meh

Snort.social has this feature already and Damus will get it in the next release I think

I have my own critiques, but they don't start at the business model as far as I understand what their business model is:

1. Collecting data

2. Processing it

3. Selling it as information

Do you have a problem with this already or what business model do you think they have?

I don't get it

The act of blockchain analysis itself?

What do you mean by CA?

hello world

Sure. What do you want?

When did you join nostr?

The bad news: Twitter's insanely puritan algorithm just massively deboosted my tweets because I posted a baby picture.

The good news: nostr still works just fine.

The bad news: Twitter's insanely puritan algorithm just massively deboosted my tweets because I posted a baby picture.

The good news: nostr still works just fine.

Happy birthday to me 🫣

Ordinal Inscribers are now paying Bitcoin mining pools to construct blocks for them with zero or minimal financial transactions, so that all of their images get inscribed in sequential order. They are not using the normal block construction methods. They are including these in the next block over the counter or behind closed doors. This has happened 3 times so far with 3 different pools. Luxor, Foundry, and the latest one was from Terra Pool. These out of band blocks are creating a secondary marketplace outside of Bitcoin's normal block construction methods. Miners are now talking about selling blocks before they are found. Thoughts?

Hmm. I'm not sure what you mean, but I did use PayPal to pay a bill this morning. Since I used my Fold card to pay that bill on PayPal, I was able to stack about 100,000 sats. Woot!

Every Blue Wallet user that has tried to register an ID on nostrplebs.com has failed.

Beef Carpaccio is some amazing stuff. Find it at you local Italian joint.

wtf? it's either grill or cast iron! (or raw if you're #[2])

I wouldn't actually use me as the model for "paranoid user support," because my opsec is pretty casual these days relative to ten years back. I'd say a standard "reasonably private without being a pain" setup would be to connect to Nostr through the Tor Browser (included by default) running on the Whonix VM images. The Tor Browser by itself is probably enough for most people, but Whonix layer helps prevent network leaks in the event of malware or a misbehaving app, for those for whom those are relevant concerns.

Snort.social isn't (yet) working on Tor (without disabling private browsing mode), but I think they have a pull request up on their git, so hopefully soon. I only mentioned it because I saw it during testing and liked the UX. I'm using iris.to right now through the TBB, and it works fine. Only thing I've noticed missing is the NIP-05 profile field.

I don't really *need* a nip05 yet, because my key has a memorable prefix that's not (yet) trivially brutable. Will add one eventually -- and FWIW I really appreciate the offers from everybody who already reached out to help on that.

Realistically, I think 90% of potential users won't becoming from desktop clients, they'll be coming from mobile, so I think the real key is to build mobile apps that have a checkbox to route their traffic through the local tor instance. IIRC, 127.0.0.1:9050

If regulations come they will come one way or another, his narrative or not. For bitcoin to work it has to deal with this.

It's because he works for the US government and people have a distaste for government.

Exactly. It can't hurt, right?

I don't get why he gets so much hate, to be honest.

Hmm. I like Jason Lowery. I respect his thesis.

Who plans on attending #nostrica in person? I'll be there! Let me know if you'll be there. 🤙

Do you remember how Garzik's segwit2x code just stopped working at the particular block height 🤣

Here is the prototype for Block's upcoming Bitcoin hardware wallet / signing device that launches later this year. It looks like a block or a rock. 👀

For most single sig plus passphrase will do, and they can use SeedXOR for backup