Allegory of the cave. We are all living in that cave initially and Bitcoin is a way to unbind the chains and get tf out of the cave, and see reality.
It’s fucking insane how programmed everyone is. Those who can de-program themselves then seem like the insane ones to the 95% of still brainwashed humans. It’s crazy.
nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx, I love you but you turned my pleasant nostr timeline into a twitter feed of “I love devs and you hate devs!”
Please consider having a long form podcast discussion somewhere on the deeper issues.
A few on my mind:
1) Are the core devs and the development process too centralized? Is there anything that can be done to reduce risk? Do we want large companies to fund devs? How do we avoid a situation like big pharma funding the FDA?
2) The community fought hard for small 1 MB blocks. Why were we surprised by ~4 MB blocks and spam jpegs. Was this a failure of software architecture? Communication?
3) What should be our software design philosophy for Core? Should we add powerful new technologies where the full use and abuse cases are unknown? Or rather should we select only the most important use cases and then tightly enabling only those narrow purposes?
4) We all saw how a contributor almost got malicious software into Linux. Are we funding enough security auditors?
5) Is there a way to improve communication between the devs and the community? If we need a site perhaps we should build it.
What else am I missing?
Thank you. 🙏
Re: #3
I was told Core devs had announced they will not be doing any more soft forks.
I think something like Core but a layer downstream could implement things like OP_CAT or various demanded soft forks so curious plebs could run more powerful (but potentially more risky) versions of the protocol. Seems like a way to have our cake and eat it too in tinkering more safely.
I’d love to see something like this arise (it could be called Mantle). As long as it was run and vetted by credible technicals (not me) I would contribute sats and run the code for more “cutting edge” expressive versions of Bitcoin.
I’d like to see the envelope pushed in a safe and reasonable way. Core should stay conservative imo.
Yeah absolutely. Nostr is the complete destruction of most shitcoin “use case” stories and wEb3 in motion.
I can’t believe #Nostr exists.
If someone would’ve told me about this protocol in 2021 I would’ve said “cool story bro” and now it’s real and we send each other #sats all day and shit post from our own keys and nobody can stop any of it from happening.
Too good to be true, but it ain’t.
We like to fuck around bro
Maybe some of them will break even on their storage fees this year 🤣
Zap nostr:npub1hea99yd4xt5tjx8jmjvpfz2g5v7nurdqw7ydwst0ww6vw520prnq6fg9v2 for his contributions
nostr:note108jlmcc4gglhwqlhlyrdj5rht0tcj72m64kvqvp7rdq3qz5ce7hsrkpfn5
Sparrow v1.8.5 released with:
Whirlpool over decentralized Soroban
Restart in different Home Folder
Faster initial server connections
Upgrade to HWI 3.0.0
And more: https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/1.8.5
Thank you for all that you do ser
Gold has been catching record nominal bids for a couple months straight now and it’s almost reached its 2011 high in purchasing power 😂😂
≈49 days until the #Bitcoin Network has secured 1,000,000,000 trust-less and permission-less decentralized transactions.
That is an amazing, unprecedented feat of engineering when you step back and think about it.
Here is to the next 1,000,000,000 sovereign txs 🍻
Halving on 4/20/24
Are you working on anything new at the moment in the way of writing or presentation? Love your work and voice (written and actual) good ser 🫡
I love good skate photography and edits. I still watch a lot of skate content on YouTube. My favorite stuff is the thrasher rough cuts and anything GX or Sour Solution puts out