Had a few too many beers, and went full McAfee in a speaker application.

Hello world!

This is my first note on nostr 🙂

It has been popular to compare Btc txs to cross border bank txs and conclude that Bitcoin is faster.

It has also been popular to compare lightning-network txs to credit card txs

and conclude that those two are about equally fast.

However since a Bitcoin transaction is actually changing custody of something scarce, I think it's more appropriate to compare Bitcoin txs to physical gold/money transports.

And since you need your lightning node to be online, and only transfer "kind of" IOUs (unsettled txs), I think it's fair to compare lightning nodes to banks, and compare lightning txs to bank transfers.

So what is then the Bitcoin equivalent of credit card txs?

Well, cutting corners by letting others handle liquidity/transfer for you.

We see this with nostr when sending zaps where people, as of now, mostly use Wallet of Satoshi.

Also federated services like Blockstream's Liquid network and Fedi's ecash system optimize transfer speed and fee costs.

These services are still so new that I'd argue we can't really make proper comparisons to the credit card systems just yet.

In other words Bitcoin txs will become much faster and cheaper in the future.

We are (even now) still early!

Good morning and pura vida, Nostr! It's time to create notes and send zaps! 🤙🏻🫂💜

It's a new week. That gives us new opportunities to build. Let's go.

I don't want to darken the mood but I bet government-coerced Github censorship is next

On the bright side, the government has been getting spanked by judges and the lawsuits resulting from their current actions could come back to bite them, i.e., entrenching the rights we deserve as free people in case law.

GM, sweety, THE SUN IS FINALLY OUT! 🌄🌞

I feel that sometimes people forget what an open protocol means. If something is truly open, it means that anyone can build anything that they want and no one party is in control. As a direct result, we're going to have applications and services that some people don't fully agree with or want to use. None of this is new. For example, if you didn't want to use Internet Explorer, the worst offending web browser of the last two decades, you didn't have to use it, but it existed and people used it to browse the web every day. The same will happen to Nostr and eventually the market will decide.

who’s hungry?

When did racists become so boring?

They used to be sort of sexy, in a menacing way, but now it's all rambling midwits and anime characters complaining that they can't get laid.

Even racists used to be better. 😭

this last three days i have resumed taking boron - 5g/L medical grade sodium borate (borax) - they come in 30g sachets and make this concentration in a 6L springwater balloon bottle

when one is low in boron, the kidneys eliminate magnesium and calcium, and the liver eliminates vitamin D... you can imagine how that goes - yes, basically osteoporosis, but also ADD and depression, and compound that with artificial sweetener induced type 2 diabetes...

i have been suffering with cramps pretty regularly for some time, and as my mother told me, she also has this problem, and finds if she manages to drink 2L of water a day it is ok

but the borax does the trick, i'm taking 25-30ml of this 5g/L solution, and it just dawned on me a little while ago today that i'm not getting the cramps in my toes anymore

for years i tried all kinds of ways to get magnesium to decrease my anxiety and improve my concentration, to no avail... should have been a red flag when intravenous had no substantial effect

i don't know what causes boron deficiency exactly, it's hardly even registered anywhere as a problem, you can find a small amount of information about it... boron is a crucial nutrient in horticulture, all plants need some to grow, and too much can make them grow abnormally large (probably part of how the giant pumpkin growers do it)...

anyhow, i'm definitely keeping up the regime, 25ml of 5g/L seems to be the right amount, i was taking more before but in that time it kinda made me put on weight... the dose rate 50ml/5g/L was recommended to me by my aunty, who told me it cured her of menopause symptoms, but not just this, also other things, concentration, cramps, muscle weakness

i like to make jokes about it because boron is the 5th element

and the 5th element, cheesy and all, is kinda interesting from the perspective of being an allegory of a historical cycle with the golem looking guys versus the evil black hole people, and two of the best b grade actors of all time... haha, just makes me laugh is all

#healthstr #boron #5thelement

* KYC on-ramps

* No protocol level privacy improvements in bitcoin-core

* Wasabi collaborating with Chain Analysis

* TornadoCash arrest

* Roman Sterlingov arrest

* ETF

* Monero delistings

* KYC all miners

* Samourai arrest

Are you sure we are winning?

It depends on your client. You can make a delete request if your client supports it. Then, a relay has to honor the request. Many do. It's possible to delete, it just requires some work and theirs no guarantees.

Hello world!

This is my first note on nostr 🙂

It has been popular to compare Btc txs to cross border bank txs and conclude that Bitcoin is faster.

It has also been popular to compare lightning-network txs to credit card txs

and conclude that those two are about equally fast.

However since a Bitcoin transaction is actually changing custody of something scarce, I think it's more appropriate to compare Bitcoin txs to physical gold/money transports.

And since you need your lightning node to be online, and only transfer "kind of" IOUs (unsettled txs), I think it's fair to compare lightning nodes to banks, and compare lightning txs to bank transfers.

So what is then the Bitcoin equivalent of credit card txs?

Well, cutting corners by letting others handle liquidity/transfer for you.

We see this with nostr when sending zaps where people, as of now, mostly use Wallet of Satoshi.

Also federated services like Blockstream's Liquid network and Fedi's ecash system optimize transfer speed and fee costs.

These services are still so new that I'd argue we can't really make proper comparisons to the credit card systems just yet.

In other words Bitcoin txs will become much faster and cheaper in the future.

We are (even now) still early!

I’m not autistic, I’m detail-oriented

Hadouuuuken!

GM