The Ethereum Foundation is scheduled to start processing withdrawals of staked Ethereum for the first time on April 12th.
While 'The Merge' occurred in September, particularly enthusiastic stakers may have been staking without the ability to withdraw as early as Nov 4th, 2020.
Well, because of the wonders of defi, I'm pretty sure you were able to use certain nfts as collateral. Just all of a sudden 10% of what you bought it for.
This is a really good dive into this mess. The intersection of dystopia surveillance and a futuristic take on ol' colonialism.
'HUMANS AND TECHNOLOGY
Deception, exploited workers, and cash handouts: How Worldcoin recruited its first half a million test users'
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoin-cryptocurrency-biometrics-web3/
So, as more nostr webclients and web micro-apps get made that interact with my keys (by them being stored in a browser extension), I wonder if browser extensions that hold pub&private nostr keys will become the preferred means of logging in to everything online.
Secondly, are there any browser extensions that hold more than one set of keys? Because in this reality, do you want to link your political shitposting and your online banking with the same set of keys? Cause if you do, you might not have that bank account for long, lol.
I was playing Bitcoin Blocks and this ad came up, I investigated, and it's NOT a fitness plan that just tells you to lift, barely cook meat on cast iron, no seed oils, don't use sunscreen, and sun your balls.
Just a normal gym.
Since Nostr posts aren't able to be deleted or edited like Twitter posts are, I think it's fair we admit we forgot to think about how this affects the heavy drinking community.
How about a client option that does a hard-to-do Captcha sobriety test when opening the app or before posting.
**P.S. This is a joke**
It's wonderful that there is no global state. There doesn't have to be any Toxic Nostr Maximalists. The same people that are toxic with Bitcoin, need not be with Nostr, due to a lack of Global state or consensus, and more experimentation can happen without the absolute paranoia of putting the whole network in jepordy.
Maybe we can have miners in space. It's pretty cold up there. There's no air to blow through them, but would there need to be? Cold enough.
Reminds me of an old theory of the most logical thing to do is build a sphere around your galaxy and absorb all your galaxy's energy, upload your body into computers wait for the universe to die, then turn on when it gets cold, because the computers will run the most efficiently.
Incase you missed it, Do Kwon was arrested in Montenegro yesterday.
(Somehow I missed it)
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/23/tech/south-korea-do-kwon-terra-fraud-arrest-hnk-intl/index.html
The thing about it is that I've heard a few people talking about nostr as possible open Dispatch type protocols, mostly for delivery, Uber, that kinda thing. But I think it could also do this kinda thing.
What's amazing is you know an open source Dispatch program is actually Jack's first major program. And now it's used by many major cities ambulances and firefighters.
**Please someone make this, otherwise we will get the closed version of this.**
Shipstr- a open protocol based on nostr for delivering packages
In the future Citadels around the Globe can be connected by a global drone delivery service run on an open protocol based on Nostr. Anyone can supply their own drones, load them with Shipstr open-source firmware and if a package needs to be relayed, your drone will be buzzed and you earn sats for each flight, or perhaps you can run charging stations and have sats streamed to you as others' drones charge (shown below). The system keeps drones in a range near where you live and passes the package to the next drone rather than sending the drone too far from home.
We got the Big Green Chicken Doomberg on the pod to discuss Operation Chokepoint 2.0.
https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/bitcoins-operation-chokepoint
Didn't see a post yet here for the episode with Max, so I'll leave this here,
Hey there, heard the new episode with Max from Wasabi, didn't want to start anything crazy over on Twitter, so I figured I'd mention it here. First of all, amazing episode, always really enjoy hearing him.
Secondly, the most controversial thing involving Wasabi recently is Wasabi using a portion earnings from their services to hire chainanalytics to check for tainted coins entering joins of the main (ZkSnacks) coordinator.
I will mention that recently a wonderful open-source developer (Kukks aka Andrew Camillerri) made it super easy to make your own coordinator through BTCpayserver. In the past, not using the main coordinator meant there was a very low anonymity set (low amount of coins to mix with), but now, coins of all coordinators are all mixed together.
Because of this wonderful work, the fact that the main coordinator is surveiled really isn't as big of a scandal for users as it was seen as at the time, but I would have liked to hear his comments on what lead to the decision. Was it an anticipatory move figuring policy would change pretty soon? Hearing him speak over this episode, it seems like the decision must not have been an easy one. Chainanalytics seems like the last person he wants to hire, and to make his customers hire.
Anyway,
Great work as always!
Also, Pulling for Bedford!
Welcome to Nostr! I have enjoyed the comics for a while now.
Figured I'd make one too!
Okay, imagine a relay that charges... idunno 40 sats or whatever to post, you can check your balance on a website, or you can DM a nostrbot and say how much you want to add, it gives you an invoice. That way, your not doing any friction every single post, just load like 10,000 sats at a time and forget about it for a while. And maybe there is a deposit involved too, so people follow the content policy. (No beheading, etc)
I see an 'Uncle Jim' model evolving for relays. Church group relays run off Church funds, Colleges will have their own relays (early BBS-internet vibes!) Perhaps companies will replace Slack groups with closed relays. Maybe hospitals and pharmacies will be connected with with relays using Vitor's Nip-82 (Medical Data over Nostr). Some others may just run them to deliver you content (and ads).
They only have your keys, so who you follow, (and your IP, if you aren't hiding that), possibly some other Metadata, including device or browser info comes through I think too. Still, your follows and likes is a good place to start ad-wise.
Of course, the main incentive we have for running relays is... getting paid. Now, Nostr will be a great way to orange pill. However, if you aren't already orange-pilled, there may be some more normie-friendly apps, such as Damus that will offer relay service for fiat-card payment through the app store. However, Lightning is the way I expect most relay operators to be paid. There are a bunch of paid relays, generally around 5,000-100,000sats, basically all one-time payment.
One time. Forever? For a year? No terms, no contract. Clearly this doesn't pay the bills forever, it just keeps out bots/spammers. So, they need to make some terms, and start to experiment with different plans. (Of course bolt12 reoccurring payments would be really nice right now.)
Paying per post probably makes the most sense IF it didn't have the friction. What if you could at any time load the relay with sats and the balance just automatically adjusted down say, 40 sats every post. You could check your balance at a website, or by nostr-DMing a bot.
Of course, the market will decide in two ways: -by users choosing relays they prefer
-by relay operators finding sustainable business models causing them to continue actually run their relays, instead of just getting frustrated and saying to hell with it.
Automattic, the company who owns WordPress and Tumblr, is testing out the Fediverse (aka Mastodon), the AT protocol (aka (Bluesky), and Nostr.
Well gold is pretty different. We can mine more of it. And there's mines that we know where it is, waiting for the price to go up, for it to be more profitable to actually mine. So if the price of gold doubled, we would mine at a much faster rate, causing more to hit the market, lowering the price.
When the Bitcoin prices goes nuts, there is nothing we can do to produce it faster. Which makes the price go even more nuts.