really depends on what kind of content you are interested in. More coding or economics? Or memes? Or or..
Also it might be nice to follow bitcoiners from your local area. They might do cool events.
*I am thinking of a hash ending with a certain amount of zeros. Can you guess the inputnumber for the hashfunction?
I visited someone who provides free IT-support for his local community.
She showed 2 elderly woman (atleast 75+) how to use linux mint instead of windows. And they handled it like pros.
Just shows how amazing linux mint is.
There are no Filter Block Wars. Only some people changing their own mempool policy.
Knots.
Its about the blockchain growing in disk space way to fast. https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrjrvzj8plzyzm675z0tsfyfzqlpjqv4wvgsjr2zshvz0eh8pv6kcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgsvfzn0kzdqx4vtrm84q80zecy6ey6mc07z6ul0tdvkxln4hnwly4grqsqqqqqpevc0eq
Yes exactly, prunning ordinals is the best solution. But this should be default for all bitcoin fullnodes.
#Amethyst Tricks
How to run a private relay over Tor on Android.
With the latest Amethyst supporting outbox & Tor this is more feasible than ever. Host one of your outbox relays on your phone, totally under your control.
🔹Citrine setup
Go to the settings tab. 
Fill things in as appropriate. Leave the network related settings default.
Under "Accept events that refer to" add your npub. This will keep extraneous events from clogging your relay, but still allow DM to function. Note: If you add your npub to "Accept events signed by" your DM partner will not be able to send messages to your relay. You would need to add their npub as well. Maybe a security feature?
🔹Orbot setup
In orbot got to more > hosted onion services.
Add a new service.
Citrine uses port 4869, so set that for both ports. Name it anything. "Nostr" will do.
You will need to restart orbot after you save.
Then you can go back and copy your onion service address. You'll need it for the next step.
🔹Amethyst Setup
Add ws://ONIONADDRESS:4869 as Outbox and DM relays in Amethyst.
Also add ws://127.0.0.1:4869 as a local relay.
You should be able to check the relay info in Amethyst by clicking on the icon. It should now reflect what you have set in Citrine!
😎👌
Software required
https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst
https://github.com/greenart7c3/Citrine
awesome combination🧡
I am currently playing around with #spark.
Its makes so much fun to send around only one single satoshi without any fee. Spark has so much potential.
there is no "the third layer". There are many diffent things beeing a third layer.
For example:
- Cashu
- Taproot Assets (Former Taro)
- Counterparty
- Marina (Former Vulpem)
or they buy on a second or third layer
No matter what's econmically best, let the user decide to make a bitcoin payment!
I don't care wether I pay a bit more onchain fee when it allows me to pull all my funds of a wallet. I hate wallets that hostage my change.
okay. i didnt knew that.
but you can use spark without uma, right?
how or why is Lightspark KYC?
Its not saying anything about in this brakedown https://www.buildonspark.com/
These are selling like crazy!
Would you run Core or would you rather Knot?
https://www.zazzle.com/run_core_i_d_rather_knot_bitcoin_knots_node_t_shirt-256228521796279216
haha😂 awesome design
1 year #Bitcoin onchain resumé of #Ordinals:
The trend of a faster growing blockchain I pointed out 1 year ago did not stop. Even tho according to some bitcoiners the ending of the hype would make it go back to normal.
In the past year we expirienced an increase of around ~91GB (Messured Feb.23 --> Feb.24) .
Before we had an stabil increase of ~65GB (Messured Feb.22 --> Feb.23).
[Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/647523/worldwide-bitcoin-blockchain-size/ ]
Its clearly increased with the launch of ordinals in february 2023 and caused an additional ~27GB load per year. Thats an increase of 40% !!!
Funny rock pictures don't hurt anyone. So why does it matter?
Bitcoin's biggest asset is its decentralisation. Meaning that all users should be able to run their own fullnode and verify transactions them self. Not having to trust others.
However not everyone is able to run a big data centre like amazon. Some don't have enough money, others might have bad internet. Ideal would be that even in the most remote village in africa in an totalitarian state a poor guy can run a fullnode via tor.
But that only works on 2 conditions. 1) The totall size is not too big, so they can store it on drives which are accesable (lower end of size)and affordable. And 2) The incoming data is not bigger that the amount the can download per second.
Its easy to throw of the ones that have the worst conditions. But generally speaking every increase will throw off another lower layer of people, a level of decentralisation, with each increase. With 40% increase the ordinals protocoll however is no small increase.
We might see these results in ~4 years when nodes pass the 1TB (a common drive size). But maybe we won't even notize it since most private nodes run behind tor.
We can't really undo the activation, because lightning got so far. However we can standardize to prune Ordinal data. So we don't throw of new and existing fullnode runners.
#pruneOrdinals
hahaha😅
I flamed the creator of robosats for that when he introduced it on reddit for the first time.
Jokes on me, because I really like robosats now. Even tho custodial sucks, the other benefits makes it really enjoyable.
Get a mini-pc like for a example a thinkcentre. Advantage: You could in the future upgrade the hardware if needed. And it doesnt need as much space as a real pc or server rack.
If you arn't expirienced with linux get a easy distro like linuxmint or fedora. Otherwise a ubuntu server will do the job. Proxmox is also a popular sulution.
Esiest would be to install and use docker. Since all umbrel apps are in containers allready you can use them with no issues. You then could easily add your own dockers of your choice.
Thats pretty accurate
How do you use it for secure messaging? Or does that not include private messaging?
ja hab ich aich gelesen😅
how about we don't decide what womens should do and rather give them the freedom to choose on their own.
And wether you like it or not there are womens that don't want to give birth. And that is just as fine.
1 year #Bitcoin onchain resumé of #Ordinals:
The trend of a faster growing blockchain I pointed out 1 year ago did not stop. Even tho according to some bitcoiners the ending of the hype would make it go back to normal.
In the past year we expirienced an increase of around ~91GB (Messured Feb.23 --> Feb.24) .
Before we had an stabil increase of ~65GB (Messured Feb.22 --> Feb.23).
[Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/647523/worldwide-bitcoin-blockchain-size/ ]
Its clearly increased with the launch of ordinals in february 2023 and caused an additional ~27GB load per year. Thats an increase of 40% !!!
Funny rock pictures don't hurt anyone. So why does it matter?
Bitcoin's biggest asset is its decentralisation. Meaning that all users should be able to run their own fullnode and verify transactions them self. Not having to trust others.
However not everyone is able to run a big data centre like amazon. Some don't have enough money, others might have bad internet. Ideal would be that even in the most remote village in africa in an totalitarian state a poor guy can run a fullnode via tor.
But that only works on 2 conditions. 1) The totall size is not too big, so they can store it on drives which are accesable (lower end of size)and affordable. And 2) The incoming data is not bigger that the amount the can download per second.
Its easy to throw of the ones that have the worst conditions. But generally speaking every increase will throw off another lower layer of people, a level of decentralisation, with each increase. With 40% increase the ordinals protocoll however is no small increase.
We might see these results in ~4 years when nodes pass the 1TB (a common drive size). But maybe we won't even notize it since most private nodes run behind tor.
We can't really undo the activation, because lightning got so far. However we can standardize to prune Ordinal data. So we don't throw of new and existing fullnode runners.
#pruneOrdinals