Nostr Web Client

How cool would it be to natively support pico8 games on Nostr?

Pico8 games are fully stored in a single png image (called "cart") and run on "virtual console" that's constrained in cool ways. For example this is THE full game (posting as nip94 to be sure).

One could imagine zapping sats to the author of the game, help them with feedback on features, etc.

nostr:nevent1qqszdvpzjqtx6ae6aunquuhc56dtr0pqc9jf87d2yqyzn5n9m73wt2czyr0t5fc723mk00td3mk8tmkw2c2akvt6qwc873v3xjcruu3kqpt92qcyqqqqgfczpvda4

You can play the game in the emulator here https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?pid=105213#playing (also you can download the PNG from there)

Sorry for adding you directly, but I'm really interested in what do you think? nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s .

#retrogaming #pico8 #grownostr

Phaedrus 2y ago

nostr:npub1kuy0wwf0tzzqvgfv8zpw0vaupkds3430jhapwrgfjyn7ecnhpe0qj9kdj8 check out nostr:nevent1qqsxs7sjdqdplvy52xnjurc2upp08q6j0yghpaa6y0sj778h3w3tguqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3qm6azw8j5wanm6mvwa367anjkzhdnz7srkpl5tyf5kql8ydsq2e2sxpqqqqqqzttx36w

Phaedrus 2y ago

If you need to do any local development or testing with Bitcoin/Lightning, Polar is incredible!

You just need docker and it quickly starts networks for multiple instances of full nodes (ie. bitcoind) and lightning nodes (ie. lnd, cln, eclair) and you can easily configure channels etc, and test your app with it. Great for hacking on lnd, or when I was developing LNBits plugin.

https://lightningpolar.com/

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satsie 🇹🇭 🇱🇹

And just like that, the BIPs zine has a sister: Time to talk Taproot!

This time the zine is being released as part of a new project and educational initiative that I’m really excited about, Bitcoin Bytes (thebitcoinbytes.com)

Phaedrus 2y ago

Where can I get it? I'm in Miami

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BTC Prague

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https://pay.cypherpunk.today/apps/3cepDfGU46a4bTf19K68Srr7eqC2/crowdfund

Phaedrus 2y ago

Can't pay Lightning?

Phaedrus 2y ago

I mean not in theory (I can think of many like Taro, Liquid etc), but in practice what's actually taking space in mempool...

Phaedrus 2y ago

Why is mempool so full these days?

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Jeff Booth

Very good summary and historical perspective to keep you out of the noise and chaos that is coming. #Bitcoin

“The Fed could have printed four or five billion to recapitalize the banks in 1930 – but the number that mattered was multiple times this amount – the tens of billions of annual total system Credit growth necessary to hold collapse at bay. The Fed could have bailed out Lehman, but the number that mattered was the $2.5 TN or so yearly Credit expansion necessary to prolong the mortgage finance Bubble. The number that matters today is probably around $3.5 TN annually. And the inescapable problem is that to continue a massive late-cycle inflation of nonproductive Credit feeding a deeply maladjusted system risks a systemic crisis of confidence – crises of confidence in the markets, in policymaking, in debt structures, and the monetary system more generally.

There is no alternative. The system faces an extremely challenging adjustment period. Today’s banking crisis is only the initial phase. There are no easy answers or painless solutions. And I’m assuming a plethora of bad ideas (i.e., short selling bans, system-wide deposit guarantees, larger lending facilities, additional QE and who knows what) will only make for a more destabilizing day of reckoning”

Source - http://creditbubblebulletin.blogspot.com/2023/05/weekly-commentary-extraordinarily-sound.html

Phaedrus 2y ago

How do you think this is gonna play out? Do you think reading history about 1930 would be helpful?

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brah

They can pretty much back door into any computer even remotely now. They didn’t break signal encryption they went below it into his device and read his messages from his client side (which had the messages decrypted)

He talked about his signal messages being read on a podcast - there’s some NSA software program I’m blanking on the name but apparently can do this (I’m not sure how) - my guess is chip manufacturer back doors

Phaedrus 2y ago

You probably mean https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/what-is-pegasus-malware/

Phaedrus 2y ago

https://stacker.news/items/174972/r/phaedrus Any ideas how NSA could break Signal? I can't think of anything except targeting single device through spyware.

Or this guy making shit up?

Phaedrus 2y ago

Is there a way to install Alby (or any of the other nostr extensions) on Android? Seems desktop only

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Lyn Alden

At a small Princeton event last week, among other panels and speeches, Carole House spoke about censoring bitcoin.

She is the former director of cybersecurity for the White House National Security Council, and prior to that was at FinCEN focusing on cryptocurrencies, and prior to that was in the military.

Some of her main points:

-Energy-related regulation may push some hash rate outside of the U.S., whereas she would rather see more of it in the U.S. so that they can force miners to censor the network on the base layer. She also views international cooperation as a necessary component for successful censorship. She also wants stakers to be forced to censor their PoS networks.

-It's not just about telling miners not to mine certain transactions, but to not even build atop blocks that have non-compliant transactions, so that those transactions don't get anywhere in the chain. A 51% attack, in other words. Her main concern is censoring states like North Korea from being able to participate in the network.

The event was interesting because there were several very different perspectives. On one hand there was Roya Mahboob talking about using bitcoin in Afghanistan, followed by Troy Cross, Craig Warmke, and Natalie Smolenski talking about the importance of bitcoin from an ethical perspective. On the other hand, there were panels about Bored Apes and speeches about how to censor the networks.

Phaedrus 2y ago

Super interesting. Thanks for reporting.

How will governemtns figure out which UTXOs should be censored?

How will governemtns enforce the censorship if miners can't be located or move to different jurisdiction?

Did they answer any of that?

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nout

Meanwhile in the parallel universe...

Phaedrus 2y ago

Haha, that was a good one

Phaedrus 2y ago

Folks, how do you decide which relays to connect?

Replying to

Sean Lloyd

Working my way through learning Nostr. Today I set up a private relay and paid for a public relay.

Phaedrus 2y ago

Here are some sats!

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Phaedrus

Any clients planning to integrate wallet to make zaps just one tap? Maybe using Breez SDK (Greenlight)? Cc #[0] #[1]

Phaedrus 2y ago

My latest hobby: zapping random new joiners on nostr. Opening the external app/wallet is suboptimal experience :-)

Phaedrus 2y ago

Any clients planning to integrate wallet to make zaps just one tap? Maybe using Breez SDK (Greenlight)? Cc #[0] #[1]

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ODELL

since my linked lightning address is connected to the dispatch geyser fund page, all zaps are being shown on the combined leaderboard alongside podcast 2.0 streams

pretty cool