Domain names are not issued by the government, but a certain government may be able to take over control of a domain. However, https://thepiratebay.org is still online and still facilitating bittorrent downloads of copyrighted material, even after all the persecution in the past.
So, why not use more domain trust in addition (or as a fallback) to the WoT? For example, if I already follow more than 1 person on a certain domain, my client could automatically trust any other user with a valid NIP-05 address on that domain, at least until I have to block a pubkey associated with it. And it could even go and see which domains are trustworthy within my WoT.
Non-Tor relays are already based on DNS anyway, and a lot of people also use NIP-05. So it's not like domain trust isn't part of Nostr at all right now.
Since someone just asked, here are some tips for people traveling to El Salvador for the first time. I spent a few months exploring the country in 2021 and 2022, and these are just *some* things that are not El Zonte (Bitcoin Beach), El Tunco, or San Benito:
Flights booked to El Salvador 🇸🇻 for Adopting Bitcoin in November #bitcoin #country
Looking forward to visiting Berlin and Bitcoin Beach. Where else?
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Get away from the coast and up into the coffee country! Ruta de las Flores, all the way to Concepción de Ataco for example. Have some fun in Laberinto de Apaneca on the way. Do a coffee tour. Santa Teresa Hot Springs at night. Stay at Campo Bello (run by bitcoiners) and hike up the Santa Ana volcano. Visit an archaeological site with Mayan ruins. Take a few days to explore that side of the country. Ask locals at the conference for more tips. There's plenty to see.
I've seen a lot of bitcoiners expecting the coast to be as developed as the rest of the country and/or that El Salvador is all about beaches. But neither is actually the case.
Enjoy!
They finally broke the news 2 days ago: Bhutan have used their hydro capacity to mine a whopping 25%+ of their current GDP into state BTC coffers since early 2023. 🤯
The German federal police just executed a major, concerted crackdown on non-KYC exchanges:
"The operators of the now shut down exchange services are accused of knowingly concealing the origin of criminally obtained funds on a large scale through inadequate implementation of legal requirements for combating money laundering (so-called know-your-customer principle), and thus of having made themselves liable to prosecution for money laundering and operating criminal trading platforms on the Internet in accordance with Sections 127, 261 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 No. 2 and Paragraph 4 of the Criminal Code."
And they're actively threatening all past users of these exchanges:
Define "better". Apparently, it removed bunker sign-in (which I need), and I'm also not interested in that relay.
Does it support NIP-17?
What's the current state of NIP-17 support?
I'm considering implementing it for Kosmos account notifications, but AFAICS the client I use (noStrudel), which is jam-packed with other features, doesn't support it yet. 🤔
Feels wrong for a new implementation to use the deprecated NIP-04 with zero metadata privacy.
"These results suggest a lack of physical reality to both the anthropogenic radiative forcing attributed to rising greenhouse gases and the positive (amplifying) feedbacks hypothesized by the greenhouse theory and simulated by climate models."
A certain someone sent a mainnet Ark payment to a nostr:npub1k0sm0stxpd7mpm9e8mz4cz0x09s3wxjuf60zvqh3k36806npc59qefx3tg Lightning address today.
You should serve the LNURL endpoints with CORS headers, so that Web clients can fetch invoices.
It would look something like this:
Phanpy renders it inline, when you add the URL of another post to the content of a post. I guess the bridge doesn't do that.
(There is no Phanpy instance, it's just a client for whatever Mastodon instance you want to connect to.)
I think they're coming in 4.3 or 4.4. But most other fediverse software, including alternative Mastodon clients like e.g. Phanpy, already support quote posts.
Similarly, for a new key, how can your peers trust it in the first place? The only way is to announce your key outside of the system, via a medium/transport that your peers are willing to trust.
The WoT can only prove other people's trust in a key, but not who currently controls it. In fact, the moment someone else gets a hand on your private key, the WoT still proves trust in that key being yours, until you somehow notify your peers, so they can revoke that trust. But how are you going to do this within the system, if there are no means for sub keys and key rotation in the first place?
So your argument is that competition is a bad thing? And that competitors can somehow create natural monopolies from other people's IP, even when there is unhinged competition? 🤔
Casual reminder that Intellectual Property is not real property, and IP laws are simply government-imposed monopolies.
I ran into a Lightning force-closing tx being stuck a couple of days ago, and was able to resolve it using the mempool.space Accelerator. I wrote up how this works, so that whoever finds themselves in the same situation can waste less time on understanding and solving it:
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