What open source funding orgs should I apply to?

HRF - open application ✅

spiral - open application ✅

opensats - applications closed until April 🚫

256 foundation - ?? i think they spent all their money? not sure

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< Late night sessions >

/// The Pleb Miner is not ready for the insanity I’m going to unleash ///

120V APW12 S19J Pro 💦⛏️

$BTC Tech Nerd Army

is Nostr even alive ? is anyone even out there.... ? is it even worth posting project updates on here ?

convince me, as I'm not feeling the Nostr vides at all

I closed my bank account yesterday. I am now 100% paying for my life in Bitcoin.

Nervous, excited, and relieved.

#bitcoinstandard

15 year old brother is blowing me up with #Bitcoin mining questions. Robotics is his passion.

He doesn’t know it yet but he’s got 2 s9s & a bitaxe headed his way.

I’m sure he’ll be building the hardware himself soon. Kid’s a genius.

Not sure how many started using Bill Pay from nostr:npub1ex7mdykw786qxvmtuls208uyxmn0hse95rfwsarvfde5yg6wy7jq6qvyt9

I’m going to test it out for 2025.

Not sure though how the taxes will workout. Let’s say bitcoin goes up from when I buy it. Then sell it to pay a bill. The profits are taxed as income tax which is very high, this might bring me down to a net loss?

Does that mean this is only beneficial if the bitcoin price shoots up enough to cover both tax and bill? -> taxes are confusing.

Example:

I buy $100 worth of bitties, price goes up, it’s now worth $110.

I pay my electricity bill which is $110. I pay 37% tax on the $10. That’s about $3.7. I still benefited from the $4.3?

Is this math correct?

Coffee is being brewed

Some miners travel easier than others…

Since Ably is shutting down their custodial lightning ⚡️ wallet, I switched to using my nostr:nprofile1qqst4qyeqenw7zm0fwjsty68h6cnys5jre2xd8ngqpjv5a2j26s78fspzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucm0d9hx7uewd9hj75a0pev account

#Zap me few #SATs to test if it's working properly

Yeah I can't, the client doesn't expose the note ID.

My favourite hacks to make the body more metabolically efficient:

- Lifting weights

- Walk after every meal

- Eliminate snacking entirely

- Sunlight in eyes upon waking up

- Base quality of foods in bioavailability (steaks)

- no screens before sleeping (or blue light blockers)

- And of course gotta stack those sats and post nostr notes 🫡

Nextcloud is slow buggy trash. Use alternative like syncthing or the go version of owncloud

Turns out, I was sleeping on NextCloud. The latest release js impressive. Might just work to migrate off iCloud.

Since returning from Bitcoin++ in Austin, I've been trying to alternate between working on Lightning one week, and Bitcoin hacking on the other.

Mainly, I've been finishing my Script interpreter cpp modification so I can make more comprehensive benchmarks. I've also given in and ordered a raspberry pi 3, 4 and 5 to benchmark.

I hope to answer the key questions on what a realistic budget for large stack objects should be. In particular, there are four reasonable limits on their size (I'm not considering changing the 1000 stack element limit, since that seems roomy!)

1. 520 bytes. We are here now, but as Script gets better that will be very limiting.

2. 520,000 bytes: simply limit the total stack size, not individual entries.

3. 4,000,000 bytes. This allows you to put the largest possible transaction on the stack. But you need a total limit of at least twice this, so you can make a copy: you can't do much in script without doing this!

4. 400,000 bytes. If number 3 is too much of a reach, this means you can put any standard tx on the stack. Again, you want a total limit of at least twice this.

My laptop, with something stupid like 26MB of level 3 cache, and my build machine with 32MB, can handle this fine. But what about the Pi?

I'll find out next week...