Frens what are you using as digital media players (that hook up to a tv) to watch shows and movies?

Freedom tech or surveillance-less options?

#asknostr

I don’t believe in luck.

It’s a mental crutch.

Luck makes it easy to explain why things didn’t happen for you.

It makes it easy to explain away other people’s successes.

The truth is some people are better than you, they’re smarter than you, they work harder than you and they position themselves for opportunities better than you.

Everything is knowable.

Right now at this very moment someone out there knows the thing that will make the next thousand billionaires.

You could know it too.

If you chose to.

If you did the work to know.

Luck is not a factor.

gm

the goal isn't million dollar btc

the goal is no more dollars

GM Nostr! 🌞

A strategy that Nostr users could use to prevent spam through zapvertising is to use a lightning address that only accepts zaps that above a certain threshold e.g. 100 sats.

Since StashPay only accepts lightning payments above 1000 sats (boltz swap minimum) this might actually be a selling point for StashPay lightning addresses (an upcoming feature).

Is this something nostr users would find useful? What zap limit would users prefer? 100 sats or 1000 sats? nostr:note1lveex6gfjj3m798k9y3hp5xsar3374wm9a5n770vpt6xl0rpe8fsma5423

Care to elaborate?

Interesting one, though I want to stick with chromium because of the plugins I use. Do you know good chromium-based ones?

Thanks for sharing, I knew they did some questionable crypto stuff but this is worse. Looking for an alternative now, any suggestions...?

going great on bluecry might switch

On Tuesday one of my students in my Bitcoin class was like “when we started this class bitcoin was only around $50,000 and now it’s almost $100,000.” I replied, “yes, it’s causal”

SoundCloud has just forced me to login in order to listen to a public track.

Our Weihnachtsmarkt opens tomorrow. 🤩🎄🍷 I'll take the whole pot of glühwein. Yes.. thank you.

No one has yet figured out a solution to the ReplyGuy problem.

DEX

-Why do most people still use centralised exchanges? Why have P2P and DEXs failed to capture a significant percentage of Bitcoin trading volume despite MtGox, FTX and other well known CEX failures?

-Bisq, Robosats, Peach, HodlHodl... What are they missing to reach millions of users?

-Can professional market makers use a DEX?

More generally, I agree with James' observation that Bitcoin Core devs are paying much less attention to soft forks than they used to.

I can only speak for myself here. Part of the problem is that the current proposals don't excite me, yet. That's even after spending time at the op_next conference.

SegWit (which happened before I was involved) brought the promise of Lightning. Taproot lets you build cold storage with hidden fallback options.

I'm still waiting for MuSig2 to finally have broad adoption, something that's higher on my review list than new soft forks, and I barely get to it.

In that light, talk of a vault soft fork seems premature. The tool development is too far behind even for forks that already activated.

Similarly congestion control doesn't excite me. I'm general I'm skeptical of claims that the masses are suddenly going to self-custody because of a dramatic event in US politics. Especially given that plenty of other countries are in worse shape and we don't see self custody blossom at a scale where it causes congestion. The US is 5% of the world population.

That's not to say that I'm against these ideas. If I see other people work on and activate them in a competent and careful manner I might be fine with it. It's sad that their main proponents and developers burned out, and that certainly won't speed things up. Maybe grants tailored for potential soft fork devs can help here, as long as the right expectations are set.

But not being opposed does not reach the bar of me actively reviewing it, which is part of what pushes things forward.

If I see a more fleshed out design for a (BitVM powered?) sidechain with unilateral (no 1 of N nonsense) exit that gives me full privacy (Shielded CSV?), that would get me more excited. Especially if it's clear which specific opcodes are best to get there.

Other devs will have other things and other thresholds that get them out of their soft-fork winter sleep. There's a "I know it when I see it" aspect to this too.

All that said, it might be the case that one day every single core dev is excited about a soft fork proposal, or would be if they read enough about it, yet is too distracted by their day to day focus. But I'm not sure if that is really what's happening. nostr:note1579fauj8nwl38mvzle5fkupswjw6fkzqv4syupav8ckshujy24tsks9y3h

GM Nostr ☀️

How can we make Primal better?