I got a kick out of this article: https://cryptopotato.com/very-curious-bitcoin-price-correlation-with-an-unexpected-fruit-markets/ and wrote this today: https://stacker.news/items/326451
#bitcoin
Activity: Spent the entire morning, ahem, "coding".
Lesson learnt: It's hard to code when you really don't have any coding skills.
#coding is hard, and frustrating
Milei won in Argentina for this reason:
#inflation #economics #bitcoin
This captcha had me puzzled for a minute.
It asked that I "click on all images containing the largest animal in real life."
I wondered, "Largest compared to what?" That hummingbird is larger than the bee. That crab might be bigger than the hummingbird. Or, is it a spider? And there's another crab, but it looks like a fiddler crab, which is smaller than a hummingbird. The tortoise is big, but it's not as big as a lot of other animals in real life.
Finally, I saw the prompt pictured a turtle. So, basically, they were saying, "Click all turtles."
Guess I was overthinking things. #coffeechain
"The Hodl Song"
https://peakd.com/crypto/@crrdlx/the-hodl-song
Best when sung with friends in a pub (after you've been there a while!). #hodl #bitcoin
Nostr Assets - trying to wrap my head around this
This post may read as a bit ignorant, but that's okay. When I'm stumped and figuring things out, I write. The writing (a) helps organize my thinking, (b) allows for anyone reading to clarify, and (c) may help any other fellow ignoramuses.
Today I saw an article about "Nostr Assets": https://www.cryptopolitan.com/nostr-assets-halts-deposits-surgingactivity/
The "Nostr" part is what caught my attention. The blurb above and subsequent tldr; in the article confused me, though. Some terms and phrases in particular threw me off:
- "Nostr Assets", huh?
- "on the Lightning Network"
- suspension of deposits
- suspended a third time this month
- unprecedented surge
- immediate maintenance
- "Fair Mint" launch
- "previous airdrop"
Okay, wait, I have questions. In no particular order...
1. What's this suspension business? And immediate maintenance? Nostr has been working fine.
2. Suspension deposits? You don't need to deposit anything to use Nostr.
3. And "on the Lightning Network", what's that? Nostr is a separate beast from Bitcoin. They love each other, but they're two separate systems.
4. What is this "Nostr Assets" anyway? It must not be Nostr, the protocol.
5. And what in the world is this talk of "Fair Mint" and airdop.
Let's dig.
Quickly, I started to think there must be some type of confusion on my part regarding wording and naming. "Nostr Assets" must be something other than Nostr. A search led to https://doc.nostrassets.com/ which seems "official" for Nostr Assets, as best I can tell. That page sorta helps me, also rather confuses me further. What I conclude, using my chipmunk brain, is:
a. Nostr Asset Protocol (NAP) is a different critter than the Nostr protocol (Nostr).
b. NAP uses Bitcoin Taproot tech. NAP/Taproot essentially bridges between Nostr and Bitcoin to allow for deeper functionality. No change or fork is needed, yet, more things can be done with Nostr using NAP. As I understand, this is very similar to Bitcoin Ordinals (which also use Taproot to do what they do).
The Nostr Assets Protocol Medium has more info: https://nostrassets.medium.com/
Back to the original article that I saw, the parts about "Fair Mint" and "airdrop" were/are a bit worrisome. First, when I read someone pushing "fair", a red flag pops up in my head that says, "I want someone else to do more so I can get more, that's fair." That aside, I have heard of things like a, "Fair launch" of tokens. Generally, this means things like: it's announced up front, anyone can participate, there is no stupid pre-mine, there is no percent reserved for founders, emission is hard-coded and transparent, tokens are distributed based on something like...work.
What's more, I wondered, "There is no Nostr token, what launch are were talking about here?" I still don't know the answer to that question. But, it seems that the NAP somehow allows for token creation, somewhere. Again, this sounds to like Ordinals, like BRC-20 tokens. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's what I see.
Regarding "airdrop", again, my red flag jumps up in alert. I've never heard of an airdrop with Nostr. My "seems scammy" hairs on the back of my neck tingled. Airdrops usually come after a great big pre-mine minting of some coin. Combined with the idea of "deposits" being suspended, it sounds very questionable.
I guess, I'm mixed on reading this. I like innovation and increased abilities sound like a good thing to me. But, parts of this sound incredibly questionable.
If anyone can add insight in comments to help me try to figure this out, I'd be interested to learn.
#nostr #grownostr #plebchain #bitcoin #taproot
Let's throw Throwback Thursday back to Wednesday.
Recently, I was in a public school sitting and waiting. Whilst waiting, my eyes meandered sideways and saw a bitcoin-orange book laying there titled "research colleges on the world wide web." Okay, I'm intrigued. Is my favorite college listed there in the world wide web research book?
I thumbed it open a few pages and immediately got flashbacked backed to the 1990s via a screenshot of Netscape Navigator.
Why this book was laying there, on a desk in 2023...well...I have no explanation.
"researching colleges on the world wide web" book cover.
Copyright page.
"How old was this thing?" I wondered. I checked the publication year: 1997 with images from 1996. I thought to myself, "This is going to be classic!" and turned to the first page of text, below:
Evidently, in 1997, the World Wide Web (capitalized) "brings together all the material available on the Internet--graphics, sound moving images, and text--on one "page" or Web document." Holy smokes! Why can't we have all of the Internet on one page today?!!!
The next page or two had images of Netscape Navigator and I chuckled at the naked simplicity of the UI (which I deeply respect). So sweet were the days, so naive and innocent was the Eden of the nascent Internet.
Then things started to get a little weird...
I started to read the text that was screen-captured in the Netscape Navigator image. It was a brief history of the Internet (an Internet *history* written in 1996, nice). The two sentences highlighted below succinctly described the problem with centralized systems with a single point of failure versus a decentralized, rather, a distributed, system which had no single point of failure. Umm, wow. Sure this was written in 1996 or 97?
If one point in the network was blown up, the whole network would become useless. Paul Baran, one of the Rand thinkers on the project, conceived the idea for a new kind of communications network, one that wasn't organized point-to-point, but instead was set up more like a fishnet.
Still half chuckling on the next page, I guffawed at the arrows pointing out things like "Back button" pointing the button labeled "Back" and "Forward button" pointing to the button labeled "Forward button" and "Location bar" pointing...well...you get it.
Yet again, I paused to read what was frozen in the screenshot.
Zoomed in:
Netscape will bundle Cybercash's CyberCoin into Netscape LivePayment and future Netscape products. The new technology will broaden payment options for Internet consumers.
Wow. That sounds a lot like bitcoin and cryptocurrency to me. And that was written over 20 years before Satoshi dropped the whitepaper. I'm sure it didn't work anything like bitcoin, and I'm sure it must have been built on the rails of legacy finance, but, wow.
CyberCash was new to me, so I looked it up...CyberCash on CNET: https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/cybercash-opens-net-to-small-change/ It was trying to handle small payments, down to 25 cents, over the 'net. Bitcoin Lightning fans would be proud.
I can't help but wonder, "Why was that book there after all this time?" I still don't know. But, a word does come to mind and I'm eager to find out more to this story...
Serendipity.
#bitcoin #lightning #plebchain
It's hard enough nowadays to decipher what's real and what's not. There's fakes, and deep fakes, and fake news. Evidently, we're now parsing out "fake news" into sub-categories. Now we have...
genuine fake news
...which, I assume, differs from disingenuous fake news. Or, maybe, from fake news that is fake fake news.
If you're keeping score, we have:
1. news
2. fake news
3. deep fakes
4. genuine fake news
5. disingenuous fake news
6. there must then be genuine deep fakes, and...
7. disingenuous deep fakes
8. fake fake news
9. fake genuine fake news
10. fake disingenuous fake news
11. genuine deep fakes
12. disingenuous deep fakes
Are there more? Inconceivable.
Image source: https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2023/11/15/stablecoins-problematic-bitcoin-blackrock/
I totally agree that it's simple and bitcoin is better. To me, your question seems to imply, "Why is it taking so long to change over to a better system? "If that's part of it, in the second column, it might also list: "putting money into the pockets of banks and the powers that be."
I'm really liking https://nostrudel.ninja on Android. Actually it's a web-based PWA (which I also like). Can "download it and feels like a native app.
Nostr wiki, see https://nostr.on.fleek.co/
Would love some ideas and/or help to build it out. (It's a wiki, no login currently needed, just add or edit.)
#grownostr
I put "Kicking the Hornet's Nest" (all of Satoshi's words) in one on October 31. https://hive.blog/@crrdlx/satoshi
Because of religion, I don't agree 100%, but do agree 99.999%. I put Satoshi in the same category as Isaac Newton and definitely with Adam Smith, which is why I edited https://hive.blog/@crrdlx/satoshi
True about Luther's side in that. He wrote a pretty scathing put down of the revolt. I think it's worth noting that his siding was based on religious ideas and not economic or social. Luther had the view that all governments are instituted by God and civil laws should be followed. Roman's 13:1 sums his view, as does the "render unto Caesar..." passage. The plebs were surprised he sided with the powers though. All of his writings were about challenging the old powers and putting power (scripture) into the hands of the people. Really, it was decentralized religious power from the church to "priesthood of all believers." Hence the surprise. But to Luther, it was all religious freedom...he separated the religious and economic and said the political should be followed due to Biblical teachings.
Happy 15 year #bitcoin whitepaper day #plebchain!
100 years from now, people will write, "In 2023, they used to sling around sats for free to one another like mad. Now it's 18 sats mined every 10 minutes."
This reminds me of page 85 through 93 of this: https://www.docdroid.net/SW5DeXa/the-autobiography-of-satoshi-nakamoto-by-matthaus-jandacek-pdf#page=85
My first nostr note was May 6, 2023...
It's no longer "with me" because it was with other keys, but I had the sense to chronicle it anyway.
https://peakd.com/bitcoin/@crrdlx/running-nostr
Still learning, and this note is my first #Zapathon