My phone right now: .hostr

The #bitcoin signal...we clear?

So, a cryptocurrency that is backed by something scarce (gold) is a good thing. OK, I'm with you. And yet...a cryptocurrency (#bitcoin) backed by something that's not only scarce, but is also totally finite is a bad thing?

The Coin Republic

Peter Schiff Slams USD Stablecoins, Plans To Launch Gold-Backed Alternative

Peter Schiff called USD stablecoins flawed, promoted gold-backed tokens, and hinted at launching his stablecoin.

Many smart people make this error. They can't see that bitcoin is both the asset (gold) AND the system (the "crypto" that delivers, stores, and secures the asset). With a gold-backed stablecoin, Schiff is actually arguing for a hacked up version of...bitcoin. More:

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The thing is, it is the thing \ stacker news

tldr; A common bitcoin criticism is, "It's not backed by anything." Well, the thing is, bitcoin is the thing. One of the most common criticisms of ...

Traveling is tiring. 😴

Pretty neat to see someone taking something I built (hostr, the hive<-->nostr bridge) and building on top of it. Looks like the goal is to add deso (wordpress?) into the bridge as well. I was unfamiliar with deso until now...it's the old BitClout, remember that? Announcement:

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I am attempting something and if successful I

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I'm starting to collect #nostr clients on my phone like Cabbage Patch Kids. It might be a problem. .hostr

Gonna be a long, over the road day. So, I start with a prayer.

Found rocks. Looks like mini Stonehenge.

Just looked at njump.me and saw two clients I'd never heard of. Trying lumilumi.app at the moment. .hostr

For fun and to see if I can do it, I'm trying to mash up a text-only nostr client. It's for "old phones and bad internet" and I said it's "glitchy and sketch, but so is your phone and internet. So, who knows if it's this app after all?! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 😀" Though I didn't intend it, this kinda has the perfect excuse for bad software engineering built in. It's sort of like a website that intends to test for bad connections, then reports back as, "Sorry, bad connection." Huh? (btw, posting from the app now, so, kinda working if you see this)

Since I rarely look at either, I'm having a hard time litmus testing Bluesky and Mastodon on the political spectrum, liberal to conservative. If it was a 1 to 10 scale, left to right, I guess I'd put Bluesky at a 2 and Mastodon at a 3. Am I reading things correctly?

Got to like earning sats just by someone sending sat/ads to your comments. It's like you're watching TV, and because a commercial comes on, you get satoshis. #bitcoin

On the road, I turned on NPR. A homosexual podcaster who worked for Obama and Jon Stewart was talking about Richard Simmons. But, that's neither here nor there. At the commercial, the host slipped in that a bill in Congress seeks to defund public broadcasting funding for two years. Said we should all take action. A couple of things. First, I thought public radio was "commercial free." That's what its branded as every single fund raising gig when they beg for money. Secondly, the big argument now for public funding is that public radio is the supposed only means of "reliable" news for many. Okay, (a) do they honestly not see their strong bias? (b) am radio is far better to get news out; pretty sure most public radio is fm. I can listen to am stations literally thousands of miles away at times, not tens of miles. Third, the host said they might lose 9% of their annual budget. Wait, what? I wrote several months ago an article (below) where I mentioned how they are adamant that they only get 1% of their money from the government. Now it's 9%? Seems like when the issue is, "You get too much government money," the answer is "Just 1%." But, when that "1%" is going to be taken away, suddenly it's a whole 9% that will crush their ability to get their word out. In a business, if you lose 9% (or 1%) of your revenue, you work harder to make that back up.

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Placebo Credits \ stacker news

https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/23tRnCx9QdmTXBL3Y1yVBv2z8m8B7uxK6Ds7rdWj7LDhn77ZAZ92MtPuoFnXmPWtmiTeJ.jpg There was a time when I li...

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Seems weird that AI makes "typo" errors. Does it fat-finger things?

Been noticing something odd to me...images that load horizontally, and from right to left no less! That's different.

GM, today I learnt... #coding with AI is a Laffer Curve of productivity...goes up fast, curves over to a max atop a hump, gets cumbersome, declines a bit, then declines fast, finally gets totally broken by itself. Business Calculus 101: stop at the top of the curve.

I'm trying to implement login with nostr connect using nsec.app but getting stuck. Any resources or alternatives to connecting via nostr connect? #asknostr .hostr

Any insight on this Spark thing? On one level, it sounds custodial (which, in my view, In my view, is ok up to "pocket-change" level), but then it sounds okay with owner holding 1 of 2 keys and is therefore not exactly custodial. All told, I'm not too sure what to make of it.

Atlas21

Spark: the layer 2 launched by Lightspark

Lightspark introduces a layer 2 for instant payments, stablecoins and interoperability with Lightning. Spark is an open-source layer 2 protocol

#bitcoin

Trump vs Elon, it's on! 🍿

We need to get Molly White on Nostr ( X: @molly0xFFF bsky: @molly.wiki ) Her stuff:

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