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optout 3 years ago
View quoted note → I was wondering if the lightning channel construct could be generalized to 3 (or more) parties; I've found the/an answer in this bitcoin.stackexchange.com question.
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optout 3 years ago
Got thinking about Nostr Connect (NIP46) setups, triggered by @nQuiz . There are two apps involved: [1] client app (wants to sign, has no sec key) [2] keystore app Different setups are possible: - client in browser, keystore in browser extension (like Alby) - client in desktop browser, keystore in mobile app: display/scan QR code - client in mobile browser, keystore in app (same device) -- ? maybe deeplink+NIP89 app handler Manually swtiching to the app and copypasting connect string is a fallback, but terrinle UX.
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optout 3 years ago
People often nuke their Nostr contact list. This can happen e.g. when a client uses a not-recent version of the contact list, and reposts it. For examples, check out messages of this bot: @npub19urf...rmt8
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optout 3 years ago
Bitcoin must be *both* sound store of value *and* medium of exchange. Without the second, it's like a deserted castle where nobody visits, without the first, it's like a castle built on sand.
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optout 3 years ago
Fire up your old miners in the basement, the BRC20 crowd is streaming sats to the miners! image
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optout 3 years ago
Can't zap!!! 💀 Is WoSatoshi having issues?
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optout 3 years ago
Nostr and Bitcoin key handling is very similar on the tech side. But there is an important difference: with Bitcoin one usually uses multiple pubkeys or even clients, and want to hide any relationship between those. In Nostr, one mostly wants the same identity (pubkey) across different clients.
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optout 3 years ago
How many users are on Nostr? Well, it doesn't really matter, the fact is it's growing! Recently I've heard numbers like 250k or more. With a little crawling (follows lists) I found ~160k pubkeys.
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optout 3 years ago
In here there are about 320 pubkeys with over 1k followers, the top having 24k (as found by a little crawling). Nostr is huge, but plenty of room to grow. #nostr-follows
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optout 3 years ago
Pizza Day Prague less than a month away!
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optout 3 years ago
In @gossip, I often have chicken-and-egg problem: - it cant fetch anything until I manually enter some relays - relays used are picked based on follows list, if the follows list is empty, it does not connect to a relay - even after I add relays, it often has difficult getting my meta, or my follows list
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optout 3 years ago
Cashu -- ecash+BTC/LN combo -- is a great idea. As I see, it combines the drawbacks of - self-custody solutions (you can lose your funds) - custodian solutions (they can rug you) :))) Still, it's a great idea!
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optout 3 years ago
I don't care about how many (or few) followers I have, but I like Coracle, because it shows slightly higher count than other clients :)
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optout 3 years ago
A cashless society is a surveillance society
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optout 3 years ago
90% of my Rust compile errors are fixed by prepending a '&' before an expression. 9% is removing a '&'. 1% is others -- like prepending a '*'. 😉⚙
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optout 3 years ago
Use cash, while you can! Use cash instead of electronic methods (where Bitcoin payment is not available). Good old, proven, tangible, more-difficult-to-trace, smelly banknotes and coins. CDBCs will ultimately kill cash.