No, It's not.

What most people mean when they say "running a full-blown webserver" is actually 3-5 lines of code btw.

1 line in Golang.

No one realized that zaps have won against both lnurl and bolt12.

That is sick. Thinking of getting one. Is it possible to upgrade the hard drisk?

👀 what’s this?

We can do better.

Someone needs to hack old blackberry devices to be wifi nostr clients.

Boot to Nostr.

Shill me your recommendation for an industrial x86 mini/micro form factor PC. I’ll be using it as a Bitcoin node among other things.

I like the paranoid security lockdowns and privacy improvements they hard-coded in Tor Browser like artificial 1800x900 screen size to hide your actual screen resolution. Can I use it with ordinary VPNs instead of Tor's relays so I would have far better speed and reliability?

A curiosity about Ethereum and Bitcoin that not many people know about.

By default, Ethereum does not have a checksum in its addresses.

What does this mean?

Try entering this address into your wallet:

0x5f927395213ee6b95de97bddcb1b2b1c0f16844f

Now enter the address 0x5f927395213ee6b95de97bddbc1b2b1c0f16844f

Your wallet will consider both addresses valid.

However, if you look closely, the second address has two letters switched.

Assuming the first address is yours, if someone sends funds to the second address, they obviously wouldn't reach your wallet.

To address this problem, the Checksum was introduced as an extra solution.

To generate a checksum, the Ethereum address is first converted into a lowercase and uppercase version. Then, the checksum is calculated by hashing the address and comparing it to the lowercase and uppercase version. If the hashed address matches the lowercase or uppercase version, the checksum is considered valid.

Therefore,

0x5f927395213ee6b95de97bddcb1b2b1c0f16844f becomes 0x5F927395213ee6b95dE97bDdCb1b2B1C0F16844F and if you try to invert some letters, the new address will be considered invalid, provided your wallet supports checksum!

In Bitcoin, this does not happen: there is no extra solution applied.

The reason is simple: addresses are already generated with a checksum.

So, if we take a random address 1L7s77cV9hCAGPXo2SNmLmQ3FaPstYJVcT and switch two letters, obtaining 1L7s77cV9hCAGPXo2SNmLmQ3FaPtsYJVcT, if we scan the address, our wallet will show us an error (invalid address).

Satoshi was foresighted!

Nakamoto 1: Buterin 0

Just finally got up and running with my own full self-custodian setup and altogether, between my lightning address identifier (satdress), lnbits w/LNURL, a couple subdomains, a few reverse proxies on my web server, updated certificates, etc. ...ya, a lot of steps. 😅

pv 💜 What's the vibe today? 💜

Just to recap a bit:

💜 Iris got a mute option for notes.

💜 A lot of you already confirmed your pre-reserved Iris username. Still, a few days left before they become available for everyone.

💜 Social network (on Settings) shows details about your reach on nostr with your current following

There are also some other updates but where's the fun if we spell them out for you 💜💜

I believe it's caused by a race condition if multiple clients are opened with the same account. Now I fully close one client before opening another. Your follower/following numbers look okay though.

I suggested this a long time ago. There are many other NIP proposals like this as well. Private DMs will come.

Trying to get into anime but I’m a bit overwhelmed by most of the new ones. I watched Neon Genesis Evangelion and Tanya the Evil. I liked both of those but not sure what to watch next. Any recommendations?

I’m not convinced anyone sees me here. Am I configured incorrectly?

Interact if you remember me running Bitcoin Foundation elections or remember bitcointalk.org or just want to help out a physician who happens to be a bitcoin OG…

Or if you don’t hate me for no reason.

This should cover just about everyone. Except my wife.