Cheap hack for reducing phone screen time usage: enable grayscale colour filters.

Nothing removes the emotional /dopamine spiking impact quite like sucking the colour out of whatever thing is on your phone.

Merry Christmas you filthy animals

I have anecdotally found this to be the opposite. Raising my T improves mood and drive, low T is cranky, low energy depressive person.

MSTR MNAV at ~1.1, $162 a share. Starting to look tasty

I wonder if the nature of the vaccination process (kids all rolling into the same room) created the favourable environment for spreading of the flu?

Replaced my previous btc tracking habit (checking iOS stocks app) with this last week. Feeling very informed

https://news.kagi.com/s/9paxyz

Ooooft. The wagons are circling.

I’d love to see someone make a direct cans for sats recycling business. In Aus it’s 10c per can, you could pay people 9c per can in sats and they’d probably take it.

Inb4 AML problems

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Bear market goal: enter the 1000 pound lifting club. 200 pounds to go, LFG

Seeking consensus here:

Would you update your Trezor or just use import key in another brand device, shift the funds to a new wallet?

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Is this the 2nd or 3rd cycle where the top was marked by the mass availability of collateralised lending products?

Yessir

If I was MSTR I would be trying to buy out bitcoin treasury companies with MNAVs < 1 right now absorb their discounted bitcoin.

The right amount of leverage is “I won’t even miss this money”. Like 5% of your income per week in repayments.

You can probably find 5% of bullshit in your spending to cover the repayment every week without blinking.

10%, maybe that’s getting tougher, some small lifestyle adjustment needed to keep the budget working.

20%, now you’re going to start having liquidity problems in a few weeks time you didn’t anticipate.

50%, sweet Jesus who wrote you this loan? Can I short them?

I gave you an honest shot nostr:nprofile1qqst5drq6tjytk8clcsclycgh67agkkvmtj2pqpmwjcg46a3qme97acpramhxue69uhkummnw3ezuetfde6kuer6wasku7nfvuh8xurpvdjsz9rhwden5te0dehhxarj9ehhsarj9ejx2asyjss9p 🤷

10 bucks to have a go Dave, it’s a fair deal.

This episode has sparked an absolute fire in me

https://fountain.fm/episode/nenqabQLdmC21iPPWdTp

You know other countries develop and approve drugs right?

The anti-vax movement seems strong on Nostr. Can anyone point me to a substantive piece (article, research paper etc.) to try to better comprehend this point of view?

All of the anti-vax people I know IRL are to put it politely, not good advocates for the movement.

It’s 2025. No social media (minus nostr). Not reading the news. are-watching Futurama. Life is good.

Hooray I’m a statistic!

Oh whoops I meant 100 million bits / sats per bitcoin, not to make a new decimal point. My bad.

I think the name just makes sense, “how many bits in a bitcoin?” 🤷

I am a reasonably technical lay-person, has anyone got a strong reason why the OP_RETURN data size increase is necessary or wanted?

Is it a case of improving the infrastructure before we need it? Building out infrastructure and letting the use cases develop?

I think I understand that the alternative uses of the Bitcoin network are maxing out the 80 byte limit, increasing the size of the block chain. Then, they are also using the UTXO address (or something) to post their data, bloating both the blockchain and the UTXO set. As these UTXOs are not valid transactions they can not ever be spent and will sit in the UTXO set for eternity.

The UTXO set is stored in memory (RAM - expensive) and the blockchain is in storage (cheap).

The workaround is to just increase the OP_RETURN size to stop the UTXO bloat. Blockchain gets bigger so more storage is needed by nodes, but nodes are mostly SPV nodes and don’t store the blockchain anyway. These nodes do require the UTXO set in RAM (somewhat).

If the UTXO set were to get too large, nodes become too expensive and as a result the total number of nodes drops, reducing the security of the network as a whole.

The Bitcoin core developer stance is they are being neutral to the various forms of users of the Bitcoin network by increasing the data limit.

In effect, large OP_RETURN data transactions take up larger portions of each block without increasing the total block size beyond the already established 4MB maximum.

So we’re still having the same maximum block size, just it’s likely it’ll be used more frequently. The OP_RETURN data is optional to store on a full node, so you don’t need store it. The growth of the blockchain size is still inline with previous projections if you assumed full size blocks for every block.

So technically, nothing changes. Thus the developer stance of neutrality.

The issue is then philosophical, being that a 100kb file size is well… concerning. 100kb allows for 640 x 480 pixel JPEG to be stored directly on the blockchain.

I guess that’s the crux of the issue then right? Plausible deniability that running a bitcoin node isn’t distributing illicit material goes straight out the window. So the only nodes you can run would be lightweight nodes, and no one ever stores the full blockchain or they’ll get SWATed for CSAM.

This is where I don’t get the WHY of the change. Why enable the undesirable use cases of the Bitcoin network because it’s “technically neutral” to do so, when clearly you’re opening the door to certain doom?

Please help me understand.

When did you know it was time to leave the corporate world and go out on your own?