can hold keys on chain. If anything, this is likely to make fees higher on a per-UTXO basis. But hopefully lower on a per-person basis, as fewer transactions actually settle to chain.

For example, in Lightning, to update channel balances, peers share transactions that are valid but private. They aren’t broadcasted. You don’t open a LN channel just to do one transaction. Rather, you open a channel, do many transactions, then close.

By allowing people to share UTXOs in covenants, similar update schemes are possible. You wouldn’t just join a shared UTXO to immediately exit. That would be worse than just using a regular on-chain UTXO, just like it would be worse in Lightning to open a channel, do one TX and close.

So yes, in your example, the exit may be costly, especially in a high fee environment. But hopefully exit will not need to be frequent. If exits are frequent, then there’s little to no value in sharing (it may even be worse depending on the scenario).


Using your shared UTXO example, let’s say we’re using CTV, and you are  guaranteed 1/10 of the coin. Somebody has to publish that transaction to get the coins out. For a miner to mine it, the fee must be paid by one or more child transactions whose fees cover both themselves and the parent withdrawal TX.

Now, if you’re in a hurry, then you’re the one who has to pay. But you could also coordinate with others to share the cost. This is indeed a problem. It’s an ongoing discussion to figure out how to make unilateral exit cheaper.

The point I was making about block space is not about increasing size. Keeping a small block size is important for decentralization. It keeps the cost of running a node down so more people will do it.

The point about block space being unbounded is that while the block subsidy will run out around the year 2140, there’s no limit to the number of blocks after that. In the fullness of time (centuries), block space continues to grow at 1MB+ per 10 minutes in perpetuity.

Bitcoin rewards patience with lower fees. If you wait, you can move coin more cheaply.


It’s always the case that low-value UTXOs may become immobile in a high-fee environment. Sufficiently small value UTXOs are dust—never worth moving even at 1 sat/vbyte. This is true no matter what enhancements we consider (base chain, Lightning, covenants etc.)

What covenants allow is more people holding keys per UTXO. So you could have relatively high-value UTXOs that are still movable in a high-fee environment, but which encode promises to pay a large number of key holders.

In the fullness of time, block space is unbounded. We’ve seen that even though occasionally fees become quite high, they don’t seem to stay that way forever.


Sorry, the TL;DR wasn’t based on your message but my own. I was summarizing my reply. I should have labeled it “Summary” instead.

I remain confident that decentralizing Bitcoin by making more efficient use of block space will make it more valuable than it would be otherwise.

If we do nothing, roughly 10-20 million people can hold keys on chain. Everyone else will have to use some kind of trust-based layer on top. 10-20 million is still way better than the status quo (banking), but increasing the number of people with keys is even better, IMO.


Lol


TL;DR: More key holders = number go up.

Money is a pure speculative good. No matter what the market thinks of your other assets, you speculate that people will want your money. The more people who want your money, the more valuable it is.

Densifying allows more people to hold keys on chain. More people can use the money. More people with a stake in the censorship-resistance and decentralization of #Bitcoin.

It is my belief that more is better regarding people with keys on chain. People who want the money and want to secure it make it more valuable.

For these reasons, I am SELFISHLY pro densification (pro covenant). More key holders = number go up.


Covenants will not, by themselves, allow unlimited scaling on L1. What they enable is greater density of key-holders on chain by sharing UTXOs. This could mean multi-party Lightning channels, for example.

Pegged shitcoins are still shitcoins. Holding your keys on Liquid or an eCash mint doesn’t make it sovereign. You can still get rugged by the issuer, or State regulators taking down the issuer, or hackers hacking the issuer, etc. etc.


It’s true that everyone can’t have their own UTXOs. However everyone could hold their own keys if we adopt densification measures (such as the various covenant proposals).

Even then though, it’s infeasible to have everyone using their own keys to do L1 daily transactions. Fortunately, shared UTXOs offer L2 scaling. Lightning is one example.

We must protect #Bitcoin decentralization. We do this by densifying to make ever more efficient use of precious block space.


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#QuietPartOutLoud


What’s Vite?


It’s all so tiresome


What’s the second best crypto asset?


Definitely leans dystopian. He thinks the world is basically fucked except for America. But like I said, he has some fundamental misunderstandings about money, which is a big deal if you’re trying to predict the outcomes of geopolitical changes spanning decades.


I’m halfway through Peter Zeihan’s “The End of the World is Just the Beginning”. I can’t vet the geopolitics, but the man has some serious misunderstandings of money which casts doubt, IMO, on his whole suite of predictions. https://image.nostr.build/09a71094153524f100e9c4777751c56f2a07e84fff04cb0deafa2bc4fdda52ac.jpg


QQ: is the structure of any of the growing number of #Bitcoin 501.3(c)s replicable? I’ve been thinking of starting a Bitcoin-based non-profit, and it would help myself and others immensely if there was a template. #asknostr

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Recommendations needed for free open source software for my business:

1. Project management (something like Monday.com for events, client management, etc.)
2. CRM - to manage prospect/sales funnel

I'm on Windows OS but also have Linux /Ubuntu on a laptop so I could switch to Linux  if it doesn't require command line knowledge.

Using spreadsheets now and it's a mess ....

#asknostr


This guy know what I’m talking about


Real estate investors are beginning to wake up to the fact that their assets have been plummeting in bitcoin terms. This is a big step toward hyperbitcoinization.

Real estate as a store of value doesn't make sense in a world in which bitcoin exists.

https://www.tftc.io/real-estate-in-bitcoin/


Never heard of it. Default to skepticism.


Write your fears down on paper. Then throw them away.


Oof


It’s from Alan Watts, IIRC.

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Cultivated ignorance. Ignore-ance.


What do the numbers mean on wood screws? Like #8, #10, #14 etc.?

I know that higher numbers have bigger size, but is there a metric involved? Like proportions of an inch girth or something? #asknostr


#asknostr nostr:note1zw23svs0uav622t4knwsszf870z4ykr2llk8cufp9wt6z9z4dafqhqwfwt


Those coins have ceased to exist, practically speaking. No different economically from coins which never existed.


100% of all #Bitcoin is in self-custody. Lost coins don’t exist.


There is no substitute for competence. If you want your heirs to inherit your #Bitcoin, you have to teach them how to use it safely while you’re still kicking.


Thank goodness for #Bitcoin. Without it, I’d feel truly fucked.


On the one hand, you have perfect entropy—everything in chaos. On the other hand, you have perfect order—everything predictable.

In the middle is complexity, where interesting things happen. Optionality.

Intelligence is the capacity to imagine and choose options. Money is option-maximizing.

This is where my head’s at rn.


KFC is the illicit activity.


What has he been right about lately?


Correct


I don’t get it, who’s that knocking?


Foul


Lately I’ve been wondering if intelligence, money and complexity are all the same thing. GM


For what?


E N G A G E M E N T


All comparisons are local.


Bitch-ass roads


Yee. It’s described well here: https://semver.org/

You can take it a step further by using what are called “conventional commits” where your git commit message contains the scope of the changed code. Then a GitHub Action can automatically make the version changes that reflect your code changes.

My Nostr relay implementation, Memorelay, works this way.


Best desktop wallet


Unbothered, moisturized, in my lane, focused, flourishing.


As nabismo said, there’s a standard called “Semantic Versioning” that defines what each part means and when they should change based on  what’s included in each release.


Will it blend?


The truth will set you free, but not until it’s finished with you.


A C C E L E R A T E


S U P E R C Y C L E nostr:note18fldqu93fz4sy3d364l08yruxfyqrevrr0497cwtdafs0j6c5h9sf0a2cz


The truth hurts. But not as much as ignorance.


BULLISH SHITPOST


Nice!


There are a lot of pessimists out there masquerading as realists.

See things as they are, but not worse than they are.


It’s so true


The ‘E’ in #NOSTR stands for ‘Elites’.


If you skip one latte per day, it’ll take you 27 years to “save” that $130k. There are a lot of better ways to earn $130k that don’t take nearly three decades.


Your wallet doesn’t know or care where the money came from.

Don’t waste your precious attention chasing nickels and dimes. Focus on the big financial questions. Let the little things slide.

No one became rich by skipping 10,000 lattes.


If you have ANY debt, and also have #Bitcoin, you are leveraged-long. The only question is how much.


#asknostr nostr:note1g32y0nasc53wx0d8mt0ajzjav9zmpx3gnr7zasgc0uwujq8rr7zsh57445


AND USE WHAT NOSTR-BASED ALTERNATIVE SIR?


Not your entropy, not your keys.


Inflation so bad the cup holders only got two slots. https://image.nostr.build/d2503a95cb92a6f18bcd3fc351774dbf1a692a884798255e716a99050ec9b9ff.jpg


Acceptance


What happened?


Thanks, I might try it!


Thank you! Yeah, I don’t know what happened. I’ll do some stretching and such instead for a bit.


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 070: 2024-05-30 - 2x20, 2x10 FAILED (only 60)

Gonna have to take a break. I feel like if I force it I’m risking a shoulder injury. I’ll get back to it once I’ve healed. 🙏


He’s 100% right. Any popular eCash mint will either be rugged by the anon custodians, or rugged by the State when they capture said custodians. nostr:note1kh6t0phx2shpnkd2qljrw0lvwunyg478ugtaz5av97lqqpjgjeqspfjhgs


Everything in moderation. Even excess.


Log scale is a super power. Log-log scale is a scam.


Bitcoin is the reason we don’t have to live The Mandibles


In the fullness of time, block space is infinite. #Bitcoin


“Fictional reserve”


There is no substitute for competence. GM


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 069: 2024-05-29 - 5x20

Starting to feel it in my shoulder again. Need to focus on form to keep these up.


*free to the recipient


Is that a lot?


I hope they define the best-practice as mixing and forbid it. Let’s get the “fight you” phase over with as quickly as possible.


Imagine if you will, a world where there’s only one phone line for the WHOLE HOUSE. Only one person can be on a call OR using the Internet, but never both.

Everyone’s name, phone number and address is published FOR FREE and shipped in a book to everyone’s door. There’s no term for “doxxed” because everyone is always doxxed all the time.

When you get a call, it could be from anyone and to anyone in the house. The only way to find out who’s calling is to PICK UP THE PHONE AND TALK TO THEM.

CAN YOU IMAGINE, ANON? YOU HAVE TO TALK TO THE STRANGER TO FIND OUT IF YOU EVEN WANT TO TALK TO THEM.


Starting to think about my next laptop. My current one is a Rog Zephyrus. Powerful enough, but terrible battery life.

If I go with Qubes for my next daily driver, what laptop brand/model is going to give me the longest use per charge?

Workload will be Firefox, Visual Studio Code and little else. #asknostr


For roughly a million years, all technology was the hand axe. Basically a sharpened stone. Hominids would use it to clean meat from bones and such.

It took a million years for someone to put the sharpened stone on the end of a stick to make a spear. Spear-wielding humans dominated all non-spear-users as well as all megafauna worldwide.

All thanks to the stick.


It may be a sim, but it is the finest available.


Me every day


keep growing


“yup schema”?


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 068: 2024-05-28 - 5x20

$68k on 68 day 👌👌


Do any of them work?


In the context of campaign finance, the courts have upheld that donations are speech, and blocking donations would be a violation of the first amendment.

It follows that if sending money is speech, then regulating money transmission is regulating speech—and violates the first amendment.


Nailed it


If sending money is speech, then wouldn’t limitations on money transmission be limitations on speech?


Possession may be 9/10 of the law, but it is 10/10 of the #Bitcoin.


The only form of intellectual property is a secret.


Ask not for whom the clown worlds.
The clown worlds for thee.


Survival of the fittest is for regular times.

In lean times, its survival of the fattest.


Don’t stop there! Cut the federal funding to all schools.

In fact, just cut all federal funding period.


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 067: 2024-05-27 - 4x25

Another one down 💪


Whoops, I did the math wrong. It’s actually 18.7% compounded annually. Pretty rough.


That works out to only 6% compound annual growth rate. Not bad!


In #Bitcoin, lost coins don’t exist.


DO HAST


“We’re on a fucking timeline to fuckville.”

Couldn’t have said it better.


Everything has risks and benefits.


Alright, I downloaded it. Not sure what happens next. I was expecting some way of picking from my contacts (follows) and making a room.


Link?


What Nostr-based app competes with Telegram? Is there one?


Getting there!


The 2-party political system https://nostpic.com/media/0018b7ee33fb253843639c62e292fec700a69a93b08ee374c5bda971c9b39564/22c72c3a26a5a0ff9fa473328b53593672cf7edcdf6c509a485837ed2477eaf5.webp


The real flippening is when ‘$’ means sats. #Bitcoin


There should be a market or something where you can bet whether or not Trump will actually free Ross. Put your money where your mouth is.


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 066: 2024-05-26 - 4x25

Keep going lads, we’re almost there! 💪


She keeps it in here garage?


Imagine believing a campaign promise


Once you’ve lost everything you’re free to do anything


Agreed. I would guess those pardons tend to be for crony, quid-pro-quo reasons. Freeing Ross grants no such back-scratching benefits (AFAIK).

I’ll believe it when I see it. I don’t expect Trump to do anything that doesn’t materially benefit him, and I don’t see how a Ross pardon does that.


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 065: 2024-05-25 - 5x20

Keep it up! 💪💪


But once in office, where the actual pardoning/commuting could occur, what incentive does a second term president have to do this (or anything)?

It’s fair to claim that *saying* he’ll do it is now expedient. But actually doing it? I how would that be to his benefit?


In what way is it now more expedient?


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 064: 2024-05-24 - 2x20, 2x15, 3x10 all deficit

Other work:
- 5x15 air squats
- 4x10, 1x20 barbell curls
- 5x15 crunches


Ask not for whom the world clowns.

The world clowns for thee.


Yesterday day 99 skipped, too busy and too much pizza lol, so today took double dose of #100pushups and can proudly say DAY 99 & 100 ✅
That's 10K pushups 💪💪💪
 https://video.nostr.build/55e0fc9f2da5493bd07562b4d71476c77d9dfd12f8d1afe688b6d0e9915b4598.mp4


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 063: 2024-05-23 - 5x20

Regular all the way 🫡


The two hard things in computer science are cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.


Seems bad. As I understand it, the CFTC would be directed to regulate Bitcoin exchanges. Seems worse than the status quo.


Guys, there’s a serious opportunity here.

Biden’s only successful meme was “Dark Brandon”, a shot of Biden with laser eyes, drinking coffee.

As minister of memes, I would double down on Dark Brandon, and vehemently deny that it has anything to do with #Bitcoin (wink wink).

Vote for me.


Where can I apply for this job? https://image.nostr.build/d766285c65a41413f18800ee403fcfe3befcfb54fa846fd045c8e9c74c08bd9f.jpg


Idea: a browser extension that detects “we use cookies” popups and auto-rejects them.


What is FIT21?


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 062: 2024-05-22 - 10x10 deficit

Intermixed with the rest of the workout:

- 5x20 barbell curls
- 5x10 goblet squat
- 5x8 wide sumo deadlift (light)


A specification is a program for a programmer.


Nah, I’m pretty committed to OMAD (one meal a day)


Growing up, I was always overweight.

But now, after years of diligently working out, I am obese.


If you do what everyone else does, you’ll get what everyone else gets.

If you want more, do more.


“People laugh at that, but at the time it wasn't worth anything.“
-- Laszlo Hanyecz

https://video.nostr.build/580cfc6494894ee39bda53eab5822cf2ae576cf01be09ccbb2604342e382a85d.mp4


The goldbugs were right about everything except gold. GM


Ack


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 061: 2024-05-21 - 1x30, 2x20, 2x15

Any day now, lads 💪💪


Perfect order. Perfect chaos. Both are enemies of freedom.

Freedom is optionality.


Trust is willingness to be vulnerable.

The opposite is to demand to be sovereign.

Don’t trust. Demand sovereignty. #Bitcoin nostr:note1gf090hwtadn4ygllqrz648yym3hfkllgvvj9deg0qrm0y09ezcssy3scc2


More like “pleb” of trust, amirite?


This guy gets it


Anyone who got in and stayed


A C C E L E R A T I N G nostr:note1kwpv2vvhgxfe8nz659d9v3a5gvelwqrl9eu74xefrj3hyd0c0ndsn3myfj


S U P E R C Y C L E nostr:note1j5x4wekjry27htqmv24jk6ww8qjytml7ggh2zk639hurmcql83ksnu04p6


Bluesky is no rival to Nostr. To say so is insulting on its face.


I think my favorite weather is the calm before the storm.


#Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/dc8d62661b938329bf5d4fe63856ec6f12e8dc6057f1d87c0427ee7930c5a5f6.jpg


It’s a GM for a GM ☀☕


I had a bad take once, just to see what it felt like


Sega Channel


You and everyone else


Next level


Sometimes both at the same time


#NotMyPumpSong


After each #Bitcoin bear market, we test and retest the old ATH before leaving it behind forever.

In 2017, it took 8 weeks. In 2020 it took 3 weeks.

This cycle, we first tested ATH on March 4, 2024. It has been 11 weeks.


Nice


Ol’ reliable


What happened?


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 060: 2024-05-20 - 1x10 regular, 9x10 deficit

Mixed in air squats (7x10), barbell curls (3x20) and crunches (3x15).


To me, Free Will is observed, non-deterministic, goal-oriented behavior carried out by a complex adaptive system.

That is, if an entity has goals and takes steps to realize them, then it is exhibiting Free Will, IMO.


U


The exact quote was “it depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” https://youtu.be/0_ipnwoPczQ


Haha, no worries. It’s from back when Bill Clinton was being questioned about Monica Lewinsky.

In any case, your question was “what is Free Will?”. It’s an “is” question. Definitional.

Definitional questions are often the most savagely debated, but also often pointless in application. How does defining Free Will make a difference to you? In what way would your behavior change based on that definition? What do you hope to learn in exploring these questions?


S nostr:note1mae3nmv0h63e5ecfpxm0hz3skdtw0k4qj3wntsg63squ500lx20qzj7tml


In the immortal words of 42nd President of the United States, William Jefferson Clinton, it depends on what the definition of “is” is.


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 059: 2024-05-19 - 5x20

Keep going, lads, almost there! 💪💪


In the land of custodians, the key-holder is king.


Time flies


Keep it up!


It doesn’t have to be one of your own


Rekt


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 057: 2024-05-17 - 0!

Day 058: 2024-05-18 - 2x25, 2x20, 4x15, 1x20, 2x15

Took a rest day yesterday, so had to do 200 today to catch up. 💪


Haven’t seen it. Worth the watch?


OPSEC means never having to say you’re sorry.


TELL US IN THE OPEN


L A T I N A S


Worst of all worlds


That’s ok


Yes. If nothing else, they add weight.


Oof


Hoe-ass roads


I like those odds


If I’m going to spend $200 for a taco, it better be the best one I’ve ever had


S U P E R C Y C L E nostr:note13t0tmfw4nnn605wqk5y60m8dxaj04e2ha0ydqpek4chru3yy08uqa087we


Ram Dass was one of the greatest


It was a weird double reversal


Baby crawling


Once and for all, it’s pronounced “GIF”.


It’s better for expressing preferences than regular voting.


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 056: 2024-05-16 - 5x20

Same as yesterday, but started trying to arch shoulders at the top.


FIAT CURRENCY IS SLAVERY WITH EXTRA STEPS nostr:note1l9kg5rudk5v7audgdnwu73qnxw984xlh325ymnp84rdm9n89fl9s4q0tnr


Wouldst thou have thine cake and also eat it?


Technology #meme https://image.nostr.build/f3b4e968a77a94f290d5924d8f25350c704e139626fc648a6c82f5aabeba12cf.jpg


Wb


#Bitcoin plz go to moon.
Stop going sideways now.


Worst bull market ever


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 055: 2024-05-15 - 5x20

Same same 💪💪


S U P E R C Y C L E nostr:note1f4p8xketxu2deyjy2k8eq2dm8eq83qcslhn6s3akgn2t2ykncuuqft5pq9


$0.065M/BTC is real boring


The SEC should sue the Fed. U.S. dollars are unregistered securities.


You get what you pay for, but price it in #Bitcoin


Gorgeous


Before the 100 pushups a day, I would work out 3-4 days a week, weightlifting. I’ve found that the pushups make that more difficult. I’ve been down to 1-2 workouts a week for a while, trying to get those numbers back up.

I find that the pushups sap the energy I once had for weightlifting. But I committed to the 100-a-day, so that’s gotta get done first.


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 054: 2024-05-14 - 4x25

Regular style rest day


Those black pixels are intriguing.

https://image.nostr.build/b58f481a9e57437f22c1132bb9609c9182e4fcc70e8ec4487080c9f785c26e36.jpg


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Every address encodes spending conditions. Typically the condition is “can sign”.

When you make a wallet, you opt into whatever conditions you want to put on those addresses. Single sig, multisig, timelocks, etc.

Providing more script functionality doesn’t change this. You still opt into whatever conditions you want for addresses you make and give out.


Nailed it on PTSD. The outrage against OP_CAT is out of proportion relative to the scope of the change.

But at this point it’s tribal warfare. Doubtful it will get a fair hearing.


The closest podcast I’ve heard was the relatively recent What Bitcoin Did episode with Shinobi. His primary critique (as I understood it) was that to him, OP_CAT complicated future assessments of other soft-fork proposals. That is, because OP_CAT is so flexible, it’s hard to predict how it will interact with other new features.

Incidentally, that flexibility is also the principal benefit. OP_CAT-based scripts are almost certainly going to be costlier in bytes than a specific OP code for a specific task (like OP_CTV). It may enable new denser transactions for exotic use cases, but it’ll never be denser than a purpose-built OP.

Personally, the only risk to Bitcoin  that I consider to be catastrophic is a fast crack of ECDSA. In Bitcoin, your keys = your coins, but only because ECDSA is secure. A fast crack (either by quantum computer or conventional) breaks the your keys = your coins paradigm.

Among other things, OP_CAT enables (costly) quantum-resistant signatures. So if we enabled OP_CAT, I would have confidence that Bitcoin could survive even a fast crack of ECDSA. Quantum pirates may make off with Satoshi’s stash, but users could defend themselves by consolidating into new addresses. Prudent users could do so in advance. Without this, we’d need to rapidly deploy a soft-fork to provide a new signature scheme under extreme duress.

Note that a fast-crack, zero-day exploit of ECDSA is unlikely and would cause many other, serious implications besides breaking Bitcoin sovereignty. More likely, if ECDSA is to be cracked, it’ll happen slowly, so we’ll still have time to adapt.

But like I said, what I like about OP_CAT is that it gives tools to users to protect themselves from various different kinds of attacks, at the expense of transactions that are somewhat larger than they might optimally be.


No worries, I’m probably the only ordinal disrespector who’s marginally pro OP_CAT. It’s an unpopular opinion.

I’ve heard that OP_CAT enables hashrate escrow. This would be a reason to oppose it, but I want to understand how that works before passing judgement.

The hashrate escrow concept of BIP300 is why I oppose Sztorcian Drivechains—namely because hashrate escrow incentivizes miner centralization. In Bitcoin, your keys = your coins. Hashrate escrow breaks this tenet by putting unlocking power in the hands of miners, and BIP300 enshrines this into the core protocol.

I do not care for or about ordinals, inscriptions, runes etc. The value of the Bitcoin unit (sats) derives from the fact that the data is the thing itself. Bitcoin is the first and most rival, excludable, digital good. It is not an IOU and depends on no counterparty’s performance. Using blockspace to record non-monetary data, especially IOUs, is wasteful, IMO.

My interest in OP_CAT is the expansion of programmability for the development of monetary technology, for the benefit of users.

I remain open to arguments that the costs are too high or benefits too low/nebulous. For example, if enabling OP_CAT made it more expensive to run a node, that would be a strong argument against. If it incentivized miner centralization at scale, that would make it a non-starter. I have not heard anyone make these arguments however.

The arguments I’ve heard so far are of the form “it may enable new things I don’t like”. But it also probably enables new things our adversaries don’t like (new privacy options, for example).


I have a less-pessimistic appraisal of OP_CAT. Yes, it enables more use-cases. Like anything, there are costs and benefits.

What I like about it, personally, is that the additional flexibility provides space for developers/users to defend against attacks. It may enable new and better CoinJoin solutions to mask transactions from censors. It could provide novel vault solutions. It opens up alternative signature schemes potentially with better properties for some kinds of attacks. Defense against a discovered weakness in ECDSA for example.

However, OP_CAT solutions tend to be costlier for the user than the would-be alternatives. An OP_CAT vault will take more bytes than an OP_VAULT TX for instance. But this is OK. Someone who wants the expensive functionality can pay for the bytes. If that type of transaction becomes popular, we can always fork in a specific OP later to reduce costs.

Having said all of that, I don’t think OP_CAT is something that should be rushed through. It’s not urgent. Consensus is paramount. I just don’t share the net-negative appraisal of most hardcore Bitcoiners here.


Due to inflation, your half hour meeting now goes to 37 minutes.


What are they?


Feels good to be an optimist 😎


Perfect, thanks!


At this Indian restaurant near my house, I always get “butter paneer”. Can someone explain what the “butter” means? Does it mean like regular table butter or something else?

Also, what is “mutter paneer”? Thanks in advance. #asknostr 🙏


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 053: 2024-05-13 - 10x10 dumbbell deficit

Did these in between 5x5 squats and other work. Here’s all the movements:

- Warmup: air squats, goblet squats
- Back squats: 1x5@40%, 1x5@50%, 5x5@65% of training max.
- Barbell curls: 3-4 sets x20 reps
- Pushups: 10x10 dumbbell deficit
- Crunches: 3x15
- Wide sumo deadlifts (light weight, squeeze, pump those glutes!): 3x8

Mix sets as desired. 💪💪


lml_    d-_-b     _lml


This is the house that funk built, Groove Armada style.


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 052: 2024-05-12 - 5x20

Regular style 🫡


If I was an economist hired to calculate consumer price inflation, my basket would contain TI-83 calculators and Nintendo games.

Inflation=0%. Checkmate.


Typical clown world bullshit


The US is a freedom affinity scam


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 051: 2024-05-11 - 4x25

Rest day 😴


I love my country. It’s the government that’s got to go.


Looks promising. Would be great if it has BTCPayServer integration for payments.


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 050: 2024-05-10 - 2x20, 4x15 (deficit)

Did these during 5x5 deadlift 🦵🦵


I don’t think the trend will continue as predicted. It’s a pendulum.


But hopefully not just on that single-sig device


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 048: 2024-05-08 - 4x25


The soft bigotry of low expectations


Thanks! Will try it


The purpose of a nervous system is to move. There are some sea creatures that have nervous systems when born, but then attach and never move again, digesting their nervous systems at attachment time.


There’s room on the bell curve for everyone 🤝


Switch to bacon


How many generations of your family line do you want to secure?

That’s how many #Bitcoin you should have.


Summer #grilling tip: the temperature at which the fat in Italian sausages becomes aerosolized fuel capable of self-sustained immolation is ~450° F.


What is Pears rather than


What is Pete?


Too hot today. Had to turn on the A/C or face kids’ relentless complaints. Cooling down now though.


No worries, but yeah, this is what I’m talking about. I think we could do streaming audio/video and images on Nostr, but the encoding overhead to cram it into a string could be avoided with a binary protocol.


I found that typically what I needed to do remotely was satisfied by regular terminal interface. Running GUIs remotely generally wasn’t worth it. If a remote GUI was needed, i generally found that full Remote Desktop was the easiest path.


If you made no other changes, then yes, encoding with a binary format like CBOR makes little difference and wouldn’t be worth it.

Where it makes sense is if you also allow native binary packets. That is, make the id, author, content and signature fields raw bytes. Keep tags as strings.

A common tag might be “mime-type”. Additional compression optional.

This would open the door for using Nostr to relay non-text data without paying the base64 or URL encoding cost to cram binary data into the content string. Additional data structures can themselves be nested CBOR binary content etc.


Well, if your goal is to build mass, carnivore isn’t going to help. It’s great for your health, but not for bulking. It’ll do the opposite—you’ll get leaner.

For bulking, you need to be on a caloric surplus. It’s hard to eat enough calories for this, but easy to drink them. Add a protein shake to your diet with like 4x scoops of the powder. This will put you in caloric surplus for sure, plus you’ll have enough protein to build muscle. Consider adding creatine monohydrate to the shake while bulking.

You’ll probably gain some fat too, but you can take that off later by going back to your original diet. It sounds like you probably have an ectomorphic body type, so slimming down post-bulk shouldn’t be tough.


If you’re really set on just chicken, make sure you’re not just eating the chicken breast, which is all protein. The thighs are more satisfying due to fat content.

I’d recommend mostly steak, personally. And eggs.

If you’ve never done keto before, you may feel sluggish the first week or so. This is called the “keto flu”. Your body is adapting to burn triglycerides and ketone bodies for fuel rather than carbohydrates. Your pancreas is probably over-producing insulin during this time, which will make you feel hungrier than you actually are.

The first week will be the hardest.


iPhone Books app


I’d rather see us have an upgrade path to CBOR, personally.


Last time I did this was probably 20 years ago using PuTTY


It me


Right behind maintaining scroll position in home feed.


Just reject them as invalid.

Or, if you’re gonna mess with them, please check the signature to make sure it matches.


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 046: 2024-05-06 - 5x20

Another day done ✅


Ah this is helpful. I thought using Qubes locked you into Fedora rpms or something.


iptables is the program that determines what kinds of network packets are allowed/denied. A typical firewall will deny all incoming traffic except for specific ports you want to open.

The way Tails does it (and I assume Start9 is the same) is to deny all incoming and outgoing traffic except on the ToR ports. You can relax this requirement by deleting rules, or adding new rules at higher priority that, say, open specific ports.

The iptables command is somewhat esoteric, but once you figure it out, you can get it to list the current rules so you can then make changes.


It should not require anyone’s permission or implementation to do this. It’s probably a single command line command. At worst it’ll be a few lines that one could put in a bash shell script.


I’m not a Start9 user. Whats the problem? ToR only?

I’m sure they enforce this via iptables just like TailsOS. Should be bypassable. I’ve done it in Tails before.


I haven’t tried it because I’m such a long time Ubuntu user—accustomed to deb packages. Did you have to overcome this?


I would settle for a description of the State as a monopoly on violence


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 045: 2024-05-05 - 4x25

💪💪💪💪


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 044: 2024-05-04 - 1x30, 1x25, 1x20, 1x15, 1x10

Trying out a reverse ladder 🪜


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 043: 2024-05-03 - 5x20

Nothing special, just keeping on keeping on 💪


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 042: 2024-05-02 - 4x25

Keep it up gents. Every day counts. 🫡


Alexa, in 12 hours, play the song “10 hours of smoke alarm chirp” at max volume. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.devicedaily.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F05%2F04-The-best-basic-smoke-alarm.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=166c29e392ca294dac577bd899aa444744630d646255b64d0b13130544233719&ipo=images


Oof


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 041: 2024-05-01 - 5x20

Any day now lads 💪


Trump’s wall was to keep the prisoners inside


Gross


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At least you tried


Supply and demand


Capital gains tax is the penalty you pay for investing wisely.


EVERY FUCKIN TIME #Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/3e03b3966c1b63590cae3e187787b2d82ab3615c2a61662cc8322c8bc06e8400.jpg


58k gang is going to be insufferable. 😣


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 040: 2024-04-30 - 4x25

On the regular. Keep it up! 💪


GOOD MORNING, BITCOIN OR SLAVERY


The 2018 one ended with a 50% plunge at the end tho.


GM


lol wat


Jokes on them, every Keynesian is already this


Zero is a size


The keming looks fine to me


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"Be the black swan you want to see in the world"

- Ghandi von Hayekmises


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 038: 2024-04-28 - 4x25

Keep on pushing, brother! 💪


#asknostr

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I propose the “opportunity to steal”, two-question test:

1. Does the service provider have the opportunity to steal from the users?
2. Do the users have the opportunity to steal from the provider?

If the answer to both is “no”, then the provider cannot be a money transmitter.

By this test, ISPs, nodes and CoinJoin services would NOT be transmitters. But existing MSBs like banks and exchanges still would be.


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 037: 2024-04-27 - 5x20

Keep it up lads! 💪💪


“Is” arguments are among the most vociferous and yet inconsequential. What “is” money, etc.

The question was why do Bitcoiners consider Monero to be a poor store of value. My answer remains that as a shitcoin, of which there are and will be countless, Monero lacks and cannot gain first mover advantage against Bitcoin.


Fair enough, moneyness is continuously reinvented by people.

It is simply too easy to create shitcoins, and the motivation to print one’s own money too strong to imagine that we’ll ever be totally rid of them. There will be a long tail of shitcoins and their promoters, forever.

All of them suffer lack of first-mover advantage to Bitcoin.


The question was what makes Monero a weak store of value. What you’ve listed are currencies, which are also weak stores of value—by design. Currency issuers compete to weaken their currencies to boost their numbers (exports, GDP etc.)


TAXATION IS THEFT

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FUD is the only tool they have


S U P E R C Y C L E

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The Fed knows it must resume money printing soon or face catastrophe.

This recent aggression towards #Bitcoin developers is meant to shake out HODLers before that happens. Don’t fall for it. https://image.nostr.build/89377d393f5e4664b1a3a3c5e98d920b524ce7f86e56b34cd56fbfdd48d912c2.jpg https://image.nostr.build/dfde07297dae79edb72ebdf98b2975a05412a2032507664d1c54293e711a6d87.jpg https://image.nostr.build/264a139ee8ec60cddeb259327685cd81afb4383e266b89fa7dea6b326166296f.jpg


We can keep hodling longer than the market can remain irrational.


NEVER nostr:note1y76xtvdzvf5duf5ghxnrt4q0mlp9z2kmapy58e96rfjxer7ljrasnkesvr


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 036: 2024-04-26 - 2x20, 3x10, 3x10 deficit (feet on bench)

Did the sets of 10 in between 5x5 deadlifts. Keep it up gents!

If you haven’t started, it’s not too late! Just do what you can each day and work up to it. 💪


The author of The Mandibles just wrote #Bitcoin out of existence with a one liner:

“The dollar is a historied currency that’s stabilized the international economy for over a century, Wilbur. The bancor is an upstart pretender whose constraints are unworkably strict. We just have to hold our nerve. After all—look at what happened to bitcoin.”

But she kinda had to do it. A world with Bitcoin would have turned out quite different. The populace was only victimized because they were trapped in fiat.


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 035: 2024-04-25 - 4x25

Started late in the day, but still got them done. ✅


Verizon must be the biggest money transmitter out there.


What is it?


It lacks first-mover advantage. Money is a winner-take-all contest.


In #Bitcoin, where ownership is knowledge, privacy and security are one and the same.

Read that as many times as you need to.


#ShowerThought All security is security by obscurity. You know something your attacker doesn’t, and that’s what makes it secure.


Your post came at the right time. I’ve been contemplating security/ownership/posession/privacy lately.

It occurred to me that all security is security by obscurity.

Working definition of security: intentional, differential accessibility. That is, something is secure if it is accessible to a select few, and not others.

Working definition of obscurity: that which is unclear/unknown. Lack of information.

So consider your smartphone. You can get into it because you know the pin. An attacker without the pin can’t access it without difficulty. The asymmetrical difficult is what makes it secure. If you use face unlock, the information is the geometry of your face. Your face is “in form”. Your attacker lacks this form, making access difficult. Likewise for a key in a lock, etc.

The security of anything comes down to differential information. Knowledge is power.

Working definition of privacy: the ability to selectively reveal or conceal personal information.

Therefore, privacy is security. Without privacy, the information is not secret. If not secret, it’s insecure.

Tyrants of all stripes cannot stand privacy. It is by denial of privacy that they deny security, and by denying security, they deny property.

It’s all related.


That’s hot


Ownership, always and everywhere, starts with what you can defend.

In nature, you own something you defend against decay. If you have a cabin in the woods, you have to defend it against pests, rot, weather damage, etc.

In civilization, ownership is what the law permits. That is, your property is what you can defend (enforce) legally.

In #Bitcoin, ownership is pure knowledge—access to information. You either know the keys or you don’t. Your exclusive knowledge means defending this secret.

In all cases, therefore, ownership is essentially information. That is, “in formation”.

Your cabin is yours when it is “in form” (not decayed). In civilization, you assert domain by informing others of your legitimate title claim. In Bitcoin, you own the coins that you can sign for—you can put transactions “in form”.


Dang, and I didn’t even know it


TFW you want to go out but your owner keeps programming anyway. #dogstr https://image.nostr.build/031930b57282872557f263b6d2b5cdd1efceb7b24576c0378405734fdd72d45f.jpg


Zero


Reminder that “money laundering” is a fake, fiat-era crime.

It presupposes the state has the right to know nearly every financial transaction made by its citizens, despite the 4th Amendment.

It has only been a crime since the 1986 Money Laundering Control Act. And the term itself only goes back to the 1970s, a typical case of wtfhappenedin1971.com. https://image.nostr.build/44dbb9966b80c5b242636e991e2ff9d182304ee757c035a0a1df90b3a6bc4aed.jpg


Never


That looks like two 45lb plates on a 45lb bar for 135lbs (60kg) total. Yeah, he should be able to lift it.

We’re not even talking cleans here, or he’d have to have a double overhand grip. So he’s deadlifting for sure.

Good form though. 👍


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 034: 2024-04-24 - 5x20

It’s not too late to start, anon! 💪💪


Yeesh


PMS?


LET’S GOOOOOO


IDK. My problem is overeating. Limiting the hours of the day when eating is allowed is one of the two effective ways I’ve found not to overeat.

The other is extreme carbohydrate limiting (20g per day max).


At my weight and height, my BMI is 31, making me officially Obese by medical standards. 😅


Different macronutrients have different effects on metabolism. Carbohydrates trigger insulin release, which increases hunger and causes fat storage.

Yes, caloric deficit leads to weight loss. And it’s significantly easier to achieve that deficit by avoiding macronutrients that trigger fat storage and hunger (carbohydrates).


All soft forks are user enforced, so IMO it makes sense for users to activate them as well.

Who are the degens in this case?


One Meal A Day, haha, intermittent fasting.


Yeah, that works for me if I’m super strict about it.

I lost a bunch of weight years ago on 20g max carbs daily.


I’m on OMAD pretty much all the time. It’s rare that I eat something before dinner time.


I was fat growing up, and taunted about it mercilessly. It stuck with me, and still does.

A couple of years ago I gave up trying to be lean. I know what it takes. But it’s a price I’m unwilling to pay.

Now I just build muscle. I’d rather be strong and fat than weak and lean.


Agreed


Fair


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 033: 2024-04-23 - 2x20, 2x15, 3x10

Really dragging the last sets, supplementing 5x5 bench day. 💪💪


In what way? UASF is my preferred activation method for anything.


I’ve used idb to good effect. Simplifies the event logic. https://www.npmjs.com/package/idb

Haven’t tried PouchDB yet, but I think that’s likely the way I’d go on a fresh project. Since Nostr events are immutable, pairing PouchDB with one or more CouchDB replicas may be straightforward.


But in context to what?


It’s feeling like a fifth espresso shot kinda morning. GM #coffeechain


What’s Dexie?


And Trillian for cross-service messaging.


Deletion is a relatively low priority feature for clients to implement.


Does that include retconning NIPs back into 01?


Basically people post memes and zap each other.


Probably constantly?


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 032: 2024-04-22 - 3x20, 4x10

Warmup for 5x5 squats. Leg day. 🦵🦵


What didn’t you like about it?


So true. The Eagle of tyranny has two wings. One red. One blue.


Rude


What’s OP_INTERNALKEY? Never heard of it. 🤷♀


I don’t know. What’s that?


The more I read David Foster Wallace, the more I believe he was born at the wrong time. Gen X entered adulthood in the ironic, mass media, cable-TV-saturated 90’s. All DFW wanted was sincere, honest dialog.

If he’d been born in Gen Z, he’d be right on time for the next great awakening. The #Bitcoin powered flourishing right around the corner.

🪦 RIP D. You were just ahead of your time. https://image.nostr.build/b13b3bddaf62591d8eea3ee7d36d17f627b91a2eb8f69387fd8b4d3dc6c39822.jpg


I just heard about CryptPad for end-to-end encrypted shared documents. Has anyone tried it? https://cryptpad.org/ #asknostr


Dogs not only took my spot, they knocked my reading material on the floor. #dogstr #Frenchies #CivilDisobedience
https://m.primal.net/Hygg.jpg
https://m.primal.net/Hygi.jpg


What’s LNhance?


Rekt


It’s OK. 👌


I should be working, but I don’t wanna.


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 031: 2024-04-21 - 5x20

Never stop stacking 💪


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 030: 2024-04-20 - 4x25

LFG plebs! 💪💪


The Matrix


First, you cut a hole in the box…


How so?


As a regular user, high fees cost you. As a miner, high fees pay you. So having the ability to mine acts as Bitcoin-user insurance that pays out in a high-fee environment.


It’s times like these that I’m glad I’ve got miners at home. It’s not always profitable to mine. But it sure does insure against high fees! #Bitcoin


What is it?


S U P E R C Y C L E

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Yeesh


Primal right now


Live shot of the #Bitcoin mempool https://c.tenor.com/Dp8txgNJQuYAAAAC/elmo-elmo-fire.gif


Hmm


Someone explain to me the appeal of playing pure chance games (like lottery or sports betting). #asknostr


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 029: 2024-04-19 - 25, 25, 25, 25

Last set before halving. It’s not too late to start, anon! Get in here! 💪💪


Pour one out for the miners 🥃 #Bitcoin


S U P E R C Y C L E

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NOTHING IS PRICED IN


Know your limits

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#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 028: 2024-04-18 - 4x25

Keep it up anon, you’re almost there! 💪


Someone turned it off and back on again?


#Bitcoin rn https://i.imgflip.com/4lw6sc.jpg


Seems that way


#Bitcoin #meme
https://m.primal.net/HwTK.jpg


My laptop is a Rog Zephyrus and gets terrible battery life. Wondering if there’s a distro I can run that’s going to be low power?

I’m biased towards Debian derivatives—long time Ubuntu user. But I’ve been considering Qubes lately due to its containment scheme.


How the turntables


It is Wednesday my dudes. 🐸 😎


What alternatives do you recommend?


Last dip before Supercycle


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 027: 2024-04-17 - 5x20

No rest for the wicked. 💪💪


Somebody out there has been doing 58 pushups a day and it shows.


Now do “lifetime” returns


3. Infinite mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one orders one beer. The second one orders half a beer. The third one orders one-third of a beer. The bartender slams down ψ-1 beers and asks the group to move on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_Fibonacci_constant


That would also be base “10”. It’s inescapable.


Is it available for Kindle?


I’d send you a joke about custodial #Bitcoin, but there is no such thing.


All numbering systems are base “10”


Like any joke, it’s less funny explained. I guess the crux is the reversal of fortune. The bartender, annoyed, dealt with a troll by finishing the first joke early. But the troll won in the end in a reversal.


#math #meme
https://m.primal.net/HwOo.jpg


It has to do with sums of infinite series.

In the first joke, the bartender thinks what’s coming is fractional powers of two. The sum of 1 +1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + … = 1/2^0 + 1/2^1 + 1/2^2 + 1/2^3 + 1/2^4 + … = 2. That is, the sum of the series converges to 2. So he slams two beers to finish the sum rather than infinitely pouring smaller and smaller beers.

In the second joke, before the bartender can cut them off, the third mathematician reveals a different series: 1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + 1/5 + 1/6 + … = ∞. That is, the sum of the series diverges. So there’s no skipping to the end. The bartender has to just keep pouring smaller and smaller beers forever.


nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft Is there an easy tool out there to wipe all follows?


It’s so true


Gross


MEVil (or centralizing MEV) is one of the biggest threats to bitcoin’s value, but it’s poorly understood. I wrote about what it is (and isn’t) and how developers and bitcoiners must consider it carefully if we want bitcoin to survive.

Notably, we need to be incredibly careful when we’re looking at the new wave of bitcoin L2s - rollups can be incredibly nasty for the destruction of bitcoin - or not. Devs building these things have a responsibility to bitcoin, and the bitcoin community a responsibility to inform and avoid systems that risk bitcoin.

https://bluematt.bitcoin.ninja/2024/04/16/stop-calling-it-mev/


The problem isn’t that they own stocks. The problem is the State’s monopoly on violence over which they preside.

Take away the ability to wield force to benefit themselves financially and there’s no problem.


Few


We’re up to 27 now? Time flies.


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 026: 2024-04-16 - 2x30, 2x20

Bitcoin never takes a vacation. 💪


Don’t negotiate with terrorists


Oof


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100K

Day 025: 2024-04-15 - 4x25

Keep it up gents! 💪


We had a good run 🤝


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 024: 2024-04-14 - 25, 25, 15, 15, 10

Last 10: man-makers @15 lb.

In between 5x5 deadlift. 💪🦵


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 023: 2024-04-13 - 4x25

Keep going anon, you’re almost there! 💪


Better performance cannot be expected


Well gents, we had a good run. See you next bull cycle. 🥲 #Bitcoin


There’s always money in the banana stand. 😉


This is about things like OFAC compliance. Currently, with the small number of pools, would-be censors have a short list of people to squeeze. With SV2, those censors would have to put the pressure on individual miners everywhere.

It’s the difference between Napster and BitTorrent.


Yes. Currently pools make templates, meaning censorship can happen at a relatively small number of points.

I believe SV2 allows miners to contribute to pools but with their own block templates. This makes censorship harder since pools would no longer be in charge (you’d have to go to each and every miner).


VIM


What is it?


I’m writing a relay.


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 022: 2024-04-12 - 25, 25, 25, 25


It’s a big club… and you ain’t in it!


Just the tip


#asknostr

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S U P E R S W O L E

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Hnnngg


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 021: 2024-04-11 - 4x25

To be swole is my goal 💪


It’s kinda our thing


Is there a video explainer of #Bitcoin “any previous output” OP_APO? #asknostr


That’s why most of us are here nostr:note1pe7w5gj5tn5ky4tmul7m4n98exp8ypytj9y7f97detklvdrw065q3k8cky


Weird flex, but OK


Be the open source developer you want to see in the world.


Plan B Passports https://planbpassport.com/


YES #YESTR


Boating accident sized


It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

ShaolinFry’s node is the first one I ever ran.


Everyone who has 10 #Bitcoin is already a billionaire.


Well, it’s more like 0.5 hours of setup and 1.0 hours of trying to quit.


Also fire memes


Hold on to your butts!  🚬


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 020: 2024-04-10 - 30x3 +10

First day doing sets of 30. 💪


#lifehacks


Fewer


IT’S ABOUT DAN TIME


Histrionics… literally!


Of course! The rate hikes had been working to reduce M2 growth, but once they hinted at a cut, the retail printing took off (retail loans create money from nothing) and inflation came back.

Updated M2 trend line brings us to the long-term trend (blue line) around September.
https://m.primal.net/HtWl.jpg


It’s not just money. It is money that is just.


WebAssembly (WASM) is a subset of JavaScript to which compiled languages can target. An increasing number of libraries and programs are available this way. For example, there’s an ffmpeg port that lets you transcode video in a WebWorker using WASM.


In JavaScript, the basic Array type is dynamic (no permanently fixed size, no fixed type). Typed arrays (Float32Array etc.) are statically sized at allocation time and only contain the specified type.

If you know how many items your dynamic Array is going to hold, you can pass that length into the constructor.

const myArray = new Array(100);

But this won’t stop you from assigning off the end of the array if you so choose:

myArray[999] = ‘foo’; // 👍


In the browser, you can make pre-allocated, fixed-length, typed arrays. For example Float32Array, Uint8Array etc. These are quite fast to access once created since no new memory is used.

They’re probably less useful in the context of a Nostr client which deals almost exclusively in string data, but yes, if you can use them it’s a great way to go.


It really depends on the situation. Browser performance has a lot of facets.

I recommend using a profiler like the one built into Chrome. It’ll tell you what’s taking all the time.

Generally, in my experience, it’s not computation that’s the issue. More likely memory. If your code is making lots of small objects, iterating them and deleting, these operations tend to dominate the non-DOM time.


Aww Yee


What’s the gist?


Saying that #Bitcoin miners “validate” transactions is like saying that farmers breathe air.

Sure, they technically do it, just like everyone else. But this is not their value proposition.


LFG!


$10M BY HALVING STILL IN PLAY

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#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 019: 2024-04-09 - 5x20

In between 5x5 back squats. Leg day, let’s go! 🦵


I’m optimistic. Information travels too fast to keep people in the dark about the one tool that will save them.


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k.

Day 018: 2024-04-08 - 20, 20, 20, 20, 20


Asking the hard questions


Hello


Embrace the box model and flex.


When you really really want it to go through.


Consider a 2-of-3 multisig address. You can sign a message using any of the 3 keys. But the 2-of-3 address itself is the hash of a script demanding proof from a combination of keys.

So to “sign” a multisig address (P2SH, bc1q…), you have to reveal the script, which reveals the pubkey hashes, then you can sign the message with a quorum of signers.

One could theoretically design a UX for this. Two UXs really—one for the signer and one for the verifier. But to my knowledge, no smooth UX currently exists.


Maybe I’ll bite the bullet and listen.


Classic fourth turning. The GFC wiped out Millennials. The free-floating anxiety has been festering since. COVID lockdowns were the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back.

#Bitcoin fixes this. But it may take a decade or two.


Same


Which upgrades are they promoting?


LFG


TIL: while it’s pretty easy to sign a message for a single-sig address, there’s no easy equivalent for a multisig address. #Bitcoin


#100pushups a day until $
#Bitcoin $100k

Day 016: 2024-04-07 - 20, 20, 20, 20, 20

A few hours late on the last set, had to play catch up. 😬


What’s a good #nostr client for long-form content writing? #asknostr


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 016: 2024-04-07 - 25, 25, 25, 25

Keep it up lads!


Optimal


Taxation is theft


Like bloodletting, or leaches


Gotta strike while the iron’s hot!


That was quick


Good question. First, a point of order: Taproot did not enable Ordinals. Ordinals were first invented in 2012 under the name “colored coins”. Ordinals is just a rebrand of an old idea using modern OP codes.

From the perspective of regular users like us, Ordinal transactions are merely space-inefficient. That is, they use way more block space than strictly necessary to transfer sats. Wasting block space is possible no matter what features are enabled/removed.

But then again, waste is in the eye of the beholder. A multisig transaction uses more block space than a single sig transaction. From the single sig enjoyer’s perspective, multisig users are wasting block space.

Whether transactions are block-space efficient or not, they must be FEE-efficient. Every transaction, to be mined at all, must outcompete lower-fee transactions. Block space is pay-to-play.

And thankfully so! The fee market is what keeps Bitcoin censorship resistant. A censored party can increase their offered fee until it’s irresistible to some miner to take. Miners that censor pay for their prejudice in lost revenue.

So having said all that, your question is whether covenants, while designed to increase space efficiency, could be used to instead to create space-inefficient transactions (Ordinals, etc.). I must admit that since any feature of Bitcoin’s locking script could be used inefficiently, it stands to reason that someone could use covenant OP codes in this way.

Would an Ordinal developer be likely to do so? My guess would be “no”, because there are better (less inefficient) ways of encoding their garbage than trying to shoehorn a covenant OP for this purpose.


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 015: 2024-04-05 - 20, 20, 20, 20, 20


Number Go Up. Price appreciationx


Your keys, your coins, both with and without covenants. Your addresses encode your spending conditions—the spending conditions you opted into (single sig, multisig, etc.) None of the covenant proposals alter this.

What covenants allow is construction of an address that pays out to pre-specified list of one or more other addresses. So someone who owes you coin could wrap it in an address that aggregates coins to you and others. That’s the point of it, in fact, to create density so that more than one beneficiary can share a UTXO.

Whether you accept this as payment is up to you.

On the question of whether an adversary could use covenants maliciously. Current multisig would be a better adversarial tool. That is, adversary sends the coin to a 2-of-3 where your address is just one, so you have to get permission from another signer to spend. You would be within your rights to refuse this as “payment” since you’re not in full control of the coin. (I would refuse)

If a State wanted to enact spending controls, inserting themselves as signers in multisig is superior to trying to negotiate covenant addresses that encode spending criteria. With the multisig, they can approve or withhold approval arbitrarily over time. With a covenant, they’d have to decide up front how the coin could be spent and work with you to create that script. An adversarial despot would much prefer the flexibility and ease-of-use of mandatory multisig.

For this reason, on the point of adversarial encumbrance, I do not see any of the proposals to be worse than the status quo.


Coinbase is historically bad at adopting technology that’s good for them. Look how long it took them to batch transactions. They’re only just now starting to implement Lightning. Even after CTV activates, I wouldn’t expect Coinbase to take advantage for years.


We already have been diluted. FTX is a great example. They took Bitcoin deposits, then sold them rather than holding them on the books. People leaving their coins on FTX, believing in the IOUs, caused reduced price for everyone (dilution).

While you and I agree that Bitcoin is Bitcoin (and IOUs are shitcoins), other people believing in the IOUs does and has caused dilutive effects on the value of our coins.

In and of itself, this is somewhat unavoidable. We can’t stop people from buying, holding and believing in IOUs. However, if we fail to densify transactions, we guarantee that people will do this. IOUs are the alternative to scaling, and they are dilutive.


Built to last


It could be prohibitively expensive to land the TX that releases your funds by yourself, yes.


The recipient is the one who decides the unlocking requirements, not the sender.

When you send Bitcoin to someone, they provide an address. That address is a hash of a script they’ve chosen. You don’t get to choose the script parameters.

What the sender could do is make a UTXO that, say, promises you some coin, and also promises coin to a bunch of other folks. To use your coin, you first need a transaction that pays out to you (and everyone) and then a second transaction to actually spend. So, the fees could be potentially high, since it takes two TXs and there may be e a lot of outputs (many bytes) for the first one.


The burning need is to start building consensus on a UASF. This will take time. It is not prudent to wait until there’s a “burning need” to get the ball rolling. That’s a recipe for a rushed rollout.

Plus, I’m looking to reduce the likelihood of more big custodial collapses like Mt. Gox and FTX. If we wait, the next one could be Coinbase, or some as-yet-unknown custodian that’s even bigger.

Getting the UASF ball rolling now is capacity planning for the “suddenly” rush that’s around the corner.


After listening to Shinobi a while back on a podcast, I came to understand that covenants allow denser use of block space (sharing UTXOs) and that without this, people holding keys on chain would necessarily be a minority of users.

In such a world, as more people want to use Bitcoin, they’ll have to fall back on custodial solutions. I heard Francis of Bull Bitcoin talking on a pod about Liquid being a possible solution. I’ve heard Livera talk about fedimints. I’ve seen people using eCash lately. People buying into ETFs. etc. etc.

We must not give up on peer-to-peer cash. If we cede to banks, we’re guaranteed to get diluted by IOUs and risk centralization (as happened with fiat currency).

We can’t stop people from using custodians. But if we don’t continue to densify, we guarantee that they will.


To use a UTXO in a transaction, you have to meet its demands. Often this requires providing signatures (proof of keys) but it can also depend on other things such as the block height (check-lock-time-verify etc.). You, as recipient, encode these rules into the address you provide to the sender. You opt-in to the rules you want to apply.

“Covenants” allow you to opt in to more rules, such as where the funds can be spent to. It’s still opt-in. You choose to encumber your addresses or not. You can choose not to, just as you can choose not to use multisig.

Even if you choose not to use this feature, you benefit when others do so. Covenants allow denser use of block space, which means (all other things equal) lower fees as more can get done in fewer/smaller transactions.


Be the persuasion you want to see in the world. Don’t others to change.


Agreed. Cross-Input Signature Aggregation (CISA) is another mechanism for densifying transaction data.


It’s already the case that you don’t know how much it’ll cost you to transact in the future. That is, how much value (non-fees) you’ll get out of spending UTXOs you hold. In this way, covenant UTXOs guaranteed to you, and non-covenant UTXOs you have are not all that different.

The covenant case does mean it’ll take two TXs to move funds to someone else. This is why further densification is also desirable, such as Cross-Input Signature Aggregation (CISA) as Guy mentioned.


The reason to push for it now is that it takes time to reach consensus and then even more time to develop UX. There’s a delay of potentially years between when a protocol improvement rolls out and when wallets offer the ability to use it.


Data density -> more capacity -> more participation -> less demand for custodians -> less IOU printing -> less dilution (NGU)


I agree that arguments so far have been unpersuasive. The rationale that persuaded me was combatting custody (and thus dilution via inflation and also centralization risk).


Thankfully, governments live in a perpetual state of anarchy with respect to each other.

The benefits of defecting increase the more that others join the cabal. The States that don’t abide will get all the Bitcoiners (and their intelligence).


The positive framing is NGU. Without densifying, people will use custody solutions which will inflate and thus dilute.


“The same” is a quagmire. Two things that are different are never the same, by definition.

Sharing UTXOs is a way to increase data density. Increasing data density lets us scale participation without sacrificing decentralization.

SegWit and Taproot increased data density. Lighting is a form of UTXO sharing. Covenants will continue the process of densification.

We can’t stop people from using custody solutions that inflate supply. But if we don’t continue to densify, we guarantee that people will do so.


No. I’d pursue other avenues. A few options off the top of my head:

- lie about holdings
- send holdings to friends/family in other jurisdictions
- flee
- burn coins


In the fullness of time, the size of the UTXO set is probably unbounded.

This is about getting more people to be able to hold keys and be able to settle to chain in any given fixed time period. We do this by increasing the density of data encoded in transactions.

SegWit and Taproot represented similar density improvements. Increasing data density is how we preserve decentralization while scaling participation.

When we don’t scale participation, we get inflation by custodians.


Joke’s on you. I’m fat already.


Absolutely not. When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty.


I am now, selfishly, 100% FOR a #Bitcoin covenant soft-fork.

Why? Because we need to expand the number of people who can have UTXOs (covenants enable sharing).

Why expand? Because if we don’t, then people will use custodial alternatives (banks). We already see this starting.

So what? Banks (pegged shitcoins, eCash, etc.) WILL print in excess of reserves. This always happens.

Who cares? I do. Paper BTC dilutes the value of my Bitcoin. If you like NGU, you should care too.

Covenants => more key holders => less printing => higher value.


Yeah, but it maintains scroll position though


Ah yeah. Krueger is an ass hat.


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 014: 2024-04-04 - 20, 20, 20, 20, 20


What is she getting wrong in your opinion?


So mysterious


$10M by halving still on schedule

nostr:note1s85n6vrnaylh5puhnppw8s3ejag4lra0jnhf8y0hhxyxrzg5k6gs5fj4l9


https://x.com/simplybitcointv/status/1775858047702999519 just in time for the halving fireworks. Ops be like, I don’t see this happening. Imagine thinking $100k before the halving is still in play


How dare you


We’re so back


Currently using nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg to maintain my scroll position, then switching to nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 for non-custodial zaps.

It’s not a perfect system, but it works.


That’s literally all the government does


That makes sense. Do you know what kind number is for Markdown?


How do Nostr clients decide whether to render text as Markdown? Is it the presence of a leading header? #asknostr


Nah


Lightning is Bitcoin. You and your counterparts exchange legit transactions that could settle to chain. It is peer-to-peer electronic cash.


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k

Day 013: 2024-04-03 - 25, 25, 25, 25

May have accidentally done 5 sets instead of four. 😅


i.e. Liquid, eCash, Fedimint, WBTC, ETFs, etc. etc.


A shitcoin pegged to #Bitcoin is still a shitcoin. GM.


Nah. Buying a new one would have cost less.


Everyone seems to be real comfortable with custody these days. Using custodial Lightning, Liquid, eCash, etc. Buncha pegged shitcoins.

Did Mt. Gox teach you nothing? Did FTX teach you nothing?

Where have all the real Bitcoiners gone? #Bitcoin


I remember when the left stood for personal liberties.


I just realized that the Star Trek Pakleds are the best analogy for government I’ve ever seen.

They can’t do anything themselves except wield brute force to steal the technology and productive capacity of others. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IjshV-_oUik/maxresdefault.jpg


Hey, long shot, but do we have any nostriches in Okinawa? 🇯🇵 #asknostr


Gross


Bitcoin is the hill worth dying on. Even if it failed we’d be right to support the Network for its inbuilt properties eg trust-less / permission-less / decentralized / immutable / debasement-proof


So is @primal’s lighting wallet custodial? How does it work? Can I hook up my own Lightning node?


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k.

Day 012: 2024-04-02 - 20, 20, 20, 20, 20

Keep it up!


Or Qubes


Dumping the one thing that nobody can make more of for the one thing that they alone can make infinite amounts of.

Peak stupidity. We deserve better enemies.


True if big


In Silence of the Lambs and sequels/prequels Hannibal Lecter has to hide the extent of his intelligence to escape captivity/capture.


Unpopular opinion: If you like #Bitcoin censorship resistance, then you should abide ordinals.

Ordinal enjoyoors pay market rate to get their bloated transactions into blocks. Fee rate is the arbiter of inclusion. Censors pay for their prejudice in lost profits.

It is because of this fair, free market that we have permissionless, censorship-resistant money.


It’s ok.

Also, Idiocracy?


I said Phenomenon (the Travolta film) and Powder (1995).


Yee


Haven’t seen it


Phenomenon


Powder


Haha, sorry I only read the first paragraph before posting. 😅


Good Will Hunting


And then back on again, right? Right?


Do not allow anxiety to float freely around you.

Name your fear. Look it dead in the eye, and watch it disappear.


Fear is the mind-killer.


This is normal. You are the descendant of billions of years of organisms that each successfully procreated. Heir to their survival traits.

Feeling uncomfortable, feeling constantly, slightly weary, is adaptive, evolutionarily. Our ancestors were those who looked over their shoulders. Who jumped at snapping twigs.

Much of human experience involves placating this fear, or masking it. Looking at it dead in the eye, naming it, is the way through. When you look deeply, you’ll find there’s nothing there.


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k.

Day 011: 2024-04-01 - 20, 20, 10, 10, 10, 10, 20

Interspersed throughout the day. 💪


Added a comment, and an explicit issue to request treating apostrophes and backticks as equivalent.


I stopped trying. I only use default derivation paths with BlueWallet anymore.


If you accept “not your keys, not your coins”, this is the natural conclusion.


Came up with a minimal proposal to help solve the changing NIPs problem. Let’s see if anyone goes for it. #nostr https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1151


Wait, what?


“Never Split the Difference” by Chris Voss


Nah


2024 is year of the Linux laptop nostr:note1mjh9re7t0s05hhefs6728jd2xysqkg7pnep3653edl0ulz0dky9qhy8rk0


Do what you will. I have been consistently un-diversifying. Almost completely out of bullion at this point. I regret having ever bought it instead of Bitcoin.

There is no second best.


I’ve used Nostore in mobile Safari on iPhone. It works, but you have to enable it on each site.


I’m really not sure. Back when I was buying bullion spot from the pawn shop, they had a standing premium of $2-$3 per oz on silver (~10%), and $50/oz on gold (~3%).

This was ~7 years ago though. Things may have changed.

Now I just buy and hold Bitcoin.


No segundo besto


Fucking tea guzzling motherfucker


Find a reputable pawn shop in your area. They probably have silver in stock. They may also have gold coins, or at least a line on someone who does.

When a pawn shop receives gold coins and doesn’t want to hold them, they’ll often resell to a gold dealer—who can also supply them with coins for customers.


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k.

Day 010: 2024-04-01 - 8 sets of 10, one set of 20

No excuses 💪


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k.

Day 009: 2024-03-30 - 5x20

Throughout the day, keeping elbows tucked. 💪


What would the sides even be?


Message....
https://i.nostr.build/VZjv.jpg


You love to see it


Got what?


#asknostr nostr:note1acd0xkjf3zgnr8x98v0lawu3a96cpn4e306ky96yevck0vds03dq22p7k9


WB


What’s the gist?


Exactly. If OP wanted to show real progress, the pic would have expanded beyond a single star system, not just some orbital habitat ring.


Point of order, that’s at best Type II pictured. More like Type I.


Shop smart. Shop S-Mart.


S O O N nostr:note19j0tg4dyc87qw7q5yskcgx86vj8ku94m04ngjsmjrm70qfs3ku4qk6lzh6


TANSTAAFL


$10M IMMINENT nostr:note1pkuz72jz4t9pj2vez8y9asl090cn269267u7ddcjw4sd8xjd6p5q4wznqc


I once heard a part of a conversation between Edward Snowden and Neil Degrasse Tyson. They speculated that maybe the reason that SETI never hears broadcasts from other intelligences is that they’re only a narrow window of time when a civilization broadcasts in the clear before they discover cryptography.

Maybe we’ve been hearing aliens the whole time, but we don’t have the decryption keys.


Classic


Yeah, like I said in my original post, I didn’t actually start studying Bitcoin (running a node, etc.) until price recovered. Prior to that, I was just looking at it as a speculative bet to get more fiat.

Information seems much more abundant now.


Should’ve been holding the keys to his own coin


#Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/20fa26af5cc197ee0492e2be889a6a736efb4e9bb699fc0cd05bbce3d9611d1a.jpg  nostr:note15kg68dgglvyl5q35wq97awqfy9refqmdgp6nz5kc8wvmjhygudpqk0c0pw


I try to keep them tucked, but it’s a constant challenge to remember and apply.


#Bitcoin #meme https://image.nostr.build/5da96bb755c0db3d870eb82fa7af751e64806312c008a1ceb7c056edafd54f4b.jpg


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k.

Day 008: 2024-03-29 - 10x10

Took these a bit easier (fewer reps per set). Feeling sore in the shoulder. Did these between deadlift 5x5 and other stuff.


Oof


Nice! I wasn’t that smart unfortunately 😅


I wonder if this has anything to do with the 25% of all dollars that have been printed in that same time frame?


After Mt. Gox imploded, I wasn’t sure if #Bitcoin would ever recover. When it finally did, I had full conviction it would never die. Only then did I fall down the rabbit hole.

How many people saw the FTX collapse in the same light? How many are on the cusp of unshakable conviction?

You know what happens next.


I’m thinking of postal air-drops, like those AOL 3.0 discs that used to virtually fall from the sky.


Banger


my latest piece…
The Age of Fiat II https://image.nostr.build/ff0dd9f5b8e1380013dd6dcd0c1ca64276a13c5b15dffd6abc140825d5e3310c.jpg


S U P E R C Y C L E nostr:note1l3uzex0z5vlnsry4ksjs37uuu6p3mqprsnvxca869zax0jn4wefq652v4a


Meme needs one more frame: caffeinated societies


“Turned back on”?


$ell, €xit, ₿uy


YES. #YESTR

Too much shitcoining today (Liquid, eCash, etc.)


Is that a thing? What is it?


I had a bad take once, just to see what it felt like. nostr:note1f7vvg0fxjusavv4xln478e9y7as57rcfkjtfcx9h20kptuyc7k8qvr3ys6


need miner?


Neat! Is that near the maintain-scroll-position setting? nostr:note1qzkcgrnhv8zadrzm6zzapegsfs6xmpvr9r5n928h0u52tex802qsglyymt


Well, yeah. They get paid to make the trade.


Neat! This would be great for drop-shipping chain data to bootstrap nodes.


No, that’s Fred Durst, from Blink 182.


That’s my advice.

Otherwise, if you’re sitting on fiat earmarked to buy, then you’re trying to time a market price that tends to increase in excess of 40% per year.

You can also flip it around, mentally. Consider if you’d sell Bitcoin at the current price to buy and hold fiat
. If not, then you’re on the wrong side of the trade, which smash fixes.


Why, I didn’t see a crab sideways until I was already a man.


S U P E R C Y C L E nostr:note1vn6kuupjt0mv5u3hvtjf03v2gusj3lahemkha99a4ekg72zj36dq8hyd4r


That’s ok! Gotta start somewhere. Do them from your knees to start.


Sounds familiar


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k.

Day 007: 2024-03-28 - 20, 20, 20, 15, 15, 10

Almost skipped, but stayed up and got them in at bedtime. 💪💪


Oof


Never. Pump that shit into my VEINS


It happens


#100pushups a day until #Bitcoin $100k.

Day 006: 2024-03-27 - 20, 20, 20, 20, 20

Throughout rest day.


Classic


Which one?


Porn, amirite?