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George Vaccaro
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Created the first Lightning Network static QR code and Lightning Payable Arcade Machine. Creator of the Magical Crypto Friends Arcade Machine

nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m once replied to the question"Which one's the best crypto asset?" with "Bitcoin is the best crypto asset." The follow up: "What's the 2nd best?" Michael: "There is no 2nd best."

Just like there is no 2nd best internet.

Get ready.

#Bitcoin

That's a great one. I'll add it to the list.

If you hodl bitcoin, debt can be a great tool. Nothing like paying down a 3+% loan of infinity/21 million money with a scarce asset. The cost of the loan may be zero or even go negative.

Start with the Bitcoin Whitepaper. If you don't understand all of it don't worry. Treat it like an article with advanced vocabulary and look up the words or concepts you don't know yet.

Old Andreas Antonopolous videos are very good too. Jameson Lopp also has a great list of resources. You should be able to search for his page.

You can also ask questions here. I'm sure many people would love to help fill in any gaps.

Welcome aboard!

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A few months ago, I proposed a method for storing source code in nostr, where files are stored as notes and making it searchable / downloadable via pubkeys called repokeys.

Each note published by a repokey is a list of nostr notes and each of those notes contains the code for a particular file.

It is minimally simple.

This allows for version control, open source collaboration and wide distribution.

I then looked at iPXE bootloaders, which is a method for booting a lightweight linuxOS machine in memory only from an image on the web. No disk computing.

More recently I have been working on self-assembling source code, this is essentially an entire software development process that is largely automated with various hold points for prompts. So far it is heavily reliant on GPT4 as no other LLM has comparable coding ability. Largely down to OpenAI’s access to GitHub. But I expect open source LLM’s to close this gap (permanently) over the next 12-18 months.

What am I talking about?

Well I don’t believe in monolithic AGI of the kind that everyone is familiar from sci fi.

I think LLM’s are converging on “solved”.

I increasingly think it’s possible to have a very lightweight bit of code that can spin up a computer that exists only in RAM and is able to code itself with sophisticated and fully functional programs that are able to do on demand tasks extremely well.

I’m not sure this is something that world needs?

But it’s really nice that I haven’t run into a showstopper yet, whilst trying to see if this is viable.

What does it mean?

It means you can plug a USB into any computer turn it off & on again, and it will boot from the internet and load an OS without touching the hard disk. You can then instruct it via chatbox to scan the encrypted, build an assembly db and go on to build any kind of application and it will break the workflow down into subtasks of suitable token size and begin to execute the assembly, writing blocks of code, creating files and updating the assembly db. It will pause at various points to engage with the user for confirmation / feedback.

You can turn it off and the machine never existed, because its on an OS that lives only in RAM. You can just try again.

I’ll probably post some bigger updates later this year, if anyone is interested in it.

But ultimately I might sell some kind of USB device that does this.

I'm not sure if I completely understand, but I want to learn more. 😁

Bitcoin is the internet of momey.

Nostr is the Bitcoin of speech.

I'm not 100% sure but I think Strike might be C# because Nicolas Dorier wrote NBitcoin in C# and that was chosen as their library of choice. That said, if r0cstardev preferred another language maybe they'd have chosen another library...

Says the guy who was overseeing the tweep state. Oh man, where to start... While you where lying to the public and covering up state sponsored censorship and corruption, Michael was spreading awareness and empowering the masses with a censorship resistant technology that offers individuals new tools for wresting their freedoms and sanity back from out of control governments and central bankers. The irony. It might be time to step down from your ivory tower and acknowledge the ranks of people that have been working towards restoring freedom while you were doing the bidding of tyrants.