How exactly does DNS become un-used? I have a hard time believing that there’s not one dependency that requires a domain lookup call in some form or fashion. Thanks in advance, really interesting.

why I care about ecash, in two lines of text

- most of small-amount Bitcoin use is custodial

- ecash improves these users' privacy

I would change now to "not": get Ross in exchange for no more self custody, seems more realistic. Never try to bargain with campaigning politicians.

Intellectual property does not exist.

GM.

that fact makes me smile and is also somewhat depressing 😅

The last barrier has fallen. Humans are obsolete.

Ecash payment request:

- Receiver generates nostr keypair and shows QR code with npub and a set of relays (is there a standard or NIP for this?)

- Sender sends ecash per nostr DM to npub and relays in the QR

Nostr is becoming the native messaging layer of Cashu.

Society has killed adventure and replaced it with blue screens. Most people nowadays work and live behind screens. Summer is a chance to return to adventure. Do not waste your opportunity.

Why is that?

Someone told me that extolling the virtues of nostr sovereignty won't help adoption and the only thing that matters is UX.

I think they're right when it comes to mass adoption. But I believe that in order for mass adoption to happen, we first must build a base of ideologically motivated early adopters who won't mind rough UX.

It's the fringe early adopters who will be willing to put in the work necessary to get us to mass adoption.

I can't believe, I almost sold my electric bike, I'm having so much fun on it

People don't understand how useful these bikes can be

Tor is one of the best and worst technologies to exist.

If you’re new here. This is how #bitcoin works:

Gradually, gradually, $62k, then a bit more gradually, then $58k, then a bit more gradually, then BOOOM, suddenly $1M.

And the answer would be: no

Sufficient trust in a mint would be centralization. This applies even to trust in several large mints.

I agree with your second point and Monerans have been avoiding my query on this, but i disagree with your first point about frequent hard forks. It's "how" it's done that is important, not how often. The HF's that take place are years in the making, focused on improving the single value proposition for XMR. They go through rigourous testing by skilled devs. The community can reject it, but rarely do because, and it bares repeating, they only have one goal. Privacy. No ETF's or corporate/state actors to appease, no mining conglomerates or electricity infra, no layer 2 scaling or smart contracts to integrate, no ordinals or Script externalities like BitVm.

This means only a handful of experts need to work on a given fork, itself trying to fix a potential problem, push the fix and move on with their lives, like with RandomX. Whereas with other projects you need to pass on the torch, audit Interoperability, and consult with veterans and stake holders.

Scheduled Hard forks in Monero are way less dramatic than in politics based Bitcoin and even less than in centralized upgrades like Windows going from one version to another.

Monero is so simple, it eliminates entire classes of issues that would make frequent hard forks "scary", whereas Bitcoin preserves old problems to keep legacy devs employed.