Dollar isn’t going anywhere.

What's happening with Gossip?:

Implementing NIP-46 support in gossip has been far more difficult than I expected, at every step of the way, to the point that I've become dejected. I'm primarily motivated by progress and currently I am demotivated by my lack of completing anything useful for the end users, and have become too easily distracted to the point that I think it would be fair to send some bitcoin back to OpenSats as a refund.

For a long time there was a rust compiler bug around lifetime erasure ('_ vs '0) of data sent across async points. But I noticed that wasn't happening about a month ago.

Then all the signing/encrypting/decrypting functions needed to be made async, which bubbled up to more and more code needing to be async.

Then I went ahead and defined a Signer trait implemented by anything that could sign things... but that had too many functions (NIP-46 only does some) so it had to be broken up into 3 or 4 traits over time.

Then I built an Identity which could be any of (None, PublicKey, PrivateKey, RemoteSigner), and also a gossip client identity that wrapped this. And it had to be Serialize/Deserialize to save it.

Then I needed a network-level Client that a nip46 signing client could utilize to communicate with it's remote signer, without being tangled up in the "minions" I currently have.

Then I needed the nip46 signer itself that uses this Client and implements Signer, plugged into Identity and Serialize/Deserialize.

Then I needed to migrate how your identity loads and saves to this new serialized Identity (instead of just keys as it used to be).

Then there were lots of bugs around where detection of whether you could sign things or whether things were unlocked was being done wrong.

It starts to work... you can connect to the signer and you can learn your public key, and you can then get a feed. But it quickly gets jammed up and gossip freezes.

So now I think I should use tokio_console to debug it, which requires me to instrument lots of code.

And I'm just so tired of this.

The EU will ban anonymous crypto accounts by July 2027.

Every transaction above €1,000 will need your ID.

Privacy is becoming extinct.

Use your Bitcoin wise

It was good for a while, today was horrible... Yeah we're detoxing in every way possible... And yes, one way or another...

Really cool. In the nostr-follow-list readme it says that follow lists events are "parameterized replaceable events". Therefore a client that implements follow packs should track the list's UUID (d tag) and ignore older events with the same UUID i suppose ?

Once a user has a did-nostr they can also get a wallet that can contain DigitalDocuments. These can also be Agents that you can tweak, own, trade, or deploy. In future-world everyone gets the Agent.

Here we go again...

My bank website has a notice today:

"We are no longer able to accept EUR denominated payments to Russia, Belarus or Ukraine. Please select USD for payments into these countries."

Printer is coming 🖨️

What is going on with egg prices in the US? Bird flu chicken slaughters?

In NZ a law was passed requiring all chickens to NOT be caged (barn with some amount of outside area, if not quite free range). It came into force on Jan 1 last year or the year before I can't recall. And eggs shot up from 30c to $1.30 or so (my guesstimates) but have since come back down to around 60c.

Yes Exactly! Orwell in his novel was describing today's Europe. I live there so I assure you!

I'm in the EU and I'm already buying ₿. Thank goodness given the crisis and the political drift that our rulers are taking! We live in a technocratic totalitarianism here in Europe! And people are dumbfounded and don't wake up! Soaked in anti-Russian and dictatorial propaganda.