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Seems I'm doing it wrong right now 😂
Nothing else has worked in the past 10 years, so maybe there isn't anything better than 2014 tech.
Yep. I read your stuff before as well and I agree with most of it.
The difference between our points is that I am not trying to make a public chain private.
And after trying to use and in some cases even help develop all the "private" stuff out there, I ended up realizing it's all just smoke and mirrors.
You guys are saying onchain is retarded. Well for us, everything is retarded. We are just picking the least retarded stack for our specific use case.
Yes. We can try to make anything besides sender, receiver and amount private if we can. But those three are public and thus traceable by definition.
I agree lots of things are bad now. But that's why we have smart folks like all of you working on freedom tech, and everyone is learning and moving quickly!
What do you mean by "not trying to fool users into thinking that zaps can ever be private"
(My question isn't about whether zaps are on or off the chain; it's a general question about "zaps")
Essentially by definition, a zap is a public announcement that A has sent X sats to B
Maybe you're saying something like this: "Given the constraint that the above announcement will be public, we want to optimize everything else (privacy, ease of use [especially for noobs], ...)"
I don't disagree. Our point has been that everything is bad. It's all just smoke and mirrors out there. We are just trying to pick the least bad while not trying fool users into thinking that zaps can ever be private.
As the "Bitcoin is Time" guy I'm all for a reliable source of time, but I'm very much against strongly tying identity to onchain transactions irreversibly.
I trust that you've read my lengthy argument against and that you will end up doing the right thing. https://dergigi.com/2026/05/20/careful-icarus/
Nothing like an Ad Hominem to prove we are in the right path. GM.
#nevent1q…4sfg
"Poor judgment" can only be assigned to humans, even with today's AI.
Don't worry. I still like you.
Yep, the interesting point is that now we can easily analyze balance and not just zap flow in web of trust systems.
Maybe it can even help with key rotation schemes since now we have a reliable source of time.
Fidelity bonds have existed for a long time, and can be useful to show "seriousness". Has nothing to do with humanness of course, since bots can have bitcoin too. https://jamdocs.org/glossary/#f
I asked ChatGPT to summarize my essay and it came back with this image #nevent1q…v58w
I'm glad it was useful! 🫂
Like, seriously. https://blossom.primal.net/2bc501aed53a751d13bf85236ffb1ae9ead795c922a1620cda1721d515386ba3.png
https://blossom.primal.net/955d4730c5f00fe88768af35e1974c3186e9e029d42ae175bcb8f94bb06b54d7.jpg
One of the more strenuous hikes of my hiking career. https://dergigi.com/assets/images/bitcoin/2026-05-20-careful-icarus/mt-stupid.png
I implemented 3 versions by now. I don't think it adds much to our use case.
I wonder if the best route is to live in fear of things that might happen and not try new things, or to move forward and find ways to solve these problems? Boltz to lightning, peg in to liquid, Nostr based mixers like @nprofile…ye3s could break the chain.
GN https://dergigi.com/assets/images/on-chain-zaps.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/Q7WmP.jpg
So, that is what people do when they take a break from Nostr... interesting... :)
I suck 😆 https://haven.dergigi.com/8827a49a6e37eee0a836a59ab75431aede83c076833827e720ae4b660ac3540f.jpg
Now it is.
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Ignoring... https://haven.dergigi.com/b2de19c2510197471c5e464be7a6d7fdeb0a6c6720d1459efb4504e343000d09.gif
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
https://dergigi.com/2026/05/20/careful-icarus/
Same problem, you go offline for n days, you have to scan n days.
The innovation of SP is precisely that it's NON-INTERACTIVE and the naive idea here is "hey let's just make it interactive so we won't have to scan the whole chain".
There are better ways of doing interactive SP's but it's so retarded to even consider on-chain zaps that I won't look up the BIP for it.
If your phone and network connection are fast enough, yes.
Gooood morning nostr 🌞
https://www.oshigood.us/recipes/the-forked-frittata
https://video.nostr.build/bef0efa2e43b96c72e49510e2b1a29aa024fccd50cc9b3ded1a28a2761d12f96.mp4
Upper Body Functional Strength Training
Block 1: Overhead extension, Upright row, Neutral grip chest press, Push up
AMRAP: Wide grip chest press, Wide grip overhead press, Bicep Curl
AMRAP: Overhead Press, Diamond Push up
Low impact indoor cycling
#proofofwatts
#365days
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https://i.nostr.build/QPJCVaNJlV3GvxrO.jpg
Eat the slop until you're tired of throwing up & slowly move towards fine dining from that point on.
Boomers need care & have money. They are just hitting retirement & AI cant change adult diapers
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