What do you mean? How will it help me recognize that someone is impersonator (not of me but some famous account commenting under some note)
It's time for Lightning⚡️ and it's time for BOLT12🔩
As of today, OCEAN miners can attach a BOLT12 offer to their #Bitcoin address and get paid out over Lightning!
BOLT12 offers allow us to request multiple invoices for any amount while only requiring the miner to set things up once.
Miners simply sign a message containing the offer using the private key associated with their Bitcoin address.
Using BOLT12 also allows us to prove to the world that a payment was made, the size of the payment, the node to which it was paid, and that it was paid by us.
This means we can continue to offer fully transparent and verifiable pooled mining while no longer being restricted by the base layer!
Using the Bitcoin stack to its fullest is how we eliminate the need for trust and bring sovereignty to mining.
Cool! B12 go.
"Today, many folks look back with fondness on the early days of computer-based messaging. Depending on their age, they may wax nostalgic for BBSes, Usenet, or web forums. Surprisingly, all these technologies still exist, although they are either barely used or are full of spam. It’s hard not to think that something may have been lost."
From BBS to Facebook, here's how messaging platforms have changed over the years.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/first-post-a-history-of-online-public-messaging/
Hey #nostr client devs. nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955
Impersonators are popping up on nostr. And it is even easier for them than on twitter. They can easily create 1:1 profile copy with the same icon, banner, posts, reposts.. Number of followers and followed can be easily gamed. Even npub can be vanity generated to have the same beginning and end.
What would help and what can't be easily gamed is to see "followed by these people you follow" in user profiles.
Similarly how twitter does:
Corporate Open Source is Dead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNcBk6cwim8
Nobody likes being rugpulled. But lately, it's going around like a virus.
The state of open source landscape is changing. Many projects backed by corporations are changing to "source avaliable" or other such scam license.
It's one thing to be commercial & closed source from the beginning and be honest about it - that's OK. But changing from open source to "source available" is a rug pull.
At least forking is possible - fork the project at a point where it was still opensource and diverge from there. That is why so many forks in OSS are happening lately.
Bicycle Day is an informal celebration on April 19th of the psychedelic revolution and commemorating the first psychedelic trip on LSD by Dr. Albert Hofmann in 1943, in tandem with his famous bicycle ride home from Sandoz Labs.
Was about a week ago but happy bicycle day anyway :)
This is great article that all bitcoiners should read.
History of decentralization and lessons from history that worked and didn't worked and why. Very relevant given current events.
Resistant protocols: How decentralization evolves
https://gwern.net/doc/technology/2018-07-25-johnbackus-howdecentralizationevolves.html
The Right to Privacy (Dec. 15, 1890) is "one of the most influential essays in the history of American law"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Privacy_(article)
nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 has thoughts. 😅
For me personally, after talking to LOTS of bitcoiners who are deeply technical and very committed to open source AND still will only use a Coldcard, I'm never going to use anything else.
Call it social heuristics if you want, but I guarantee that 99.9% of bitcoiners (me included) have no idea how complicated it is to keep keys properly secure. If "verifiable source" is the tradeoff required, so be it.
What? You can use Trezor to secure your keys that is proper open source. No tradeoff is needed in this regard.
This looks to me like an attempt to overtake and compromise NixOS. It might even be sponsored by russia. It sounds like conspiracy, but that is exactly what they do (among many other hard to believe things).
Do you know abut this project? Free bitcoin design guides for wallet developers etc.
Hello friend :)
Overton Window
nostr:note183rf7v87sjk3x0j2wxjs7lu9cr63exuuvc5g406tl7gdl7x7jfyql4ese4
Bitcoin, Lightning and Nostr deserves something better than Tor. Some fast modern mixnet would be nice..
Can you recommend a coffee place in Berlin that accepts Lightning?
Remember Freenet? nostr:note19aldr26lyw2lqatcgqscyt3kpq76hcpwtwmglypvqqgx3m27fsaswa8rr6
