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Aviv B
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Actually today was the first time I published a note about a project I'm working on, waiting to see how will it go 🙂

TL;DR I've built a demo website to demonstrate mining and proof of work, and I would love to get your feedback, link below.

I'm creating a talk about proof of work for non technical audience.

I want to explain to people how it work without the prior knowledge about SHA256.

So during the talk I will build a hash function from scratch with the audience.

The hash function we will build is

f(x) = 500*sin(500x) +500

It looks like it generates random numbers between 0 and 1000, although not evenly distributed, there are more inputs that generate low / high outputs than inputs that generate values near 500, so for the talk we will be defining the proof of work slightly differently, instead of numbers that are smaller than the target. We will look for hashes between 500 and the target.

I have built an online "Miner" and calculator so people can feel what mining means.

They'll see that their phone can find nonces quickly but to get a nonce that generate outputs below 500.1 they'll need to wait much longer.

That's the link for the demo website

https://imaginative-biscochitos-a319df.netlify.app/

Please help me thinks of ways to improve it,

Will it be interesting to create similar site with sha256 or other hash functions?

What is your most favorite merch related to nostr or Bitcoin?

Replying to eddb5732...

nostr:npub1q3sle0kvfsehgsuexttt3ugjd8xdklxfwwkh559wxckmzddywnws6cd26p Just got my Ditto instance up and running using IPFS for media. https://freespeech.social 😎

Still new to the whole Nostr stuff, but learning a lot along the way, and I haven't even got a Lightning wallet yet.... 😫

I still have to customize the colour scheme of my site. Was there an option that I missed to change the site name and description on the logged-out home page? I didn't see one, but I did see the other options in the Soapbox config section. Do I have to modify that in the code somewhere? Is that covered in the Soapbox documentation for Mastodon/Pleroma installs?

Welcome 🙂

Alma Gov concert tonight at the Barby was a wonderful way to start the new week

Bitcoin is the only asset we can truly own, pricing it in usd is just temporary solution until the world will realize fiat money is broken.

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Nice whitepaper vibes 🙂🙂

Replying to Avatar bevo

nostr:npub1j9qyxka5lck4tw50v7qfrs6gdwczz5ydt7ugqy6nhuva9p6dpy5q8rs2yg have been in touch with support for over a week and still can not get my sats out of the wallet. Hoping this may get some help.

Also the syncing has had issues for a week as well

Anyway here is what I get.

Looks like a bug they should fix

It always fun to learn something new. Please tell me about cool nostr stuff I'm unaware of yet