No the github link i send is just the documentation of the protocol. See it as a blueprint. It merely describes how clients and relays communicate. Just like for example HTTP.

People can suggest changes to it by creating a pull request though in general I think specifically the non optional NIPs like NIP-1 cannot be changed easily by simply creating a PR. Much discussion will be needed, specifically if it is a backwards incompatible change (e.g.: a mandatory field is removed, as this would stop current clients and relays from functioning properly).

There are a number of people that can then approve this PR. Though of one of them would blindly do this others would point this out, just like with bitcoin for example. By changing NIP-1 you only changed the blueprint, no existing client or relay is affected.

There is just "the protocol". In order to get a client or a relay they should implement (some of) the NIPs described on https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

Whatever else a client or relay adds is up to the developers of said client/relay. This might be nothing up to extreme cases of tracking. Therefore it would be wise to choose an open source client and relay so you can verifyyou are not running any kind of spyware.

Fuck, cyas! 😎

I partially can understand why people are so hyped about presidential candidates talking about bitcoin, but in my experience a presidential candidate, specifically the ones from the 2 major sides, only use it as a medium to get more votes in.

If you replace every occurence of the word "bitcoin" with the word "tulip" it makes just as much sense.

In my experience what they promise and what they deliver are hardly ever the same thing. They promis you a mountain of gold but you should settle for a bucket full of shit at best.

This is why i have completely checked out of politics for about a decade now. Saved me loads of time and nothing major has ever changed in my life for not caring. Politics have a terrible ROI, right after "the news".

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But what if the earth gets struck by an asteroid and all relays go offline? Do i get censored by said asteroid or do you have any relays running on the moon or Mars perhaps? 🤔

Anything better than the current crap it is.

Hosting Olympic Games is a money drain and the IOC are the maffia.

Glad i never had this happen so far even though by now i must have used some 10 different clients

Just pull out the old masks/chin diapers and be a pain in the ass about it.

But seriously i don't think the camp staff means to do anything malicious. They have just been convinced that this system is actually attractive for people, which is true for most people unfortunately. They would gladly have a camera put in their face so that some system will open a gate for them like magic.

The issue they're trying to solve here is probably some people sneak on the campsite and swim for free. If they don't want that they could have used any other method, but facial recognition just seems convenient to most people and until we suffer some really big problems from this people will keep on giving it away for free.

Maybe you can have a conversation with the wife and explain it to her. She's such an integral part of your life that you should be able to explain to her why she should at least think about it twice..

Cool. I was there for the first time in my life as well like a month ago or so. I somehow find (Dutch) history much more interestintlg now, then when i needed it for school. 😂

Gefeliciteerd Bert!

I'm doing navy seal burpees. Started doing 3 each day every day in october last year. Increased every week by 1 up until 40 a day which i've been doing for the past couple of months. After i put out my back and had to end my 250+ day non-stop streak. I back to it now but i decided to only do 40 for every day i don't go to the gym so that mostly results in 4 and sometimes 3 or 5 days a week 40 navy seal burpees

Yes i somehow made the assumption that it did not have a built-in lightning node and drew my conclusions too early based on the fact that i got a lightning wallet too immediately up-on opening the app so i only knew about zeus. I actually learned that and it was indeed obvious from a single search to confirm that. I'm sorry i wasted your time with my assumption.

I will read more into how it works before i make a fool out of myself again. 🥴

You're right, i somehow confused phoenix with primal.

Yet it is still a custodial wallet like WoS or Blink. They offer superior experiences because for them there's a commercial benefit in it. Also these wallets have been around much longer than any wallet that supports ecash.

In fact phoenix could easily integrate ecash and you could have the best of both worlds.

Maybe, but i could see somebody come with an L2 that works different and maybe better than lightning.

In terms of ecash there are already different options out there and the innovation on that front is also still relatively early. There is still a lot in development to decrease trust or make it more verifiable by having proof of reserve on the mint side and building up reputation as a mint.

If there is no solution to go in and out of L2 with less than 2 transactions most people on earth will never get to do anything on-chain in the long run.

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As much as i agree that this would be the ideal outcome nobody seems to have anything remotely close to this. In the mean time we can still embrace the benefits this gives over the existing options.

Ecash is still a step forwards in a lot of ways compared to custodial lightning wallets.

I agree that this works now, but when scaling up you will get to a point where it will become impossible for people to open up a channel because evey channel required an on-chain transaction and we will run out of transaction space way before onboarding every person on the planet.

This is realistically still very far off and maybe lightning is not the end game at all, but ecash does give you some options in terms of further scaling up the lightning network for now.

We have to keep inventing here even if the outcome is not the perfect one.

It's great that the UX works for you. The point here (as i understand it) is not a UX thing but more a privacy thing. A mint knows nothing of its users. It just receives sats from some lightning address, gives tokens for it, then when they get redeemed it sends those sats to some different lightning address.

Phoenix requires you to fill out some personal data (though i heard you could fake it), but it still centralizes a lot around a single service and could therefore easily be targeted and strongarmed by government agencies to give up all data people provided then with.

There can be many ecash mints, there is only one Phoenix.

The code shouldn't be a problem but i'm not so familiar within the (technical) domain of lightning nodes, bolts and nuts.