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I made Eddie Snowman hop on Jack's Nostrich! I put him in the wrong spot, but it was too late!

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I made Eddie hop on the Nostrich with you!

Yeah, I get it it's fast, feeless and you need no info to sign up.

The last part comes from it being entirely unregulated. Definitely mitigate your risk. I have a $20 Starbucks Gift card that's half used, so currently Starbucks holds more of my 'wealth' than custodial Lightning solutions. So I'm okay with that risk.

This doesn't do it justice... it was rotating really cool!

Yeah man, sooooo many people have an app already that can pay lightning invoices. They just need to move funds over to Bitcoin annnd pay. Real cool. Also withdraw without them knowing what wallet it's going to.

Mine is 0 . 24

The bottom looks like this. It's the globe. If your bottom doesn't look like this you don't have latest version.

I don't know what they expect us to do,

-communicate with people from all around the world any time, 24/7 easy as pie.

-only transact with people who happen to live (in meat space) where you live (in meat space)

The Global Feed on Amethyst is pretty Global without it being too badly spam-filled, some accounts I block, but not bad. Love the auto-translate.

Last night, I saw Chinese Bitcoin Maxis talking about Cantillionaires!

Most on Nostr are Asian, and most of them are not yet Bitcoiners. Nostr might change that for ALOT of people.

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New thread to avoid spamming others. Preface: don't buy shitcoins.

How does Rootstock fit into this? Is it 'true' Bitcoin? I like Rootstock for what it attempts to do without a shitcoin. But I dislike it for the tradeoffs therein -- being based entirely on a federated peg that uses obscure signing hardware to channel network fees directly to the founders and their friends; it being a full-bore sidechain that does not validate on or fork with Bitcoin; its use of the EVM which I think is crap in general.

I dislike Stacks for its use of an ICO shitcoin and have been vocal about that with their community. I dislike it for its (currently) centralized nature, with too few nodes and miners driving the network, and still relying on the foundation to pay for developers to build out the protocol and the ecosystem. Incentive alignments are all over the place. Despite this I am willing to dabble and entertain some of their ideas if they are 'good enough' ideas with a chance of working, even if a shitcoin is involved on some level.

One of those ideas is this. Hypothetically, suppose that the Stacks protocol had a trust-minimized two-way Bitcoin peg, using taproot contracts operated at the protocol level, with the desirable property of open membership for operators as opposed to a closed federation. Now suppose that you could then use that pegged BTC *as the gas token* to make payments and use smart contracts, without ever interacting with the STX shitcoin. Then the Stacks protocol would be *at least* as much 'true' Bitcoin as Rootstock; arguably more so.

I think if STX were to figure out a way to make their coin unnecessary, I would definitely be put in a ethical quandary over how I'd feel about it. But I doubt I'll ever have to worry about that. You know how many protocols "plan on becoming more decentralized over time" and rarely (/never) do? It would be really strange to see a dishonest project become more ethical over time.

BTW, great to be able to talk about this. I usually on Twitter just didn't because I wanted to keep my account that had a bunch of followers to have a big platform to talk about Bitcoin on, because to me, that's really what's going to change things more than protests or lawsuits. But still. Great to be here.

Newscracker is not on Google play anymore. Is it sketchy to get it on an app site I never heard of?

Yeah, J-Nostr is talking about it! I was just checking if it was true.