Just saw this:
I mean, it's cooler than a picture. If there is a reason why you would want this data to be uncensorable? Perhaps you are running your node in a location that can get raided while you are at work? Idunno. But likely much smaller than image files.
I know that user retention hasn't been the best lately. I feel it's due to people that would be interested in certain selling points such as censorship resistance were early adopters, most don't care so much, most are affected by the chicken and the egg problem of wanting to be where their friends are.
I think we were given a huge gift in Elon stepping down as I can picture Elon stan memelords loving this place, (and loving their memes getting zapped. I imagine CEO Irene, who's name might as well be Karen will disenfranchise a far larger amount of people than was ever shadowbanned under previous administration's, and while Elon pushed libs to Bluesky, she's gonna push people to Nostr, at least that's my hope.
In general, much like something else I love, there will be short-term volatility, but as long as it doesn't die, (and good luck trying to kill it) it will only get bigger.
That article links to this article too
Talking about the issues of decentralization, privacy and uncensorability.
Yeah, but using a picture of herself with someone with their arm around her, but cropped out, though. Lol.
What about a Nostr client with a custodial wallet that displays your sats in USD? It would still be zapping normal Lightning, it wouldn't be Taro or stablesats, it just would display it like that. (Although i guess they might be like "why did my money reduce 40%?") It might look kinda dumb because $.000015 or something but they could just think it's dollars and crypto-adverse folks would just think they are sending micropayments. Somehow there would have to be a way to 'cashout' though. And that's where the issue is, fiat sucks. Maybe through cashapp or strike.
Sorry for posting a Twitter link, but in case nobody else has, It's Tucker Carlson admitting that being a major television news anchor, (or I guess even in his case, infotainment) is synonymous with lying (or at least misleading) and he has done so his entire career.
Says Twitter is the last place free speech still exists, lol. (Releases this on day Elon replaces himself?) But Says news networks on Twitter are still dishonest. Looks like he is relaunching, in a new form on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1656037032538390530
This is from the Washington Post
(Worked for Trump, WEF and did a coronavirus vaccine campaign for Biden with the pope.)
My theory is that Elon scared a certain demographic to Bluesky, who wanted their safe spaces, but she might scare a different demographic here, as free-speech issues may become a problem.
He wanted to make people miss him, so he picked someone that would upset everyone.
Elon Stepped Down as CEO, appointing Linda Yaccarino. People accusing her of being a Lefty, but she's an above-politics-globalist. She's worked for Trump, Biden and the WEF. What political party is she? The one holding office. However, Elon was mostly bullish for Bluesky, pushing out the libs who need their safe space. This might be bullish for Nostr, as free-speech related banning may ramp up.
Does it charge $10 for a "Lightning" transaction right now?
I was like ...? There's a Mastodon-Nostr Bridge. That's what's going on here.
Yeah, I mean most people don't start out Bitcoin-only. Also, most altcoiners are under the impression that Lightning doesn't work. That propaganda is strong. It didn't work well in 2018 and nobody updated their programming.
In case it didn't hit here yet. 1st Coinbase, now Binance?
Just heard about https://onosendai.tech/ on the Nostrovia podcast (if you don't listen to it yet, listen to it.) A 3D cyberspace client allowing the user a vastly different way of exploring this open protocol. It is very much still in the early stages. I highly recommend listening to the episode to see the vision.
As you can see in chart, first no inscriptions. Then it shoots up to over 2.4MB when inscriptions cause the blocksize to stretch. Now, this is a double edged sword.
Casey made the image inscriptions fit in the witness data area NOT to take advantage of the witness discount (as some people say) but to be prunable AND to stay out of the way of monetary transactions, by causing blocksize to stretch rather than take up space. This is why the big blocks are around here in the middle of the chart.
But then the blocksize decreases near the end of the chart. At the present, the chart ends with the average around 1.6MB. What gives? Well, the image inscriptions Casey designed NOT to be intrusive started being replaced by text based inscriptions, at first .sats names, (a kind of dns type thing) and then brc-20s. These seem to NOT stretch blocks, and DO take up space monetary transactions would fill, displacing them (unless, of course they outbid them.) The more monetary users outbid them, the more jpeg inscribed became text-based inscribers (because images were priced out). The more text-based inscriptions, the higher the fees. Endless Cycle?
Brc20 degens right now.
Another place to check out is https://trustless.computer/ it's how I first heard about it. I follow a bot here that gives me things people put in Bitcoin op_returns, and one was the url to this website. I was.... so confused. It looked really developed already. They are trying to not only make shitcoins, but also do actual dapps. Whatttt?
Lol, only supports Solidity? Whatttt? Did they just copypasta'd ALL of Ethereum inside of Bitcoin's Witness Data?
Another place to check out is https://trustless.computer/ it's how I first heard about it. I follow a bot here that gives me things people put in Bitcoin op_returns, and one was the url to this website. I was.... so confused. It looked really developed already. They are trying to not only make shitcoins, but also do actual dapps. Whatttt?