Hi Nostr! Its been a while.

Does anyone know of a Bitcoin wallet that is present in the F-droid store and is actively maintained?

Does anyone know any open source data recovery tools for an iPhone?

I was listening to the @WhatBitcoinDid episode with Saylor. There are so many things that are fundamentally wrong with his takes. His words: "There are all these 2nd, 3rd, 4th order concerns in aviation and aeronautical engineering, you don't have those concerns if you're just a hacker. People that are computer programmers, they just write code, it works, the world is very simple". That is not how software engineering works, they are called engineers for a reason and not programmers/hackers. Good software engineers and companies where software is critical hold their software to very high standards which includes Bitcoin core. You can look at the code guidelines of NASA as an example. They have extremely strict policies on how to handle memory for example because the code they write can never leak memory when it's being used in satellites and spaceships. This narrative of software engineers as just being hackers and they just hack shit together overnight is wrong! Real production codebases are taken very seriously by every software engineer! Just because you see tweets of someone posting a GitHub link of what they hacked together over a weekend, that is never used by real people in production. It sometimes takes years to make it production ready.

If you're a business avoid vendor locking as much as possible with all the software/infrastructure services you use. Try to use as many open source products as possible. Sometimes it's difficult to look for alternatives because companies like AWS or Cloudflare make it too easy but they will also make you regret one day if you have no easy way to switch your providers.

Soft forks are not really protocol changes because everything is backwards compatible so you're not breaking anything, you're only adding something new that isn't supported yet.

So Saylor says we can either have sound money or censorship resistance and permissionless medium of exchange and not both. So he prefers ossification so that we could have sound money. Both are equally important for the success of Bitcoin. If we can't get the censorship resistance and permissionless part right then I'd suggest we quit on Bitcoin and just use fiat.

Alright America, I am willing to tolerate Donald Trump as the President for 4 years only because he promised to free Ross Ulbricht on day 1.

Maxis who followed Saylor are in disbelief that the Ethereum ETF got approved and thought that the SEC was your friend and they would approve only Bitcoin and everything else would just die a painful death.

The delete button is one of the greatest lies by every big tech company. None of your data is ever deleted by any of them, they just flag it as deleted in their database so that it doesn't show up on client applications.

For everyone waiting for Bolt12 support in LND, this is a nice PR that got merged. Starting with Lnd 0.18 everyone can run the LNDK project without a custom build of LND. Hopefully this boosts the bolt12 adoption that everyone's been waiting for.

GitHub

cfg: move experimental options to main protocol cfg by orbitalturtle · Pull Request #8744 · lightningnetwork/lnd

Change Description This PR simply moves the experimental custom message config options to the main protocol config, so that the dev build flag does...

Good one. Bitcoin core needs this.

Open source is neither a community nor a democracy

Using open source software does not entitle you to a vote on the direction of the project. The gift you've received is the software itself and the ...

The closer you want to get to privacy the worse the UX becomes. There is no perfect solution out there for privacy, use whatever gets you closest to it while trying to balance out the UX. There is only so much pain you can take while using privacy tools. Everyone says fuck it at some point.

A lot of people don't seem to get it. e-cash is A solution. It's not the answer to all our scaling problems. If you open your eyes and see what's happening outside you will quickly realize e-cash can be very quickly shut down in a lot of parts of the world. If you didn't realize yet, the fedimint federation everyone got excited and started using said they're shutting down and asked everyone to withdraw their funds. We need real scaling and privacy solutions. Not hacky workarounds.

The state of Indian politics from several years. Political parties campaign in small towns and villages and distribute cash and buy votes. These are the kind of politicians we are living with, Bitcoin is hope to get away from all this. I hope we get there one day but we have so many challenges to overcome and tbh my hope that we will succeed isn't that high. For almost everyone who don't know what this means, it's my mom texting in our family group saying she received 5K rupees from a political party to vote for them.

A good post from fiatjaf on how Nostr is centralized and not very censorship resistant as of today.

Nostr is not decentralized nor censorship-resistant

Only Xcode can make the most powerful laptops heat up and turn the fans on.

Why are Apple stores so full all the time? What do people go in there and do? Every store has like 25 people working inside it and all of them are occupied.

The ossifiers and the NGUs will be happy this year. Bitcoin will probably hit $100k. I'm going to be unhappy because we are behind on privacy and scaling. Like Zeus Evan Kaloudis said, self custody is the hill I will die on. Success isn't the ETFs or 100k, success is everyone can use Bitcoin holding their own keys.

Maybe it's too late but I want bolt12 onion messaging to be paid and not free. Maybe there could be a range from 0 to a maximum of 1 sat in fees but I am completely against it being free.