Drivechains

Alright people, we are playing a game of chess here. The one thing, the absolute one thing, we can't do is give up the king. To give up the king, in my humble opinion, is to mess up the base layer. This mistake would disrupt the delicate incentive structure that ensures sound money. That sound money pegs the extremely fragile credit markets and out-of-control G7 policymakers that are creating clown world with their CB fiat policies.

We don’t need the sound, pegged, money to move fast, we don’t need the money to do smart swoopty things, we just need it to be pegged, immutable, and digitally sailable to actually stop the madness of clown world.

By introducing a whole lot of technical complexity to the base layer and potentially screwing with the incentives all so we can connect to a bunch of centralized shitcoin projects is like playing offense with the king when you’re down 7 pieces and the other player still has their entire back row at their disposal.

A. Why the rush!?

B. Why not just go use Monero if you need that level of anominity in your transactions. Why do you have to have it in a wrapper via drivechains?

C. Why risk the king without deep understanding and testing of the technical risk and potential change to incentives?

The beauty of Bitcoin is you can build it and softfork it, and we’ll let the community vote with their nodes. BUT, I for one, have no use for drivechains (that doesn’t mean everyone is like me). And as a result, I will not be updating my node and running any attempted “secret” softfork updates by the miners.

This is awesome. And all in a shell script.

So the solution is for everyone to open channels to their top 100 most used merchants and hope that makes it worthwhile?

Opening that many channels is kind of expensive and risky (hot wallet), not sure that is the answer.

thats all fine as long as you pay. you run into problems when you try to receive. your local health store knows.

It's not just a minor nuisance, it's a major flaw and a centralizing force. Absolutely no merchant is going to adopt is self-custodially since having constant incoming liquidity would require a lot of hassle and either capital at risk or swap fees.

closed source custodial nostr clients are a threat to users and during these early days of nostr adoption represent an existential threat to nostr

if a non sovereign client or tool accrues significant market share they could potentially use their control over users to influence the greater network or bifuricate it

nostr is permissionless and we cannot stop people from shipping whatever tools they want but it highlights the importance of rapid development of freedom focused foss clients and tools

this is my main focus, supporting the individuals building out the freedom tech tools we sorely need, momentum is strong, incredibly hopeful, we must continue to push forward 🫡

closed source custodial nostr clients are a threat to users and during these early days of nostr adoption represent an existential threat to nostr

if a non sovereign client or tool accrues significant market share they could potentially use their control over users to influence the greater network or bifuricate it

nostr is permissionless and we cannot stop people from shipping whatever tools they want but it highlights the importance of rapid development of freedom focused foss clients and tools

this is my main focus, supporting the individuals building out the freedom tech tools we sorely need, momentum is strong, incredibly hopeful, we must continue to push forward 🫡

Been away for a while learning nixos full time…

Before nostrica, people were optimistic and the environment was mostly peaceful despite some minor discussions about how to make the protocol evolve… seemed healthy at the time.

Fast forward today, should I understand that we’re heading into some kind of fork?

Good outcomes cannot justify evil actions

🤔

OpenBSD

9Front

Suckless software.

Honk single user fediverse server

OpenBSD's korn shell

bitreich gopher project

SDF's "com" script

Favourite Open Source app that isn't a Bitcoin or Nostr app that you use every day?

#AskNostr

I think i’ll choose to tell people to go love themselves instead.

on nostr, you can’t be banned for saying ‘kill yourself’ to someone, go out and tell ppl to kill themselves today ❤️