I’m probably the only guy on this site who remembers a “4GL” programming language called “Appgen”, aren’t I?
(Was just telling my kid about it. Totally fucking demented language. Everything was a function. *Everything*. )
I once went down a bit of a rabbit hole about all this stuff here:
An egregore is a thought form created out of the energy of many but with its own individual sentience and independent will.
A “pendulum” in the Zeland sense is a *phenomenon* with directionality and perhaps even an underlying intent, but with no individual sentience unto itself.
The most remarkable attribute in pendulums are their anti-fragility: they quite literally absorb oppositional energy directed against them and gather strength from it.
To split hairs, I’d call it more of a “pendulum” in the Vadim Zeland sense of the word.
3 completely bad reasons to write your own Nostr-like protocol that isn't Nostr, from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36259930:
Nostr is pretty good and I was inspired by its idea. However, I didn’t like a few things and that’s why I decided to build my own protocol.
1. Nostr relies on Schnorr scheme for signing the data. While from my research, the patent on it has expired, I also read some other details on how there’s other pieces of it which are still patented. I am not a legal expert, so my understanding on this might be wrong and it might be in the clear.
2. Schnorr is fairly new and not used widely yet. It’s not even built natively in Crypto Subtle which comes built-in in all browsers.
Based on this alone, I couldn’t use Nostr. My implementation uses ECDSA P-384 keys which can be generated using the browser built in crypto subtle library:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EcKeyGenPar...
So this allows one less third party library to rely on the client side.
3. The 3rd reason (and this was one of my biggest reasons) was that Nostr runs on websockets. I didn’t like that at all. Servers are already limited on the number of sockets they can handle. Plus it seemed like unnecessary complexity when vast majority of the developers already know how to use REST api.
So instead of websockets, mine uses a simple REST api with only 2 endpoints: one for creation of records and other for searching for records based on filters.
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Testing… 
Well. That didn’t work.
Killed by lack of DNS TXT support in NIP-05.
My latest on Zerohedge…
Who needs Climate Lockdowns If Everyone is Trapped in the Metaverse?
I know it’s a Twitter link, but you have to see it in context of the MMT thread it’s in…
(Only this time, we’re gonna win)
Hear me out:
Bitcoin as the Cathar Heresy of the fiat world… 
The thing is, as far as I can tell, none of the major nations have anything ready for a consumer facing CBDC ( FedNow is an institutional clearing level ) - and the financial system is coming unglued faster than they can build one.
That’s why I always suspected they would have to try to co-opt something already up and running, like Ethereum.
Maybe that’s the endgame of this regulatory crackdown.
https://bombthrower.com/meet-the-most-likely-base-layer-for-global-cbdcs-ethereum/
Who needs Climate Lockdowns if we’re all in The Metaverse?
No but this was the a core theme in a recent Demetri Kofinas pod with Tara Burton - Demetri says a big part is turning off notifications on your phone helps, Tara said she bought a flip phone and tries to bring that most of the time she’s out instead of a smartphone.
I deleted Twitter from my phone - but still use a browser to check it periodically- that helped.
https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/americas-new-religions-self-making-tara-isabella-burton/
Dunno, was expecting BNB to shit the bed for a few days now… 
What's the easiest way to be able to receive a lightning payment so that you can fire off a call to an API REST endpoint after it comes in?
I guess I'm asking how or where I could setup webhooks for receiving lightning payments.
GM folks. Nice day. 
We are energetic beings living in an energetic universe and the quality of our thoughts, mind and vibrations determine the quality of our lives.
This applies to us individually and collectively.
Goodnight.
Email. Yes, really.
Just deleted Twitter from my phone.
Thanks - yeah it was rough. She was in a lot of pain tho. Wonderful family pet for a lot of years 
From last week’s Satoshi Rockamoto event hosted by #[1], here’s yours truly on drums, experiencing max “drummer face” (also known as “stank face”).
h/t to #[2] for finding it.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Drummer%20Face 
Dude. I had no idea. Why are you telling me about Karaoke when there are jam sessions happening?
I realize I meant to bring you an easyDNS shirt as well when we met on Saturday, but I forgot
It has to be so ingrained as to be part of the zeitgeist. We need the Bitcoin equivalent of "Lawyers, guns and money":
Mantras, memes and slogans.
Part of the Bitcoin 101 orange-pilling process needs to be "get Nostr" and that "anything you are enticed or offered on Twitter wrt Bitcoin is 100% a scam".
I’m good thanks. I’m curious why all your replies tag @cfdc1143
Do you ever worry that in a world where hyper-bitcoinization occurs, money velocity would drop to zero?
In the ongoing process of orange-pilling Steve Bannon, I managed to sneak in a Nostr reference today from the floor of #Bitcoin2023
GM folks. If you're here at #Bitcoin2023, let me know.