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2024-09-14 21:17:14

Making my own templates mining on @npub1qtv…7dze
Can't overstate how significant this is. https://image.nostr.build/f9c91fcef40608d4f71d341acdd453557485a132110e10bec2012e163b1707c4.png https://image.nostr.build/8d688620787f68471b8e3193ac06d0cb8242fd491a50200c0ebcff478b9389a2.png

2024-09-13 23:08:09

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I think @nprofile…vu4p is probably the guy who can relate the most here.

2024-09-13 21:37:14

This one hurt @npub1h8n…rpev https://image.nostr.build/165f68ca98fc5ec343a7bfa70726cf89eb6f11c1fac1e39e096dbc5ae56ed0bb.png
(I tired making the zap splits all go to Guy instead of me. Guilt free meme theft - only on Nostr!)

2024-09-12 19:15:43

Is there any Nostr client that'll tell you "Which Relay relayed this garbage 'reply guy' spam to me?" or more helpfully, just allow you to right click on any note and tell you which relays it was that relayed it?

2024-09-12 01:07:13

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I mention specifically in the video that it's not a journalist's job to provide solutions.
That said I think her complaints have turned into fear porn rather than informed critiques.

2024-09-11 21:39:15

My thoughts on Witless Webb's doomer porn (roughly 50% reasonable, 50% sensationalist BS):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_7OavJN9u4

2024-09-09 20:47:47

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Yes please

2024-09-09 20:42:52

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Lowest form of conversation

2024-09-09 19:41:21

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Boom. So good.
I can't believe how wrapped up in nonsense non-issues everyone is. Trump and Musk are our saviours because they align with us on moronic, manufactured controversies that no one will remember in a few years.

2024-09-09 18:35:23

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Clearly not

2024-09-06 20:35:39

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We're a pool, we have to keep track of data like that.

2024-09-06 18:54:35

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I have this relay I just don't want to remove all my other relays....

2024-09-06 17:42:27

Bitaxes are actually great for ROI.
@nprofile…wpxv - you just post a picture of it on Nostr when it shows up and get zapped 200x more than it'll ever mine.

2024-09-06 06:07:26

A miner on @npub1qtv…7dze found a block yesterday and another today.
The machines were 6 feet apart.
Pretty blown away by this. https://image.nostr.build/1d220a50a2e09a38138953f96eb0f771d1c29f1ae0577908f8f2531f74caed94.png

2024-09-03 19:53:28

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Point is to be remote/off site.

2024-09-03 19:41:35

I want to upload a massive, already-encrypted backup of my files.
I've been searching forever for a cloud-storage provider that doesn't pointlessly encrypt it again and thus cause the upload to take days instead of hours.
Does anyone know of such a service?

2024-09-01 04:08:47

The best aglo is no algo.
Algos turned us all into slaves.

2024-09-01 00:35:51

PSA: don't post screenshot of the specific VPN provider you use.

2024-08-31 02:14:33

You could be outraged about Brasil banning Twitter.
Of you could use Nostr and pay no attention.
It's a lot more funny when they try to ban decentralized protocols than centralized platforms.
Genuinely I think we'd all just laugh if they announced a Nostr ban.

2024-08-31 01:11:16

Let's see if I can make chuck taste good for once https://image.nostr.build/324ae77185f91e43b9bffb752e98a3b7d1d8bc545aa0687a98efb4f6dd6992b4.jpg

2024-08-30 22:10:34

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interesting! keep me in the loop

2024-08-30 02:24:05

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FOSS larps drive me nuts.

2024-08-29 20:25:06

Sell above 58k, buy below 58k, hodl at 58k.
Seems like the most guaranteed trading strategy in existence.

2024-08-29 19:58:03

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Yep, Knots as @nprofile…467y has packaged it fully integrated with other services on startOS

2024-08-29 19:15:05

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Any idea when Android?

2024-08-29 02:18:44

Moved Amethyst to the place on my phone home screen where Twitter used to be. https://image.nostr.build/db10f76070c2a019ebc4ff94e17c187dbd55d3beebb43652942da630e99c93ac.jpg

2024-08-29 02:07:10

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What alternative do you like?

2024-08-29 01:33:37

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Lost it at the shoe

2024-08-29 01:19:20

Yeah I've been consistently wondering why this has triggered so much talk of e2ee, though admittedly the main topic of conversation was around censorship resistance.
Really though, if everyone is pushed to encrypted apps away from Telegram then that's not a bad thing.
https://image.nostr.build/d9bb0bc86e82f1cd0f2387517b11d1040da3c18336f887e15c60fd45e1ffa3a0.png

2024-08-28 23:03:15

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yup

2024-08-28 04:03:32

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You just blew my mind

2024-08-28 02:21:29

There are people I've blocked on twitter who I follow on here.
It's just not full of the same algo-generated-doom-porn that makes us all want to strangle each other.

2024-08-27 23:39:16

People really need to stop equating privacy and anonymity.

2024-08-27 19:46:52

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I believe you Americans call it an "outage"

2024-08-27 08:16:22

Power cuts are gifts from God

2024-08-26 23:07:31

Getting more and more done with Twitter and Nostr is getting better and better https://image.nostr.build/9afe504e4a3ec7c297cee863d19083a474fef0e7890fcc0557bd86c5781c5d2b.png

2024-08-26 03:51:10

I've had beef liver in the deep freeze for over a year.
Is there some reason I shouldn't eat it?

2024-08-24 23:44:15

What do you do about spam DMs on nostr? There isn't a way to delete anything afaict?

2024-08-24 19:22:57

If your mempool is full of garbage, that's on you.
Stop running a public, unpaid service for scammers.

2024-08-20 16:02:09

Voting for whoever undoes the law making websites ask about cookies.

2024-08-19 19:45:08

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You know your audience

2024-08-19 19:44:49

Wrote "It's awesome" to someone and my phone autocorrected to "IRS awesome"
I just want to state unequivocally that the IRS is not in fact awesome.

2024-08-17 19:02:59

How I feel telling people not to take the fricken' vaccine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7FIiYsVy3U

2024-08-16 22:45:11

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Yes

2024-08-16 20:02:20

Use Knots
#Knotstr

2024-08-16 05:23:25

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I had a shirt with him on once.
Glad I'm not that guy anymore.

2024-08-15 05:19:03

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Good work!

2024-08-12 04:06:26

https://image.nostr.build/09fb98412c7b9f1a6a061f62ec0bc4e71d93e65bc22d01b5fb66a8cffd089d64.jpg

2024-08-09 07:23:09

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I'd enjoy it

2024-08-08 07:27:45

https://image.nostr.build/86f354b01fd1408fcdd1743535cc362bf80e18ba26f053e8235eccf8f6a70d2c.jpg

2024-08-04 19:12:14

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Nuclear*

2024-08-04 06:49:05

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I'll switch to 8%

2024-08-04 06:42:42

https://image.nostr.build/c4cb843a2a0e0299f43fd74f4010b569c5fa4a05f245d01b5f45143cd0563a75.png

2024-08-04 03:19:42

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Thanks!

2024-08-04 03:19:10

Drinking raw, 7% fat, A2 milk is undescribably good.

2024-08-01 07:03:14

Trying out coracle.social, couldn't get on with Primal or noStrudel.
Amethyst still my favourite experience but mobile only.

2024-07-29 15:09:13

Half n half is not cream.

2024-07-23 15:58:03

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That's a bass solo lol.
Disco was amazing

2024-07-23 04:24:53

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Welcome:)

2024-07-23 04:24:35

These guys could pocket (love how twitters algo makes posting YouTube pointless so I'm always reminded to come to Nostr for music poasting)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F_qZvbGEQI

2024-07-12 07:25:14

I miss when this guy was president https://image.nostr.build/93221e8ef047375220ffb6409b0a6848a143803828f00dbe20e3200c6ec1b159.jpg

2024-07-08 19:22:00

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Soon™

2024-07-07 20:05:08

Need to buy a smoker.
Way too many options.
Happy to spend $1k-$2k
Advice appreciated :)

2024-07-04 23:12:11

Livin' in America
https://youtu.be/c5BL4RNFr58?si=nHp4y2nrrltPiRjQ

2024-07-01 03:49:52

Had surgery a year ago, and drank coffee basically every day since in order to minimize inflammation.
I stopped again about two months ago and coffee was definitely a net negative for energy overall.
Nothing beats the buzz it gives first thing in the morning, but without it I'm able to be productive in afternoons and evenings again and sleep far better.

2024-06-29 03:34:08

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I'm a fan of Curtis, but not that one. Seems to be pointless Russia bashing for the most part. Maybe I need to rewatch it.

2024-06-29 03:33:23

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This is great too. I love Curtis' music selection in everything he makes.

2024-06-25 03:50:23

ASSANGE IS FREE

2024-06-21 01:39:28

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Near airport

2024-06-20 21:25:24

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iPhonely this worked on Android...

2024-06-20 19:54:30

Seed oil free restaurant in Miami?
I've been eating very well lately and don't want to rek it this week.

2024-06-19 15:14:36

The extent to which bitcoin can be used for arb data storage is the extent to which it sucks as a medium of exchange https://image.nostr.build/781b37952a98399ed90a40e08b64234cffc2a51b8adee60210fec036596b6840.jpg

2024-06-18 05:44:22

Nodes defend the network from miners doing invalid stuff.
Miners defend the network from other miners doing valid but malicious stuff.
The latter point is being forgotten.

2024-06-17 21:00:04

Iris is working quite poorly so I've switched to noStrudel for Desktop.
Seems functional but a confusing UI.
Nothing beats Amethyst on phone so far.

2024-06-17 20:57:38

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Agreed!

2024-06-16 14:29:09

30 hours of airplanes means 30 hours without eating.
Wish me luck kings.

2024-06-16 12:53:54

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Do the instructions here not work? Is it a char length issue? https://twitter.com/SeedSigner/status/1781073766300143725

2024-06-15 09:02:19

For anyone at BTCPrague I'm gonna be on the main stage in a bit over an hour

2024-06-14 07:50:04

All I'm gonna be able to think about in Nov https://image.nostr.build/51b4b97104b42eb65893ce791f885fa6fb0704a6f5b2e1b4515bd5c8c08e0d47.jpg

2024-06-08 07:33:10

Nostr is a mess.
Feels so right.

2024-06-07 01:42:02

Exhausted
Go to gym anyway
Push extremely hard
Leave with tonnes of energy?
How does this happen?

2024-05-31 09:54:19

Looking for a Nostr webclient that works nice with Firefox.
Iris keeps crashing for me lately.

2024-05-31 09:31:33

Early 70s music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7oilg2Satg

2024-05-31 02:47:13

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gracias!

2024-05-31 01:14:53

Wow just figured out Bitmain's latest fuckery in real time.
I'll give you the back story...
Once upon a time Bitmain was grinding merkle roots instead of nonces aka "covert ASICBOOST".
This gave them an advantage over other miners who didn't know this was possible. One company went out of business - KNC - citing "the Chinese having some secret advantage we don't know about" - which turned out to be true precisely for this reason.
It's one of the reasons ASIC manufacture is so centralized today and this is correctly identified by many as being one of the most vulnerable aspects of the entire bitcoin ecosystem.
The ASICBOOST issue came to a head when Bitmain used their influence to block the activation of SEGWIT (essential for Lightning) because it would break their ability to do it - at least covertly. Well, they would still be able to use asicboost, but just in an obvious way that would mean everyone else could do it too. They had patented it so as to try and prevent this because that's the kind of people we're dealing with here but I digress...
When asicboost was independently discovered by Greg Maxwell Bitmain lied and said they weren't in fact using it.
This was after years of bullshitting about segwit, with Bitmain pretending to be in favour of "alternative scaling solutions" or even doing segwit as a hard fork instead which would allow them to continue what they were doing.....
Absolutely nobody believed them thanks to GMax having reverse engineered one of their ASICs and demonstrating what they had built and tried to keep to themselves.
This was a watershed moment in the fork wars where everyone suddenly understood why Bitmain had been making nonsensical arguments against segwit forever. Wanting big/small blocks wasn't a related discussion. Segwit fixed TX malleability and was a no-brainer upgrade and in the end was combined with a block size increase anyway as a compromise.
So we proceeded with segwit anyway, at which point Bitmain switched to overt asicboost which is actually even more powerful, it just requires grinding version bits instead of merkle roots but it's obvious if a miner is doing this.
Now everybody does it so essentially the net effect of it being possible is zero, except your node asking you wtf miners are doing signalling for upgrades your node knows nothing about (upgrade coordination is what version bits are actually supposed to be used for).
Oh well, relatively little harm done. If you're happy to ignore the obvious dishonesty and effort to undermine what's arguably Bitcoin's most important ever upgrade.
Fun extra tidbit: Antbleed - an intentional backdoor with which Bitmain could remotely shutdown any Antminer in the world. They said it was for shutting down stolen ASICs but immediately patched it once it was discovered.
Anyway, this company now accounts for 25-30% of all blocks found, if you naively observe the blockchain.
That's not enough to spook anyone, but unfortunately many smaller pools are in fact just fronts for Bitmain which we know for three reasons:
1. The smaller pools are clearly using blocks constructed by, or for the benefit of, Antpool.
2. They share the same custodian of their newly mined coins (Cobo).
3. They have a lending program to bail out smaller pools who get in over their head due to FPPS.
And the trend is sadly in the wrong direction, given Braiins recently abandoning its old payout model and becoming just a simple proxy for Bitmain as result of switching to FPPS.
[Massive shoutout to @mononautical and @0xB10C for helping uncover how centralized pools have become. Those are their Tweeter handles, idk if they're on Nostr.]
Summary - Bitmain is not just Antpool, it probably accounts for >50% of block templates and manufactures >90% of the mining hardware in the world.
So where am I going with all this?
Amazingly, it's about empty blocks.
What does that have to do with anything?
Well, famously OCEAN has found 3 empty blocks in its short existence, causing many to wrongly make allegations of some sort of issue with the pool itself.
This spurred on endless debate about why pools make empty templates in the first place and the actual reason so many of them get solved.
In short, pools send empty templates then immediately follow up with full templates. So quickly, that the interim period accounts for a tiny minority of the empty blocks that get found on the network, and none of ours.
In all three cases with OCEAN, the miner solved the empty block long after already having a full template to work on -
- leaving the pool in a position to either throw away a perfectly good (but empty) block or to broadcast it to the network and get miners >90% of the reward of a full block. Obviously the latter makes sense and does zero harm to the network while still adding to the overall PoW necessary for any attacker.
So why would an empty block happen a few seconds after the pool had already sent an updated job for a full block?
Because Antminers suck.
*What we didn't realize was that they intentionally sucked.*
You can send an updated job to an Antminer and watch it continue to work on an old job for over 60 seconds in edge cases.
This was something we assumed was due to design of the ASIC itself, and thus just poor engineering on the part of Bitmain.
But it turns out we were wrong, it's due to Antminer firmware.
We know this because they just released a fix for it.
So Bitmain watched, while people kept mining empty blocks, everyone would wrongly attribute it to pools, while explainers on popular websites like mempool(.)space would offer wrong explanations about it happening due to pools being slow to send proper templates and seemingly no one would understand even the motivation for sending empty templates, let alone the reason they get worked on for so long.
But the fix being something that gets released right after OCEAN starts explaining what's really going on here is beyond reasonable doubt.
They had a fix for it, and have been using that fix for their own mining.
Now they can't get away with it because increasingly people are realizing that Whatsminers and ASICs from other manufacturers aren't finding anything like the amount of empty blocks because they switch jobs far more quickly.
An Antminer has a far greater likelihood of finding an empty block because it spends longer working on old jobs.
We've been out here yelling that the issue is with the ASIC *NOT* the pool.
The fact that Bitmain intentionally crippled the firmware on the Antminers they would sell to the world, while keeping more functional units for their own mining is typical of everything Bitmain.
Sure it can be incompetence and coincidental timing on the fix, but I sincerely doubt it.
The conversation around empty blocks reached the point where people were beginning to realize something was broken with Antminers and then they just happen to release a fix for it right after people finally start catching wind of what's really going on.
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So imagine this -
You sell shovels to gold miners, and as we all know, the people who make money during a gold rush are the people who sell the shovels.
But in this case the shovel seller is digging for gold himself too.
And he has intentionally sold crappy shovels to all of his customers so as give himself an advantage.
Empty blocks kept happening, people kept blaming pools.
OCEAN got attacked over it. We explained the real reason they happen so much, and Bitmain releases a fix right after.
Insane.
This goes further than empty blocks.
It's not just empty templates that take forever to work their way out of an Antminer, it's *all templates* and pools are constantly updating work as new transactions show up.
A super lucrative transaction shows up in your mempool?
All other pools are sending an updated job to hundreds of thousands of Antminers who will ignore it for a while, while Antpool has their miners working on it more quickly.
It's not hard to see the motivation for all this, especially going forward as TX fees become more and more important.
Again, insane.
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If you want to watch @wk057 and I figure this all out in real time, watch the video below which was just intended to be a discussion on why empty blocks happen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BkyhdxnDrM

2024-05-30 04:49:22

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Holepunch is OS ain't it? Just Keet client that isn't yet.

2024-05-29 16:34:11

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wcgw?

2024-05-28 09:50:44

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I haven't, we've never met.

2024-05-27 08:33:45

Made a video - first since September!
https://youtu.be/h-CA2wEFWPE?si=qOwXYNWcOLZI_x8a

2024-05-24 03:08:55

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at-last.mp3

2024-05-19 06:38:36

From '69 - '75 music making peaked.
You can't change my mind.

2024-05-18 08:32:59

The book of Proverbs

2024-05-10 18:42:24

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See the section about using connect=localip - I cheated the entire process by forcing Core to only use a synced node on my LAN via gigabit ethernet.

2024-05-10 07:48:28

2023 ruined IBD.
Sorry to post a Twitter link but I can't figure out a way to cross post it here and my client refuses to upload pictures.
https://x.com/GrassFedBitcoin/status/1788798634252759499

2024-05-10 06:17:00

Steak is becoming like vegetables for me.
I'm so sick of eating it but it's basically the healthiest food in existence.

2024-05-06 21:59:18

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Well it is like a reverse Dutch with an extra move.
He wrote a book on it and called it "The Polar Bear Opening"
He maintained that there's a psyop against 1. f4 lol.

2024-05-06 19:40:17

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Though admittedly he was usually more cautious in his tourney games and mainly used f4 in blitz.

2024-05-06 19:39:39

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man I wish Henreik Danielson's channel on youtube hadn't been deleted.
He was 1. f4 pilling the world.

2024-05-06 18:18:46

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Noice

2024-05-02 06:05:41

Bullish on the UTXO set!