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Does a difficulty of 67.96T mean that each hash has a 1 in 67.96T chances of being a solution, or that it takes on average, 67.96T hashes to find a solution?

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nextwave

BREAKING: Ukrainian and Israeli ministries issue joint statement thanking Binance CEO CZ for the company's $4.3B donation.

I did a quick search and couldn't find any information on this. Do you have any links/sources?

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Ronin

Must try it, but it would be nice to have the option included on green wallet or something.

I'm hoping to see #SideSwap (sideswap.io) build it into their app. Maybe with #boltz apis.

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Ronin

What good is your node if you don't use base chain? Imagine a scenario where onchain fees are 500 usd a tx. Only big corps and banks can pay that. What then?

Thank you for the question. It helps me to understand the potential issue. Let's start at a $100 fee level. Say bitcoin gets to $100,000. Moving 0.2 bitcoin would incur a 0.5% fee. What do you think of these numbers? I am okay with federated solutions for smaller amounts.

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Bigger blocks. Without self custody, bitcoin has failed

Not on my node 😉

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I grew up in a trailer park and was basically taught to cuss from walking age.

I eventually put that away for most contexts in my professional world, but I let it out mainly just on Nostr or in front of my husband lol.

You can take the girl out of the trailer park, but you can't take the trailer park out of the girl.

If you don't like cuss words, I politely recommend that you go fuck yourself. But then, quite honestly, have a lovely evening. ;)

People who can't handle cuss words, even in certain contexts like Nostr, amuse me. It's basically an advertisement that they're fucking soft and out of touch. I use those words even more now to make a point.

It's inappropriate when someone can't rein in cuss words in a professional context. But I would argue that it's similarly inappropriate when an adult is too weak to hear cuss words in an unprofessional context. If they can't handle that, there's a lot of more real stuff that they won't be able to handle either.

George Carlin - 7 dirty words ~10min https://youtube.com/watch?v=vbZhpf3sQxQ

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I watched the entirety of the Succession show, along with my husband. We don’t watch many shows but we watched this one.

The acting was amazing. The characters were memorable. But ultimately it just didn’t amount to much. In some sense that was kind of the point, but still.

Imho, just say no to series; too much of a time suck. But tbh, did watch Battlestar Galactica (04-09) twice 😜

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I could be wrong, and it'll take some time either way, but I think chaumian ecash is going to be bigger than people expect.

I wonder what might be a good number of participants in a #fedimint (fedimint.org)? Is it correct that the plan is for lightning to provide the rails to move seamlessly between fedimints?

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Ngl, It's been really hard to stack sats p2p in this high fee environment. Even when using robosats, I struggle to get enough reliable inbound liquidity to make any significant sat purchase.

I probably will just wait it out, FOMO is a bad drug.

Why not use #liquid (liquid.net) with something like #SideSwap (sideswap.io) until you have enough for a #fatutxo on the main chain?

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Remember that time when the biggest bitcoin mining jurisdiction in the world banned bitcoin mining, and the Bitcoin network was like, “lol, hold my beer and watch this”?

Is there an advantage for this chart to use a linear scale instead of a log scale?

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Gun to your head: would you rather see increased adoption through custodial wallets or bigger blocks?

Don't give me cop-out 3rd option pussy answers. Just play along in my hypothetical scenario in which those are the only 2 options.

Liquid with lightning on top. Would that be custodial?

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I observe that it's a somewhat unpopular current opinion in maxi circles (and I love maxi circles <3), but I think Taproot Assets are indeed potentially useful for stablecoins. We'll see how it shakes out.

A lot of people have ideological beliefs about what "should be", but for people operating every day in developing countries with high inflation, a bitcoin wallet that has BTC and USD, and lets them skip Binance/Tron, could be really useful. There's real market demand for that.

Do I want shitcoins on bitcoin? No. But I think they'll burn themselves out anyway. In the meantime as a bridging tool, dollars on bitcoin would meet a real utility demand and benefit bitcoin adoption overall.

What are the opinions of tether on the liquid network? I find it very easy to use on #SideSwap.io (scroll down on liquid.net to find it listed as a featured project). 0.1% for peg-ins & peg-outs from/to the main chain, and ~0.8% to swap in & out of liquid tether. Also can use #boltz.exchange to move between liquid and lightning (hoping this gets built into SideSwap eventually).

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TC

Block time > Clock time

caesium atom maxi 😉

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We need more orbot/proxy integration and less bundled Tor in-app.

Samourai, bluewallet, phoenix zeus pls no more duplicated tor proxies

I think I agree. But maybe still have the individual apps enforce the Tor requirement when set, i.e., connection lost if orbot has a problem. Best way to prevent accidentally connecting over clear net?

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Warren Togami

Circular Economy? I'm listing bargain priced hardware for sale only on Nostr and accepting only Bitcoin for payment. I look forward to Nostr growing a marketplace feature.

Ryzen 7 3700x - 8 core AM4 CPU

$70 includes USPS Priority Mail shipping

I bought this Aug 2020 and occasionally used in desktop PC. I pulled this from my working machine today and upgraded to a faster CPU.

I have the original box but it's cheaper to ship in a smaller USPS Small Flat Rate Box. Shipping to US only. Accepting only Bitcoin (preferably Lightning). Please DM if you're interested.

I appreciate what you're doing here. I hope you don't get too discouraged if you find it more difficult to sell to bitcoiners who recognize the opportunity cost of parting with their bitcoin. Probably much easier to get nocoiners to part with fiat.😉

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Liberty Farmer

Got it. I assumed not the latest one, what about other versions? I am running original firmware I think from when the MK3 was released.

https://coldcard.com/docs/upgrade/

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Guy Swann

The fact that zaps got “censored” on Apple platforms and within days the Nostriches had multiple uncensorable workarounds is fucking hilarious to me. 🤣

I’ve been using nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 this whole time and I lost zaps for a total of maybe a few hours.

Vlad, Bitcoin Takeover Podcast

I'm unable to get the script to work. I tap the "On" button on the webpage. Phone asks if I want to open in Damus. I tap "Open". I'm taken to Damus. Nothing appears to happen. Cannot see any way to directly zap a note. Restart Damus. Still no luck.

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If activated, Drivechains can solve Bitcoin’s security budget concerns by allowing miners to collect lots of transaction fees from other sidechains they can secure.

This can also be a scalability benefit, as newcomers can get onboarded directly on sidechains and from there they can open Lightning channels or benefit from extra features that the bade layer doesn’t have (privacy, smart contracts).

But the biggest tradeoff is that miners become more powerful through Drivechains – which is a consequence that some Bitcoin users don’t want. The miners will become responsible for choosing which sidechain they activate and secure, then they must also make sure that they enable peg-outs so users receive their bitcoins back on the base layer.

My biggest criticism is that this message doesn’t get conveyed clearly on social media by Paul Sztorc and nostr:npub1nevsewvjqhrsmpfcpdqw6v3e9f6z8w9sq0yt8kpndk2cumw8g6hs5mjmve – instead of focusing on explaining what BIP300 & 301 are, they opted to trigger the most conservative of bitcoiners who don’t even bother to read long-form content or listen to long-form podcast interviews due to their susceptibility to get influenced by tweets.

Now, instead of talking about the fungibility benefits of a Zcash sidechain which uses BTC as the only currency, the conversation is stuck in the “bringing shitcoins to Bitcoin” phase.

Learn more by listening to S14 E13 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast!

#drivechains #bitcoin #sidechain #btc #btcsidechain #bitcoinsidechain #bitcoinprivacy #bitcoinscalability #bitcoinpodcast #bitcointakeover #bitcointakeoverpodcast #btctkvr https://video.nostr.build/83570780e98de62ca40ff0bbdf15815a31054ee31f6c4f0547fa1af6f2462010.mov

I hope for a future of commoditized upgradable asic hardware that makes it possible for many more to be mining participants of the bitcoin network with minimal expense. Especially when the heat generated can be put to use. Beautifully decentralized abundant hash power! Please do not pollute the aligned and straightforward incentives. One should not be disadvantaged as a bitcoin miner for not paying attention to external "drivechains"

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waxwing

You spotted my sleight of hand :)

I really don't know. It would be crazy if it rose to above credit card fees for typical consumer transactions, but I wouldn't rule anything out - it's a free market.

Your numbers seem reasonable for normal situations.