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#Bounty Alert:
100K sats for a great Coffee Shop name that is bitcoin/nostr related.
Name must still make sense to non-bitcoiners and non-nostr users. don't go super heavy, a play on words probably makes most sense.
Name must be catchy, clear, easy to say, 2 to 3 syllables max.
Think something clever like nostr:npub1key55ax33gkl50uqemvl4khrtqrhzm7wzpc7fhseutt5ddkcwcrqgxlt3h but since they have the best name ever. We are on the hunt for the next best name.
This is not a programming bounty. there are no criteria to be met here lol, but I will honor the bounty if I pick your name suggestion. Also it will become the name of the Cafe!
#CoffeeChain has been considered, but it is being used as a name for a shitcoin. so probably i'll have to skip, unless you think it doesn't matter.
Coastr: COffee And other Stuff Together with Refills
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#Bounty Alert:
100K sats for a great Coffee Shop name that is bitcoin/nostr related.
Name must still make sense to non-bitcoiners and non-nostr users. don't go super heavy, a play on words probably makes most sense.
Name must be catchy, clear, easy to say, 2 to 3 syllables max.
Think something clever like nostr:npub1key55ax33gkl50uqemvl4khrtqrhzm7wzpc7fhseutt5ddkcwcrqgxlt3h but since they have the best name ever. We are on the hunt for the next best name.
This is not a programming bounty. there are no criteria to be met here lol, but I will honor the bounty if I pick your name suggestion. Also it will become the name of the Cafe!
#CoffeeChain has been considered, but it is being used as a name for a shitcoin. so probably i'll have to skip, unless you think it doesn't matter.
Donāt use Grindr. That one is taken too.
Maybe CoinCafe?
A superior alternative to a Visa prepaid gift card. Gonna be doing this for tech illiterate relatives over the next few months.
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Thatās what she said
Just tried with minibits on clear net and didnāt work
Great job and thanks to all who contributed š«¶
Anyone here read up on shielded CSV yet?
#asknostr
Are Cashu mints strictly better than FediMints? With Fedi you have the same exact custodial risk because thereās still a single operator for the lightning gateway, but you also have the group of guardians adding friction.
Seems like having all the guardians running their own Cashu mints and spreading your ecash between them all is preferable.
#ecash #cashu #fedi
Entropy in social groups:
In pseuorandom number generators the output sequence is limited by the seed. If you have insufficient entropy when picking the seed then you land in a narrow band of output sequences.
A homogenous group can quickly reach consensus and is efficient for a given set of tasks but has a very narrow set of possible states (ie. good luck innovating). This is low entropy.
A diverse group has a hard time reaching consensus and can be slow to make progress, but has a much greater capacity to explore outcomes. Higher entropy.
TL;DR - avoid echo chambers.
Cellular automata [1] can be fascinating. Since the Bitcoin protocol is a collection of discrete UTXOs with rules for how they move around we can model the UTXO set with cellular automata.
Wonder what kind of recurring patterns weād see if we did that.
Typically the rules for evolution are deterministic but spending UTXOs can be probabilistic. In that case each time you run the model youāll see different outcomes but Iām willing to bet youāll see themes.
Great to see more silent payment adoption.
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It feels like the angle Saylor is coming from is not helping banks and governments run off with your money but rather to kick as many people off the network as possible so he and his company have less competition for whatever their goals are. In either case, stay paranoid!
And the reason they didnāt kick in peopleās doors and point guns for their gold is because it was extremely difficult to know who had gold and how much. With coinbase and social media they have a good idea of who to target and prioritize.
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Backup your full node folks!
In the (hopefully) unlikely event that a determined actor wipes out all the online nodes we need relatively up-to-date offline backups to restore from.
Look at the SolarWinds [1] attack or the XZ backdoor [2]. If an attacker can compromise enough nodes concurrently they can wipe them and force the whole network into a small surface area.
That doesnāt destroy the network but it would cause a major disruption and could make tor analysis easier among other things. It could perhaps also be used to wipe the last N blocks from the chain tip as part of a larger effort.
The more backups we have to restore from the less downtime the network might have.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_federal_government_data_breach#Background
Bitcoin was born into an adversarial environment. It thrives there. It suffers under complacency and apathy.
Bring it on Suits.