"Choose an app" implies there is something to choose from. Where is the choice?

Choose an app?

The synergies created by a protocol like nostr should be a gigantic driver. I had criticized Damus early on for not mentioning once "nostr" on the website but in the end it doesn't matter. If Damus would change the client to only talk to one company relay, all its users would already have their accounts that would be free of such a limitation. They can get aware of this as late as actual problems arise and that keeps the clients in line. They can try out the limits, maybe a bit of ads and a bit of censorship but if they overdo it, users figure it out and switch at almost zero switching cost as opposed to switching from a platform.

There was and there are tools to do this. The nostrgram closed source client let you export your events.

And most clients do not support communities, so most users aren't even aware there was such a thing. Yeah, this is my second or third post to a community and I've been on nostr for more than a year.

I literally just discovered this community when I saw it in nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn's profile. The nostr communities are very much experimental and there might be 12 other "nostr" communities as there is no central registry of such names.

@nprofile1qqswcnfyrse5xydn5vzyx0hrgs4798gw3rn7cxdctm0jhw3fhy6ktcspy3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuerfva5hgctvwfjkvmmjd4shg6t0dchxjmnxduhsz9mhwden5te0dehhxarj9e3kscttv4ezumn9wshsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxzaf0hmdh0f had put some black tubes on his roof to heat his pool. Last year I had setup a pool myself and tried to do the same. With quite some work and not really knowing what I was doing, I hooked up a 650W pump to my pool but later realized that my approximately 1 square meter of roof installation probably wouldn't make a dent on my 9 square meter pool. But while in the pool, the water from that hose being 2°C hotter than the pool always felt warm even though 27°C isn't really hot-tub territory.

That pump died over our southern winter or turned so loud that it wasn't usable anymore so I got a 120W "silent" pump. And yes, this pump is really silent although I found their advertisement a little misleading. They advertise "30dB", claiming that plants are at "0-25dB".

And now I did some math: With 6.5 liters per minute and a now 3°C increase, this 120W installation pumps 1360W into the pool. As I did not measure the flow of the loud pump, I don't know how that stacks up but in terms of Wout/Win it's almost certainly better now and better than an air-to-water heat pump.

I am still looking for some cheaper black stuff to have water flow through as all options I found so far are kind of terribly expensive per square meter.

Congratulations to nostr:npub1qqqqqqqx2tj99mng5qgc07cgezv5jm95dj636x4qsq7svwkwmwnse3rfkq for an HRF grant!

Do you still have the keys fro nostr:npub1m0str0n64lfulw5j6arrak75uvajj60kr024f5m6c4hsxtsnx4dqpd9ape ? ;) Hoping to see some update on the project. Video walk through etc.

Guess that's exactly the problem. First wallet to support bank wire, LN ,ark, venmo, paypal, zappay, e-dinar, space-bucks, ...

It would definitely drive centralization but as you say, it would not have to be the miner or even the pool that offers such a service. The service would have to get access to some blocks per day at least to make sense but that's like 2% of the hash rate. You don't need some 50% for that.

Yeah, basically. I guess it would be a contract based on calendar days and not block heights. Bigger miners could offer more with more granularity.

The fee market would be more efficient if there was a possibility to buy futures. If I know my transactional demand for my business model, it should be possible to lock in a price for that.

Do miners offer such future block space? Is there a secondary market for those futures? It would be incredibly helpful for others to see these future rates.

Fees are rising slightly again. To hope for zero is to hope for Bitcoin to die.

These fee events make more users conscious about fee sniping, so they defer UTXO consolidation to perceived low fees but as they won't wait for it to go to zero, there will always be demand above zero from here on out unless of course Bitcoin was dying.

Or in other words it would be nice if we could make back-dating harder by broader use of OTS or something.

Back-dating in nostr is trivial but not supported in my client. For things like "the first to reply ..." it would be handy to have a way to reply "the same second" as the post minutes later.

120sat/vB are clearing again. Is the Bitcoin Magazine / inscriptions shit-show over?

It was entertaining, yes.

The deer staring at the women was mother nature totally getting all details about the ongoing cyber attack and trying to tell them how to fix it.

But better run a pruning node that understands what's going on.

Feature Request: Set my timestamp in the past in my favorite client.

Nobody knows but fees were that high in the past, too and came down to 10sat/vB again. There is no promise for this to happen again though.

ETF could drive price without too many on-chain transactions but I think, people wanting to transact will only get more, so I would not wait for below-80 fees.