I don't think it is a surprise that unemployed socialists outnumber thinking beings who have made their way to Nostr.

Highly recommend reading the following paper by @yr on the Nostr protocol. Helped me understand the tool better and think about a number of relevant aspects I had not previously considered. Will have to learn more about how WebSockets work. And also the NIPs mentioned here. The idea of emergent forgetting of content not cared for is also something I'll have to look into. What we have with Nostr and the network of clients, relays, and users is a lot more than a proof of concept. It is a meaningful (superior) alternative -- and it does not need to supplant existing centralized large social media platforms to be successful.

The Nostr Protocol: A Socio-Technical and Phenomenological Inquiry into Decentralized Communication

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@korg create a gif of a purple ostrich wearing a crown running around the moon

What nostr client/tool do you use on Android? #asknostr I've used the following so far. 1. AMETHYST Pros: a. Profile shows higlights created on nostr reads elsewhere. This is a feature I like to see, but unfortunately I cannot highlight from within Amethyst. Cons: a. Chat messages are not syncing properly -- not sure if I'm doing something wrong; b. Cannot quote/highlight reads within the app; c. The heart sign forces me to pick from a number of often irrelevant emoji. I just want an easy thumbs-up. (Edit: I figured out how to change that---long press heart, delete emojis, paste new emojis. But thumbs-up should be there by default.) 2. PRIMAL Pros: a. Can highlight and quote in reads. b. Chat messages are properly synced. Cons: a. When I go to explore feeds and I click on a read, it does not open. Not meant to be a detailed list. Just what stands out from my use cases. Tried Snort, which I found unusable. Using FreeFrom too, but only for chat messages. All of the above refers to Android apps, not their desktop versions.

From Nik Bhatia's Layered Money. From Gold and Dollars to Bitcoin and Central Bank Digital Currencies The dollar pyramid has fractured itself in so many places since 2007, that the Federal Reserve has had no choice but to place bandages across its entire facade.

So we have a Marxist islamist in New York. What could possibly go wrong?

Completed Programming Bitcoin Chapter 2 - Elliptic Curves. First came across the topic briefly during undergrad, but did not really delve into it back then. This chapter gives a nice intuitive explanation for elliptic curve and mainly discusses how the addition operation works. Addition retains some of the properties we attribute to normal addition --- commutativity, associativity, invertibility. But the operation itself involves following the staight line through the two points being added to the third point at which the line intersects the elliptic curve, and then taking its vertical reflection. (The illustrations in the book do a better job of explaining.) The exercises in this chapter go over how to implement addition of points on an elliptic curve in Python. The next chapter will use the properties discussed in this chapter to build cryptographic structures.