I hope so! They don't do great in drawers, I've discovered
Nice! Reading the pointers took me a bit of getting used to again, but it's a bit like riding a bike :)
How is Zeus "tied" to LNTipBot other than being compatible with the same protocol?
Early morning bath thoughts. So, I recently got a new Citizen watch, since my last one was nearly 10 years old, was starting to lag, and had too many features, making it a pain to set. I also hardly wore it, because it was so bulky.
I like the Citizen brand because they make a quality watch with some nice features and they're still reasonably-priced, unlike luxury brands. They're good, sensible watches that last a long time.
We had a conversation at a local Bitcoin & Beers about watches, and I suppose I was growing self-conscious that I no longer wore one. I've been meaning to get a new one for a while now, and had done a lot of research over the years. Besides, they're useful, so I can avoid keeping my phone out, and looking at one's watch can be a valuable social cue.
I opted for one called "Garrison", if anyone's curious. The phosphor paint is in the shape of numbers, and it has both the day of the week and the day of the month. Best of all, it's made of titanium, so it's really lightweight. I used to have to remove my old watch whenever I went to use a keyboard. Last night I fell asleep with my new watch on, because I was so tired, by the time I realized I was still wearing it, I was too sleepy to take it off.
It doesn't set itself like my old one did, it was a bulky Citizen World Time Chronograph, but "atomic timekeeping" was a complicated feature anyway.
The new one has also got a sapphire crystal, so that combined with the new titanium construction and the fact that it's solar powered-- so the battery never needs to be replaced, potentially compromising the watertight seal-- it should last me a very long time.
I've had for three weeks now and I can highly recommend it.
This got me thinking, though; they also sell diving watches. I have no interest in diving, I'll leave that to people whole live closer to the ocean and who actually care about such things. But it had me thinking, the phosphor paint doesn't really last that long in my experience (or maybe it's just because it's winter at a higher latitude), and I can't imagine it being useful for very long. I would worry it would run out and the diver would lose track of time. They're rated for pretty deep, too, 600-3000 ft. Mine is "only" rated for 300ft, so I certainly don't worry about wearing it while taking a shower. Anyway, I'm not sure how useful diving watches actually are. If I had to guess, the primary demographic is "people who romanticize nautical life", like, they think "I like diving!" And then they make an aspirational purchase. Or maybe it's a gift from their spouse or something. "They went diving once! They'll love this!" Consumerism is weird...
Also, I think I'm done with Apple watches, they're too pricey and complicated, and just seem... Well, they're just not my style anymore. I feel my phone compromises my privacy enough, I don't need my watch doing that, too. Besides, the older I get, the more I've come to value simplicity and permanence. Always keeping up with the newest model like I used to just seems tacky and wasteful now. I haven't bought a new phone in nearly 4 years, I have the 2019 model, and it still works great. I haven't bought a new laptop in nearly 5 years, either. I'd rather save the money and buy more Bitcoin. And the more coin I have, the less I care about the price these days. For one, it's been nice simplifying what I keep my money in, I only check one price now, BTC/USD. But I don't need that on my watch. I do kind of miss having the weather and temperature, but I could just go outside to get a sense for that!
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They're used to having to wait for a block to get mined. They're not thinking with layers.
Zaps are broken. There is a vulnerability/bug (depending on how you see it) where you could show off on social media that you zapped someone but you could just pay yourself.
Here’s how to reproduce it:
When you click zap, an invoice is fetched from a URL that looks like this
- https://stacker.news/api/lnurlp/02fbae2cc5/pay?SOMECRAP
- Replace 02fbae2cc5 with your own user ID and fetch the invoice and pay it, so you pay yourself. Check the post you’re trying to Zap, it will get updated saying you zapped them. LOL
https://snort.social/e/note1sxedhg4r6tyjamdtr7txzxda5e24tkfxh9amgxs5cpccw3e0v9vs36vfxq
This is an example post, Only one of my zap is real, 2 more I just paid myself.
#[0] found this out.
Zap count is less interesting to me as a creator than the concept of reducing the friction to tipping someone for their specific contributions. I mean, duh, the number can be faked, this should be obvious, communicated, and not relied upon, but that's also missing the V4V forest for the trees.
I don't see how it could be solved without introducing deanonymization / KYC; a new npub could be generated for the spoofing, after all.
lol! The things we do for cats...
This worked for me! I didn't know about filter.nostr.wine before, thank you for the suggestion!
Check my relays, just culled a few poor performers. Damus has really good support for adding relays from profiles, and it recently added a feature to track paid relays. Also, nostrgram.co has very useful recommendations for paid relays. Here are some that I signed up for:
wss://bitcoiner.social
wss://relay.nostr.com.au
wss://nostr.plebchain.org
wss://relay.nostrich.land
wss://atlas.nostr.land
wss://nostr.gives.africa
wss://nostr.ownscale.org
wss://nostr.howtobitcoin.shop
wss://relay.nostrati.com
wss://nostr.inosta.cc
wss://nostr.naut.social
wss://nostr.wine
wss://nostr.decentony.com
wss://puravida.nostr.land
Be sure to block and report. It doesn't do a lot, but at least it'll cut down on his chatter.
This is spam.
I have one setup, was that you who zapped me 100 sats? :3
Looks like the first way, @, is enough to quote notes. I learn new things about Nostr all the time. I think it's ready.
Fair points... This addresses most of what I would think to say to this:
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#note1h7jrexg8rr0m03dwpcrt8q4xwazx4sfgjak3ds7d8dkskp6g9xaq8pek22
note1h7jrexg8rr0m03dwpcrt8q4xwazx4sfgjak3ds7d8dkskp6g9xaq8pek22
Heck, I'm not sure how to quote notes. Gonna try a couple ways.
Even if it was a mistake in the algo, or they're having infrastructure issues of some kind that might result in your disjointed experience, they have lost trust by nearly all their users, and any little thing sticks out as some possible shenanigans.
Nostr fixes this. No risk of single operator failure, and it's censorship resistant. I find myself using Nostr more and more these days as a result.
I'm a Bitcoin maxi because of things like Ordinals, RGB, Lightning, and Fedimint.
All forms of money will eventually settle into Bitcoin, because the incentive is there to build everything else on it.
But if it has its own fee token, it's not Bitcoin, and so it is a distraction.
And we haven't even scratched the surface of how much scaling can take place with layers, in both transaction volume and additional functionality.
Oh, did I say NIST curve? My bad, I meant NSA curve... *cough* #[4]
Satoshi curve > Google curve > NIST curve
(secp256k1 > ed25519 > p521, et al)
