I wish there was non custodial prediction market on Bitcoin. In the meantime I think the best alternative is Polymarket (

Polymarket | The World’s Largest Prediction Market™

Polymarket is the world’s largest prediction market, allowing you to stay informed and profit from your knowledge by trading on future events acr...

) It is using usdc on polygon which is some Ethereum layer 2 or whatever. They claim it is non custodial and user has private key in the browser and can export it. No need to use metamask or any desktop software. So the only trusted part is switching from Bitcoin to poly usdc that has to go through something like sideshift or similar where they have custody during the exchange.

Decentralized Github. "Radicle is an open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git. Unlike centralized code hosting platforms, there is no single entity controlling the network. Repositories are replicated across peers in a decentralized manner, and users are in full control of their data and workflow." Design looks good to me. Written in Rust, uses modern cryptography (Ed25519 for identity, noise protocol for metadata communication). Architecture looks reasonably simple and extensible.

Radicle: the sovereign forge

Sovereign code infrastructure.

@jack

The absurd story of Barbara, her barbarian friends, their barber, the eponymous bar and most of all Barbara's unbelievably tasty rhubarb pie.

Bitcoin is an amazing success story in open source software and community. Let's not let it stagnate, but keep it vibrant by improving its already amazing properties with restored (and renewed) script!

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Rearden 🛩️ BIP448 🥖 fork/acc (@reardencode) on X

BTC++ ATX, Consensus and the Great Script Restoration

Use your Bitcoin. We saturated the curious and early adopters. Now bring the utility. Great article by Roy Sheinfeld. I would add this: 1. In western countries "better saving tech" is also great utility 2. Cross border remittances are great utility 3. Big yes to connecting creators (musicians, writers..) with consumers more directly w/o middleman. This has great potential. In these segments the middlemans are taking too much. But also we can connect creators and consumers more directly - fountain.fm is not just for consuming podcasts but also for communicating with the podcasts. Let's spread this model to other intustries. 4. Big strength of Bitcoin comes from the fact that it cannot be easily confiscated or devalued. But this is something people don't appreciate until it's too late. Paradoxically people in coconut countries has advantage here because they more clearly understand the issues with fiat money. https://medium.com/breez-technology/orange-pilling-has-stopped-working-4a407252c7a3

I added NIP05 to my nostr account using the whole domain (without username). So now I have a nice pinkish checkmark and "urza.cc" after my nickname in profile (at least that is how it looks on Damus). It was very simple, following the guide by @npub16jzr...zk52 https://orangepill.dev/nostr-guides/guide-to-verify-nostr-profile-nip05-identifier-with-your-domain/

"Today, many folks look back with fondness on the early days of computer-based messaging. Depending on their age, they may wax nostalgic for BBSes, Usenet, or web forums. Surprisingly, all these technologies still exist, although they are either barely used or are full of spam. It’s hard not to think that something may have been lost." From BBS to Facebook, here's how messaging platforms have changed over the years.

Ars Technica

First post: A history of online public messaging

From BBS to Facebook, here's how messaging platforms have changed over the years.

Hey #nostr client devs. @primal @npub18m76...q955 Impersonators are popping up on nostr. And it is even easier for them than on twitter. They can easily create 1:1 profile copy with the same icon, banner, posts, reposts.. Number of followers and followed can be easily gamed. Even npub can be vanity generated to have the same beginning and end. What would help and what can't be easily gamed is to see "followed by these people you follow" in user profiles. Similarly how twitter does:

Corporate Open Source is Dead Nobody likes being rugpulled. But lately, it's going around like a virus. The state of open source landscape is changing. Many projects backed by corporations are changing to "source avaliable" or other such scam license. It's one thing to be commercial & closed source from the beginning and be honest about it - that's OK. But changing from open source to "source available" is a rug pull. At least forking is possible - fork the project at a point where it was still opensource and diverge from there. That is why so many forks in OSS are happening lately.

Bicycle Day is an informal celebration on April 19th of the psychedelic revolution and commemorating the first psychedelic trip on LSD by Dr. Albert Hofmann in 1943, in tandem with his famous bicycle ride home from Sandoz Labs. Was about a week ago but happy bicycle day anyway :)

This is great article that all bitcoiners should read. History of decentralization and lessons from history that worked and didn't worked and why. Very relevant given current events. Resistant protocols: How decentralization evolves

Resistant protocols: How decentralization evolves - John Backus - Medium

The Right to Privacy (Dec. 15, 1890) is "one of the most influential essays in the history of American law"

The Right to Privacy (article) - Wikipedia

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Everyone is wrong about free will. The people defending "humans have free will" position are usually wrong because they try to find a place in physics or biology for free will. There is none. Atoms clearly have no free will, and neurons are made of atoms. Your neurons can't choose what they will put on output, and therefore what you will think and do. Your neurons create the output based on their inner state and inputs. No way around it. But that is not where free will exists. You are not your neurons. You are the subjective experience that can arise from having a body with a brain, but you are not the body and brain. And in your subjective experience you have the experience of free will. The soldier that was sent to war and is aiming at an enemy has to make a choice - to fire or not to fire. It might not be an easy choice, maybe almost impossible choice, but it is a choice none the less. And it doesn't matter that on the level of atoms and neurons the outcome is already decided. At the subjective experience level, there is a choice to be made and we call that choice free will. The bullet once fired, can't choose to hit the target or not, but the soldier can choose to fire or not. If you just say that free will doesn't exist, then you are losing useful words to describe certain situations regarding human behavior and reality. Just because something doesn't exist in the world of atoms, doesn't mean it isn't real. Show me one atom of justice, mercy or beauty… and yet, these all describe something real and meaningful for us humans. And so does free will.

This is how I prefer to display btc/sats in context of Lightning Network.

This is kind of "so obviously wrong", but in a good way, like Nostr itself. So I think it might actually work. Unlike IPFS and such.. View quoted note →

Blockchain isn’t just a distributed database, it’s a very specific kind of distributed database where: 1) the database maintainers aren’t authenticated 2) the set of maintainers changes over time If you don't need this, you don't need blockchain