Who would’ve thunk it that to dismiss a #Nostrnest broadcast on nostr:npub1n0stur7q092gyverzc2wfc00e8egkrdnnqq3alhv7p072u89m5es5mk6h0, you had to swipe up on the pill button? 🤷♂️
Zapping is the highest form of content engagement. #v4v
There are two ways the blocking could be happening.
1. At the dns level: you can verify this by attempting a dns lookup at the command line
2. At the IP level: even if your computer resolves to the correct IP, your machine won’t connect to it. This would require more investigation.
Are you using some kind of firewall on your computer?
Uncertain about the problem, however relays can be on both clearnet and tor and then this isn’t a problem right?
Is there a workflow to transfer ecash tokens online? I’m aware you could use Lightning but I was wondering if someone is working on a mechanism to make online payments directly using ecash? nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg
#cashu #ecash
Kept vigil all night hoping to take a crack at Spiritborn!
#diablo4 #d4
For the longest time, I had my watch and search histories turned off on YouTube; technically it is referred to as “paused”. It occurred to me that despite this setting, Google might still be storing this data and there would be no way for me to prove otherwise. I (obviously) haven’t fully read the terms and conditions of use for YouTube so it’s hard to tell if there’s a sneaky sentence in there allowing them to do this despite whatever it is they wanted me to believe.
Now YouTube significantly limits the usability of the service if you have your search and watch history turned off and I figured that since I cannot determine for a fact that they honored the setting, I might as well turn the feature back on. I was not ready for what I would see next — YouTube was making suggestions based on things I had recently searched for and seen! What ever happened to “pausing” search and watch histories‽ The only way that this could have happened was that Google never honored the setting! “Pausing” your watch and search histories does nothing to keep Google from storing and then using them to make recommendations on what to show you next.
As we often say, #donttrustverify #privacy
3 sat/vb is the new 1 sat/vb
I struggle sometimes between which terminology to use when trying to describe the process of acquiring bitcoins: Is the right term “buy bitcoin” or is it “buy bitcoins”?
Here’s my thinking: when you’re describing acquiring the individual units of bitcoin (say in a trade or in comparison with another asset), I should use “buy bitcoins”; it’s kind of akin to saying “buy houses”. However, if the reference is not only to acquiring bitcoin units but also the ideology of bitcoin or the asset class, then it should be “buy bitcoin”, similar to saying “buy real estate”.
One more reason why owning bitcoins is better than real estate. In this video, Mitch Vexler of Mockingbird Properties explains how governments are robbing home owners of their equity through taxes that result from an illegal overvaluation of the property.
With this change, the question any rational altcoiner should be asking themselves is why would you want a knock-off Bitcoin?
Where streaming payments are concerned:
nuts > lightning
I do not understand how Bitcoin companies that intend to stay true to the Bitcoin ethos of self-sovereignty, self-custody and decentralization do not plan to be profitable from day one.
Why would an investor put money in your startup and not buy bitcoins with their capital? Investing in your company comes with the opportunity cost of buying bitcoin. Self-sovereignty, decentralization and self-custody are not sexy enough for the typical investor who’s really courting the next investor. Next time you intend to start a bitcoin company and you intend to get investment, you should think about the game the investor is playing. Maybe you just have the wrong investors.
I find myself switching between nostr clients often. There are features I like in one that are not in the other and switching between either, I’ve come to see as normal.
You’re with me, I’m with you
Always one, but born as two
As above sit the stars and below lies the sea
I give you you and you give me me
A little bit of Internet history — prior to 2004, the way you registered a domain in the .ng TLD was to write a zone file and send it via email to a dude named Randy Bush.
“I’m a stickler for correctness. That’s my job.”
That’s who Randy Bush was. I remember having a few registrations rejected due to some error in the submission. I always wondered if he had a script doing this validation for him or whether he did it manually.
I tried to find one of those submissions but those emails have long been deleted ☹️
https://www.theregister.com/2004/01/17/internet_fool_s_gold_sparks/
Maybe it’s just me but those DNS-based payment instruction lookups (aka BIP-353) are incredibly fast.
Now that the WALLET RRTYPE has been ratified I wonder if we would see a migration to this but with DNSSEC as the spec doesn’t mandate this.
Fun fact, if you plan on implementing BIP-353, be mindful that not all TLDs support DNSSEC.
There are two kinds of people:
1. Those who could care less about their online privacy and
2.
