the wallet is a collection of public private key pairs. strictly speaking each time the wallet is used a new version is created (i.e. an old wallet.dat file cant derive addresses a new wallet creates) so best practice you should be backing up your wallet.dat file regularly

when you generate a new address it appends the public private key pair to the wallet.dat file of the active wallet.

when sending a bitcoin transaction, Bitcoin Core generates change addresses in a similar fashion.

your balance in bitcoin core refers to the utxos that can be spent using the public/private key pairs in wallet.dat

tangent: createrawtransaction does NOT generate change addresses and is one of the most common ways to lose bitcoin by overpaying mining fees

found a cool book on libgen about Taiwan, so far so good 🧐

"If we imagine the whole history of the human habitation of Taiwan, up to the present day, as a single calendar year, then humans first arrive on 1 January — although those ancient people have left behind none of their DNA, only fire sticks and stone axes. The Neolithic period, which saw settlement of the island by the ancestors of today’s Formosan indigenous communities, begins around 1 November. The rise on the mainland of the First Emperor, Qin Shihuang, his Terracotta Army, and the very concept of there being a China that Taiwan could become a part of, happens sometime on 3 December. Prolonged and enduring ties with the Chinese on the mainland are initiated around Christmas. The Ming-dynasty loyalist Koxinga and his men arrive in the small hours of 28 December, and their regime is toppled with a Qing-dynasty retaliation by lunchtime. The Japanese annex Taiwan as a colony around midday on 30 December, and are themselves ousted shortly before dawn on New Year’s Eve, making way for the mass arrival of Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang (KMT), the Chinese Nationalist Party, in retreat from Mao’s Communists on the mainland. Martial law stays in force until just after breakfast, and the entire modern history of a democratic Republic of China on Taiwan occupies the next 18 hours until midnight,"

-- Jonathan Clements

Rebel Island: The incredible history of Taiwan (2024)

isnt that the 'external libraries' function? i just started using it. the first thing i did was point immich to my existing photo directories

TIL about Immich (https://github.com/immich-app/immich)

pretty nifty self-hosted photo management solution 👍

im still using the outdated one. after all the years i still havent figured out how to build it myself 🫠

GOOD FOR YOU 🥰!

先統一下金門再說吧，台灣太遠了啦

真的那麼好處，示範看看嘛

looks like the designers just found out about screen tests 🤭

yesterday was always better 🙂‍↔️

台灣人連中華民國都不要了，怎麼可能看上中華人民共和國呢🙂‍↔️

沒有家，沒有國，沒有國際地位，還能發展到今天

那真的有了台灣國不就不得了 🥳

tangent -- it was only recently that i realized david sacks was the guy who produced Thank You For Smoking. great film, watched it in college, it glorifies how far bullshit can get one in life.

Perhaps shitcoiners like david sacks think of themselves as the smooth-talking lobbyists getting their way, afterall what harm can cryptos do compared to everything else out there -- nihilistic to the bitter end since it was all meaningless

bitcoin makes me see the film differently now

https://github.com/bitmagnet-io/bitmagnet

ive been crawling dht for over a year and have about 21million torrents indexed using a cool project called bitmagnet. it's even compatible with torrent index aggregators like prowlarr

i seem to find all the movies, music, tv i need searching my own server. its not real-time so things like TV shows can take a few days to show up. i can avoid checking sites like torrent galaxy, 1337x, tpb for months at a time

sure, theres bound to be some. otherwise we live in a world where human interaction boils down to be measured through numbers/metrics

thats too boring for humans IMO

EMBRACE PIRACY 🏴‍☠️👀

if the goal is to store material conveniently (as a whole) and broadcast widely, a binary blob of verifiable packets would do much better than a garbeled mess of text attached to a signature to check against. for example, a relay would have to send the whole note before a book could ever render, whereas some pdfs can load a partial book and resume half-way through downloading.

sending an ebook through nip23 would be like sending an mp3 on FM radio. kinda going backwards here even though it's all "just text"

nip23 is great for blogging

i still think its cool that you want to bring markdown books onto nostr though

why turn books into markdown when theres formats dedicated to render books already?

storying books as nip-23 events doesnt seem very pratical, especially books with images, charts, footnotes/citations something that book formats handle really well

using comics as an example of reading material that couldnt work as markdown, a nostr reading app could look something like tachiyomi/mihon (a comic/manga reader) where instead of connecting to directories of hosted sources it'd just be a list of npubs reading off notes pointing where the content is hosted instead 🤔

🤮 i feel bad for having recommended swan to people now

luckily i know a few stopped using them and the ones that still do at least have some utxos

still, FEELS BAD

😂😂😂