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Private #Nostr relay on my nostr:npub1aghreq2dpz3h3799hrawev5gf5zc2kt4ch9ykhp9utt0jd3gdu2qtlmhct node to sync with my public relays.

Did a couple of test notes and the node picked it up instantly.

People lump Umbrel in to the WoS custodial catagoey but for some tasks, it just works. #bitcoin

Not an extension but Mull https://f-droid.org/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/ on android (CalyxOS) and https://librewolf.net/ on Linux. Using Firefox sync bookmarks are clear, organised and easily retrievable across devices. Pretty good privacy.

Bitcoin holders need to know that the price is what it is today because of Ross.

Once people realised the government could take down the servers and imprison Ross, both being easy point of failures, they were unable to take down #bitcoin.

And that was the most important driver for bitcoin at the time.

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Demurrage I believe is a maritime concept mainly used in the shipping industry when containers are held up in customs. I think #ergo some random crypto project uses this to avoid constant inflation.

I can see a future where the mother of all hard fork wars plays out where one side, (maybe BlackRock et al) push for unlocking satoshi's coins and demurrage seems like a plausible proposal for them.

Personally speaking I'm all up for a high tx fee environment and slow movement of bitcoin on the settlement layer while we transition to daily XMR usage. My bitcoin UTXOs are consolidated and I'm happy not transacting BTC as I place my long term bets in this regard.

Relay test, check one

Well, the privacy side of bitcoin is terrible so I suppose that's reason to discuss solutions and alternatives.

Don't get blinded by the maxipads. Question everything. The success of Bitcoin is not a given. PubCo miners on US soil are a massive point of attack from the state. There's just one issue for you to consider other than the white paper.

Anyone know if Anonero can be used in conjunction with feather wallet? #monero

Tradeoffs?

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OK, there is a lot of news on various outlets about LK-99 and the ongoing race to validate/refute of 3 Koreans who claim to have created the world’s first room temperature superconductor.

I will give a quite info dump here.

1). WTF is this? Room temp superconductors (RTSC) are basically unobtainium. This is the stuff in the Avatar movie. It was calculated earlier this week that it would take an exascale machine (1x human is 20 petaflops) around 100 million years to brute force a 50:50 chance of discovering such a material. It’s a super hard problem.

2). Why do we care? Such a material can move electricity with zero resistance, this means no heat or waste from electronics. It means super dense chips, data centres without thermal limits, it means powerful enough magnets to hold proper fusion plasma, it means quantum computers with no thermal error, it means science instruments with no noise, zero loss transmission lines, vastly superior battery tech, proper ionic space engines.

That just some of the stuff we can predict today, there are no doubt many totally unforeseeable things too. It’s basically a completely new paradigm of human capabilities. It’s on par with humans discovering coal.

It means the 21st century will be unrecognisable compared to 20th century, as information and energy technologies are completely reset at a higher science foundation.

3). Is it real? Currently betting markets are 50:50 having been only 5-12% positive last week. The consensus is shifting towards ā€œthis is realā€ that’s not how these things usually go.

What do I know?

I have read the background and the science papers and spoken to a few people. I am the sort of person who reads patents as a hobby, have seen BS claims before. This looks real, has a new hypothesis that has been validated by world class simulation centre in Lawrence Bell Nation Labs, and various labs are now beginning to publish papers replicating physically what the Koreans claim.

My own theory is that the superconductor is a particular isotope of lead. Specifically Pb 207, only 22% of Lead is Pb-207 sI believe some enrichment may be required to achieve a pure RTSC. I expect various entities to race to construct such plants if this theory is confirmed. Why do I think this?

Because Lead-207 has unique nuclear spin properties among stable lead isotopes.

Isotopic properties.

Lead-204: Spin = 0

Lead-206: Spin = 0

Lead-207: Spin = 1/2

Lead-208: Spin = 0

Copper-63: Spin = 3/2

Copper-65: Spin = 3/2

Only 22.1% of Lead is 207.

My own theory is that RTSC is a macro phenomena of engineered quantum entanglement, where the spins of individual Pb-207 nuclei become entangled with each other. This could potentially influence the electron behavior on a macroscopic scale. This might aid in forming Cooper pairs, enabling superconductivity.

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Hasn't MIT nerds given it a 5% chance of success?

"Demurrage as the security budget solution for fixed supply currencies" is used increasingly as a potential solution to the #bitcoin security budget and a way as to not touch the 21M hard cap.

Any non maxis out there that have gamed this through or we adding this concept to the heretic folder like tail emission?

#monero

Carrer de les Begònies, 22-24, 07817 Sant Josep de Sa Talaia, Balearic Isles, Spain ... Will be sure to check it out. Many thanks!

I'd second that. Low dose for recreation, hero dose for the win once or twice a year.

Screw this UK weather, off to Ibiza and Barca next week. Stacked with sats, neros and stickers a plenty. Got a table booked at La Paloma. Wonder if they accept #bitcoin or #monero? Anywhere worth checking out for decent food in #Ibiza?