I haven’t looked at a calendar in 5 years. And it probably shows.

Now that we have a way to track this, maybe it should be first 1000 purple members? 🤔 nostr:note1j3vztldrtzgq57m94pxztt4e6c2ketpp3cdnnecm2g7v76hscu0s0s6cfv

i wish 😭 there’s a lot of churches that have been rehabbed into homes in stl and i love it. it’s better than them burning down or being turned into empty lots

The broad crypto industry rallied hard soon after the White House threatened to veto the bill that would let banks custody digital assets. And now it’s making a big difference, with Congress voting strongly for it, the White House pulling their veto threat, etc.

While it’s right to pass that bill and let banks custody them if they want, it’s sad to see that the crypto industry response to that was like 100x bigger than the response to all of the anti-privacy stuff that has been happening.

The desire of people in the industry for banks to help pump their bags is way bigger than their desire to pave a way for freedom tech in general.

Much love to all those building and supporting real freedom tech.

BAM immediate controversial take that may ruffle some feathers

GM at the end to smooth it over

Since returning from Bitcoin++ in Austin, I've been trying to alternate between working on Lightning one week, and Bitcoin hacking on the other.

Mainly, I've been finishing my Script interpreter cpp modification so I can make more comprehensive benchmarks. I've also given in and ordered a raspberry pi 3, 4 and 5 to benchmark.

I hope to answer the key questions on what a realistic budget for large stack objects should be. In particular, there are four reasonable limits on their size (I'm not considering changing the 1000 stack element limit, since that seems roomy!)

1. 520 bytes. We are here now, but as Script gets better that will be very limiting.

2. 520,000 bytes: simply limit the total stack size, not individual entries.

3. 4,000,000 bytes. This allows you to put the largest possible transaction on the stack. But you need a total limit of at least twice this, so you can make a copy: you can't do much in script without doing this!

4. 400,000 bytes. If number 3 is too much of a reach, this means you can put any standard tx on the stack. Again, you want a total limit of at least twice this.

My laptop, with something stupid like 26MB of level 3 cache, and my build machine with 32MB, can handle this fine. But what about the Pi?

I'll find out next week...

Do nostr users even want nostr to grow?

Do folks view nostr as the freedom tech for all, or a way to be in a bubble away from those you dislike?

It seems that there’s some pessimistic self sabotage that will surely make those who join leave after one day.

Ego can kill.

I think the people who buy the stuff have a say in what currency they will spend.

Millennials and Gen x Democrats are verbally attacking Gen z for not wanting Genocide Joe as our president.

Yeah, insulting and attacking the youth is definitely going to get them to vote for your decrypted president

i’d rather have zaps turned off than have anyone accuse me of “posting selfies for zaps”.

If OP_CAT is being heavily encouraged by the Ordinals crowd, bad actors in the Bitcoin space, and people wanting to do it "for the memes" it's absolutely 100% going to be a no from me, dawg.