If you haven't taken a look at Spiderchains, a proof of stake Bitcoin sidechain, yet, might be something here. Would be a gamechanger if it worked out. Could be Bitcoin's first permissionless 2way peg. And unlike a certain controversial topic, (Drivechains) no fork necessary. It is an EVM chain, which I can see how maybe that was an easy funding pitch. "Let's bring to Bitcoin the Ethereum stuff that Bitcoin can't do!" But, I am more hopeful of this security model working in the future than an EVM (Ethereum-y) sidechain becoming popular and hope to see different spiderchains pop up.
It has certain obstacles. Stakers get paid with ONLY transaction fees. (No base reward fee seigniorage.) But you need users to pay the stakers. And you can't have users without having stakers first. So, chicken or the egg problem. Will transaction fees be enough to keep stakers happy? Rootstock only pays miners with transaction fees, but it's mergemined with Bitcoin, an activity they do anyway. So staking will have to compete against rates on other chains. Apparently they will have an initial fund that will start staking and will slowly phase out of this.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/spiderchains-a-proof-of-stake-second-layer
nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx bad precedent for UK anons.
UK courts suck. Craig sued Bitcoin. Org owner anon "Cobra" over having the whitepaper on his website. Judge ruled he cannot fight this while staying anon. @odell
**The Pirate Bay Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary**
Comments: https://stacker.news/items/259364
https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-celebrates-its-20th-anniversary-230919/
Wow! 20 years! Amazing. Unstoppable.
finally ditched audible
used Libation to losslessly liberate my audible library for playback anywhere. installed audiobookshelf on my nas. loving my new self-hosted audiobook and podcast setup š¤š¤š»
support open source
check em out:
https://www.audiobookshelf.org/
https://github.com/rmcrackan/Libation
#floss #foss #libation #audiobookshelf
Thanks, will check this out.
Cool, thanks will try to check it out. I saw the Firefly series of course, but didn't hear about the audio thing.
But yeah the original cast is pretty exciting. Also it being Spike-centric. They're really giving the fans what they want.
Certain people are FREAKING out right now, I assure you.
NGL, I was REALLY into this Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Original Buffy cast new Audible series about Spike. Starting Oct 12. With James Marsters, Charisma Carpenter, Anthony Head, Juliet Landau, Emma Caulfield Ford, Amber Benson, James Charles Leary and Danny Strong.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/chainalysis-the-theranos-of-blockchain-forensics
nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx in case you haven't seen this yet, HUGE break in the Sterlingov Bitcoin Fog case. They basically admitted in court it doesn't work. Now it's on record. Huge.
I'm trying to study from my dystopian digital textbook that disappears from my clutches 18 months from now, but I can't,, because they are having server problems or whatever. "You will own nothing, and be stupid."
"We are having trouble retrieving your access code. Please wait a few minutes and try again."
Sorry, crazy week, I just started school (for the first time in 18 years. My brain is cobwebs!)
https://favvy.com is another Linktree competitor that's built on Nostr, following https://nostree.me 's recent launch.
Looks great! Does Nostree allow you to login yet, or is it just me? I'm clicking Log In, but nothing is coming up/usually my extension pops up and asks for me to authorize.
This guy hopped on my knee when I was drinking my coffee on the porch and then hopped away. He had some POWER behind him. Probably the length of a US $1 Coin (the Sackagawea/US President (Golden) ones)
Cricket? Grasshopper?
Here's an article from the New York Times about how more people die in the US than should. Yes, they avoid what you'd expect them to.
"...several years ago, after decades of steady improvements, life expectancy in the United States took an unprecedented turn for the worse, placing it not among its wealthy peers, but below Kosovo, Albania, Sri Lanka and Algeria (and just ahead of Panama, Turkey and Lebanon)"
"Wish politicians would look out for miners and not just minors on an island somewhere" š
Instead of unexpectedly rapidly improving and becoming increasingly intelligent and surpassing humans as... expected, ChatGPT4 has gotten worse at math than the previous version, demonstrating a phenomenon called "drift."
An attacker used a bug on Stacker.news to withdraw 20M sats.
nostr:npub1qkfnmpuz692azr8c5phn0930x2v92xyqvwgr6ve8znaa3qd6c3hq09ertp has fixed the bug and is trying to make it right.
"If we can manage to get the sats back, I'll drip all those sats back into the rewards pool over the next couple months.
If the stacker that withdrew them is reading this and values sats earned more than sats taken, I'll voluntarily give you a nice chuck of what you withdrew. It's ultimately my fault and I should pay for the mistake, but I'd prefer to give those sats back to the community."
The most wild thing about this are the balls on the attacker. K00b knows who they are. They are a site user. In fact SN even interviewed them before. š
Again, not your keys, not your coins. Withdraw your sats to your own self-custody wallet if possible.
Rough. Maybe give them a period of time to think it over, and (hopefully) do the right thing, if they don't, they should make it public who it was. I have the same identity across multiple platforms, they might too, and perhaps they don't want the cost of losing that identity.
Is there a Nostr Fiver replacement thing (but with Bitcoin) in the works yet? I feel like that'd be cool.