I was thinking after reading this if you still sometimes click 'like' without zapping, your bottom number might be too high. 1 is probably not worth the time to open up the wallet though.

Is that a frisbee-golf thing?

Someone might have a billion reasons to smile soon.

People that haven't used it. Also, at one point, back in 2018, transactions had a good chance of not working first try. Now it's above 98% on first try. Alot of altcoins usecase rely on Lightning not working though, so many altcoin publications still push that.

I think so. The thing about rollups is that the data is largely... off chain, right?

Yeah, it's not a full Global Feed, pretty cool idea, as the amount of Asian Spam is actually 90% of Nostr messages.

Turning Zapanese.

Yeah, just popped on Iris, Iris has a nice "Global Feed" which isnt a real "Global Feed" (every message) but just your friends and who they interact with as well. (So kinda like friends + friends of friends) It's a great place to find new people to follow, without getting spam.

Yeah, I know the data is crazy, haven't looked to see how much is due to outgoing vs incoming.

Many paying for data by the GB in the Global South might have trouble with the datause of Nostr. I was thinking, for Nostr relays in Africa, when the message is sent, it goes to a random relay the user connects to and then the relay gossips.

This would be better than the messages all going to the same one, which would be quite the attack vector.

Thank me later.

Yeah, which is rough. Alot of people who live in Authoritarian governments pay by the GB for data. The issue is we send the same data to multiple relays. You can probably shave a few off. Quality, not quantity.

Rollkit Sovereign Rollup on Bitcoin Announcement Twitter Thread

*** So, this seems really huge. I was under the impression that this wasn't possible on Bitcoin without softforks. It seems someone realized it was possible because of inscriptions (meaning putting dickbutt jpegs on the blockchain WASN'T the killer app?)

anyway here is the full Twitter Thread (minus pics, but all links included) announcement for people staying off Twitter. If you just wanna see the Twitter Thread, go here:

https://twitter.com/RollkitDev/status/1632438374513676288.

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You can now run a sovereign rollup on Bitcoin.

Announcing the first research integration of Bitcoin as a data availability layer for sovereign rollups.

https://rollkit.dev/blog/sovereign-rollups-on-bitcoin/

Rollkit is a modular framework for rollups that provides interfaces for plugging in different components, like data availability layers.

The newest addition is an early research implementation of a module that allows a Rollkit rollup to use Bitcoin for data availability.

Our demo features a Rollkit EVM sovereign rollup running on top of a local Bitcoin testnet. Check it out below and follow along if you’re interested in experimenting with your own Bitcoin sovereign rollup!

( https://youtu.be/qBKFEctzgT0 Rollkit: Ethermint + Bitcoin DA Demo YouTube video)

This new integration expands the possibilities for rollups, and also has the potential to help bootstrap a healthy blockspace fee market on Bitcoin, enabling a more sustainable security budget.

How did we do it? 💡

Ordinals showed us it was possible to publish arbitrary data to Bitcoin. We saw this and decided to follow a similar process.

At its core, all that was needed was two functions: one to submit rollup blocks, and another to retrieve them.

To write and read data on Bitcoin, we use Taproot transactions.

The new `bitcoin-da`package provides the necessary reader/writer interface to Bitcoin.

The package can be re-used by any project that wants to read/write data on Bitcoin

https://github.com/rollkit/bitcoin-da

Next, we made the ‘bitcoin-da’ package satisfy our `DataAvailabilityLayerClient` interface, which defines the client behavior and how block syncing works.

Finally, we implemented the `SubmitBlock` and `RetrieveBlocks` functions for Rollkit to read and write data to Bitcoin.

For a more detailed look at the integration, read the blog post and follow along with the corresponding tutorial. 📑

Blog: https://Rollkit.dev/blog/sovereign-rollups-on-bitcoin/

Tutorial: 👇

https://rollkit.dev/docs/tutorials/bitcoin/

To learn more about the theory of using Bitcoin as a data availability layer for sovereign rollups, check out this thread by @lightcoin ( https://twitter.com/lightcoin/status/1630301399358533633 ) or this blog post by @CelestiaOrg ( https://blog.celestia.org/sovereign-rollup-chains/ ).

So "pubkeys writing events" is largely spam, the blue or red lines are closer to "real" users. However, look how many do not have LNURLS enabled. Considering everyone I know does, my guess is it's Asian users who are using it for free speech who haven't (yet) been orange-pilled. Anyone speak Chinese?

Check out https://stats.nostr.band/

The graph that shows "total users"

The one that says pubkeys writing events might be mostly bot activity, the ones with contact lists and bios are closer to "real users"

However, the users with LNURLS is MUCH lower. I think the Chinese users (the minority that arent spam) are in it for the free speech, but not (yet) part of Bitcoin community.

That type of not understanding open source software reveals how many people don't understand Bitcoin besides the fact it made them money.

So many great lines. Also Ben Stiller's wife is really good at pretending to be repulsed by him. Enjoy!

Honestly, if a place doesn't accept Bitcoin, cash is best. Privacy. Also, small businesses get to keep more of it instead of a percentage being taken by a evil multinational corporation.

From the movie dodgeball

I @'d John Light (@lightcoin on Twitter), he had a grant from the HRF to research rollups on Bitcoin a while back and released a paper, I wonder if it's him.