1f52b
1F52B

Linkydoo: https://opensats.org/donate
Brink also fund work on Bitcoin Core: https://brink.dev/donate
Also because Craig is a legend: https://www.sparrowwallet.com/donate/

2024-06-26 17:13:46

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Before I get jumped on, I’m not saying Assange donations aren’t warranted, but OpenSats and others are funding critical work that doesn’t always have the immediacy to rake in large sums, and it’s a slow grind where it is hard to see “what you got” for your donation — nonetheless, you can’t donate to Assange, fight the good fight, or use Bitcoin at all and talk about it on Nostr if it they don’t work, and OpenSats and others are funding that good work

2024-06-26 16:57:31

I’m slightly upset that more Bitcoin has been donated to Assange’s flight (₿ 8.104) than to @npub10pe…n34f ever (₿ 5.369) 😢
Going to guiltily go donate to FOSS Bitcoin devs and maybe you should too, if you’re able

2024-06-10 19:28:59

Apple Pay Tap to Cash
iiiinteresting…… I wonder if this might be useful for us or if it’ll be heavily nerf’d
https://m.primal.net/IfqT.png

2024-06-08 13:56:54

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I've been happy with Firefox, has some good extensions like "Tab Containers"

2024-06-05 10:44:18

The Bitcoin protocol is like dial-up modem protocols and no I don’t think I’ll elaborate

2024-06-05 10:34:24

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Yeah I did, thankfully the underlying issue that was blocking Zaps is fixed but now I’ve got to add some kind of persistence for zap notes (as phoenixd now won’t remember them for me) and want to do it in a minimally-complex way to avoid adding a ‘proper’ DB

2024-06-05 10:32:28

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Yeah I couldn’t find orange 😭 but this was close enough and does match the LAMY

2024-05-30 15:58:27

“Leak: EU governments double down on penalising privacy-friendly and encrypted messaging services with chat control bulk scanning orders”
Badbadbadbadbad, #EU #chatcontrol not looking good (not that it could ever look good)
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/leak-eu-governments-double-down-on-penalising-privacy-friendly-and-encrypted-messaging-services-with-chat-control-bulk-scanning-orders/

2024-05-28 14:31:48

Being a Bitcoiner is a bit exactly like being an Audiophile.
Some of us just love music; others love arguing about the best equipment and “the right way” to do everything and have strange fetishes for specific brands of cap and gold plated everything and hate on others for just having fun - while normies still think we’re all a bit mad but we’re sure they’ll feel liberated when they finally get it 😂

2024-05-26 01:32:22

iPod gang
https://m.primal.net/INFr.jpg

2024-05-26 01:27:38

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You can put like 500GB/1TB in these puppies and get like a week or more of battery live now with mods!
Though I am expecting pain and a sync rugpull in a few years moving to a new Mac 😂

2024-05-26 01:24:06

Rather randomly, I’ve recently picked up an old #iPod classic 5th gen and am loving it so far.
(despite the upgrade to use SD card storage being way harder than it’s supposed to be on this cursed iPod 🤣)
iPods are low time preference. Streaming is just somebody else’s music. Listening to a podcast on an iPod is strangely a more engaging experience, and interruption free - you can’t just check Twitter/Nostr/get a call.
A related note, I can’t find an existing solution for “buy my whole music library” which is weird because I want to give someone money and they’re making it hard 🤷‍♂️
Also Apple Music is a bit jank with importing MP3s - it works, but 50/50 whether it matches to the streaming version of the album you already had (yay) or creates duplicates (not yay)

2024-05-21 22:41:41

$1B ‘valuation’ with 350k paid users and ~$600k revenue is a hilariously high PE ratio of what, 1666x?! And people think Tesla is crazy overpriced at a meagre PE of 80x ish
#note17x8…2keg

2024-05-21 22:33:08

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🙋‍♂️ Hoffmann is pretty great
(Though I’ll enjoy a Gregg’s coffee too given how cheap it is)

2024-05-19 15:35:53

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This does sound pretty insane, though the counterfactual "what would have been the 'criminal funds generated annually' had €0 been spent on compliance instead of €144Bn" is worth thinking about (that which is unseen) -- but the bar is still very high, if expenditure is €144Bn then the crime it prevented would have to be on the order of €1Tn to be merely ~10% complicance loss... which is a lot of 'crime'.

2024-05-13 21:32:49

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I am currently obsessed with Radicle and trying to shill it to anyone that’ll listen 🤣

2024-05-13 21:31:50

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Also https://radicle.xyz

2024-05-08 18:50:07

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I took a look a few weeks ago when it was WIP, but not more recently. Assume they’ve not found a workaround for description hashes? (Pretty sure that’s not possible? 🤔)

2024-05-08 15:34:34

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Increasingly thinking “on top of Nostr” isn’t a good idea, Radicle’s protocol seems very well thought out.
Feels like adding Nostr would be unnecessary mess - storing everything (code, issues, PRs, identity/ownership *in* git itself is kinda genius)
@npub1sg6…f63m I seriously think you should look at radicle.
(Only slightly butthurt that it’s ED25519 not the clearly superior bestest curve Secp256k1 😂)

2024-05-08 00:36:00

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Compare: https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/seed.radicle.garden/rad:z4G6sJdYgCqKswKnrBbYgn9QaHBqh vs https://github.com/AngusP/phoenixd-lnurl/

2024-05-08 00:17:58

Checking out https://radicle.xyz, a P2P Git thingy -- I really like what I'm seeing... It's not Nostr but I'm not sure it would actually be better if it was. Supports DIDs so `did:btc:...` (Orange) and `did:key:` for Secp256k1 keys (bitcoin and nostr) would work, they're just not implemented (yet 😏)
Nostr-based decentralised git things also progressing (https://gitworkshop.dev/ and probably others?), which is great, beacuse IMO there's so much complacency around GitHub as the one big centralised repository for all open-source software just continuing to work fine forever.
#git #radicle

2024-05-08 00:12:49

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💯 -- though can be a bit of a pain when they're all 99 but not 100% compatible! Gossip (https://github.com/mikedilger/gossip) is a great one to have even if you use others more often, as it can save you from some other client nuking your follows as it only publishes list changes when you ask it to

2024-05-05 01:35:52

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At least the LLMs will be more based

2024-05-02 20:50:32

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Or “Your feedback is appreciated , now pay $219”

2024-05-02 17:16:30

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Already a thing if you route a Lightning payment between two Cashu mints that support synthetic USD eCash

2024-05-02 16:09:54

Renewed screeching about people using Casey’s envelopes to put data on chain is nauseatingly boring. Stop being Bitcoin redcoats and get over it

2024-05-01 23:25:00

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Snaps suck, everyone else uses Flatpack. Upstart was a waste of time, everyone else uses SystemD or init.d. Unity was a waste of time, everyone else uses Gnome/KDE. Mir was a waste of time, everyone else was using Wayland; etc. etc. No idea what Juju is but probably also a waste of time.

2024-05-01 23:20:43

Ubuntu is a shitcoin, dunno why everyone uses it as 'default Linux', change my mind;
Fedora, Debain or Alpine are the three to go for from shiny-newness to most boring and stable.
Honourable mention for FreeBSD as the so-stable-you-turn-it-on-and-it's-still-running-four-years-later option.
#nevent1q…q9ul

2024-04-30 23:53:39

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In fairness this is an improvement for Revolut, you used to not be able to withdraw it at all, only sell or send to another Revolut user 🤦‍♂️

2024-04-30 21:48:11

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Could that work for complex order types, or is it limited to only simple maker/taker market buys (can’t really think of how you’d add limit orders etc unless the mint can check that when someone tries to redeem)

2024-04-29 20:58:42

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Even then, if the source was viewable but nobody looked, what difference would it make if it was closed source?
No-one is reviewing the whole Linux kernel + drivers + firmwares + microcode + etc. etc.
"Reflections on trusting trust - Ken Thompson" https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf

2024-04-29 20:50:53

Been thinking about this a bit -- *perhaps*, one of the reasons Lightning has taken so long is that we're only just realising how important the LSP component is. Wallets/nodes that work with a LSP are so much easier to run and use for non-dev and non-in-it-as-a-business people. Even as a dev, I'm fairly hesitant to sign myself up for the maintenance effort of running a normal Lightning node.
Things like Phoenix, @npub1xnf…lpr5, Phoenixd and @npub1mut…23vg (mutiny server soon! 👀) are just so much easier to work with than "just" run LND/Eclair/C-Lightning/LDK-Node etc. Is the logical conclusion that for Lightning node-running to become prolific, LSPs (or more accurately, a way for nodes to 'buy' inbound from and get channels with others) have to become an inherent part of the Lightning protocol? Feels like it to me.
#nevent1q…67jn

2024-04-28 21:14:06

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There is also signet, which is a different testnet that works more like Liquid where blocks aren’t mined by hashing, instead they’re just signed by a set of known keys. Mutinynet is another signet.
Arguably signet is better for testing Lightning as the blocks are more predictable and shenanigans like Lopp’s attack can’t happen - testnet is useful for testing anything that needs the chain to behave more like actual Bitcoin (mining software, ASICs, reorgs etc)

2024-04-27 18:32:57

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Credit @npub1vsl…und7 on X https://x.com/bill_fowler_/status/1784242051397058719 (afaik)

2024-04-26 21:45:43

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That’ll be $10

2024-04-26 21:45:17

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Yeah, it’s just a bit of a shame – they were a tad early to notice Nostr and secp is a bit of an esoteric curve

2024-04-26 21:36:06

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As others have posted there seem to be some NIPs for that, but you could “just” secp256k1 Schnorr sign the binary/hash-of-it with the same private key you use on Nostr as its already associated with your Nostr notes

2024-04-26 21:32:54

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Yeah saw it was ed25519 — it’s not too late for them to switch to secp256k1 😉

2024-04-26 21:31:04

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Haha tbf “non-custodial” being the same thing as “self custody” is confusing

2024-04-26 21:30:08

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If you want to buy $10 for $1,000,000,000 I’ll sell it to you friend

2024-04-26 21:22:07

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Surely that’s custodial Lightning?

2024-04-26 15:00:56

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Using Nostr even just for IDs seems sensible, you get the existing Nostr social graph for free

2024-04-26 14:57:58

👀 (though it’s not Nostr 🤔)
#note1nl4…zm6z

2024-04-25 23:10:40

Hot take: Bitcoiners labelling an informed, consensual contract between adults “a scam” are freedom larpers
It’s a scam when one party is being deceived, otherwise it isn’t. They know they bought a sat for 3,300,000,000 sats

2024-04-24 01:04:51

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If it makes you feel better I like the way this is going! 💯

2024-04-23 23:33:34

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Mostly agree; though it's always sad and painful to see people that aren't "in the Bitcoin camp" enough to have got the advice about Lightning and UTXO consolidation hitting pain with on-chain fees and not knowing what to do, feeling lied-to or misled somehow. Good motivation to keep building and be better, though

2024-04-23 20:03:34

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Yes, but if and only if you already know the merkle tree structure, no? If I’m looking at an old Nostr note and want to find the image it had in it now the original URL is dead, and only have the whole file hash, I wouldn’t know what the merkle root hash is. Pretty easy to solve by having both hashes available, but it is a slightly different problem

2024-04-23 11:45:43

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awwrritebruv

2024-04-23 10:35:01

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Progress 🤝

2024-04-23 10:32:00

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That has the issue that the merkle root hash is not the same as the file hash, so how do you then do discovery? (I want this file hash has to be resolved to a merkle root then I also have to download the whole thing before I can verify that that is indeed the file I wanted)
*technically* there’s no reason you couldn’t build BitTorrent on top of blossom, after all .torrent files are files and parts of files are also files 😉

2024-04-23 09:04:01

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Bad 😂
It’s inconsistent - the sat/USD toggle doesn’t look the same as the eCash/Lightning toggle, button style is all over the place, border raises are inconsistent, the table doesn’t have one at all, I can’t guess what the three dots do, and I’m not sure why there’s a horizontal rule/card split in the middle

2024-04-23 00:45:26

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Merkle tree of what? Split the file into chunks like BitTorrent and a tree of those chunks’ hashes?

2024-04-20 11:40:47

Wen testnet working again? 😂

2024-04-20 02:10:49

WOOOOOO! 🎇🎆
https://m.primal.net/Hxba.jpg

2024-04-20 01:41:30

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Thanks, you seem to have in-jammed it 😂

2024-04-20 01:38:30

Waiting for 839995 be like 👴😴

2024-04-20 01:18:24

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@npub1kyx…c6vv ‘s stream is cool:
#note1mlq…mgqx

2024-04-20 01:17:24

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nostr: note1mlqvfgcx6wwp4vc7f2caua6zdyz3xur8rhejtpl38w7z22mjc87shumgqx

2024-04-20 01:13:01

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Gentlemen, to your halv 🥂

2024-04-20 01:04:54

GM from London on #bitcoin halving day 20/04/2024 🤙

2024-04-20 00:41:35

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This is also pretty cool #note1mlq…mgqx

2024-04-19 23:39:11

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“You think I own one set of clothes walking around my home butt naked working on Bitcoin and the Lightning network?”
I mean…. 😅 Nothing surprises me anymore
There’s definitely *someone* that does do that

2024-04-19 23:35:35

Completely obsessed with Sleep Token’s album “Take Me Back to Eden”. It’s just f*cking incredible
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kR2XaVymdtE2e0WXdnqYIViBNemh6_wT4
#metal #music 🤙

2024-04-19 22:52:43

I love learning something new about Bitcoin every day
#note19r0…re06

2024-04-19 11:15:05

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Yeah, the fundamental difficulty is LNURL needs you to control a clearnet domain somewhere so it's easy for people to fnd you and resolve a human redable ID like `[email protected]` -> long LNURL pay thingy `LNURLPBLAHBLAHBLAH.....` -> An actual Invoice from the Lightning Network.
That need to start with a clearnet domain makes it difficult to get working at all from an Umbrel-at-home, and difficult to make it work reliably. I assume it would work over Tor, but 99% of people then probably can't pay you as running Tor on a phone is not normal 😅 and also a tad difficult

2024-04-19 00:26:06

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Thanks, will do

2024-04-19 00:02:57

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Great read for those that haven't already (/didn't get the reference) https://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/

2024-04-18 19:50:20

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Though it is very attackable, because it is so similar to Bitcoin but ofc massively outclassed in therms of hashrate. Also has the consensus difficulty reset bug that also would make it suck for actual value. Also also lots of bitcoin devs have massive bags of testnet sats they could dump and crash the price. Though I think we're all in agreement this is dumb anyways so 🤷‍♂️

2024-04-18 19:36:53

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Phoenixd is a Lightning node (https://phoenix.acinq.co/server/) that works a lot like thir app, uses ACINQ as the LSP so you never have to worry about liquidity or finding people to open channels with, they handle all of that for you, for a fee.
So, you just need to run phoenixd to have self-hosted lightning, and phoenixd-lnurl alongside it to have self-hosted LNURL and Zaps.
Currently does kinda require that you've already got a server running somewhere, more work needed to get this to work on node-in-a-box solutions like Umbrel, Start9 etc.

2024-04-18 19:29:12

Listening to Citadel Dispatch with @npub1ye5…knpr and @npub1lun…27lj -- Blossom (BLObs Stored Simply On Mediaservers 🤣) sounds awesome! Nostr is amazing for gossiping text, but totall sucks for other file types. Blossom hopefully fixes this. Bullish, especially as a data hoarder 💯
https://github.com/@npub1ye5…knpr/blossom (this does not have nearly enough attention)

2024-04-18 17:52:29

@npub1xts…kk5s you have no idea how many times I’ve seen this darn screen
Great troll 🤣 https://image.nostr.build/d00b589f9599f3db66430d08ebb83410230a63b7c4602394e8849fabe01b0504.jpg

2024-04-18 14:12:45

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Yep

2024-04-18 12:52:54

Proper Nostr Zap support ⚡️ for phoenixd-LNURL coming in two weeks™️ (probably sooner)
Also optional NIP-5 server because it was easy
Easily self host your Lightning address and Nostr NIP-5 ID 🤙
#zapathon #phoenix #lightning
https://github.com/AngusP/phoenixd-lnurl

2024-04-18 12:00:57

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+1 for Kraken, seems pretty popular in the UK. Mutiny or Phoenix for withdrawing in Lightning works well

2024-04-13 13:21:47

GM 🤝
#note1ffm…4x0k
https://m.primal.net/Hucn.jpg

2024-04-10 21:53:05

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Phoenixd handles liquidity for you automatically; so basically payments will never fail for a lack of inbound. But, there’s a fee you pay ACINQ for that service
Details here: https://phoenix.acinq.co/server/auto-liquidity

2024-04-05 15:28:09

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LMAO that’s not the real Phoenix wallet 🫣

2024-04-05 15:26:57

I made a simple LNURL thing for @npub148q…jra7 ‘s new phoenixd
https://github.com/AngusP/phoenixd-lnurl
Has a tip page and supports a LNULR-pay address
https://1f52b.xyz/lnurl

2024-03-30 00:05:05

Been playing with Crux, for cross-platform app dev in Rust. It’s cool: https://github.com/redbadger/crux

2024-03-10 17:34:29

Reminder 20sat/vByte transaction feerates at $70k #Bitcoin is as expensive as 60sat/vB was when the price was $23k
As adoption increases transactions may get more expensive because blockspace is limited, but that doesn’t mean the fee rate will be ever growing higher and higher

2024-02-27 14:02:32

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Don’t jinx it!

2024-02-21 22:03:01

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Quantum threat to cryptography does actually worry me a lot for Bitcoin, we can’t simply react to it quickly. Changing Bitcoin is super hard normally, then even once post-q cryptography is available the entire UTXO set needs to transact to be safe. Don’t know if it’s possible to add new cryptography as a soft fork (maybe as a future taproot version?) so a hard fork will be more contentious still. It will take years.

2024-02-16 16:23:11

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If you're the richest out of 100 people in a room, that's not that rich
If you're the richest out of 10,000 people, that's probably rich

2024-02-16 16:21:39

The middle class *is* the 1%ers
Few.
#note10f8…xqyu

2024-02-10 14:39:26

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g m

2024-02-09 19:28:17

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hah had exactly the same thing on my mind @note1zg0em73zjzppwkw0k7pzfs58y252d57agtha9de7hjjxwvvq50kseme27w

2024-02-09 19:15:51

For the #Bitcoin class of 2022 and onwards, now comes the hard part of buying the most expensive sats you've ever bought
stay humble and keep stacking anon 😉

2024-02-09 16:34:25

https://www.shoosmiths.com/insights/articles/waiving-privilege-be-on-guard-7623
presented without comment 🍿

2024-02-08 19:58:58

Dr. Wright if your Citrix setup and Adobe Acrobat software are incapable of even glancing at a file without viciously mangling it, why do you even use them!?

2024-01-04 18:17:10

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Yes, it works - I’ve got the same wallet working in sparrow and nunchuck with all three signers working 🥳

2023-12-12 20:14:50

#note17gf…ral4
A bit of scope creep, but IMO a Nostr-based VCS might work (a lot?) better with Pijul http://pijul.org/ than git

2023-11-21 12:10:40

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Somewhat for the same reason NOSTR is JSON not a smaller binary packing, because JSON is near universally usable, even if pretty crap
Low dev effort to get started using a thing is important, perfect enemy of good

2023-11-15 08:40:15

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Bitcoin Zaddy

2023-10-24 22:45:39

When do we get to the point that #USDT #Tether FUD is about the risk and volatility of their USD Treasuries and not claims of crypto-shenanigans? 😂

2023-10-24 22:44:13

When do we get to the point when Central Banks get #Bitcoin FOMO?
Like, the Bank of England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 should have around ~1% of the BTC supply held as reserves (maybe up to 3%?), which would currently cost £5.8B
Which is a lot, but not actually for Govt. They can afford to lose £6B but can they afford to have no Bitcoin? It’s an asymmetric bet.
It’d have cost £600M less if they’d pulled the trigger a few weeks ago, and £2.9B less if they’d done it in November last year.
One day it will cost too much to be doable - that day might be coming real soon

2023-10-09 18:30:01

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PROJ tax?

2023-10-06 12:58:32

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Knead me daddy 🥖

2023-10-04 22:41:22

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So much this 👆

2023-10-03 12:41:05

Following @npub1s9c…a9je on Nostr is great because it helps me stay on Nostr…
Any other #bots people recommend for the same?