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Ahmad
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Building on Bitcoin and Rootstock. @ahmadalkabra on twitter

Hello #nostr fam 👋

Seems like Nostr is getting some momentum

Is a TikTok-like app feasible on Nostr? Looks like that might have the potential to onboard mass audience onto Nostr and perhaps Bitcoin/Lighhtning who are hungry for TikTok alternatives

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They ask for sensitive info. As a matter of ethos, I would have presented alternate options for users to send/receive zaps ⚡️

What lightning wallet is popular these days to set up for tips?

Haven’t been here in a while. How’s everyone doing

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Drivechains

Alright people, we are playing a game of chess here. The one thing, the absolute one thing, we can't do is give up the king. To give up the king, in my humble opinion, is to mess up the base layer. This mistake would disrupt the delicate incentive structure that ensures sound money. That sound money pegs the extremely fragile credit markets and out-of-control G7 policymakers that are creating clown world with their CB fiat policies.

We don’t need the sound, pegged, money to move fast, we don’t need the money to do smart swoopty things, we just need it to be pegged, immutable, and digitally sailable to actually stop the madness of clown world.

By introducing a whole lot of technical complexity to the base layer and potentially screwing with the incentives all so we can connect to a bunch of centralized shitcoin projects is like playing offense with the king when you’re down 7 pieces and the other player still has their entire back row at their disposal.

A. Why the rush!?

B. Why not just go use Monero if you need that level of anominity in your transactions. Why do you have to have it in a wrapper via drivechains?

C. Why risk the king without deep understanding and testing of the technical risk and potential change to incentives?

The beauty of Bitcoin is you can build it and softfork it, and we’ll let the community vote with their nodes. BUT, I for one, have no use for drivechains (that doesn’t mean everyone is like me). And as a result, I will not be updating my node and running any attempted “secret” softfork updates by the miners.

How’s is this different from Lightning? Segwit softfork enabled Lightning . Taproot softfork enabling taproot assets. We all run these nodes happily knowing that shitcoins will possibly be on there soon.

Hello 👋

Haven’t engaged here in a while. Is it more exciting these days on here?

Who dat on the left?

And was great to see #[1]​ and Damus repping at the #Bitcoin conference 👏

What did people think of the #Bitcoin conference?

Still can’t believe there’s no NBA team back in Seattle yet #BringBackSonics 😏

Ahh . Good to know I’m not missing much then