Last Notes
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/
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
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
Thanks for reporting, saw on GitHub 🤙 -- for anyone else reading this was fixed (https://github.com/AngusP/phoenixd-lnurl/pull/14)
You’re almost certainly going to be right, maybe 0.5% chance this will be an ‘anyone can use’ API
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
I've been happy with Firefox, has some good extensions like "Tab Containers"
The Bitcoin protocol is like dial-up modem protocols and no I don’t think I’ll elaborate
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
Yeah I couldn’t find orange 😭 but this was close enough and does match the LAMY
“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/
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 😂
iPod gang
https://m.primal.net/INFr.jpg
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 😂
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)
$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
🙋♂️ Hoffmann is pretty great
(Though I’ll enjoy a Gregg’s coffee too given how cheap it is)
Huh? 99% of 2FA setups include a set of backup codes that you should write down. I'm not sure copying/saving the QR is a great idea... IIRC there's also at-least one 2FA I saw where the precise time you set it up was imporant, i.e. if you re-scanned the QR tomorrow the codes were completely different
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'.
I am currently obsessed with Radicle and trying to shill it to anyone that’ll listen 🤣
I can see why it doesn’t, similarly AFAIK Mutiny doesn’t, because you don’t really need them for the use case of end-user spending wallets on a phone. But they are kinda required for Nostr Zaps to work properly
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? 🤔)
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 😂)
It does, just not with a message in them
Compare: https://app.radicle.xyz/nodes/seed.radicle.garden/rad:z4G6sJdYgCqKswKnrBbYgn9QaHBqh vs https://github.com/AngusP/phoenixd-lnurl/
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
💯 -- 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
Coming soon ™️ https://github.com/AngusP/phoenixd-lnurl/pull/11
As far as I’m aware the code works, but Phoenixd doesn’t like the really big invoice descriptions it makes so waiting on a fix for that.
Will also look at mutiny-server as an option when/if that’s shipped (AFAIK it’s basically the same idea) https://github.com/AngusP/phoenixd-lnurl/issues/12
Reminds me of https://grugbrain.dev
“grug wonder why big brain take hardest problem, factoring system correctly, and introduce network call too
seem very confusing to grug”
At least the LLMs will be more based
Anyone playing with Nostr and Bitcoin on #LORa and #meshtastic ? 👀
Or “Your feedback is appreciated , now pay $219”
You can’t route the token itself, but there is a (bit of a convoluted) route using Cashu for USD —Lightning—> USD
Already a thing if you route a Lightning payment between two Cashu mints that support synthetic USD eCash
Renewed screeching about people using Casey’s envelopes to put data on chain is nauseatingly boring. Stop being Bitcoin redcoats and get over it
Ubuntu works when it works, but if you poke it the wrong way wow does it break completely 😂
I'll give them credit only for being fairly good by comparison to other distros for graphics card support (sometimes) and working on AI/ML things; but that's often because those things are so poorly written that they basically assume Ubuntu and don't work properly on other distros
Fedora Silverblue is also a pretty cool project, if you can put up with its compromises https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/silverblue/
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.
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
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 🤦♂️
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)
The moral of @npub17u5…t4tp ‘s testnet drama is that it’s probably sensible to support all the test networks as you never know which is going to rug when 😂
(Though wen TBTC flipping BSV? Currently BSV at $64, TBTC at $0.63)
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
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
Simultaneously the most and lest based pool
#nevent1q…cqp6
Fun fact, banks seem much less inclined to close your accounts when you owe them money 😉
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)
I believe it’s because people started testing runes on testnet, then started selling testnet runes and testnet-Bitcoin. So attacking the chain was a fairly effective but coarse way to stop that.
A testnet reset is being discussed on the mailing list (testnet4) but a reset has not happened for ages so opinions are mixed so there’s not currently consensus on what exactly to do
Credit @npub1vsl…und7 on X https://x.com/bill_fowler_/status/1784242051397058719 (afaik)
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
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
Yeah saw it was ed25519 — it’s not too late for them to switch to secp256k1 😉
Haha tbf “non-custodial” being the same thing as “self custody” is confusing
If you want to buy $10 for $1,000,000,000 I’ll sell it to you friend
Surely that’s custodial Lightning?
Using Nostr even just for IDs seems sensible, you get the existing Nostr social graph for free
👀 (though it’s not Nostr 🤔)
#note1nl4…zm6z
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
If it makes you feel better I like the way this is going! 💯
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
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 😉
Agree, I’m not a fan of the1001 different shades of dark grey-blue you often get. Inky black and decent contrast is way better
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
Merkle tree of what? Split the file into chunks like BitTorrent and a tree of those chunks’ hashes?
Unlikely/not much point yet as Nostr is all secp256k1 already -- though yeah private stuff not being pwned when public is is perhaps a nice "it could be worse" disaster situation
Wen testnet working again? 😂
Degens on the brink of a second bailout for miners 🫡
Ooof, Ocean template enjoyors missing out on a cool THIRTEEN WHOLE BITCOIN in fees 🤯
https://m.primal.net/Hxcn.jpg
WOOOOOO! 🎇🎆
https://m.primal.net/Hxba.jpg
839999
https://m.primal.net/Hxap.jpg
Thanks, you seem to have in-jammed it 😂
Waiting for 839995 be like 👴😴
@npub1kyx…c6vv ‘s stream is cool:
#note1mlq…mgqx
nostr: note1mlqvfgcx6wwp4vc7f2caua6zdyz3xur8rhejtpl38w7z22mjc87shumgqx
Gentlemen, to your halv 🥂
GM from London on #bitcoin halving day 20/04/2024 🤙
This is also pretty cool #note1mlq…mgqx
“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
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 🤙
I love learning something new about Bitcoin every day
#note19r0…re06
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
Great read for those that haven't already (/didn't get the reference) https://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/
Struggling to test this right now because of the testnet shenanigans, my @npub1xnf…lpr5 testnet LND is *not* happy haha. Thanks @npub17u5…t4tp 😆
#nevent1q…qpcp
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 🤷♂️
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.
Gah, the difficulties of hopping between various Nostr clients and their different ways of doing tags and linking URLs 😭
https://github.com/hzrd149/blossom
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)
@npub1xts…kk5s you have no idea how many times I’ve seen this darn screen
Great troll 🤣 https://image.nostr.build/d00b589f9599f3db66430d08ebb83410230a63b7c4602394e8849fabe01b0504.jpg
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
+1 for Kraken, seems pretty popular in the UK. Mutiny or Phoenix for withdrawing in Lightning works well
Heh, Heineken of all companies trying to punt a prison phone at probably 100x ~~leverage~~ markup
#note1gfd…mzw4
Decentralised everything with LORA + Nostr + Bitcoin + Secp256k1 is the kind of future I want to live in
#note12vs…dkgn
GM 🤝
#note1ffm…4x0k
https://m.primal.net/Hucn.jpg
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
/ how much my COLDCARD Q reservation cost at today's price 🤣😭
#nevent1q…l49e
LMAO that’s not the real Phoenix wallet 🫣
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
Been playing with Crux, for cross-platform app dev in Rust. It’s cool: https://github.com/redbadger/crux
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
Waiting patiently for the BITCOIN ABSOLUTELY RIPPING TO PRICES NOT SEEN SINCE YESTERDAY MORNING headlines and tweets 😴
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
The middle class *is* the 1%ers
Few.
#note10f8…xqyu
Wen Bitcoin goes 1M I might buy a Lambo just for the memes
then donate it to a kids hospital or something
idk have you seen how expensive parking is these days mom said I can’t keep one in the garage
hah had exactly the same thing on my mind @note1zg0em73zjzppwkw0k7pzfs58y252d57agtha9de7hjjxwvvq50kseme27w
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 😉
https://www.shoosmiths.com/insights/articles/waiving-privilege-be-on-guard-7623
presented without comment 🍿
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!?
Yes, it works - I’ve got the same wallet working in sparrow and nunchuck with all three signers working 🥳
#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
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
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? 😂
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
Following @npub1s9c…a9je on Nostr is great because it helps me stay on Nostr…
Any other #bots people recommend for the same?
Capitalism is great
Beats smoothbrain govt every time 😂 #note1ulj…mdlu
Barbie and Oppenheimer are two of the best films I’ve seen in a long time
Think I’ve only just got over post barbenheimer-induced depression
Still spending a lot of time thinking about what both of them meant
https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/a-review-of-number-go-up-on-crypto-shenanigans/
Technically yes because Phoenix (and Breez)
But ‘not really’ for a few reasons - mainly unsure about where to get inbound liquidity and if that’ll be worth it, not super confident about managing a node, and want to know the backup/recovery process well before putting money at risk
Imagine how the goldbugs feel 😅
Agree. Kinda pushing myself to open Nostr instead of X, but it’s not great for engagement or conversations yet - not enough people around
Found following some bots like @npub1s9c…a9je is good just because it gives you something to look at and I can stop going to HN directly most of the time
The Online Safety Bill is terrible but great for Nostr
What happened in May 2022?
Direct to the note: #note1dhe…gmgq
Reminds me of https://www.catb.org/jargon/html/appendixa.html
I’m convinced history will remember the 20th century thru now to ? as the period of the American Empire.
They don’t think of themselves in imperial terms, but the existence of the empire will be obvious when it collapses, the absence of the thing making the thing apparent
Nah, file system doesn’t fit. Nostr is a new protocol sitting alongside email and HTTP, starting with genuinely different principles.
I’d pragmatically define a FS as anything you could write a sane FUSE for
Fair point. I don’t really have a counter other than the lazy “Nostr DMs are kinda broken already” and that spam on Nostr is going to be a lot like email
Not sure I agree, would you buy an nsec from me knowing that I could easily keep a copy and continue to use it?
What are you getting by having the nsec that you didn’t have with the npub? (other than being able to read DMs and create new events with it)
B -- Colour and +/- already communicate direction, use the icon to communicate type (zap, lnurlp, invoice, pay request, etc.)
In a sense it subtly, but quite possibly fundamentally changes the economics and incentives around mining, which *could* have bad unintended effects that *could* be irreversible
Any softfork that privileges or distinguishes miners from other nodes.
IMO this is actually the main thing that’s objectionable about BIP300/301, not the concept of Drivechains in themselves
Having a new type of message and payments that go to a miner “I want to start/merge-mine a drivechain” means you need to *know* who the miners are, and they need to handle the BMM in the coinbase tx. This is very different from all nodes equally and blindly passing transactions and blocks around to each other, not caring if the other end is a miner or not.
To me, it is critically important that people can mine without being (easily) detected.
#PSA : If you put your #npub as a hashtag in your Bio on X/Twitter it’s way way easier for people on phones to copy and paste and find you here
Reminds me of the “socialism is like baking a soufflé” or “making an omelette” – “sometimes you burn it or have to crack some eggs” (non)argument
Oops we cracked 10,000,000 eggs and still don’t have an omelette to show for it – better try again with a slightly different technique!
Based 😂 https://image.nostr.build/b0ceb220631cbd09546877974519511d7f265a2c1fdb0d3573bceffe01930254.jpg #note1ae3…zl0y
Here https://x.com/donjonledger/status/1701224148226208255
Have Donjon released a write up yet? Can’t find it
Is there a thing I can set up that Zaps everything I 🤙 react to given Apple suck and I’m mostly on #damus?
Happy to self-host, not going to cry if I need to use Alby/similar to do it (i.e. custodial)
#zap #zapathon
Hrm
More work to do
Adoption is everything #note19t4…z0hh
That’s kinda what a YubiKey is (other PGP smart cards are available)
We don’t use the word, but Bitcoiners strongly disliking the IMF, World Bank, Fed, CFA, UN, Cantillon effect beneficiaries, fiat finance, authoritarianism, financial abuse of the developing world, US hegemony and interventionism et al. are expressing a political opinion that it’d totally be reasonable to call “Progressive” – against inequity, exploitation, colonialism, repression, injustice. It’s just that those from a Libertarian background don’t use that vocabulary and are conditioned to dislike those who do because it often comes packaged with non-voluntarist/statist socialism.
Bitcoin and the Occupy movement had an affinity for each-other because of this common ground - the progressive aspect of Bitcoin is undeniable
💯, though shame more mobile wallets don’t support cktap – but Sparrow also does on desktop if you get a reader
Also playing with tinygrad https://github.com/tinygrad/tinygrad from the magical people at https://comma.ai
Liking it a lot so far, but it is also some to the fugliest python I’ve ever read 😂
C++ people are built different
Just come across https://github.com/karpathy/cryptos which is an educational implementation of Bitcoin (ish) from scratch in Python, similar to @npub10vl…sp42 ‘s awesome book “Programming Bitcoin”
Fair - though on iOS ofc there’s a lot less control, wiping Safari periodically is a pain
Counter: in-app browser is a separate cookie file, so e.g. for X, Nostr, whatever you don’t start collecting shit tracking cookies from sites you open (like MSM links) that then hang around for ages in your system browser, they’re sandboxed separately
Close between YouTube and Wikipedia – we take both for granted
The Swiss at their best are a beauty to behold 🇨🇭
Though I did see a poll on Twitter that was pretty bad:
Inflation was 10% at the start of the year, but has just reduced to 7%. This means that prices will be:
1. Higher than at the start of the year
2. Lower
3. The same
Only about 10-20% got that right 😬
Doesn’t really explain why cafes in particular, that’d apply to any shop that handles cash and sells lots of stuff for smaller amounts (restaurants, convenience store, etc)
Also chain cafés seem to be more likely to take cash than the small ‘speciality’ coffee places, even though I’d imagine average Starbucks employee gives much less of a damn about business success than a hipster barista
McDonalds Double Sausage and Egg McMuffin, every time 😅
You should do a “fire drill” on your self-custodied bitcoin about once a year IMO
Check you still have your backups
Check you haven’t forgotten your HWW PIN or passphrase (especially if you’re just stacking, never spending)
Check you can actually restore backups (a bit expensive as you need a spare HWW to wipe and restore onto, but definitely worth it if you have 1BTC+) #note13z4…x2qs
Never ever put HWW seed words or backup or anything that should be a secret anywhere but a new hardware wallet
🎣 Good phishing attacks ALWAYS try to use fear and panic to make you act before thinking
If in doubt, migrate to a new seed on a new and secure hardware wallet #note1dxl…w2lm
Also the proposed BIPs give undue privileges to miners to propose new side chains and accept merge-mines. Means miners that want sidechain fees would have to expose themselves to receive BMM requests (bad and unfair for anon and private miners) and means users need a miner to directly agree/work with them to get a sidechain going and to take their merge mine requests
Also very unconvinced by the BIPs that either will even work, irrespective of whether they’re good ideas or not
256 sidechain limit is dumb, not nearly enough
Bitcoin nodes should know as little as possible about sidechain, keeping lists and hashrate escrows seems pretty non-ideal
New messages for sidechain proposal and BMM request would surely lead to massive node p2p traffic, swamping the network (how do you know what is and isn’t spam if it’s supposed to be blind? You can’t?)
My current stance on #BIP300 and #BIP301 for #Drivechains is that I’m not convinced this is the “best way” to achieve “blind” escrow and Blond-Merge-Mining.
I don’t really care if people want to run drivechains; Bitcoin is freedom money so they probably should be able to, even if I and others think it’s dumb.
But it should probably be a net-gain for Bitcoin and have more uses than one
We only have so many NOPs left to soft-fork with, every new thing needing it’s own specific soft-fork isn’t sustainable
CISC vs RISC
We can’t really anticipate all possible transaction types and have templates for them all, which is why Bitcoin script exists, to provide powerful composable primitives that enable as many different uses as possible
Duolingo is just generally a really good design study
Rust is a good language, seems to me it’s biggest problem is its foundation runs almost exactly like a shitcoin foundation without the token
If Rust can become like C and basically get one minor update a decade and no-one seems to know who if anyone is ‘running’ the project, that’ll be bullish af
What’s the difference between data science and software engineering?
Here’s one definition: data-science code is made worse by being general/modular, software-eng is made better
Data sci is ad-hoc, often throwaway, so lends itself to tools like Jupyter notebooks really well. Trying to do data sci like software-eng is painful to watch 😂
YubiKeys are great and more people should use them - also great to use as a PGP ‘smart card’, way way better than having a hot key on a work computer
But a free-er open-sourcer competitor would be amazing, Yubico a bit Ledger-like for my taste
(Also also you can use a Ledger like a YubiKey which is handy as a backup)
Could also be a client feature to ‘share’ DM to yourself
Agree: https://1f52b.xyz/article/2023/06/the-digital-pound-a-new-form-of-money-for-households-and-businesses/
Basically argues eCash CBDC would actually be good, but current Bank of England proposal sucks and would have same inclusivity issues as current payments and banking system
Number of times on Twitter I’ve cut out waffle and hedging and maybes and possiblys and probablys &c. to meet the character limit and ended up with a better tweet because of it
Why is it specifically Cafés that don’t want to take cash?
(UK/London anecdata, YMMV)
The British electrical outlet is by far the superior socket and this is a hill I will die on
I suppose the more difficult middle ground is to suppress some of the reposts, so you only see it once or twice (so maybe no more than one repost per day, showing the most recent if multiple people you follow have reposted; and the original)
Classic moronic EU nannying
Ossification by overregulation - how is anyone supposed to develop new, better protocols if they are forced to interop with the old? Why should I degrade the security of my platform just so someone else’s spyware can natively communicate with my users?
We’ll be stuck with USB-C on phones for the next two hundred years for the same reason. #note1r5r…6jjx
Also, in my humour opinion, even though Bitcoiner software engineers notionally know Bitcoin doesn’t behave the same as any other piece of software, there’s a bias or inclination to act as if it does:
- Living software changes and gets new features, if it doesn’t it’s dead or dying and that’s bad. For Bitcoin, this doesn’t hold. (Change in a functional sense, not ensuring it continues to run, which is maintenance)
- it’s a piece of FOSS so it is and only is a software engineering product. Change proposals are viewed as a software eng and developer agreement issue, ignoring the wider commercial and economic interest and properties of Bitcoin
- it doesn’t matter if we add a feature not everyone wants to use, it doesn’t really affect them if they don’t use it. Again not true of Bitcoin, we’re hyper-paranoid about unintended side-effects, incentive changes (again econ/human action not a software problem!) and increased attack surface
- if cohorts of devs on a FOSS project fall out with each other or strongly disagree, you can just fork the code and then there’ll be two competing options, market decides which is better. Again for Bitcoin, these forks are much scarier and mutually destructive than say forking Nginx or Redis or GPG because none of them are literally money (endogenous vs exogenous value)
FG42 and STG44 were worth the loss 😜
Grug agree. Grug not see why you make program more complicated if hardcode work.
(https://grugbrain.dev/)
I have diminishing sympathy for people that put money anywhere near a guy that dresses like mid Hollywood films think a rich douchebag villain does – think Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder but turned up to 11. It’s twat pastiche.
I mean, come on – I’m a homo and I’ve *still* never worn that much Versace and Gucci at the same time LMAO 🤣
I’ve not caught up on the #Bitcoin dev mailing list recently, though seems I’ve not missed that much – still arguing about Inscriptions and mempool Full RBF 😂
Can we just get over it?! Inscriptions = legit use can’t and won’t censor; full RBF = incentive compatible, should be enabled.
A response to the Bank of England’s consultation papers on a #CBDC for the United Kingdom, the “Digital Pound”.
https://1f52b.xyz/article/2023/06/the-digital-pound-a-new-form-of-money-for-households-and-businesses/
It’s long 😅, so here’s the gist: an #ecash CBDC that’s private and anonymous would actually be worth developing, and have a bunch of benefits — it’d be an uncensorable and dependable fiat payment rail that Bitcoiners and other ‘undesireables’ could use, and maintains public access to central bank money so there is an alternative to having no other option but to use commercial banks and private rails that spy on you and can and do rug people for bullshit reasons.
If you want to address the decline of physical cash, replace it with digital cash.
Any other kind of CBDC sucks, is actively bad, and should not be built.
Noticed I’m not using Nostr nearly as much as Twitter… I think mostly because Twitter is where the newbies and Bitcoin-curious are, whereas Nostr is largely a crowd of the converted
And why does #[2] have a person-check while everyone else seems to have a verified check?! 😅
#[0] what do the blue/yellow star and bolt mean? Bit confusing feature discovery, suggest something like a tooltip when tapped/long-pressed just to explain it. Verified-like check mark probably also still confusing for new users, so same could work for those
What is #Ledger Recover, should you be worried, or is it for you?
How much do you understand about Hardware Wallets?
Do you know this would work on a ColdCard?! Private key extraction through a firmware change has always been possible.
https://1f52b.xyz/article/2023/05/can-ledger-recover/
#Bitcoin #LedgerRecover #HardwareWallet
Where is the BRC20 spec? How are these tokens minted? Who is minting them with what software? How are they traded?
Feels impossible to have an informed opinion without knowing all this, and seems hard to find answers
#Bitcoin #ordinals #brc20
Anyone know anything about tbdxxx other than it’s a thing? (Proposed alternative #Bitcoin layer 2 similar to #lightning )
AFAIK Nostr DMs are still not great, switching to Diffie-Hellman double-ratchet or a similar more secure and private system is a must
Hrm, don’t really want to start this argument up again 😅 but SeedSigner has a lot more hardware risk than a ColdCard, except (perhaps) for targeted supply chain attacks — because a SS is widely available off the shelf stuff, it has ‘herd safety’ whereas CC is obviously only for Bitcoin so has a clear incentive to be attacked. SeedSigner is also more closed hardware than the ColdCard is (RasPi is very closed), though neither are fully open as CC give schematic but PCB layout is closed and Secure Elements are mega closed and the ST Microprocessor is also closed.
Similarly, for the software risk, ColdCard software stack is way way fewer (orders of magnitude) lines of code than what’s in a SeedSigner which AFAIK is running an entire Linux. CC firmware can be deterministically built, whereas SS doesn’t and that might be tricky to achieve.
So while both are great, they have slightly different security characteristics and for *most people* the ColdCard comes out as the stronger option
Can someone tl;dr the drama?
Really struggling to see the attraction of eCash on Bitcoin…
The Bitcoin itself is custodies by the mint, so there’s standard custodial counterparty risk. Mint rugpulls = money gone
But also, I have to keep my eCash tokens secure and not lose them, just like Bitcoin self-custody. Lose tokens = money gone
So surely eCash has the downsides of both custodial and non-custodial Bitcoin/Lighting?
Saying the mint would be run by trusted local people is a cop-out, still relies on trust and being able to kneecap someone if they try rug…
Also a kinda, Fedora CoreOS https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/getting-started/
Only feedback is using public notes vs DMs feels spammy, but in fairness that has helped it gain traction (otherwise no one would know everyone else is using it)
*and constantly emulating and evoking a degenerating memory of your ‘more glorious’ past
Yes, think so - you’d put all the different unlocks in a modified BIP199 HTLC script?
Something like
```
OP_IF
[spend with a pre image (hash)]
OP_ELSE
OP_IF
[spend with some multisig and CLTV]
OP_ELSE
[spend with weaker or other multisig and longer CLTV]
OP_ENDIF
OP_ENDIF
OP_EQUALVERIFY
OP_CHECKSIG
```
Please stop making things I feel compelled to spend sats on it’s annoying
I wrote a thing about Ordinals:
https://1f52b.xyz/article/2023/03/the-subtil-genius-of-caseys-ordinals/
Also for PGP and git commit signing, great extra feature
Not tried it for ssh auth (yet)
Holy shit that’s a lot of love for Lionel ❤️
More than 1btc sent already 😮
And there’s a BTC Sessions vid for it: https://youtu.be/xKHy1HMw5iU
Your feedback is appreciated, now pay $8 🤣
LFG
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_e3fbb5baba4f32d1ee8adad2156410b07a6bc7f9e4a3ae1a4f275307c667e6a9.jpeg
How does “Pay Merchant” work? Can’t see an OSM tag with a LNURL in it so I’m confused 😅
(I’m not an Umbrel expert)
Is the SSD mounted automatically at `/run/media/…` or manually? If manual, I think you could ‘just’ set the mountpoint to `/home/<user>/umbrel`?
(Assuming you’re running Umbrel on a not-RPi, my guess is it does something special if it thinks you’re doing the Pi+USB Drive setup)
NACK, given it’d presumably be an event you’d effectively be auto-saving-forever what I was thinking about replying to but didn’t end up - there’s a loss of privacy angle. Doing it Damus only out-of-band would probably be fine
IMHO, better would be a view of what people I follow have 🤙’d as an alternative to Universe for finding people to follow and stuff to interact with (given universe is a biiiiit spammy)
Also, using a laptop gives you a uninterruptible power supply (UPS) for free
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It’s better rot think of Nostr as permissionless and hard to censor, not private
DM privacy in particular has been talked about, not sure where plans for improving that got to (ie go with something similar to Signal protocol (X3DH double-ratchet))
Hardware is capital, cloud is debt #fiatbrain
Criteria 0 of the Howey test is: if there isn’t a specific person or entity you could indict to make it stop, it’s not a security
…which pretty-much by definition means Bitcoin is not a security
Argh, why is setting up LUKS+btrfs such a pain in the ass on Debian but a breeze on Fedora!
Anyone got a good guide for doing it? Seems like you’ve got to manually poke around in the shell or jump around the installer to get it to play ball 😫
Want to play with #[0] on a spare machine, but IMHO disk encryption is a must and btrfs snapshots make backups easy
I don’t think that’s true, I successfully swept the funds I had in BW’s custodial Lightning yesterday (a whopping 35 sats 😂)
You have to remember to account for a fee, so I had 35 sats but invoiced myself 34, paying a 1sat fee. Annoyingly you can only guess what the fee will actually be and try again if you guessed too low, but 1sat is common.
Potentially they’ve got some channels that need rebalancing before they work properly again, given their flows will now be mostly outbound
Coinbase have been shitcoiners and smoothbrain big-blockers for a while now 😂
My only demand is she must try to orange pill her colleagues at the Spectator 💊
Point of Sale UI? (Think it’s great to have in Breez)
Proof of steak (🇫🇷 Edition)
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_106a6409a7dababbb47d37d8ea5ef7702a0a1dd6a36902a18710f60c52bf2f1e.jpeg
I’d also be interested if the thing we’ve ‘discovered’ about segwit and taproot after the fact (inscriptions…) have changed attitudes against ‘cool but very complicated so few understand’ changes in core
IMO it should continuously get harder and harder to change core, to the point that only changes that avoid catastrophic badness can get in (I mean Consensus, Standardness, not QT UI fixes)
Very similarly spec’d Dell Optiplex micros also available and work great 🤙
Don’t treat DMs as particularly secure, they’re pretty simple an don’t have many of the good properties that existing E2EE messaging alternatives like Telegram/Signal/WhatsApp have (ratcheting keys, key exchange between two parties, etc.)
You leak your nsec and all your past DMs are readable and you’re easily impersonated. Also everyone can just see who you’re messaging and when, even if they can’t read it (because the DMs are jus events published to your relays like normal posts)
Casey made a good point on Odell’s pod that people that hate inscriptions should just work on lighting. Is a payments network running at Visa and MasterCard volumes going to be able to outbid random artists and single users for block space? Yeah, really easily. So go make that happen!
Why? Genuinely interested, I’m not ‘in to’ NFTs but also find inscriptions pretty nonconcerning, and have some potential to be used for really cool or worthy things
Do you understand npubs yet? 😜
Think worries that Ordinal theory is a threat to fungibility are FUD - if just the suggestion of a scheme to ID sats that doesn’t require any code at all threatens fungibility, then fungibility didn’t really exist.
Existing monies like fiat and gold both have similar things, where an aureus will be worth a lot more than its gold weight because it is an aureus and those are rare and cool; and a 1900 dollar bill is worth more than a dollar for similar reasons. But a pawn shop and a hairdresser can still treat them as just bullion and just a dollar. Most sats are boring under ord theory in the same way a 2021 pound coin is boring.
Ordinals - just an arbitrary scheme for agreeing on a number for each sat. Bitcoin equivalent of collecting coins or banknotes that have some significance to you, really nothing at all here for people to get upset about. Ignore if you want to, have fun with it if you want to.
Inscriptions - different thing, but *use* ordinal theory to agree on who now owns an inscribed sat if you transfer it. Inscriptions IMHO are genius and cool, and good for Bitcoin. For people that are angry, the original sins were agreeing segwit discount and taproot without fully understanding the repercussions. Max block size is 4MB, deal with it, that argument is over. Also LMAO Bitcoin accidentally has better NFTs than all the Shitcoins *and* now shitcoiners are running Bitcoin nodes. Consensus rules are the rules, not what people ‘want’ Bitcoin to be used for. This is good for Bitcoin.
Casey’s chat with Odel on Citadel Dispatch was good, important points around how Inscriptions now entangle Bitcoin with 1st Amendment free speech because inscriptions are clearly speech not money. Also potentially help with future security budget concerns and ensuring we have a healthy fee market into the future (but also inscription hype could just die out)
Ordinals and Inscriptions are Good for Bitcoin
If you want to censor valid transactions, GFYS
#Bitcoin
No - Nostr is ridiculously simple, it’s just JSON being yeeted over websockets
SourceHut’s founder hates anything to do with blockchains and crypto for reasons, so suggest you avoid that one 🤡
On his webpage https://nvk.org/
There currently is none 🤙
Most clients don’t support blocking or anything, plus it’s trivially easy to make another key to get around a block
Still slightly upset I made a vanity key 0x1f52b… then everyone switched to npub from hex 😂 rekt
i.e. if I steal your key and DM someone using a relay they use but you don’t, I don’t think you would be able to see the message I sent
Actually just another Coldcard with different firmware could do that
My point basically that lots of GitHub alts exist but struggle to get users. That feels like the actual hard problem, how do you make it as easy to use as GitHub
Not sure how much sense that makes, but happy to be wrong…
Git is already well integrated with SSH and PGP, so adding Nostr keys as a separate thing might be odd/annoying.
Using existing git send-mail https://git-send-email.io/ could work using nostr instead of email as the communication layer… Git also needs a place to store stuff, which nostr isn’t great at
I had high hopes for sr.ht but founder is rabidly anti-Bitcoin and crypto so I expec there will be further “can’t do that here” rulings to come. Still, it’s open-source so a good thing to fork
(/rant)
Could use the profile image of https://github.com/nostr-protocol ? Or an egg 🥚? Or any purple ostrich 😂
Is there a Law named after someone that as soon as a new thing exists, someone will try use it to make a data transfer and/or storage protocol
It’s BIP 39 - you can find the list in a JSON somewhere on GitHub
Interesting video on Rust vs C++ for some Advent of Code challenges
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VMpSYJ_7aYM
“Wen taproot”
Shuddup we’re busy with nostr #brb
I’ve paid an in-person PT in Bitcoin… so yeah probably?
Not very confident but also guessing male pelvis
(This is the weirdest thread I’ve interacted with on nostr 😅)
Possibly just deodorant/aerosol can too
Gonna guess thermos flask in rectum, judging by the shape and different density and ?double wall 😂
If you can import the multsig wallet into another client like Sparrow you can sign in the Coldcard using a SD card instead of NFC, so funds shouldn’t be stuck. Sparrow won’t need to have any of the keys imported or whatever IIRC
https://cryptolasereyes.com/ ?
(Credit to #[3] for the site)
Yeah but also no https://airgapcomputer.com/
Opinions vary ofc, but a computer is very complex and is trying pretty hard to be online and clever, not a do-only-one-thing dumb hardware wallet.
Just because you deleted and uninstalled Samourai doesn’t mean your private key has actually been irrecoverably scrubbed from the device.
This airgap computer setup is fine for small stacks, but a big stack you really should be much more paranoid. And at that stage, a $200 hardware wallet is less than a 1% insurance fee to pay, so makes sense.
Nope, I just spend too long in the internet 😂
RBF should also in-theory mean you pay less in fees, because you can start with a low-ball fee rate and replace with a higher one if necessary, rather than having to overbid for a better guarantee or using something ugly like CPFP (child-pays-for-parent, basically spend change back to yourself with a high fee)
A miner can do what they want within the rules with their block, but the safe assumption is that they want to get the largest reward possible, so they’ll almost always take the highest fee paying block’s-worth of transactions from the pool to build a block with, and fit as many of them in the block as they can.
It doesn’t really, which is why you might have to overpay fees to have a high chance of getting in the next block, and why confirmation can take longer than you/your wallet estimated.
RBF let’s you increase the fees you pay if you realise your initial bid was too low for the confirmation time you were looking for
Blocks have a fixed size, so the miner simply chooses transactions from the mempool to fit into their block that maximise the total fees they get, up to the max that will fit. So highest fees get into blocks faster.
I think basically it’s not a very effective/efficient market, you have to place your ‘bid’ (decide a fee) based on what the fees in recent blocks have been or what the fees of competing transactions in the mempool are. But the bids are taken after you’ve decided them, so there’s a degree of uncertainty and inefficiency - other higher-paying transactions can be broadcast before the next block that will delay your confirmation.
You’re effectively guessing at the right fee rate. RBF (replacing a transaction with another that pays a higher fee) helps with this a little.
🫂 also slowly learning rust, gonna try porting the “Programming Bitcoin” book’s Python as a starter project (great book btw)
UK specifically, Coinkite.com which has the Bolt card. Otherwise generally would recommend Breez or Muun
Anyone know how Muun Wallet’s recovery would work for Lightning channels? Can’t see anything on their GitHub that suggests it would be able to close channels too https://github.com/muun/recovery
Purple - you follow them. Grey - you don’t. 🤙
Lightning is a great orange-pilling tool 🍊 Nocoiner to Bitcoiner in seconds 🤙
Is it common to use Lighting on a desktop (not counting routing nodes)? Mobile seems to fit Lightning a lot better, portable sats
I’ve been using Slack as a place to drop a quick thought or note to myself for ages… just realised Nostr + Damus is way better for that because I can keep that history on a private relay forever 💯
Breez also does podcasts, pretty simple (maybe too simple?)
Or get the code, build it and load it onto your phone (not super easy though!)
I want cheap sats to continue but also stack to grow #hodlproblems
SFT: Slightly Fungible Token
inb4 “what does gray mean” “how do I get purple”
You can still get @Cody at another domain 🤙
Well better still, if taproot does work in a way that you could have multiple SEs, you could also have a software key to hedge against SE risks
Secure Elements are physical chips designed to do one and only one thing, handle a key and encrypting/signing stuff.
Because of this, companies that make them put a lot of effort into making them secure against remote and physical attack. They’re also very secretive about how they work. So, to an extent you have to trust the manufacturer of the SE chip not to have built in anything shady.
Because SEs are used to secure really important stuff for lots of people, they’d also be a great thing for government agencies to try and attack, so some people are suspicious of SEs and TPMs (trusted platform modules, basically the same thing)
The Coldcard has two SEs in it and stores the private key on them. Many other hardware wallets also use SEs. A SeedSigner uses a Raspberry Pi, which doesn’t have a SE.
The argument seems to be over whether not having a SE matters, or whether a SE is a good thing because it’s actually secured against a lot of attacks and you shouldn’t trust your keys to regular off the shelf hobbyist computer hardware, or a bad thing because you can’t trust SEs and they’re obvious targets for NSA/CIA/FBI/GCHQ/&c. to break
Wen Taproot is more common, will hardware wallets be able to have say three or four secure elements that can all co-sign but one being compromised still wouldn’t compromise the private key? (Tbf I’m not 100% sure how the COLDCARD mk4 currently uses it’s two SEs)
#[0] random thought - could we get a COLDCARD PRO with Cherry MX ultra low profile switches instead of the thin plastic pop button thingies on the Mk4? Think I’d pay ~2,000,000 sats or more for that
https://www.cherrymx.de/en/blog/cherry-mx-ultra-low-profile.html
Also check out https://nostrgraph.net which can send you an export/backup of events you’ve already posted
Recommend also adding your private relay to your NIP5 config if you can, so all your past events are discoverable
Yep, set up my own relay today with nostr-rs-relay. You can whitelist only your pubkey, so it’ll back up all your events but allow no one else’s
Gymnastics rings? Ring archer push-ups are 💯
Kinda sad I made a vanity hex pubkey then everyone switched to the npub format a day or so later 😅
My guess for the good reason for that is the in-app browser has a separate Cooke jar for better privacy? (Having read no docs to check)
Actual Moscow time
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How did I miss Tor from the list! 😱
Bitcoin, Nostr, IPFS, BitTorrent. All decentralized, all work differently, all work great. Turns out, trying to make everything work like Bitcoin is dumb!
Don’t think it exists yet, but yes, would be pretty easy to write a bot that sends a Lightning invoice to anyone that DMs it and then posts public updates with things like progress towards a funding goal, thanks funders, etc
Going to play with søstr (already a private relay) and nostr-re-relay to find out
https://github.com/metasikander/s0str
https://sr.ht/~gheartsfield/nostr-rs-relay/
If I run my own relay, how do I send all my past events to it? Or does it just happen magically? (When using a client connected to it and another with those events)
Very strongly recommend using Coldcard’s Seed XOR to split and back up the seed as multiple parts that can then be physically separated and hidden: https://seedxor.com/
Nostr supports likes, or at least Damus does, but not all clients have/will implement them
I don’t really keep up with IPFS, is that still a thing or is it dying? Just seems like it’s be a good match for content hosting on nostr? (video, images, audio, docs etc)
No worries
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It did, thanks! Feel free to invoice back if you want!
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Dumb question, how do lighting invoices in nostr work? Do you just paste an invoice like
lightning:lnbc1u… ?
BlueWallet is cool but their Lightning is custodial, if you’re happy with that small risk then yeah it’s probably the easiest to set up (an not have to mess around with channel creation and fees etc)
You can run your own LNDHub for BlueWallet if you want but I’d guess 99% of people won’t
Interesting… though with Breez an actual Lightning node runs on your phone, if you’re offline for long enough the other end of your channel might close, but you won’t lose money (it’ll show as an on-chain balance you can sweep to another wallet)
Not sure there’s any ‘Europe specific’ reason to go with one wallet over others, but I’d recommend Muun or Breez
yeah I’ll give it that - just I’m default sceptical and didn’t like that the first thing it does is force you to make a wallet (because I already have some) and I’m not sure how it’s Lightning works under the hood (Breez let’s you check channels n stuff)
I’ll add that I’ve tried all three and settled on Breez - Muun put me off pretty early, BlueWallet is great in general but their Lightning is custodial, Breez is super cool and runs a (forked) LND instance ON YOUR PHONE 🤩🤯
Maybe I’ll give Muun a second chance, but still: Breez
#[0] Verifying My Public Key: "1f52b_xyz"
Made a quick script to generate 'vanity' #nostr pubkeys
https://paste.sr.ht/~_1f52b/01d14ccae8a4eb58e48fb1f45b16e55b268988db
(only works for 0-9a-f ofc)