Have you seen https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/knox ?
nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcscpyug it seems Amethyst doesnt render urls with special characters, like ä in https://souveräneindividuum.de
This triggers my inner grammar nazi. Shouldn't it be souveränesindividuum.de when the "das" is missing? 🤔
TIL: A SLIP39 single-share backup always contains "academic" as the 3rd and 4th word, which encodes the backup type in the phrase.
Is there a reasonable explanation for why two different hardware wallet devices (from the same purchase) would generate random seed phrases with the same word on 3rd and 4th place, while all other words change, again and again and again?
The chances for this happening once are fairly small, but 4 times in a row? 🤔
True, but the lossiness can be overcome by relay services, similar to nostr relays. Should be pretty cheap to run and ideally just built into whatever other servers you publish things to anyway.
did:plc is a shitcoin. Let me explain to you why.
On #Nostr, your public key is your user ID. On #Bluesky, although you have a public key, your real user ID is a did:plc.
To generate a did:plc, you must make a POST request to https://plc.directory/
Yes, https://plc.directory/ (the literal URL) is part of the protocol definition. They'll say it's not, but it is.
They'll say it's not, because theoretically you could run multiple plc.directory servers, and people could point at different ones. But there are big challenges around security and UX of that, and let's be real, Bluesky never intends to "fix" it (it's not broken).
Now, if we just put the whole thing on a blockchain that would totally solve that problem. But in fact, did:plc "does not make use of any blockchain". Because the accepted decentralized way to achieve this _would_ be to put it on a blockchain, so they had to make that qualifying statement against it.
So, they needed to use a blockchain, but they don't want to use a blockchain. So they invented their own blockchain: a regular webserver!
And they pretended their regular webserver was a blockchain. And this, is why did:plc is a shitcoin.
You don't need a blockchain for that (and Nostr doesn't either). Mainline DHT plus lots of caching has a chance of working: https://github.com/pubky/pkarr
Because they would have to admit that only bitcoin is actual money while trying to sell their ponzi tokens at the same time.
It's like we're witnessing a car crash in super slow-mo, over the course of years. It was clear from day 1 that if they don't start out with a few federated instances, there will never be a real federation. And now they even dropped plans to use an actually decentralized DID protocol, in favor of their literal placeholder solution, because "users can't be trusted to manage their own keys". 🤡
Sounds like plain old tribalism to me.
If you don't run a gateway yourself, I think that should be fine. People trading your utility tokens p2p is not your problem as a service provider.
Fun fact: this is actually how mobile money like M-Pesa started: people used airtime for mobile networks as a currency, then the carriers saw this and turned it into e-money products.
Nostriches, do with this information what you will:
https://www.iflscience.com/what-is-the-closest-living-relative-to-t-rex-you-might-be-surprised-76957
I can't lie: seeing people much smarter than me make the same dumb typos, because there's no universally supported edit/correction feature yet, is somewhat reassuring. So there's that benefit at least.
(Sorry if I missed that this is the idea and that it's already easy to do like that.)
Some companies already do this with usage credits and/or time-limited plans. I think the problem with using Cashu (as is) for this is that you can't accept fiat and give out tokens that people can then convert to BTC on Lightning through your server without becoming an unlicensed exchange. It would have to be utility tokens that are only spendable for your own service to avoid this, no?
The EEC was enough for free trade agreements. And you don't have to be in the EU to participate in the Schengen treaty/zone (for visa-free travel). Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland are not in the EU, but part of Schengen, while Cyprus and Ireland are EU countries, but not in Schengen.
The fact that people conflate the EU with these things is simply that this has been the narrative that was pushed. Also, people who were e.g. against the EUR at the time were vilified as right-wing extremists, same as anyone who criticizes the EU today.
Make Enlightenment great again. (MEGA)
How to use NFC cards for logging into Nostr, and for giving out to grow your Nostr personal network.
You can store and share VCards the same way, and e.g. Android will automatically offer to create a new contact in your address book when scanning that. I think maybe we should agree on a standard field for adding npubs to VCF?
"The Bluesky team has been working on their relay to handle all their new growth, and they’ve temporarily stopped ingesting data from federated PDSes"
GN
