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#bitcoinfees #mempool

Why are Google APIs all so incredibly hard to use?

To be honest, I think the bitcoin ETF is the most boring thing about bitcoin right now. Whenever I get asked about it I'm like, "meh".

Yes, the ETF should be good for price and liquidity, since it gives large pools of walled-garden capital more access to bitcoin exposure.

But in my view, the most important thing about bitcoin right now is all of the little hubs popping up around the world. Bitcoin Beach, Bitcoin Lake, Bitcoin Jungle, Bitcoin Ekasi, Africa Bitcoin Conference, Indonesia Bitcoin Conference, etc. As well wallets and other technologies that help them localize their custody of bitcoin rather than keep it all stashed in the giant Binance honeypot or wherever, and any solutions that help link to them all together for payments or that help them trade peer to peer or onboard from fiat to bitcoin in distributed ways.

The rise and connectivity of those hubs is impressive and is worth supporting.

GOSSIP 0.9.0 has been released

git: branch '0.9', tag 'v0.9.0'

Upgrade Instructions

- SQLite 3 code has been removed. If you are running version 0.7.x of gossip, you need to run a 0.8.x version of gossip at least once in order to keep your old data. Otherwise you can just start fresh.

New Features

- Person Lists:

Curate your own lists of people

View a feed of just those people

Save to nostr events, synchronize with other nostr clients.

Mark members private to save secretly in encrypted contents.

- Onboarding wizard: Steps a new user through what is needed to get set up

- Support for the new nostr CLOSED message.

- Tagging now works by just typing an '@' and the name and picking from a popup list.

- Restyle of DM Chat

- Restyle of Profile pages

- New login page

- Improvements to event deletion (multiple issues resolved)

- "show more" on long notes

- scrolling improvements

- name improvements (which name to use)

- Better tracking of threads and replies (reposts, replies via 'a')

- Command line commands: reprocess_recent, print_followed, print_muted, bech32_decode, bech32_encode_event_addr, print_relay, add_person_relay, print_person, import_event, print_person_lists, add_person_list, rename_person_list,

- Relay communications are kinder to relays

- Documentation reworked

- TLS now defaults to rust code, but native (operating system provided) root certificates.

- Restructured as a library and a binary, so that people who want a different UI are free to replace the UI while continuing to use the underlying library.

- Lots of little things I didn't bother to add to this list. See the git history for the whole truth.

SHA256sums:

67d140fe6336c55596a7556c55f8f9961515613635ba8f0526016e419d76d95a changelog.txt

e1e6149e34b95de289a08cdedda32d9b1b44544a4925d6e23980489603d772cf filter.rhai.example

83760acc0ad65f0bea06bdce73a158041b2816a3924d98ab4693bdc7cd9fd22c gossip_0.9.0_amd64.deb

063e209ed9bdba3b64c5d67e0be170883f35bb76df29e6a0922c23eb117a3431 gossip-0.9.0-Darwin-arm64.dmg

73f6708d70867f0e5cc68d55eaa2d81e49f385adb07d9c783552a8a69204f1e1 gossip-0.9.0-Darwin-x86_64.dmg

b0fa1af9e5b98aaa13887cf8871850884e5fbc9031c85247cca4e6c9f54cf497 gossip.0.9.0.msi

e2860f22b4ae91017e138509f14a0c6c7e63aaae1bda7178b85020301b67cce4 LICENSE.txt

702bd583d106ed3d142f7cf92eb86a681fa93a7e46c3a1643773374694242bf2 README.macos.txt

65a1e61fc5374f7c391f230856809c8b37c8527c25a7a0d9113ce46d8920a8ef README.txt

Is nostr down? 😁

It works for me on master. I tried a new profile, generated a key, and followed myself and it showed under Following right away. If it is seriously broken in 0.8.2, I'll consider patching to 0.8.3, but I haven't had any other reports that this happens for anybody else, and I'm scratching my head as to how it could happen.

understood. i'll try to compile. 👍

I'll do them when I do releases, which is already tedious as I have to move computers and monitors around, shift files to different computers checking their SHA sums, deal with lots of fiddly things that have to be right, login under my gossip account to post the sums, etc. It is much more of a pain in the ass for me than it would be for you to compile from source or to build the .deb yourself.

Which version?

This release is just patching a few bugs. The master branch is far ahead of this release.