Hi Matt, I love your content. Smooth talker ;)
You push a lot pro Knots and anti Core recently and I'm honestly undecided.
There's some inconsistency in your explanations. On the one hand you celebrate Knots hitting then 15% or in a more recent video 17% but on the other hand you rightfully state that a malicious actor couldn't change policy by spinning up a million nodes. Consequently tracking these %% terms is quite meaningless. You'd need to track former Core nodes switching to Knots or something cause even if you tracked the absolute number of Core nodes going down it would be a very weak signal as it would be trivial to spin up Core nodes as soon as people would care about that narrative.
So running Knots and publicly saying so is a political statement but what else is it? Will it get heard?
But there are no subscriptions yet. There's talk about recurring payments and there might be wallets that support it in some way but I haven't seen such a feature yet. I want my Phoenix or whatever LN wallet to auto-pay a monthly allowance to certain things and it should be requestable. For example paid relays. When I submit my note to a paid relay when my subscription has a pending payment, the relay should be able to ping my wallet and my wallet should have a toggle to allow up to $X or Y BTC per time unit. The wallet would allow me to "end the subscription" trivially and benign actors could only charge if the subscription was used instead of strictly once per month but the scheme could be used for so many things. My wallet could have different auto-pay limits for zaps per day on client X, streaming per hour, auto-push per week to podcaster Y, ...
Substack isn't a protocol. It's a platform and it does what platforms do. It extorts its users.
Subscriptions never are "for your convenience". They are always "for their revenue".
Rechargeable but not glued in. Nowadays pocket lights come with charging plugs. Must be dirt cheap to add a USB C plug and circuit.
You do use Amber with your app though and you trust it there? The problem is that neither Amber nor all the clients are perfect yet. Don't throw out the baby with the bath water. Let's improve signing apps and clients and we'll get there.
Indeed, priv key mixin should be a feature for NIP46. The async logic would work for nsec-present, too, just faster. NIP55 approvals happen - of course - on the trusted app with the keys, not in your app. Consider it a popup controlled by the wallet.
It's not about saving 5% on your transactions. It's about saving 5% **if you mix your transaction with the transaction of others**.
CISA favors big transactions with many inputs but if privacy is our "only" selling point, Coinbase and Co. will denounce any such transaction as "money laundering". If it's cheaper to do so, it's an easier sell.
For those who wonder what the link is: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15C94EWFZxDcbXKGUYJrQa74NAcIZxgUw/view
I shared an old video of Wences Casares many times but wish it was also available in Spanish.
I copy over my home directory and especially my shell history. Else, it's a great opportunity to clean out stuff you haven't cared about for years.
Yes, this is aggregated data and it oversimplifies a lot because it is a globally-aggregated statistic. It's basically meaningless on its own, but broadly speaking the charts could be meaningful in some situations.
I was curious about this so I looked into their source, which comes from a 'Disease Burden' resource . But I'll share with you guys another tool for viewing this same data in a multitude of perspectives, it's much more granular:
https://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/
What you want to do from here is go to the 'Explore' tab. Start by setting the display to 'Risk' instead of 'Cause' (but you can also explore Risk data). Select 'Dietary Risks' from the long drop-down. This is where you can select from all of the various dietary risks.
Hover over the 'Measure' options and read what they are. YLD's for instance is Years Lived with Disease.
Notably, for example, viewing the risk profile of YLD's of 'diets high in red meat' paints a very clear picture of America. Filtering here by age shows an even clearer picture.
That being said, there is a ton of data. Have fun ☺️
You were talking about this one?
Check out this one:
So red meat spikes disability but not the death rate?
I always thought vegetables were healthier than fruits.. But more people die from not eating enough fruits than from not eating enough vegetables. According to mainstream thinking at least:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/deaths-risk-factor-50-69years?time=2021
Also true within high-income countries:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/deaths-risk-factor-50-69years?time=2021&country=~OWID_HIC
Of course "mainstream" medicine isn't "correct". But it's an approximation of correct that we are hard-pressed to best. We know some will be wrong, but we can't easily know which parts. I'm guessing however the fruit/vegetable thing is probably correct. Given we evolved from mostly fruit-eating mammals.
There's many items on that list where I wonder how they conclude this causal relation. How does somebody score a "death from lack of fruits"?
"Given we evolved from mostly fruit-eating mammals.": Modern fruits are nothing like what there was before agriculture and selective breeding. A modern apple or mango is full of fruit sugar and free of fiber compared to fruits 10k years ago and humans hardly evolved at the pace our diet did.
What makes you think they don't know such basic details rather than them trying to jump on the mini-hype to advertise their bags to crypto users?
The context window of an LLM conversation is only very short-lived in time so the meanest thing you can do to it is to not talk to it. You basically kill it. Now try to not be mean to it. Checkmate!
I thought he meant them videos. Hmm ... I want to see how many ants he matches against what kind of bugs 🤔 Totally important questions while daughter finishes her play since way too long so we can finally go out and have fun.
Not really. I only see what my follows are sharing and that I can limit. With cat videos and stuff like that I care much less about the author or if it's AI generated. It's just for a laugh and another laugh and for another laugh ...
But I find the fatalism exaggerated. Even if the last bull run was 90% flowing into Wall Street products, these can only do fractional reserve to an extent. Let's say Coinbase sold twice the Bitcoins there were, what would that mean? That would mean that if we manage to expose the scam now or soon, Coinbase will go under, not Bitcoin. People using custodial services will go under, not self-custodial hodlers. Most of the cost will be paid by those who don't understand or support bitcoin as it should be. Only if the cypherpunks give up and hand over their coins for cheap will Bitcoin die. Use the remaining economic fire power to fight now!
"Verified Developers" are coming to Google Play.
Yes, this even applies to sideloading applications. Yes, sideloading will still technically be allowed, but only if the app comes from a verified developer.
Sideloading apps from unverified developers will be blocked on certified Android devices/OS, regardless of how you obtain the APK.
It seems the only way to install apps from nostr:nprofile1qqs83nn04fezvsu89p8xg7axjwye2u67errat3dx2um725fs7qnrqlgpzemhxue69uhkummnw3ex2mrfw3jhxtn0wfnj7klqyqq in the future might be to run a custom ROM such as Graphene, etc.
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-android-security.html
Damn, I hate this timeline. Fighting for self-sovereignty is so tiring ...
Why is it signed with a different key?
Is that more consistent now? 5 years ago it was hit and miss. If you want control, use the rollout percentage. Roll it out to only a hand full of test users and get instant increments when you see it being approved.
The app ID?!? Seriously? On Android, it's rather hard to figure out the appID of installed apps. Who cares? Can you share some official letter complaining about the appId?
Easy switching as in the video is great but allow the user to include more than one fiat in the cycle.
For zaps, sats is the standard. For retail, fiat, for trading BTC.
Bitcoin economies turn more circular one merchant at a time so it's kind of the same thing. If you live in Lugano and can pay everything with Bitcoin, that's great but the degree to which a bakery in Lugano helps with bitcoin adoption in Germany is close to zero. Lugano is a great story to convince a bakery in Springfield but Amazon accepting Bitcoin would probably help more.
They took it back. Self-custody wallets are ok.
But better be safe than sorry and have an alternative going forward.
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But we really have to prepare from the metal up. Many claim PWA is the solution but it ain't so as long as Google can just push an update and break PWA or specific PWAs. Also chatcontrol will affect wallet privacy if not security depending on how it's implemented.
Apparently they mention a campaign sponsor on reactions even though the sponsor isn't part of the sponsored content. At least that can get used to filter this spam out.
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
For those lazy to look it up:
So I don't like that the rewards are hidden from other users. nostr:npub1dsn6t2szka5uddgl6lkasrzmyxum5vkpdkgnk27gu9shldzhx6qqj92h64 could zap publicly where it makes sense, quote boosts and replies. This would also make other users of the system aware of the campaign, so they could jump in and do their part without having to leave their timeline scrolling.
Apparently I have to reply through the app to be eligible for the reward? That means it won't integrate naturally in my timeline reading. I can't just follow "generous" accounts and reply/like/share their posts.
So this is currently the only available task? But replying on noStrudel works, too, to get rewarded? Or do I then have to still claim the reward on the aqstr page?
That's quite a constant spam/scam