Buck is also on nostr 😁. Looking forward to the new year chat! View quoted note →

Are there any relay implementations that have NIP-44 support? The NIP04 standard says it's been deprecated in favor of 44 but there don't seem to be any relays that support the favored one.

If you're in Austin TX this week for SXSW or the Bitcoin Takeover, join us at the Bitcoin Commons this Thursday for Austin Bitdevs! We're breaking our long running streak of the third Thursday of the month to take advantage of a busy week of Bitcoin events here in the Bitcoin capital of the world in the Lone Star state!

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Austin Bitdevs #39 [SXSW Edition], Thu, Mar 14, 2024, 7:00 PM | Meetup

*(Note: If you can't make it up the building, ping someone on the [Telegram](https://t.me/+ekA74WGJ7ndkN2Yx) group!)* Another Socratic discussion ...

fun fact: looks like npm utilizes 402 status codes in responses if you try and publish to a private package! (no lightning/L402 support though 😔)

Ok, so I wasn’t the only person in the world that saw and recognized @jack wearing a satoshi shirt. View quoted note →

Good walk-thru as well of how we as a community that are custodians of an open, decentralized, and immensely valuable protocol need to have reasonable expectations. Lightning didn’t fix all of bitcoin’s problems, but it also was necessary to get the MVP out, in no small part b/c deploying proof of concept is how we learn. We should look towards the future with the same clear-eyed practicality. View quoted note →

I really like this heuristic for evaluating bitcoin upgrades by Erik Aronesty from the mailing list: > "Best tool for the job" is not the bar. "Safe for all" and "useful for some" is the bar.

Yep! Planning and building under urgency is much riskier

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i want to remind all the "what's the rush?" gaslighters, that their infantile inability to project future outcomes from observable trends and known...

That feeling when you spend hours trying to fix a bug in a hackathon project, get a normal nights sleep after event, find it’s a simple five minute fix after looking at it again once well rested 🤦‍♂️. I’m getting old.