Just published a new article: a deep dive into quantifying double spend risk for confirmed transactions. https://blog.lopp.net/how-many-bitcoin-confirmations-is-enough/

Have the toxic assholes not migrated to nostr yet? It's surprisingly pleasant for a censorship resistant network.

No, because they are encrypted and require the private key to decrypt.

Nostr enables something that no social network has ever supported: the ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes.

Want to see exactly what someone else's feed looks like? Just set up a read-only account with their pubkey.

If this functionality is sufficiently interesting, nostr clients could add a "view feed as..." feature that could be as simple as a button on a user's profile screen.

Nostr dev bounties: https://bountsr.org

There's no real debate, just economics.

The only question is if the NFT folks can build compelling narratives that will drive folks to pay more than the minimum relay fee for inscriptions.

Are the buttcoiners whining about nostr yet?

NPCs: "Ross hired a hitman to kill a Silk Road user, so he deserves to rot in prison."

Truth: A corrupt Federal agent was threatening to dox Silk Road users to the DEA in an attempt to extort Ross for a ton of bitcoin. The "hitman" was also a corrupt Federal agent and the "hit" was staged. The whole thing was a setup, which is why the prosecutors avoided bringing it up in court.

Unpopular opinion: Ross was morally justified in responding to threats of violence (DEA targeting) with violence - he was protecting the peaceful Silk Road user base.

Instead of tackling the root causes of the obesity epidemic, social justice warriors think we should fight over whether an obese person is allowed to be proud of their body.

Being proud of your obesity is basically saying that you're proud you got scammed by the fiat food industry. We shouldn't shame those who have been scammed, but we should at least attempt to open their eyes.

If anyone is thinking of building a service so that folks can automatically mirror their tweets to nostr, please just slap yourself instead.

When people blindly mirror their content to another network, it's just noisy and does not improve quality of engagement. It's one reason I find my mastodon feed so annoying.

I'll allow it.

Yes, the VPS is paid for anonymously via prepaid debit card and is tied to an anonymous email account.

The primary problem in both situations is that the VPN endpoint knows your real origination IP address. With a dedicated VPS that isn't being shared with a large number of people doing naughty things, you're far less likely to draw scrutiny from authorities.

I'm far more confident that the VPS I set up myself is not logging traffic than I am that a black box potential honeypot is not logging traffic.

Shameless shill: I've been running this setup for a month and am quite pleased with it. https://blog.lopp.net/how-to-protect-your-home-network-with-a-gigabit-vpn/

Looks like nostr.directory has been under heavy development and has added keybase-esque cross-platform identity verification functionality!

They can cancel my Twitter account.

They can cancel my YouTube account.

They'll never cancel my nostr account.

Varies from client to client. Amethyst seems to use imgur.

I've seen some calls to use IPFS, but that has its own incentive problems.

TL;DR if you want aligned incentives then you should probably host your own images.