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Pleas help, good NOSTR neighbors!
Can you point me at some best practice for sharing a NOSTR profile? Is the gold standard for that still just sharing the same private key, or is there any NIP for some more elegant form of delegation?

2024-09-07 13:54:19

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Afraid so. But as long as sats are scarcer than blockspace, shouldn't be an ongoing problem in the first place.

2024-09-02 11:40:36

#Bitcoin scaling, Trustless L2s, covenants, future soft forks.
Some clarity about many controversial topics by @npub1ej4…ndrm, courtesy of Fulgur Ventures!
#note1num…uxr9

2024-08-29 15:42:54

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I don't hear much about them anymore. They definitely used to be top 3.

2024-08-29 13:57:00

Dishonest shitcoin shills, ranked from the most to the least annoying, as of now, top 10:
1) XMR
2) KAS
3) LTC
4) BCH
5) ETH
6) BSV
7) XRP
8) SOL
9) BNB
10) DOGE
ETH and BSV shills used to be on top of the shortlist 2 years ago. XMR & LTC used to be on the bottom 8 years ago.

2024-08-28 18:25:52

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Tecnicamente no. Socialmente però il momentum é forte! La vera differenza peró é solo che ho installato Primal.

2024-08-27 08:34:10

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Nothing against Amethyst, still great. But slow enough that I wouldn't open it just to check notifications on a random free second between doing stuff.

2024-08-26 11:38:06

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I think I did. I kinda hope I did, since I gave it back and maybe I inadvertently flirted with some guy.

2024-08-25 08:24:49

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How does this work @bumi?! :D
I'm gluten intolerant I can't drink beer! :D

2024-08-24 12:38:14

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*Incredibly

2024-08-24 12:00:50

Incredibility well-designed and well-realized game by D++! Masterfully hosted by Martell!
I managed to rug some money from @npub1j8y…vrvg, which is always my main goal in life!
https://m.primal.net/KKii.jpg

2024-08-23 08:45:34

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I joined nostr before most bitcoiners tbh. Before Jack made it cool. :)
But I just don't have the habit yet to check amethyst as often as I do X. I guess it has to do with drama/controversy.

2024-08-23 08:43:14

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2024-08-23 08:42:35

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Still active, even if a bit downsized! Go there and check. You can still pay LN in many places!

2024-07-04 21:49:09

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Thanks man!

2024-04-19 14:30:48

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Reinstalled Amethyst on GrapheneOS.

2024-04-19 13:24:42

There's a disgusting gaslighting operation going on, coordinated by retardinal shitcoin scammers, seeding around several factual lies:
1) "Valid or expensive things can't be spam: spam is always free and protocol-level-invalid"
2) "Most Bitcoin developers have always been against using mempool filters to fight spam, Core never did it"
3) "Core's mempool filters are working as always intended, there never was an unintentional and unforeseen behavior of the datacarriersize parameter in tapscripts"
4) "The block-increase via witness-discount shipped with Segwit to appease big-blockers didn't end up incentivizing spam over real transactions"
5) "Mempool filters are anti-free-speech and anti-free market censorship, a precursor to OFAC compliant blocks"
6) "Mempool filters can be, contemporarily, totally ineffective in creating friction to spam AND ALSO extremely hurtful for fee prediction
7) "Ordinals and Wizards are not a typical and overt shitcoim grift (with negative effects on privacy and UX for Bitcoiners) but legit technical innovation for Bitcoin"
All lies. Absolute, clear, literal, evident, verifiable lies.
I'm skeptical of filters as a long-term sustainable solution for spam attacks, where the attacker is well-funded enough to bribe miners into behaving maliciously. I think the only structural and long-term solution can only be increasing economic density of L2s, to fight L1 censorship and spam with fee pressure. I believe covenant SFs in general and LNHance in particular would greatly help towards such goal. But I don't tolerate the above lies. And sadly the LNHance campaign is now deeply entangled with promoting them.

2024-04-19 13:00:31

I have long thought that the depiction of the "HODL" sub-subculture (within the Bitcoin subculture) as viciously statist, patheically cuck and dangerously anti-privacy, was vastly esagerated, at the hands of the specular "noKYC" sub-sbuculture (that also has its very serious issues: shitcoining, keynesianism, woke bullshit, etc.). Well, I have to admit the some red flags in this sense are real, and spreading. Some "HODL" folks would go to the extent to actually agree with privacy-focus shitcoiners in promoting "privacy coins" as better than Bitcoin (clear nonsense for technical and economical reasons). Horseshoe Theory of Bitcoin.
https://image.nostr.build/0cbc8874dcb90430592f20372e8f4d8eff2d78a7b7288dce9447c26755fb1260.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/da1e8028307e38caf11407b144e6162abd068bb8572ecbd0e081878982b28872.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/2d8327d262f84e3a7846e174f8ff19808fdb119e0870e5ca38254be778762b14.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/3052b892b45fb3784bf1c7548cf14141a5938e10d8be07504f7180361dc26275.jpg

2024-04-18 16:06:45

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Concise and accurate!

2024-04-18 12:13:33

THE GASLIGHTING NETWORK:
- "Don't believe your own memories of using LN non-custodially on a daily basis for countless times in the last few years, but believe fraudulent marketing claims by shitcoin scammers about you never actually doing what you actually did and do"
- "Don't compare LN to existent, realistic and sustainable alternatives, including its own future iterations and evolutions, but to imaginary born-perfect, silver-bullet, turn-key solutions like gigameg-blocks, miraculously brought to you by the Second Coming of Bitcoin Jesus, resurrected to bring you with him in the Hard Fork Heavens"
- "Don't think about real-world economic/monetary dynamics, pushing most actual users for much of the foreseeable future to prioritize their concern over inflation and confiscation of their long-term savings, over coffee-paying costs or risks, but make up imaginary millions of people with no fiat but somehow lots of sats to spend in billions of fast/cheap transactions starting tomorrow"
- "Don't engage in nuanced and honest discussions about the actual security-model spectrum for different use-cases, but pretend that those millions of imaginary sat-spenders somehow always need, for their imaginary fast/cheap transactions, the very same trustlessness models than slow/huge ones."
- "Don't acknowledge the fact that Bitcoin's usability for normies has been brought from nonexistent to mediocre over 15 years of hard work, but pretend its layer1 was born perfect, without inherent issues like chain-anal/coin-selection/fee-estimation issues"

2024-04-18 12:13:03

I notice a nice trilemma while teaching (Bitcoin, physics or literally anything else):
- accurate
- understandable
- concise
You can only pick 2.

2024-04-18 10:07:21

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Yep. But people on Nostr are less wrong so I don't get to get triggered by them being wrong so often. :(

2024-03-20 14:43:28

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Thanks man. But I prefer to cut ties with Shitcoin Magazin completely at this point. But I absolutely respect that the threshold is personal and not clear-cut.

2024-03-20 14:41:53

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Check relays!

2024-03-20 09:31:19

The hard lesson once learned by "Consensus" conference in New York City, now learnt once again in Nashville. Nothing is ever new in #Bitcoin.
https://image.nostr.build/000e94f185a007936e5b456ea9abaa01f667cf6f511795f9d1aa342d8c1ec1ae.jpg

2024-03-15 09:02:26

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Not so inactive either. :)

2024-03-08 09:34:47

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My only professional legal opinion is that I don't have professional legal opinions!
(semi-cit from "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", 1990)
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fturtlepedia.fandom.com%2Fwiki%2FSterns_%25281990_film_series%2529&psig=AOvVaw1hZE5sUqBTryDf0tQGBXcT&ust=1709976832929000&source=images&cd=vfe&opi=89978449&ved=0CBMQjRxqFwoTCIjqs5-u5IQDFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE

2024-03-08 09:24:06

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And what about sub-meter intervals? What are you, a socialist?

2024-03-08 09:11:12

Did you know? When you pay sats to an orange-pilled taxi-driver, but you only do that at the end of the ride, without having written on global-consensus blockspace at every unit of Plank-time, you are being a CUSTODIAN, and custody-Bitcoin is NOT real Bitcoin!!!
STATIST LARPER!!!
Or maybe, just maybe, you should chill out a bit, and accept the existence of a security-model spectrum, while always aiming at the best extreme (that of total trustlessness) whenever possible, within reason, improving the improvable, without selling impossible dreams. Maybe.

2024-03-06 16:02:55

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@FBI

2024-01-12 08:44:18

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"Your number" diverges to infinity when the supply thins out. You can't make a divisible asset disappear by buying it all.

2024-01-06 16:04:21

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I think that both "filter teams" I mentioned (OCEAN-led datacarriersize proposal and Chaincodelabs-led bare-multisig proposal) are skeptical of important higher order effects of updating current Core's filter due to the fact that current Core's filter seamingly didn't produce such effects, and the new proposals don't change their fundamental logic. The stronger arguments I've seen about why these new updates would be worse are actually by the team proposing to remove non-fee-based filters from Core completely. But I'm quite sure that would have important higher order effects as well.
I'm not sure Luke or Murch want to wish away any economic game theory, but it's clear it's not a game theory "that makes Bitcoin work", since Core currently filters away high-fee-paying txs from mempool.
I think is entirely reasonabe on their part to suggest only mempool-level upgrades and not soft fork: mempool policy is a matter of local preference, relatively safe & dynamic, block validity is a matter of global consensus, very risky, hard to change and very hard to change back once changed. So far the only one I've seen suggesting a consensus change was a malicious troll by an "ordinals" developer, trying to lure anti-spam users into running a disastrous fork without even an activation date (I don't remember his name, but he's friend with some Bitcoiners so he gets a pass for such irresponsible behavior, sadly). In general, managing something as dynamic as spam with consensus rules seems frankly crazy to me. Spam attacks and DDoS are preferable to consensus failures and splits.
Bitcoin deva always advocated for whitelisted script templates, nothing new: currently Core stansardness rule explicitly whitelist 5 types of txs, while all the other possible types are nonstandard, regardless of the fees. Not having whitelists in mempool policies is *most definitely not* "what makes Bitcoin bitcoin".
I can't prevent malicious or apatic miners get their massive stack of fees coming from "NFT" frauds and spam attacks: I can just refuse to cooperate actively and shame them publicly.
I absolutely agree with you that one can think all of the inscriptions are spam, and accept nothing can be done about it. It may be the case. One could also think that something may be done to some degree (as I suspect) but that it's still better to focus efforts on other things: totally honest and respectable take.

2024-01-04 19:58:29

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I mostly see people yelling because he's claiming that even in the case of the inflation bug, it would be legit bug fixing to change the documentation to align with the (buggy) code. But maybe we have a different follow-list so we see different yelling.

2024-01-04 19:56:33

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Thank you for answering one-off even if blocked elsewhere (I block very liberally on Twitter, here it's neither possible nor needed).
The proposal you list is the second "type" I mention in my brief list. The higher order effect you mention (increasing already present offband auctions of blockspace) would be common between that and the third "type" (Much's proposal to filter out bare multisig, apparently popular among Core devs). But since Core already filters high-fee-paying valid txs, it seems to me that, at least in principle, the first "type" is the only proposal that would avoid that higher order effect completely...not the status quo. Even if I find it likely that the umprecedented move to a total lack of mempool filtering could produce way more/bigger higher order effects.

2023-12-30 20:05:47

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Great thanks! I hope the same! Merry Christmas!

2023-12-30 16:53:24

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Matt, which of the people listed below do you think are misunderstandings higher order effects? Or there are others?
#nevent1q…g45k

2023-12-30 16:51:04

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Uh? The only radical mempool policy change proposal I see (removing incentive-incompatible filters entirely) are from Peter Todd and Ben Carman, but don't seem to have much following. Milder, more conservative proposals come from Luke Dashjr in Knots & disrespector-patch promoters in Core (extending to tapscript the very same datacarriersize policy that Core uses for pre-taproot txs) and Mark Erhardt (filtering out bare multisig in Core as well, as Knots already does since year). All minority views. Do you hear about anything else?

2023-12-29 14:56:15

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True. It would also be less useful to do so, as of now:
- I post less frequently, so there wouldn't be much of my content I can ban you from anyway
- I don't get tagged frequently, either by friends or foes, so I don't have to prevent that very aggressively

2023-12-02 16:10:08

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Thanks! I do indeed!

2023-12-02 16:09:42

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Stock Knots. Initially v23 (that's why some spam creeped in), now should be updated to v25. Knots is 100% FLOSS. No proprietary patches.

2023-12-02 16:08:00

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No, I think most of them actually invalid.

2023-12-02 16:07:29

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Actively proposing block templates that hurt Bitcoin users is not something that we can ask Luke to do. But that's irrelevant to the actual Ocean's plan, which is to move such decision to adult miners, instead of leaving it to daddy pool. The possible negative revenue diff for miners (still to be demonstrated, since for example Luxor's "wizard" blocks were paid offband by shitcoin spammers and paid nothing to workers) just needs to be small not to overshadow positive revenue diffs.

2023-09-03 09:57:08

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My ass is here but in a specific GrapheneOS user that I often forget to open! :D

2023-09-03 09:56:05

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I'll find him! And sue him for personal brand copyright infringement! ;)

2023-07-31 23:41:56

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Very cool app BTW, kudos!!!

2023-07-31 23:41:40

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Thanks a lot! I still don't understand how the stream packets go from my device to yours: if relais added such a services or it is a direct connection between us, where the relais only relayed the post with the necessary instructions in the post. Is there any documentation I can read?

2023-07-30 18:14:39

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It wasn't me to post it, though. Lugano Plan B account. I don't control it. :)

2023-07-30 16:33:45

Forgive my ignorance, didn't have time to search around: how do Amethyst lives work? Do they use nostr to identify a server that the client connects to? Or does it employ a centralized Amethyst server?

2023-07-30 16:32:11

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Also, first post in a month because I finally found the time to install amethyst (via apk, since google play asks for a credit card I don't have) and transcribe by hand the hex format of a bip85 derivation from a coldcard. Postponed for so long.

2023-07-30 16:30:18

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The video was uploaded on Twitter directly. Are links to YouTube that better?

2023-07-30 15:37:20

Bits vs Sasts, Adam vs Giacomo!
https://twitter.com/LuganoPlanB/status/1685584288534683648

2023-07-30 14:35:23

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Are you assuming my gender or weight???!!!!

2023-06-16 15:27:15

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Thanks!

2023-06-15 23:21:03

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Somebody suggested to me that this may be a good occasion to re-post the original 2018 RGB announcement, since I mention it in my speech. Here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHWxtmgQP94

2023-06-15 20:01:27

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To be pedantic, pruning can happen even at non-witness level. If you set it in the bitcoin.conf, you can just reduce your stored timechain keeping just the last blocks (of course *after* you downloaded and validated all of them once). Pruning is just discarding what you don't need anymore after sync. In principle, everything but the UTXOset is prunable (assuming no reorgs). Witness program is somehow even "more prunable".

2023-06-15 19:03:09

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Here it is!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=596InlNtfD0&feature=youtu.be

2023-06-15 19:02:49

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Was about to post! Thanks!

2023-06-15 15:20:40

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Should be out today in some hours.

2023-06-05 10:56:43

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You do keep custody, but keys are "hot" of course, so lower security than cold storage, especially if you are a maker, always connected with hot keys. But it's the same with Sparrow+Whirpool or with Wasabi (unless you use the latest Wasabi+Trezor integration).
To elaborate more on @npub1t7w…3rr7 's answer, I don't think Wasabi has specific "privacy leak" issues, but it definitely has ethical issues because it partners with chainanal companies to blacklist some UTXOs based on their political ranking. Whirpool, otoh, may have some privacy issues, but hugely mitigated when used with Sparrow (or Dojo). I still prefer Joinmarket.

2023-06-05 10:52:43

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I absolutely do. JM user since 2016, but it was a pain in the ass. Jam is very easy to use, almost complete as functionalities right now.

2023-06-05 10:48:40

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Enjoyed a lot indeed! :)

2023-06-05 10:46:22

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Gli Italiani, che sono foneticamente normodotati, dicono "nostr". Gli anglofoni, che si slogherebbero la mandibola con la "r" moscia dopo la "t", dicono "noster".

2023-05-25 09:51:12

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Should work normally. Text?

2023-05-25 09:50:20

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I did, in fact, rug pull him twice.

2023-05-25 09:49:34

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weeeeel_we_are_waiting.gif :)

2023-04-24 10:25:58

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To be honest, only running it via JoininBox on a raspiblitz and via JAM on a couple of other nodes...not using the CLI anymore since a long while! :D
Crashes?

2023-04-11 15:10:21

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I may have invested way more time than initially imagined answering this YouTube comment about "Bitcoin progressives", under my last published video. May as well publish the wall-of-text here too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otoz02b9PiY&lc=Ugw_uHM7aPz6oURCSsd4AaABAg.9o7CZ2NFMiH9oN75OChcak
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_20438c97898b4b254a8126884ae445fcc849e7057fef33070bff86a0c1a8edb2.png

2023-04-05 16:08:57

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(PS: I know on nost I could have just pasted all the links in a single note...I'm just used to use thread to separate points...is it annoying? Feedback appreciated.)

2023-04-05 16:08:03

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For all these reasons, I was very happy when #[6] asked me to give a more elaborate version of the speech in Riga. Unfortunately nobody recorded it, there. So, I was very happy to give it again for Strike, thanks to the ghost of a lovely Rockstar (RIP <3).
Enjoy.

2023-04-05 16:07:17

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Another thing that pushed me to review my semi-serious Las Vegas speech was this presentation by Sergej Kotliar, where he separated (imo correctly) "Bitcoin the tool" from "Bitcoin the movement", but in a way that triggered a lot my Venn-related autism, because he ascribed to the "movement" only the subset of cultural idiosyncrasies I would ascribe to the "Austrian/Maximalism" subculture ("low time preference", "HODL", "NgU", "no shitcoins", "hyperbitcoinization fixes this", etc), and to the "tool" some memes that are imo very much part of the cypherpunk subculture ("privacy", "dissidents", "wikileaks"), itself very much part of the "movement", not of the "tool", which I think would instead include, from a pragmatic PoV, most of the gambling-related uses Sergej call "the Casino":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkjEcSmZKfc

2023-04-05 16:04:48

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Also, Alex Goldstein pointed out to me it was not very effective to use the term "Revolutionaries" to label all politically/culturally passionate Bitcoiners, since many of them are not, some even being the very opposite: literal "reactionaries" (I mean it in a positive sense). At the same time I wanted to give a better account of the role played in all that by "Bitcoin maximalism", since friends like #[5]
and Peter Rizzo were wrinting stuff, while my last my contribution on the topic had been this (long) talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRH_HepKUZA

2023-04-05 16:02:29

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This was prepared in about 20 minutes (really), full of inside jokes and exaggerations for the lulz, so I felt like I needed to put out lots of corrections later on. For one, #[4] rightly pointed out he's out of place in the weird spot of the diagram I forced him to. He *is* indeed, the closest thing to the unironical center of the diagram (tech startup CEO, original cypherpunk hacktivist, austrian maxi):
https://twitter.com/adam3us/status/1505508163067518977

2023-04-05 16:00:46

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The origins of this speech are actually more ancient: the first time I reasoned about the Venn diagram it's based on was during a podcast. Then #[2] asked me to write an article about it for Citadel21, but I never delivered. At the Unconfiscatable Conference, in Las Vegas, I was asked to give again the speech given at Adopting Bitcoin Conference, in El Salvador: "The Perfect Lightning Wallet". But last minute I got an inspiration and changed my mind (and slides):
https://youtu.be/GgFQgfssHBo

2023-04-05 15:58:40

Finally publishing a speech I was invited to give remotely to the Strike
team a while ago (via the intercession of a late common friend, RIP <3). It's mostly the same presentation I gave at NoobDay in Riga last year, about "Bitcoin Cultures":
https://youtu.be/Otoz02b9PiY

2023-04-05 11:00:35

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Not necessarily: a sufficiently comprehensive (complex) standard can output different results when 2 different things pass trough it.

2023-04-04 11:44:58

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_95a5e52a6848fe600bbb8542e1ab11d3da2db1bb25980c9802e45d056d324004.jpg

2023-04-04 10:57:39

Double standards.

2023-03-28 10:27:21

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#NakedAtomicSkulls #GreenPeaceGettingFucked

2023-03-28 10:19:30

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Same ahahah. Discrimination.

2023-03-28 10:18:08

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What client is this screenshot from? Iris doesn't seem to give this option: just connect or disconnect from relays. I don't have any porn in global with default Iris free relays though. Interesting.

2023-03-24 12:34:15

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Mea culpa. I should have tried it by now.

2023-03-21 14:57:34

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Tbf, I don't see the post as example of mindless "taproot is bad" slogans. I think it's correct that *if* we know in advance that different forks will have to change output formats, it's better (at least ceteris paribus) to batch them together, to minimize anonset and compatibility bootstrapping issues. I think the specific objection is that, in this case, it was *not* clear at all CISA (which as you say is very complex) would have required a new format! Even intra-input aggregation wasn't really very clear back them, cfr Musig->Musig2, Frost, etc.. The "70% discount" fake news is indeed weird and counterproductive to the discussion. Even if I am worried of the spread of a symmetrically uninformed meme about CISA incentives being entirely "irrelevant": 15% is still relevant in likely high-fee scenarios (even accounting for coordination costs), and replacing witness discount with CISA could get us closer to 40%. But yeah, a lot of confusion unfortunately. Even about the "ordinal inscriptions" wave being "because of taproot".

2023-03-21 13:03:52

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Tu ci scherzi. Ma nel 2014 ho fatto un mettup con un parroco super based che aveva convertito l'intera cassa della parrocchia in oro fisico e sats, aspettando la crisi imminente. Spero abbia tenuto duro. Un vero chad.

2023-03-14 09:40:04

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You were right! :)
Thnaks for the link, very useful!

2023-03-14 09:34:43

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Lol. Just restarted Iris and here it is. I feel such a noob here.
#[2]

2023-03-14 09:33:12

Uhm. I had a post here about Logseq and Nostr, with a few answers to check. Disappeared. I guess it's time for me to stop being a cheap bitch and to start checking out paid relays! 😅

2023-03-14 09:31:14

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Not logistically doable this time around, sadly. :(
But I hope maybe next time!

2023-03-14 09:30:36

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[yes chad gif]

2023-03-14 09:29:37

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Where else do you find somebody who's main defect is *not* spending fast enough the money you give him? Low time preference FTW!!!