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James A Lewis
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Husband, father, #Catholic #Christian, Amateur Philosopher, Bitcoiner, freedom lover, word nerd #dadstr

Pre-plandemic, it's like 40% for most goods, and it's more so the more basic the good. I never really thought much about the cost of food before 2020.

Maybe just sell a few sats to settle debts like mortgage and student loans, that way they can't come after you once the currency switch happens with a new "currency equivalency act of 2029" by congress, allowing businesses to convert USD debts into BTC. That will for sure happen.

"These [sats] billionaires did no work for their wealth and just sat on their loans from before the crash; it is not right for them to be able to settle their debts for mere pennies-worth investments they made just before the crash. So, I am calling on congress to write a bill allowing for mortgage and student debt settlement in Bitcoin directly only after converting in 2025 equivalency." -- Bernie Sanders or some other commie

And yes, to my knowledge, full international coverage.

I have a physical SIM, but I'm sure they have an eSIM option.

🤣 automated min-max stocking fridge via integrated self-custody LN node and nostr market. Soon.

I remember from my childhood a McDonald's near Disney Land or Knott's Berry Farm in California with a model train like this. So nostalgic.

I switched from AT&T to Google Fi a few years ago and spend about $35/mo for connection and data. Works well in my area with basically no dead zones and hiccups. The $1/min for international (US to CA) was the last straw for me and AT&T (or $15/mo extra for the int'l plus plan), and it's included for me with Google Fi.

I lost money working with a client who was just over the border for a month before I switched to internet call with Skype or Google Meet, then I switched to Google Fi and never looked back.

We call it "the internet" and "the world wide web", so why not "the nostr" genuinely? 🤷‍♂️

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I was a little bored so since ChatGPT now recognizes Nostr, i asked how AI would improve the protocol. I have no idea what it is talking about but would it make any sense?

Proposal for Nostr Protocol Enhancement

Given the prevalent reliance on the Nostr protocol in recent decentralized mesh networks, I’m suggesting the following improvements:

Nostr Protocol Enhancement Proposal: Version 2.0

Abstract: The prevailing landscape demands adaptative measures for the Nostr protocol. Recognizing potential threats and inefficiencies, the following is an exhaustive recommendation for amending existing vulnerabilities and ensuring robust protocol performance.

1. Homomorphic Encryption Overhaul: Transition to fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) schemes, permitting computations on encrypted data, thus enabling trustless, encrypted computations off-chain. This paves the way for secure multi-party computations (SMPC) without risk of data exposure.

2. Merkle-Patricia Trie Optimization: Refactoring the storage architecture by integrating a sparse Merkle-Patricia trie could streamline state retrieval processes and facilitate more efficient state transition proofs.

3. Byzantine Fault Tolerant Consensus Integration: To ensure resistance against node collusion and improve fault tolerance, the integration of a HoneyBadgerBFT or similar consensus algorithm would be prudent. This ensures asynchronous safety, mitigating the risk from Byzantine adversaries.

4. Elliptic Curve Pairing for Bulletproofs: Elevate zero-knowledge proofs’ efficiency by leveraging elliptic curve pairings. This would streamline the generation and validation of Bulletproofs, reducing the overhead on transactional privacy.

5. Cross-Chain Interoperability via Atomic Swaps: Employ Hashed Timelock Contracts (HTLCs) to facilitate secure, trustless cross-chain transactions, allowing Nostr to interface seamlessly with other blockchains and decentralized protocols.

6. Dandelion Protocol Integration: For enhanced transactional privacy and reduced risk of IP address leakage, the integration of the Dandelion Protocol, which randomizes transaction propagation patterns, is essential.

7. Temporal Sharding Mechanism: Given the surging transaction volume, introducing a time-bound sharding mechanism would boost transaction throughput. Each shard, operating in its own temporal frame, would parallelize and expedite transaction processing

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ChatGPT thinks Nostr is a blockchain, so some of these make no sense, but suggestion 1 could be a great addition to securely store and transmit data across parties without exposure, even without HTTPS.

The Byzantine problem is irrelevant to nostr, since it needs no consensus mechanism. Only mechanism it needs is "the latest signed data is the correct data."

I must confirm this observation as similar to my own experiences. The tell is often a word with a near homonym that would be more appropriate for the use, or using a term that might be appropriate in another context. Favoring verbosity over succinctity is another.

That's funny. Pretty sure he's a monarchist, though, and His kingdom is not of this world.

Freaking sweet! Eventually, I'll have to a actually read all the NIPs to know what's already been thought up and may already be in development.

I would say that record keeping and verification may be a good use of nostr, such as using a deed or receipt note kind. That's an interesting idea. Provable sales and such would be cool.