Thinking a lot about our Not Your Keys, Not Your Bitcoin and the reality that for global adoption, most people won’t be able to afford to own UTXOs and transact on the base chain.

That a high fee environment causes many issues for Lightning.

Need to know more about scaling ideas but the big question is, how can anyone who wants to use #bitcoin be fully self-sovereign and not be priced out.

Can you be fully self-sovereign without controlling a UTXO?

Is this possible? Is anyone working on this?

really cool that in less than a year, nostr has become the main place i go to when i’m on my phone.

i used to post on instagram & twitter frequently, but i find it much more fulfilling to post pictures/notes on nostr. it’s not the zaps, or the clients doing, but rather the serene & solace feeling nostr encapsulates.

after being raised by the internet in its later years, i finally get the chance to breath and be able to experience what the internet felt like in the beginning. no utter dread. no engagement farming, & manipulation advertisement tactics.

this is how it was supposed to be.

Hivecoin, Jesus, more shitcoinery. And you're wrong, it does affect Bitcoin and everyone owning Bitcoin. It changes miner incentives. We don't, and can't, know how exactly, but it can lead to greater centralization in a number of ways. It's a risk that cannot just be ignored, particularly when there's nothing about DC that actually benefits Bitcoin. The main argument has always been "destroy shitcoins by enabling them on DC". I don't know any Bitcoiner who wants those degens leaching on Bitcoin. It's bad enough we got NFT inscriptions.

The only reason I hear for drivechains is so we can get all the shitcoiners into Bitcoin. Do we really want that? We're changing the incentive model of mining so a bunch of degens can do their scams with Bitcoin?

Bitcoin is software, so we'll have always bugs. But we're closer than long fix these bugs, mainly after v23, 24 and 25.

I am not 100% comfortable around BIP-300/301, I think we should first fix bugs in Core before next soft forks.

In addition to seeking non-custodial solutions on the Lightning Network.

Here's the tip.

#bitcoin

No. And you can’t either.

Technically relay operators can delete your notes, but that’s why you connect to multiple relays. And can run your own (but most folks won’t do that). nostr:note1upezmnl2agz33jng3srlrgptshc6yhe5lnm3f2w296r2dd2yrumszz77tg

Over the next five years, what do you think the chances are that talking about inflation or energy will be censored on centralized social media platforms comparatively to what happened with the pandemic during 2020/2021?

Follow notifications yay or nay.

chatgpt is now on nostr #[0]​ !

In an AirBnB the kids enjoyed playing with "Alexa" and they know I wouldn't allow an Alexa at home.

You sound like it should be very feasible to have your own, open source home assistant that doesn't arbitrarily phone home?

Mumble makes way more sense than jam systems because it’s not p2p and therefore it works. Spending some time this morning to see how hard it would be to integrate a mumble client into damus.