nostr:nprofile1qqsr7acdvhf6we9fch94qwhpy0nza36e3tgrtkpku25ppuu80f69kfqpramhxue69uhkummnw3ez6un9d3shjtnyv4ex26mjdaehxtndv5hsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wghxyctwvshszxthwden5te0wfjkccte9ekk7mt0wd68ytnsd9hxktc79dllq ledgers connect to an endpoint through ledger live to check for firmware updates, because they need to install the "Bitcoin app" every time the user resets their seed phrase.

It's only a question of time before they sign off on a malicious firmware update and 20% of all Bitcoin is at risk of going off the market 🤣

Nostr.watch rocks! Thanks for working on this nostr:nprofile1qqswwud0pvzu362lehm0av6sq4zd97cue5uy0z8f7jgtk0hz368dvmcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszymhwden5te0wp6hyurvv4cxzeewv4ej7lgz549 🙏

With the Bitaxe and StratumV2, ideological miners bring an interesting twist to security.

You can mine at a loss to enforce your mempool policy if you don't like ordinals.

IANA is just another reason to mine at a loss - which is probably good for decentralization...

Currently there is no incentive for pools to do this, because everyone is using ICANN domains and IANA IP addresses.

Currently there is also no incentive for me to mine at home, because I would make a loss. However, I would love to mine at a loss with my RaspiBlitz if an upstream pool or proxy were to take on the role of IANA by giving me an IP address. Sure this would initially be an IP address in a local network, but why not do the same on a global level if it proves to be useful locally.

Pools that compete with IANA could serve a market of miners who care about removing the authority from their addressing system more than they care about profitability.

Regarding domains: ICANN just manages a fiat list of who owns what namespace. We don't need them because we can create our own namespace (npubs) managed by entropy rather than fiat.

I realize this means giving up the existing network effects on the fiat internet, but how else are we going to bootstrap a network without fiat authorities?

People who are buying an IP address from their fiat ISP are out of luck. I won't find them, because I'm on the proof of work (inter)network and it isn't their IP address on this network 😀

We already trust our DNS servers and our e-cash mints not to mess with us. This DNS server is a pool, so you don't buy a domain. You mine Bitcoin and you get address space + Bitcoin for your work.

Wow neat!

Apologies for my premature comments and thanks for explaining 😀

I think we can replace IANA with nested StratumV2 pools that run e-cash mints and assign address ranges as autonomous systems.

Whenever a pool finds a new block it becomes the DNS server that calls the shots till a new block is found. How many IP addresses an autonomous system controls depends on the amount of hashrate that it contributed to that block. Oh and domains aren't strictly needed. The DNS server could just map npubs to IP addresses (or ranges).

Just point your hashrate at your internet gateway - which also happens to be a pool, and you get your fair share of public IP addresses.

Indeed, timestamps are really useful in nostr notes.

I agree that inconsistency is often undesirable, though I'm hesitant about concluding that relays should coordinate. It's my nostr client's job to ensure that the content is consistent across all the relays that I use. Perhaps I should be using fewer relays if I'm unable to maintain sufficient consistency across all my relays. It's enough to have just one relay with the outbox model 😀

I realize the UX suffers from having all the business logic in the client, but where do we draw the line between Twitter and nostr if our relays keep getting smarter?

Bitcoin nodes use proof of work to ensure that our nodes can all agree on the current state of the Blockchain. However, I can't afford to shit post on those nodes because the consensus mechanism forces all nodes to store the same thing - which doesn't scale to many posts.

Nostr relays (and git remotes) don't have such a consensus requirements, which means that different relays may give you different profiles pictures. This seems annoying, but I also don't want all relays to agree which of my content to store, because in most cases they would agree that it's too costly to store any of my content.

Just use Bitcoin if you want consensus. Nostr is scalable because it doesn't come with guarantees...

When I drove from Berlin to Switzerland with the FM radio on I found straight out contradictions between what swiss radio and German radio were reporting with respect to Ukraine..

Good morning 😀

I didn't realize there was a measurable decline. To me this was more of a theoretical possibility...

Is the decline temporary? What are the explanations?

Thanks for your input guys, this is exactly what I was hoping to find out! Nostr is a true super power when one has such questions 😀

Seeing that syncthing exists makes me wonder why anyone would want to host their data on something like owncloud. Where is the catch?

nostr:nprofile1qqszv6q4uryjzr06xfxxew34wwc5hmjfmfpqn229d72gfegsdn2q3fgpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgjwaehxw309ahx7um5wf6k2tnrdakj7qg6waehxw309ac8junpd45kgtnxd9shg6npvchxxmmd9usc5pxf do you have an option on this?

https://syncthing.net/

Hmm ya I can relate to that. Would you say that the movement around Bitcoin is bad for Bitcoin? So far my assumption was that it's a requirement at an early stage...

Perhaps the movement nurtured Bitcoin in the beginning and hinders it later on.

I guess the word "leader" comes with a lot of baggage...

There is also a RaspiBlitz hackday on the 10th and BTC++ on the 11th to 13th. So lots of reasons to come. I might even have a spare ticket for BTC++...