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I present to you Captain Cook, scourge of the Rye Seas. His favorite programming language for statistical computation is ARRRRRRRRRR but his true love be the C.
Wen luchador mask emoji? Srsly, unicode committe, y'all need to get your priorities straight.
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Being a reply guy seems to be a decent way to get followers. It worked today! Otherwise, I think, just post consistently and be patient. Nostr is very small still and there's no algorithm to game so you shouldn't expect the same engagement numbers as other networks.
Finally getting off Firefox completely. It is unusable. We have come full circle to 2004 where one browser engine dominates the entire market. 🪦🔥🦊
Nostr is a lot smaller than twitter. It is more focused on bitcoin, though. I think there is good potential to educate plebs on here. Thank you for migrating these threads. I have wanted to dig into how CTV enables these higher level constructs. 🙂 👍
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engagement farming
I know many people in the same situation. The ladder has been removed. The steamroller inches forward...
We'll get there after the crash. I just hope I can steer my friends and family away from the steamroller steadily advancing on the middle and lower class.
I'm sure we can find a nice roomy cardboard box to raise our kids in.
That's the plan. I wish we had a functional financial system where the optimal strategy was not "get into debt up to your eyeballs and ride the inflation wave". But here we are...🤷♂️
Cool new thing: slack messages announcing which recent block our company miners produced. 💪
Fixed rate mortgages are great for protecting yourself from a bunch of unaccountable bureaucrats who can jack up the price of your loan post facto whenever the fiscal weather changes.
Instead, you get fucked over by a bunch of unaccountable bureaucrats who print an insane amount of money out of thin air, spiking the property value, which the tax authorities use to jack up the price of your loan post facto.
When you get that first bill of the new year:
If there is a public ledger maintained by trusted nodes you have just invented a side chain. Check out Liquid. It's very cool scaling tech.
If there is not a shared ledger you have just reinvented fedimint. Since there's no ledger you can now add in ecash for improved privacy. Again, extremely cool scaling and privacy tech.
There's a lot of ground to cover to fully answer this question but here's a rough treatment of the major topics. I'm probably missing some stuff.
Increasing the block size sacrifices decentralization. It increases the cost to run a node, which (the thinking goes) will necessarily push some node runners to stop running a node and make the network as a whole more vulnerable to attacks. The bigger problem, IMO, is that it's a slippery slope. More on that later.
Bcashers thought keeping fees low to incentivize cheap payments was more important than keeping it easy to run a node. Bitcoin devs and users thought otherwise. Bcash forked off the chain and steadily increased the block size in subsequent forks. Today, bcash is more or less dead. Nobody uses it.
Another big issue is that coordinating a hard fork is very difficult. Bitcoin has an implicit guarantee to never hard fork if it can be avoided. (We'll have to hard fork within the next 100 years or so to fix an int overflow bug but there is no rush.) If we hard fork when fees get high this sets a very low bar. Next time fees go up again people will start clamoring for another block size increase, which weakens the network further by pushing more node runners out. We can see a variation of this dynamic at play on bitcoin twitter today with the folks who want to filter ordinals out of the mempool. Mempool filters are not a consensus change, so it wouldn't lead of a chain fork but it's a similar situation. If we change the bitcoin node software every time someone discovers a novel spam attack we will end up playing whack a mole forever and people will just stop using the mempool, which leads to centralization and eventually network capture.
Bitcoin must be antifragile in order to succeed in the long run. Making permanent changes in the face of temporary problems is the opposite of antifragile. Instead, we should be extremely cautious any time we introduce changes that might impact the carefully balanced incentives that make the whole system work.
you know you're a hopeless nerd when you get excited about logging changes
I don't work in marketing but I deliberately block every ad I can.