There is some exciting news about Ocean Mining
Their measured hashrate for the past 24 hours as well as their self-reported hashrate both place them as a top-10 mining pool
I think this is the first time both metrics put them in the top 10
Keep adding hashrate! Fight the spam!
Just have the webapp check if the invoice was paid
Does it show a qr code when you click to zap someone?
I have an idea for an easy-to-build nostr/LN project! Could be a great "beginner project" if you know someone looking to get into bitcoin/LN/nostr development, or a weekend project for someone experienced who wants to do something fun.
The idea is inspired by my friend nostr:nprofile1qqsvh300dvquh50l5t9et2257pxrsk5ndsdgdcdmnnxl9nc0f6l2ejcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsdmufjw who told me recently that she wanted to zap a particular post "from" her official Base58 nostr account, so that it would show up publicly as "from" that account, but she has not yet hooked up her CLN node to an NWC backend.
I think it would be great if a webapp existed that she could log into with nostr-based authentication, paste the naddress of any post she wants to zap, and, instead of connecting to her node, the webapp just (1) looks up the profile of whoever posted the node (2) gets their lightning address (3) gets an invoice from it (4) requests a zap receipt *as* the logged in user (5) displays the invoice to the logged in user for payment.
That way, you don't *have* to hook up your node! Just pay the invoice, and nostr will handle the rest!
don't forget that as soon as I learned of Start9's sales numbers I reposted it for further visibility: nostr:nevent1qy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsqgzthpz6s9pu0ld6mmhsc0uc5yhpql35yvx9msgxew7qlwj66gawhcjpfqmd
I still think it's strange that, of the new nodes on the network since June, nearly 100% of them are Knots nodes, and I think that is unlikely to be organic. But even though I hold it unlikely, I do not think a person would be unreasonable if they held the contrary view, and this is largely due to this new evidence from Start9. Namely, I do not think it is unreasonable to hold that Knots evangelists (I count myself in that number) have simply been very effective and that explains the strangely one-sided growth numbers.
> this post seems like an attempt to make the "knots sentiment" look smaller than it actually is. Why?
Because I think the truth is more important than the narrative. If the truth is that the numbers are somewhat inflated due to sybils, then the Knots sentiment is, in fact, smaller than the standard figures suggest. Why share that? Because it is true and relevant information.
There are good reasons to run Knots; the bandwagon effect is not one of them, so if someone is trying to inflate the numbers to induce a bandwagon effect, I want to oppose that effort.
I did consider that. If Core fans were spinning up nodes in response to an ongoing decline in organic users, I suspect it would appear as jerky waves, a sort of sawtooth pattern. But in fact Core's usage line became flat after the initial wave of dropouts, while Knots kept rising; that seems like a weird, inorganic pattern.
Aristotle was probably unaware that the argument from silence is logically fallacious because he never mentions it in his writings on logic.
yes, but I don't think Ocean Miner X gets to see the contents of a block created by Ocean Miner Y -- not til it gets mined, anyway
hey nostr:nprofile1qqsq9k04vahllseell55m74n3047y88pzlr0z5yany32st29fapqmgsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgawaehxw309ahx7um5wghxy6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctc87ckyu can yall add a lightning address to your profile? Some of us wanna zap you and include you in zaprings to support Ocean. You guys do a lot of work fighting spam and decentralizing mining, and you deserve a reward for it
how? if the transaction is in a private mempool then no miner gets to see it except the one it was submitted to
Allegedly, 19% of the bitcoin network is now running knots
However, I think I have detected evidence of a sybil attack designed to inflate the number of Knots users
I have annoted part of the "historical nodes" chart available at http://coin.dance/nodes/all
Based on this, I suspect the *real* percentage of Knots usage (subtracting probably sybils) is about 12.3% of the total network -- ~2,710 nodes out of 21,950 nodes.
Still a big deal, but not as big as the current numbers seem to suggest
This is really interesting data and possibly explains most of the recent gap up in knots usage
Nicehash or another significant Ocean miner should offer a private mempool service
It would not just be hilarious, it's also economically wise: I suspect a wallet could capture almost 19% of bitcoin usage share by advertising that it only sends user transactions to Ocean
Yes, my personal social circle is basically a Core-supportive bubble
But that bubble has a huge impact on new users -- it's very evangelical about bitcoin
Knots people are like that too
try not to talk about yourself in the third person, it is bad manners ;)
you have yourself identified a plausible explanation
an enemy of Knots might sybil Knots in order to make the node count numbers less reliable
a friend of Knots might do it to make the numbers look bigger, to spark a kind of bandwagon effect
