Wow. On one hand, Ark's mixing will have quite an onchain footprint, but... *This is a real L2* Along with Lightning and Statechains, this will be the 3rd REAL working L2 BTC has EVER had. You can trustlessly exit back to L1. Easily the biggest thing out of the conference.
Meta is building an ActivityPub (Mastadon) fork codenamed P92
Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/aakashg0/status/1659938015576473600
Strike added alot of countries. India + Brazil alone is 1 out of 5 people on earth. So most likely with all the other countries, they probably can serve 1/4th of the world's population. (Picture screenshotted from Jack Maller's Bitcoin 2023 announcement.)
So that means every year they use almost 5 times the amount of trees (because 12.4 million into 59 million) of the entire Country of Iceland!
And before you say Iceland doesn't have any Trees (because they will!) I tried to find a geographic landmark for 1906 km2 of forest.
It's about the size of half of long Island, which is pretty big as it has the entirely of Brooklyn, Queens and Nassau County (and part of Suffolk). Brooklyn, Queens and Nassau is home to 6.238 Million People.
Anyway, thats just an example. Probably there would be a better one, but comparing things to countries is a good move, imo.
They use a technique of comparing energy use to countries. So I figured we could try this. Now, this is just an example, but I think the strategy is what's important. Iceland has 1906 km2 of forest. Basically it's all one type of forest, so we can pretty accurately determine how many trees they have. According to ourworldindataDOTorg, there's 6511 trees per km2. So there is 12,409,906 in Iceland.
#zappollIn my opinion, it only works with something else on it, like bacon.🥓
Someone on Twitter showed me this.
Hmmm... i'm not sure if it should be a burn, the orange check mark.
Probably not actually. I feel like we wouldn't be able to convince the community to do it at large. Although it would be a great way of proving 'cost'.
I think two way thing would be better. Just if you take away your coins, you lose your check mark.
Cool. Btw I meant to say provably.
There was this thing that was happening recently called teleburning. It was an inscriptions thing. So they simulated migrating an Ethereum NFT from Ethereum to Bitcoin by First Right clicking it. Then using (some number from) the NFT itself to derive an Ethereum burn address. Which they would send it to. Then just inscribe it on Bitcoin.
Nostr keys are the new Taproot format i think. But either way, I think you can use numbers as input to derive addresses, at least that's what they did here with teleburning, and it was somehow provable that the address was derived from the NFT.
You know how Saylor talks about Orange checks? Is there a way to derive a Bitcoin address from a set of nostr keys, so that it probably was derived from that nostr keys (and nobody can use the address for more than one npub) and then you move idunno 5 bucks of Bitcoin in there and then you got your orange check?
This is a good article on Sam Altman's Worldcoin project. (The one where an orb scans you in exchange for Worldcoin.) Very strange dystopian neo-colonialism, as they generally only do it in developing countries.
That's a good theory.
Yes. But technically all cardinals are bishops too. But you wouldn't really call them a rank down.
What you think, if this number is zero, should I remove the relay? Looks like I stillupload to them tho. (Using Amethyst)
I was going to say this is really progressive and inclusive of you. And then i realized I was thinking of braille. Different things.
It's a bit over my head, there's no Readme on the Github but I think that it backs up SCBs (secure channel backups) outlined here: https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/ln-channel-backup/#:~:text=Lightning%20channel%20backups%20also%20known,in%20case%20of%20data%20loss. (But I'm not 100% sure)
But yeah I was under the impression that it was more of something that could boot an entire Lightning node from, when really it's something that can only help you re-establish balances IF your peer is okay with it.
It's a bit over my head, there's no Readme on the Github but I think that it backs up SCBs (secure channel backups) outlined here: https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/ln-channel-backup/#:~:text=Lightning%20channel%20backups%20also%20known,in%20case%20of%20data%20loss. (But I'm not 100% sure)