Hey thanks for the zap! My first, I believe. Thank you thank you thank you :-)
Technically it's called a Belisha Beacon. Not a lot of people know that I know that.
Nice shot!
Nice to see these chain data posted, but what would be really awesome would be for somebody to tell us noobs what significance we can read into it. I can read online what it means from a technical POV but that's not the same as knowing how to carry it in our hearts through the day. I would LOVE to be able to get as excited about it as some people do.
Working fine for me - what's the problem?
Yes, good point. So far the people I know with de-googled droids have had some problems as well as limited choice, plus weren't quite as de-googled as they had hoped. But these things are getting better all the time.
I do have a couple of lovely button phones also: but beware, most are in fact droids also. If going that route you need to check carefully. One thing they don't do well is apps for payment, so my POS needs brought me back to Android. I have a Nokia G21 which was cheap, low SAR and the battery lasts AGES! Honestly a few more sensors would be nice. But it does what I need it for just fine.
And that's the other thing: paying and extra $1000 for a phone gets you very little additional happiness!
Scotty Mar10 makes a comeback with this today.
Whale alert! 🐋 Someone (possibly binance.com) moved 1,000 BTC ($22M) in block 779,829 https://mempool.space/tx/457689baf2f662f1a6a1d954ab6890e334a7fac8b4cc8a971ecb4a073fe85a2d
Just another day at the office for some.
Understanding bitcoin is like having an erection. The more you think about it the harder it gets.
Not sure if that helps or really addresses what you're asking. Probably you know it already.
The work done in mining a bitcoin means solving a puzzle for which there is no consistent formula. The way to find the right answer is a lot of trial and error. This is the design. There is no substitute for just running lots of numbers through the algorithm until you find one that works. And as time goes by, the number of possible combinations gets bigger, hence the more computing power is required to consistently produce solutions. Having found the answer, though, working back to check it is the right answer is very straightforward.
Not sure if I'm pitching this to the right level, but I found this really useful. Lightning is basically like another layer of ledger keeping tally and then settling up with the blockchain "at the end of the day" so to speak. I guess the trade off is between security and efficiency but any losses ought to be limited.
ps. I've always hated everything I owned made by Samsung, with the exception of an original Galaxy S2 back in 2012. Their phones may be okay but everything else they make is nice and shiny but overrated functionally and overpriced.
A lot depends what you want from life. Here are my own criteria. I always check the SAR info and never get one that's not very low, as in under 0.5 head and body. I also avoid anything 5G enabled. Removable battery, even better but getting hard to find. If it has front camera and fingerprint sensor I cover them with tape or nail polish before I ever switch them on for the first time. And these days a good whack of memory is not a bad idea. Beyond that I couldn't care less about one droid or another. In fact next time I'll take a look at Pinephone or other rivals and try and get Google out of my life finally. David Bowie said they are the Illuminati and he was right.
OK I wanted to read up on WHY people zap. Apart from the dopamine hit I was guessing there's a usefulness in terms of creating and maintaining channels, which is good for the network and everybody on it, and helps keep payment costs down.
Instead what I came across was this:
"What are zaps?
NIP-57 defines a new note type called a lightning “Zap” that represents paid lightning invoice receipts sent by a lightning node called the zapper. Zap requests notes grab the data from a Lightning invoice, namely the payment amount, payee and payer and then forms a new event that can be captured by relays and displayed by clients."
Does anyone else think we need a new word for an explanation that makes things MUCH harder to understand and leaves you wishing you hadn't asked? Wikipedia is full of them.
Your idea's a good one, and the more people take it up the more effective it would be for everyone. The amount could even be nominal, but the filtering effect would be powerful.