I think most students to date to come to a Base58 class (particularly ones out side the bitcoin ecosystem already) have been through someone talking about Base58 on a podcast. If you're a podcaster, please keep talking about Base58 classes on your podcast. Thank you for your service.
To some extent the ordinals/inscription run has seen a lot of new builders pouring into the space. I also see new hires to bitcoin engineering orgs as a place for growth, as well as long time bitcoiners who just want to learn more about how bitcoin works.
So no, I don't find things particularly constrained; I think we could probably go a long way on just upskilling + educating existing bitcoiners on how bitcoin works.
[...] If you read the Wikipedia article, you should know that I didn't create Bitcoin but only described a similar idea more than a decade ago. And my understanding is that the creator of Bitcoin, who goes by the name Satoshi Nakamoto, didn't even read my article before reinventing the idea himself. He learned about it afterward and credited me in his paper. So my connection with the project is quite limited.
BTW, thanks to the discussion you started, I bought a Radeon 5870 and started mining myself, since it looks likely that I can at least break even on the cost of the card. (Of course I heard about Bitcoin earlier, but in my version of the idea, nobody can make large profits by mining/minting, so I didn't look into the possibility.) However I should warn you and others here that I have not analyzed the security of the protocol (since my time is perhaps better spent on other problems at the moment). My understanding is that not many other cryptographers have analyzed its security either, and in my experience these kinds of protocols often have flaws that are not found until that has happened.
Thanks @siggy47, I feel like we're brothers in this fight :)
@cleaningup12, the best I can figure, this one is a combo of a) modeling the behavior you want to see ("be the change you want to see in the world" as per @ekzyis and also Gandhi) and b) rewarding it when you do see it.
What you are describing sounds to me a bit like a "family office" fund that happens to be invested in BTC, and you are looking for a relatively decentralized way for the family to manage custody of the BTC held in the fund. This might be an easily understandable way to introduce the idea to a lawyer if you seek council about this (and I recommend that you do -- I am not a lawyer).
Regarding wallet options, you could check out Nunchuk which is one of the easier-to-use multisig wallets and it is open-source which is nice from an auditability perspective. Electrum, Sparrow, and Specter are all good options as well but a bit more advanced usability-wise. Check them out and you can decide for yourself what is best for your situation. See also https://btcguide.github.io/ for general multisig tips.
Every fiat job i've ever had somewhat goes against the ethos. This was literally the best job I could get at the time, and have alot of respect for property rights.
My wife came home with a rabbit one day.....and the rest is history
0 fiat might be ineffective, not sure. Doing it for fun. Sold my car and got a part time job to boost my income and to ensure I have enough of a float to take care of any issues that may arise.
Six Channels 400k liquidity..... Looks like I routed another payment couple days ago...not quite sure what I'm doing, but it looks like progress :)
Common parlance is that all maxis are toxic maxis. I believe there is a difference, and rather than recognizing it as an insult its better to to adopt it and redefine it as simply one that believes bitcoin is inevitable over any alt or fiat. This business of alts being immoral, well I'll agree with you there about toxic insecurity. People are going to make the wrong decisions, and some will admit it when they see the light in regard to bitcoin v.s. alts. It takes wisdom, or apathy, to allow people to make mistakes rather than trying to be a white knight and saving them from themselves. Better to be humble in your knowledge than to judge others for their lack of it.
As of a couple of years ago, I think it made sense to get a mortgage and let inflation erode it away. Now, I think it's probably worth waiting until the other side of the crash to look for screaming bargains.
In the world of quantum physics, two particles can become entangled in such a way that the state of one instantly influences the state of another, no matter the distance between them. This phenomenon is so strange that Einstein referred to it as "spooky action at a distance."
I honestly haven't noticed much difference, but my experiences are only online. My friends and family have no interest, and I stopped trying to influence them long ago.
I dont have the source on-hand, but generally it takes ~2+ years to fully recover from a recession
Recessions are also backwards looking. You wont fully know you're in a recession until you have consistent GDP degradation (which is a lagging indicator).
Careful what you wish for. As @benthecarman said in this thread, it's really miles beyond any other implementation. I don't like any of this as much as the next guy. But as a developer building custom lightning solutions for a living, it really fucking sucks to build on anything not LND unless you're so expert that you can manage LDK and build your own node implementation with it, but that's not a walk in the park either.
Running CLN is one thing if you can figure out (and really test your backups after reading the ~50 page document on backup procedures). Developing on it is a different story. I'm working on a project just using 6 or 7 API calls and none of that shit even works and the lack of support or care from the couple people that kind of work on it is frustrating enough to question "well then why would I even build on it". It'll cost millions of dollars for a serious project to switch to CLN. It's best at that point to hire experts to build your own impl on LDK at that point.
I don't want to hear about people's hobby projects building on hobby CLN, or someone that used CLN to open a few channels that barely do any routing. Try doing something serious. Ask ZFR how it ended up for him and if he even got his funds out of his channels correctly...
I can only speak for our company, but we purposefully designed the BitBox02 to look like a regular USB flashdrive or a microSD card reader. It doesn't have physical buttons on it and instead uses capacitive touch sensors on the side. There's a small logo on the front, but that could be anything really. The screen is an OLED behind tinted plastic so you can't tell that it's a screen really.
I haven't been on Nostr for a year yet but I use it less than I did at the start. My issues with Nostr are nothing technical. It is good enough. My issue is the value of spending my time there. It has far to much in common with Twitter for me. The signal to noise ratio is not nearly what I want it to be. A ton of low quality content. Very little real intellectually stimulating engagement.
I've also been writing longer form content on Nostr (re-posts from SN) and get virtually zero traction. I think the problem isn't really Nostr as much as it is what I want to get out of it. Or put another way, I have little desire to invest energy in the Twitter style content that dominates Nostr.
Social media to me for the most part is a depressing picture of our society. Even the sliver of it called bitcoiners. A lot of fluff. Short attention spans. Little substance.
Also could be that I'm getting old and grumpy. You asked though.
The 2/2 requires two separate xpubs, where the single seed requires one xpub. For individuals, 2/2 just makes things more difficult when signing transactions and recovering. Frankly, splitting the seed in two parts in the first place isn't something one should labor with. This type of complexity is unnecessary unless you have an exceptional reason.
I'm of the opinion individuals shouldn't use multisig to begin with. If they do, it should be 2/3 multisig where a custodian (3rd party) holds one of the private keys along with all 3 extended public keys — which means yes, they can see and monitor all your transactions. Because like I hinted at above, people seem to forget that with 2/3, 3/5, etc, if you lose one of the private keys, and don't have the wallet file or extended public key saved somewhere for that private key, your bitcoin is lost forever. Because you need all three public keys to construct a valid 2/3 multisig transaction. With this setup, you have shit saved and stamped all over the place, you have all these different singing devices, it gets unmanageable for something that's quite simple. There's a better way.
We range very widely, but Zoomers don't even have a chance of understanding Bitcoin unless they were raised by bitcoiners... AND homeschooled. So I'd skew us towards the late 30's... Old enough to start to understand how the world works, young enough to include all the millennials who grew up in the wake of the financial crisis.
I'm continually surprised meeting boomers who get it. Of course 100% of the time they were already goldbugs before someone introduced them to bitcoin.
While I agree with Darth on many things, running an always-on node can be good for the bitcoin network. Your node is more than a copy of the chain, it also stores and relays unconfirmed transactions (it has a mempool). More mempools means new transactions propagate through the network with greater speed. Also, your node's mempool can help ensure that transactions you believe follow the bitcoin protocol have a better chance to spread (imagine there were people who refused to relay some kinds of rule following txs, you can be a mempool that makes it harder for people to censor). Does it make a huge difference? No. But it makes a difference that you can actually exert some control over, and that is worth it imo.
Sub Privacy and FOSS would fit well, because freedom loving Bitcoiner have to master their personal computing to be really independent. People not mastering their computing will be coerced any update at any inopportune time, against their will and at worst disable them completely.
Broadcasting through your own node can actually be considered a bad practice. The best way to broadcast a transaction is to connect to a node over tor and then disconnect. Using your own node is suboptimal because people can then link your transaction to your node's ip address. https://b10c.me/observations/06-linkinglion/
This is supposed to be the next best thing. You can broadcast your transaction through a 3rd party with much less of a chance to leak your IP because you're going through a relay.
Yes, today this is (essentially) private hashkey-lookups. Supporting range or batch queries (for example, to fetch data on all the addresses in your wallet) is something we are still working on.
We've had a few people suggest doing something like "private RPC". Do you know what metadata in particular (which RPC calls) is sensitive? Is the idea that miners and other full node operators would like to hide what blocks they look at etc? Or is it more for light clients that want to hide metadata about what they look at? Would people be willing to pay for a "private" (via homomorphic encryption) RPC endpoint?
I came to a life-altering revelation today after some conversations, and I realized I've been lying my whole life. Pretending to be humble, even to myself. I've been so scared of being seen as arrogant. But I AM arrogant. So I spent 2000 sats on a stacker who called me out. Truth deserves reward.
Working on a small essay about why bitcoin maximalism, which I saw as a cult, is actually a very good strategy. Also going to include an example of how easily stacker.news can be controlled, and how cheap it would be. Guys, not storing IP addresses is not good, it just makes you easier to cyberturf. I'm gonna make sure about my assumptions though before I slander anything.
There is certainly incentive for stacker.news to not care about bots, if the bots are good enough to seem human, that's how you get good investors. So might be a valid strategy to not make such critique. Who cares if the site quality goes down for a while, when the upside is millions of dollars (yes, dollars, because I'm not here to play pretend that dollars aren't more stable than freakin bitcoin). The botting and ads are nearly, and actually, unsolvable in reality. I'm a stacker.news maximalist so I won't do anything that could harm the site. End of very interesting observations.
Ah I see. siggy47 said below there was an update as well from GrapheneOS. Apparently JavaScript JIT is disabled and we need to add an exception. So solution: Open Vanadium -> Settings -> Site Settings -> Scroll around the middle and under Content go to JavaScript JIT -> Add site exception -> add Stacker.news
What started out as improving rendering performance ... led to me refactoring much of the code base and upgrading many of our dependencies last week ... that deployment failed so now I'm upgrading the remaining dependencies and other broad brush things that are too numerous to enumerate.
The next few changes we'll do will be big so it's nice to "clean our room" first.
Kudos to the spirit of experimentation. SN as a platform gives some tools, but that can't (and shouldn't) release people from the task of fucking around and seeing what they can accomplish using what's available to achieve their goals. This is a perfect example of that, thanks for elevating the discussion.
In my humble opinion, i think you could focus your energy on solidifying your territory identity first before marketing it via Nostr. What kind of vibes do you want it to evoke and what kind of community do you want to foster?
Let’s take ~booksandarticles as an example. I can see that someone has taken it as his platform for publishing his novel, chapter by chapter. (Kudos for him for being consistent!) But I don’t get a sense of much else happening. For better or for worse, I see it as an alternative to Weekend Book Recommendations. If I finish a book but can’t wait for the weekend to come by, I will just post my book review on your territory haha.
I think the post by @Fabs asking for our reading rituals are probably things that you need to build this identity. At some point in time, I post here not so much for the sats, perhaps more so for the cowboy hat, but most definitely for the detailed insights and commentaries by Stackers. I love reading long prose and observing how Stackers expound on their thoughts. More such posts on a regular/semi-regular basis would be welcomed.
I work as a teacher and in order to encourage reading in my school, we go by monthly themes. So January in my school is beginnings, and we explore books that explore starting a new school year, etc. Maybe you wouldn’t like the discussions to be that didactic but I think having some sort of structure will serve well to attract Stackers to post more n comment more n “let it happen”.
I suspect the housing crisis is caused by less "natural" demand on housing and more so factors like commercial use of homes for airbnb-type lodging and homes being used as a store of value.
No. It's one business model among many possible. What is reasonable to expect is that an internet that has usable money integrated deeply into it will make non-ad-models 10x more feasible, and therefore there should be waaaay more ad-free, semi-pro content.
Sending bitcoin to special address (This special address that cointain locked Bitcoin is controlled by at least 51% of the total hashrate on the drivechain ) On this new network, certain parameter of the real Bitcoin network could be ignored
Example : shorter block time, bigger blocksize, new feature, somehow faster tx, etc etc
If you want to use a real Bitcoin again then you must publish a new tx that basically say " hey let me use my Bitcoin again, i'm done playing on this network"
The miners will check the validity of your tx, if enough hashrate agree to your tx then your locked Bitcoin would be sent to whatever address you intended to be
If not enough miner agree even if you provide an honest tx then you're out of luck
TLDR: A block could be slightly under 4mb if it contained 1 enormous native segwit transaction.
Longer version: the input to the transaction would need a giant witness script to unlock it and the full text of that script would need to be included in the transaction. When a block containing native segwit transactions is propagated to pre-segwit nodes, the witness scripts that unlock the segwit inputs are not sent; pre-segwit nodes think that segwit inputs are "anyone can spend" utxos, and consequently they don't expect a witness script for transactions that spend them, because no script is needed to unlock an "anyone can spend" utxo.
Since pre-segwit nodes only see the transaction "wrapper" (i.e. everything around the witness script), but not the witness script itself, they wouldn't see the block as a 4mb block, in fact they would think block is very small -- it would only contain one transaction, and only a very skeletal transaction at that, so the total size of the block (from their perspective) would be about 280-400 bytes. But post-segwit nodes would see the whole block and the whole transaction, including the witness script, which would be nearly 4mb.
Also, after a witness script is added to a transaction's "skeleton," it can't be included in a block unless you merklize that transaction and add the merkle root to the block header. When all of that is done, the total size of the block must not exceed 4mb (even for post-segwit nodes), so the transaction itself must be slightly less than that. A block header is 80 bytes so the transaction's size must not exceed 3.99992 megabytes. Within that limit, the transaction's "skeleton" will be about 250 bytes in size, so the witness script itself must not exceed 3.99967 megabytes.
If you haven't even had your first day, I wouldn't focused on what's next. Focus on being excellent at your new job and the next thing will become apparent when it comes to you.
Is it planned to export your connectors as an NPM package? I think it's too bad to see you building one and Zeus too but none of you export it as package. I have also started a NPM package few months ago before I discover alby
You know how Star Trek always has those fast opening and closing doors?
I uses to know a guy who worked on props, and actually helped design and build those doors. He said they were terrifying, as there was simply no way to build them sufficiently light weight to not have the potential to seriously injure someone if they accidentally closed on you. It was bad enough that they had to carefully choreograph ever scene where someone walked through the doors, along with multiple independent people actually operating them to make sure one person screwing up wouldn't be enough to result in an injury.
Again, physics screws you over. A robust door is heavy, and that much mass moving that fast is enough momentum to seriously hurt you if the sensors ever fail.
I love finding parallel analogies between BTC and TCP/IP.
There are many areas in the USA that did not have access to high speed broadband until after 2020, many areas still do not have fiber infrastructure and use Starlink or 4G instead. It will take a similar scale of infrastructure building for a new payment system to go mainstream.
Early internet used HTTP for everything, sending passwords in cleartext over the wire. BTC hasn't had its HTTPS moment yet. Maybe something like confidential txns added to base layer, or coinjoin becoming economically cheaper than non-collaborative txns will be the HTTPS moment.
Scaling IPv4 required subnets on top of subnets, making P2P connections a NAT/firewall configuration nightmare. Scaling BTC's UTXOs requires layers on top of layers, makes self custody of small amounts a force-closed channel nightmare.
I also like to draw parallels between the personal computer revolution and AI.
Computers used to be room-sized mainframes. LLMs require entire datacenters to train and run. There's only a handful of flagship models and those models are trying to be as generalized as possible.
Computers today are tiny and highly specialized. A toothbrush today might have a computer inside, it might not be a general computer, but its a highly specialized one that makes the toothbrushing experience better in some way.
Likewise, AI models of the future might be running everywhere, not just in data centers. Highly specialized models integrated into tiny packages that make the tool better in some way.
Good questions! I try to regularly review PRs and even have a PR merged into core but I am still mostly oblivious about how bitcoin protocol development and maintenance is organized.
is there a specific framework or decision making system bitcoin core maintainers use to determine whether an update should be merged?
Regarding frameworks, there is USAF which was used for SegWit and "Speedy trial" which was used for Taproot [0,1]. I think controversy in PRs is also considered.
There is also a system of abbreviations:
Concept ACK - Agree with the idea and overall direction, but haven't reviewed the code changes or tested them.
utACK (untested ACK) - Reviewed and agree with the code changes but haven't actually tested them.
Tested ACK - Reviewed the code changes and have verified the functionality or bug fix.
ACK - A loose ACK can be confusing. It's best to avoid them unless it's a documentation/comment only change in which case there is nothing to test/verify; therefore the tested/untested distinction is not there.
NACK - Disagree with the code changes/concept. Should be accompanied by an explanation.
I disagree. Friends/partners/whatever. It's humans helping humans. Even if they're only helping for returns, they're helping me do something I can't do on my own and I want them to get returns. Something that I hope benefits us all.
Seconding what others have already said, I think three things that might be missing are:
some background on the context that led to specific design decision. Some of if is trivial (can't develop on Nostr when Nostr doesn't really exist/has traction yet), some might be worth digging into ;
what you are doing to overcome current limitations (JIT-funding paired with automatic withdrawals kinda addresses the self-sovereignty issue ; outer space may bring SN onto Nostr, etc.) ;
what's good on this side of the fence. After all, people are using SN daily, so surely there is a lot to enjoy here!
Other than that, love the slides style and the memery.
If I want to give your theory the best chance to not be disconfirmed, which Billy Talent album should I attempt? (You listed the first 3, but which, if you get one shot?)
Section 5 of the Nostr Dev Course Day 26 Replit Replaced a couple of boards on one of my S9's Opening Lightning Channels maybe get to 30 Try publishing an article on substack or blogstack.io Fiat Mines
I'd go to an nPub
I think most students to date to come to a Base58 class (particularly ones out side the bitcoin ecosystem already) have been through someone talking about Base58 on a podcast. If you're a podcaster, please keep talking about Base58 classes on your podcast. Thank you for your service.
To some extent the ordinals/inscription run has seen a lot of new builders pouring into the space. I also see new hires to bitcoin engineering orgs as a place for growth, as well as long time bitcoiners who just want to learn more about how bitcoin works.
So no, I don't find things particularly constrained; I think we could probably go a long way on just upskilling + educating existing bitcoiners on how bitcoin works.
Raider positions of need:
We do not need a kicker or punter. but all other positions are open for a clear best player available.
Psyops
12 years ago he wrote this:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ijr8rsyvJci2edxot/making-money-with-bitcoin?commentId=hbEu9ue9eymNzaF2J
Thanks @siggy47, I feel like we're brothers in this fight :)
@cleaningup12, the best I can figure, this one is a combo of a) modeling the behavior you want to see ("be the change you want to see in the world" as per @ekzyis and also Gandhi) and b) rewarding it when you do see it.
Bitcoin will become the ultimate stablecoin.
I recommend reading some of Pamela Morgan's posts about bitcoin inheritance:
https://medium.com/@pamelawjd
What you are describing sounds to me a bit like a "family office" fund that happens to be invested in BTC, and you are looking for a relatively decentralized way for the family to manage custody of the BTC held in the fund. This might be an easily understandable way to introduce the idea to a lawyer if you seek council about this (and I recommend that you do -- I am not a lawyer).
Regarding wallet options, you could check out Nunchuk which is one of the easier-to-use multisig wallets and it is open-source which is nice from an auditability perspective. Electrum, Sparrow, and Specter are all good options as well but a bit more advanced usability-wise. Check them out and you can decide for yourself what is best for your situation. See also https://btcguide.github.io/ for general multisig tips.
Every fiat job i've ever had somewhat goes against the ethos. This was literally the best job I could get at the time, and have alot of respect for property rights.
My wife came home with a rabbit one day.....and the rest is history
0 fiat might be ineffective, not sure. Doing it for fun. Sold my car and got a part time job to boost my income and to ensure I have enough of a float to take care of any issues that may arise.
Six Channels 400k liquidity..... Looks like I routed another payment couple days ago...not quite sure what I'm doing, but it looks like progress :)
Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals- Robert M. Pirsig
Common parlance is that all maxis are toxic maxis. I believe there is a difference, and rather than recognizing it as an insult its better to to adopt it and redefine it as simply one that believes bitcoin is inevitable over any alt or fiat. This business of alts being immoral, well I'll agree with you there about toxic insecurity. People are going to make the wrong decisions, and some will admit it when they see the light in regard to bitcoin v.s. alts. It takes wisdom, or apathy, to allow people to make mistakes rather than trying to be a white knight and saving them from themselves. Better to be humble in your knowledge than to judge others for their lack of it.
Rough times.
Wifes in the hospital
Still quitting nicotine
Feeling hungry on the carnivore diet
Bunch of work piling up
Not really anyone to talk to
I'm thinking the solution is
Wish me luck freaks.
As of a couple of years ago, I think it made sense to get a mortgage and let inflation erode it away. Now, I think it's probably worth waiting until the other side of the crash to look for screaming bargains.
In the world of quantum physics, two particles can become entangled in such a way that the state of one instantly influences the state of another, no matter the distance between them. This phenomenon is so strange that Einstein referred to it as "spooky action at a distance."
I couldn't resist not to post my old meme warning...
https://i.postimg.cc/Kz3vS74B/darth-cbdc-compliance.jpg
I honestly haven't noticed much difference, but my experiences are only online. My friends and family have no interest, and I stopped trying to influence them long ago.
Day 74 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.
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I dont have the source on-hand, but generally it takes ~2+ years to fully recover from a recession
Recessions are also backwards looking. You wont fully know you're in a recession until you have consistent GDP degradation (which is a lagging indicator).
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RECPROUSM156N
Here’s my pod about principles from the book Rich Dad Poor Dad book and how Bitcoin acts as insurance against the state, corruption, catastrophe and more: https://www.getbitcoinfi.com/78-assets-liabilities-insurance-against-catastrophe-turning-liabilities-into-assets-principles-of-rich-dad-poor-dad-by-robert-kiyosaki/
Careful what you wish for. As @benthecarman said in this thread, it's really miles beyond any other implementation. I don't like any of this as much as the next guy. But as a developer building custom lightning solutions for a living, it really fucking sucks to build on anything not LND unless you're so expert that you can manage LDK and build your own node implementation with it, but that's not a walk in the park either.
Running CLN is one thing if you can figure out (and really test your backups after reading the ~50 page document on backup procedures). Developing on it is a different story. I'm working on a project just using 6 or 7 API calls and none of that shit even works and the lack of support or care from the couple people that kind of work on it is frustrating enough to question "well then why would I even build on it". It'll cost millions of dollars for a serious project to switch to CLN. It's best at that point to hire experts to build your own impl on LDK at that point.
I don't want to hear about people's hobby projects building on hobby CLN, or someone that used CLN to open a few channels that barely do any routing. Try doing something serious. Ask ZFR how it ended up for him and if he even got his funds out of his channels correctly...
https://blog.jinformatique.net/Bitcoin/2024/LifeSavingRaft.jpg
if you have a node, installing Jam could be useful too
The snail may be eliminated but will live on forever as the namesake of the game.
I can only speak for our company, but we purposefully designed the BitBox02 to look like a regular USB flashdrive or a microSD card reader. It doesn't have physical buttons on it and instead uses capacitive touch sensors on the side. There's a small logo on the front, but that could be anything really. The screen is an OLED behind tinted plastic so you can't tell that it's a screen really.
https://shiftcrypto.ch/assets/images/products/bitbox02-floating-4ca287a2462dc6962b98c510cc9b7909.png
I've walked through TSA multiple times with a bunch of them in my backpack and nobody has ever asked me about it.
Holy Cow, TheWildHustle is a little blown away.
Brief summaries of the sites viewed on the same page as the search results....
Discussing the document with an llm through a pop up......
Honestly the best search results page Hustle has ever seen
Seems like a pretty amazing project to be frank.
Now that thats said......wen nostr.
I haven't been on Nostr for a year yet but I use it less than I did at the start. My issues with Nostr are nothing technical. It is good enough. My issue is the value of spending my time there. It has far to much in common with Twitter for me. The signal to noise ratio is not nearly what I want it to be. A ton of low quality content. Very little real intellectually stimulating engagement.
I've also been writing longer form content on Nostr (re-posts from SN) and get virtually zero traction. I think the problem isn't really Nostr as much as it is what I want to get out of it. Or put another way, I have little desire to invest energy in the Twitter style content that dominates Nostr.
Social media to me for the most part is a depressing picture of our society. Even the sliver of it called bitcoiners. A lot of fluff. Short attention spans. Little substance.
Also could be that I'm getting old and grumpy. You asked though.
The 2/2 requires two separate xpubs, where the single seed requires one xpub. For individuals, 2/2 just makes things more difficult when signing transactions and recovering. Frankly, splitting the seed in two parts in the first place isn't something one should labor with. This type of complexity is unnecessary unless you have an exceptional reason.
I'm of the opinion individuals shouldn't use multisig to begin with. If they do, it should be 2/3 multisig where a custodian (3rd party) holds one of the private keys along with all 3 extended public keys — which means yes, they can see and monitor all your transactions. Because like I hinted at above, people seem to forget that with 2/3, 3/5, etc, if you lose one of the private keys, and don't have the wallet file or extended public key saved somewhere for that private key, your bitcoin is lost forever. Because you need all three public keys to construct a valid 2/3 multisig transaction. With this setup, you have shit saved and stamped all over the place, you have all these different singing devices, it gets unmanageable for something that's quite simple. There's a better way.
We range very widely, but Zoomers don't even have a chance of understanding Bitcoin unless they were raised by bitcoiners... AND homeschooled. So I'd skew us towards the late 30's... Old enough to start to understand how the world works, young enough to include all the millennials who grew up in the wake of the financial crisis.
I'm continually surprised meeting boomers who get it. Of course 100% of the time they were already goldbugs before someone introduced them to bitcoin.
My family (unless they start to really piss me off)
Censorship resistance is not the same thing as free speech - those are quite different concepts. Free speech doesn't really apply on Stacker News.
For censorship resistance on SN, there are couple things that could be done:
@k00b fwiw
While I agree with Darth on many things, running an always-on node can be good for the bitcoin network. Your node is more than a copy of the chain, it also stores and relays unconfirmed transactions (it has a mempool). More mempools means new transactions propagate through the network with greater speed. Also, your node's mempool can help ensure that transactions you believe follow the bitcoin protocol have a better chance to spread (imagine there were people who refused to relay some kinds of rule following txs, you can be a mempool that makes it harder for people to censor). Does it make a huge difference? No. But it makes a difference that you can actually exert some control over, and that is worth it imo.
Sub Privacy and FOSS would fit well, because freedom loving Bitcoiner have to master their personal computing to be really independent. People not mastering their computing will be coerced any update at any inopportune time, against their will and at worst disable them completely.
Broadcasting through your own node can actually be considered a bad practice. The best way to broadcast a transaction is to connect to a node over tor and then disconnect. Using your own node is suboptimal because people can then link your transaction to your node's ip address. https://b10c.me/observations/06-linkinglion/
This is supposed to be the next best thing. You can broadcast your transaction through a 3rd party with much less of a chance to leak your IP because you're going through a relay.
Hey, creator here! Happy to answer any questions.
Yes, today this is (essentially) private hashkey-lookups. Supporting range or batch queries (for example, to fetch data on all the addresses in your wallet) is something we are still working on.
We've had a few people suggest doing something like "private RPC". Do you know what metadata in particular (which RPC calls) is sensitive? Is the idea that miners and other full node operators would like to hide what blocks they look at etc? Or is it more for light clients that want to hide metadata about what they look at? Would people be willing to pay for a "private" (via homomorphic encryption) RPC endpoint?
"when goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will"
Twitter ratio: when the post gets more replies than RTs
SN ratio: when the top comment gets more sats than the original post
I came to a life-altering revelation today after some conversations, and I realized I've been lying my whole life. Pretending to be humble, even to myself. I've been so scared of being seen as arrogant. But I AM arrogant. So I spent 2000 sats on a stacker who called me out. Truth deserves reward.
Working on a small essay about why bitcoin maximalism, which I saw as a cult, is actually a very good strategy. Also going to include an example of how easily stacker.news can be controlled, and how cheap it would be. Guys, not storing IP addresses is not good, it just makes you easier to cyberturf. I'm gonna make sure about my assumptions though before I slander anything.
There is certainly incentive for stacker.news to not care about bots, if the bots are good enough to seem human, that's how you get good investors. So might be a valid strategy to not make such critique. Who cares if the site quality goes down for a while, when the upside is millions of dollars (yes, dollars, because I'm not here to play pretend that dollars aren't more stable than freakin bitcoin). The botting and ads are nearly, and actually, unsolvable in reality. I'm a stacker.news maximalist so I won't do anything that could harm the site.
End of very interesting observations.
Ah I see.
siggy47 said below there was an update as well from GrapheneOS. Apparently JavaScript JIT is disabled and we need to add an exception.
So solution:
Open Vanadium -> Settings -> Site Settings -> Scroll around the middle and under Content go to JavaScript JIT -> Add site exception -> add Stacker.news
Then reload and it should work
What started out as improving rendering performance ... led to me refactoring much of the code base and upgrading many of our dependencies last week ... that deployment failed so now I'm upgrading the remaining dependencies and other broad brush things that are too numerous to enumerate.
The next few changes we'll do will be big so it's nice to "clean our room" first.
Kudos to the spirit of experimentation. SN as a platform gives some tools, but that can't (and shouldn't) release people from the task of fucking around and seeing what they can accomplish using what's available to achieve their goals. This is a perfect example of that, thanks for elevating the discussion.
Two things:
In my humble opinion, i think you could focus your energy on solidifying your territory identity first before marketing it via Nostr. What kind of vibes do you want it to evoke and what kind of community do you want to foster?
Let’s take ~booksandarticles as an example. I can see that someone has taken it as his platform for publishing his novel, chapter by chapter. (Kudos for him for being consistent!) But I don’t get a sense of much else happening. For better or for worse, I see it as an alternative to Weekend Book Recommendations. If I finish a book but can’t wait for the weekend to come by, I will just post my book review on your territory haha.
I think the post by @Fabs asking for our reading rituals are probably things that you need to build this identity. At some point in time, I post here not so much for the sats, perhaps more so for the cowboy hat, but most definitely for the detailed insights and commentaries by Stackers. I love reading long prose and observing how Stackers expound on their thoughts. More such posts on a regular/semi-regular basis would be welcomed.
I work as a teacher and in order to encourage reading in my school, we go by monthly themes. So January in my school is beginnings, and we explore books that explore starting a new school year, etc. Maybe you wouldn’t like the discussions to be that didactic but I think having some sort of structure will serve well to attract Stackers to post more n comment more n “let it happen”.
My 2 sats’ worth
Is housing supply low due to factors like population growth though? Population growth in the US has been pretty flat and is even beginning to taper:
https://m.stacker.news/6824
I suspect the housing crisis is caused by less "natural" demand on housing and more so factors like commercial use of homes for airbnb-type lodging and homes being used as a store of value.
I've done zero research though.
https://m.stacker.news/12775
Oh shiiiiiiit. thank you k00b!
No. It's one business model among many possible. What is reasonable to expect is that an internet that has usable money integrated deeply into it will make non-ad-models 10x more feasible, and therefore there should be waaaay more ad-free, semi-pro content.
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Sending bitcoin to special address
(This special address that cointain locked Bitcoin is controlled by at least 51% of the total hashrate on the drivechain )
On this new network, certain parameter of the real Bitcoin network could be ignored
Example : shorter block time, bigger blocksize, new feature, somehow faster tx, etc etc
If you want to use a real Bitcoin again then you must publish a new tx that basically say " hey let me use my Bitcoin again, i'm done playing on this network"
The miners will check the validity of your tx, if enough hashrate agree to your tx then your locked Bitcoin would be sent to whatever address you intended to be
If not enough miner agree even if you provide an honest tx then you're out of luck
Oh wait this is ELI 25 lol
TLDR: A block could be slightly under 4mb if it contained 1 enormous native segwit transaction.
Longer version: the input to the transaction would need a giant witness script to unlock it and the full text of that script would need to be included in the transaction. When a block containing native segwit transactions is propagated to pre-segwit nodes, the witness scripts that unlock the segwit inputs are not sent; pre-segwit nodes think that segwit inputs are "anyone can spend" utxos, and consequently they don't expect a witness script for transactions that spend them, because no script is needed to unlock an "anyone can spend" utxo.
Since pre-segwit nodes only see the transaction "wrapper" (i.e. everything around the witness script), but not the witness script itself, they wouldn't see the block as a 4mb block, in fact they would think block is very small -- it would only contain one transaction, and only a very skeletal transaction at that, so the total size of the block (from their perspective) would be about 280-400 bytes. But post-segwit nodes would see the whole block and the whole transaction, including the witness script, which would be nearly 4mb.
Also, after a witness script is added to a transaction's "skeleton," it can't be included in a block unless you merklize that transaction and add the merkle root to the block header. When all of that is done, the total size of the block must not exceed 4mb (even for post-segwit nodes), so the transaction itself must be slightly less than that. A block header is 80 bytes so the transaction's size must not exceed 3.99992 megabytes. Within that limit, the transaction's "skeleton" will be about 250 bytes in size, so the witness script itself must not exceed 3.99967 megabytes.
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It's not that hard if you're so God-damned weird that nobody agrees with you on very much.
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everyone loves a time lapse!
https://x.com/PlebPrintShop/status/1833995164206936420
Lightning Channels
Hashrate from reactor.xyz
If you haven't even had your first day, I wouldn't focused on what's next. Focus on being excellent at your new job and the next thing will become apparent when it comes to you.
Is it planned to export your connectors as an NPM package? I think it's too bad to see you building one and Zeus too but none of you export it as package. I have also started a NPM package few months ago before I discover alby
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I came here just to say this
You know how Star Trek always has those fast opening and closing doors?
I uses to know a guy who worked on props, and actually helped design and build those doors. He said they were terrifying, as there was simply no way to build them sufficiently light weight to not have the potential to seriously injure someone if they accidentally closed on you. It was bad enough that they had to carefully choreograph ever scene where someone walked through the doors, along with multiple independent people actually operating them to make sure one person screwing up wouldn't be enough to result in an injury.
Again, physics screws you over. A robust door is heavy, and that much mass moving that fast is enough momentum to seriously hurt you if the sensors ever fail.
I love finding parallel analogies between BTC and TCP/IP.
There are many areas in the USA that did not have access to high speed broadband until after 2020, many areas still do not have fiber infrastructure and use Starlink or 4G instead. It will take a similar scale of infrastructure building for a new payment system to go mainstream.
Early internet used HTTP for everything, sending passwords in cleartext over the wire. BTC hasn't had its HTTPS moment yet. Maybe something like confidential txns added to base layer, or coinjoin becoming economically cheaper than non-collaborative txns will be the HTTPS moment.
Scaling IPv4 required subnets on top of subnets, making P2P connections a NAT/firewall configuration nightmare. Scaling BTC's UTXOs requires layers on top of layers, makes self custody of small amounts a force-closed channel nightmare.
I also like to draw parallels between the personal computer revolution and AI.
Computers used to be room-sized mainframes. LLMs require entire datacenters to train and run. There's only a handful of flagship models and those models are trying to be as generalized as possible.
Computers today are tiny and highly specialized. A toothbrush today might have a computer inside, it might not be a general computer, but its a highly specialized one that makes the toothbrushing experience better in some way.
Likewise, AI models of the future might be running everywhere, not just in data centers. Highly specialized models integrated into tiny packages that make the tool better in some way.
Good questions! I try to regularly review PRs and even have a PR merged into core but I am still mostly oblivious about how bitcoin protocol development and maintenance is organized.
Regarding frameworks, there is USAF which was used for SegWit and "Speedy trial" which was used for Taproot [0,1]. I think controversy in PRs is also considered.
There is also a system of abbreviations:
-- https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/6100#issuecomment-98471846
like used here. Extensive use of ACK'ing specific commits can be seen here.
The definitions of these terms are all over the place however.
For example, afaict, it's no longer mentioned in doc/developer-notes.md. Seems like the explanation moved to https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#peer-review which is missing
utACKandtACKhowever but mentions the difference betweenConcept ACKandApproach ACK.The discussion in the PR about glozow becoming a maintainer gives some insights about the process (or lack of).
[0] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0148.mediawiki
[1] https://taproot.watch/
[2] https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/
I disagree. Friends/partners/whatever. It's humans helping humans. Even if they're only helping for returns, they're helping me do something I can't do on my own and I want them to get returns. Something that I hope benefits us all.
I'm done building things alone.
One of my faves (though might be too detailed to embed well. Let's see).
https://i.redd.it/u6ag42colq441.jpg
Link for better viewing.
I love the honesty - did your VC saw that? 😄
Seconding what others have already said, I think three things that might be missing are:
Other than that, love the slides style and the memery.
If I want to give your theory the best chance to not be disconfirmed, which Billy Talent album should I attempt? (You listed the first 3, but which, if you get one shot?)
Day 16 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.
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Section 5 of the Nostr Dev Course
Day 26 Replit
Replaced a couple of boards on one of my S9's
Opening Lightning Channels maybe get to 30
Try publishing an article on substack or blogstack.io
Fiat Mines
I found this list, which is a nice summary and link to each of the nodes as well:
https://github.com/theDavidCoen/LightningExchanges
Nostr Plays Pokemon on my new live streaming client.
It's a live stream where the chat controls a shared GameBoy.
Give it a try! And let me know if you encounter any bugs haha
https://sats.gg/pokemon