Chris Guida

I think assumeutxo may be the closest thing I have seen to a mitigation, though I haven't seen much movement trying to implement it in a user-friendly way, and of course you still need to be able to do the sync eventually even if your node is usable ~immediately, so you can help bootstrap other nodes.

2024-02-21 18:10:33

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Hmm sorry, I don't use Nostr much, I'll see if I can fix it

2024-02-21 17:59:43

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What do you disagree with here?

2024-02-21 17:57:09

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It's an existential crisis
#nevent1q…pehe

2024-02-21 17:54:21

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The problem is that the initial sync slows to a crawl when UTXOs are stored on disk rather than in RAM.
You can see this effect most clearly in low-resource devices like Raspberry Pis with 4GB of RAM, which used to be able to sync the chain in just a few days, but now take around a month. This has resulted in these devices becoming practically useless as bitcoin nodes, whereas a year ago (when the utxoset was half as large as it is now), they were usable.
I consider Raspberry Pis to be the canary in the coalmine wrt UTXO set growth. Although they should probably never have been recommended, we should consider it a failure as a community when a whole class of devices is excluded from participating in the bitcoin network.
We need to be making it *easier*, not harder, to run a full node, and I consider this to be the #1 priority of the bitcoin community, as it is already extremely rare to find merchants who run their own nodes.
Although most computers can fit 10GB in memory at the moment, if the UTXO set were to expand to 50GB, which it could theoretically do in just a year in an attack scenario, the majority of computers would be unable to fit the UTXO set in memory, and would thus be less and less likely to be able to sync bitcoin in a reasonable amount of time.
Obviously 400GB does not fit into RAM unless you are spending tons of money on high-end servers. Let's avoid requiring high-end servers to use bitcoin.

2023-12-13 03:50:18

Cascadr is epic AF 🔥🔥🔥
#nevent1q…mt8u

2023-12-04 16:28:48

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"Bitcoin dominance reaches new heights, Tether gets adopted by the USG as the new Fed. Bitcoin goes parabolic."
Bold prediction!

2023-09-29 22:53:54

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I'm down! 💪
Seems nix could be used for a lot of it! Similarly to how devimint uses nix with fedimint now, but now with a UI!
The reason I love fedimint's current nix usage is that it allows lots of customization and close interaction via the command line. So the frontend would be great as a visualization tool, but I think I would be sad if the tmux interface went away. Maybe we could keep both?

2023-08-27 19:12:53

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Replied here
#nevent1q…984s

2023-08-16 16:35:50

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2023-08-13 23:31:44

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Thanks for the reply!
I agree 100% with your philosophy. But I take issue with your characterization of anarcho-capitalism as compatible with this philosophy, at least as defined by most ancaps.
>I see sovereignty and anarchy as being a descriptor of your relationship with authority. If you don't have to cede to an authority and other authorities are effectively your peers, you are sovereign.
That's a good way to define "sovereignty", but I really don't see how "anarchy" can be defined this way. Anarchism is an old philosophy with lots of history behind it; it seems that you're trying to redefine it in a way that most of its adherents would not agree to.
Anarcho-capitalism has "anarchy" right there in the name. Anarchy means no government. I don't know how you can call something "anarchism" if it includes a government.
Anarcho-capitalism is, as far as I understand, all about imagining how private enterprise would replace government entirely; that is, how private enterprise would generate laws, courts, police and military protection, etc, if all of these things weren't generated by a government.
Now perhaps the operative question is "what is a government?"
You imply that a government is nothing more than an "authority" that one "cedes autonomy" to. That's pretty vague, but enough to go on for now.
If a "government" is simply an "authority", and I recognize no authorities, then the world is ancapistan now, at least from my subjective viewpoint. In that case, anarcho-capitalism is more of a state of mind than a political philosophy. We already inhabit our ideal world; the only requirement is that we see it that way.
But clearly there are practical limits to my "autonomy", no matter what, even if I'm the current US government. The US government "cedes autonomy" to other governments like Russia, China, etc, especially over matters internal to those other governments' territories.
And an "individual sovereign", no matter how rich or well connected, will never be able to be "sovereign" in the same way as a nation-state, *absent the ability to own a piece of land and protect it, through force, from external invaders*.
In the potential future world presented in The Sovereign Individual, said individuals have the means to trivially move to a new jurisdiction when their current one becomes hostile. However, there still are jurisdictions as such (that is, monopolies on violence within a specific territory).
I disagree that this is compatible with anarcho-capitalism, as ancaps are against monopolies on violence.
However, if it is compatible with anarcho-capitalism, then I'm an ancap. I'm actually not 100% clear on this, which is why I suggested reforming anarcho-capitalism at the end of my article.

2023-07-19 03:46:42

My latest hot take:
"Why Anarcho-capitalism and “Sovereignty Maximalism” are incompatible"
https://medium.com/@chrisguida/why-anarcho-capitalism-and-sovereignty-maximalism-are-incompatible-eeb831c03323

2023-05-14 18:30:16

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Beach sounds are the best

2023-05-14 18:28:49

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👌

2023-02-26 05:10:28

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Marking satoshis is precisely what ordinals do… it’s a “shared delusion” in the same way money is a shared delusion. It’s only a thing if you think it’s a thing. But that can give such goods a market value.

2023-02-26 04:46:06

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What part did you disagree with? I never said fungibility wasn’t a highly desirable quality of money.

2023-02-26 04:00:54

Check out my first article: “Gold, Ordinals, and Fungibility”
https://medium.com/@chrisguida/gold-ordinals-and-fungibility-3e84707937ad

2023-02-15 22:08:28

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Oh this must be it https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/40.md

2023-02-15 22:06:09

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Do you have a link to the expiration NIP handy? Will this implement the current (unimplemented) retention configs, or will this be a separate config option?

2023-02-15 02:56:28

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Do you have plans to implement retention configs? We elected to just crank down all the limit settings by default for now

2023-02-14 23:45:06

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Make sure to enable `network.websocket.allowInsecureFromHTTPS` in about:config to allow FF to connect to ws://<relay-url>.onion while on an https:// page

2023-02-14 23:13:48

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Not yet, but there’s no reason they couldn’t

2023-01-18 22:03:45

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Never mind, this appears to be the source https://github.com/v0l/snort

2023-01-16 20:33:47

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Snort does not appear to be open source

2023-01-14 00:06:09

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How’d it go??

2023-01-14 00:05:24

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Almost.

2023-01-08 17:14:27

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Here’s all of us so far
https://start9.com/.well-known/nostr.json

2023-01-06 21:51:48

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Did you try nostr-rs-relay?

2023-01-06 21:36:43

Can anyone recommend a Nostr web client that provides a good user experience?

2023-01-06 20:15:31

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Don’t think so, not sure though

2023-01-06 20:07:41

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Precisely! I’ve noticed a lot of skepticism about web clients because of (very legitimate) concerns about stolen privkeys. Much less of an issue on your own private hardware!

2023-01-06 19:53:46

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Yep! You can also just try the standalone relay, it’s the Rust one. We don’t have the TS one yet.
We moved beta to beta-registry.start9.com
DM me for anything else you need :)

2023-01-06 19:43:59

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Still got your embassy? Looking for testers :)

2023-01-06 18:27:09

ANNOUNCEMENT:
Nostr RS Relay (https://github.com/scsibug/) and Hamstr Web Client (https://github.com/styppo/hamstr) available now in the embassyOS Beta Marketplace! DM me if you want to help test :)

2023-01-05 23:03:37

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I see a gray person with gray arrows pointing left and right. Am I doing this wrong?

2023-01-05 00:05:33

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Guessing this is Raj… do you have a damus username? I can only see “1rjwndr7:aqmqmytm”

2023-01-04 23:56:42

Wazzuuuuuup! This nostr thing seems cool