My son broken his wrist the other day falling off his scooter, so we got 1000 piece #puzzle from Kmart to fill in time 😐 A 1000 pieces is alot 😂

I love 1000 piece puzzles, but that one looks hard. Hope you guys can enjoy it! 🙂

Hope that he makes a quick recovery.

The Bitcoin genesis block was mined 16 years ago. 🫡

An interesting and less known fact about the Genesis block of Bitcoin is that the 50 BTC reward from this block is effectively unspendable. This is due to how the transaction is encoded in the block; it uses a non-standard scripting language which does not include spending instructions, making the initial 50 BTC locked and inoperable. Satoshi didn't even want to premine the first bitcoin block.

Another lesser-known fact about the Bitcoin Genesis block is the hidden message embedded within it by Satoshi Nakamoto. In addition to the well-known text from The Times newspaper headline (“The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”), the block contains the value 486604799 in its coinbase parameter. This number, when interpreted as a hexadecimal string (0x1D00FFFF), represents the easiest possible mining difficulty for the Genesis block.

One final, lesser-known aspect about the Bitcoin Genesis block is that it wasn't actually broadcast to the network in the conventional sense since there was no network at that time. Satoshi Nakamoto mined this block on a single computer, and it only became part of the blockchain when other nodes joined the network later. This means the Genesis block was essentially a solitary event, unique in that it didn't need validation from other nodes to confirm its existence. This underscores the unique, bootstrapped nature of Bitcoin's initial implementation, where the blockchain started from a single point of origin before growing into a distributed network.

GM & Happy New Year my fellow plebs, chads & OGs.

Happy New Year!

Anyone else a fan of raw dogging a node? Or do you prefer one of the node packagers below? #asknostr

A) Alby Hub

B) Start9

C) Umbrel

D) RaspiBlitz

E) Other (please specify)

Curious to hear your thoughts as I’m still relatively new to being a #noderunner 🫡 nostr:note1sf6fjwqewjds2zdw27qvv6gw8ejx006ru69xdhpzczl7zh2899msax2hnd

Gladiator 2 is the Xmas movie tonight. 🍿

Merry Christmas #nostr 🎄

I’ll #zap 21 sats to everyone reposting this note 🎁

A day like today, but three years ago, I joined the #NOSTR.

Happy days, PV.

Internet failover testing for my new node.

I’ve solved the Internet failover issue I was having by using a virtual router running on a cheap VPS. Internet traffic for my node will be routed over 2 x VPN tunnels from my home routers to this virtual router, one VPN tunnel over each Internet service. BGP running over the VPN tunnels allows for rapid failover. Ping testing shows only two ping packets dropped when the primary link goes down, the jump in latency is due to traffic going over a fixed wireless link instead of fibre. This should mean that all channels stay up in the event of an Internet service outage.

The VPS does become a single point of failure but I think this is less likely to go down for an extended period of time than the home Internet services. nostr:note1fl0xj3h2t7wwwj56vuj2axplg66z2t9jdngxvugu3xjx2u6x7qhspwdn0g