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2024-09-20 10:57:38

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Suspect most of those worries about an unjust justice system would apply to poor disenfranchised immigrants more than it would to rich lawyered-up presidents really.
Is the idea to deport people instead of imprisoning them or do they do their time for the crime first?

2024-09-20 09:58:28

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Can we agree to deport ex-presidents for sex offenses?

2024-09-15 10:29:45

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The other thing is that Pete reckoned half the reason for the re-brand was embarrassment at telling dinner-dates his podcast's name, coz it has bitcoin in it, and now he's gonna have to tell all his dates that he is mister obnoxious. 😂 Should go down well.

2024-09-14 11:12:38

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Will you feel as though you need to be more obnoxious now in order to justify the show-name? if not consciously, then subconsciously? Hope not. Obnoxiousness isn't all all gratifying in a host.

2024-09-14 11:09:49

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Great, looking forward to seeing how many I decide to skip coz they're about football or something.
Expected to hate the name of the Peter McCormack show but you've managed to go even worse. Well done! You're not even really all that obnoxious compared to the average podcaster.

2024-08-30 22:03:10

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Have you ever played a light-synth, done any VJ stuff?
I've seen people play with those toys at night-clubs on their game-controllers and midi-keyboards that are very visually engaging.
You may just be playing records while checking morning email and drinking coffee and not really want to spend more time on an X-Box controller making pretty lights of course.
Not sure I really understand what it means to play a light synth to be honest. Maybe I'll ask the ox over on Fedi.

2024-08-30 18:21:29

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Heh. "All eternity" is pretty optimistic. Have you made a succession plan for responsibilities for the server after your death? 😆
Skipped though some bits. Might have been more engaging if I could see what you were typing. Not really the sort of thing I pay attention to in general mate, but presumably OBS can put the chat onto the screen, and that might help with a reply.

2024-08-14 19:42:17

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They did cut the kings head of that one time of course, and then there was the time they imposed an elected parliament upon the king.
They do like the doff the old cap though, bend the knee.
Dunno that there's anywhere else to go where they don't put journalists into jail or other peril, where they don't try to make judicial examples out of protestors. Pretty sure that's happening everywhere across the anglosphere at least. America seems to be back to burning books rather than freedom of speech.

2024-08-13 10:33:03

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The S&P was only down 10% vs like 70% for the tech stocks and bitcoin. Could just dump into the index for a bear market I guess? Still lose, but more slowly.
https://image.nostr.build/72c2e6c083df17aac2b1c631a451cbdedf57ae50f6da9f832b8e00eabc0c258b.jpg

2024-08-13 10:32:25

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Gold basically just flat during the last bitcoin bear market.
https://image.nostr.build/ff982f132a03ade65cfb6ef55ab050254538de8a084462837ec74786d152775d.jpg

2024-08-13 10:30:49

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Here's their price-graph since 2017. Look familiar? Yes. It's the same shape as the bitcoin graph, because it's the same shape as the global liquidity graph, because the price of everything only reflects the dilution of money now.
Bitcoin's been doing about 2x better on average, though ASML reach a new high faster.
If you'd sold your bitcoin to buy one of the biggest booming international tech companies at the very bitcoin top, you were still just swapping one bear market for another. Still making losses after the sell.
Was there *anything* going up between October 21 and January 23?
https://image.nostr.build/96650c6dc10dcb55aafe158effea530d5743a87e626189398f498a2619139b70.jpg

2024-08-13 10:28:57

Here's a pretty cool hour long video on why the Netherlands is so awesome and overpowered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cIHLgGZByY
In it they mention ASML, a Dutch company which in 2017 became the only company in the world which can make the best most powerful chip-making machines.
They have like 5 customers to whom they sell 300-million-dollar chip-making machines, and nobody else has the tech and knowhow to make the machines. They own the market.

2024-08-12 10:33:13

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Has she noticed that people have also lost respect for the office of the home secretary?

2024-08-10 15:47:38

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Does the UK government still have it's account on Gab or Truth Social was it banned from there? I hear it was banned from shitposter club.

2024-08-09 23:06:32

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Ironically, I will never know any way to achieve such a goal because nobody will read this post to suggest a way that might work even though it says a word like month in it for no obvious reason and and maybe that is one of the words?

2024-08-09 22:30:53

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I would guess not possible, because you could always fake a chain with exponentially decreasing difficulty-adjustments.
You could lock coins so nobody would care until they became spendable at a given block-height though. Make people 50 years from now read your damned blog.

2024-08-09 22:27:41

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Is it even possible to cryptographically lock a file such that it can only be decrypted once a certain block-height is reached? Pass a message that can be unlocked only in the future?

2024-08-09 22:22:58

Hypothetically, if one were to outlive all your family and die without need of care, there could be an estate worth of crypto that a dying person would have no particular target for.
For a moment let us imagine such a person who has a published literary work. A blog and some books at least. They would like for at least some portion of their dying hodl stack to go to the person who pays the most attention to their life's work out of everyone in the next 50 years.
You want 'em to puzzle over your life's output and ideally maybe future-timelocked encrypted private diaries, and whoever solves the puzzle gets the bitcoin.
Like a sort of Ready Player One situation, with people competing to solve the puzzles, but just for some blogger loser who never got any followers but did luck into some bitcoin that might be worth even more 50 years later.
Imagine also that you aren't actually any good at making puzzles let alone cryptography.
Anyone wanna suggest things for a story about that? Or for instructions to an executor or whatever?

2024-08-07 21:37:54

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I can't seem to find it any more. I think it closed down and some some sort of 4-chan like troll site called x dot com took over all the old URLs.

2024-08-05 09:19:14

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Clearly people like the technical problems, that's what they're paying for. Consider pulling out a few wires to see what happens.

2024-08-02 09:49:04

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🤷 depends who you follow really. Nobody gets their world-view from X, they get it from the people who use X. Admitedly everyone cool already left, but still, not everyone remaining there is andrew tate and jorden peterson.

2024-07-28 14:35:50

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That "livestream" was mostly dead-air and adverts, awful really.

2024-07-28 09:35:30

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Very rambling wasn't it? Couldn't stay on topic.
Not sure what that bit about woke military has to do with anything. Sounds like the US is in trouble if the military ever have to go undercover with woke groups. They won't be able to do it. Can't fake it. Just impossible for US military to be woke it seems.
Guess it would be good to have a legal system with more clarity, but he didn't say what that system would be, only that he'd put together a panel of shitcoiners to invent one.

2024-07-27 20:56:27

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Also tell them their military are not woke, that their military would never be woke. Maybe some people might try to make them woke but no, not your military. Your military will never be woke.

2024-07-25 21:36:07

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Now go to your room!
There'll be no more satoshi until bedtime.

2024-07-25 21:31:58

Massive public bitcoin mining company, Marathon:
"Screw this Bitcoin Mining business! Toiling with processors doing hard proof-of-work every day. Mug's game innit? You know what we're gonna do with our money?.. We're gonna BUY BITCOIN instead!"
They said, "Mining machines are a waste of money, underemployed capital innit?"
Economic experts agreed: "Microstrategy proved there is no point owning a public company that isn't simply holding bitcoin, now Marathon prove there is no point in even mining bitcoin either."
Said another even more important expert: "There is literally no better use for all shitty fiat money than buying bitcoin. Not software, not services, not even mining bitcoin!"
A further expert, Mr Jump Beforeyougetpushed, said "Jump in the life-boat or drown in the liquidity that's coming!" as he climbed off the exit-ramp into safety.
In the end the only expert that matters, your mum, commented, "It is the Bitcoin Event Horizon, no economic activity is more profitable than holding bitcoin so all economic activity stops, right now"
https://image.nostr.build/653ee3b8ddeced9e1b490df218c27d51cf355c448ea7e947916d52eaf85ca09d.jpg

2024-07-25 10:00:13

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The only true one is this one. Duh. The one that admits it's all made up.
https://image.nostr.build/fae1a53aa86fd9166cd67b258e7b83911c5391889c722053f4b30812ee4193fc.jpg

2024-07-24 20:30:46

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Yes, I remember my jaw actually dropping while reading the birth of the orphan on the bus years ago. Brilliant.

2024-07-22 09:43:21

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The same message also went to Threads and Instagram and whatever other ungodly corporate advertising supported surveillance media the office uses though right? Wasn't like a Twitter Exclusive.

2024-07-14 11:39:28

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Upside down flag foreshadows the downfall of America?

2024-07-06 13:23:37

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Tucker must be a crazy person. Smoking increases impotence.
Nic in a patch or lozenge might plausibly help for loving forever but not when smokes for sures.

2024-07-06 12:01:49

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Trying to think of some. Maybe the stink keeps the other people away?

2024-07-03 22:11:17

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Happy Birthday Julian. Congrats on the release. Thanks for the work, and the fortitude. ✊

2024-06-29 15:51:41

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But then wouldn't you confuse them with Donks? How can you tell the difference between a Donk and a Donk unless you spell one of the differently? Are you going to start using some other word than "Donk" for donks?

2024-06-25 10:47:04

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A lot of national-intelligence bots perk up whenever the name is mentioned. A lot of the takes you read aren't from people but are from national security agencies programming their bot-nets.
Seems lots of people also think journalists should only report the misdeeds of their opponents during an election and that if you report the misdeeds of their side then you're a stooge being manipulated by Russia.

2024-06-25 09:10:00

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Biden and Trump and Bush's crimes are far worse than anything Assange was accused of. Will they all get a plea-deal?

2024-06-24 15:55:13

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It's impossible for a capital-owned company to credibly make such assurances. All it takes is one billionaire and they can buy the company, change the policy and do whatever they want with the data. No private company can promise data-security, they are not in a position to provide it.
I agree, the only way to keep data safe is to never collect it and certainly never put it on the private servers of a capital owned corporation.

2024-06-16 10:34:40

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Similarly, if it requires a mobile app and can't be safely accessed through the web, I'm unlikely to use it, since I don't install apps if I can help it. They aren't safe.

2024-06-14 18:14:13

My new five minue animation released today is about fiat-money and inevitable collapse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKj8E5_7bEU
#animation #vr #fiat #money

2024-06-13 12:22:38

Why is it all Nostr people and Bitcoin people wear baseball caps all the time, even indoors?
Does worrying about the bitcoin price make a person bald?

2024-06-07 11:06:20

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Wicked. With that plus the sock influencing you're gonna make it. :)
I haven't done it but yeah, OBS should work. "Publish a live" they call it. Lol.
https://docs.joinpeertube.org/use/create-upload-video#publish-a-live

2024-06-07 10:42:08

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Your peertube instance should allow you to stream I believe? But not to also get sats in a backchannel.
Intrigued at how it can be "live" and also "1991" ;)

2024-06-07 08:55:06

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Finally, the sock influencer dream is coming true. Now you just need to 10x that, and then 10x it again and again and again.

2024-06-04 22:49:23

Hummm. If we set up a page on polymarket to allow betting on the question "will farage get milkshaked again this week" then people could make money by betting that he would and then doing it.
Would be a shame if that happened. A decentralized international bounty for shaking a farage.

2024-06-04 16:25:36

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Censorship resistance eh? Gotta love it.

2024-06-03 17:22:42

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Dunno. Snort Social and Satellite Earth don't seem to have any block or mute functions at all.
Not going to be installing phone-apps for this thing since I never want to use it on my phone, phone has tiny screen and crappy keyboard.
If it won't work in a browser I don't want it, so perhaps that's limiting my options for a good mute.

2024-05-26 16:19:09

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The moderation is the reason that people like and use it. Nostr may be about censorship resistance, but that is not the only possible type of forum, nor even the best kind usually. Censorship resistance leads to spam and bullying and anti social behaviour.
Activitypub is about decentralized moderation: your own community should be running the server and sharing the moderation load.
In Activitypub it's deliberately not the burden of the individuals to perform moderation, it's a responsibility delegated to community managers.
Picking an instance is picking your moderation team.
If you don't like the moderation team, pick a different one. Or run a server yourself. Mastodon probably isn't the best for a single user server. Over-engineered for that. Gotosocial is very easy to install if you want a single user instance.
But most people don't want a single user instance, they want to share the moderation responsibilities with the community.

2024-05-16 11:54:25

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Why would musicians want their music on Spotify? Seems like that place just rips you off and doesn't even pay you unless you're famous.

2024-05-14 14:09:15

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Make me long for a serviceable block function.

2024-05-10 09:24:07

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Blocked those spammers from being able to send me email when they tried to pretend I had to register in order to change my email preferences.
Fucking spammers, screw them.

2024-05-04 16:24:53

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MMT is just a description of how fiat money systems operate. If it is marxism, then the current fiat money systems are marxist.
I don't see how it is Marxist though myself, it certainly isn't in any way trying to put the workers in control of the means of production.
It just explains how governments create fiat money from thin air and how that money is controlled and destroyed through taxation.

2024-05-02 09:44:24

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ActivityPub/Mastodon isn't about censorship-resistance, quite the opposite, it's about decentralized moderation.
If you don't like your moderation team's actions, move to a different server. Or start your own.
Looks like she just decided to leave and stay on Twitter instead more than a year ago though.

2024-05-01 17:02:39

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Sounds like spam, why would you post such things in a bitcoin forum like Nostr.

2024-04-30 12:08:53

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Your own Lightning node would be more use than your own Nostr Relay. Lightning needs at least a few hundred quid tied up in channels though, and it ain't easy to manage them yet.
Glad zaps are working out better then spotify but it's a low bar innit.

2024-04-30 11:19:27

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If you post your messages only to your own relay then in theory you could delete them after a couple of weeks the way you wanted. But they'd only delete from your own relay, if they were boosted onto other relays they wouldn't be deleted from there.
Possible you'd be reducing discoverability a lot posting only to your own private little relay.
I think the culture here is more to post to multiple relays for redundancy rather than bother to run your own. They're just dumb drop-boxes. If you post to half a dozen on them anyway having another that you run yourself doesn't seem to add much.
Glad you're liking Umbrel.

2024-04-29 10:28:50

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Like the LLM machines, they are layers of transformer networks sandwiched between layers of attention networks.
Unlike LLMs, the music machines are trained on music not language.
The phrase for describing both/all is Generative Pre-Trained Transformer, GPT, even though "GPT" from OpenAI itself is only an LLM, and there are many other types of pre-trained transformers not trained on language.
Computer jargon is always stupid.

2024-04-29 10:25:00

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Interesting. I associate "music producer" more with DJs mucking about in Garage Band but I guess that's just coz I meet more of them than actual successful industry executives.

2024-04-29 09:14:50

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What's wrong with "musician"? Or I guess "producer" seems more common than "maker" in the biz.

2024-04-28 12:42:25

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Realistically, probably I'd stay home on the sofa and go down with the metaphorical ship at home rather than the wet rubber ship at sea.
I'd sort of abstractly wish to have had the foresight and drive to leave, as I was murdered in my home, but I just don't have the incredible tenacity of someone prepared to get dressed and leave the house just to avoid getting murdered.

2024-04-28 12:38:17

If the USA successfully drives all bitcoin and crypto companies out of the country, will that be good for countries that aren't the USA? IE: Most of the world?
Seems like it would be bad for the USA but maybe bad for America isn't good for everyone else.

2024-04-25 16:21:36

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Make a CLI version, nobody cares if they look meh.

2024-04-25 14:06:40

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I set up my last one with Umbrel, which would have been fairly smoothly done if it wasn't for failing hard-drives and initially trying on a machine which kept overheating and powering down.
Drive-space is the thing. You are gonna want a 1TB drive really. The blockchain will take up more than half of that already.

2024-04-24 23:05:58

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Nostr is for sirius business, no time for fun machines here, only business machines.

2024-04-19 17:10:58

50 blocks to go!
As we know, the first genesis block contained a coinbase message with the headline "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks."
And then at the last halvening a block was mined with the coinbase message saying "NYTimes 09/Apr/2020 With $2.3T Injection, Fed's Plan Far Exceeds 2008 Rescue." (Though they missed and it was a block early)
Has there been a headline the miners might sneek into the halvening block tonight?
I saw "U.S. Debt Interest Payments Reach $1 Trillion" recently but I think it was some blog not a paper of record.
The halvening will be on 4/20 if you write dates wrong like an american 🚬

2024-04-19 16:22:44

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You can indeed follow hashtags.
I've been liking phanpy as a client lately. It's "catch up" mode is pretty great.
Like any social network the key is to follow hundreds of people really.

2024-04-18 16:09:31

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Well, he may think he can do what he wants with the users but the rate the users are leaving might indicate otherwise.
It's emptying as quickly as Myspace did when Murdoch bought it.
I delete mine within weeks.

2024-04-18 15:39:19

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Well, Elon didn't actually want a shitposting site when he bought a shitposting site, he wanted some sort of "everything"/banking app.
I dunno why he thinks buying a shitposting site and trying to turn it into a banking app is a good plan, but it will indeed lead to KYC of every user, or maybe moving the company to a new country at least.

2024-04-11 20:09:01

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He wanted first dibs on their eyeballs.
Over 200 eyeballs during his lifetime.
Good cat.

2024-04-11 18:26:31

I have posted a few of today's memes to my friend Dan whose birthday is today. He'll be confused and has no idea what a nostr is I shouldn't think.

2024-04-10 11:04:34

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Nice work.
Reckon everyone ought to be withdrawing their labour from Spotify these days. I wouldn't let 'em carry my stuff at all now they won't pay small artists at all.
And big artists have even more power.
Only those stuck on the record labels that own most of Spotify are stuck there really.

2024-04-09 12:23:15

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Repent! Quit your job! Slack off!

2024-03-28 15:56:56

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Screenshot.
Anything else will disappear eventually.

2024-03-11 11:05:43

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If they've already admitted that they don't delete things when they said they would delete things then paying them to "really honestly this time delete the things" seems like it'd be a fools move.
They'll just come back the next year saying they didn't really delete it again and asking for more.

2024-03-08 11:00:19

Remember when "going viral" used to mean that people liked a thing so much they shared it with their friends?
And now it just means the algorithm picked it and forced it into everyone's feeds.

2024-02-29 23:18:59

What's most depressing about the almost-certain fact that multiple nations are currently silently stacking sats, is that the UK is in one of the best positions to do so! It is already printing so many billions of pounds that diverting a few of them into BTC would make litterally no difference at all to it's crippling debt problem.
And yet we are almost certainly not among the countries doing it.
It's very like how Kodak wouldn't invest in digital photography because they owned film photography and didn't wanna cut into their own business.
Only the GBP is already defunct to the dollar and double-ducked coz of Brexit, so it's like next generation squared of that.

2024-02-28 19:47:18

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Games and AI.

2024-02-22 23:26:40

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Is that still the best way given that I'll need lnbits for other purposes anyway?

2024-02-22 20:15:31

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Scaling to global money still ain't fixed. Quite liked the discussion on WBD about scaling last week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seOK8CujQQI

2024-02-22 20:11:40

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Oh, I meant to say.
Current fees are about 1.50 GBP to open a channel, about 80p for a payment transaction to buy the book.
On-chain fees are the tricky part about Lightning. A couple of quid to close a channel isn't so bad but if price goes up and blockchain-congestion goes up. Say 20x between the two factors?
Fifty quid to open and close a channel?
Better hope there's more than 50 quid in it.

2024-02-22 19:45:24

Been ages lying dormant, but I finally got around to trying to get my #lightning node working again.
There is a thing called autopilot which will handle the opening of channels etc if you know to enable it.
No button to do so with #umbrel, had to edit config files that didn't even exist until I created them in the magic places, and reboot.
It opened a channel for me, putting 80 percent of the wallet balance into it.
That means I can send in theory, but still can't receive coz of lack of inbound liquidity.
There's an app for that.
"Loop out" is what they call it. On umbrel you install "lightning terminal", and it has the option to do a loop out.
Loop-out means using your ability to pay with lightning in order to pay someone to do an on-chain transaction that gives you your money back.
I think they say this is "trustless" but :shrug:, I just trusted it anyway and wouldn't have any idea how to check if they were crooks first.
I sent 70% or so of that channel back to myself onchain that way, and then the autopilot opened a second channel.
That gives me a fairly good position in the network. Outbound and inbound liquidity about balanced, multiple connections.
It even did some routing, earning me 5 sats on day one.
The autopilot keeps some of your balance on-chain, since there will be on-chain fees to pay to close channels down and do loop-outs and stuff.
The 5 sats that I earned put me back in the zone of the autopilot have too much capacity so wanting to open channels. It opened a third tiny one that will probably become too small for the fees to close it this bull run. :eyeroll:
With the wallet finally working it was time to go try and buy Lyn Alden's book again.
I scanned the QR code on the site excited to do my first lightning transaction with it,k and only after the transaction was submitted realized I was doing an on-chain transaction anyway. Not a lightning one.
Doh.
Apparently with fees low enough it took 12 hours to confirm too.
But I'm legit with Lyn now. Turns out I needn't have checked I could pirate the book first, it is indeed DRM-free anyway so I can put it on my Remarkable even without having to pirate or break any codes.
There is much more work to be done to get Nostr able to "zap" money back and forth.
I think I have to expose LNBits to the internet somehow first? And my plan of just using a reverse ssh tunnel for that didn't work.
In short: you still gotta be really really keen and geeky to run a lightning node. Even with Umbrel and 30 years industry experince. It's hard.
Still.
Five sats a day.
In only 50 thousand years I'll have a whole bitcoin!

2024-02-16 01:26:10

No social network *at all* has the account portability of Nostr.
Nothing will ever come close either.
Your key IS you.
Which is of course, incredibly dangerous.
I've definitely fed mine into all kinds of sketchy web forms.

2024-02-16 01:14:25

You see the highlighted number "9" on the top of the peak of the price today?
That is the count of the number of days for which it has been true that the price is higher than the price four days ago.
Sort-of.
Instead of going to 10, it wraps-around to 1. Note that: 1, not even zero. No candles are zero candles. Nor tens.
Which means every candle is labelled with 1 of 9 possible digits.
The people who believe in the TD Sequential method would have you believe that the price is more likely to turn around if it's a 9 than any other number. They generally seem to count 8s and 1s as close.
You know, plus or minus one. Give or take. On the balance of probabilities. Maybe. If the moon is right and the stars align.
If the labels were instead just assigned randomly, then tops would happen on a bar which was randomly labelled "9" about one out of every nine times. One in three, give or take. If the stars align.
The TD people think you will then have a few days of pull back.
But....
I really do think that they are right on this occasion at least.
We are indeed way over-extended, there hasn't been a down-week in ages.
As a measure of it going up too much and so it should surely go down for a bit, yeah!
My main problem with the method is the wrap-around and the lack of a zero.
I like it as a measure of how extended price is: The number of days in which the price is higher/lower than the price a week ago.
But when you modulate your count by 9 you make it into a basically 1/3 random number thing.
Still. They'll be right anyway. If you are a swing trader, (I am not), short for a day or two I guess?
Also on that picture you will see that the bottom was at a red 9.
Sort of. If 2 candles later counts.
Which it will if you are a price horrocopist.
And honestly, even though it's horroscope bullshit, it would have turned your short into a long at about the right time.
[Nobody mention the time it turned around on a 5ish like you'd expect it to do about half the time also]
https://image.nostr.build/d70f5c638912f860d7d09c2769a5aa730075d3ecb788b5c28a03c7624056e7c7.png

2024-02-08 19:34:25

Microstrategy and Cleanspark both pumping way harder than bitcoin itself today.
Both of them like 3x more than bitcoin proper.
Microstrategy's strategy of buying and holding bitcoin, and then using the collateral to borrow and buy more, and then hold that too is paying off at 14% today so far.
Cleanspark's strategy of building solar panels and wind turbines and buying microchips and using them to try and claim bitcoin directly from the block-chain paying off slightly less well at only 11%.
Bitcoin's actual price moved about 3% to 5% depending where you draw the lines.
Breakout technicals look incredible for all these things. Demand is increasing. Supply is reducing. What kind of idiot sells their bitcoin to Microstrategy or Blackrock for less than 100k?

2024-01-27 18:43:28

Does anyone here like DIY hacking programming projects? I've been programming my #pinetime smart-watch in python this month and I'm pretty pleased with the results.
https://dalliance.net/vPre2/waspos

2024-01-11 23:18:41

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You could work out how many bitcoin there are on the other planets, assuming they also picked a block-reward of 144 blocks per revolution and 4 orbits per halvening.
Perplexity/GPT4 can't answer though and I can't be arsed to, but you could.

2024-01-11 23:07:02

In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXs3maguye4 pete asks the question "Why 21 million" and Aaron does not know.
I know.
Do you know?
There are 6 ten-minute blocks in an hour.
There are 24 hours in a day.
There are 365 days in a year.
That's 210240, rounded down to 210000 blocks per cycle.
The infinite sum of those halving rewards, starting at 50 and halving every 210000 blocks: 21000000.
Even if you decide to divide each Satoshi still further, and eek out sub-satoshi subsidy, the sum will never reach 21000001.
So it's 21 million because it starts at 50, and we have ten minute blocks, plus a halving every four years.
The magic numbers picked are 50 and 4, the rest comes from the calendar and maths. It's about the actual number of blocks in the revolution and an the orbit of the planet.

2024-01-11 21:26:05

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131 years of 6 blocks an hour 24 hours a day 365.25 days a year at 1GB per block would be 6 petabytes?
That seems a lot for every node to have.

2024-01-11 21:17:13

Question: How big will the blockchain be when the last satoshi is mined?

2024-01-07 14:40:41

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"Doesn't cheat on you"? Isn't she having simultaneous relationships with every paying customer? Her GPU chips aren't just for you!
Think this kinda thing is more likely to appeal to women than men to be honest. They care more about that emotional touch you can maybe get from a conversation with a cyber-boy, but a cyber girlfriend can't touch your knob.

2023-12-11 22:33:10

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🤔 Seems hardly any point in it being on-chain at all then if every request to move one ends in a call to a central Tether server.

2023-12-11 18:23:51

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What gas-fees is Tether paying to update the smart-contact with a new list of banned addresses? Less than the amount of dollars cancelled I guess, but need that be true?
Is there a hack here to get enough addresses banned they have to lock up the blockchain with banning addresses?

2023-12-11 17:58:36

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So they have to update the smart-contract in order to block the addresses?
What if there were so many addresses that the smart-contract can't hold them all? Is there a limit on smart-contract size?
Or maybe the smart-contract can call out to ask the Tether server if it's okay?

2023-12-07 21:21:09

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I was vaguely under the impression that the whole point of ocean was that you could build your own blocks in some way rather than having it imposed upon you by the pool?
Is that not what Ocean is supposed to do?

2023-12-07 16:22:29

I can't support people posting in all caps, unfollowed.

2023-11-22 17:52:55

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No, you are O-P, I am reply-guy.
In this thread anyway.

2023-11-22 17:51:54

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Sadly not true, but the robots will refuse to get sweary or sexy so that's the usual give-away. The fuck-test.

2023-11-17 23:21:00

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gpg encrypted file in my tripple-backed-up filesystems.

2023-11-17 22:49:06

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Heh. Sounds like he was getting the ChatBot to write his answers to board questions then.

2023-11-17 22:46:31

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Well that sucks.
Peertube is fairly easy to run, but I think taking it seriously means self-hosting it. All the free hosts are eventually going to go bust because hosting hours and hours of video from randoms that nobody ever will watch again is expensive.
Good luck.

2023-11-14 18:57:17

I had lunch with my parents today. My mum asked me if I still had my bitcoins, because she was under the impression that the guy who invented bitcoin was in jail for fraud now.
I tried to explain that he just used bitcoin money for doing fraud just the same as most fraud continues to use dollars but I dunno if she got it.
She still didn't seem to believe that nobody knows who satoshi is. Someone must know, she reckons. Someone.