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I'm not sure what dollar denominated price action looks like in the near term. But what I think matters most is this number right here (concerns about stables and false market caps aside).

I use cash app for my dca, would love to get zaps in cash app, is there someway to generate a more readable on address?

Thanks for the services over there.. Love them.

GM... God the culture here is so toxic.

Are satoshis fungible?

The answer is complicated.. At the most basic (most important) level, the answer is yes. Every satoshi can be used to pay miners for the valuable ledger and time stamping services of the protocol.

At a human level, the honest answer can only be no. Just as people have always discriminated against the source of their gold, diamonds, or dollars .. Choosing to do business with some people and flat out refusing others (drug money, Nazi gold, blood diamonds, etc). Bitcoin brings even more transparency to the history of any particular unit of money, and absent some force telling people they have to accept all satoshis as equal, they simply may not.

Satoshis do have one key advantage - on a protocol level they will always be perfectly fungible and I can foresee no situation in which that would change. As demand for blockspace increases, this necessarily also increases the fungibility of satoshis by increasing the percentage of trade which cannot prefer one satoshi to another.

Seconded... #[7] created the protocol but I don't think he likes to talk :).

Lol, that is hilariously wrong.

Deffo don't recommend using these things to get accurate information, but they are great coding tutors.

https://you.com/ ... An app implementation of gpt3, pretty dope.

I first heard when #[2] donated.. Joined when twitter banned talking about it. Had to see at that point.

I figure its a regulation by enforcement scenario... When people start blocking you you're over the line!!

:') really hoping for a fat fingered paid here :')

People pay forctat videos, the first lesson of the early internet.

Definitely agree on that.. I think people will accept some advertising in exchange for free services, but the interoperability of relays and clients will keep it in check... Advertise too much and you'll lose your audience.

As I become more conscious of data security / privacy... I'm curious if there are any good fitness trackers that respect that... I like my fitbit, step counting and asleep tracking... But I'd like that data not shared. Any options out there?

I've been listening to you and @codecologist in the spaces and I think you guys are doing a great job.

Its really weird to me that jpegs brought people to bitcoin... But people coming is great, let's teach them the important things.

I used bluewallert and seed signer.. The kit was cheap, easy to put together.. Recommend it.

All my dms disappeared... "not authorized for my credentials".. and I couldn't follow a new person (follow limit).. I did manage to squeeze a tweet in.

I agree... And while I do worry about grossly immoral data being uploaded.. I'm very much for "illegal" content being able to be uploaded. The snowden data releases weren't legal and a valuable usecase for a distributed censorship resistant network like bitcoin.

I have been in the discord for the ordinals people... Tons of people new to bitcoin setting up nodes, learning about how transactions work, learning some things they assumed about bitcoin aren't true.

I think the jpegs are an inefficient use of blockspace.. But there are valid data uses IMO, and if the highest bidder right now wants monkey jpeg.. So be it. Trojan Horse absolutely.

It is not going to import youlr contacts etc.. Both mildly annoying... And also the point, it doesn't know anything about you.

Replying to Avatar Derek Ross

**NIP-69 is being proposed to use the Stacks blockchain and BNS .btc name system for Nostr Names**

The proposal states to use the Stacks "Bitcoin Name System", which has nothing to do with Bitcoin, but uses that name for name recognition only, as a new *"Nostr Names"* implementation. This is being proposed as an improvement to NIP-05 IDs. As a NIP-05 ID service provider, I will agree that the NIP-05 is not perfect, but NIP-69 is **not the solution**.

The Nostr Names NIP-69 proposal states that NIP-05 is flawed because:

* DNS names are controlled by the state and 3rd parties

* they're expensive, need to own a server, ssl, etc

* you need to be skilled to do it

The first key point is true, DNS names are controlled by third parties. That's something we can't fix yet.

The second point about being expensive is completely false. Domain names are fairly cheap and you don't need to pay for SSL certificates, nor do you need to own a server.

*For example: derekross.me costs me $12 a year. The server is a Rapsberry Pi 4. The SSL certificate is free from Let's Encrypt.*

The third point is partially false. The skill required isn't incredible, but it probably is too much for the average person to handle. This leads us to third party services such as NostrPlebs.com providing ID services for customers. This can lead to some centralization and trust, but we will reach a point where certain providers are better than others. Some providers will allow anyone to register, some will charge for this service, some will provide additional perks and support to their members. As time progresses, clear leaders in this new industry will merge and providers will be known and judged by their reputations, services, and support.

"Nostr Names" states the following are benefits to using NIP-69:

* use the centralized service btc.us to register a name

* learn how to use Stacks Clarity language and programmatically register your name

* use the Stacks blockchain, run a Stacks node

So, it sounds like you need to use a centralized service and you need to be skilled to register a NIP-69 Nostr Name, doesn't it? I thought these were issues that NIP-69 was trying to solve for NIP-05?

It costs about $10 for 5 years, so a BNS name is cheaper. That's a plus.

**But you still need to use Stacks.**

I like the effort here as NIP-05 is not perfect, but I'm sorry, I'm going to say no to this one.

[Source](https://www.newinternetlabs.com/blog/nostr-names/)

Ultimately... it some users want to use the .btc domains, can't we expect it to happen on some clients? Being an open protocol it seems inevitable.. also seems likely that there will be eth integrated forks of nostr etc.

I agree... it's a net positive, but I worry some will learn key management with low stakes and get burned when the stakes are higher. We will be there to help though :).

True... there is a bit of risk in people treating btc keys like nostr keys though... despite the gross difference in risk.

Replying to Avatar Derek Ross

If you registered a NIP-05 ID on [NostrPlebs.com](https://nostrplebs.com), you will have a special *tag* on our Spaces / Nests platform. 👀

Oh? Is spaces competitor working?