I have a bone to grind with you, Nostr. I’ve been slaving away trying to build a completely new ecosystem for a media hosting, and we’ve been charging bare minimum to keep the service afloat while providing a human-to-human/dog support, and yet people complain how “outrageous” the pricing is. If the price cannot afford even a cup of coffee after costs, it is not outrageous in my book. Creators love to complain how they get nothing for their work, while many devs are literally giving away their time, knowledge and investment into the craft of tech. Also, your fucking bullshit about 1 sat = 1 sat, while closely monitoring fiat rates, is getting old and tiresome. At least be honest with yourself, and stop placating bullshit. I am not your slave, I am not your daddy, if you need a good service that is free from ads and other bullshit, then someone has to pay. If you do not want to pay, do it yourself or go to YouTube or TikTok or Instagram, and stop pretending like you give a fuck.

Now go and fuck yourselves, and make sure to enjoy it! 🐶🐾🫡😤

i feel an overwhelming sense of pessimism for everything software, and an optimism for everything hardware

Id like to help with that. I would like to test my noscrypt library on some hardware as that it also a target use case. I would also like to see a serial (or similar) API drafted for platform software support. Id like to add hardware support to NVault in the future.

Oooooohhhh ❤️❤️❤️❤️

The delegate key thing (NIP46) as to happen of course and delegation with expiry like X509 certificates. Expiry means implicit revocation.

Keeping an eye too on those ESP32 devices and their security properties, like flash RAM encryption etc. I think there have been security holes there in the past. They would make for great "open source Yubikeys" with their broad availability.

In case what can also use a see dedicated crypto chip normally like ATECC608B or NXP SE050 but those don't normally do secp256k1 because that shit it exotic as fuck and is really hurting nostr.

my opinions don’t change if i learn what happened in some random convo. Bitcoin doesn’t care.

we need a healthy open source Bitcoin community. period. no matter what. Bitcoin won’t succeed without one. even if we want to ossify, Bitcoin Core 26.0 won’t last us centuries to come. open source projects need open source devs and an open source community.

we should focus on no strings attached funding for devs. the community has worked tirelessly to set this up with things like OpenSats, Brink, HRF, Chaincode, etc. to enable that effortlessly for us and the devs.

we as Bitcoiners should want devs to build whatever they think is best. engineers are the artists of the digital world. the smartest most forward thinkers in the room. we want to enable them. they aren’t ever a threat, don’t mistaken them for one. why? because the only way Bitcoin can change is if we, the network, run their code. let them create. we the network, the people, decide what gets adopted.

if someone builds something terrible, we won’t run it. that’s happened many times before. see Segwit2x, BitcoinCash, etc.

often times engineers strike moments of brilliance in Bitcoin. a very famous example is Segwit and how we got Lightning. nobody thought Segwit was possible technically. was never clear if or when we’d ever get Lightning. a few open source engineers named Luke and Eric found a brilliant solution. we adopted it. we now have Lightning being enabled by Coinbase. let engineers create art. fund and support them.

wanna ossify Bitcoin? run Core 26 forever and never update. no problem. don’t wanna fund devs? no problem. we don’t need to agree on these things. however, if you want the entire network to agree with you, you need to go out and advocate for consensus around your vision. that’s just how bitcoin works. the network moves as one, not from a meeting or self elected group.

bitcoin is a distributed network. it progresses through distributed consensus. the network will act in its own best interest, not based on anything else. fund the best engineers to protect and advance the one chance we have at reinventing money for humanity. adopt what we want, reject what we don’t. if there’s anything we need to work on every cycle with new entrants is public discourse and how to arrive at consensus as a distributed network.

also, everyone should breathe. it’s all love and gonna be ok. Bitcoin was designed to not care and last through anything 🙂

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Isn't it annoying to not know exactly who is in the minority?

You would only push for ossification if you have never developed software.

Code stops working if you don't maintain it. It starts failing at the edges and slowly migrates to the core. People will stop using it way before it gets to the core features.

GM.

You would only push for ossification if you have never developed software.

Code stops working if you don't maintain it. It starts failing at the edges and slowly migrates to the core. People will stop using it way before it gets to the core features.

GM.

Go ahead. Make your arguments.

My statement: "Bitcoin's use of energy is essential"

Your statement: "Bitcoin's use of energy is bad"

Guess this is more controversial.

Don't get me wrong, I stare into my phone as much as the next guy. But every time I see a group of people sitting at a table, together, with each person staring into their own phone as if they were alone, I find myself shaking my head. I guess I'm a grumpy old man now.

Yes. It's called demurrage. It's not a big, it's a feature.

Also how's the wet wipes going.

Yes. It's called demurrage. It's not a big, it's a feature.

Also how's the wet wipes going.

today i learned most bitcoiners don’t understand bitcoin