Project idea: nostr over DNS tunnel

content warning: nerdy bitcoin thoughts after a day of btcplusplus.dev

If we had some form of covenants we could have hundreds of L2s instead of just a few that barely work. Covenants are not spooky. They just mean being able to look at information of the transaction in the script that unlocks bitcoin for spending.

Before I didn’t really care about transaction introspection but many smarter bitcoiners are starting to convince me otherwise.

We could have channel factories that would solve many lightning onboarding problems, not to mention replacing the “i steal all your money because you restored from backup wrong” to “i just fix the channel state”.

It would also enable non-interactive versions of Ark and would open up tons of potentially more efficient L2s that make onboarding onto bitcoin easier and safer.

With op_txhash and other introspection proposals you could do “stacking”, a way for anyone to take a bunch of transactions and make a more efficient bundle translation to reduce fees, which will be increasingly important when fees get higher. This can be seen as a less hacky way to do sighash flags.

rusty’s great script restoration with a proper op budget has played a huge role in my shift of thinking, things like op_cat can be re-enabled, fixing the concerns which prompted satoshi to disable it at the last minute.

You can bizarrely get introspection from op_cat itself in a super inefficient way, but if we end up fixing script ideally we would just do something smarter like #lnhance

I can’t help but thinking of the future risks to bitcoin in a high fee environment if we don’t have tools to deal with it.

This is all theoretical of course, as engineers all we can do is come up with the best possible solution, ultimately its up to the node runners if they think its worth the opportunity to fix these problems.

the US is officially a police state. congrats to the law and order camp.

It's funny how Nostr moves in waves. Last week everybody was proposing Office suites, this week everyone is proposing Private messaging schemes. This is how we win.

envisioning a future of a Signal-grade private social network, where you have local llms privately translating, summarizing, and building algos of your feed. It’s not far off, we have the technology today. damn this is cool and cyberpunk af.

Good morning!

Making the most of a $50 steak.

Good things come to those who wait!

Making the most of a $50 steak.

Good things come to those who wait!

Too many of y’all are greatly underestimating what’s ahead in terms of government attack against freedom tech in the U.S. (with global ramifications)

Too many of y’all are greatly underestimating what we can do about it as users, American citizens, and through our legal system.

Good. Day. 🇺🇸✊🏻

turns out bitcoiners are super sensitive and reactive

People coming up with their amazing "self-sovereign" setup for using Bitcoin, meanwhile Bitcoin has zero adoption therefore the amazing setup gets more useless every day.

This post is all well and good and looks very cool, but fuck to think about it, we have been tied very short and we have not realized it.

For millennia the free market has decided what the form of money was, and now it's not that we don't decide what the form of money is, it's that the government has to give you a license to transmit it.

They have simmered us like a frog, let's admit it, those bastards are good, we have to accept the mistake in order to beat them, either them or us.

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There¡'s ONLY one law: The Natural Law.

And is very simple:

- do not do harm to somebody else

- do not kill somebody else

- do not steal from somebody else

All the rest are only statutes and regulations that do not apply to living men and women. Only to dead entities (aka corporations).

In the end all resume to this:

🌊 Ride the wave of health – drink water.