When it was first announced I thought Taro would fill up the blockchain with shitcoin transactions. Then ordinals happened...lol. Today I am very bullish on TapAss. It shortens the distance between stablecoin users and lightning use, which I believe will bring in many new bitcoiners. It also enables cypherpunk money exchange businesses to operate in a purely online fashion. Looking forward to disintermediating the banks. 🤙
I keep a stash of temporary tats ready to placate unhappy children. Kids love tattoos.
"A Coder considers the waning days of the craft"
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-considers-the-waning-days-of-the-craft
#ai #programming
AI took the crown in chess and it caused a renaissance in the craft. The best of the best could train against their own personal grandmaster as often as they wanted and started to rapidly improve, where growth at their level was very slow before.
Did runners give up the sport after bicycles were invented?
When it comes to programming, this guy is lamenting the specific skills he learned. AI is a tool. Everyone who writes prose or code or produces images or video will need to update their skillset to remain effective. Some people view this in a negative light but I find this perspective myopic. I choose to believe that the productivity and creativity gains will eclipse the sense of loss felt by romantics from the previous era.
If it circumvents the murder happy cartels in Mexico it might be a net good.
Agreed. Graeber puts to rest the idea that people went from barter to currency. His thesis is that early humans went from debt/credit -> currency and that barter is an insignificant form of exchange popularized by armchair historians.
lol wow I was obviously under the wrong impression. Thx for correcting me 🙏
it does look like a canoe tho :-p
This is the way. It hurts in the short term but, like every attack, it only makes bitcoin stronger in the long run.
> intercontinental submarines
Are you talking about the drug runners that sail from Colombia to Florida? Technically correct but a bit overstated. These are glorified sumbersible canoes...
Heating the yurt with an S9 running on excess solar power
https://v.nostr.build/zeGd.mp4
There are no guests staying in the yurt today so I'm using it as an office to polish up my presentation for the SWMI bitcoin meetup tonight.
The sun is shining and the batteries are charged so I plugged in my mobile S9 space heater to take the chill out of the air from the night before. Batteries at 27v, panels making 800w of power and the miner is set to 500w. Good for about 6 terahash of free heat directly into the yurt thanks to the sun. Doing my part to keep the network decentralized and transactions time stamped all while getting 500w of heat out of the deal.
I also have a miner dehydrating squash seeds and simultaneously heating my house as well as a miner drying my laundry. Max hashing!
#homesteading #permies #permaculture #selfsovereignty #meshtadel #bitcoin #bitcoinmining #plebminer #homemining #doublespendenergy #hash2heat #mine4heat
Jelly
We have recently disabled the ability to zap nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 wallet users from Mutiny. You may still pay their invoices or LN addresses normally but a big problem we were seeing was force closed channels due to stuck payments to Zeus due to their work arounds with locked payments. Which harm both the user experience and other lightning nodes on the network.
Since nostr users are mostly unaware if they're zapping Zeus users or not, we are taking this step proactively to protect users from having a 10 sat zap costing them serious on chain channel closing (and reopening) fees.
The approach we are working on for solving lightning addresses on mobile wallets is a fedimint hybrid approach where the sats end up at a federation if you are offline but get swept to your self custodial channel when you come online. Payments will settle instantly with the federation and it won't lock up unnecessary HTLCs on the network.
Ideally we get the ability to do offline receives normally on LN but that future is looking really grim with LND's continued priorities on shitcoins instead of features, and offline receives depends on a network wide upgrade.
We petition Zeus to move to a more responsible node implementation like LDK unless their plan is to add shitcoins or break LN further.
This was beef chilli
I feel like this quality shitpoll didn't get the love it deserved.
lol, but this one made it thru
This looks promising. Copy your own follows and relays to a new account. https://onboardstr.vercel.app/
It sounds nice on the surface but you can't unswallow the orange pill. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.
Exactly, I follow a handful of people I know and like and I add/remove a few accounts that I interact with day to day. Don't hesitate to drop someone who is an asshole. (Same advice applies in real life btw.)
If your feed is sparse, look at someone else's follow list and add a few new peeps, but first look at their profile to see if they are active. Lots of accounts just go dead; I guess they don't do the work to curate their feed and get bored.
Rarely, I will plumb the depths of global and find a decent follow. I like to find active pleb accounts in places with the shittiest currencies and send fat zaps. Amethyst auto translate makes this possible. Props to nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z and all other contributors. 🙌 BTW, any good Turkish, Nigerian, or Argentinian account recommendations?
Zapping and quality replies are stronger signals than likes.
> quality accounts
Jameson, why do you discrimate against shitposter accounts? omg triggered
I was being facetious. New CPI numbers came out today. Great news, everybody! My health insurance costs went down 34% according to gov't statisticians. Amazing! Simply unbelievable!