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3 hours ago•••
My guess is that, at least initially, the EU will look at individual companies in the Nostr space, either apps or relays, and make some demands of the bigger ones.
We can keep an eye on large Mastodon instances to see what happens there. I don't think the EU treats ActivityPub as a single entity either.
For now however, we are small. Or at least appear that way.
8 hours ago•••
Alright, @npub155m...dcvg upgraded to v2. Nostr plugin upgraded. Self-zap test worked. All good.
9 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.
10 hours ago•••
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2 days 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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