Nitesh

Infrastructure Engineer at Zebedee and Open Source Developer.

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2025-04-06 03:28:04

I got Ark client working with React Native. I think I'll take this up seriously and build a mobile wallet.

2025-03-30 03:38:30

I started making react native bindings for Ark, the implementation by "Second".
Hopefully I can make an Ark mobile wallet soon since we all think lightning is dead anyway.

2025-02-23 23:44:39

For all the smart devs out there, can anyone give me ideas on how to debug a segfault at runtime. The scenario is, I built a rust lib that calls into some C code. I compiled it into a static lib for ios and shared lib for android.
On ios, it works fine. On android it segfaults saying null pointer dereference.
Weird part is, if I build and use a static lib for android it works fine.
Now I have no idea how to debug this issue because I am not getting any logs or traces. I don't want to use a static lib for android because it makes the apk larger, ideally I want to use a dylib.

2025-02-01 19:17:15

It's funny how people go to great lengths to argue about chemistry and biology but are so irrational when it comes to 5th grade math.

2025-01-26 15:33:54

It's funny how so many of us simped for Saylor but now we are shitting on him for saying the word crypto. Y'all didn't know this day was coming? What did you expect?!

2025-01-26 14:01:17

If we get a crypto reserve or whatever and XRP is part of it, I'll still forgive Trump because he kept his word to free Ross.

2025-01-25 05:09:25

I think deepseek won't succeed as much as it is hyped on the internet because the west thinks anything built by the Chinese is malware. They'd just pay 10x more and use OpenAI.

2025-01-23 05:26:19

I have literally seen everything in life now.
https://www.moanmyip.com/

2025-01-19 23:02:08

Lmaoooo. These people run our country? 🤣🤣
https://video.nostr.build/0a967d3506c10c50898da0866300fc6034a409bb0a89ab79527560a1e7a466e6.mp4

2025-01-17 21:23:08

If you want to improve your reading skills, build patience and endurance just work on react-native projects for a few months. You'll come out as a different person.

2025-01-10 16:53:42

Stop using analogies to make an argument or to defend one. You're just using them to hide the fact that you don't have a real argument.

2025-01-09 19:21:42

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Yeah but I have a desktop with a dedicated nvidia GPU. So I need drivers which Ubuntu gives me.

2025-01-09 18:12:43

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Can we easily get nvidia graphics drivers?

2025-01-09 18:09:54

Ubuntu's Gnome desktop is a piece of shit.

2025-01-05 03:54:01

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2025-01-04 18:51:57

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I use Linux everyday. So I know it sucks.

2025-01-04 18:51:11

I've been waiting for the year of Linux desktop for like 4 years now. It's 2025 and it is still terrible.

2025-01-04 18:49:59

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Followed.

2025-01-04 18:48:21

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Followed.

2025-01-04 18:48:17

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Followed.

2025-01-04 18:48:12

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Followed. It's ok, just ask how my day was. That is good enough.

2025-01-04 18:47:20

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Idk man, everytime someone tells me it's early days I'm like my patience is running out.

2025-01-04 18:45:52

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Thank you very much.

2025-01-03 01:17:05

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I can't find even one.

2025-01-03 01:06:05

I need a list of pubkeys to follow who are not Bitcoiners and are on Nostr and talk about things other than Bitcoin.
I don't mind even if they are leftists.

2024-12-28 15:05:20

The H1B system today is like tax laws for rich people. When there are loop holes, it gets abused. The system was broken for a very long time starting with the lottery process. The people were never the problem, the system was.
One other thing that isn't talked about much is how a lot of American companies have stopped doing in-house hiring of engineers but instead started outsourcing almost all projects to companies like TCS, Infosys, Accenture and Cognizant who have massive bases in India and naturally these companies bring in thousands of workers on H1B and underpaying them or simply use the offshore model.
From my understanding the reason companies started going this route is because hiring in general is hard and imagine hiring 25-30 engineers to do various things for a single project but then also have them on payroll for a long time even after the product is ready because firing isn't easy either. So companies just pay extra to outsource all this work to these software services companies.

2024-12-17 02:49:03

Everyone: Lightning is a failure
This makes no sense to me because I don't even understand the criteria of saying it's a failure. Nobody even uses Bitcoin to make payments, that's not lightning's fault. And for the 1% of 1% who actually make any payments, lightning is the only L2 that exists and is the only one that actually works. We can call lightning a failure when we create a circular economy of Bitcoin where merchants accept it and people actually pay with it and then lightning doesn't work in such an economy. The only circular economy we have is white dudes posting tik tok videos of buying coffee in El Salvador and lightning seems to be working fine there.

2024-12-03 01:35:14

Guys I know shitcoins are fun and all but please have better standards than XRP.

2024-11-28 22:58:02

Happy Thanksgiving!

2024-11-28 03:06:50

Indians are the largest population of Bitcoiners on the planet. We would give away our lives just to buy gold for absolutely no reason.

2024-11-26 22:04:54

Passing on complexity to Layer 2 and application devs and expecting them to perform miracles on top of Bitcoin is generally a bad thing. The more complex your code is, the higher the chance of bugs and vulnerabilities. We have to separate out Bitcoin the network and Bitcoin core here.
Bitcoin network needs to be dumb and simple like it already is today. Bitcoin core can do a lot of heavy lifting for layer 2 and app devs by supporting simple op_codes. Ultimately it's the user who will win because their chances of losing money is lowered.

2024-11-26 04:48:27

2024 bull market
https://image.nostr.build/83d71b630c7234898983fa6861ca0b9f3e7ac9f85c13f253f803e014b625795a.jpg

2024-11-26 03:18:38

Does Saylor not want OP_VAULT? I mean it's literally what he should support, right? coz it protects all the coins his company is buying non-stop with investor money.

2024-11-25 04:49:19

When we activated Taproot, people were raving about it and tweeting by tagging miners when they would signal for it, yet 99% of the people had zero idea of what it would bring to the table. Today simpler soft forks don't get consensus. It's all about marketing, every single time.

2024-11-25 02:44:18

What truly gets you a vote on the Bitcoin network is a miner, not a Bitcoin node.

2024-11-23 22:59:17

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Will do.

2024-11-23 22:59:08

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Thank you, Mike. See, this proves even more that we aren't qualified.

2024-11-23 20:31:37

A lot of people probably know Bernoulli's principle and how airplanes get off the ground by fast moving air resulting in a pressure difference causing a lift, this doesn't mean you're qualified in having a say on airplane wing design. Same with Bitcoin, you probably aren't qualified enough to having a say in a softfork getting merged.

2024-11-22 22:45:17

Imagine how broken fiat system must be that a random coin on the internet made by a random dude is about to hit $100k in 15 years.

2024-11-22 17:09:32

Real men play video games.

2024-11-22 02:19:18

The problem with switching to Linux from Mac is that, there is always 1 app or feature that you love more than your woman and only works on Mac and Windows and you miss it so much that you hate your life.

2024-11-21 18:17:09

This 98k is playing with my emotions.

2024-11-20 05:24:54

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I just ran it. Its so good. 🧡

2024-11-19 22:54:25

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Epic. Thank you.

2024-11-18 04:13:18

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This looks nice. Did it ever break anything?

2024-11-18 01:54:00

I've setup a windows machine today after like 7 years and the setup process is like a massive advertising campaign.
- 4 different things to sell and each one pops up in a separate screen.
- every single advertising and telemetry setting you have to OPT OUT!!
- mandatory sign in to Microsoft to use the machine.
Windows can get away with all this shit because Macs are expensive and Linux has poor laptop/desktop choices unless you boot from USB and GNOME still sucks after all these years!

2024-11-17 19:07:02

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The left had a meltdown and moved over there to cry.

2024-11-17 19:06:36

If illegal immigrants are deported we are going to have a massive Uber eats and doordash problem. Andrew (Jose) won't be there deliver your food anymore.

2024-11-15 01:14:03

By the end of this decade, people will start to realize Bitcoin is just for Michael Saylor, Blackrock, Governments and whoever got in early. You might not like it but this is the direction we heading right now.

2024-11-14 14:36:35

A lot of this is true. Imo any open source project makes less progress without a leader, someone who steers the ship and has the final say. Bitcoin core is at a point where core devs just want to avoid all controversy and stay silent and let people fight out. We need more versions of core in other programming languages built from the ground up and implement all consensus rules similar to btcd. Bitcoin core needs more competing implementations where you have leaders who are willing to hit the merge button and publish a release with CTV for example so that people can run the fucking thing.
https://x.com/jamesob/status/1857049961235403101

2024-11-14 03:34:57

It is kinda wild that Bitcoin is casually just hovering around $90k. It feels like it wasn't that long ago that I watched it trade for a few hundred dollars. Time flies!

2024-11-13 16:27:03

The one thing in life that I was consistently right about for several years in a row was to buy Bitcoin!

2024-11-11 23:46:31

Bitcoin's market cap is like 60% of the total crypto industry's market cap. That is how far ahead it is over anything else out there. Imagine one company having 60% market cap of the entire S&P 500. That is Bitcoin.
There is literally no second best.

2024-11-11 20:13:30

Anyome has data on coins available in major exchanges and the situation at OTC desks?

2024-11-11 04:03:21

As the bull market seems to be starting, an important distinction to note is that, Bitcoin has security, decentralization, scarcity, network effects and more buy orders than sell orders.
Shit coins just have more buys orders than sell orders.

2024-11-10 22:40:20

There will never be a point where Bitcoin is not available for sale because of lack of supply. Everyone has a selling price for some or all of their stack.

2024-11-07 19:42:21

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Good video.

2024-11-07 18:46:21

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I had multiple arguments with some liberals who believed free speech should be subjective and there should be someone overseeing what is considered free speech.

2024-11-07 18:29:45

If America was racist or believed in fascism, Obama wouldn't have won with an incredible majority. There could be a small population that thinks a woman shouldn't become president, but that isn't enough to change an election result. The margin of Trump's victory says it all.

2024-11-07 00:19:40

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If I were Biden, I'd start by learning how to walk.

2024-11-07 00:00:02

Going to get drunk after election results. Donald Trump is not my president.

2024-11-02 23:34:53

How did we all accept to paying for subscriptions and then watching ads? And it's even worse now, it's political ads! 😑

2024-11-02 14:07:56

I actually really like MKBHD's Panels wallpaper app now. After recent changes and fixes, it's really good!

2024-11-02 00:12:56

Election day in 3 days, reminder that there is no red and there is no blue. It's always them vs you!

2024-10-31 23:08:35

Idk what to celebrate. Diwali or Halloween.

2024-10-31 19:50:09

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It already has happened. How do you think people get commit access to Bitcoin core? You contribute long enough to gain that power.
I'm sorry, I don't think Saylor or some podcastors are qualified to hinder Bitcoin's development by cutting funding from development and not letting scaling happen. Its unacceptable imo just because those assholes have a lot of money invested in Bitcoin and yell on CNBC.

2024-10-31 19:47:00

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We already have this today in a way, only a few people have commit access to Bitcoin core repo. Have they done any harm so far? No.
You're over thinking my proposal way too much. Every software project on the planet is lead by a set of people or a foundation. It's a natural thing to do, in Bitcoin's case it's still technically core devs but they have much less power in the sense that they're too scared to make any bold decision.
All I'm saying is, we raise the pool of people who can be the "core" and then start enforcing better rules.
All the code is public anyway, they cannot go do insane things like changing supply cap to 42m from 21m. It's all public.

2024-10-31 19:42:17

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I didn't say it's one person. I said a pool of people. It could be 100 people or 500.
Soft forks don't need consensus of 1 million randos on twitter. It needs current and ex core devs, people who work on L2 protocols etc who we all know are qualified in making technical decisions.
We have to figure out how to build a pool of qualified people, I'm only proposing how we approach core development going forward.

2024-10-31 17:34:53

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Not really imo. Getting opinions of people who aren't even qualified to give opinions is useless. I'm not advocating for a Vladimir Putin, but we need a small pool of people who can make sound technical decisions and get shit done. As the price keeps going up, we get more and more people into Bitcoin and all of them want to have a say in what happens inside of core and yet 99% of these people aren't even close to being qualified to having a say or opinion.
You cannot sit and wait to make everyone happy. It's just not going to happen.

2024-10-31 17:31:06

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What?

2024-10-31 17:14:12

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Allowing so many Indians to begin with was a mistake. What else did Canada expect.

2024-10-31 17:04:03

We need a new form of Bitcoin-core.
- You propose a consensus change with a BIP and code to show for it.
- Every consensus change should have a review period of max number of days (maybe like 200).
- Have a pool of maybe 200 devs who are smart enough of review proposals.
- Its the responsibility of the proposer to advertise their proposal and get ACKs.
- Get enough tACKs in this window, then merge it.
- Miners will eventually just upgrade and it'll get activated.
- Stop involving finance people with software decisions.
- No debates on twitter, they go nowhere. If people have issues, then show up to talks and debate it live.
Make soft forks normal again.

2024-10-31 13:00:54

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Yes, unfortunately I'm dependent on the mess.

2024-10-31 12:59:42

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I said bitcoin core the software. Not Bitcoin the network.

2024-10-31 12:59:24

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Who are scared to make any decisions. It's leaderless.

2024-10-31 03:40:32

My hot take:
Bitcoin core kinda sucks because it's decentralized. I prefer projects with leaders who can set the direction and make decisions.

2024-10-30 11:38:19

Good morning!
https://image.nostr.build/28e572d08652b1b491804eae782b7ba6db3f177c17e4b9fa4947f5c6e96a17a4.jpg !

2024-10-30 03:15:46

X's election algo is so messed up. It's not just posts, even replies to posts are just specific to right or left wing. If you support Trump or Harris, try liking a few posts favoring the opposite candidate. It'll totally mess with your head!

2024-10-29 21:59:01

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Tell her to show up***

2024-10-29 21:58:31

Guess I'm not going to ask a woman out anymore. I'll just tell her time and place and tell her to show.I'll up.
#nevent1q…aeug

2024-10-29 20:18:30

Lets be real, we all like price pump action only because our friends and family will think we are a genius to get in early and for us to laugh at other people who didn't believe in what we have been saying.

2024-10-28 23:36:46

I want Kamala Harris to win so that we can go back to $58k.

2024-10-28 21:05:47

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Lmao

2024-10-28 12:32:03

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Lol

2024-10-28 09:33:35

Good morning! NextJS is a piece of shit, stop using it for everything.
Vite + React + your own backend is the way to go.

2024-10-28 09:30:19

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I missed adding that. Throw that in there as well.

2024-10-28 02:15:13

I think the new goal of millennials and Gen-z should be to convince at least one boomer to stop watching CNN, MSNBC and ABC.

2024-10-27 18:43:18

You like it or not, marketing and compliance are important for Bitcoin companies to win.

2024-10-27 15:49:21

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I will try Voyage

2024-10-27 15:49:00

TabConf 2024:
- Rollups
- ZK Proofs
- Ark
- More sidechains with 0 use
- Fixing mempool
- Paul Sztorc is the new savior of Bitcoin
- Want covenants but will never get them
- Lightning sucks
- Amazing people
- Lots of fun and alcohol

2024-10-27 15:30:01

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I don't like it.

2024-10-27 15:24:05

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It's so bloated and slow.

2024-10-27 15:21:38

What is the best Nostr client for Android people use now? Don't say Primal. I don't even consider it Nostr anymore.

2024-10-27 15:09:11

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if you're talking about my lnurl server, yeah it had issues for a while.

2024-08-09 12:58:48