Came out today. Pretty cool in a internet free zone... Or a post RESTRICT Act America, if you are in too much of a time constraint to download the whole blockstream satellite. Perhaps you could set up the satellite quickly, sync it, broadcast something and take it apart.
ZeroSync and Blockstream to Broadcast Bitcoin Zero-Knowledge Proofs From Space
The two partners say using zero-knowledge proofs will allow Bitcoin nodes to sync quickly from anywhere on earth, “even without Internet.”
Oh yeah btw, if they do a Nostr conference in Tokyo...
Call it...
Zapan.
Gonna be honest, kinda worried about the RESTRICT (can't believe that's the real name) Act. Wish we had more time to work on Lightning. If you that think Lightning is able to withstand attack from the United States Government, well, I disagree. Nostr is also a little young. And it's hydra, whack-a-mole censorship resistant, not like Bitcoin censorship resistant. Oh well, America doesn't own the internet. But free internet is pretty important to me. I would emigrate to keep internet freedom.
New daeadmau5 song Antisec features an old YTcracker track about the lulzsec days.
Pretty awesome.
The Ethereum Foundation is scheduled to start processing withdrawals of staked Ethereum for the first time on April 12th.
While 'The Merge' occurred in September, particularly enthusiastic stakers may have been staking without the ability to withdraw as early as Nov 4th, 2020.
So, as more nostr webclients and web micro-apps get made that interact with my keys (by them being stored in a browser extension), I wonder if browser extensions that hold pub&private nostr keys will become the preferred means of logging in to everything online.
Secondly, are there any browser extensions that hold more than one set of keys? Because in this reality, do you want to link your political shitposting and your online banking with the same set of keys? Cause if you do, you might not have that bank account for long, lol.
I was playing Bitcoin Blocks and this ad came up, I investigated, and it's NOT a fitness plan that just tells you to lift, barely cook meat on cast iron, no seed oils, don't use sunscreen, and sun your balls.
Just a normal gym.
Since Nostr posts aren't able to be deleted or edited like Twitter posts are, I think it's fair we admit we forgot to think about how this affects the heavy drinking community.
How about a client option that does a hard-to-do Captcha sobriety test when opening the app or before posting.
**P.S. This is a joke**
**Please someone make this, otherwise we will get the closed version of this.**
Shipstr- a open protocol based on nostr for delivering packages
In the future Citadels around the Globe can be connected by a global drone delivery service run on an open protocol based on Nostr. Anyone can supply their own drones, load them with Shipstr open-source firmware and if a package needs to be relayed, your drone will be buzzed and you earn sats for each flight, or perhaps you can run charging stations and have sats streamed to you as others' drones charge (shown below). The system keeps drones in a range near where you live and passes the package to the next drone rather than sending the drone too far from home.
Figured I'd make one too!
Okay, imagine a relay that charges... idunno 40 sats or whatever to post, you can check your balance on a website, or you can DM a nostrbot and say how much you want to add, it gives you an invoice. That way, your not doing any friction every single post, just load like 10,000 sats at a time and forget about it for a while. And maybe there is a deposit involved too, so people follow the content policy. (No beheading, etc)
I see an 'Uncle Jim' model evolving for relays. Church group relays run off Church funds, Colleges will have their own relays (early BBS-internet vibes!) Perhaps companies will replace Slack groups with closed relays. Maybe hospitals and pharmacies will be connected with with relays using Vitor's Nip-82 (Medical Data over Nostr). Some others may just run them to deliver you content (and ads).
They only have your keys, so who you follow, (and your IP, if you aren't hiding that), possibly some other Metadata, including device or browser info comes through I think too. Still, your follows and likes is a good place to start ad-wise.
Of course, the main incentive we have for running relays is... getting paid. Now, Nostr will be a great way to orange pill. However, if you aren't already orange-pilled, there may be some more normie-friendly apps, such as Damus that will offer relay service for fiat-card payment through the app store. However, Lightning is the way I expect most relay operators to be paid. There are a bunch of paid relays, generally around 5,000-100,000sats, basically all one-time payment.
One time. Forever? For a year? No terms, no contract. Clearly this doesn't pay the bills forever, it just keeps out bots/spammers. So, they need to make some terms, and start to experiment with different plans. (Of course bolt12 reoccurring payments would be really nice right now.)
Paying per post probably makes the most sense IF it didn't have the friction. What if you could at any time load the relay with sats and the balance just automatically adjusted down say, 40 sats every post. You could check your balance at a website, or by nostr-DMing a bot.
Of course, the market will decide in two ways: -by users choosing relays they prefer
-by relay operators finding sustainable business models causing them to continue actually run their relays, instead of just getting frustrated and saying to hell with it.
On a Bitcoin standard, your boss has to negotiate a pay cut with you. A raise may be just keeping the same salary. Either way, you have the upper hand, since doing nothing results in your salary becoming more valuable over time.
