I got nostr-pilled friends. They say people on nostr mostly talk about nostr. It turned them off. Like if people on the early internet would only talk about tcp-ip. I understand. But I stay nonetheless.

“175 million people in some form are involved in this world of Bitcoin and crypto and all of the others. So they said, Let’s be nice to them at least until after the election”. ~ Trump @ Bitcoin conference 2024, Nashville

What explains these extreme transaction sizes in this block? Has been for several hours like this.

Within a Bitcoin network could a node with sufficient resources experience a fluctuating amount of connections? At one moment there are say 12 peer connections. Just a few minutes later just 1 or even 0. I am experiencing this with my node and I can't stop thinking about it. I would expect quite a stable amount of connections since there are so many.

Started running a bitcoin node today with @Umbrel ☂️