rudy
Rudy Nutstink

Why won’t miners support a fork that increases the total supply of bitcoin to maintain block subsidies? I feel like its because it hurts the main value proposition of the thing they are mining, but is there anything else that might dissuade miners from a move
like this in the future?

2024-04-04 17:17:07

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered.... I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
- Thomas Jefferson
#note15zh…34r9

2024-04-04 17:16:10

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Exactly, the whole underlying policy is a mess. I was just making the point that its going to hurt some of the very goals our government claims they are championing. But you won’t see the anger about this, because its still too abstract for any average person to know that they will never own anything.

2024-04-04 17:14:08

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I completely agree, my general problem with the entire thing is really that the US has hinged its entire middle class’ life quality on the dream of owning a home. And its quickly fading for literally anyone outside the top 15%.

2024-04-04 15:20:30

Rare politically charged post Rudy Nutstink.
Where is race rage on the demographics of home buyers in 2023? The singular US policy to help middle class families save is investing in a home. Everything else is fairly out of reach and risky. And they have made that savings vehicle so unaffordable they are effectively cutting people who are black and hispanic out of this one hope of storing value. The wealth disparity among races will not shrink, and will in fact grow because of this. And the government will not shoulder the blame for this horrendous policy when all is said and done.
https://m.primal.net/HrJV.jpg

2024-04-01 18:08:17

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How can we make recommendations for adding to the categories?
They are in a pretty raw form, but I am actively working on improving them. Its american sports accounts created on a per league basis. So far I have
@npub1nh5…sfnn
@npub1qca…xvnv
@npub1ntp…e0px
@sportstrNBA

2024-04-01 17:06:20

Just had my first open source code contribution merged 🥹

2024-03-31 16:35:33

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I recently decided the same, the primal app made a biiiig difference in my user experience

2024-03-31 16:26:21

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Bumping this all day

2024-03-31 13:50:13

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Ah typo, do *not* put your hope and trust in anything but Christ

2024-03-31 13:45:12

Reminder that bitcoin is quite the creation, but do you not put your hope and trust in anything but your Creator. Christ is risen, he has conquered death.
”For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.“
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭2‬:‭8‬-‭10‬ ‭ESV‬‬

2024-03-31 01:28:03

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Thank you! It definitely has a lot of room for improvement and so I’ll keep the people in the loop on new features and developments

2024-03-29 16:31:05

New release v1.2.0 introduces live score updates, final score updates, and daily game slate posts. Also added NBA @npub1rj7…49t5
https://github.com/jbrauck-unchained/sportstr/releases/tag/v1.2.0
#note1mak…28j4

2024-03-29 16:18:24

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Very helpful read, I really appreciate you passing it along!

2024-03-29 03:09:09

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I don’t understand all of the debates, do we have any visualizations for the outbox model vs whatever the other side is? Or any other good reads on this?

2024-03-28 03:19:57

How tf did this even happen
#note19rz…w230

2024-03-27 17:42:03

Welp I think my sportstr app got banned from a relay. Probably bc my relay connection methods are pretty abusive. Need to go back to the drawing board I think 😔

2024-03-27 16:47:04

KYC on thoughts was always the end game. Also idk if nostr fixes this. I guess it makes it harder to enforce, but these clients aren’t gonna be so accessible on your favorite app store.
#note13zg…uexj

2024-03-27 14:45:44

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Feels like Apple could have used this video before working the Apple VisionOS

2024-03-26 15:27:39

A complete tragedy in Baltimore with the bridge collapse.
But I don’t think it’s wrong to immediately demand answers why a bridge in one of the most highly trafficked bays in America couldn’t handle a barge hitting it without a total collapse.

2024-03-25 16:11:31

An incredible experience, the team did a great job with this.
https://x.com/unchainedcom/status/1772271161000259806

2024-03-25 03:11:12

Pushed updates that dockerized the project and its now running 24/7 on my home server. No more interruptions bc my laptop shutoff and the cron job didn’t fire.
Up next is live scores for halftime, fulltime, day schedules, and upset alerts. Periodic standings etc
#note1hcs…z2mz

2024-03-24 12:24:30

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Thats a great story and I think individual stories are not without their own merit. But I am talking about the large majority of the next generation. And my claim isn’t even that their test scores are lower, or their behaviors are erratic and unacceptable (which they are). They lack basic intuition on almost anything. They have all had their dopamine receptors fried by age 4 and can’t muster any level of interest in understanding something that isn’t immediately apparent to them. We have overwhelmed our children with path of least resistance and now they don’t know anything outside of that.
Good parenting at home has been the only thing that is saving children from this really doomish future. But it’s surprisingly a lot smaller of a cohort than you would think.
These are definitely judgements, but its what I have been able to gather watching my wife teach in the public school system these last few years. Covid lockdowns did a number on our society.

2024-03-24 04:44:58

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I’m not too sure about this. The kids growing up today don’t know shit about anything. Like at all.

2024-03-23 16:00:36

Embarrassing to admit but I just learned the block reward in the coinbase transaction is time locked for 100 blocks

2024-03-23 15:22:23

“Rudy, Mint shuts down on Ma‍rch 23, 2024.*
Now’s the time to make your move to Credit Karma. By doing so, you can keep your entire net worth history, all of your Mint transactions and your supported account connections – that’s history you don’t want to lose.”
Credit Karma bought all of my financial data, not the mint app.

2024-03-22 21:03:57

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Make sure the LN address in settings > wallet is the same as the one listed when you edit your profile. People may be tipping to a different LN URL.

2024-03-22 20:59:51

TOO MANY WALLET OPERATIONS #zapathon

2024-03-22 14:55:31

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Jeff I appreciate you posting on nostr. I think you’re my only real macro follow here on nostr. Convince your peers to commit as well!

2024-03-22 13:36:01

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I would be it was more of a liability and regulatory situation.

2024-03-21 18:20:34

A huge problem is conveying to the average person just how valuable and dangerous their information and data is.

2024-03-20 04:05:40

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I think with most nascent technology, the user experience lacks and can be quite rough around the edges. The nostr network is very young but onto something good. Clients like the primal app have bridged major gaps in the experience and so its just going to take great engineers to build a better experience.
For tiktok, a client that resembles that same style of scrollable video feed would be a great start to make the newcomers stick, and I would bet someone is already hitting the ground running on that.
But really for users of the network, its just going to take a lot willpower until those upgrades come. Its a very grassroots movement and if you are lucky enough to hang with it through that time, you will see something really amazing grow. Just gonna take time!

2024-03-20 03:41:04

Not buying that the tiktokers are here and are just loving it way way more than tiktok. Lets not be naive.
Happy if we get even 10% of newcomers from anywhere to stick on the first try.

2024-03-20 03:39:36

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Tell me, was it an old start9 embassy?

2024-03-19 18:43:35

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I can actually keep the current rss feed sources. I think I might just use espn’s api for score updates, starting rosters, league standings update, etc.

2024-03-19 16:28:00

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And I hear ya, but its free sports data so long as its not abused and I think that isa benefit for the good folks of nostr

2024-03-19 16:23:58

Okay no one told me espn’s api for literally everything is 100% free why tf am I using fox sports rss feeds

2024-03-19 13:49:31

Okay I fork relay implementation and damus app this weekend. We’ll see if it works.

2024-03-19 12:38:33

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a given of course 🤝

2024-03-19 12:25:10

Is there a telegram or something where I can ask other nostr devs things? I think I am onto a really good idea

2024-03-19 03:59:20

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This all works well for the content consumer, but create a discovery problem for the content creators. For folks looking for reach, they have to pick the best pay walled relay. And thats not great for decentralization.
Other thoughts would be to integrate some sort of follow + connect to private relay.
For instance if I were some big shot like Lyn Alden. I would run my own relay to own my own data. Then I would connect to popular client relays for discoverability, buy my posts would only go to my private relay. And when you follow me, you get an automatic connection my relay. Maybe a one time zap to do it to prevent spam connections.

2024-03-19 03:51:47

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Or maybe scratch the whole zaps go to them. I just offer the fact the content is worth something. Or that they can build their own. Maybe a paid relay should be offering the people something more. Create a competition. Relays may actually need to broker deals with content creators. Bring some capitalism to nostr.

2024-03-19 03:49:31

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Some possible solutions to this:
A whitelist deal? Reach out to a popular paid relay (cough cough 🍷) and ask them for free lifetime connection if the lightning address for zaps goes to their wallet. Now they can make these content bots a part of the suite of content you get when you connect?
But this creates centralization… oi

2024-03-19 03:46:12

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On one hand, this adds costs to spam bots thus limiting their reach and probably how things should be.
On another hand, my little bot friends that bring me content, will be just that. Only for me, bc it otherwise will cost me $10 per bot per year to get them on a paid relay. I know its not much, but its not a cost I am willing to volunteer just to unlock the value for everyone else.

2024-03-19 03:42:53

I had read that a paid relay gets content more engagement and reach and I don’t fully understand why. But @npub180c…h6w6's experiment obviously displays thats difference.
I am torn how I feel about it.

2024-03-19 00:52:21

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Its true, I realized when sports news aren’t getting spoon fed to you by an algorithm, you gotta learn how to write an RSS sports news bot that posts this stuff for you.
So I made @npub1nh5…sfnn @npub1qca…xvnv and @npub1ntp…e0px. It was a good way to spend downtime on a weekend 👍

2024-03-18 19:15:53

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Sports:
@npub1nh5…sfnn
@npub1qca…xvnv
@npub1ntp…e0px
Its a project I just started this weekend. Its purely just for me to get some sports on my feed and is just fetching some rss feeds. It aint much but I am hoping to expand on it.
https://github.com/jbrauck-unchained/sportstr
also @npub1qsp…5afj does great content
#sportstr

2024-03-18 02:44:05

Okay, sportstr V1 is pushed to github!
https://github.com/jbrauck-unchained/sportstr
You may not love sports but you may have another passion you want to create a nostr bot account for!
The accounts currently live are
@npub1nh5…sfnn
@npub1qca…xvnv
@npub1ntp…e0px
@npub1xj2…jsaw
Still lots of work to be done and sports to add!
Please share so that more “did you catch the game last night?” guys come to nostr! Nostr is for everyone!

2024-03-17 20:34:48

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hello ser 👋

2024-03-17 08:45:47

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They judge this with a metric called tps (transactions per second) and its very flawed. But that being said, on the base layer XRP has orders of magnitude more capacity like 7 tps vs 3000 tps.
Lightning can theoretically handle millions per second, though this is limited in a way by the base layer entry.
Lastly, other chains beat out bitcoin on base layer speed because bitcoin doesn’t compromise decentralization for performance enhancements which cryptos like XRP have done unashamedly.

2024-03-17 08:21:01

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I think I fixed it, I was tinkering with the lightning url recently. Thanks for the heads up!

2024-03-17 03:50:04

Going to bed bullish on nostr bc I have an actual viable plan to get sports scores and news to my feed, so I don’t I need to crawl back to twitter again.

2024-03-17 03:48:59

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New 13%er cohort just dropped

2024-03-17 03:33:12

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Trying out primal was pretty much a game changer for me. Integrated wallet, and super smooth UI was perfect. Content not as vast here, but thats not a hard problem to fix.

2024-03-17 03:27:04

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This is the post I saw
https://primal.net/e/note16hwvv3q46sr55yxudnw2a2rvedqyey2gqfw3kmn6cgvr3s8zxzzs0ar2ag

2024-03-17 03:26:09

I saw a post tn that really does have me thinking. “Be the change you want to see in the world”
bitcoiners are good at this generally, but there is still a good number of prominent bitcoiners latched to the reach they get on twitter. Lot’s of arguments to be made, but this move to decentralized social media is incredibly important for the future of freedom of speech. We should urge these bitcoiners to move exclusively to nostr (or at least make a tool that lets them post to both).

2024-03-17 03:22:29

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I totally agree with this. We have some very prominent bitcoiners that tried nostr and have since gone back to their old ways (I did this too though I am a pleb), but we should urge them to force this move like @npub1qny…95gx and @npub1der…xzpc did.
This is proof of work, lets make this future happen.

2024-03-17 01:31:18

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Am I about to create gamblstr?

2024-03-16 20:27:33

Okay thats enough work on the lil sports bots for today. I think they should be fetching and firing every 30 min if there is something new to look at. I am gonna clean them up some more tomorrow. But for now we put the laptop down and pick up some beers 🍻
Happy St Patricks weekend! 🍀
NCAA CBB: @npub1ntp…e0px
MLB: @npub1qca…xvnv
NFL @npub1nh5…sfnn

2024-03-16 18:50:03

anotha one, heating up
#note1kv5…k4ck

2024-03-16 18:04:31

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@npub1c0r…qs7w @npub12rz…hrv9 @npub160t…yjc9
since yall had some interest in my post surrounding this a few days ago

2024-03-16 18:02:52

WE’RE LIVE LFG
This is the beginning of nostsports
#note1rm5…errk

2024-03-16 16:55:14

nostr fails to scratch my fried dopamine receptors like twitter does
but this a feature not a bug, its time to start healing

2024-03-15 14:50:12

Alright fam I think I have an idea for getting us the latest NFL news. Stay tuned.

2024-03-15 03:31:16

#asknostr
can yall help our new friend out? they seem interested and I simply don’t know enough about nostr yet!
#note1umy…mwy9

2024-03-15 03:27:47

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The creator of nostr @npub180c…h6w6 has also done work in the bitcoin community. Lots of bitcoiners are the open source contributors to these clients and have even took implementing features like “zaps” which are micropayments denominated in sats (smallest bits of bitcoins) paid over the lightning network (instant and feeless)
You can zap someone as small as 1 sat (fraction of a cent) if you like.

2024-03-15 02:58:37

What client are these tik tok migrators using? #asknostr

2024-03-15 02:51:55

#introductions
since we have so many new peeps
I am fairly technical bitcoiner, advanced knowledge of multisig, node runner.
I am a husband, soon to be father, and most importantly a follower of Christ.
I love this country and I love history.

2024-03-14 16:56:00

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Would love to see what that does! I have thought about maybe scraping espn or something bc lots of apis for sportsball cost $$$.
I am willing to tinker with this as well and I’ll ping you if I come up with anything.

2024-03-14 16:51:02

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I think news/articles if anything. I am big into fantasy football and its been tough keeping up with off season moves away from twitter.
And yeah in general score updates, especially with march madness around the corner!

2024-03-14 16:49:40

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I follow them and its sort of okay. A lot more soccer than anything else. I want to keep up with news like NFL offseason moves. Still a good follow though.

2024-03-14 16:03:28

Does anyone run an American sports relay? I loved twitter for keeping up with NFL, NBA, MLB, and college sports news.

2024-03-14 04:16:22

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Any client can be banned. For instance I am writing this note from the primal app. But there are dozens of other clients like Damus, Nostur, Snort, and more all plugged into the nostr network. And that network can’t be banned because all of these notes are being relayed by nodes (servers) being run by individuals like myself. Think of it like a giant game of whack-a-mole for try and ban it.

2024-03-13 20:09:50

@npub1q7x…90jl is incredible for my family.

2024-03-13 15:04:00

It feels like just last week we were all horned up about eNuts. Slick UI, even cooler use of a demo server that they don’t control as the default mint.
Maybe I have my facts wrong, either way the optics on this sucks ass.

2024-03-12 19:27:12

I think a “shit my pants thats so crazy” moment for me is when I learned that “borrowing” meant “borrowing from our future generations with no intention of paying it back”

2024-03-12 16:20:19

This is my wife. We are bringing the moms to nostr LFG
#note1lpf…zp74

2024-03-12 02:27:34

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My wife and I just did the latter. We couldn’t really do the former bc we got married so young. So I know it could be better if I did some things differently.
But its crazy thats what is being asked of younger people just to make it. You can’t afford to start a family young anymore, and its probably why its not so popular. And most people my age don’t realize how wrong it all is.
Its all very depressing, but aye bitcoiners are out here to build a better future 🤝

2024-03-12 02:03:58

I seriously can’t fucking believe how much everything costs. Starting a life is so damn hard. Student loans, mortgage, taxes, and insurance are 80% of my income. How the fuck is anyone supposed to live this way, let alone save anything.
And I have it really really good. Can’t imagine what others are going through.

2024-03-11 16:29:34

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Yep, after confirming what he was referring to he said “split, halving its the same thing”
smh 🤦‍♂️

2024-03-11 16:10:24

No coiner friend just asked me “when is the split going to happen”
It seems there is still a lot more bull ahead of us

2024-03-11 12:52:54

GOOD FUCKING MORNING

2024-03-10 15:45:43

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This is a very fair opinion. His methods have been anything but ethical. He is absolutely some degree of a dictator, but not in the same way the connotation suggests. He has done what is necessary to bring good to the people of El Salvador.

2024-03-10 02:48:57

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This is the way
https://primal.net/e/note18x0jqnuwwcrmdw8ucarphvpc5r6g4fwxkauttp5fqk3068pwxrsql3p5su

2024-03-10 02:13:33

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You also trust your hardware device’s secure element. And you trust its generating a seed phrase with *actual* randomness. And you also trust someone else’s node. And you also trust your not being MITM attacked on a deposit.
And this may not all apply to you and we are all learning. But believe it or not, there’s a lot of trust still existing in the hold your own keys camp.
Coinbase Custody offers a really secure institutional product, but yeah these funds should absolutely be looking at where there are still gaps in that security and how they can improve. Solely holding their own keys would scare the absolute shit out of me though.

2024-03-10 01:56:19

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Coinbase custody is a lot more secure of a solution than you think.

2024-03-09 20:53:33

“E Pluribus Unum” is a phrase I don’t often enough reflect on. Its important to remember where we began, what the vision for this great country was, and to love your fellow American.
It was in these rooms where our first congress would meet. The house downstairs, and the senate upstairs. In the middle of the room, 13 interlocked rings with the seal of each state in the middle. These men knew how hard it was going to be to build a nation from all of these states. But they made it their mission. We should remember that out of many, we are one.
https://m.primal.net/HjLN.jpg
https://m.primal.net/HjLO.jpg
https://m.primal.net/HjLP.jpg

2024-03-08 13:53:42

Gm all

2024-03-08 04:52:22

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I do love coldcards, but seed signer way lower barrier of entry. Fully open sourced code, accessible hardware components to build it yourself, has QR support, its stateless so it doesn’t store the seed, and its a lot cheaper than coldcard and Q by a factor of 3-4x.
Both masters of their craft, seedsigner just has impressed me a bit more with their operation.

2024-03-08 03:43:16

Gonna post a weekly reminder that seed signer is the best hardware device out there.
Here is the first one:
Seed signer is the best hardware device out there.

2024-03-08 03:25:49

It was a hell of a ride. Looks like the retirement date has been set regardless of my desires.
Join me this March for #Rudy’sFarewellTour
https://m.primal.net/Hikw.jpg

2024-03-07 22:08:41

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Thank you for wearing your cowboys hat in this pic
#GoBirds 🦅

2024-03-07 16:20:27

There are way too many of you out there selling bitcoin products and only accepting fiat. Pretty unacceptable ground to stand on imo.

2024-03-07 15:43:42

We’re so back

2024-03-06 23:03:35

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I have no idea what this mfer just said. He caught a case of the bidens

2024-03-05 23:49:54

Its with great regret that I announce my body threw on its first layer of perma-fat. The workouts aren’t taking, not sure what the next move will be.
https://i.imgflip.com/8i5rc5.jpg

2024-03-05 23:46:40

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Oof Frankford and Girard. Stay safe out there ser 🫡

2024-03-05 20:05:27

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No lies detected