I like paying for relays.
Jupiter Venus Neptune Mercury and Saturn all lined up with new moon
Today HRF announced 2 billion sats in gifts from its Bitcoin Development Fund to projects worldwide
We are delighted that we could gift $50k of this to #[0] for his awesome work on nostr and Damus ⚡️
Other recipients include the Africa Bitcoin Conference, the Qala Fellowship, core developer Vasil Dimov, Lorban (for their important work on Stratum V2), and Bitcoin Myanmar, a new group that will be producing Bitcoin educational content for people trapped inside Burma’s military dictatorship
More info at the link. Next round of gifts to come in May!
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/hrf-donates-2-billion-satoshis-bitcoin-projects
🤙🏼🙏🏼
The most exciting thing to me about nostr is how the combination of Taproot keys + a communication channel enables composability with different bitcoin meta-protocols. Some examples:
1) #[0] composing nostr keys with ordinal ownership: https://twitter.com/dannydiekroeger/status/1625245475426426880
2) #[1] composing nostr keys with ecash transfers: https://twitter.com/callebtc/status/1625263166450982913
3) #[2] composing “Bitcoin spending policy and signature orchestration using Taproot and Nostr” https://coinstr.app/
What else is out there? Wen nostr + DLCs? What can be done with nostr + Taproot LN??
Speaks to tools for solving identity problem arising from zaps too
Roasbeef raps on distributed-application paradigm that’ll shape an entirely new generation of bitcoin applications… Build whatever application, on Bitcoin, paying with bitcoin w/o the application’s storage nor compute burdening bitcoin clients.
Talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pStJqHrJhVs
Slides
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1B0Mv2-qkAzHutNprK3utvtDdGq7YAVF0UxmBJrP22dc/edit?usp=sharing
🎯 we are but conscious clever flatlanders in a higher dimensional system https://youtu.be/0ca4miMMaCE
Feel this
How do we explain where we got the math to do the physics to explain the creation?
Does the math that explains creation feel like fitting something to form the outcome.
#[8]
Clients will solve for this
Same. Paul Itoi’s work on this within Sphinx felt like a way to encourage this.
Zaps could big a big improvement for search
Team @ it again
Roasbeef zapping something something macaroons something something damus
https://twitter.com/roasbeef/status/1626721243989942274?s=46&t=ltzzJdI0D6qRjJHwRJN71A
Got around to watching this that jack shared a few weeks ago, beautiful and includes footage of long boarders🤙🏼🌊
https://www.thesurfnetwork.com/detail/12c147461ed0689ce9148a3d1e2eee8b3dbde21a7e0d60d0/movie
Def happy to help

