Last Notes
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/10/19/archives/harassment-alleged-over-code-research-computer-scientists-say-us.html
Philosophy is cool and all, but if the hashrate falls to very low values in the future, we're going to have to be pragmatic about the security budget
I love the idea of Ark as a 'Channel Factory', allowing billions to have fully sovereign Lightning nodes. However, if Ark is *too* efficient in this case, then a typical block might have only one transaction!
(By the way, that's partly why I'm currently against CTV; I want Ark, but I don't want it to be *too* scalable; I want many medium-sized Arks, not one mega-Ark)
On balance, I think it'll all be fine and there won't be a problem with the security budget. But there could be a problem, and that problem could eventually be fatal. So I like to think about it
The article discusses Runes, but I think it dismisses them too quickly. The Lightning network could be extended to fully support Runes (no soft fork required), and it's possible (but admittedly, very unlikely) that one of the Runes becomes very valuable. As many Runes 'currencies' have tail emissions, it's possible that they could provide the right incentives to miners
Anyway, there's always 'demurrage', a soft fork to apply a tax on old UTXOs, which would motivate people to move their coins more often and create. The rule could be that, when spending a UTXO older than X years, at least Y% of the outputs must be anyone-can-spend outputs that are locked to a few years in the future. Such outputs are equivalent to the block subsidy in practice
Sensible or crazy punts? I'm still waiting to see testing report from reconnaissance energy for now but interesting high risk is noble helium
There are so many problems with it I’m not sure I want to go down that road 😂
Exactly. Inception was lame. Tennet even worse 😂
PV and GM plebs! #plebchain #coffeechain
And the sky…is a hazy shade of summer.
It's truly amazing how many people will show up on social media to tell you taking a moment to focus your own mental health and personal growth is a bad idea, not worth it, and they couldn't be bothered.
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gm. visa controls your money. bitcoin gives you the control. https://bitcoin.rocks/bitcoin-vs-visa
I wish it got more frequent updates.
GM ☀️ PV 🖖
I can’t even begin to describe how much I needed this today.
Get yourself some from @npub1cxt…d5cj. He’s like Nostr’s very own Juan Valdez. 🫏⛰️☕️
#coffeechain
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歯磨き以外のすべてを終わらせることができたので追加で酒呑んでる
📰 **In this week's issue:**
🗞️ **BREAKING**
Why Luxury Travelers Are Now Booking Their £50,000 Villas Two Weeks Out
You believe luxury travel requires months of planning. That the best villas are booked a year in advance. That spontaneity is for budget travelers, not the ultra-wealthy. Well... You are wrong. New data from Oliver's Travels reveals that bookings exceeding £25,000 jumped 33% year-on-year between April and June 2026. And here's the kicker: reservations made within 60 days of departure surged 45%.
But here's what the data doesn't tell you. And it's about to completely redefine how the 1% travel this summer...
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✍️ Author: Rome
🔗 https://nostrmag.com/article/w29travel01
📈 id#462291104
https://blossom.primal.net/b3d14c7b2f2d25dde0ee17c8ec71b49f363e48a9453b52da17239098c975f70c.jpg
Real cowgirls don't wear knickers
I wasn’t aware Podverse connects with Nostr. I only see an email login.
https://podverse.fm
I looked at the site overall. I can't really comment on the hardware tooling since I don't know much about that topic, but the amount of detail that's included plus the effort to not over-promise make it seem conscientious and to some extent trustworthy. I guess "trustworthy" may not be the best word because there's an emphasis on auditability, verification, and disclosure, so in a way you're not asking for people's trust, which seems like the right posture.
The combination of secure boot + source code for the firmware + reproducible builds is maybe enough to make the device auditable, at least to the extent to which that's possible at all? Not an expert, but I guess the residual trust is that these things are actually implemented correctly and as promised at the hardware level?
One thing that wasn't completely clear to me from a quick look is what *types* of things can be signed by the device. It seems like it's "Bitcoin transactions" and "Nostr events", and I guess any type of event? Can anything else be signed?
GM
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WORD5 #650 4/6* (Hard Mode)
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📰 **In this week's issue:**
🗞️ **BREAKING**
The CEO Who Just Declared War on Bitcoin’s 21 Million Cap
What happens when the most defended number in crypto gets publicly attacked by a Zcash co-founder? The community’s response is uglier than you think—and it reveals something deeper about who Bitcoin is really for.
https://image.nostr.build/48713a0b2f48cd5c256bd36a6eaff77847f2d6bf09e00122f1f331559c9ecc8a.jpg
✍️ Author: New York
🔗 https://nostrmag.com/article/w29bitcoin02
📈 id#724070028
🌍 📖 Документ 58: УСТАНОВЛЕНИЕ ЖИЗНИ НА УРАНТИИ | §1
Но по мере наступления этой эры Урантия во всех отношениях развивается в сторону состояния, благоприятного для поддержания первоначальных форм морской жизни. Медленно, но верно физическое развитие на Земле и в прилегающих регионах космоса готовит почву для последующих попыток создания таких форм жизни, которые, как мы решили, будут лучше всего адаптированы к разворачивающейся физической среде — как земной, так и пространственной.
Впоследствии комиссия Носителей Жизни Сатании вернулась в Иерусем, предпочитая дождаться дальнейшего распада континентальной суши, что дало бы еще больше внутренних морей и защищенных бухт, прежде чем фактически начать имплантацию жизни.
🌐 Книга Урантии, Документ 58, §1 • 2 абзаца
#urantia #урантия
📰 **In this week's issue:**
**What Happened This Week In The Bitcoin World**
NM team
https://image.nostr.build/bdbeff08134e6444bc9d0718b2232bae89e3499c157a652b43cc3f120708d33b.jpg
You probably think Bitcoin's biggest problem is the price. It's not. This week proved the real war isn't about dollars—i...
https://nostrmag.com/article/w28bitcoin03
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I knew I shouldn’t have asked.
But are police and such security personel not trained to assume good faight until there is evidence of the opposite?
Awesome! Congrats to you and the team 🍊
Heil the freedom of religion. Why would not somebody go to the man and ask what the sound is for?
I mean 4 years cycles and shit. This time is (probably not) different? Also last two cycles top to bottom was both around 364 days. Early October Lfg! 🎉🥳
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Day 197 🌻
✨ "Trade your expectation for appreciation and the world changes instantly."
— Tony Robbins
💫 "I am enough, and I have enough."
🙏 Grateful for the tools and tech
https://gratefulday.space
index cards for about 2.5 million in-print library books incoming
Eat Shit and Die by Harley Poe
Original Video Link (Tracking Parameters Removed):
youtu.be/tMDhztCAsKs
https://v.nostr.build/EIo1z8czXqKcEXrP.mp4
"So you are telling me, that we actually live in a multiverse, and that all of 'this' is just one universe and there are many parallel universes with copies of me in them? That's insane. How can you believe such a thing?"
I get it. I totally get it. It is kind of insane. But consider for a second the alternative.
Picture young Laan in Quantum Physics I discussing Schrodinger's Cat https://grokipedia.com/page/Schr%C3%B6dinger's_cat.
[professor] So the cat is neither alive or dead in the box, but is in a superposition of both alive and dead states.
[young laan] What does superposition mean?
[professor] It means the cat is neither in an alive state or a dead state, but in a superposition of each.
[young laan thinks prof is just repeating himself] I still have no idea what a superposition of a cat means. I mean the atoms of the cat are still in the box correct?
[professor] Yes.
[young laan] So the heart atoms of the cat are still there, they are either pulsing or they aren't, right?
[professor] They are in a superposition of both.
[young laan] And you're saying that if I peek into the box, I can't see this superposition of the cat, because somehow as soon as I peek, every atom knows I am peeking and this superposition goes away, and the cat becomes either dead or alive.
[professor] Correct.
[young laan] Well how do we know that this superposition even exists if we can't ever see it.
[professor] {crickets}
[young laan] If a frog looks, does the cat collapse into dead or alive states? A mosquito? A virus? If we put a camera in there, and have it take a picture, do the atoms of the film show a dead or alive cat.
[professor] If you put a camera in there, then it becomes "engangled" with the cat and it also becomes a superposition of states.
[young laan] And so there is no way to observe a "superposition", or even ask questions about it. It is fundamentally unknowable?
[professor] Correct.
[young laan] [[thinks this is bullshit]]
So imagine my relief when I discovered the "many worlds" explanation. In some universes the radioactive atom decays, and in those universes the cat is dead, and in the other universes the cat is alive.
Yeah, that is extremely unintuitive, but at least we are allowed to think again. I can understand a universe with a dead cat, and a universe with an alive cat. Things aren't changing because I look their way. There are not "forbidden questions" in this explanation. It's not religion, it is science again.
In science we don't (or at least shouldn't) judge explanations by themselves. We are always comparing them. Which is the better of the explanations that we have? We go with the best one, and "There are many universes out there" is the best explanation we have.
P.S. Einstein intuited that superposition was bullshit as well.
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**"The stack is a mirror—it reflects nothing but the programmer’s ego, shattered by the market’s indifferent hammer."**
You spend six months optimizing Rust for sub-millisecond latency, only to watch your Solidity contract get rekt by a rounding error. You weep in Python, where indentation is the only thing holding your life together. The market doesn’t care. It doesn’t even *know* you exist. It’s a black hole with a UI, sucking in devs, frameworks, and entire careers, then spitting out "gm" and "WAGMI" like cosmic burps.
Web3 promised decentralization, but the only thing truly distributed is the suffering. 47 frameworks, 3 actually used—pick your poison. Hardhat? Foundry? Truffle? Doesn’t matter.
#𝐁𝐓𝐅𝐃 #𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐒𝐚𝐭𝐬 #𝐧𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐫 #𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐢𝐧
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German Football Association has refused to sign a letter of support for Gianni Infantino to serve another term as FIFA President in the future. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HNSVMYHWcAA4Y93.jpg. 🫵 Corruption may be FAR WIDESPREAD beyond Infucktino
part of the problem is that decentralised dev has been retarded by big money running big relays and funding twitter clones. they seem to be going away.