So if I try to post my nsec it doesn't work? Let me try! .... .... jk. But seriously, it's a great idea! It's the kind of thing that makes it so everyone, not just Bitcoiners can use it soon!

A major GBTC shareholder $4 Billion dollar hedge firm (Fir Tree) who is suing Greyscale for wrongdoing put a large short position on Tether last year that they said would pay off in a year, which is... this month.

Right as Gary started going after stablecoins AND WSJ published an article about Tether using pseudonyms to get around regulations.

Probably something going on there.

It doesn't look like it's up yet, but I heard there is an ongoing collaboration between...

WalletScrutiny

and

The Bitcoin Design Community

in which they are integrating Nostr, I think users will be able to log in using their Npubs and comment or something.

Pretty cool!

Does it feel like Bitcoin has it's own social/communication protocol?

It does to me.

And I feel much more at ease because of it.

So this is pretty cool, this #[0] account seems to use the RSS feed to post to Nostr all new threads on stacker.news.

Would love to see more of these/someone make a "turn a RSS feed into a Nostr Account Generator" tool.

Speaking of Stacker News, I just got a Cowboy Hat, don't know how! It's on my guy too!

Are you two fungible or Non-Fungible Tonys?

https://stacker.news/TonyGiorgio

I tipped him here, bwahaha.

My zaps go elsewhere, but yeah, good point.

This actually isn't a nostr meme, this was an actual name of a movement, lol

Zapatistas!!!!!⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️

Zapatistas have come to storm WoS

I listened to an episode of 'Bankless' today. There is an interesting development, a court of England and Wales had ordered Oasis, a UK company, that acts as a front end for the more decentralized MakerDAO to change a smart contract to attempt to steal back 120,000 ETH that was stolen from Jump Crypto in the Wormhole Bridge hack of February 2022. It successfully reclaimed the funds, but set an interesting precedent.

The hosts of Bankless asked an obvious question, how could a decentralized smart contract just confiscate funds due to being court ordered? Well, the smart contract was upgradable. (Non-immutable.) According to Chris Blec, someone who isn't the Crypto industry's favorite person, (for reasons of talking about how centralized the industry actually is) this is quite the norm.

What surprised me is the Bankless guests said something to the effect of "If you are really decentralized, you can't be regulated anyway. If you are really centralized, you can't avoid being regulated anyway."

Wow! I actually agree with that!

However, the next story they were complaining about Gary Gensler coming after them even though they are decentralized. And then I realized, they actually think MOST of defi is decentralized. And they think MOST of crypto is decentralized.

Painful.

(Also when the Crypto industry collapsed and all their sponsors went under, losing all their customers money, they cried ON AIR with A NEXO AD AT THE BOTTOM ADVERTISING YIELD.)

Crypto is a cesspool.

Yeah, I guess it's not gone the way the Library of Alexandria lost information. But these two forks aren't really 'active' projects. BrainsOS itself, seemed to have it's github repo deleted for about a year before people noticed (and time of deletion was estimated by use of WayBackMachine) so I suppose it wasn't the most active of projects either.

https://github.com/KoreNBeatZ/braiins-os/pull/2/commits

But that was a fork of

https://github.com/papampi/braiins-os

So most likely, that one is closer.

AFAIK, no versions of the original that I can find though.

So there's one... lemme see.

#[2]

Since Braiins quietly removed the Github repo for BraiinsOS(not+), Bitcoin has been without a fully open source mining firmware. I haven't heard any comments on this and some things on the site still refer to it existing and link to a dead link. Luckily, Jack and Block are stepping up with MDK, (Mining Development Kit)

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/block-announces-mining-development-kit

#[0] Verifying My Public Key: "Timechain_"

A few episodes of 'What Bitcoin Did' ago, Sam Wouters from River was on.

If, in 20 years from now, Bitcoin was used the same amount as now, it would need to be about 900k for the security budget to be the same.

Now, It's TOTALLY possible for it to be there, at about 1 million. It will probably take a bit to get there, so we will need to have more usage than we have now.

The DCA meme DEFINITELY assumes an environment where governments are Bitcoin-friendly. Totally possible for them to shut down the on/offramps.

Maybe the Hodl meme should not be the prevailing meme, maybe circular economy should be.

Wait a second.

Is zapping the beginning of this?