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Had a thought. Two questions: BIP444: yes/no? Earth: Flat/Round?

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Given Bitcoin just died again, maybe it's time to get a coffin for your hardware wallet?

Github bounty hunters coming forward positioning their approaches. This is good for nostr. This is good for the world. 💕 View quoted note →

Can't wait to see a standard emerge! What Rabble did with divine - make legacy content available on the newcomer - is what will also drive a github replacement. If github on nostr remains an add-on, it will fail. If I can find all projects on one (nostr enabled) tool regardless if hosted on codeberg, selfhosted gitea or github, we will win. For me it's not about the perfect emulation of GitHub code reviews or AI integration. Discoverability is key to network effects. "The bounty" is huge and I trust @jack will honor it if somebody delivers something serious. And discoverability to me would be the top metric. If self-hosted becomes an option for young devs building their portfolio, we win. View quoted note →

In Chile, presidential elections are boring this year. "The left" decided to run with a communist while the rest of the parties didn't decide on a "right candidate", so the first round turned into "let's see who comes in second and wins the second round in a month". That will be José Kast now. Kaiser is a proclaimed libertarian but as far as I can see, not the brightest and far too authoritarian for a libertarian and his party - he founded that libertarian party - members sound like devote followers of their supreme leader. I listened to two of them talk to see if I could give them a vote for their senate or house of deputies seats and that was kind of creepy, too.

The community should absolutely defend the right to write, publish, and use non‑custodial privacy tools. But we should not pretend there’s no difference between writing code and running a revenue‑generating service that transmits others’ funds and openly pitches itself as a way to move illicit proceeds. In this case, Keonne Rodríguez and William Lonergan Hill didn’t plead guilty to "writing code". They each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money‑transmitting business, knowing it was transmitting criminal proceeds. That’s about how Samourai Wallet / Whirlpool were operated and marketed as a business, not the mere act of publishing open‑source software. Mixing those things up makes it harder to defend developers if/when governments ever actually try to criminalize publishing non‑custodial, open‑source privacy tools.

Mutes and follows are the WoT tools we use right now but muting my cousin who shares too many food fotos isn't distrust and following some malicious influencer isn't trust. I'm very curious how WoT will work in nostr. How will people express their trust for some plumber without following them or endorsing them for financial advice? Which application will bootstrap WoT on nostr? How will the interface be so that people actually care to provide this valuable data? We really only need to crack this puzzle for a tiny niche first. As soon as it works for handymen in Springfield - better than any established platform - we can grow from there. The network effect will do the rest. Ideally, the primitives are so simple that any app developers that need WoT will integrate this WoT into their tools, too cause the network effect doesn't only work for users, it also works for developers. Build and they will come? Just build! They are there already! #wotathon

Are we on a path for BIP444 to activate on Bitcoin? Using consensus rules to fight spam seems misguided to me. If people want to combat mempool spam, that should be done through policy, and node operators should have access to as many policy tools as necessary. Stripping away policy options feels needlessly confrontational, especially when it is done in the name of enforcing a homogeneous mempool across all nodes. Why not simply let node operators decide their own policies and defuse this whole situation? Is aiming for mempool uniformity really worth risking a contentious fork? @Luke Dashjr @Peter Todd @Bitcoin Mechanic

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There might still be hope for Android ...

It's not new or news but if you don't know any details about this incident, it's damn interesting.