Being in favour of main chain ossification is a very valid position.
In defence of Saylor here...
The guy spends few dozen hours every week taking about Bitcoin, and has done for a couple of years.
If you actually listen to what he says word for word, none of it is actually incorrect.
Neither is it disparaging or insulting; at the very worst it's just perhaps lacks a little nuance / context... which he should be forgiven for in view of the fact that this was a quickfire interview.
Don't get me wrong...I think his ID ordinals idea is distopoan asf, but let's not crucify people over a few second snip of freaking interview... this isn't twitter and we're not CNN retards.
LND is cancer.
LND appears to be a trojan horse.
Sabotaging the lightning network is LND's main feature.
Multiple Dutch judges confirm: not your bank password, not your fiat. It puts on a limit on how much banks have to protect customers from their own recklessness, e.g. installing AnyDesk and giving your password to someone on the phone.
IIUC they're getting 85% back from Bunq bank, but they wanted more.
Sadly this is a numbers game. Most people most of the time might not fall for this scam, but they just need to hit some people at a bad time when they're less alert. That makes them look reckless in retrospect, but I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that you would never make that mistake. You have to defend against these attack all the time, they only need to succeed once.
https://fd.nl/bedrijfsleven/1534496/gedupeerde-klanten-van-bunq-vangen-bot-in-de-rechtbank
Still waiting for: Not your cellphone ROM, not your fiat.
Fundamentally, nostr is a misnomer/misconception because relays are undesirable. You just route notes through reticulum tunnels, and use distributed routing tables a la napster->torrent->etc.etc.
Sry typo.
* I can get (place) one on top of the ShangriLa... Not right on the top obvsly, but almost. Facing English Bay-ish with 180 arc. You want 70 or 90cm? (Will find/make a yagi with optimal gain).
Time will tell whether or not Bukele is really pro freedom. However I'm pretty much convinced that Miele is the real deal; his speech at the UN a few days ago was convincing enough for me.
I get one on top of the ShangriLa if that helps.
It doesn't surprise me that,
SimpleX is under attack by corrupt liar Wired:
"Neo-Nazis Are Fleeing Telegram for Encrypted App SimpleX Chat"
https://www.wired.com/story/neo-nazis-flee-telegram-encrypted-app-simplex/
What DOES surprise me is the reaction of developer Evgeny Poberezkin,
Here's the quote from the article:
"And Poberezkin believes that the current limitations of his technology will mean these groups will eventually abandon SImpleX.
“SimpleX is a communication network, rather than a service or a platform, where users can host their own servers, like in Open Web, so we were not aware that extremists have been using it,” says Poberezkin. “We never designed groups to be usable for more than 50 users and we’ve been really surprised to see them growing to the current sizes despite limited usability and performance. We do not think it is technically possible to create a social network of a meaningful size in the SimpleX network.”"
This is surprising because Evgeny told us that groups could scale by reducing the reliance on a single invite link, so anyone could enter via any group member or "super members".
In fact, even from his own tweets, just 2 days prior:
"We agree that once group can scale, they will help growth."
Source: https://xcancel.com/SimpleXChat/status/1841561127320199583#m
This is the danger of doing cypherpunk stuff, with government money venture capital and registered LLCs. At the slightest push from the mainstream media, he changes his tune.
I like Evgeny. He's a good guy. And I DON'T blame him for trying to stop his company from being associated with bad actors. But we need to be honest here, he's trying to have his cake and eat it too. He wants to be a cypherpunk, but collect the paycheck of a corporation.
What he should have said to Wired is: "This technology is like the printing press. It improves our lives and offers all of this freedom. But once it's made, the inventor can't control what people say. Do you really want to live in a world without the press, Wired?"
List of Neo Nazis now includes Elon Musk, Jordan Peterson, Candice Owens, anyone critical of Israel, and TinTin.
"Release the 20lb rodents"
Number of your peers running LND x2
Also keepgo.com
One method that occurred to me as an alternative (or even a bolt-on) to ordered HD key rotation would be for each new user to generate a (say 128Kb) pad of key pairs instead of a single key pair. Each key pair would be random-entropic.
A user's first note is signed/encrypted using the first key on the pad, but with the note including metadata denoting the next key (from the pad) to be used... or a clue to the next key. The key could be switched every note, every 21 notes etc.
Only those who have been sent the full pad of public keys are then able to stitch-together the full note history. It doesn't feel too computationally expensive to me.
Obviously lots of flaws with this, but perhaps a basis for something...?!?
The only people you have to declare your newly rotated key to is: Your followers ∩ The ones you want to keep.
User applications would have the option of caching keys used for historic notes. The local cache might get a bit chunky if users rotate a key for each note, but keys could be locally jettasoned using a stack-height setting for each chain of keys [user].
One of the reasons I don't like Nostr is that there is no reliable way to expunge notes from relays. Without the ability to do this, there doesn't seem to be a way to meet conditions for acceptable levels of privacy.
Lol funny Germans
I recently found myself trying to explain nostr:nprofile1qqsd54k9fd0xwjwkttgr3svkg7reftu5una95nhacg95nxq7fmzkdscpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcdmwcdp to somebody, having never before needed to use it myself.
I think where a lot of people are going wrong is that they don't know how to set-up and safely use a second no-KYC phone specifically for Vexl/Bitcoin, and don't know what a Custom ROM is. This requires effort, but there are an increasing number of use cases; being Canadian, for example.
On the other hand, Vexl should almost certainly insert some suitably large sandbags (probably with large fonts and a countdown timer) before it asks for permission to hoover-up the entire contact list of peoples' phones.