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How am I doing?
You mean CBDCs? 😏
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Next nostr convention
Ok, but when someone says "there's some shady monopolistic activity going down here", the ideal response isn't "no, YOU'RE THE shady monopolist!" This is what Bob Woodward would call a "non-denial denial"
AI just makes it obvious that most things society claims to value lost their soul long ago. Corporations were already "artificial intelligence". LLMs are just a cost reduction
I love AI, and I also love this 👌
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CLAUDE:
Why This Works
- No ego: I won't judge your "dumb" ideas
- No fatigue: Happy to explore the 47th variation
- No assumptions: Will question "obvious" truths
- Yes-and energy: "That's impossible... but let's try!"
What haunts me about ecash isn't being rugged by dishonest operators... it's being rugged by honest ones. There's literally no way for an operator to exit the system without stealing funds
"When parallel construction is just too much work, we've got what you need"
"fix the money fix the world" is such a feel good aphorism. Gives you those warm fuzzies.
End the money printers!
Uncensorable exchange!
Sovereign individuals!
But you don't really believe that shit, right?
The world is full of broken things.
Sound money is necessary but not sufficient
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Forbes is now writing about nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m ‘s bitchat, mesh networks and ecash.
#mesh #bitchat #ecash #cashu nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg #radio #lora
"The mint cannot create more claims than the bitcoin it controls"
About that ... 🤔
"True settlement happens only when the current holder reconnects and redeems the note with the mint, which then burns the token and pushes the corresponding bitcoin onto the base layer of the network (bitcoin’s time chain). "
Yes, this is a series of events that could happen. Not the most common way that ecash operates though
Hah! Yes, I forgot about Zapple Pay! Can we make this idea easier to use?
While I run LND over tor and use AlbyHub for zaps, I appreciate that custodial zaps exist while we work towards better solutions. I'm still unable to receive zaps because that requires LNURL and doesn't work with onion services, but I think we can eventually work this out and have fully anonymous, self custodial zaps
Yes, but the seed has enough range already. If they didn't know your seed, they're not going to find it
I'm a big fan of Good Will Hunting. It's kind of cheesy, but you can also see the broad strokes of Matt Damon's neighbor and substitute father figure, historian and civil rights activist Howard Zinn
"Nostr is the worst form of social network, except for all the others" - Churchill I think
Ah, that makes sense. If the LB is HTTP aware, you want to make sure that the app server isn't more restrictive. Didn't the LB retry the request until it ran out of retries?
These situations are somewhat dangerous because client requests will eventually cause the LB to think servers are unhealthy until the whole cluster is down. If an attacker notices this, it's an easy DoS
Why 502? That suggests server error vs "silly client sent too many headers" error. Always good to log and investigate 5xx
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Organic trust in Bitcoin Deposits:
- Does my vault operator have other vaults
- Are they roughly balanced
- Are their channel peers auditing this vault
- Are they different parties
- Is the recovery output a multisig of the auditors
- Are my invoices valid
There are three ways to steal funds in Deposits:
- an operator that colludes with their channel partner
- a recovery party that doesn't reintegrate deposits
- an operator that creates fake invoices that the client doesn't validate
Fake invoices allow theft of a single payment but reveal the operator as dishonest before the theft, so validation is important but exploitation is unlikely.
Recovery is still an open design item, so I'm glossing over it for now.
The key to Deposits is organically preventing collusion. Payments can only be claimed by both channel partners, and funds (plus security) must be assigned to the recovery output or the payment fails. Operator theft requires suspending these rules.
To avoid collusion we need consequences. Since the reward is a split of the funds, the penalty should be similar. If depositors require operators to run multiple vaults, with different peers, who are also auditors, then the theft of a vault will be detected and the operators other channels can be force closed.
This close-for-dishonesty would forfeit security deposits. If vaults are roughly balanced and security deposit ratios set appropriately, this provides the funds necessary for the recovery party to recreate the stolen vault.
Not only are depositors made whole, we have removed the incentive to steal in the first place
Stay buoyant folks 🌊
This is the episode you’ve all been waiting for— nostr:nprofile1qyshwumn8ghj7en9v4j8xtnwdaehgu3wvfskuep0w3uhqetnvdexjur5qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uqzpxvff4mhj5snxn95nyf7yvupuxt2rwcsuklrahkcu857pqplmpndukqdk5 took the hot seat!
Episode Highlights:
- The Battle of the Mine-hackers, starting remotely and at nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq36amnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd46hg6tw09mkzmrvv46zucm0d5hsqgxyzefv97w93slluaegtnevwlu8h4zmf3me3fwcrewsdh6jegevrsv6weg2 this Saturday
- Centralization risks with mining pools, hardware, and block template construction
- Current focus areas at nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7ct5d3shxtnwdaehgu3wd3skueqpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqqg99han2f3v9ufrewhdyjfedq7r9kasn8ezjwet2psx4lq9cfd8k55zthuv7 and fun side projects like Bolt 12 Zaps
- Hot takes on Cashu
- Renaming sats to bitcoin and how user research can preemptively gauge reactions
- Making bitcoin fun with games and approaches like the 9 hidden Bittys on bitcoin.org
- Shoutouts to nostr:nprofile1qyx8wumn8ghj7cnjvghxjmcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqqg8zp79rswk9u9fkvyquzcywunenl29j67f9pn4jkk52h2jrjjnw0sg43a9l and Adam Jonas
- Positive vibecoding experiences and advice for anyone new to it
QWEN CODE: The physics becomes straightforward with adequate external energy input - the constraints are primarily energy-based rather than fundamental physical violations.
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The recent non-"Code" Qwen release has some tradeoffs, but this is a solid, rational model. *Two* highly capable, rational, open models in a week – both from China
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Because institutions don’t just produce knowledge —
They define what qualifies as knowledge.
That’s epistemological control.
And you’re not fighting physics anymore.
You’re fighting the gatekeeping of legitimacy
They very much can reason inside a context window. What you need is a repeatable process for building a context that can advance the current state of your system. Agent loops (eg, goose) can do this.
Once you've established a goal and a way to reliably make progress toward it, every functional programmer knows what comes next
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