what are everyone’s favourite paid relays? i’m trying to keep my relay list small, but high quality- any suggestions?

thanks for all that info! i was thinking amazon gift cards might be a good option - i swear i even saw woolworths gift cards (which is a grocery store here in australia) as a payment method somewhere 🤔

would you get worse spreads using these as an option? or is it decent spreads if you’re grabbing us dollar or euros based gift cards?

might give it a go on robosats 🤔

what’s the best no-kyc payment method to use in australia?

my payid has my government name in it 😑 and bank transfer takes days to clear so i’m guessing it won’t be viable p2p - what options do i have here?

why can’t i use phoenix wallet to lock up the holding sats when trying to place a robosats buy order?

this was going to be my first ever no-kyc buy but i don’t want to have to download another lightning wallet just to get it working 😑

“The FDIC has funds of 128.2 US$bn securing 10,068 US$bn, a cover ratio of 1.27%.”

🥳

i watched the first part of an amazing documentary last night (“Birthgap”), and here are some of my key takeaways…

- birthrates across developed nations are well below the replacement rate (2.0) and have been for awhile now; most nations sit roughly around 1.5 😬

- for a lot of nations this trend start during the 1970s, but not always; these low birthrates seems to correlate with significant economic or societal events of hardship

- these low birthrates AREN’T driven by couples having less children, they ARE driven by people having NO children

- across the board, the distribution of families having 1, 2, 3 and 4+ children remains almost identical as prior to the drops in birthrates

- it’s being caused by an explosion of people NOT having any children at all (i.e. childlessness)

- but, people willingly choosing to not have kids remains at roughly 10%, and people medically unable to have kids remains at roughly 10% too; so where does the spike in childlessness come from then?

- the spike in childlessness is being driven by people who want to have children, but it seems like they simply underestimate the window of opportunity and “run out of time”

🤯

will there be a good entry into the housing market soon?

or, when it goes brrrr will house prices just moon, and i’ll be in an even worse position?

i’m 25, and the friends that were able have taken out a line of credit in the past couple years and used it to buy a house

you can’t lock in interest rates here for longer than 3-years really, and fixing rates also comes with some fine print too

a lot of them are now starting to feel the pinch of high interest rates, and large repayments

but, there’s no good option -

you could sell at a profit, but you would then still have to buy something in this higher market (and cop “stamp duty”, i.e. a hefty home sales tax)

or, you could sell at a profit and try to rent, but there’s no rental supply, vacancy is like 1% or something across the entire state (and i’ve heard stories of property managers getting offered cash in hand bribes just to make sure the property goes their way)

the rental i was in with my partner was sold on us, and we’ve essentially been forced to move in with parents

i really love the area that i’ve lived in my entire life (and so does my partner) - we live in australia, in a beachside suburb, well away from the city, the right amount of quiet, etc. - i’d also love to start a family some time soon too (in a house that’s my own preferably)

but, land here is $300k-$400k, and building would be minimum $400k as well; and then a 50+ year old home (3x2 or 4x2) would be like $600k-$1M+ depending on the location / specifics

you can’t find an established house that’s less than $350k, and everything <$500k is probably shit location or needs a bulldoze (and should just be considered land value really)

what do i do?

same - really easy to get a very quick idea of what happenings have gone on through twitter

not quite the speed and quality on here yet (or it’s not surfaced easily)

i suggested this ages ago, but you should be able to group relays together like lists on twitter, and scroll your feed ONLY seeing posts from the specific relays you defined on the list

then, you could have a list of high quality paid relays that are all about delivering news quickly - and group them altogether on a list

that’s my vision for the future

i’ve dm’d the npub that’s associated with relay.nostr.com.au 👍🏼

it would be cool if you could filter your feed by relay, or groups of relays (similar to “lists” in twitter)

i just finally nip-05 verified myself, and set myself with nostr.wine too

keen to see how it changes my experience

(still haven’t setup a static lightning address though because currently i think the only options are custodial wallets for that luxury unfortunately)

i’m a data scientist who knows a bit of python and r (prefer r)

i’ve always wanted to learn javascript, and lately i’m interested in learning rust for whatever reason

as someone who only knows how to program really as a means to slice and dice data - what do you think would be my best way of going about learning these languages?

phoenix wallet has an option in the settings that’s labelled “incoming payment expiry” and the options are: 7 days, 30 days and 60 days

how should i be interpreting what this config setting actually means?

does this mean that if i copy a receive address, and then put that address into my damus profile, that the address would then expire after 60 days and people wouldn’t be able to send me sats unless i updated the address?

or does it mean something else?

would you do this for cold storage, or for hot storage?

planning something similar for the cold storage, but wanted something less intense for my hot wallet seed / passphrase

ahhh i think you might have misunderstood me a bit

hot wallet would be temporary storage only (a sparrow wallet) where funds are hopefully mixed prior to being sent to cold

cold storage wouldn’t have a seed phrase that‘s changing (just normal receive address change for privacy)

and cold seed would be backed up in all the proper ways

laminated paper is a simple yet effective step above normal paper, i like that idea - thanking you muchly

what are some good options for keeping hot wallet keys safe, but not over the top?

i can justify steel for cold storage, but for hot storage it seems like paper is too brittle / insecure, but steel is probably too permanent for something that you might want to scrap and remake every now and again - thoughts?

any home remedies for bee stings?

stepped on a dead one this morning and didn’t notice at the time, but now 12h later it’s swollen as heck and i can’t walk on that foot properly 😡

i think i’ve stumbled down a philosophy rabbit hole and i’d love to here some people’s thoughts / discussion…

rothbard’s ‘the ethics of liberty’ was a great book, but it left me with some questions - primarily, the axiom of libertarianism seems to be (for rothbard at least) natural rights

these natural rights are “life, liberty and property” but (i’m not at all disputing this, just trying to understand), it’s not obvious to me how these rights are derived as THE natural rights - what makes a right natural? how did we discover these as being natural rights at all? what’s the criteria?

“life, liberty and property” seems to be credited to john locke, and that’s an interesting part of history i definitely had no idea about (locke vs. rousseau vs. hobbes)

but, the “original” natural law seems to be traced back to thomas aquinas? (and then i think he was influenced by aristotle / plato but i haven’t gone that far yet)

aquinas’ natural law, from my very basic and incomplete understanding, makes the case that humans are distinct from other animals due to our rationality, our reason, our logic, our ability to reflect upon our existence, and our relationship with God - is this then the basis of natural rights (life, liberty and property)?

we as humans are distinctly different due to our rationality ->

with this rationality we can reason about our “human nature” and draw out some fundamental ?rules? ->

this “fundamental rule” seems to be something like: “good is to be done, evil is to be avoided” ->

then from this rule he derived the primary precepts for natural law as: “preservation of human life, reproduce and educate your children, live in a society, worship god” ->

then were these essentially reinterpreted by locke as “life, liberty and property” during enlightenment era, and then this picked up by rothbard in his work on libertarianism?

do i have the narrative *somewhat* on the right track? or am i horrendously wrong in some places here?

pls help me out here team

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