Nostr Web Client

#bullishbounty

https://v.nostr.build/PRNFShvx9k8xNYZx.mp4

nostr:npub1kr6vymjxs0p5l69pvlpsnrlmdksa77ycfg6794umj8a0p32xqgxsgkvzv9 what do you think about my idea on decentralized bounties https://primal.net/e/note1vwkytpre4m6jw8uw4at4g0uph5zwt984jj34vg7aajcu9t4ad60spypmcf

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Morten Linderud

#VLC

Alex 1y ago

What happened to vlc?

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The Bird

TLDR: no more smart watch data harvesting back to basics this year. nostr:nprofile1qqsqfjg4mth7uwp307nng3z2em3ep2pxnljczzezg8j7dhf58ha7ejgprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aqpr9mhxue69uhhxetwv35hgtnwdaekvmrpwfjjucm0d5klqft7 is right smart watches are just another tracker and data collector harvesting your info to sell.

So for Christmas my present was the new version of a Casio protrek watch. I had tried a Garmin the previous year. While the functionality is great it just isn't my thing.

I've been working on improving my privacy practices and it was just another tracking beacon with an account tied to it. I didn't put all the demographic information into the account correctly or at all. Still it collected data on me for a year.

Needless to say back to an analog/digital dumb watch for me. Main thing I wanted it for was the barometer and compass function. I can just estimate the rest of the information I got from it.

https://believeintherun.com/gps-run-tracking-privacy-policies/

Alex 1y ago

I switched to a basic Casio watch with 10y battery life because charging a smart watch is a waste of time.

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Scott Wolfe

Mood

https://youtu.be/cWGE9Gi0bB0?si=NtEAPLIvy7aC8B5U

Alex 1y ago

Thank you

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Bitcoin News

NEW: 🇸🇾 The Syrian Center for Economic Research publishes a proposal for the transitional government to legalize Bitcoin in Syria.

Alex 1y ago

2 seems not necessary and hard to do. Already a big undertaking and throwing 2 in there is unfortunately going to overload it

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node

Alex 1y ago

Finally! Top notch memes are here

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calle

cashu.me new onboarding flow

https://m.primal.net/Mzvq.mp4

Alex 1y ago

Very cool. It can swap mint to mint via lightning. Is mint to lightning possible?

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Hynek

The more people allocate a larger portion of their resources to #bitcoin, the more useful bitcoin becomes for everyone. 🔥

It’s value also grows faster with each additional person (until we surpass a critical mass - probably when we reach half of the people worldwide).

This is why striving for the widest possible adoption is important.

Ideally, for sovereign adoption. Because that not only makes bitcoin more valuable but also more resilient.💪

Alex 1y ago

Would 25% of population who own a smartphone suffice? Today’s Lightning can onboard that in 1 year: https://petertodd.org/2024/covenant-dependent-layer-2-review#goals

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L0la L33tz

David Bailey just posted the draft for an executive order for the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve under Trump – and it's an absolute nightmare for anyone using bitcoin as money.

First, the draft order defines Bitcoin as "a finite store-of-value asset, akin to digital gold."

As someone who has lived on Bitcoin for a fairly long time, I can say that Bitcoin is not merely a "store-of-value asset", but a money for payment and day to day purchases.

Defining Bitcoin as a "store-of-value asset" reinforces the ossification narrative (who needs to move a stonk several times in a day?) which may put developers at risk when prioritizing changes to btc to make it more usable as money (think scaling for example).

With this definition, a softfork to activate covenants may become an issue of US national security that goes against the US' definition of its primary goals - directly putting developers in the firing line of the United States Government.

The draft states that federal agencies, such as the US Marshall's Service, may not auction seized Bitcoin off, but must contribute them to the strategic reserve.

This not only reduces the Bitcoin in circulation available to the public, but additionally sets the incentive for the US to increase its seizing efforts – think increased AML/KYC.

While I'm no fan of the strategic reserve in general, this draft is an even bigger disappointment than Sen. Lummis' proposed Bitcoin Act.

To compare this to how El Salvador has implemented Bitcoin, which I admit I initially wasn't a fan of either, ES directly gives citizens rights to use Bitcoin as money - which is a huge upside to benefit the people, and not just the national security state.

No offense, but letting a couple of children that just graduated college and a guy who runs a magazine draft US policy is a scene straight out of idiocracy.

Next time, maybe try speaking to the people actually building and using bitcoin, not just to the boomers and national security goons that sit on the money like a fat kid at the cake buffet.

Incredibly unprofessional conduct here by BPI, a huge risk to anyone using Bitcoin for anything other than an investment, and a testament to the people involved being more interested in furthering their own importance than to empower people with a money without state.

Sincerely hope that this EO is drastically challenged on all levels and hopefully somehow deemed unconstitutional to protect btc and the people developing it.

Alex 1y ago

A sobering note. Making a reserve before encoding freedoms of use smells fishy. It seems they are trying to play the government takes over gold move. 6102/mandibles next.

Alex 1y ago

Bitcoin vs Banks on Quantum FUD

I’m hearing a lot of bitcoiners incorrectly defending quantum FUD. They would say: the banks (or even nuclear weapon codes) will get cracked first before bitcoin. Yet banks have a much simpler defense: don’t use public key encryption.

I don’t see Quantum as a threat to bitcoin because (1) The Lindy effect of Quantum being just a hype; (2) difficulty of Quantum error correction; (3) quantum resistant protocols that bitcoin can adopt if Quantum ever becomes a real threat.

Still, I think it’s important to avoid making straw-man arguments when responding to Quantum FUD.

In public key encryption the attacker sees two things (1) the public key; (2) a bunch of gabbadyguck (the encrypted message, or in case of bitcoin: a signature). Yet banks can use non-public key encryption by giving you a special encryption passcode over the mail or at an office (sharing a secret privately) that you can use to do online banking. With that kind of encryption the attacker sees is a bunch of gabbadyguck (random sequence of bytes) and nothing else. That means that quantum cannot break your fiat bank.

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