Teach them how to chop a UTXO by hand
Would testnet getting "congested" actually come in the form of testnet coins starting to have fiscal value? 🤔
#Bitcoin is held back by being the first cryptocurrency and not having Satoshi around anymore.
Being first causes 2 major problems:
1. Being first, Satoshi had to use conservative estimates for stuff like initial block difficulty and other elements of the anti-spam, anti-51% ecomomic model
2. Being first attracts people who don't want to think for themselves and just want to do whatever is convenient
Satoshi could have provided leadership to overcome these 2 issues. The problem is, without Satoshi, relatively thoughtless people are left at the helm, and Bitcoin economics never get tweaked for energy efficiency after developing into an insane abomination.
Bitcoin is still a good investment because of one of these very same problems: being first attracts people who don't want to think too much. Buying first, by thinking a bit more, is still profitable.
It's also a good investment because of the opposite side of the coin: being first attracts everyone, including the smartest, most thoughtful devs. They might be outnumbered, but they're there. There's a reason the Bitcoin network has maintained uptime and avoided being compromised.
Anyway, the #dogecoin ecosystem needs and deserves better devs than it has. The dogeconomy is pretty balanced, as shows in transaction fees. It is the upgrade from the prototype. Doggie coin mainly just needs better wallets right now. It will also be challenging, but essential, to keep transaction fees down in the future.
A counterpoint I am aware of: "dogecoin will need Bitcoin-like economics if it gets as big as Bitcoin, because Uncle Sam is ready to spend a lot on attacks, if such spending will take down whatever cryptocurrency network is the biggest." The main reason I don't believe that is because it's basically suggesting bitcoin devs have balanced it perfectly by guessing the exact attack budget of adversaries, or it's being balanced perfectly by the market behavior of whales with insider information or something. Maybe... maybe. Maybe Satoshi was a deep state group. Who knows?
I just feel like, while they definitely have access to lots of insider info, the BIGGEST piece of insider information Bitcoin whales have is probably still plain old simple "don't lose your wallet keys."
For anyone who doesn't know, today's nostr prototype apps also tend to love JavaScript
#ProtonWallet is sus AF for 3 reasons - because #Proton overall is sus AF, because it's #bitcoin only, and because what the fuck is this? "Proton Sentinel?"
I'm sure many reading this would disagree on point 1 and actually be happy about points 2 and 3. At least read proton's user policies, read about how JavaScript has defeated Tor browser security in the past, and try to sign up for proton email and use it without JavaScript. Other than that, you do you.
I do like how I don't see lightning mentioned on the front page. I see "Bitcoin via email" mentioned, which is almost kinda cool, might not be as bad as lightning. Email sucks tho of course, so yeah, idk.
On my "recommendations" - I still weakly recommend my npub as the #1 method of reaching me electronically. I don't strongly recommend any electronic communication platform; my npub isn't a shitty to use as a phone number or an email address, but it still makes you pick between a bunch of shitty apps to contact me on. I don't even know of a way to use it without JavaScript. It still sucks. My recommendation can only be weak, but my recommendation also cannot be non-existent because I do still offer my npub as a way to contact me, and it is still not as bad as any other electronic method.
When it comes to individual nostr apps, I can't trust any of them not to mislead anyone I recommend them to. That means recommending any of them as a way to reach me isn't the same as recommending my npub in general. The word "recommend" would be too strong for any of them. I prefer trying to stick to words like "suggest" instead of "recommend." This is more consistent with how I'm always explaining how shit sucks instead of trying to sugarcoat it.
I apologize if my other reply comes off as disrespectful towards you for being a lightning fan or if you're a GitHub user. You being a lightning fan is part of why I hope you'll draft a good NIP for Monero tipping, and if you're a GitHub user that also helps in that area since the nip repo is on GitHub.
Lightning is centralized and designed to attack the cryptocurrency ecosystem, but that's pretty much all I know about it. Your deeper understanding of lightning is essential for nostr's advancement because I don't know as much about how zaps work and it would be nice to have the Monero tipping NIP be respected and integrated by the lightning fans that run the NIP repo, who you surely get along with better than I do.
Not two code contributors - one is doing graphic design. They were "approached" to make an icon. That's two nyms seeking feedback on a nostr project but not from nostr - no nostr threads, they don't even have npubs copied and pasted in their threads. I'm more upset at the nostr community (and embarrassed with myself) for tolerating and promoting behavior like this than I am at these 2 people working on an interesting project, but it's all quite frustrating to me.
Amethyst is (probably benign) malware based on its tipping implementation, like most nostr clients. I'm pretty sure the amethyst project is also centered on the worst possible git, another malware red flag. Amber and nos2x are (also probably benign) malware for similar reasons. Same with nostrudel, corny chat, and others. Pretty much all modern software is malware, most of it is pretty benign but I hate it.
Bitcoin is a real cryptocurrency. Lightning is, well, a real cryptographic currency, but when we shorten that phrase to "cryptocurrency" it's supposed to mean something which takes inspiration from Bitcoin to use cryptography for the sake of functionality as a currency. If every currency that uses cryptography is a "real cryptocurrency" then I'm pretty sure every currency is a real cryptocurrency since every central bank probably has used PGP for at least one email in its history.
I WEAKLY RECOMMEND these apps (first recommendations I've made yet) -
* Stagenet version of Garnet by developer retnull / retrnull, of unknown npub
* Nostrudel.ninja by nostr:npub1ye5ptcxfyyxl5vjvdjar2ua3f0hynkjzpx552mu5snj3qmx5pzjscpknpr
* Amber by nostr:npub1w4uswmv6lu9yel005l3qgheysmr7tk9uvwluddznju3nuxalevvs2d0jr5
* Nos2x by nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6
* Nos2x-fox by nostr:npub168nqgewzkamnyh53x0epqrftkv2pdh9gzr6558v4vetzr3w7uxfs63926e
Why are these WEAK recommendations?
To you, maybe all my recommendations should be weak because I am not a coder, cryptographer, or mathematician, and cannot review code for security issues at all.
To me, these reasons:
* These are all on GitHub without even backup links to the work of nostr:npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl
* Garnet - using Monero for tips might break its anonymity, the bounty on a monero-based nostr client might be a deep state bounty connected to the IRS bounty for cracking Monero, it's weird that there's a Monero-based client before a dogecoin-based client. The availability of a Stagenet version at least shows self-awareness of this being experimental 🤙
* Nostrudel.ninja - I can't get discovery feeds to work, I see others report other issues, the project could sorta be considered "stretched thin" but that's also exactly what got it in my recommendations
* The others - I'm paranoid in general and none of this stuff is designed the way I would design it so it's hard for me to strongly recommend anything at this experimental prototype stage.
These aren't the only apps I would ever suggest using, or use myself, or onboard someone with, but they are the first ones I've noticed seeming more worthwhile (or less untrustworthy) than others.
I hereby revoke my recommendations of Garnet and Nostrudel in light of Garnet turning out to be malware, as revealed by at least two contributors using the worst possible git and seeking feedback from its users instead of nostr users.
Amber and nos2x still seem cool, but pointless without any recommended clients to sign in with, so these recommendations can basically all be considered invalidated. I'm glad I was very careful not to "strongly recommend" anything.
Nostrudel was already known to be malware since it had zaps without any real cryptocurrency tipping, but its malice seems mixed with good intentions, and it would be worth weakly recommending under the pretense of having one of the widest ranges of functional features out of all the apps in an ecosystem which itself is, as a bigger picture, worth weakly recommending. Without an ecosystem worth weakly recommending, it's just the most functional app in an ecosystem of dysfunctional malware trash, not worth any level of Recommendation™
I think he was an engineering genius too until he couldn't deal with the world's pressure anymore and committed soft suicide by burning his brain out with pharmaceuticals to make it easier to cope with the people he's around
Sometimes the Google assistant on my phone thinks about packing up and moving to ngit on her own (me talking about digit all the time made her turn sentient and reprogram herself)
There is a pandemic. Remind me to never hire you either
Maybe misleading headlines - "leaked" but not publicly like in the whistleblower sense
Yeah, it's a bioweapon called COVID. They announced it was "over" to help it spread
It should because you're smart but idk
Interesting thread
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