The Bitcoin protocol is like dial-up modem protocols and no I don’t think I’ll elaborate

“Leak: EU governments double down on penalising privacy-friendly and encrypted messaging services with chat control bulk scanning orders” Badbadbadbadbad, #EU #chatcontrol not looking good (not that it could ever look good)

Patrick Breyer

Leak: EU governments double down on penalising privacy-friendly and encrypted messaging services with chat control bulk scanning orders

An updated version of the methodology to be used in the Child Sexual Abuse Regulation, leaked by the news portal Contexte, reveals more details on ...

Being a Bitcoiner is a bit exactly like being an Audiophile. Some of us just love music; others love arguing about the best equipment and “the right way” to do everything and have strange fetishes for specific brands of cap and gold plated everything and hate on others for just having fun - while normies still think we’re all a bit mad but we’re sure they’ll feel liberated when they finally get it 😂

iPod gang

Rather randomly, I’ve recently picked up an old #iPod classic 5th gen and am loving it so far. (despite the upgrade to use SD card storage being way harder than it’s supposed to be on this cursed iPod 🤣) iPods are low time preference. Streaming is just somebody else’s music. Listening to a podcast on an iPod is strangely a more engaging experience, and interruption free - you can’t just check Twitter/Nostr/get a call. A related note, I can’t find an existing solution for “buy my whole music library” which is weird because I want to give someone money and they’re making it hard 🤷‍♂️ Also Apple Music is a bit jank with importing MP3s - it works, but 50/50 whether it matches to the streaming version of the album you already had (yay) or creates duplicates (not yay)

$1B ‘valuation’ with 350k paid users and ~$600k revenue is a hilariously high PE ratio of what, 1666x?! And people think Tesla is crazy overpriced at a meagre PE of 80x ish View quoted note →

Checking out https://radicle.xyz, a P2P Git thingy -- I really like what I'm seeing... It's not Nostr but I'm not sure it would actually be better if it was. Supports DIDs so `did:btc:...` (Orange) and `did:key:` for Secp256k1 keys (bitcoin and nostr) would work, they're just not implemented (yet 😏) Nostr-based decentralised git things also progressing (

GitWorkshop.dev

Decentralized github alternative over Nostr

and probably others?), which is great, beacuse IMO there's so much complacency around GitHub as the one big centralised repository for all open-source software just continuing to work fine forever. #git #radicle

Anyone playing with Nostr and Bitcoin on #LORa and #meshtastic ? 👀

Renewed screeching about people using Casey’s envelopes to put data on chain is nauseatingly boring. Stop being Bitcoin redcoats and get over it

Ubuntu is a shitcoin, dunno why everyone uses it as 'default Linux', change my mind; Fedora, Debain or Alpine are the three to go for from shiny-newness to most boring and stable. Honourable mention for FreeBSD as the so-stable-you-turn-it-on-and-it's-still-running-four-years-later option. View quoted note →

The moral of @Jameson Lopp ‘s testnet drama is that it’s probably sensible to support all the test networks as you never know which is going to rug when 😂 (Though wen TBTC flipping BSV? Currently BSV at $64, TBTC at $0.63)

Been thinking about this a bit -- *perhaps*, one of the reasons Lightning has taken so long is that we're only just realising how important the LSP component is. Wallets/nodes that work with a LSP are so much easier to run and use for non-dev and non-in-it-as-a-business people. Even as a dev, I'm fairly hesitant to sign myself up for the maintenance effort of running a normal Lightning node. Things like Phoenix, @ZEUS, Phoenixd and @OpenSecret (mutiny server soon! 👀) are just so much easier to work with than "just" run LND/Eclair/C-Lightning/LDK-Node etc. Is the logical conclusion that for Lightning node-running to become prolific, LSPs (or more accurately, a way for nodes to 'buy' inbound from and get channels with others) have to become an inherent part of the Lightning protocol? Feels like it to me. View quoted note →

Simultaneously the most and lest based pool View quoted note →