dgy

Programmer, Bitcoiner & Cypherpunk

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2024-08-08 20:18:46

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What about a donation button on the list of relays in Amethyst? There is a donation button for Amethyst developers as well. So, why not one for relays? It should be easy within the app.

2024-08-05 21:12:48

Money enabled division of labor and trade. The example in economic books explaining "Coincidence of wants" with bartering e.g. shoes for a loaf of bread are silly and backwards. The profession of the shoemaker did not exist before the invention of money. There was no such bartering.

2024-08-01 18:07:58

Well, I guess there will be no zapping for the movie "God Bless Bitcoin" from my side. If you want to donate you would have to fill out a form at BitPay (they still exist?), really? That's seems from another era...

2024-06-16 15:53:02

"Bitcoin Development Philosophy" by @npub1g9y…y05t describes the core principles of software development in the bitcoin ecosystem such as decentralization, trustlessness etc. Principles that all developers in the space should be aware of. https://image.nostr.build/0958772862f5ff2e19105d07400d92c6f41ca88f4f17dc9d7f3826ea8bd12c2b.jpg

2024-06-10 19:46:24

The fate of the company DigiCash should be a warning to all Bitcoin companies that overeagerly comply with regulations. Diluting any of Bitcoins inherent principles makes your company just another fiat company.

2024-06-10 19:45:08

Is the fact that one can not delete a message in Nostr really hindering the adoption as some people are suggesting? Do traditional social media platform really delete your messages on request or do they only tell you that they did it and still use the information against you? The fact that you want to delete something is a perfect information about yourself and helps to create an even better personal profile. Your followers may not see it and therefore it just adds to the information asymmetry.

2024-06-03 19:35:26

The important question has not been asked in "Privacy Is Power" by Carissa Véliz:
Why? Why did the tech companies started collecting so many user data as possible to monetize them?
Because there was no internet native cash money at that time. A money that one could also use for very small amounts and from everywhere in the world.
Now we have.
Bitcoin helps to fix the privacy problem as well.

2024-06-02 14:50:58

My conclusion after reading "Tor: From the Dark Web to the Future of Privacy" by Ben Collier:
The interconnection between Bitcoin and Tor has not fully be identified in this book.
The main goals of the cypherpunks (public key encryption, anonymous communication, cyber cash) are all connected and have to work together to reach at an anonymous, censorship resistance value transfer protocol through cyberspace. However there is one non-technical element that has to be understood: Money has to be verifiable scarce and there can only be one in the end: Bitcoin.
Therefore Web3 and the broader term "cryptocurrency" are buzz words and distractions.
Tor on the other hand is integrated in many Bitcoin apps and some are exclusively running over Tor e.g. Bisq. It is happening.

2024-05-31 15:51:48

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Only collecting HTTP errors? On Twitter it was quite popular to share error screens among developers. Especially blue screens from ATMs, vending machines, display boards etc. We just need some nice hash tag :-) https://image.nostr.build/d7ea39c77f0af62534a6e38fd1a1619f682ac80db7ab5c6b05e082f69cce0d64.jpg

2024-05-30 19:31:48

I finally got my copy of the number one comic in the bitcoin space: #TheLittleHODLer by @npub1clf…k28k https://image.nostr.build/9ba9f8f4b620a056da377f4c104efaf69fc07c9c22aed620c22e00cfaeae168e.jpg

2024-05-12 15:21:09

I recently upgraded electrs on my node by cross compiling from source. Thanks for the good documentation :-)

2024-05-01 19:35:10

One thing I was missing when reading "100 Java Mistakes and How to Avoid Them" by Tagir Valeev is the mentioning of Lombok. With the latter one can avoid many mistakes as well and code generated with Lombok is always up-to-date. IDE generated code may become outdated and may be verbose in plain sight.

2024-04-22 18:33:39

@npub1py2…238z Where can we buy your new book with Bitcoin?

2024-04-09 20:02:23

A bitcoin developer doesn't necessarily have to be a bitcoiner because being a committer to a widely used FOSS project always looks good as a line item on the CV.

2024-03-02 10:15:21

"Introduction to Bitcoin" by @npub1h9t…2y7q is a up to date introduction to bitcoin also covering the lightning network and Nostr. It is also hinting at the implication that the fusion of the communication and the money protocol will bring to world.
https://image.nostr.build/509497e48548c1d7608afb5668caee6fce72a97cefb666d3822bcb5e74a16d47.jpg

2024-02-26 21:04:48

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2024-02-23 17:33:00

As we now have "Konsenus Network", "The Saif House" etc. for some time it seems an anachronism in 2024 to sell bitcoin related books solely at places that do not accept bitcoin directly. It is somehow a contradiction as if the author does not believe himself what he is writing about.

2024-02-20 19:39:03

"Bitcoin and The Trust Problem" by @npub1t2j…hgkn discusses Bitcoin from a social perspective. It explains the problem with the crumbling trust in the existing social systems and the emerging new social layers from Bitcoin like pseudonymity, maximalism etc.
https://image.nostr.build/66394cc11a9344af0a8cd2f3010d8310f092234d8e748c0b5b2e9a4975c65a4c.jpg

2024-02-17 15:44:24

The violet pilling (aka nostr onboarding) did not yet reached its peek. There are still people from the bitcoin community complaining on podcasts about bad customer support and hacked twitter accounts.

2024-02-11 16:38:12

"Mind, Decentralised" by @npub1de8…0ezd reminded me again that positive energy and active unlearning help to escape the fiat prison.
https://image.nostr.build/e9546aaf1c322ec0935daa50d8bc06c5e196abf052996c4415f3a0937e8719f6.jpg

2024-01-31 20:15:28

There will be more not fewer transaction in a hyperbitcoinized world because microtransactions are solving the subscriptions (aka too much I do not want) and the advertisement problem (aka the consumer is the product). With microtransaction you can pay what you value and what you consume even if that costs only a fraction of a cent. With the fiat system it is not economically feasible to pay a fraction of a cent. Long live HTTP 402.

2024-01-23 20:42:12

How can a bitcoin maximalist disdain shit coin but somehow be neutral about shitty tokens issued on the bitcoin blockchain using inscriptions and justify it with the fee market working as designed? That it is not consistent.

2024-01-09 20:09:37

And because the spammers will find other ways to spam we should all throw the towel and do nothing. That is not cypherpunk.

2024-01-07 12:55:25

Not using bitcoin for payments and not having places accepting bitcoins is a centralizing force as in this case you can only sell bitcoin for fiat on an exchange and these are the regulatory choke points anyway.

2024-01-04 20:24:48

Bitcoin maximalism is based on first principle whereas a fiat mindset is based on opportunism. Because of that the former will prevail as the latter is unstable and changes all the time.

2024-01-02 14:22:11

"Gradually, Then Suddenly" by @npub1w69…zltw is a nicely edited compilation of these timeless blog post series with the same name. I particularly liked the high resolution diagrams.
https://image.nostr.build/af672f4882e42dd418da42166c66e176564dbd4580424ae55cadf056e5f77c6f.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=987x1468&blurhash=%5EdEWI7tRs%2CWAjFjY%3FwWBj%5BWBWBfk%3FwRjM%7BofV%40j%5DtSWBaeofaej%5Bxujuf6j%5Daxa%7DRPWCoLfjj%5Ba%7DMwayj%5BWCkCayV%3FkBf8WBj%5BayMwWBj%5Df5ofay&x=9232a3e8ce281266da1c783d7a24db583952a327fa6e056ab03cac51a2693abd

2024-01-01 14:29:10

Spamming should be expensive for the spammer not for the people being spammed. So relaxing the OP_RETURN limit seems to be wrong. Sure people will find ways to add arbitrary data to the time chain but it should be expensive for them and not subsidized even further.

2023-12-30 16:59:07

"Works as designed" is such a lame excuse for ignoring the inscription spam. The Bitcoin ecosystem of 2023 looks completely different than the one in 2009. A lot of stuff has been added and it will never by finished. Calling out the problem and taking action will be required as long as the system is running.

2023-12-29 14:24:09

At the moment there are three groups of users in Bitcoin:
1) People that want to improve the efficiency of block space usage in the long run (low time preference)
2) People wasting block space for inscriptions (high time preference)
3) People that think everything is fine (no time preference)
What are you?

2023-12-20 16:40:43

Refilling a channel by buying Bitcoin over the lightning network using @npub1zv7…82ke is exciting. However it could be more private e.g. supporting Tor and login with LNURL-auth etc. so that fewer parties can spy on you.

2023-12-19 20:57:37

If you have to use the "Web Developer Tools" in the browser to copy some text from a webpage then this website is quite dysfunctional.

2023-12-18 19:49:50

Some helpful books about Bitcoin mining: "Bitcoin Mining Handbook" and "Bitcoin Mining Economics" by Daniel Frumkin
https://image.nostr.build/675c1e3d27e0902554167e5be6382b055f2772519bff376b79d53c6fe2704f87.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1445x1083&blurhash=%23QHdBING%7D%3BR%2BsnWBNdofNH%24*R*afjtW%3Boesmj%40WW%2CooLJCoJNaoMn%24WBs%3AxaayS2jZNbWVoLbHo0-UayNGjsfkayoLbHaye-WVofj%5BoLj%5BWBWVj%5BR*a%7CofayjZfkj%5BWVo0&x=4b81f74d7d64f2775673c5e24c054a56ce9753797a19f0bb9e54eb1ad4d7378a

2023-12-17 16:25:48

The folks at the social news websites are somehow excited about the fact that fees are higher than the block subsidy but they do not seem to realize that this spam attack introduced by inscriptions may stall adoption of bitcoin for some time. The current situation is not helpful for opening lightning channels etc. and the migration of some load to Liquid etc. will take time.

2023-11-30 15:45:16

"Not your pity but your courage has so far saved the unfortunate." Nietzsche was a critic of a system that glorified the weak. Don't shoot the messenger.

2023-11-05 10:41:42

In "Fiat Food" by Matthew Lysiak another gargantuan scam is revealed and the reasons behind are explained clearly.
https://image.nostr.build/24fc0fb94c571196fd1fc961b1e5c3464b7715da8f95553e2e2baacf9e9599e0.jpg

2023-10-26 19:19:09

"Bitcoin: Separation of Money and State" by SatsJoseph provides a nice overview about the topic and references a lot of further readings for bitcoiners that are interested in the topic of separation of money and state. It also includes funny memes and the "Ten Commandments" for bitcoiners ;-)
https://image.nostr.build/51d375a5c7c9fd70d5f4fe7901252e913871cc8c2dfbeef9b302b966e59610dd.jpg

2023-10-20 15:11:23

I did not yet heard the N word on the stage at the Lugano’s Plan ₿ Forum: Nostr :-)

2023-10-20 14:43:31

I guess you would be an outsider if you not pay with lightning at the Lugano’s Plan ₿ Forum :-)

2023-10-19 22:10:27

Yes, paying with lightning is real in Lugano.

2023-10-02 20:18:16

All the bad influence fiat money has in our society is nicely described in "Fiat Ruins Everything" by @npub10vl…sp42
https://image.nostr.build/d49e06ace18861c0631af021b9f18be89eb1131514524340d88b1afd1f539df9.jpg

2023-09-16 15:11:19

On twitter these pictures of public destination boards showing error messages or any other unwanted internals have been collectibles. Are they as well on Nostr? This one taken inside a tram seems to run on a Windows version that is not really supported anymore.
https://image.nostr.build/a6f86dd6334527bde0e4b6c95fd5e4fa79c57f0e3d8976dad847b65c0923c750.jpg

2023-09-11 16:21:58

Everything about all the ledgers and the difference between transaction speed versus settlement speed you can read about in "Broken Money" by @npub1a2c…w83a. It is also the first printed book I have read mentioning Nostr.
https://image.nostr.build/293e4453f0b557835046662a721c1fa0c31ece0a0d5d5ad6436b0c2390644479.jpg

2023-08-27 14:12:34

"A Functional Approach to Java" by Ben Weidig is so far the best book about Java I read in 2023.
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/56d7a56c887b154258b37830cdd9d1c3a4c272c88c9c1c805a157bb769f04efe.jpg

2023-08-20 09:38:49

All anarchocapitalist Bitcoin entrepreneurs should be aware of the quintessence from "The Arsonists" by Max Frisch: It is useless to be nice to an arsonist because in the end he will do what is his nature and this is burning down houses. Hence playing nice with bureaucrats and regulators is also futile because in the end they will do what is in their nature and that is castrating and destroying your business. Anarchocapitalist are following natural law.

2023-08-13 08:28:33

I really like chapter 13 from "The philosophy of Bitcoin" by Álvaro D. María. It only contains the word "nothing" and is the answer to the question what the states can do against Bitcoin.
https://i.nostrimg.com/4598557788ff65a510271ec10c4e1015857237c0a4773d200bb69da10ebd65bb/file.jpg

2023-08-08 21:37:59

A majority of reachable bitcoin nodes are running through the Tor network, but there are still "crypto companies" like Bitrefill that somehow think that using IP addresses is a reliable practice to detect where their users are located :-(
https://i.nostrimg.com/ddcc13efdcb335228f84dbafae45306bbaf23715048dda49e82f56ad4cf11913/file.png

2023-08-03 17:00:00

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On Nostr I would say some violet pilling (=Nostr and free speech) is going on as well ;-)

2023-08-03 10:45:39

I learned some interesting details about the Vikings and modern time speculators while reading Fraudcoin by @npub1sv4…srw4
https://i.nostrimg.com/e42619ec3df4b4e909ad3e911317fa90ba88a4c4878f391c0a46afeb504aa2d8/file.jpg

2023-08-02 19:08:48

Winning without a bloody battle is the highest competence according to "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu. That is what UASF did on August 1st 2017.

2023-07-18 20:48:00

The "problem" with Bisq is that it is a hodler square in the first place. If price is down no one is stelling near that price ;-)

2023-07-18 20:28:29

@npub1ale…2xlt are there plans to open source the Android client app of Relai so that the app can be easily installed on a degoogled smartphone? Threema and ProtonMail did the same.

2023-07-16 09:39:58

Read about a lot of space-related and philosophical ideas in this book "Abundance Through Scarcity" by Ioni Appelberg.
https://i.nostrimg.com/be83ff3434557b5d67be7072842a3778f58058252f699f8f2b1cb868e814d3cd/file.jpg

2023-07-11 20:19:10

Currently I think that coracle.social is the best web based Nostr client that can be used with Tor.

2023-07-09 10:09:01

I do not consider to buy anything at online platform that does not allow me to browse the catalog of items beforehand anonymously using Tor.

2023-07-04 20:52:06

Blixt is a very nice lightning wallet to connect to your node at home over Tor for doing payments.

2023-07-04 20:51:08

A lot of books about Bitcoin and related topic such as Austrian economics have been published this year. Writing books is a sign of low time preference and so perfectly aligned with the topic itself.

2023-06-30 10:59:15

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2023-06-27 16:31:17

Even if you pay for using three parking spaces in a crowded car parking it is still not a nice behavior. So paying the fee for the ordinals stuff on Bitcoin leaves a bad smell anyway that should not be excused (they paid the fee) or even encourage (we need a fee market).
In the realm of anarchism this problem is a ridge walk and also known as the "bad neighbor problem" (Hans-Hermann Hoppe). In the end the people in the bitcoin community share some values that is transacting value and therefore the bad neighbors dumping garbage on the blockchain are not welcomed and should leave.

2023-06-25 19:38:44

"The Bitcoin Handbook" by @npub14hn…a32x is really a colorful book with helpful graphics showing facts nicely.
https://i.nostrimg.com/02d8ac9380372cecd4b07a7d79f73e6c7e87c11f75c72c9a8e3cc7834460763a/file.jpg

2023-06-24 16:55:48

It's a pity that snort.social does not work properly anymore with Tor :-( All profile names and pictures are not resolved anymore.

2023-06-23 17:50:30

Pleasure to reread these inspiring essays by @npub1mz7…tl8g in this wonderful little book.
https://i.nostrimg.com/d419e3a286779d40f9e0518d6ad4add417a92691aa8cac6cd5563e53508b72ed/file.png

2023-06-21 16:42:19

Finished reading "Praxeology" by @npub1jt9…la9y. Bitcoin not even mentioned in the chapter about money ;-)
https://i.nostrimg.com/a9219b9f2f1a9cb25d94ddfcd99cefe8acbce281fcafe22590573006ba39cafc/file.jpg

2023-06-08 20:44:24

Buying a VPN service at https://lnvpn.net/ for one hour for 377 ₿ sats paid with lightning 🗲 is an incredible innovation.

2023-05-30 20:29:42

When reading "Principles of Economics" by @npub1gdu…6nak one have to be aware that here the word "fiat" as a slightly negative connotation that has been introduced in the "Fiat Standard" 😉

2023-05-19 10:54:42

Started reading "Principles of Economics" by @npub1gdu…6nak
Quite a pleasure reading such a high quality hardcover book.
https://i.nostrimg.com/beedd66cc7d5531c361e842ff1ba18ea38d3af6593b35411413a471551628767/file.jpg

2023-05-19 10:24:54

The leading voices in Bitcoin are changing fast like at the Tour de France when speed is high and everyone in the main field is only leading at the front for less than a minute. That is healthy and quite the opposite to politics where people are sticking to their posts for a lifetime and can not retire even if they are already mentally impaired.

2023-05-09 17:32:23

Dead code is a code smell and should be removed. That also applies to Bitcoin scripts. From a development point of view removing ordinals would make sense. A lot of care is taken to make block usage as efficient as possible, but removing dead code is not a priority? //cc @npub1wnl…n3wr

2023-05-08 20:58:38

Somehow a déja vu: Which mining pool adds large transaction that are not expected according to mempool.space? A random sample would suggest that they are the same pools that wanted larger looks in 2017 e.g ViaBTC
https://mempool.space/block/0000000000000000000554fb3c9c64cbbdc9af21420649f6cec436684fcab759

2023-05-08 19:37:40

As a business you may say that customers demand that you support some altcoins, but following this demand has high opportunity costs, because it binds resources that will not be invested in Bitcoin. Supporting altcoins is high time preference. Investing in second layer Bitcoin is low time reference.

2023-05-04 20:43:42

It would be nice to have the #ProtonMailAndroidApp on #F-Droid as well. #Threema is available there as well. If one is concerned about privacy it seems somehow obvious to me to avoid the google play store, isn't it?

2023-05-04 20:31:06

Somehow a classical UX error for email verification links: Created for clearnet although the user is logged in via the onion site. Happened to me twice this week.

2023-04-26 18:36:23

"You Don't Change Bitcoin, Bitcoin Changes You". Except some liberals as it seems as they try to shoehorn Bitcoin into their believe systems like in this book "A Progressive's Case for Bitcoin". Unfortunately this book is not about a Bitcoin journey. It is standstill on the old paradigm of left and right. It is really disappointing that #BitcoinMagazine publish such a lame book.

2023-02-28 16:40:34

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2023-02-01 19:55:38

Hello, World!