FWIW I DO NOT WANT TO BE THE MAIN CHARACTER.

ONCE WE GET NOSTR BOOTSTRAPPED IM GOING TO FADE INTO THE BACKGROUND.

100 pushups a day lasted a good day before my arms stopped working

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.

WHEN AVERAGE PEOPLE WENT TO WAR WITH SUITS OVER GAMESTOP THE SUITS FUCKED THEM.

THEY LEGIT TURNED OFF THE BUY BUTTON ON ROBINHOOD.

BITCOIN IS THE ONLY FREE MARKET. EVERYTHING ELSE IS RIGGED.

THE GENIUS OF SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM:

BILLIONS OF PEOPLE THINK THEY ARE CUSTOMERS WHILE THEY ARE ACTUALLY THE PRODUCT BEING HARVESTED.

The world could use a bit more optimism, I guess it comes with the winter solstice.

This over-doomer shit is getting a little old.

We have two covenants already, CSV and CLTV. they're time locks to control when a tx can be spent. The next basic covenant is CTV, a "UTXO lock", this constrains the TXID so that the transaction is *guaranteed*. This will help us scale via solutions like Ark and Timeout-Trees. My personal favorite is NIC's (Non-interactive Channels), this let's you commit to a lightning channel simply by knowing its Txid + hash. To explain how this would work, I need to withdrawal from my exchange on Friday, I go ahead and commit to making a LN channel with Bob inside my PubKey, and the exchange pays me in their batched tx. Now that I have the commitment, I can at any time, contact Bob to "establish" the channel, with no need of a second transaction.

As for Lyn's comment on how the dev community is split. CTV can be upgraded either to Txhash or Template Key and a lot of devs want to skip step 1 and go straight to the advanced covenant proposals. They've even gone as far as to say that they fear CTV would delay txhash. I want txhash too! But it needs years of more bikeshedding before it's even close to ready. CTV is ready, it's been ready for 4 years.

I like covenants, but it's hard to agree on covenants when even the covenants proposers themselves disagree on what covenant scheme to do.

Drop links to your favorite asmr videos pls & thank you. 🙏🏼