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Evan

I wrote a script to get UTC time for each blockheight and then plotted monthly stale block counts from historical data. Over the last 6 years (2018-2023), we had an average of just 2.08 stale blocks per month observed in this dataset. https://image.nostr.build/476439998e28ea52e522da39566805f77bd1513de34ccde56023b60e11c80f46.jpg

2023-11-29 05:51:06

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It’s Transparent Index of Distinct Extended Shares (TIDES)
They said that it is similar to PPLNS. Minimal details were shared today but I assume they’ll write and publish more in the coming weeks.

2023-08-19 18:12:57

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If you’re not familiar with Monero’s community crowdfunding system it’s worth taking a look at: https://ccs.getmonero.org
I wish Bitcoin had more community driven bounties and would 100% contribute for both Bitcoin and nostr dev

2023-08-19 15:51:29

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Prusa’s have been considered highest quality and most reliable consumer printers for the last few years. My brother-in-law is big into printing semi-professionally and his Prusa is the printer he has modified the least and which has had the least down time.
More recently Bambu has been launching innovative printers that have been well received, but I have no personal experience with them.

2023-08-19 15:30:10

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Best of luck, Luke. I’ll be hoping that justice is served and the Bitcoin that is rightfully yours is returned to you and your family.

2023-08-17 04:55:56

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Good to hear - happy to support the work ya’ll are doing 🤙

2023-08-17 04:54:21

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Will be interesting to see how views counts for your posts change. Seems like recently it’s hardly worth tweeting without a check, a stark difference from 6 months ago.

2023-08-17 04:28:49

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Is this working right now? I became a Mutiny+ subscriber on 7/13 and haven’t received a request for a second payment yet

2023-08-07 18:52:27

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This is pretty crazy. I guess using biometrics (e.g. Touch ID) and auto fill is now the safer option for performing an action such as logging in from a public place or coffee shop?

2023-08-06 17:12:20

A hill I'm willing to die on:
Commercial seed backup solutions (expensive metal plates) are not only a waste of money, but they're bad at their job
All 24 words for a seed should not be kept in a single location. Safu ninja/DIY solutions are easily adaptable to m-of-n solutions.
To this end: SeedSigner is overhyped and over-recommended. Using off the shelf hardware is great. Encouraging people to keep a QR code of their seed at home is not great.
I don't see where SeedSigner fits into a well architected cold-warm-hot storage system.
I don't like to focus on negative aspects of projects, I'd much rather hype alternatives that get me excited, but in this case I continuously get the impression that people misunderstand the risk/benefit profiles and the record needs to be corrected

2023-07-17 01:36:28

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We don’t *need* algorithms, but I’m excited for some relays to attempt to introduce new content. It would be great to be introduced to new people and ideas, and if it doesn’t work out I can just remove those relays. Market forces at work!

2023-07-10 02:23:01

Listened to most of the first Money Matters podcast while going for a long walk
Lots of great discussion about the benefits of building on open protocols by @npub1sg6…f63m
While most business is zero sum and adversarial, there’s an analogy about goodwill that I feel explains the positive sum nature of open protocols.
“It’s more like having a lit candle in your hand. This person asks to light his candle from yours, that person asks to light hers. The more candles you light, the brighter it is for everyone -- including you.”
Ajaan Fuang Jotiko

2023-05-09 01:09:58

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IMO it makes sense to have a 30 second delay in an app like Damus. It’s not slack or IRC which are used for real time communication. Typical usage is much more async, where 30 seconds doesn’t matter. An edge case is handling what happens if a user force closes the app during the delay period…

2023-05-09 01:06:38

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I think it’s possible but relays would need a way to receive and handle a message to “undo” the like or repost. There’s no guarantee that they’ll honor it, similar to how deletion doesn’t really work as you’re trusting the relay to delete the data.

2023-05-09 01:04:27

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How does this work? There’s some delay after a tap before the zap actually occurs and during that window you can cancel it? This UX works well for email

2023-04-24 22:51:42

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Thanks for the link!

2023-04-24 21:42:46

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Soma?

2023-04-18 06:08:53

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I guess the use case with DLCs would be devs who are seeking funding setting up the bounty instead of the funder posting a bounty that anyone can take. It would need to be like https://ccs.getmonero.org/work-in-progress/

2023-04-18 06:06:01

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Glad to hear! I’ve always been excited for DLCs to be used more widely and for the UX to get polished up.
Would love to have a way to fund dev bounties with a trusted oracle who assesses whether the bounty was met or not. Bounty is met -> funds go to dev. Bounty is not met -> funds return to sender.
https://bitcoinbounties.org on steroids

2023-04-18 05:17:44

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Cool - thanks for the heads up!

2023-04-17 04:45:46

#[0] will Q1 have multiple colors at launch or will it start out clear only? Super excited for these to ship out later this year

2023-04-16 03:51:16

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_e61a1398a5c6e683f45da248367d1c2062d34f2843d10bbde7f986f7a7fbf916.jpeg
Earth 🤙

2023-04-07 04:41:20

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Not at SF Bitdevs. I’d guess that we talk about Bitcoin and Lightning development similar amounts, and nostr never really comes up expect maybe in passing in conversation.
Must be regional?

2023-01-26 17:46:53

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Welcome to Nostr!

2023-01-18 16:51:02

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Just saw a post by NVK in a thread: will come soon as a separate experimental release

2023-01-18 16:49:17

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Any estimate on when Taproot wallets will be able to use CC as a signing device?

2023-01-17 02:02:46

It’s amazing how quickly that these nostr clients are improving and how great the UX is!

2023-01-17 02:01:28

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Am I understanding correctly that the person who paid the invoice is the person optionally leaving a comment?

2023-01-17 01:58:13

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Cute pup and nice photo!

2023-01-14 18:35:59

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I’ve got some experience publishing apps on the Apple App Store, and as a small developer I’ve found the review process to be extremely arbitrary. My advice is to submit regularly, as at some point you’ll have a more open-minded reviewer. My first app was denied citing an app store guideline, and when I resubmitted with effectively no changes it was approved by the second reviewer. After initial approval, subsequent updates went (mostly) smoothly.
This was a few years ago and is obviously a single data point, so it may or may not still hold true.

2023-01-13 06:36:49

#[0] Verifying My Public Key: "evanwinget"

2023-01-10 01:38:15

Got so used to near daily Damus updates that it feels weird having gone 3 days with no new TestFlight build bringing new features…

2023-01-07 08:07:41

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0.5GB RAM is minimum recommended, you should be fine
External drives are OK, but you should use an SSD and not a HDD. 1 TB is recommended, current blockchain is a bit over 500 GB

2023-01-07 07:29:01

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Yeah my desktop is used for gaming, development, and web browsing. The initial sync is a little bit compute intensive, but after that you’re just validating ~1.7MB blocks once every 10 minutes, it’s not noticeable at all

2023-01-07 07:20:44

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Ahh thanks - needed to update Damus!

2023-01-07 07:18:36

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Yellow if someone you do not follow, blue if someone that you do follow 🤙

2023-01-07 04:46:09

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I have a full node on my desktop, a full node that I sync as needed on a laptop, and then an RPi node that is currently off.
Warren Togami (@wtogami on the bird app), has written a lot about the benefits of using used Thinkpads for nodes. Cheap, readily available, Bitcoin and lightning are super stable on Linux, built in UPS (battery), etc.
If I was starting from scratch, I’d definitely consider an old Thinkpad from eBay

2023-01-07 03:15:16

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Not enough people, IMO. Bitnodes estimates just 43k BTC nodes right now (https://bitnodes.io/nodes/all/#global-bitcoin-nodes).
More people should run their own node, it’s fun and easy!

2023-01-07 03:10:18

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You’re the man, Doc. Coldcard is a solid product, and blockclock is fun to have near my desk

2023-01-06 07:01:03

I’m a noob when it comes to LNURL - it’s implementation agnostic, right? As in, I can use it with a Core Lightning node if I want?

2023-01-05 06:56:54

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Looks fine*

2023-01-05 06:56:33

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I don’t think there’s a Damus bug here. #[3] spinning logo lots fine on iOS Damus app for me

2023-01-05 06:49:23

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I checked immediately and didn’t see it, closed the app and made some tea, and later when I re-opened I saw the check in my profile
It’s possible I needed to take some action before it re-checked the nostr.json on my domain? Not sure

2023-01-05 06:47:33

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This looks correct to me. One note is that it took a bit of time (~30 minutes) before the check appeared on my account in Damus

2023-01-05 05:17:29

Rebuilt my personal site in raw html because I couldn’t figure out how to include the nostr.json file in my Jekyll build using Github Pages. Probably overkill, but it was fun.

2022-12-25 23:49:25

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Pretty sure that @swiftobjc is referring to the number of views a note has received (similar to Twitter’s tweet stats)

2022-12-18 22:39:45

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Ryokan?

2022-12-18 20:45:57

Enjoying nostr and Damus so far
Couple of issues: added multiple relays yesterday but seems like they’re gone from my Damus settings today. Followed multiple users but they don’t show up under people that I follow.
Despite these minor issues, this seems like a solid foundation that will be fun to watch grow and mature

2022-12-18 17:16:21

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👋