I'm a professor of electronics and computer engineering at the University of Brasília, currently pivoting my skill set to the bitcoin space.
#introductions
Discussion
Cool, welcome
Start maybe by getting yourself a lightning address and then configuring it with your nostr client. Start getting bitcoin over nostr. 🤯
Yeah, thanks. I'm figuring out how to make it.
Bem-vindo 👋
Welcome!
Thanks, nostr:npub1h50pnxqw9jg7dhr906fvy4mze2yzawf895jhnc3p7qmljdugm6gsrurqev Trying to find my way here.
Cool! what area of ece are you in and which aspect of bitcoin do you study? Energy, cryptography, network etc?
I'm from the field of embedded systems originally but have been working on functional programming and models of computation more recently. About bitcoin, I'm still digging the internals of the protocol before focusing on an specific subfield. Also, I'm attending chaincode labs FOSS program in the hope to accelerate my learning.
Well-the-fuck-come my dude 🤙
Bitcoins are cryptographically brilliant but economically illiterate.
Fiat "money" treats an "IOU nothing" as having real value, and Bitcoin does exactly the same. Bitcoin strictly limits the number of "nothings" that can be issued, but this does not give them value.
I tend to not agree as bitcoin is based on real physical processes to be issued.
That's the constraint on supply that I mentioned. Bitcoin is economically illiterate because of the demand side, not the supply side. There is no non-speculative demand for these ledger entries, because they are only ledger entries.
A thought experiment: if Satoshi promised to pay 1 troy ounce of gold for each Bitcoin, and people believed him, probably they would trade at about 1 troy ounce of gold. If it was suddenly discovered that Satoshi was bankrupt and could never pay, the price would plummet, probably to zero. But notice that we are in exactly that situation, where Bitcoins are ledger entries that can't be redeemed for anything.
Welcome to the decentralized social future 💜🤙🏻🫂
I just learnt about it, trying find my way on it.
bitcoin é para todos.
Welcome 🤙
Sounds like the #bitcoin space is lucky to have you! Welcome home 🫂
👋 You’re welcome to #followme and my following list if you are interested in #Bitcoin, #Nostr, Bitcoin merch, and random jokes and fun in between. A few of the people I follow could care less about posting Bitcoin stuff so check those out too! The more people you follow the better 👍
Another thing some people do is list down some of the things they are interested in, then maybe you can get some suggestions on hashtags or people to follow. Can find a lot of interesting stuff that way.
This is a great source to get you started if you have questions about parts of the Nostr process. If you are not a fan, DON’T GIVE UP. At least try a different Client first. What client/clients are you currently using? Some popular ones I see that people use a lot are Amethyst, Damus, Primal, and Nostur. It’s important to try and keep this alive and moving forward. Join us!
https://nostr.how/en/what-is-nostr
And if you ARE here for the Bitcoin and everything related, check out our Bitcoin branch of our online store. 👇
https://www.etsy.com/shop/LocalCormerStore?ref=dashboard-header§ion_id=42964593