My web of trust are those that can give the correct reply to GM 👇

It’s the end of the week 🫡

Which client did you use most the last 7 days?

Meshtastic is fantastic, but also have a look at Reticulum and NomadNet!

Here's a screenshot of accessing an off-grid version of Wikipedia from NomadNet.

Hello all!

I’m a family Physician with over 2 decades of clinical practice. Husband, Father & Farmer!!

#introductions

Why don't we make buildings like this anymore 😭

His name for instance or xDBupZ which is what he uses as profile pictures.

So, is the spam completely gone? 😎

A suggestion, why don't we put a limit on the process of generating keys. We can make it harder for bots to enter the ecosphere with this. If we just block keywords, bots will soon learn new words to continue polluting us. Right now whether it's posting, commenting or responding, it's so easy for bots that it costs almost nothing. Or nip-05 is also a thought.

Challenge accepted Reply Guy.

Yes we need to thank him more often by saying GM!

Topic: Bitcoin price discovery

More and more #bitcoin is taken off exchanges, but nonetheless the crab market continues to keep poking bitcoiners in the eye.

I asked Grok:

"If we ignore bitcoin futures trading, is it possible that trading of "paper bitcoin" on crypto exchanges has such volume that it affects the bitcoin spot price?"

Grok's conclusive remarks were:

"The sentiment from posts on X and broader market analysis suggests that while spot ETFs and direct ownership of Bitcoin are significant, the derivatives market's volume and its impact on price cannot be understated. This indicates that even without considering futures, the trading volume of what might be colloquially termed "paper Bitcoin" on crypto exchanges could indeed affect the Bitcoin spot price through mechanisms like sentiment, arbitrage, and leveraged trading. However, the exact extent of this influence would require detailed market data analysis beyond what's typically available in public discussions or general insights from X posts."

Comments?

Excluding futures, can trading of "paper bitcoin" negatively affect bitcoin price discovery in theory or practice?

I never used a fitbit or similar because I think they are privacy nightmares. I'm also not a big fan of measuring everything (or over-optimizing everything).

But now I'm curious: are there any that don't suck and are reasonably privacy preserving? If anyone knows it's probably the nostr crowd lol

Considering adding native Tor into Amethyst just to go around relay per-connection limitations.

Then we could keep all accounts connected and downloading their events at all times, while using a separate exit IP for each nostr filter.

There wouldn't need to be a global account switcher. Users could have 100s of accounts working together.

Plus, huge privacy gains.

The CEO of The Nostr