Yes, but all the implementations I've seen start from the seed (whether generated or mnemonic). I want to start from an already existing keypair (like a nostr keypair) and then derive from there. I'm wondering if there is an agreed upon want to get the chaincode needed to start deriving.

Well maybe not. Maybe he could have signed executive orders to stop congress raising the debt ceiling or something. That oughta do it

Ladies and gentlemen, we got him.

On this Elon/Trump talk, Trump just said “we would have no inflation” if not for Biden. This is false.

I think it’s important to clarify that there *was* massive inflation during Trump’s administration.

From January 2017 to January 2021, the M2 money supply increased from ~$13.3 trillion to ~$19.4 trillion by January 2021.

That’s an INFLATION of ~$6.1 trillion, or ~45%.

There is a LAG between monetary inflation and general price increases throughout the economy, and price increases do not happen uniformly (look up the Cantillon Effect).

To clarify for the partisans out there: this is NOT an attempt to make excuses for Biden or to say that the monetary and fiscal policies under Biden are good; they are not good.

The point is that it is false to say “there was no inflation” under Trump.

Monetary inflation *is* inflation.

sigh

I understand why people sell their stuff for sats but fuck that I like nice things ☺️

Like honestly how big does your stack need to be before you enjoy it a little?

oof nip-17 group chats are quite spammy. if there are 20 people in the group you need to send 20 notes for each message you send. 100 notes each time a user sends a message to a group of 100 people, etc. that wouldn't work well on the damus relay with write rate limiting.

Do we like this way of representing the NSEC to facilitate handwritten backup and typing back into the app?

```

NSEC1-AGZ4-Q7LG-WN8V-4K5M

FA4KT-YK8G-VY0R-AHV2-CPL2

KJQ6M-SP8X-PZV2-PQX7-8ZKF

```

why do you expect people to work nonstop on something for free?

Do you then continuously adjust the amount of Bitcoin locked to your key so that it keeps being valued at USD?

I didn't mean actual USD. I meant Bitcoin but I converted the price into USD so everyone could better understand the value of it since BTC goes up and down.

Until Bitcoin becomes the world's reserve currency I will continue and prefer to state the value in USD so it's easier to understand.

1BTC is way too much. 500USD is enough.

I didn't know we could lock in BTC to our nsec.

Wouldn't it be cool if everyone had to lock in a small amount of BTC in order to transact with each other? That would cut down on spam.

I also had no idea that our nsec could be leaked.

This sounds terrible. Now I'm worried.

But what about my private messages

Tell your friends and family they can't trust the key anymore

Don't you have to pay Bitcoin transaction fee for OpenTimestamps. Isn't that expensive.

Western society was the salvation of this planet. Billions were hauled out of poverty and hunger. The rise of the middle class was a miracle.

Now Western society, in it's lazy ignorance and self-satisfied navel gazing, is on the verge of letting all that get torn down.

No need to compromise on discoverability or privacy. Nostr can be used as a discorrability layer for SimpleX (or any other messaging app) but this has been turned down twice. There were discussions about interesting SimpleX with Nostr last year but it never went anywhere, someone made a proposal for a contact info field to replace the DM button with but that was declined.