I am sorry you had to witness that. Fiatjad forces me to do it at gunpoint. I keep frantically blinking in morse code but nobody has showed up to safe me thusfar. If you are so inclined, we can be found next to the noisiest street of Brazil. Do make sure you arm yourself with nunchucks, jaf is a notoriously dangerous thumbwrestler.

And exactly howmany notes have you posted on starcraft sir?

nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 posts his shit takes on drivechains on twitter instead of nostr because he is wrong, and deep down inside he knows it.

It appears there are now w4men entering the platform.

Good time to remind everyone there are no girls on the internet; only AI generated spam

I dont follow...

Miners tell Bitcoin (if you want to put it like that) what time it is, at each block. The point is that everyone observing can judge whether that time is correct (enough). And it cant be anything other that time, because how else would everyone agree on what the next difficulty target ought to be?

How could it be any arbitrary number?

Well, then you thought wrong. There is a 2 hour margin in which miners can lie/be wrong/differ in opinion about time.

Bitcoin has its own oracle problem (because anything like this type of system needs an oracle). But Bitcoin uses the one thing that is hard to lie about, time. So it is workable that miners are the oracle, telling us the time of a block.

Bonus take:

People who call Bitcoin a clock are stupid. Calling something that needs/uses a clock, itself a clock, seems silly to me.

Its a database bound to time, not a clock.

Bitcoin uses/needs time, in order to introduce the notion of '10 minutes'. Otherwise there is no way to judge the significance of PoW/difficulty.

But this artificial work construct (hashing and difficulty adjustment) acts similar.

1: Given enough difficulty and decentralization, no particular actor has the might to alter or dictate things.

2: Acces to this data is trivial because of the internet.

3: intepreting the data is only as difficult as running a node.

The result is a consensus because it is hard to lie effectively about something on which everyone can come to the same conclusion themselves

Bitcoin both uses and mimmics the time-consensus.

Our human timekeeping is based on space stuff. Earth spinning around its axis(day), around the sun(year), and if you are trained you know the exact date and time based on the stars.

The point is that this data source is:

1: not under the influence of any particular actor. No King can move the heavens and earth so to speak.

2: easy to acces. One has only to open their eyes and look up.

3: easy to interpret. sun? -> day. No sun? -> night (go be depressed somewhere else pole people).

So everyone has easy acces to a hard to change source of data that is easy to translate into information. So negatively put: Any attempt on (sustained large scale) discord on time futile i.e. unlikely to disagree. Positively put: everyone comes to the same conclusion, so we agree.

Bitcoin relies on the assumption there is a pre-existing consensus on time.

Something that is barely mentioned anywhere. But mentioned nevertheless.

What i have not found anywhere thusfar is the insight as to why we have a functional consensus on time.

There is no such thing as a real Constant

I do not

It seems we are not his favorite podcast, therefor i will ignore anything he has to say. My heuristics have spoken.

No, instead of being targeted by a fancy person, he baited one ;)

Probably need a 2 tier system, one filter, and one for prioritization.

You could have AI models trained to pick out particular things of interest and feed that to you. I.e. the context of the post is not other posts; the AI bias is the filter of whatever posts it comes across

You just realized you would get a whole bunch of shit submissions using words like 'decentralized'; so to safe yourself the cringe you backed out. Too bad, nostr is a piece of shit where you cant delete stuff and you read all replies anyway. Ngmi

Do you think they will pay me to talk about global state and how plebs dont matter? I can do that...

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