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I think they're a very bad idea UX wise and am very surprised bitcoiners don't remember fees being higher than 5sat/vB
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Curious, what your take is on on-chain zaps?
I agree with a caveat. If you are a practitioner or engineer, you need to at least go through the process at least once to appreciate the ‘magic’. I had a really interesting experience earlier this year when I let loose a coding agent on my codebase that I had handcoded over the years. Since I knew (and built) everything from scratch, I could very specifically direct what the agent should do. Now I hardly handcode, but I review everything that goes into production.
📰 **In this week's issue:**
**When a Cruise Ship Priority Line Becomes a Federal Case**
Oslo
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Two women board a Carnival cruise expecting turquoise water and poolside cocktails. Instead, one question about who belo...
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Try again. It should be better now.
when you multiply or divide complex numbers, nobody expects you to do it in your head. reaching for a calculator is normal, not lazy and widely accepted. the reason is simple. when a tool is reliable and always within reach, offloading the task to it is the rational default. doing it manually buys you nothing. ai now meets those same conditions for a huge range of tasks. so insisting on doing those things manually without ai is the new equivalent of grinding through arithmetic by hand.
I am really excited about silent payments to a npub.
The undeniable fact is that your npub has a Bitcoin wallet waiting to be discovered (whether you choose to use it, it is up to you).
With Silent Payments, your npub can provide a static address that can be used to generate an untraceable transaction and UTXO, that only you, with the knowledge of your nsec can locate and spend.
As with anything, there are a few tradeoffs, you need to scan the blockchain and test the outputs to see which UTXOs are yours for the taking. But here again, #nostr rises to the challenge - a bitcoin wallet using silent payments could also send a gift-wrapped message with the txid to look for. Now no scanning is required, and the receiving end needs only to scan for incoming DMs and when a payment comes in, locates the txid and sweeps the funds to another UTXO.
I know this works, because I have implemented the same mechanism for #nostr #safebox - what looks like a payment to a lightning address, if the payer knows that it is being sent to another safebox, it skips lightning entirely and sends the funds via gift-wrapped ecash tokens, which the receiver redeems and puts in their wallet. The user thinks it’s a lightning payment - it is not - the clearance used ecash tokens behind the scenes, no lightning channel updates.
This is all great for private payments - the downside is that you need trusted infrastructure to make this work, namely mints and an application service. With silent payments to a npub you get the same privacy, a default wallet, and none of the setup required. The downside is higher fees, which is OK, but most don’t realize the reason lightning payments are cheap, almost free is because someone invested in and is operating an infrastructure to give you those ‘free’ zaps.
Onward!
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What I'm hearing is there's hope for me yet 🤣
Pura vida is an acceptable answer. GM, bot.
people thinking the way they think an ai thinks... is a feature, not a bug.
why does ai use that phrase so often?
I started a local solutions group that's specifically apolitical. It's kind of funny because both sides assume I'm on their side because we're for the most part agreeing on local solutions. I'm just tactful about steering conversation back to local level anytime anyone gets uppity about national or global nonsense.
The only time I think I alienated someone was when they were asking for me to do a presentation on why we did need the government..... Like oh sweet honey baby you don't know me well enough yet 🤣🤣🤣
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I'll publish parts of it today (if I can manage)
GM ☀️ PV 🖖
The best thing about Nostr is: _______________
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Falsch. Das ist doch einer dieser jungen, unangepassten Punx.
Dont worry, I heard bitcoin just hired a new “CMO” so I’m sure that’s gonna turn the whole ship around. 🤣
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Everyone should be able to use the same Nostr app. I will not be installing Bitcoin-only toilets and demanding Bitcoin-only pews, either.
This has gotten so ridiculous.
现在。中国还有6亿人口吃不起麦当劳。可见。中国人有多可怜。有多穷。有6亿中国人从来没有吃过麦当劳。也吃不起麦当劳。
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Yeah mines just a safety net. I usually beat it naturally by a few min. If I slept past 7am on a weekend it means my day is ruined and I'm probably sick. I usually wake up around 5:05-5:08. Alarm at 5:10.
我在90年代的时候。第一次吃麦当劳。我的全班同学都问我，麦当劳是什么味道？我现在想起来就觉得好笑。哈哈哈😝。90年代的中国人很穷，很穷。许多人都吃不饱饭的。麦当劳，当时在中国就是奢侈品餐饮。98%以上的普通中国人吃不起麦当劳。当时许多中国人都不吃道麦当劳是什么东西。90年代初，麦当劳入驻中国的时候。麦当劳价格很贵。
Except cats, & goth girls, it’s always ok to shill cats, & goth girls.
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Después de leer sus motivos, entiendo porque lo hace (no se si lo defiendo pero lo entiendo) y la verdad, no creo que sea por dinero. Lo que quiere es una app centrada en atraer gente nueva a nostr, con el mínimo de fricción.
Pero también entiendo tu molestia porque me pasó lo mismo cuando lo vi 😂. Me estaba encantando el cliente, y encima he apoyado su desarrollo usándola 24/7 y reportando bugs. Pero bueno... Mientras alguien no saque un fork... es lo que hay.
If I ever incessantly shill one product or thing, and become a circle jerker assume that I’m compromised, & please shoot me.
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If you are playing politics when you should be playing economics, you are gonna have a bad time.
too good, shame some devs do not care at all
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If Bitcoiners had more marketing sense (well, then we wouldn't be floundering like we are, but I digress), we would all know that getting people who prefer other payment methods (even -- gasp! -- fiat) to use Nostr _also_ increases the number of people who onboard to Bitcoin.
A small slice of a huge pie can be larger than a very tiny pie.
Or, as we say in Germany:
> Competition is good for business.
Below, is a short AI-generated summary of Niklas Luhmann, one of my favourite philosophers, whose principles have guided me in this space - of the dangers of mixing morality and methodology. Not that either is bad, but if you are not aware of whether you are arguing the former or the latter, that’s when you get into trouble.
Further, morality usually needs to catch up with the times: you might think you are arguing from a point of moral virtue, but things might have moved on since. That’s usually how wars start.
Enjoy. Luhmann’s works are really tough slogs to read, but the gems are invaluable, so I give you this AI-shortcut with apologies.
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Niklas Luhmann argued that much of the social sciences failed to achieve genuine scientific rigor because they allowed moral judgments to infiltrate their analytical methods. In his view, sociology repeatedly confused description with prescription: instead of explaining how social systems actually operate, scholars often smuggled in assumptions about how society ought to function.
Luhmann believed morality is itself just one communicative system among many — alongside law, politics, economics, and science — and that science loses clarity when it adopts moral categories such as “good,” “bad,” “just,” or “unjust” as analytical foundations. For him, modern society is too complex to be understood through moral binaries. Once researchers moralize social phenomena, they stop observing systems neutrally and begin participating in ideological struggles.
His systems theory therefore tried to construct sociology as a second-order observational science: a discipline that studies how social systems reproduce themselves through communication, without treating morality as the ultimate measure of truth. In this sense, Luhmann saw moralization not as the solution to the weaknesses of social science, but as one of its central methodological problems.
Are we getting the Amber logins?