Anyone knows something about Ark? Anyone is running it? I am interested, I want to hear some opinions.

The future is decentralized #bitcoin #nostr #decentralized

Mucha fuerza y bendiciones a los afectados por la DANA en la comunidad Valenciana y a España en general, expreso mis condolencias por los fallecidos. Este evento demuestra la ineptitud o indiferencia de los políticos para responder rápidamente ante desastres de este tipo. Alguien sabe donde se pueda enviar algunos sats para apoyar a los damnificados?

The best solution for self hosted computing is StartOS from @Start9 team, I have no doubt about that, with respect for other good projects, but they have done a great job! The focus on security and privacy is awesome. If you want to run a bitcoin node, lightning node, etc; and you think that is difficult, try @Start9 solutions and be sovereign.

Running a full bitcoin node is a great way to enforce your rules, at least in your blockchain local copy, even against miners. But miners (more than 50% hash rate) can still restrict those rules (soft fork) in the way that you don't want, and your node will just accept it, even without running the new rules, because it is valid in the previous concensus and the chain with more work will be that, with the new rules, remember > 50 % hash rate. Can it be problematic? I think yes.

Not everyone in the world will be able to use bitcoin in a sovereign way, having unilateral access to a UTXO on chain, which I think is a problem. But, at least in my personal experience, many of the people I know don't even care about sovereignty. Maybe it's because they don't know, or maybe they just don't care at all, and everyone who wants to use bitcoin in a sovereign way will be able to do so?

The rockets are ready. But are we?

Nostr is the best attempt in defense of the free speech I have ever seen. Great project.

Hello world