I wonder how many people are "address mining"

**Re: Reply Guy Exploit**

I can't help but think the filtering needs to be done by the relay/s. That's the only way to keep it transparent. You also probably don't really want clients carrying the processing or code burden.

I'd want to run my own relay but I can also see configurable relays as a paid service.

Advertisers & scammers are probably the next people to use the RGE.

It just dawned on me that we should be calculating the number of possible public keys (not private keys) when illustrating the chances to steal someone's bitcoin. (The whole 'single atom in the universe' thing)

Since there are far fewer possible public keys than there are private keys, there is obviously a less-than 1:1 ratio between them, and therefore multiple private keys could clash and produce the same public key - and therefore would be able to spend the bitcoin associated with its UTXO set.

Am I wrong?

Twitter was paramount in bitcoins growth and its battles. Was a very cool quirky place eons before that too. Even though I have a very old account, bitcoin was the reason I started using it more frequently.

I met an incredible amount of good ppl there. Some of the best ppl I know was directly or indirectly because of the bird app. Hired ppl. Connected ppl.

There was/is absolutely nothing like it.

It's hard to imagine how the direction of my life would have gone, it was greatly impacted by it.

Crazy place! A true public square, I'm incredibly grateful for it.

Covid killed it, or at least accelerated its dystopian trajectory.

US politics gravitational force also doesn't help. Nothing on earth can scape use politics, everyone and everything deal with its consequences.

Even decentralized things. But they fare better. See bitcoin.

Anywho... Being with the X account deactivated over the weekend was quite nice, it had been a very long time since I fully disconnected. It is still a lot of signal, a lot of Lindy. But is also became an open sewer. (Why?)

The algorithm evolved for maximum conflict. It's hard to even describe how much it makes your skin crawl. It finds all the shit you don't want to read by the ppl you don't even knew about existed and vomits on you. Even with the large muted word list. It's not a healthy place.

Maxium engagement = more ad views?!

I don't want the firehose all the time. Humans are not designed for that. Different moods different content. Different types of engagement. Maybe even different clients for different sub network graphs. It's time time evolve. I think Nostr takes us there.

BUT I think Twitter's value can't be ignored. It is still a ginormous network.

That's aside from good ppl I know there, where it is our only comms channel.

I plan on drastically decreasing my use of it, truly limiting to posts about Nostr, projects I like and amplifying bitcoin things I believe in. The goal is to trend towards end of use. Hopefully it gracefully coincides with Nostr rising as the new public square. Protocols must be open. There must algo choice. Or we are doomed to doom scroll and ad target conflict.

I no longer will allow myself to scroll.

And will try to starve the beast as much as possible.

GN

“No event has traumatized me so much as watching nearly the whole of the professional, media, and academic class be entirely fine with the sudden imposition of totalitarian controls on association, movement, and speech provided they could luxuriate at home - believing there to be a killer virus extant - and hang out on video chats as the workers and peasants kept society running and delivered groceries to their front doors. That same group was thrilled to receive trillions in payments for having done this.

Again, nearly the whole of the top 1/3 of society was just fine with this, and certainly raised no objection. Many within this group manufactured excuses for their deeply disgusting disdain for others.

I doubt I can ever recover the respect I once had for the wealthy, the educated, the credentialed, and the successful. In the Covid period, they deployed their privileges as a weapons against modern ideals and against all the people they (secretly) regarded as their lessers.

This really happened. And it revealed everything.

In the end, they were rewarded for their disgraceful attitudes and behaviors. This reality, again, more than anything I've ever personally witnessed, has shaped my views on nearly everything and fundamentally disrupted much of what I once believed.”

- Jeffrey Tucker

I gave up programming professionally within1within 12 months of starting my job out if uni.

I didn't like the way it was changing my thinking & I wasn't fast/good enough.

I was experiencing if then else statements & loops in my dreams.

Thank you all for helping me keep some sense of reality and that I’m not completely insane.

Went to a normie dinner party tonight and people were looking at me like I was batshit crazy, and I was still just in the shallow end warming up.

Some people never have their values challenged in any meaningful way nor actually look at them with a critical lens and it shows.

It's funny how so many mushroom recipes are trying emulate/substitute meat.

I kind of just want to make a nice side dish to go with a steak 🤣

Do you mean just pick a project and go to the github repository to find what's needed.

How do you get a gig though? As someone who managed a fair share of planning and BI teams I don't see myself getting a gig like this in an open source project.

love finding that in the woods!

if im honest is prefer a steak. But i believe you

I appr.... 🤔

What will you do with it? Eat it?

When I first started buying it in Jan 2020 it looks like it was about 367,700 sats per 100g

Now it’s about 85,784 sats per 100g

Hah cheap!

This is the worst thing about Bitcoin dips, everything gets so much more expensive.

Thanks. You saved me a lot of time searching.

500K sats for a kg of Lionsmane mushroom extract?

I think I'll get the 100g pack for 100Ksats (equivalent to 1M sats per kg).

Have you looked at your lions mane extract purchases in sats terms over time? It's gone up in fiat terms but has it increased in bitcoin terms?