Coracle's algo is very simple: `nfollows(pubkey) - pow(2, log(nmutes(pubkey)))`. The log thing I've been told is stupid, but even such a dumb/simple algorithm works very well.

For me personally, the Snowden leaks were what made it "click" in my head. Nothing else has made me change my mind so profoundly.

Anyone seen the Snowden movie Citizenfour?

Worth a peek?

oh boy

We do I put a Reply Anonymously button?

It creates a new nostr key, replies with that key and deletes the key forever.

Maybe we need a "Posting as .." label in the new post dialog. 🤔

Snapdragon SoCs coming to laptops starts a much needed change in CPU/board design for desktops and servers. We got stuck in the x86 architecture for far too long.

Performance / watt is the new game.

Silent Payments are clever: you create a shared secret (ecdh) from a utxo and a public silent payment address. Then you simply add (tweak) this shared secret into this silent address.

The receiver then scans the entire utxo set, looking for any payments to this silent payment address tweaked with the shared secret from all taproot/pubkey inputs.

For onchain zaps, you can skip the scanning process and just send a giftwrap with the txid and the receiver can verify that you sent it and control the utxo just by knowledge of this shared secret.

To generate the shared secret from the sender side, you need the inputs private key multiplied by the silent address pubkey.

On the receiver side, you multiply the silent address secret key by the input’s pubkey.

This gives you the same shared secret which you can use on both sender and receiver side to validate the onchain zap.

The nice thing about leveraging silent payments is that the receiver doesn’t have to use nostr, they could just be using a silent payments wallet to receive the zap.

On the nostr side, all you would need is a silent payment address in your profile. Heck you could even use the users pubkey itself as a key as a less secure silent address fallback if they don’t have one in their profile.

I vote always, to at least lodge my protest, but I understand the growing apathy.

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It was gamechanger for me personally and for my career. But I do agree with you that it's very very easy to make a perverse thing out of it!

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

Just thought a way to do private, verifiable onchain zaps. would anyone use this? 😆

I said it before and I'll say it again and again: we need ideas to fix the huge traffic issue with noste.

My computer starts downloading events with 20 MB/s whenever I open a new nostr tab. That's unacceptable. If we want the world to use nostr (not just the US), clients need to work in a low bandwidth environment.

Think smaller.

The Kind 01 notes just keep getting longer and longer. Walls of text.

I never before so fully appreciated the readability afforded by proper grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and formatting.

There are people, walking around among us, WHO believe engineered global pandemics are a business model.

Oh damn, I thought that was only when you're using all the extra crap like the facial recognition and whatnot.