1M is too little, IMO. i don't open a channel smaller than 2M. the larger the better.

BEEN SCREAMING FROM THE ROOFTOPS THAT MEMPOOLS WOULD FILL AND FEES WOULD RISE FOR YEARS. I CAN SLEEP EASY. DID MY BEST.

HASH RATE IS THE PRICE.

HASH RATE DOES NOT LEAD PRICE. HASH RATE DOES NOT LAG PRICE.

HASH RATE IS THE PRICE. IT IS THE FREEST MARKET IN THE WORLD: ENERGY FOR BITCOIN.

After using #Nostr for several weeks, one thing that has taken me by surprise is how there are very liberal and very conservative people on here, and yet they both share a sense of community and don't spend all day posting content against each other. Despite differences in political persuasion, they find common ground on here.

Now that I've seen this, I better understand how dangerous centralized control of social media is -- where algorithms continuously drive inflammatory content to users to keep them addicted to the platform. I find it ironic that a censorship-resistant platform is largely devoid of much of the inflammatory content that's present on censorable social media. One may have thought the opposite would be the case.

first time on nostr feels like I'm using the internet against instead of an algorithm.

What percentage of people that hold bitcoin will self-custody it 15 years from now, do you think?

patience

Visiting a village in Malawi that now has electricity because of Gridless and #Bitcoin mining was such an incredible experience.

In Malawi, the median salary is $2.00 per day and in the village we visited, it’s closer to $1.00. Worse, Malawi just had a currency debasement of 44% 3 weeks ago.

It touched my soul to meet and spend time with these amazing people, to see the laughter of the children, and to hear how #Bitcoin is changing their lives.

I would say good luck to anyone who thinks that #Bitcoin can be stopped. Because they are fighting a redistribution of power away from manipulation and exploitation of people back to them and to the free market.

PEOPLE ARE ADDICTED TO THE ENGAGEMENT (DOPAMINE RUSH) THEY GET FROM ARGUING WITH OTHER PEOPLE ON SOCIAL MEDIA.

TWITTER HAS ESSENTIALLY BECOME AN INGROUP VS OUTGROUP BATTLE GROUND DESIGNED TO GET PEOPLE ADDICTED.

IN MOST INTERNET ARGUMENTS THE BEST SOLUTION IS FOR BOTH PARTIES TO USE SOCIAL MEDIA LESS.

Feeling blessed 💜

PSA: “Inscriptions” are exploiting a vulnerability in #Bitcoin Core to spam the blockchain. Bitcoin Core has, since 2013, allowed users to set a limit on the size of extra data in transactions they relay or mine (`-datacarriersize`). By obfuscating their data as program code, Inscriptions bypass this limit.

This bug was recently fixed in Bitcoin Knots v25.1. It took longer than usual due to my workflow being severely disrupted at the end of last year (v24 was skipped entirely).

Bitcoin Core is still vulnerable in the upcoming v26 release. I can only hope it will finally get fixed before v27 next year.

good morning nostr 💜