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Four fingers and a thumb. I don't believe you.

The car has three wipers though.

But we all know AI can't draw hands and that is the only reason it can never take over the world.

Clear skin. Keep those volcanic zits in the background, drink plenty of water.

Does Mullvad have that tech to obscure traffic to bypass firewalls and censorship?

This reads like an ad for obscura more than Mullvad... Unless you need to buy both? Probably the latter.

Yeah pretty much. But Excel is actually much more expressive than Bitcoin script for more reasons than having concat.

First 6, the first 4 are just the version, they will be the same for most addresses.

Now did you know that seed words (BIP39) are the worst standard for mnemonic backups?

Before it, Electrum Wallet had created their own, which they still use today.. They were first.

Within it, there is a version number.

Also LND uses a different spec aezeed to include a birthday.

TLDR; you might wonder why your seed words won't restore, it's because there are other seed word specs and the population chose the worst one to die on.

Version number means we can improve on the protocol if we find a better hashing algorithm for example or if we choose to swap out a confusing word or if we wish to encode something else into the mnemonic.

Birthday allows us to know when the key was created. This helps software to scan for your transactions... Why scan anything before the creation date? It speeds up operations.

Further reading:

https://electrum.readthedocs.io/en/latest/seedphrase.html

https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/aezeed/README.md

bc1q is the version AFAIK.

bc1q is segwit

bc1p is taproot.

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I've made this other relay now: https://zapbox.fiatjaf.com/

First you have to set up a zap threshold, afterwards anything you publish there will only be shown to people who have zapped you at least that threshold in the past 3 months.

All the rest is the same as a Lockbox:

nostr:nevent1qqsqqqzxnr8xcfku28py2nwvg4p8hh8va7zy0kps6wn9tfld0me8aagpz4mhxue69uhkzet8d9ejuat50phjummwv5hszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qgswaehxw309ahx7um5wghx6mmd9udxdewy

I suppose the only thing missing is a teaser... You missed out on 10 posts because you didn't zap Barry.

People don't miss what they don't see.

Well, let me reframe the question a little. But if you don't think you want to engage, then so be it.

Tether is a pretty useful token, especially in countries where people want something like the dollar but have difficulty accessing it.

Still Tether is a company, so the tokens don't really stand on their own feet, I wouldn't invest in the tokens, you can invest in the company. Also the technology is kind of irrelevant too in some regards, they moved from ETH to TRON and now are using Lightning (unless I'm getting my stable coins mixed up). The company uses whatever resources it can find to provide a product.

There is also the standard risks associated with a regulated company, but it is kind of like a VPN money where the company has limited information about its users so the risks are mitigated to a point.

I think it makes sense to be excited about a public technology like bitcoin or the web, because people can build on it just like companies can.

Tokens are not really technologies AFAIK, they are products, so unless they are technologies that people can either copy or build upon permissionlessly, I think they don't serve a purpose that I am interested about.

I love the idea of tools and technologies empowering developing countries, don't get me wrong, but I'm always skeptical of a product that establishes, whether directly or indirectly, whether known or unknown, a master client relationship where people are not relying on the technology only, but also the existence of some entity driving that technology.

So...

Is there a token or a token standard or a token technology that you can recommend that I read about or look into based on my perspective?

#nostr is a soapbox platform.