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dwarner5522
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Great ideas here and thanks so much for researching this. The BTC dev community definitely needs to start having a plan and strategy in place to counter this threat. Probably the most important attack vector to counter in the coming years if not days!

What people see in Ripple still boggles my mind. To me it always was and always will be the shit coin of all shit coins. Let me put it this way, if my only choices were Fartcoin and Ripple, I would probably take Fartcoin, because at least it would give someone a laugh.

My original umbrel on RPi4 failed, but then I went with an OrangePi5 w/16GB ram and configured to boot from an M.2 rather than the SD card. Been running great with the Orange Pi so far and can handle more load. Problem now is Umbrel updated their OS again so I do need to reconfigure for that when I have time. Not a priority though.

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A cashu mint can create sats without locking actual Bitcoin (Fake Wallet https://github.com/cashubtc/nutshell/blob/f32099bce7ecca54338ebc1a551883fbdb883af2/cashu/lightning/fake.py#L31). So the zaps you receive may or may not be real, i.e. convertible to Lightning sats. So you should either zap those sats onwards, or withdraw to a real wallet asap (claim from the mint).

It this thing takes on and there will be lots and lots of such (potentially fake) sats on Nostr, this will inflate Bitcoin supply and damage it's reputation when many sats turn out unclaimable.

TLDR I hate this shitcoinery.

This isn't shitcoinery. It's a legit method to possibly evolve the ecosystem. With that said though, I agree that there needs to always be actual sats backing any ecash transaction. Also need redundancy in the ecash mints. Could there be a way maybe to require ecash mints be in clusters of 4. So that the (4) in the cluster are each clones of one another. With the sats being held in a multisig wallet, so that 2 of the 4 mint clones hold the same multisig key and the other 2 mint clones hold the other multisig key. I guess this would make it a separate layer 2 network completely separate from lightning though.

🤦‍♂️God Almighty!... need a time machine

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When nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m was CEO of Twitter and Trump was president there were many calls to ban Trump from Twitter. There were many people demanding Trump be removed because either he violated the TOS or because they saw Trump’s tweets as dangerous.

While catching up over kombucha at the Square office, Jack mentioned some of these conversations and how there were compelling arguments on both sides. He asked lots of people what they thought twitter should do. So he asked me about Trump and other accounts, like Richard Spencer’s and the alt-right.

I’m very anti-Trump but I said I thought Jack shouldn’t ban him, because he’d face a shareholder revolt. Everyone said that it was Jack deciding things at Twitter and Mark Zuckerberg for the meta empire, but that wasn’t really true. The real power is in the money and that’s shareholders and advertisers.

I can only imagine what a hard and stressful job it would be to decide what can and cannot be said in the public sphere, as twitter effectively was at its height. It was an impossible job, one which shouldn’t exist. Jack did incredibly good at managing to find balance, and everyone hated his decisions because there was no right answer.

The reason for Bluesky, and now Nostr is to make it so no company or person has that kind of control. That the public sphere that is social media shouldn’t owned or controlled by any corporation or government. When something of value is held together without being ultimately owned by a person, organization, or government, the it is held in common.

What we’re building together on Nostr is a commons. By making it a commons that’s held up by our software and contrbution as users, we escape the trap that caught twitter.

A commons where we come together to make and sustain space.

A commons where we can do business freely without someone who can arbitrarily shut us down.

A commons where groups of users can decide the rules for themselves, and everyone doesn’t need to follow some universal set of opaque rules.

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Been saying this for a while. There is a significant fire hazard with EV's due to the lithium batteries. 1st you can have thermal runaway where you damage the battery puncturing it etc causing the conductive layers to short inside the cell. 2nd is the lithium itself. If water comes in contact with lithium you have an exothermic reaction creating lithium oxide and releasing hydrogen. It's exothermic meaning it gets increasingly hot as the chemical reaction occurs. The heat + hydrogen being released is not a good combo.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/we-might-need-let-it-burn-firefighting-ev-era-whole-new-game

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What are we looking at?... Oak Island Money Pit??

Where exactly in the constitution does it allow gag orders to deny you your 1st amendment rights to free speech? Someone please show me that exception in the constitution. I guess we're to just take the judges word that it has legal authority. Welcome to the largest banana republic in human history. It's called the U.S.A.

Hahahaha.. I hate autocorrect! Boy it really got you good this time 🤣 😂 😂