I saw others seeing the same I'm seeing - a blank page. That is with Firefox. I'd try with Chromium next, if Twitter is quicker than a fix for my FF.

Apparently you have 24h to fix exit.pub ;)

He replied "Bring back the guillotine" to this post: https://twitter.com/therealrukshan/status/1698249077061009496

Others tried this since, too, with their guillotine posts still up.

How centralized is Bitcoin mining regarding the providers of the hardware? Do people care when buying hardware?

People speculate a lot about how much money it would take to arm a 51% attack but rarely do I see people worry about that money coming from trusting customers.

The currently biggest producer of Bitcoin mining hardware - BitMain - set precedence for a kill switch https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1888573.0 that if present could be used to "incentivize" miners to follow their policy decisions - honor blacklists for example.

How well are we protected against miners activating such a kill switch after some specific activation date? I assume they are closed source, so it would be hard to detect before a triggering date.

So luckily the CPU hours did not go to waste as the build script failed when building further binaries - after the one I had at hands and wanted to test was already built successfully. The binary could be reproduced: https://walletscrutiny.com/android/org.electrum.electrum/

Oh, great! In the morning it was done! Well, ... sort of. It ran out of disk space after writing a whopping 52GB.

Is Electrum 4.4.6.0 for Android reproducible? Building since over two hours. It's 1am. Guess I'll see tomorrow if it is.

Using Twitter exclusively to promote Nostr somehow gets you de-boosted. Not sure if getting de-platformed would be that much worse. Will Twitter folks notice either of those? The former definitely costs more of my energy.

Quick question. I have BT headphones that do connect to two devices at a time but they wouldn't play both sources. Do the AirPods play multiple sources at once? Reliably?

On primal, if I don't follow them, their DMs are on a separate tab which I would not check all the time. That's also how the big social media platforms do it. I found a guy's bag and tried to contact him on Facebook and Instagram. He hasn't seen my DM for weeks now as these DM's don't get shoved in his face as they shouldn't.

On nostr we could bribe the recipient into reading our messages but otherwise, unsolicited messages - from ephemeral accounts even - should never cause some inbox notification.

In the nips. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/02.md

I have not seen it implemented by any client yet.

But what is the incentive for them to mark it as spam? What is the incentive to not flood the system with events that then clients have to mark as spam, without even knowing where they came from?

I feel like such a scheme would urgently require the sender to pay the relay to store-and-forward and pay the recipient to bother decrypting it. Else, spam will just remain undetectable and a burden for all.

> Because the event is private, the relay must rely on Reports (or Deletion events) from the author of the p-Tag that the GiftWrap is sent to.

Wait ... so these events are sent to identified pubkeys? What if the recipient's client can't decrypt the event ... cause it's just garbage? Who's going to report this spam?

Petnames can be chained. So if I follow some "John Doe" and give him the petname "John" and you give me the petname "Leo", then you could reference John Doe as Leo.John which might be somebody else than fiatjaf.john.

This can be extended for other stuff, too. Nips for example. fiatjaf.nip1 might or might not be the same as Leo.nip1.

For your use case you need ephemeral pubkeys sending encrypted messages.

The design of nostr builds its censorship resistance on the fact that events are not bound to any one relay. They can be re-submitted to different relays. But relays have to filter spam, which is hard with ephemeral keys sending encrypted messages.

This dilemma already led to paid relays that only let paying pubkeys store events there or to throttling and time-constraints, making it hard to re-submit all my events to another relay.

I think, we need relays that charge sats first thing when opening the websocket and then credit that balance with what gets requested and sent. Then, relays could charge for example x3 for encrypted events and x2 for ephemeral authors, all without the need for long-lived pubkey-relay relationships. With these things in place, GiftWraps are ok. Without DM and GiftWraps, maybe we don't need these things. (I think we should have these things regardless.)

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Nostr is about censorship resistance and at least for me, the most challenging mode of censorship resistance is censorship resistant broadcast. Avoiding meta data leak in encrypted transmission is a different problem to solve and nostr trying to solve the former would have to compromise on that to solve the latter. Therefore I believe Gift-wrapped DMs and "full P2P" is potentially harming nostr.

Yeah, I know. This is why I wonder if a wallet connected to your mint would hold on to the tokens and what it would take for you to hold on to the token balances such that you don't need to keep the mint online but still could honor your obligations.

So I assume you ran the mint to test it out but now want to focus on one mint over the other and shut the one down.

Do you even know how many users have tokens? How many tokens are floating around in which denominations?

I would be scared of legal repercussions when just throwing away the balances, keys, everything as somebody could come up to x years later and lawyer up because his 12sats are now worth the effort to do so. For that, I would make sure to keep my records handy even though switching off the mint should be ok. And for those who want their funds, I'd like to know there was a way to boot up that mint software once a month to pay out those late comers before they lawyer up.

How much are you to gain?

I wonder if those wallets support proving a balance to you in some way. Like such that you can export outstanding tokens to an excel sheet and charge a processing fee mainly to cut off the long tail of 5sat balances. This way you could pull the plug without feeling too bad even if some people still hold higher value tokens.

Oktoberfest is keeping tight control over who may serve beer there. To brew with Munich water within the city is a precondition and this year it's been the same 6 breweries as always. At least I could not find a history of brewers being present at the Oktoberfest.

https://www.oktoberfest.de/en/magazine/eat-and-drink/the-six-munich-breweries-at-oktoberfest has some good information. As student, Augustiner was always my favorite beer. It's the oldest, dating back to 1328 and the only one to still store beer in wooden barrels. ... and the hardest to come by outside of Bavaria. ;)

There is no Warsteiner on Oktoberfest ;)