Today a friend showed me the EVE Online rabbit hole and I can't believe no one is working on a Bitcoin version of this game (at least that I know?). To sum up the idea:

An MMORPG with Nostr-based accounts and Lightning Network integration to make sats the base currency of the game. And make it realistic enough so that an anarchic in-game economy can flourish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrH6jyZ5j7g

Fug, how do I get back into the cryogenic time capsule?

Don't y'all go praising me behind my back 😠

Same 🤝 All the devices connected to my home network cannot even resolve the IP addresses of advertising and tracking domains.

Fortunately legislation is not required to opt out if you care about such things.

Is tracking the same as advertising, though?

I sell my toaster for 20000 sats, inquire in DMs.

There, lock me up.

How can you reconcile making freedom of speech unstoppable (with Nostr for instance) and making advertising illegal at the same time?

Would hit much harder if it read "Builds things that suck instead of things that nobody uses" 😬 h/t to nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7ct5d3shxtnwdaehgu3wd3skuep0qyt8wumn8ghj7ct4w35zumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcqyp60l3gucvq4pnmekm9nzmf6zh8nx24jngu0aj0tfp9tz4gad5v9v94ulq2 , heard that from him.

It does in this case. If you care about validating and broadcasting your own blocks as fast as possible you don't want to run the node in a cheapo VPS that is timesharing the physical CPU with a thousand other virtual machines.

But besides this irrelevant non sequitur my point still stands: nothing stops any serious miner from having his own "pool-grade" low latency & well connected node. It's orders of magnitude easier and cheaper than running a big mining farm.

Why do you assume a miner's node has to be a dingy Raspberry Pi at home running exclusively over Tor?

If a miner cares about such a thing he can run their node on AWS and add a bunch of addnode= to their configuration, just like Ocean or anyone else can do it.

If they can afford enough ASICs to find blocks with certain regularity they surely can afford to rent a basic bare metal server to host their node.

Yes, I think it'd be an attack because Ocean would be crediting the attacker's shares to receive payouts from other honest miners, while they'd get to keep the full reward when they find a block.

However the protocol doesn't assume that miners behave honestly because they share their templates with the pool for inspection: https://github.com/OCEAN-xyz/datum_gateway/issues/1

Sharing the full template is not strictly necessary, though. I believe the datum_gateway could just send the block header, the coinbase transaction and a Merkle proof of inclusion of that transaction. But I don't know if that's what they have in mind for future versions of DATUM.

So that's why my computer fans are no whirring at full speed. Cool!

Hi, I'm the author of secp256k1_nostr.

We also stumbled upon the invalid signature errors while working on the nostrver-se/nostr-php library and figured out the fix: https://github.com/public-square/phpecc/pull/1

However the fix never got merged, so I did yet another fork of phpecc that includes it in case someone really needs a working PHP implementation of Schnorr signatures (uma/phpecc v0.1.3).

Besides the poor speed the problem with phpecc and all its forks is that they are not maintained at all (including mine!). Relying on libsecp256k1 is way better.

Grafana enjoyer?

lol. lmao even

Got the parts for mine from nostr:nprofile1qqs06qnxfpth00tna978cdl4yryreqhrvtlycfdxh6flxwqqs02xg6cpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz8rhwden5te0dehhxarj9eehw6tnwvkk2mnfvakkztnrdqhszxnhwden5te0dehhxarj9e3k2unrv968ymmkvyhx6ef0p9amlg

Sooo aren't folks seeing the obvious conflict of interests here?

The same shady pool operators who are most likely pushing pseudonymous articles to Bitcoin Magazine apologizing for a wealth tax on #Bitcoin are also putting Bitcoin Core maintainers in their payroll.

It's so easy to make people happy in here 🙃 I'm starting to fully realize how fucked up Twitter actually is.