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17 minutes ago•••
Is rss just a ticker? I have no idea what rss is? Why is it good or bad these days?
33 minutes ago•••
Good morning Stay sovereign God speed
1 hour ago•••
Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! It's time to create notes and send zaps! 🤙🏻🫂💜
I feel like I haven't been very active lately. The last two weeks have been murderously busy for me in the fiat mines. But that should end this week. Just two more days. Head down. Keep grinding.
1 hour ago•••
Alright, @npub155m...dcvg upgraded to v2. Nostr plugin upgraded. Self-zap test worked. All good.
2 hours ago•••
"like" is not really the right word.
Free trade and being able to travel is a net benefit. For free trade you need consistent rules between countries. But you don't need heavy handed social media censorship.
So my opinion on the EU varies by topic.
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12 hours ago•••
#NostrElites wss://nostrelites.org is going down for maintenance. When the relay comes back up, Kind-4 Legacy DMs will no longer but supported.
13 hours ago•••
Between the 2 lines I pay for it’s a $1000+ bucks in savings a year…
13 hours ago•••
Not gonna lie switching to mint mobile was a smart move… 1 year of unlimited cell service for 360+tax…
13 hours ago•••
Not gonna lie switching to mint mobile was a smart move… 1 year of unlimited cell service for 360+tax…
16 hours ago•••
Hey guys I just want to let you know I bought 2 billion dollars worth of bitcoin. No, I won’t show you on chain proof what are you nuts. Just take my word broskis.
17 hours ago•••
17 hours ago•••
Very tempting as it’s on sale…
17 hours ago•••
Very tempting as it’s on sale…
17 hours ago•••
Very tempting as it’s on sale…
17 hours ago•••
Wouldn’t it be kew to see a retraction back to $~24900
17 hours ago•••
nprofile1qqsvgwamtr3wd0p0j32htqjh76a9x2gs002wsf6qdrpfxmrfmxvqklgpr9mhxue69uh5ws2vg9v9jvfn9ehx7um5wgcjucm0d5q3camnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wvf5hgcm0d9hx2u3wwdhkx6tpdsq3yamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvju63u8, how's the #STLOUSTR aka #NOSTRLOU planning coming along? When is it happening? Any timeframe yet?
Are you coming to #SatsBySW next month for Nostr, Bitcoin, and music in Austin, TX?
44 hours ago•••
This was a fascinating read. It covers various CIA shenanigans against the Soviet Union, mainly their support for Solidarity in Poland and the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. It was written long before 9/11 when the long term effects showed up.
But for the audience here, the most interesting tidbit is how they spread misleading technical documentation to delay the gas pipelines to Europe (and generally sabotage the economy).
2 days ago•••
More generally, I agree with James' observation that Bitcoin Core devs are paying much less attention to soft forks than they used to.
I can only speak for myself here. Part of the problem is that the current proposals don't excite me, yet. That's even after spending time at the op_next conference.
SegWit (which happened before I was involved) brought the promise of Lightning. Taproot lets you build cold storage with hidden fallback options.
I'm still waiting for MuSig2 to finally have broad adoption, something that's higher on my review list than new soft forks, and I barely get to it.
In that light, talk of a vault soft fork seems premature. The tool development is too far behind even for forks that already activated.
Similarly congestion control doesn't excite me. I'm general I'm skeptical of claims that the masses are suddenly going to self-custody because of a dramatic event in US politics. Especially given that plenty of other countries are in worse shape and we don't see self custody blossom at a scale where it causes congestion. The US is 5% of the world population.
That's not to say that I'm against these ideas. If I see other people work on and activate them in a competent and careful manner I might be fine with it. It's sad that their main proponents and developers burned out, and that certainly won't speed things up. Maybe grants tailored for potential soft fork devs can help here, as long as the right expectations are set.
But not being opposed does not reach the bar of me actively reviewing it, which is part of what pushes things forward.
If I see a more fleshed out design for a (BitVM powered?) sidechain with unilateral (no 1 of N nonsense) exit that gives me full privacy (Shielded CSV?), that would get me more excited. Especially if it's clear which specific opcodes are best to get there.
Other devs will have other things and other thresholds that get them out of their soft-fork winter sleep. There's a "I know it when I see it" aspect to this too.
All that said, it might be the case that one day every single core dev is excited about a soft fork proposal, or would be if they read enough about it, yet is too distracted by their day to day focus. But I'm not sure if that is really what's happening.
2 days ago•••
The problem is that time is running out.
Bitcoin has serious trauma with claims like this.
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2 days ago•••
Interesting analysis. Two shitcoiner shenanigans in particular:
1. Attack ads against candidates that don't mention crypto at all (and obfuscating the crypto connection by how they named the PACs). This wasn't some broader cultural push either, they would support radically opposed candidates.
2. Mostly supporting candidates that were likely to win anyway
Molly assesses that this was done to impress / intimidate politicians to pay attention to their demands moving forward, even if it's against the interests of their constituents.
A big goal of the industry is to get rid of SEC enforcement against them. Regardless of your opinion about the SEC, I think it's fair to say they're mostly a problem for "crypto", not for Bitcoin. The ETFs are there, that's pretty much all the Bitcoin subset of the crypto industry needs, afaik.
A more relevant goal of the lobby is to deal with unbanking of the industry. But Molly is worried that they want to go beyond that and make the government bail them out next time things implode. Which is also something I expect to happen. Though there's no concrete evidence for this yet. https://youtu.be/06DGU_o8h5A
3 days ago•••
@npub1xts...kk5s can you make @npub18m7...q955 fold mega long posts?
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