Be nice to any pregnant woman you meet. They’re literally manufacturing a next generation human.
I'm at Bitcoin Amsterdam, but spent half the day finishing some Signal-style double ratchet messaging.
Deployed an experimental version on https://iris.to. You can create chat invite links and give them to friends via QR or other messaging. The UI is still lacking and glitchy, but just had to demo at the conference.
The chats cannot be publicly linked to either participant, and even if your main Nostr key is revealed, the content and existence of past messages stays hidden.
Also published npm package nostr-double-ratchet 0.0.1: https://www.npmjs.com/package/nostr-double-ratchet
It's not actually double ratchet yet, but the single ratchet already achieves forward and backward secrecy.
The second ratchet would help secure the latest consecutive messages by same author, in case a message key for the most recent of their messages is compromised. That makes disappearing messages or manually deleted messages more secure. I guess we'll have to do it so we can say "Signal-level security".
This is obviously not tested or audited yet, but probably it's not worse than normal Nostr DMs 😅
You can take a look at the source code, but I'll write a better technical description later. It's using existing Nostr cryptography + some key derivation stuff. Chat invites use gift wrap -like arrangement addressed to the inviter's temporary session key. https://github.com/mmalmi/nostr-double-ratchet
You’re already a legend. This just confirms it. It was good meeting you in Prague. I hope this project goes well…humans need this!
So I watched the HBO bitcoin documentary. They naively point to nostr:npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm as satoshi because he pointed out a minor but valid technical point to one of satoshi’s posts early on in the history of bitcoin. They assume he must have been satoshi to understand bitcoin that well that quickly and that instead of editing his post as satoshi he accidentally logged in as himself and just finished the thought he started as satoshi in a new post.
Lame. Produced just isn’t used to what genuinely smart people are like.
That said, Peter gives a literally eye-wateringly beautiful troll performance. I’ve never been prouder to be satoshi after seeing his performance. In fact, I’m prouder to be satoshi than Adam, who clearly doesn’t want the title (and obviously couldn’t hold it as well as me because stylistically his code isn’t as shitty as mine).
Bitcoin fixes this, study #bitcoin
Worst ways to die in history (part 11)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZlZrlkPI0j0
This is why I choose to provide for the security of a free state by keeping and bearing arms.
I suppose it’s possible there is a conspiracy to do something to the atmosphere for some purpose…but it seems at least as reasonable to assume the products of combustion (namely CO2 and H2O and incomplete combustion products) seed temporary cloud formation…clouds wherein the lifetime and spread depend on a variety of atmospheric conditions.
Fix the money and the world will fix itself.
Here’s an idea: How about we let them have their fact checks and censorship if they let us lawfully punish politicians by hanging them for lying?
Seems like a fair trade
Had those same glasses for my daughter at a similar age over a decade ago
Here’s an idea: How about we let them have their fact checks and censorship if they let us hang politicians for lying?
Well, at year 14 it’s not exactly easy…but I agree, once your cost basis is zero and you realize how you massively f’d up it’s not as hard buying and holding.
Exactly. And they can f people real bad by making their debt harder to pay, at least temporarily.
While we all feel like dollars will go to zero over the long term, we don’t often think about how scarce dollars actually are.
While it is true USD must go to zero to avoid US default, the value of dollars can go wildly up in the short term…
Why? Rehypothecation…there are far more debts denominated in dollars than there are dollars.
Just hard to know who’s who
You don’t have enough bitcoin. And even though you realize this in theory now, it’s gonna sting in a year or so. And when it becomes apparent you should have bought more, you’ll end up diverting more free cash to bitcoin. But it won’t be enough, but you won’t discover this for another 4 years.
Shout out to nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs for aping in 10x more than was prudent for the time. Not an easy way to live, but pays off over time.
Great podcast, btw: https://youtu.be/3kgpeH9MOg0
Because your public key isn’t revealed until you spend, quantum computers can’t just hack away at your public key at their leisure. If your transaction will be in the next block, there’s a time limit on finding the private key.