Chris Guida

Lightning Dev / Educator

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2024-09-10 20:13:50

Anything going on on Nostr? Any controversial topics for me to weigh in on?
Guessing no one will reply to this

2024-08-29 15:50:29

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Neat, thanks!

2024-08-28 05:26:45

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this is now a circular response

2024-08-28 05:11:07

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Interesting. I usually have good experiences with algorithms, at least Twitter's and YouTube's. I guess I'm just that kind of personality.

2024-08-28 05:06:16

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Seems better than last time I was here ..

2024-08-28 05:02:44

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I obviously don't need this for something like Twitter which I'm used to checking quite often.
But for something like Nostr that I'm onboarding to, if I don't get notifications I'll just forget it exists.

2024-08-28 04:40:39

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Ah ok. well, that seems like a flaw. I'd definitely be on here much more if I could see what people are doing when I'm not actively in the app. I can't just spend all day in here waiting for stuff to happen.

2024-08-27 20:12:05

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I have a pixel with vanilla android

2024-08-27 17:19:10

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Nostr is much more of an echo chamber than Twitter atm

2024-08-27 17:06:45

Does anyone know of a Nostr mobile app where push notifications actually work?
That would certainly help me stay engaged...

2024-08-27 17:04:55

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I understand that if I put 1000x more effort in, I might arrive at a place where it's less boring.
But social media is not my job, sorry

2024-08-27 16:47:32

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That's like 1000x more work than necessary
Seems like there's a middle ground here where the Nostr client does *some* of the work for the user...

2024-08-27 16:46:10

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Been here for two years

2024-08-27 16:45:30

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Ok, I've heard good things, I'll give it a try 🙏

2024-08-27 16:44:46

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Why not?

2024-08-27 16:44:34

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I mean the app, not the relay

2024-08-27 16:44:00

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Honestly I prefer some kind of algorithm to do most of the work. And I pay for Twitter so I don't have to see ads.
I'd do the same on here if some client implemented it. Nostr clients could curate their users' feeds and charge for the service. The advantage of course is that the algorithm would be open and user-configurable. I think that'd be a huge value add.

2024-08-27 16:38:43

Okay Primal just straight up stopped working. No new activity. Amethyst seems to be fine for now, so posting on there.
Anyone seen Primal do this??

2024-08-27 16:37:41

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How many do I need before it gets interesting?

2024-08-27 16:34:42

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I have nothing against NWC, I just don't have any wallets that support it.
I'd of course be willing to try an NWC-enabled wallet if people recommend one

2024-08-27 16:13:51

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Fixed, thanks!
Now I just need a client that doesn't require an NWC wallet for zaps...

2024-08-27 16:10:06

See this is why Nostr is frustrating.
I get into conversations with people and then they just ghost
This doesn't happen on Twitter
#nevent1q…ekhw

2024-08-27 15:54:36

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Ok, it just doesn't feel like it'll be worth all the effort.
I feel like I'm following everyone I know. I don't like following random accounts because they're more likely to generate noise than be useful.
But maybe that's the trick? Maybe on Nostr you have to follow people to see whether they'll be worth following?

2024-08-27 15:34:52

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Wait why do I need an NMC wallet?? Why can't I just use Zeus or Phoenix???

2024-08-27 15:33:12

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Good to know I can turn this off, thanks!
https://m.primal.net/KPyc.png

2024-08-27 15:21:30

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I don't want to follow *everyone*; that sounds like a recipe for all noise no signal

2024-08-27 15:14:09

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would love some specific recommendations, this isn't useful xD

2024-08-27 13:43:45

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I tried Amethyst before moving to Nostr and it's a lot worse.
For the longest time I couldn't search for certain people to zap them

2024-08-27 13:42:47

Nostr is kinda boring, ngl
I come here every few months, and every time it's just tumbleweeds
Anyway, back to Twitter

2024-08-27 13:17:02

Is Primal the best Nostr app on Android?

2024-06-12 19:17:06

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yep, RFK is 1000% better than Trump

2024-06-12 19:16:36

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he understands how to run for office though heh

2024-06-12 19:14:51

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LN is extremely private

2024-06-09 13:59:05

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Maybe? For very large amounts haha

2024-06-09 13:44:28

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That's definitely not what happened xD

2024-06-09 13:42:43

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Nah. Lightning makes bitcoin a much, much better MoE than Monero can ever hope to achieve.

2024-06-09 13:41:20

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I completely agree. Saylor does not truly understand the power of bitcoin.

2024-02-24 12:44:22

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Bitcoiners, especially those actually trying to use it as money, which, in case you weren't aware, is what bitcoin is for.

2024-02-21 17:22:04

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Yes, I have wondered this as well. It would surprise me a lot if *no* work had been done.

2024-02-21 17:20:53

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Is this anywhere close to being production ready? How would a merchant use this?

2024-02-21 17:10:33

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Hmm sorry, I don't use Nostr much, I'll see if I can fix it

2024-02-21 16:59:43

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What do you disagree with here?

2024-02-21 16:57:09

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It's an existential crisis
#nevent1q…pehe

2024-02-21 16:54:21

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The problem is that the initial sync slows to a crawl when UTXOs are stored on disk rather than in RAM.
You can see this effect most clearly in low-resource devices like Raspberry Pis with 4GB of RAM, which used to be able to sync the chain in just a few days, but now take around a month. This has resulted in these devices becoming practically useless as bitcoin nodes, whereas a year ago (when the utxoset was half as large as it is now), they were usable.
I consider Raspberry Pis to be the canary in the coalmine wrt UTXO set growth. Although they should probably never have been recommended, we should consider it a failure as a community when a whole class of devices is excluded from participating in the bitcoin network.
We need to be making it *easier*, not harder, to run a full node, and I consider this to be the #1 priority of the bitcoin community, as it is already extremely rare to find merchants who run their own nodes.
Although most computers can fit 10GB in memory at the moment, if the UTXO set were to expand to 50GB, which it could theoretically do in just a year in an attack scenario, the majority of computers would be unable to fit the UTXO set in memory, and would thus be less and less likely to be able to sync bitcoin in a reasonable amount of time.
Obviously 400GB does not fit into RAM unless you are spending tons of money on high-end servers. Let's avoid requiring high-end servers to use bitcoin.

2023-12-13 02:50:18

Cascadr is epic AF 🔥🔥🔥
#nevent1q…mt8u

2023-12-04 15:28:48

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"Bitcoin dominance reaches new heights, Tether gets adopted by the USG as the new Fed. Bitcoin goes parabolic."
Bold prediction!

2023-09-29 20:53:54

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I'm down! 💪
Seems nix could be used for a lot of it! Similarly to how devimint uses nix with fedimint now, but now with a UI!
The reason I love fedimint's current nix usage is that it allows lots of customization and close interaction via the command line. So the frontend would be great as a visualization tool, but I think I would be sad if the tmux interface went away. Maybe we could keep both?

2023-08-27 17:12:53

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Replied here
#nevent1q…984s

2023-08-16 14:35:50

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2023-08-13 21:31:44

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Thanks for the reply!
I agree 100% with your philosophy. But I take issue with your characterization of anarcho-capitalism as compatible with this philosophy, at least as defined by most ancaps.
>I see sovereignty and anarchy as being a descriptor of your relationship with authority. If you don't have to cede to an authority and other authorities are effectively your peers, you are sovereign.
That's a good way to define "sovereignty", but I really don't see how "anarchy" can be defined this way. Anarchism is an old philosophy with lots of history behind it; it seems that you're trying to redefine it in a way that most of its adherents would not agree to.
Anarcho-capitalism has "anarchy" right there in the name. Anarchy means no government. I don't know how you can call something "anarchism" if it includes a government.
Anarcho-capitalism is, as far as I understand, all about imagining how private enterprise would replace government entirely; that is, how private enterprise would generate laws, courts, police and military protection, etc, if all of these things weren't generated by a government.
Now perhaps the operative question is "what is a government?"
You imply that a government is nothing more than an "authority" that one "cedes autonomy" to. That's pretty vague, but enough to go on for now.
If a "government" is simply an "authority", and I recognize no authorities, then the world is ancapistan now, at least from my subjective viewpoint. In that case, anarcho-capitalism is more of a state of mind than a political philosophy. We already inhabit our ideal world; the only requirement is that we see it that way.
But clearly there are practical limits to my "autonomy", no matter what, even if I'm the current US government. The US government "cedes autonomy" to other governments like Russia, China, etc, especially over matters internal to those other governments' territories.
And an "individual sovereign", no matter how rich or well connected, will never be able to be "sovereign" in the same way as a nation-state, *absent the ability to own a piece of land and protect it, through force, from external invaders*.
In the potential future world presented in The Sovereign Individual, said individuals have the means to trivially move to a new jurisdiction when their current one becomes hostile. However, there still are jurisdictions as such (that is, monopolies on violence within a specific territory).
I disagree that this is compatible with anarcho-capitalism, as ancaps are against monopolies on violence.
However, if it is compatible with anarcho-capitalism, then I'm an ancap. I'm actually not 100% clear on this, which is why I suggested reforming anarcho-capitalism at the end of my article.

2023-07-19 01:46:42

My latest hot take:
"Why Anarcho-capitalism and “Sovereignty Maximalism” are incompatible"
https://medium.com/@chrisguida/why-anarcho-capitalism-and-sovereignty-maximalism-are-incompatible-eeb831c03323

2023-02-26 04:10:28

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Marking satoshis is precisely what ordinals do… it’s a “shared delusion” in the same way money is a shared delusion. It’s only a thing if you think it’s a thing. But that can give such goods a market value.

2023-02-26 03:53:22

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Ordinals aren’t* “pretending” xD

2023-02-26 03:49:54

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Ordinals isn’t “pretending” to mark satoshis. It’s actually marking them. You are at your liberty to ignore the mark, but other people may not.

2023-02-26 03:00:54

Check out my first article: “Gold, Ordinals, and Fungibility”
https://medium.com/@chrisguida/gold-ordinals-and-fungibility-3e84707937ad

2023-02-14 22:45:06

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Make sure to enable `network.websocket.allowInsecureFromHTTPS` in about:config to allow FF to connect to ws://<relay-url>.onion while on an https:// page

2023-02-14 22:13:48

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Not yet, but there’s no reason they couldn’t

2023-01-06 20:51:48

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Did you try nostr-rs-relay?