The Online Safety Bill is terrible but great for Nostr

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#PSA : If you put your #npub as a hashtag in your Bio on X/Twitter it’s way way easier for people on phones to copy and paste and find you here

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Is there a thing I can set up that Zaps everything I 🤙 react to given Apple suck and I’m mostly on #damus? Happy to self-host, not going to cry if I need to use Alby/similar to do it (i.e. custodial) #zap #zapathon

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Just come across

GitHub

GitHub - karpathy/cryptos: Pure Python from-scratch zero-dependency implementation of Bitcoin for educational purposes

Pure Python from-scratch zero-dependency implementation of Bitcoin for educational purposes - karpathy/cryptos

which is an educational implementation of Bitcoin (ish) from scratch in Python, similar to @jimmysong ‘s awesome book “Programming Bitcoin”

You should do a “fire drill” on your self-custodied bitcoin about once a year IMO Check you still have your backups Check you haven’t forgotten your HWW PIN or passphrase (especially if you’re just stacking, never spending) Check you can actually restore backups (a bit expensive as you need a spare HWW to wipe and restore onto, but definitely worth it if you have 1BTC+) View quoted note →

Never ever put HWW seed words or backup or anything that should be a secret anywhere but a new hardware wallet 🎣 Good phishing attacks ALWAYS try to use fear and panic to make you act before thinking If in doubt, migrate to a new seed on a new and secure hardware wallet View quoted note →

My current stance on #BIP300 and #BIP301 for #Drivechains is that I’m not convinced this is the “best way” to achieve “blind” escrow and Blond-Merge-Mining. I don’t really care if people want to run drivechains; Bitcoin is freedom money so they probably should be able to, even if I and others think it’s dumb. But it should probably be a net-gain for Bitcoin and have more uses than one We only have so many NOPs left to soft-fork with, every new thing needing it’s own specific soft-fork isn’t sustainable CISC vs RISC We can’t really anticipate all possible transaction types and have templates for them all, which is why Bitcoin script exists, to provide powerful composable primitives that enable as many different uses as possible

Rust is a good language, seems to me it’s biggest problem is its foundation runs almost exactly like a shitcoin foundation without the token If Rust can become like C and basically get one minor update a decade and no-one seems to know who if anyone is ‘running’ the project, that’ll be bullish af

What’s the difference between data science and software engineering? Here’s one definition: data-science code is made worse by being general/modular, software-eng is made better Data sci is ad-hoc, often throwaway, so lends itself to tools like Jupyter notebooks really well. Trying to do data sci like software-eng is painful to watch 😂

Why is it specifically Cafés that don’t want to take cash? (UK/London anecdata, YMMV)