The 24h pulse UX in jumble is very good and I think it should be used in many other contexts, especially chat apps and small world media. You get very cheap yet very effective way to keep up with people you follow, and if, IF you want to see more you can go read it from their data host. Just enough aggregation to be dangerous, and actually saves on bandwidth Vs if everyone has to send a notification to all their followers. Very useful but cheap enough it can remain decentralised.

It is funny yet not so funny that that protocols have shipped and grew to millions of users then pivoted and gave up, while other protocols are still work in progress privately, as if timing is utterly irrelevant. On the other hand, what a privilege not to care about outcomes. View quoted note →

Aaaand Farcaster pivoted from social media to flat out a crypto wallet! View quoted note →

Bluesky is trending towards less than 1 Million daily active users and that includes people silently liking ... That is the total addressable market of large world social media... And remember, almost everything else is better off with a slightly enhanced version of Email.

Scaling Bitcoin is the only long term solution for sovereign digital identity beyond the features that Pkarr already delivered on... If you want sovereign digital identity for organisations, or families, or individuals that don't want to opt in extreme security setup from day one, or if you are concerned about quantum for some reason... You need a total ordering of events, and that can't be done without a Blockchain and sharding through L2s... If you can secure bitcoins with covenants, you can secure identities too. Programmable money is programmable data so it can be programmable phone book.

I have said this and I will say it again; people are not just lazy or ignorant, the service is simply not valuable enough, if anything, people welcome not being able to use social media, they use it for the same reason they eat cheap fast food; they can't afford what they really want; IRL quality experiences and relationships. No one will pay to scroll, nor they should. View quoted note →

People say Blockchains don't scale then build protocols based on WoT... That is basically like saying; Hammers eventually break so I will just use my fist.

Rootstock (80% of Bitcoin hash power and no speculative asset to pay fees with) is insanely under utilized infrastructure... Even if you don't trust the federated peg that majority of Bitcoin miners seem to trust enough to get paid through, you have to admit it has much more track record than any Cashu or Fedi mint..

Beautiful day, fuck zios and may they never recover and may their days in power be entirely behind us.

You don't hate Jewish supremacists enough... Remember this when they get killed and people call them innocent civilians View quoted note →

jewish supremacists killed more than a hundred Palestinian in Gaza, around 50 of them are children... No hostages no nothing they are just murderous genocidal scum with infinite blood lust.

Congratulations to @Ark Labs and the team, looking good.

The more people talk about these systems as actual payments and not just credit the better... Bitcoin has been suffering from good as an enemy of the perfect for so long, and totally surrendering the market to KYC garbage. View quoted note →

the worst thing about Luke's FUD is that it is not actually working and Bitcoin isn't getting any cheaper

There is no limit on how many people can own UTXOs. The only limit is the level of "consistency"... L1 will always be the highest and most expensive, but that doesn't mean that smaller regions are worthless... That is just absurd garbage, if your money is confirmed in the eyes of everyone you trade with on a monthly basis, you have all the decentralisation you need. At this point I figure, autism is the worst risk to Bitcoin, when people can't see beyond the dichotomy of either global consensus or KYC "show me a video of your buthole to be able to spend" centralisation View quoted note →

Is anyone tracking non-kyc custodial LN and other Bitcoin IOUs rug pull rates? I figured this is a very important metric to have; without the regulations, how often do dark providers steal/disappear/fail?

Businesses benefit a lot from centralisation and gate keeping, but if you are in the business of non-kyc Bitcoin services... You really owe it to yourself to organise your data in a ledger, make it public and make your server algorithmically replaceable... Because your service is going to be shutdown sooner or later, and you lose all your hard earned credibility... Give yourself a chance to salvage that later with a dark service.

My most common argument has always been that decentralised search is impossible, this is still true, but I think every vertical (streaming, micro blogging, video, etc ..) should have some standard most likely imposed by a client, and let few indexers compete .. but I have no idea how would the indexers get paid when the clients have all the power. Still, if Podcasts can interop, maybe more segments of the web can.

Soft fork idea; any UTXO being spent has to include it's entire Utreexo proof in the witness. Oh you have been hording a UTXO from Satoshi days? Your consolidation transaction costs extra 7kb per input... Sorry.