2024-05-15 08:26:38
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
You misunderstand the social layer.
Social layer is like comments under YouTube channels or newspaper articles, recipe or movie ratings, developer discussions about code-change proposals, websites that allow you to book hotels and complain publicly about the dirty bathrooms or post pics of the delicious breakfast buffet, chatting during a video conference or while watching someone stream, contacting a restaurant to make a reservation, etc.
It's a way of letting users discuss what they're looking at or interact with the source of what they're looking at.
You still need people running hotels, filming movies, or writing well-researched articles. And Twitter is where news is often breaking, so Nostr doesn't need to do that (yet). It needs to integrate the breaking Twitter news better, so that people can discuss it here.
2024-05-15 07:22:19
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
I love Bitcoin, as a topic, and would probably never completely tire of talking about, and the same goes for Nostr, but I actually like talking about The Other Stuff more.
And I've been trying to talk more about that Other Stuff, but it can be hard to find people to interact with on other topics because they don't usually get enough momentum to make the main trending list. Developers haven't had enough incentive to correct for that because the Bitcoiners are paying the bills and the people who paid for the music get to choose which song is played.
2024-05-15 03:08:18
by npub136j…jnxf
I don’t post TA often, but this one is interesting.
In every major bull run, once #Bitcoin got going, it rarely broke the 20 Week MA (orange) until the run was over. Check 2013, 2017, and 2021. A consolidation into the 20 Week MA appears to trigger. We might be at that starting point. https://i.nostr.build/7GD6e.jpg https://i.nostr.build/DjQVA.jpg https://i.nostr.build/RmgGr.jpg https://i.nostr.build/XVaYe.jpg
2024-05-15 02:38:01
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by npub1v9q…9q3h
The closest podcast I’ve heard was the relatively recent What Bitcoin Did episode with Shinobi. His primary critique (as I understood it) was that to him, OP_CAT complicated future assessments of other soft-fork proposals. That is, because OP_CAT is so flexible, it’s hard to predict how it will interact with other new features.
Incidentally, that flexibility is also the principal benefit. OP_CAT-based scripts are almost certainly going to be costlier in bytes than a specific OP code for a specific task (like OP_CTV). It may enable new denser transactions for exotic use cases, but it’ll never be denser than a purpose-built OP.
Personally, the only risk to Bitcoin that I consider to be catastrophic is a fast crack of ECDSA. In Bitcoin, your keys = your coins, but only because ECDSA is secure. A fast crack (either by quantum computer or conventional) breaks the your keys = your coins paradigm.
Among other things, OP_CAT enables (costly) quantum-resistant signatures. So if we enabled OP_CAT, I would have confidence that Bitcoin could survive even a fast crack of ECDSA. Quantum pirates may make off with Satoshi’s stash, but users could defend themselves by consolidating into new addresses. Prudent users could do so in advance. Without this, we’d need to rapidly deploy a soft-fork to provide a new signature scheme under extreme duress.
Note that a fast-crack, zero-day exploit of ECDSA is unlikely and would cause many other, serious implications besides breaking Bitcoin sovereignty. More likely, if ECDSA is to be cracked, it’ll happen slowly, so we’ll still have time to adapt.
But like I said, what I like about OP_CAT is that it gives tools to users to protect themselves from various different kinds of attacks, at the expense of transactions that are somewhat larger than they might optimally be.
2024-05-15 02:11:37
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by npub1v9q…9q3h
No worries, I’m probably the only ordinal disrespector who’s marginally pro OP_CAT. It’s an unpopular opinion.
I’ve heard that OP_CAT enables hashrate escrow. This would be a reason to oppose it, but I want to understand how that works before passing judgement.
The hashrate escrow concept of BIP300 is why I oppose Sztorcian Drivechains—namely because hashrate escrow incentivizes miner centralization. In Bitcoin, your keys = your coins. Hashrate escrow breaks this tenet by putting unlocking power in the hands of miners, and BIP300 enshrines this into the core protocol.
I do not care for or about ordinals, inscriptions, runes etc. The value of the Bitcoin unit (sats) derives from the fact that the data is the thing itself. Bitcoin is the first and most rival, excludable, digital good. It is not an IOU and depends on no counterparty’s performance. Using blockspace to record non-monetary data, especially IOUs, is wasteful, IMO.
My interest in OP_CAT is the expansion of programmability for the development of monetary technology, for the benefit of users.
I remain open to arguments that the costs are too high or benefits too low/nebulous. For example, if enabling OP_CAT made it more expensive to run a node, that would be a strong argument against. If it incentivized miner centralization at scale, that would make it a non-starter. I have not heard anyone make these arguments however.
The arguments I’ve heard so far are of the form “it may enable new things I don’t like”. But it also probably enables new things our adversaries don’t like (new privacy options, for example).
2024-05-15 01:20:05
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by npub1v9q…9q3h
I have a less-pessimistic appraisal of OP_CAT. Yes, it enables more use-cases. Like anything, there are costs and benefits.
What I like about it, personally, is that the additional flexibility provides space for developers/users to defend against attacks. It may enable new and better CoinJoin solutions to mask transactions from censors. It could provide novel vault solutions. It opens up alternative signature schemes potentially with better properties for some kinds of attacks. Defense against a discovered weakness in ECDSA for example.
However, OP_CAT solutions tend to be costlier for the user than the would-be alternatives. An OP_CAT vault will take more bytes than an OP_VAULT TX for instance. But this is OK. Someone who wants the expensive functionality can pay for the bytes. If that type of transaction becomes popular, we can always fork in a specific OP later to reduce costs.
Having said all of that, I don’t think OP_CAT is something that should be rushed through. It’s not urgent. Consensus is paramount. I just don’t share the net-negative appraisal of most hardcore Bitcoiners here.
2024-05-15 01:06:43
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by npub16r0…z5pl
It's essentially "social PGP". Instead of your account being owned by your ActivityPub instance, it's owned by your private key, which you use to sign or encrypt events.
Not only you own your account (mathematically), you also own your social graph, since every "follow" is a public cryptographically signed event.
I'm not trying to shill you, just mentioning it to you because I think you may find it interesting. I'm writing to you from nostr, using one of the 2 AP-nostr bridges. Although bridges are hacky, they still allow open platforms to be glued together, and for me to have found your content.
2024-05-14 22:26:18
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
Unmarried men might be more likely to abandon their children (I don't know if this is still true, but I assume it is), but we shouldn't assume that a lot of women aren't single mothers, intentionally.
(Sometimes because the father was unfit, of course. Life is complicated.)
But this is a post about wives, specifically.
2024-05-14 22:26:04
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by npub1fjq…leku
it's the real story of my life
and no i don't want to murder, rape, lie, cheat or steal, i just want to smoke weed, use bitcoin, travel without being spied on and shaken down at arbitrary points along the way and buy stuff without inviting police to show up (i literally had this happen back around 2005 after i inquired at a chemistry supplies website)
2024-05-14 22:23:45
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by npub1fjq…leku
i've been waiting for more than a decade for transflective LCD displays to come back
sure, they don't look so pretty but you can use them in full sunlight, and in dusk conditions you don't have to turn on the illuminators and i presume that at night you can get by with your house lighting (incandescent) instead of having this shit glow at you the whole time
been waiting for 60hz e-paper forever, suspect i will never see it in my lifetime at this rate... but transflective is just a different type of light panel behind the TFT panel, instead of being dark, it's grey
2024-05-14 22:20:31
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
I just think that we have to tread very carefully, with this sort of meme-based thinking because it can quickly drift off into scrupulous nonsense.
It is clear that the husband is head of house (however the couple lives that), which means he's responsible for ensuring, to best of his ability, that everyone who is in the house is protected and provider for.
That is it. He doesn't have to bring every dollar home, himself, and he doesn't have to be Rambo, or whatever.
2024-05-14 21:04:28
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
I doubt they're mostly miserable and I don't think all women are called to be mothers, or even capable of it.
I also think men and women were designed to be partially redundant, so that women can take over when a man dies, becomes disabled, etc. and some women skew more employment-oriented and would go nuts at home. There might be the man out there for them and they'll figure out a way to arrange their homelife.
I think this is only even seen as a political issue because we falsely link mens' headship to earned income, instead of to them simply being male.
2024-05-14 21:02:53
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by npub15sc…nm8u
Leider nein. Das was aktuell passiert ist der größte Raubzug der Menschlichen Geschichte. Aber wenn das vorbei ist und die Piraten mit all der Beute, die sie dem aktuellen System und somit uns Menschen rauben, weg sind, sollten wir Menschen, die jetzt zu dieser Zeit incarniert sind, uns zusammensetzen, einen vernünftigen consensus finen und diese Möglichkeit für unsere zukünftigen Generationen in Betracht ziehen und für sie ein gerechtes und diebstahlsicheres System erarbeiten und es aufbauen.
2024-05-14 20:54:30
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
I actually know a lot of women who work and have househusbands, as I'm entering that age when the dynamic starts to flip because of age gaps and mens' health declining. (He's older than her and retired, and he watches the grandkids after school or takes care of grandma.)
But, I agree, both partners needing to work full-time outside of the house is a situation that is a sign of poverty, and nothing to cheer.
2024-05-14 20:47:41
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by npub1m4n…c2jl
On, balance, yes.
Fertility is physically costly and trying to perform full-time at a day job far away from home can be a real burden. It does seem to run women down faster.
That said, a lot of the stress women feel is due to caretaking or household duties parallel to employment, and that's something a growing number of men also face, so I think the focus should be on promoting a breadwinner/caretaker split.
2024-05-14 20:24:15
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by npub1fjq…leku
yeah it's a show trial to intimidate people
it's not gonna work, i been in the business of this for some time, drugs, bitcoin, now nostr, it's all the same... they can't really stop us, they don't have the budget
see the movie THX-1138 for an illustration of how determined rebels in a socialistic totalitarian system are ultimately free because they can't really afford to enforce their authority only pretend to
2024-05-14 19:51:19
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by npub1wtu…e7js
The workflow, sure, assuming all your devices support signing in with a key the same way (they don’t) but having to use multiple keys negates the convenience. At that point it just becomes a longer password.
I use Alby extension on desktop, Nostore on iOS, and several other apps just accept a nsec. A simple unified signin system may be the goal, but we’re miles from there imo.