The wizard lets you enter a relay where you know your data is. You need either a kind-10002 or a kind-3 with embedded relays for gossip to "find" your relays. There is no central nostr directory, so it needs your help to get kickstarted.
I'm sad so many people get stuck and give up at that step, and basically never see it working.
#gossip 11 still has many features missing but it nailed the foundational thing ... it feels rock solid , enterprise grade desktop app .. not a flimsy smartphone thingie or a lazy web app .. congrats nostr:npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c and team ..
It may feel rock solid but I know better. So much more to improve that isn't even user visible that plagues me. But it is getting there and if your impression is that it is solid then I'm starting to achieve the thing I care about most. So thanks for saying.
Don't forget to blink
For the relays where it says "OK=false" it did not post there. You can also check the seen-on data (hover over the eye).
It certainly must post to their inbox relays. That is the whole point of inbox relays. If it doesn't, that's a bug.
Ok we just don't log the "OK=true" anymore. We only log the "OK=false". But you can see the "Posted event to" lines to see all the ones that were tried.
Sometimes nothing is corked and retried if you don't authorize AUTH to a relay.
hey nostr:nprofile1qqswuyd9ml6qcxd92h6pleptfrcqucvvjy39vg4wx7mv9wm8kakyujgpypmhxue69uhkx6r0wf6hxtndd94k2erfd3nk2u3wvdhk6w35xs6z7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpypmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuetfde6kuer6wasku7nfvuh8xurpvdjj7a0nq40 im sending out DMs from gossip, many are still kind4. i notice in the logs for the auth relays it never says ok=true ... is this just because its authing and resending, not logging it, or would it mean these DMs dont send? i remember you saying it has to retry after auth challenge but the logs seem to not show this happening..
If you and your partner both have published 10050 DM relays, then it will use NIP-17. Otherwise it has to fallback to NIP-04.
If it doesn't post to the DM relays and doesn't say ok=true, then maybe something is up with the relays? I'll look at my logs after I post this to see if it is just a change in how we are logging.
If the relay requires AUTH first, it remembers what it is doing (logged as "corked") and after AUTH it retries the corked subscriptions.
Very insightful to notice that it doesn't have to be just one or the other.
I've been in one of these hatches at Clearlake, CA many years ago. Couldn't drive, had to pull over since the windshield was completely covered in insects.
I probably shouldn't post because I know nothing. I just wanted to say that we are in the "fog of war" phase and either story could be true.
Could be that Maduro is using military force to "win" an election where the people are mostly voting against him. I see evidence of him using force, and also of lots of people reporting that he is widely disliked. The longer a leader serves, usually the more disliked he is, so it's quite possibly true.
Could also be that foreigners like the CIA are staging a coup against him, paying for rent-a-revolution mobs (people do anything for money) and spinning the media. They have been trying to oust him every election so far.
I don't trust anybody and luckily for me it doesn't matter.
BIP-340 specifies choosing the 02. Look at the section "Implicit Y coordinates"
I'm waiting for the "everything else you are playing with" memes
My post was mostly just about how cringe watching the conference feels to me. I don't personally think this reflects on bitcoin itself, but I express this because others might.
I use bitcoin all the time. I'm paid in bitcoin. II'm interested in bitcoin, but I can't spread my time so thin as to have developer-level technical knowledge of bitcoin, since I'm full up working on nostr.
As for the principles behind fixed money supply, fully distributed, no intermediaries, taking back control of our lives... I'm 100% interested and on board. But none of that necessitates this particular coin. And I haven't heard Bitcoin maxis make a solid argument for their coin versus other coins that are also proof-of-work and fixed supply. I've just heard it stated forcefully, devotedly, cult-like, that it is bitcoin and only bitcoin.
If a bitcoin maxi said something like "being the largest and the first mover means it has the best chance of changing society for the better, so we have to all get behind the same candidate token" I'd respect that argument. Or they could say "it needs to be bitcoin because I have a metric shitton of it and I want to be richer" I'd respect the honesty of that. But generally I just hear intense professions of cultish faith, which is also cringe to me.
Historically, we all know cypherpunk Bitcoin, nerd Bitcoin, lambo Bitcoin, and finance Bitcoin. Now, we’re in the age of political Bitcoin.
At this early juncture in the 2024 US Presidential campaign, we’ve already had three candidates explicitly mention support for Bitcoin in their campaign.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, when he [announced](https://twitter.com/iLoveJaneAdams/status/1661538616324112387) his run for president on Twitter this week, said he wants to protect the ability for people to “do Bitcoin”.
The most prominent endorsement [happened](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz7FPl065II) at Bitcoin 2023 in Miami, when Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., running for the Democratic presidential nomination against Joe Biden, outlined Bitcoin-specific policy proposals to defend owning Bitcoin, running a node, mining it, and ensuring government doesn’t put its hands on it.
"We are now living in this age of turnkey totalitarianism," he said of the rising power of technology and government control. Bitcoin, he argued, is a powerful tool against that tide because of its decentralization and freedom from countries or corporations.
As he laid into his points, an OpenNode QR code appeared on the screen behind his massive Kennedy head, inviting Followers of the Orange Coin to donate to his presidential aspirations via lighting or on-chain.
That was enough to make many Bitcoiners swoon.
And while RFK Jr. may have a clue about Bitcoin and its power, and how to cater to a Bitcoin audience, it doesn’t erase the fact that he’s pretty batshit insane.
As the nephew of a former president and the son of an aspirant one, he’s been in the public eye his entire life, so it’s not hard to find examples of whacko and loony ideas that were conveniently left out of his Bitcoin coming out speech.
RFK Jr., we should note, is a rabid environmentalist.
Not your casual cotton bag-toting type at the overpriced grocery store, but a guy who has called for the *jailing* of [energy company executives](https://web.archive.org/web/20170404102453/http:/www.ecowatch.com/jailing-climate-deniers-1881958645.html) and think tanks or groups that they may support for “contributing to climate change”.
Here are a few other select mentions:
* Called for anyone who has a contradictory opinion of how to deal with climate change to be charged with treason
* Served as a co-counsel in major extractive lawsuits against Monsanto and Dupont
* Successfully advocated for a ban on fracking in New York state
* Successfully advocated for a shutdown of the Indian Point nuclear reactor in New York state
* Successfully advocated for a ban on windfarms in Massachussetts
* Sued to stop hydroelectricity production in Quebec
* Sued to stop the Dakota Access pipeline
* Protested against the Keystone XL pipeline
* Claimed Bush stole the 2014 election
* Praised Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro not just personally, but for their anti-human socialist policies
Apart from calling for the arrest of people who have a different view of the government’s role in climate change and his anti-nuclear, anti-wind farm, anti-natural gas, anti-oil, anti-innovation in agriculture, anti-capitalism stances and actions, *he’s a totally normal guy who just wants to stack sats like the rest of us.*
OK buddy.
Note I didn’t mention anything about his vaccine campaigns or his stance against COVID policies. In select circumstances, these are nuanced and sometimes appropriate views, but it’s very much a case-by-case basis.
On COVID especially, he’s served as a great ally on countering government incompetence and malfeasance. Matt Welch of Reason has a good summary here.
But working to actively shut down energy industries while praising socialist dictators usually isn’t my cup of tea.
Regardless, just because he’s said interesting things about Bitcoin — at a totally opportune time when he’s running for president — doesn’t mean he should be anyone’s political hero (note: slay your heroes).
He says he began paying attention to Bitcoin in the midst of the Canadian Freedom convoy, which I don’t doubt.
But after a nearly 70-year career advocating quasi-authoritarian and anti-prosperity policies, does his Orange Conversion negate everything else he’d be likely to implement as a president? No way, José.
I’d be interested in seeing how he’ll counter environmental attacks on Bitcoin mining, for example, or how’d he’d square his fairly leftist economic views against the more anarcho-capitalist philosophy that informs much of Bitcoin’s origin story.
Would he advocate to throw Bitcoin miners who use fossil fuels in jail like my friends who work at the Cato Institute or other think tanks like he’s proposed? Or Bitcoiners who’ve escaped socialist hellholes like Venezuela and Cuba that he seems to want to emulate?
Whoever his Bitcoin advisor is (and I hope you’re subscribed to Fix The Money), I say “chapeau!”. You have done an excellent job prepping your candidate. And it is helpful to have voices from across different segments of society making the case for Bitcoin.
But let’s not forget that politicians can virtue signal all they want on Bitcoin, but we can’t ever really know if they’re sincere. It is election time, you know. And when push comes to shove, the Bitcoin electorate will always be tiny compared to every other interest group with sway in politics.
In the meantime, keep your skeptic goggles on. There’s a lot at stake.
Best,
Yaël
original link: [https://www.fixthemoney.net/p/rfk-jr-is-batshit-insane-but-happens](https://www.fixthemoney.net/p/rfk-jr-is-batshit-insane-but-happens)
In an interview he did recently (can't find it now), he claimed to be a free market capitalist in response to a question about universal basic income, and said he really doesn't like UBI and would only go that way in extreme circumstances. He showed some awareness and understanding of how markets and human motivation work. He may have been socialist in the past, but he doesn't appear to be socialist today.
As for his environmentalism, he may be wrong, but it's not batshit crazy to behave as if the survival of the human race is at stake when you actually believe it to be true. I find it refreshing for someone to act as if they actually believe their ideals, rather than just virtue signalling to be accepted into their clique of society and never doing anything postiive about the problems they only talk about. Whether he is wrong or not is difficult to judge - I think climate change isn't catastrophic, but a lot of smart people think it is, and I don't have enough knowledge to hold a firm opinion.
I'd rather have somebody like that who is (somewhat) wrong but intellectually honest and could be convinced otherwise, than the normal alternatives.