MachuPikacchu
Machu Pikacchu

Interested in bitcoin and physics and their intersection

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relay.damus.io

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Last Notes

2024-09-16 18:33:17

The idea with all these impersonator accounts is that they can make it near impossible for newcomers to find the real accounts in a sea of fakes.
Imagine coming to Nostr for the first time and seeing your favorite bitcoiner’s name repeated 20 times with the same follower lists (different npubs of course) and replicated content. If you want to zap them, get advice, etc which npub do you choose?
WoT can still work if you can trust a subset of the npubs but it becomes tricky. Simple heuristics like the time that content is published can help but as bots get faster and older content drops off relays it becomes near impossible to tell the difference. The timestamp in Nostr events is truncated to the second (according to NIP-01) which is plenty of margin for a bot to act.
We’ll overcome, but we’ve got work to do.

2024-08-14 17:28:38

The fiat system is becoming more fragile. In the US if you want to apply for any form of credit you just provide a dozen pieces of information about you and get approved or denied.
All that information for every person in the US becoming public over time. The amount of fraud in the system is only increasing. Bail outs will increase. Ultimately the currency will absorb all of that.
#note1w02…867d

2024-08-13 18:23:06

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Would you be open to a PR to make that configurable? If I get time in the next few weeks I’d love to try and add that

2024-08-13 17:38:20

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Hey Bob, great work on Boardwalk.
Does the UI only support USD denomination or can we choose to show sats? I can’t seem to find that setting.

2024-08-13 11:31:38

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Posting images that still have Exif geolocation headers is a privacy nightmare. Being able to delete them from relays after the fact would be really helpful even if a few people already received them.

2024-08-12 16:34:27

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This is a great listen for all the R-Pi maxis

2024-08-12 01:46:06

It seems clear that any solution to the AI problem will likely require tying digital existence to human existence.
We stand to benefit from having widely available, powerful AI but a powerful AI doesn’t necessarily stand to benefit from us generally speaking. If those processes can continue independent of us they aren’t strictly motivated to keep us around.
#AI

2024-08-09 18:29:49

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The botnets will continue until morale improves

2024-08-09 18:24:18

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Doing as little as possible in the runtime makes a lot of sense. Less overhead, less to maintain, etc.
As for the freshness, I was originally thinking perhaps latency sensitive function calls might pose a problem if the process crashes and recovers seconds later and responds with data that’s no longer relevant. Given these are pure functions it makes total sense to just pass along the timestamp (or increment a counter) and these considerations are going to be app dependent anyway.
I’m really excited about this project and plan to experiment with it in the near future. The docs are well written too. Thank you for the work and the thoughtful response!

2024-08-09 03:52:22

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Thinking more in this: since functions treat memory and storage interchangeably and can be restarted at arbitrary points then does state have timestamps as a first class citizen? Meaning: if my function is sensitive to data freshness then can I easily discern fresh from stale?

2024-08-09 03:33:55

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This is awesome! I’ll need to spend more time digging in later.
So you persist funding state, can send state over the wire to be continued elsewhere, and can run processes in parallel. So this can be a distributed runtime?
Decentralized HPC could work well with this design…

2024-08-08 19:33:19

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There are several docker images out there which lowers the barrier somewhat.
We could also create a dedicated raspberry pi distro.
We could also create scripts to set up VMs within cloud providers.
There are a lot of technically savvy people that we can lean on for this.

2024-08-08 14:39:37

To all front end devs: if your product team wants you to put half a dozen modals on your landing page then please push back. We shouldn’t have to click several Xs just to read the content.

2024-08-07 16:20:38

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We need to align the incentives of relays with those of the consumers or we’ll have the same predatory models evolve here too.
Consumers are accustomed to getting “free” services. The relays who can cater to that habit by monetizing their consumption without charging them directly will have an economic advantage. We can fix this, and I’m optimistic, but not sure how to do it.

2024-08-07 01:30:43

Someone beat me to my nym’s GitHub handle by 4 years. And here I thought I was original. Well played other Machu. Guess I’ll add the “BTC” suffix.

2024-08-06 22:04:36

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Hypothetically they could collect fees from the guardians periodically. Or if we can figure out how to federate the lightning node itself then each of the guardians could be partially responsible. Mints need to collect fees over time anyway or else they’re incentivized to rug and/or quit.

2024-08-06 22:01:15

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My understanding is that you can’t have multiple lightning nodes using the same key or you get unpredictable behavior. Maybe that’s just for routing nodes?
I wonder if we could somehow shard the private key using FROST so that outbound payments are still federated? I’m out of my depth on this one.

2024-08-06 21:46:47

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What role does she think stable channels will play in international trade.
Given the recent talks about a US bitcoin reserve it makes sense for the Fed and/or Treasury to set up stable channels, print dollars, and have sats flow to their side of the channel.

2024-08-06 20:56:28

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Planning to run LND since I’m comfortable with Go and hope to contribute in the near future.

2024-08-06 20:53:13

Time to move up the stack and start running my own lightning node. I’ve only ever kept “coffee” money in my hot wallet and accepted the default UX from Phoenix and Mutiny but alas those days are behind us. It was a good run.

2024-08-05 22:35:37

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COLDCARD is excellent; thank you for your dedication to security.
Question: when someone buys a hardware wallet they provide a shipping address that can later be leaked. Ledger famously leaked customer emails and physical addresses for example. Any tips on mitigating that? Use an alias and ship to your employer’s address?

2024-08-05 18:24:16

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I wonder if we’ll see more wallet providers and LSPs choose the Fedimint model to reduce their risk. Spread the federation guardians across many jurisdictions.
If your jurisdiction labels you an unlicensed money transmitter you simply quit and your users won’t notice a difference. Funds still move.
If one guardian wants to retire then the mint can still function and lightning payments can still be routed.
Seems to be a more stable solution albeit you now have a custodian.

2024-08-03 19:14:46

Today’s AI is already capable of learning animal language [1]. This implies we can create a universal translation system between not just various human languages but also bridge the gap between humans and animals.
We’re also developing more sophisticated brain-computer-interfaces [2] and trialing them in both animals and humans. It’s not only possible, but likely we’ll have high fidelity real time communication between humans and their pets in the coming decade or two. What a time to be alive.
Sources:
1. https://news.mit.edu/2024/csail-ceti-explores-sperm-whale-alphabet-0507
2. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-023-01041-8

2024-08-03 02:34:30

On black hole singularities. This is a long one!
My background is in applied math and computer science not physics! I’m certain I’m missing something here. This is just for fun.
During neutron star core collapse, the quark gluon plasma must be, as far as we know, locally constrained by the Uncertainty principle. As the core collapses the position of other particles is further constrained while being accelerated and therefore have higher uncertainty in momentum.
However, the uncertainty in momentum is bounded above by some finite multiple of c. Momentum can’t grow unbounded because that implies infinite energy. Acceleration is limited by the energy available locally which is that of itself, neighboring particles, and local vacuum energy: all finite.
How then can the quark gluon plasma degenerate into a singularity of infinitesimal size? Maybe they “fuse” and become a single “particle” (in quotes because particles are fuzzy objects to begin with) of nonzero “volume”? Maybe this is what the holographic principle is saying but I can’t make any sense of AdS-CFT correspondence 😩.
Once you have a single particle there’s no gravitational attraction to continue the collapse. Of course from afar other massive objects continue to feel gravitational attraction but locally you have a single particle.
Some might say “the uncertainty principle breaks down at these extremes. Our model isn’t valid in this regime” and fair enough! However, I would argue that that’s an artifact of the model (the commutator of specific linear operators on a Hilbert space). Maybe spacetime isn’t a complete vector space but at our observable scale it approximates one.
The uncertainty principle is just an approximation of what happens in reality. I’m not aware of any experiments proving it breaks down at the Planck scale. I argue that whatever quirk of nature that causes the uncertainty principle is the very thing that prevents black hole singularities from forming.
#physics #blackHoles #gravity

2024-08-02 04:49:19

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My hero. Thank you!

2024-08-02 00:29:08

Block hashes are a good form of entropy that we can all use to sync random number generators.
For example when doing experiments or training AI models. Maybe we can finally fix the reproducibility issue.

2024-07-31 12:16:11

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It was a play on a quote from “Clerks 2” 😅

2024-07-31 03:51:54

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Sometimes in the heat of the moment it’s ok to sudo a remote script blindly

2024-07-29 14:55:52

Free trade isn’t possible in a fiat economy. Over time only the people closest to the “money printer” are economically relevant.
You may have the illusion of free trade because you’re allowed to buy and sell goods with whomever but in aggregate your signal is drowned out and producers will make decisions independent of you.
Only when the economy uses a neutral currency can we return to free trade and rational economic behavior.
#economics #bitcoin

2024-07-28 18:32:41

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“If the fiat price doesn’t do what I want when a politician talks about it then we’ve failed!”
Somehow that doesn’t feel like Satoshi’s vibe.

2024-07-28 16:00:20

In the first half of the 20th century the world had people like Hilbert, Bohr, Von Neumann, Einstein, Feynman, Fermi, Gödel, Noether, Oppenheimer, Erdos, Dirac, Poincaré, etc.
Where are these types of people today? We have Perelman and Wiles. Maybe Maldacena or Arkani-Hamed?
Was the early 20th century a unique period of fertile scientific ground just waiting to be uncovered by smart people or was there an unusually high supply of gifted scientists in that era?

2024-07-25 17:00:02

Ray Kurzweil predicts that by 2029 we’ll have reached longevity escape velocity. Meaning if you’re alive in 2029 the advances in medicine will accelerate fast enough to allow you to live “forever” (assuming no accidents).
Has your money reached escape velocity yet, anon? Might make sense just to get some #bitcoin in case.

2024-07-24 15:55:20

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If the BlackHat or DEFCON conferences are any indication then bringing a device at all makes you vulnerable. Consider leaving everything at home.

2024-07-24 13:16:09

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It’s not altruism. Companies like Meta and Google made their fortunes by processing data and curating it for their audience.
These open source models will be used in all sorts of applications and therefore Meta will continue to shape society with them. It also makes it nearly impossible for some startup to raise money to compete since these models are hard to compete with.
“Commoditize your complement” as Joel Spolsky calls it.

2024-07-19 18:02:42

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They put ads in the operating system and force close applications for auto-install when you’re not looking too.
That operating system has been borderline hostile towards its users for over a decade.

2024-07-19 00:39:12

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No matter the solution consumers will need to pay some portion or else we end up with the same perverse incentive structure as the advertisement model.
With ads the consumer isn’t the paying customer so the service provider’s incentives aren’t aligned with those of the consumer. That led to monetizing the consumer’s attention and a meteoric rise in essentially surveillance tech.
We need to align all interested parties.

2024-07-18 21:23:45

Looking forward to VoIP on Nostr one day so we can have trust in caller ID and proper spam filtering.

2024-07-11 14:14:49

Prediction: local LLMs will be a threat vector in the near future.
As they become more useful as agents and we grant them access to local tools and accounts to act on our behalf they become obvious targets for corruption. They’re already notoriously opaque.
Imagine one that was trained to make observations on the host machine and under certain conditions send an obfuscated payload to a remote server.
How is this different from the standard remote access Trojan? It can act on the malicious actor’s behalf rather than awaiting instructions and acting as a proxy. There will potentially be less network activity. It can profile the host machine and users and only execute if the target is appropriate (think Stuxnet but more generalized).
In unrelated news all of the big AI shops have been working on homomorphic encryption.
#ai #encryption #LLM #agent #homomorphicEncryption

2024-06-29 01:47:50

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I’ll take a look! I’ll be out the next several weeks but will pick it up in mid to late July

2024-06-29 01:45:54

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To summarize: many words bad. Few words better. Bitcoin best.

2024-06-25 18:35:09

For all of human history our societies were largely bound by geography. The average person’s wealth, generally speaking, was limited to the region they were born or settled in.
With the invention of the telegraph and the automobile and the airplane people became more mobile but at the same time our currencies failed and were captured by regional powers therefore again constraining our movement.
The consequences of having a secure and decentralized digital money are still very much under appreciated. In much the same degree the airplane changed civilization, bitcoin too will shape the direction of history.
#nomad #bitcoin

2024-06-24 15:57:03

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I didn’t get far yet and after seeing the work on NDS it’s probably better to swarm on that for now. I’d love to help in some capacity though!

2024-06-24 14:59:16

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And while you’re at it you can sell recent purchases at a loss and buy back immediately. This way you realize a loss and you can write it off on your taxes.
Wash sale restrictions don’t apply to bitcoin.

2024-06-21 05:02:44

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The first place you might see it is in cafes and hotels.
Eventually we might see communities deploy mesh networks to cover larger areas to earn sats this way. Imagine not needing a cell phone plan because you can pay as you go on these community networks.

2024-06-21 04:55:17

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Very excited to see this happening. I begrudgingly started on an OpenWRT package to do the same thing but pleased to see someone else get there first!

2024-06-20 18:49:46

OpenAI is now being deployed to the Apple ecosystem, embedded in many Microsoft products, taking up massive amounts of compute in Azure and Oracle Cloud, and has a former leader from the NSA on their board so presumably they’ll pick up military and intelligence contracts.
This is a centralized system becoming more powerful at least partially because the economic incentives encourage that. Bitcoin has proven that a decentralized system can work and dominate if the incentives are right. We as a community need to work on this problem. Open source models aren’t a solution if they’re just being subsidized by VCs.
Many Bitcoin mining centers are adopting AI workloads for revenue diversity so maybe we can lean into that somehow. A tighter integration between AI and the Bitcoin economy feels like the right direction. Something to think about.
#ai #decentralized #chatGPT #bitcoin

2024-06-19 01:35:52

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Beat me to it 😅

2024-06-19 01:35:39

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https://m.primal.net/Ippn.jpg

2024-06-17 23:03:55

At some point due to bugs in Nostr clients or back doors built in to operating systems and hardware a lot of nprivs will be stolen. If the attacker is smart they’ll only compromise specific accounts to infiltrate target webs of trust.
We haven’t built the necessary defenses yet. Hardware signers are a good start but we need the UX to catch up. We need protocols for reliably communicating compromises.
That aside I’m bullish on Nostr!

2024-06-17 22:47:32

Can we get some degree of covenants with FROST [1] implemented within wallets and coordinated over Nostr rather than requiring them on chain?
#askNostr #covenants #bitcoin
1. https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/852 - Flexible Round Optimized Schnorr Thresholds (FROST)

2024-06-13 16:18:03

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Establishing a web of trust will be hard when you keep deleting your npubs. And if you telegraph your identity change to your web beforehand then it’s kind of unnecessary. Social graphs have their own fingerprint to deanonymize you.
Great for privacy and useful for OpSec though if you don’t reestablish connections.

2024-06-12 13:51:31

The price consumers are willing to pay for a good or service is partially a function of transaction costs. People usually won’t pay more than 2-3% transaction fees.
When on chain fees regularly cost as much as a cup of coffee it doesn’t make sense to make small purchases with bitcoin.
Once we get the UX for 2nd and 3rd layers dialed in then we may find ourselves in a world where a cup of coffee can cost 20-30 sats.

2024-06-10 12:39:12

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Bitdeer is just another arm of Bitmain. Jihan Wu, the CEO of Bitdeer, is the cofounder and chairman of Bitmain. We really need an alternative to this guy.

2024-06-09 18:31:12

Beware of Bitdeer. It’s just another face of Bitmain which already has a dangerous monopoly on ASICs. We can do better.

2024-06-09 13:29:58

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Doesn’t work like that anymore. iPhones (and I think Google Pixel phones) can be located even when off.
https://www.theverge.com/22697218/iphone-apple-ios-15-find-my-how-to

2024-06-08 22:18:36

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Check out BIP 352 - silent payments. You can share a single code and each payment made to it is to a new address. Great for privacy and also more convenient.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0352.mediawiki

2024-06-07 15:28:57

Whatever your opinion you should spend time hearing from others who have the opposite opinion. You’ll grow from that experience.
People often operate on assumptions that turn out incorrect or incomplete and we’re all guilty of that.

2024-06-07 13:25:52

Reminder that pseudonyms aren’t sufficient for maintaining privacy against determined actors.
Your style of writing, your voice, the topics you choose to talk about, anything that differentiates you from anybody else can be used to identify you.
When you post on Nostr you broadcast your IP. The relays you choose to connect to reveal something about you.
Be careful out there!

2024-06-06 16:05:26

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Wait until he discovers hamsters running in wheels

2024-06-05 18:29:56

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ECash can be useful in high trust environments. Perhaps good for families to share a lightning node or for an online game of poker among friends. Or for use as credits on a platform where you have to pay up front anyway.

2024-05-29 03:13:04

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We need one that fits entire cars now. The amount of surveillance tech that comes standard in vehicles today is borderline criminal.

2024-05-29 03:06:21

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You can add infrared lights to the bill of a hat so that it blinds cameras but isn’t visible to the naked eye. There are videos online where people show off a proof of concept, but I’m not sure there’s enough of a market to justify a whole line though.

2024-05-26 16:55:25

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And further imagine something like a WiFi access point that charges you per minute or per GB. Cafes could earn sats by opening up their access points. People in densely populated areas of cities could provide extra access points as well.

2024-05-24 04:29:55

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How better to hide inflation than by creating as many release valves as possible?

2024-05-23 18:24:03

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That’s an interesting point but in either case they’re not a majority owned US company. The bill of rights doesn’t apply to them in this case.

2024-05-23 16:05:55

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One potential danger is that the “local” AI records all actions and when it comes across something of interest it phones home with an obfuscated payload.
These things can be trained to return a single plaintext vector that encodes what actions you took and then makes you a target. Unless you have the proper decoder network you won’t be able to decipher it. Doing it this way allows them to ship everything in just model weights.

2024-05-23 15:55:15

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ByteDance is a Chinese company…

2024-05-23 00:18:30

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The first amendment gives rights to citizens of the US not foreign controlled companies, right? Yes American citizens are posting on there but that doesn’t mean the company has a right to push their platform. Doesn’t feel like a violation IMHO but I’m not a lawyer 🤷

2024-05-20 02:09:01

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What’s your favorite thing to do when you get home from work?

2024-05-17 22:44:57

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Thankfully the community is starting to push back organically. A lot of us are no longer willing to use ad supported services that abuse us because of their bad incentives.
When a service uses ads for support, the person paying them is not the consumer but rather a disinterested third party. That creates very perverse incentives, but with a neutral censorship resistant digital money services can monetize without having to rely on ad revenue.
Here’s a great example:
https://blog.getalby.com/block-ads-and-pay-in-bitcoin-today/

2024-05-17 22:32:45

Burned over 1 million sats by being lazy and copying the wrong address in a hurry. It’s a valid address but I think it’s for an old test wallet🤦‍♂️
Anyway. Consider it a donation to the network.

2024-05-16 23:12:25

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Setup a pihole on your network and add those domains to your blocklist. If you change anything on your OS itself then you risk it being thwarted on next update.

2024-05-16 23:08:06

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Are you sure? It seems to ask for an email verification…

2024-05-16 14:29:35

Most of the private torrent communities require email for invite. If you run one of these sites consider supporting npubs!
#torrent #grownostr

2024-05-16 02:40:26

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Nostr feels like the early internet before it was commercialized to death. Regardless of stats we should celebrate this bastion of nerds and misfits while we have it ❤️

2024-05-15 20:39:37

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Wonder if this will be used as partial justification by the SEC to (rightfully IMO) reject the ETH ETF in the US.

2024-05-15 19:29:12

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Another hack: designating a portion of each day away from technology. No phone, laptop, podcasts, car, etc.
An hour or two each day does wonders for your brain and you’ll be surprised by how your thoughts change over time.

2024-05-15 12:44:32

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Have you considered the Pine Phone? It has hardware switches for everything that can spy on you and even has a LoRa attachment available.
https://pine64.org/devices/pinephone/

2024-05-15 02:55:46

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We need to open up the physical access points for these networks we’re building. Bitcoin, Nostr, etc are all great for people who have access but what if you can’t connect? We need more projects focused on p2p physical device connection. Could be over #wifi or #LoRa or even #bluetooth

2024-05-15 02:41:37

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This would be especially helpful for travelers or people who don’t have steady housing.
#lightning #nomad #value

2024-05-15 02:38:20

Nostr is great and all but how can we enable people who don’t have their own internet service provider subscription?
One idea is for average people to setup a pay-per-use WiFi hotspot from their home networks. Authentication and payment via lightning. We need maybe an OpenWRT package that people can install and configure to pay their wallet?
Imagine earning sats by renting out your bandwidth. Let me know if anyone is working on this. Would love to help out.

2024-05-15 02:32:43

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Soon we’ll be able to bring a burner phone across borders and once settled in we just enter 12 words into a setup script and be done.
We’ll have all our contacts and lightning wallet ready to go. Let the border agents steal the blank phone if they insist.
If we can get enough people to open up their WiFi to the public (and earn sats?!) then we won’t even need mobile data plans when traveling.

2024-05-14 12:51:29

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He’s coming for our spice!
https://m.primal.net/IGct.jpg

2024-05-13 02:26:10

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This is beautiful. Great job Calle! Thank you for all the hard work on Cashu!

2024-05-10 16:20:40

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“But we need inflation or else the economy dies!!”
Assume everyone’s income and savings keeps pace with inflation. Then there’s no reason to have inflation… It only works if on average it takes purchasing power away from the majority of people.

2024-05-10 15:35:39

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If humans are still using Bitcoin after becoming multiplanetary then it’s likely mining infrastructure moves closer to the sun for abundant cheap energy. It would be an arms race to see who could capture more sunlight to power their rigs.
You might expect to see mining equipment in a tighter orbit around the sun so those machines have less latency between each other as well. This also lowers average latency for on chain transactions since planets are often on opposing sides of the sun so a lot of communication has to pass by there anyway.

2024-05-08 17:56:25

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It would be great if it couldn’t even get to the inbox unless there’s a stamp.
Thanks for building this app!

2024-05-08 16:55:31

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Does it make sense to have a setting for receivers to require stamps too?
Use case: if someone outside of my contacts sends me a note then they have to pay me to read it.

2024-05-08 15:00:59

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Not sure it counts as a single page template but this engineer used traceroute to distribute his resume. That sells the candidate far better than any well formatted pdf in my opinion.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32609588

2024-05-08 14:52:06

Does the samurai case open the door for requiring miners apply for money transmitting licenses 🤔
This effectively kills pleb mining in the US

2024-05-08 12:42:39

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This is a great theory. It does a great job explaining Russia’s motivation and their point of view. It discounts the US point of view though.
Do you remember the solar winds hack? Remember all the critical infrastructure that Russia has been probing and even the gas pipeline they hit with ransomware? They invested a lot of resources into their troll factories to sway public opinion in the west to whatever suits their needs. They are clearly hostile to the West and at some point a hot war was inevitable.

2024-05-06 20:12:10

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It’s likely they connect them even if by accident. For regulatory reasons they will at the very least be storing logs for a few years. Samurai leaked Xpubs despite explicitly being a privacy tool.

2024-05-03 17:38:15

Their whole foundation makes no sense. “The beurgeoisie have too much influence on society. Let’s replace them with a group called the State instead and codify their superiority in law. That will fix it!”
#note1egw…0wda

2024-05-02 12:06:51

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It’s inevitable. When there’s no friction for creating an account you’ll get spam. Paid relays can help but then you get relay centralization long term

2024-05-02 02:37:01

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Just wait until people start putting computers in their brains at scale.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/first-law-protecting-consumers-brainwaves-signed-by-colorado-governor-2024-04-18/

2024-04-29 18:07:07

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Little chance Russia is banning it. Their government will make it so they have a monopoly on mining within their borders. They’ll tightly control on and off ramps. They’ll set up their own lightning networks to control cross-border flows. Their oligarchs understand its utility and won’t give it up. It’s still early in this game.

2024-04-29 16:21:59

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Modern day smoke signals!
On a related note, this guy has a project to transmit #ecash over Reticulum so it supports HAM and LoRa as well as WiFi:
https://github.com/jooray/nutband

2024-04-29 15:40:00

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I’m on the fence here. Initially I was against these shitcoin games but then I remembered steganography was a thing. Those clever bastards.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography

2024-04-26 15:27:27

If Antpool does indeed control the block template for more than half the hashrate then they become a natural ally for the legacy system that wants to control payments.
Expect more developments there. The ECB and the US Fed would prefer maintaining some level of control over having none at all and will inevitably partner with any pool in that position.

2024-04-26 15:01:49

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