Amazing work, thanks!
I'd love to use Oracolo for a couple of projects, but I've had trouble with images not showing, and with the content of quoted notes not rendered.
(see screenshot below: all items include either images and/or quoted notes)
Are these issues limited to the preview? Or will they persist when deployed to my domain? Thanks!
Domain name registrars are still the most relevant and critical centralized component of the Internet.
I'm surprised that we have not been able to transition to a more decentralized, distributed, or federated system.
Despite various attempts, nothing has been able to gain significant traction. (I still remember the excitement of using Namecoin to set up a .bit domain that no one visited ...)
Perhaps this is an area where Nostr could play a role?
#asknostr
Qualcuno dovrebbe spiegare come un monopolio (BCE) possa essere migliore per un riformista liberale di un oligopolio (circuiti carte di credito e pagamenti).
Il ministro Giorgetti:
"Le criptovalute stanno emergendo come una forza economica per certi versi dirompente.
La loro capacitĆ di operare al di fuori dei tradizionali circuiti bancari e di sfidare la centralitĆ delle valute sovrane sta portando a nuove forme di indipendenza economica".
A parte l'uso del termine "criptovalute" anzichƩ "Bitcoin", mi trova sostanzialmente d'accordo.
Aaron risked everything to make academic papers available to everyone.
However, nowadays we are used to bite-sized, easily digestible content: headlines, short videos, and tutorials. Most of us gave up engaging in deeper, more nuanced thinking.
He invented RSS to read more and more effectively. We invented TLDR.
Indeed! He would have probably built a biderectional bridge with RSS feeds. :)
I agree, but a stylish passport makes slavery slightly more chic. š
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The Swiss people just found a way to show the world how wealthy they are.
Italy's response to everything is chaotic ...
Is there any Nostr-based service that could replace Dribbble?
#asknostr (for a designer friend)
You might ask what is wrong with Dribbble. Well, they recently updated their ToS.
āDesigners are no longer permitted to display or share their contact information (like email addresses, phone numbers, social media handles) prior to client payment on Dribbble.ā
Dribbble wants to handle payments, and it is just fine. But some designers might prefer a self-hosted, self-sovereign alternative and Nostr might indeed be of help here.
Piacere mio!
Thanks for the kind answer.
The extra decimals only trouble me when they appear in transactions imported from my wallets. They are probably applying some heuristic in order to split fees among different outputs and use those split values to do their tax calculations.
Yep what nostr:nprofile1qqsrfykag02fdg3h73zplkqp75rckc659slptrl74ypukqs2rt60lhgprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnrdakjuct4qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aql2x6za said. What the name of the service you are using?
Cryptobooks.tax
Ah ah. Of course it is!
Could not find a Bitcoin-only accounting service. They all support all kind of shitcoins, NFTs, ... (Did I miss something?)
I'm interested in the existence of these supposed extended decimals.
Are fractions of satoshis a real thing?
Iām using a crypto accounting service that claims bitcoins are stored on the blockchain with 16 decimal places, and therefore, itās perfectly reasonable for their reports to include more than the standard 8 digits after the decimal point.
Iāve searched for evidence to support this claim, but so far, I havenāt found any confirmation of 16 decimals. Additionally, no blockchain explorer Iāve checked displays more than the usual 8 decimals.
#asknostr
The other day on Twitter/X, I paid out a 2,100,000 sat or $1,700 USD Lightning bounty.
Over the past couple years, Iāve offered an occasional challenge on Twitter/X.
When people tell me Lightning doesnāt work, I often ask them in random comments for their Lightning details so I can pay them in the next 5-10 minutes on the spot, permissionlessly, wherever they are, with this payment method that supposedly doesnāt work.
Every single time, they canāt do it. Because they havenāt even tried it. Theyāre just talking. Iāve done this a ton of times and nobody ever takes the sizable sat offerings.
In Dan Heldās anti-Nostr thread, Mark Jeffrey was critical of Lightning.
Unlike most who I offer the challenge to as 99% sure they wonāt take it, I offered it to Mark despite knowing he had a much higher probability of accepting it, since heās tech savvy and active in the broad crypto space. But in my view, if he accepts, then thatās also evidence on the spot that it works.
He declined my 21,000 sat offer and politely still talked anti-Lightning.
So, I said since I like him, Iād up it to 210,000 sats. He still declined and talked more anti-Lightning. He spoke about how he *wanted* it to work, but the problem just isnāt solved yet.
My inner Nostr Lyn couldn't help it, so I upped it to 2,100,000 sats, or $1,700+ USD, if he would just post a way to pay him on Lightning within the next ten minutes. Nobody had ever taken me up on my challenge, so I pressed to my highest offer ever just to see, out of sheer curiosity. Heās a multi-time published novelist, which with my recent fiction hobby, interests me. So, if thereās someone I want to claim the bounty, might as well be him.
And then you know what? He did. Of course he had a Lightning address.
He went from āwant it to work butā¦ā to digging through his past experiences and finding an old Lightning address, within a few minutes. The first person on Twitter/X to accept my challenge.
I paid him 2,100,000 sats on the spot, or $1700+ USD.
He provided a Stike address, so thatās a shout out to nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wsqzp382htsmu08k277ps40wqhnfm60st89h5pvjyutghq9cjasuh38q7t6dtc who made Lightning convenient enough for Mark, who doesnāt understand or particularly like Lightning, to finally call my challenge and make me have fun staying poor, lol. And it worked flawlessly despite being an above-average sized Lightning transaction.
I then asked Mark if he could identify the sending wallet, but he said he couldnāt. He asked about block explorers to identify the payment, and while I pointed him toward Mempool Space, I highlighted that Lightning tends to make sending privacy pretty good even though I didnāt maximize privacy on this one. I'm not deep into the weeds on privacy tech, so I'm always genuinely curious just to ask "hey, can you identify any privacy leaks here?"
I also asked him if he would have shared his bank details publicly like he shared his Lightning address. He said of course not.
So even if people say āBut Lyn, Mark used a custodial walletā, Iād say that this tech stack reduced his friction and boosted sender privacy.
I think there are still improvements to make of course, particularly Lightning combined with other scaling methods (ecash, Ark-style stuff, and so forth), but itās a powerful glue that connects a lot of things together.
In addition, when it comes to payments and small amounts of working capital, there is an important āchoose your own adventureā aspect. For small amounts, in safe jurisdictions, custodial Lightning is not that big of a deal, like keeping cash in your wallet that is prone to theft or loss. It maximizes UX.
But itās important to keep pushing hard, keep developing, keep providing capital, to make as many tools as possible available for people that need to maximize privacy and/or self-custody. Not everyone needs or wants those capabilities for every single payment, but they do need the *option* to turn to them when itās important.
Mark Jeffrey then reached out to chat about fiction. Last year he asked me to go on his podcast to talk about Broken Money, but I fell behind on Twitter/X DMs due to bandwidth constraints and didnāt get back to him. So, after this I got back to him and said Iād be happy to talk about fiction with him to pick his brain, and talk Broken Money on his podcast, and we got one scheduled. š¤
We should all do something similar with people despising Nostr.
"If you post your npub within 10 minutes, I'll get you 10 real followers".
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Very nice. Just updated my Alby Hub and it is right there!
This new service from nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm looks like magic!
Iāve always been told that Bitcoin and subscriptions does not play well together, but apparently Alby managed to solve the conundrum and now I might be able to schedule regular weekly payments to my daughtersā wallets. How cool is that?
Iām wondering if there are elements of centralization in this solution.
Iād love to hear a more detailed explanation of the inner workings.
https://zapplanner.albylabs.com/
