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I think allowing people to pay to post in an, “Other” category could help support the decentralized marketplace and would also be a catch all for things not on this list.

There is an obvious potential issue of illegal content in some jurisdictions but idk how you would solve for that.

Either way figured I’d give my 20 sats

Niceee, now do it again 😬💪

Haha sadly I had to get up, but not before I got this gem.

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"Why is it that two people can't generate the same #bitcoin private key?"

"How can a wallet generate a private key offline, and be sure that nobody else has picked that private key before?"

"How do I know that nobody else is using the same seed as me?"

"How do I know that nobody else can figure out or guess which private keys I'm using?"

- A #bitcoin private key is a 256-bit number, or 2^256

that's the number 2 multiplied by two 256 times

- Exponents are hard for humans to wrap their brains around them; half of 2^256 is 2^255, not 2^128

- 2^256 expressed as a decimal number is 10^77

- That's the number 1 and seventy-seven 0's after it;

10X10, 77 times

How big is 10^77?

- There are between 10^16 and 10^20 grains of sand (in all of the deserts and all of the beaches and on all of the ocean floor) on Earth

- There are 10^20 molecules of silica in a single grain of sand

- Multiplying the number of molecules in one grain of sand (10^20) by the number of grains of sand on Earth (10^20) is 10^40

- If you assume there's ten planets in the solar system, and assume they're all made of sand; 10^40 molecules of silica on all the grains of sand multiplied by ten is 10^41

- There are a hundred billion stars in the milky way galaxy, or 10^11

- 10^11 stars in the milky way multiplied by all of the molecules of silica in all the beaches on all of the planets in all of the milky way is 10^52

- There are perhaps a hundred billion *galaxies* in the observable universe, or 10^11

- 10^11 galaxies multiplied by all of the molecules of silica in all the beaches/oceans in all of the planets across the solar system in all of the stars in all of the galaxies is...10^63

- In astrophysics, the "Eddington number" (or NEdd) is the number of atoms in the "observable universe"

- The observable universe is just the part of the universe that has light that will ever reach us, or the matter that is all within the observation cone of space time that we occupy as humans; 13.8 billion light years across

- *ALL* matter - every atom of hydrogen in the entire observable universe - is approximately 10^77

- Current estimates put the NEdd at 10^80

- 10^77 happens to be the center of the range of estimates of the NEdd, and is the maximum number of possible #bitcoin private keys

That means that every atom of matter, in the entire observable universe of over a hundred billion galaxies, could have its own #bitcoin private key

tl;dr:

Pick an atom; any atom

See if someone else picks the same one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eZ5DP2P5As

This is a great explanation, zapped 1k sats from damus so probably won’t show up on this post but just wanted to say thank you!

I’ll start this by saying I’m not a developer so I don’t truly know why someone hasn’t implemented saylors orange check yet but IMO it’s an easy way to stop spam that is unbiased.

People won’t be able to pay to trend, (spamming zaps) too many times because they will eventually run out of money. Sure it’s early so it’s relatively cheap to do for now but I don’t see this being the end case.

Regardless people are not upset by you trying to stop spam, they are upset by the lack of transparency or perceived lack of transparency. If you had a primal feed where people had to put up some sats to be displayed I’m sure they would use it. Then have your non filtered feed where anything goes. Let people pick for themselves and they will be happy. Pick for them and they will leave your platform. Specially anyone that’s here now, the current nostr users are going to be even more adverse to any kind of filtering than future users will be so as a developer you must be particularly sensitive to perceptions around censorship IMO.

I need to get up and go to work but this guy has other plans…. Do I disturb him or just take the day off? #catstr

They’re still doing those? And tbh anyone with 6 boosters that is still living is impressive and should be studied lol

Something like this will allow you to store the most in the smallest amount of space. Even if you’re drinking plenty of water you’ll need to keep your sodium and potassium up or you’ll still get fatigue and cramping.

I row about 12-20k a day so these are a life saver lol