What it's like using nostr just reacting and not posting replies
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Ha!
Yes! Everyone has something to share. Let’s grow together 🤝
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I'll take any sign of life at this stage.
True lol. The meme is basically me when I was on twitter most days. And sometimes here too.
I always feel a tiny bit strange when reading a long exchange between two people and going through reacting along the way as I read.
Probably actually true story
I have absolutely no idea
You do more replying than reacting? Thats good. I made an effort early on and now it doesn't feel so strange to chime in more
I noticed you did this and I was happy about it 😎
Always have the urge to write this, so guess now is a good time as any.
Your pfp makes me think of Pete Sampras' smarter brother lol
LOL I can see that. Now that I'm looking at him he does sorta look like a close cousin hahaha
CHIMING IN! I do it in real life too and it usually leads to new frens. People need to talk to strangers. Talk to fuckin' strangers!
Yea agreed, the entire point of posting on an open social protocol is that other people will see it and potentially reply. If we wanted to be fully isolated, we'd write in a diary. If we wanted to have a private conversation, we'd use a private messenger.
If people don't chime in on nostr, it defeats the whole purpose!
Need more chimers
I do this sometimes. My friends ask me after if I actually knew that guy and I just say never seen him before in my life 😂
This is the way.
Zap test on this note… we made seven attempts to⚡zap this note, using your lightning address starting with "johnlaw", over a period of 31 minutes. All seven attempts were successful. You should check on your end to be sure you received these. Average zap time was 4293ms (4.3 seconds). We consider this zap time slow... generally, zaps should complete in under two seconds. (Other Nostr users might think your zaps are broken, might not zap you again.) We recommend you receive zaps with a well-connected, cloud-based Lightning node to reduce inbound zap latency.
Same
So just zapping is bad?
Haha no. It has its place imo, obviously better than just a like. Was more just joking about how I feel sometimes surfing the app liking things here and there, but not actually really contributing. I'm more of a group chat guy, but nostr is small enough rn that I interact more
I see you wanna learn more about sha256 and ECDSA etc (your bio). Me too! Are you versed in the cryptographic arts?
Not at all, but they seem fundamental to all of this. The cryptography is where I struggle to explain Bitcoin to friends. Youtube can only take me so far. I need to just buy a textbook and spend a weekend.
Ah, I see. I actually have no idea how sha256 works, but have this idea that it's super complicated and dry. May need to look into it more soon.
ECDSA on the other hand is pretty interesting. No expert by a long shot, but been learning recently. Always down to talk more on that stuff. Looking to better understand ring signatures at moment, and some peripheral related things.
What resources have you found to be most helpful?
Jimmy songs book does a great job on this, and much more other technical bitcoin stuff (pretty much all the low level components of how it runs are covered, and coded).
For more general and advanced underlying concepts, I really like the Moonmath Manual (free online), but it may go more into the math theory than most care for.
The rest is kind of scattered. I found a write up by waxwing called something like "02bpfs" (from zero to bulletproofs) really good, and full of references to more resources. It's a little advanced though, and I still need to read it again (never finished it completely in first place when I realized I should go back and reread; on my todo). But it's the direction I want to master more.
More recs would just be me listing things I have no business recommending at this stage. Hope that helps. TLDR, for the basic btc-specific understanding jimmy song best imo