Is nosdrive no more? The relay wss://nosdrive.app/relay seems kaput for me...nothing recorded to Google Drive since Sept 9.
#asknostr #plebchain
Javier Milei laid things bare at the UN. yesterday. Guy goes into the belly of the beast, again, and spits truth, again.
Milei's Davos speech was incredible. An instant classic. Haven't heard this one yet. Just looked up link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw2UMwLbMCE
I just saw a guy with the description: Certified Bitcoin Professional.
Heh. Where do I get my CBP? 
#bitcoin #certifiedbitcoinprofessional
This is the nostr graphic that I like.
I have a carambola tree (star fruit) that puts out way more than I can eat. So I put out most for free. I've met more neighbors doing this than I would have guessed. #gardening#dfoodstr 
#Nostr without relays but via web? Would that be #Nostw?
Apparently, nostr somehow uses the same tech as taproot. I think the nostr keys being the same or in the same format. I really don't know. Someone, might have been Melvin, explained to me that nostr can somehow intrinsically hold bitcoin ordinals (which exist because of taproot).
We need an explained for dummies on this.
I've long thought the left-to-right straight line political spectrum is wrong. At the ends, it somehow bends around down into a circle until the far left and far right come together. And that's not a place you want to live in!
Recently, I've been trying to decipher a question that seems simple: "Did Satoshi write these emails?" There are three emails in question involving two people (other than Satoshi):
- Wei Dai (two emails)
- Jon Matonis (one email)
For the back-story, I wrote about this conundrum at https://stacker.news/items/691013 The upshot for my ponderance is that the NakamotoInstitute.org (BTC-friendly) does *not* include these emails, but the NakamotoStudies.org (BCH-friendly) site *does*. I wondered, "What's up?" Is this a BTC-vs.-BCH blockchain thing? A block size thing?" Frankly, I don't care. I just want to know if Satoshi wrote them.
Regarding Wei Dai, the general consensus in the SN comments linked above was that I should go to the source...go to Wei Dai and ask. If real Satoshi-emails, then either he or Satoshi released them "into the wild" at some point and then they started to appear on various websites. 'Til maybe now, I hadn't seen that release point.
The Dai/Satoshi emails mostly pop up in two places in a search: bitcoin.com and gwern.net. I was familiar with bitcoin.com (and thus was a bit skeptical), but was unfamiliar with gwern.net. Was it just another bitcoin website? Anyone can make one. Was there an agenda? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So, going to the source, I reached out to Wei Dai via email today. We'll see.
Digging around, Wei Dai's site https://weidai.com says any questions can be posted publicly at https://www.lesswrong.com/ as an AMA. I went there. The "release point," evidence of Wei Dai sending out those emails may well be recorded there.
Here is a message from gwern timestamped March 16, 2014 to Wei Dai asking about the Wei/Satoshi emails:
Screenshot of the Wei Dai to Gwern reply:
Gwern's response to Wei Dai a couple of weeks later:
The page on gwern.net is still live at https://gwern.net/doc/bitcoin/2008-nakamoto. Being healthily skeptical, I looked for that page on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Unfortunately, that page is only first archived [in 2023](https://web.archive.org/web/20230208163356/https://gwern.net/doc/bitcoin/2008-nakamoto). But, gwern.net does go back to [2010](https://web.archive.org/web/20101011153322/http://www.gwern.net/) and the first bitcoin mention there seems to be [July of 2011](https://web.archive.org/web/20110723141839/http://www.gwern.net/), so, it was early.
The bottom line here, to me at least, is that Wei Dai's emails seem legit. Assuming the timestamps are legit, and that the emails being discussed from Wei Dai are indeed the same ones that gwern has on his site, then they're legit. It would take quite a bit of foresight to plan this out, starting 10 years ago, for this to be fake. The fact that the timestamp is pre-BCH, pre-block size wars is a big plus in my view as to the emails being legit. Those were the main reasons a question even arose in my mind, that and the NakamotoInstitute.org vs. NakamotoStudies.org exclusion/inclusion.
My next question, then, is back to NakamotoInstitute.org. Why, actually, are the Wei Dai emails not there? There must be a reason, and if a solid reason, why not share that reason publicly?
I reached out to NakamotoInstitute.org asking effectively, "Why are the Wei Dai and Jon Matonis emails not included? Not judging, just honestly curious." We'll see.
Regarding the Jon Matonis emails. I'd never even heard of him until this week. If you need a program to know the players, like me, he's apparently the former Executive Director of the Bitcoin Foundation (see [Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_Foundation)). It seems a bit hard to pin down what he's up to today. I will say one of the top hits when searching for his name pops up with [cypherpunkholdings.com...](https://cypherpunkholdings.com/about-us/board-of-directors/jon-matonis/) under "board of directors," complete with "cyphepunk" misspelling (screenshot below) What's more, that link forwards to a Solana DeFi project. Hmm.
I reached out to Matonis via his hushmail.com email. We'll see.
That's all. Summary:
- three Satoshi emails (to two people) are in question
- the Wei Dai emails seem legit to me
- the Jon Matonis email, I'm not so sure
- would love to hear back from NakamotoInstitute.org
We'll see. :)
nostr:npub1wfvjajv0336mpxhdk6xvlafp20p8mch5083wyjd6xxnerlaxf5kqhsvx9a - tagging you here because I thought you might be interested in the Wei Dai part of this
I had a coworker talk about a situation today that seems crazy to me. She needs some money for something, home repair I believe. She wants to take some money out early from the company IRA (I didn't know we even had one). Bottom line, she was told she needs the company's approval first. "To get my own money?" She said the words I was thinking.
I just kept thinking...bitcoin.
#bitcoin
We bitcoiners can like both #bitcoin and #gold. Seems like golders cannot though for some reason.
Got the email below, haven't had time to check if it's real or scam. Says Google Play needs KYC. If true, that's sad. #kyc #plebchain
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Here's a photograph of my little garden. I think this is photograph number 3, and if you look closely, you can see little sprouts starting to pop out which is kinda cool. #garden
#gardening is good for the soul.
Saw this somewhere. In sum:
Exercise, eat right, get sleep, get a hobby, enjoy art, have friends and family, help others, have faith. 
#plebchain
There's something special about flowers you've grown yourself.
#flowers #zinnias
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I snapped this picture last weekend out of the window of the car. Though it came out blurry, I like it.
From your work on Coracle and from your podcast, you seem rather good at both. You're humble.
Anybody else NOT seeing their nostr notes auto-posted to Mastodon as expected? The past few days, I've noticed that my Nostr notes do auto cross-post to X and Bluesky, but not Mastodon. Usually, they go to Mastodon no problem. Hmm. #asknostr