A Twitter-shaped Glass
Timechain, 4/27/2023
With WoS shut down, I severely fear the implications for Nostr/zaps of Alby being shut down.
Can people start more custodial services? Just so one move doesn't debank 85%-90% of Nostr? Not a real solution but a quick one.
11/24/2023, 1 engagement
11/24/2023, 18 engagements
Yet another whitepaper drops (which doesn't require a change to Bitcoin.) This one, Durabit uses Bitcoin backed E-Cash to incentivize filesharing through torrents. This has been a CLASSIC altcoin project remember BTT (BitTorrent token on Tron)? I would love to see sats become the native currency of filesharing.
Someone from the Monero community commented on one of callebtc's posts, something like "let me know when you have significant DNM use with E-Cash." He has a point. But maybe filesharing could be the first real use case for Bitcoin E-Cash.
11/1/2023, 5 engagements
https://fortune.com/2023/10/17/twitter-x-charging-new-users-1-dollar-year-to-tweet/ there ya go. Not about killing bots. About deanonymizing people. Usually when you pay for stuff, no ads. On Twitter, you still get ads, because those ads are worth more to a deanonymized person, which will be more people soon.
(was right)
10/18/2023, 3 engagements
Why Nostr exists: New "Elon making his garden wall higher" just dropped. Another move to make it less pleasant to click off platform. This, will likely be pretty ridiculous come election-time as people try to guage retweeting an article or not (because we know many do before they read) on only looking at a picture.
With all the PWAs I've been seeing lately (Mutiny, all the Cashu stuff, Nostr), there should be a Bitcoin and Nostr-centric progressive web app store.
Luke Palmer, at Monerotopia23, a little after the 13 minute mark starts talking about Nostr and how to implement Monero for zaps. I have heard of other ecosystems implementations using Nostr (mostly Monero and Minds) But I'm sure we will see other ecosystems end up here. I don't really mind, I think the biggest community here will be Bitcoin. The only thing that can ruin that is a well-funded a16z coin. Any other community that joins nostr will just be making nostr (Bitcoin's platform) bigger, even if that particular community isn't a Bitcoiners community.
Note: At one point he refers to a "Lightning improvement proposal" I guess the phrase would be either a NIP or a BOLT. Probably a NIP, that doesn't sound like a problem with the Lightning network in general.
9/24/2023, 4 engagements
Any blink 182 fans out there, a new song with the original lineup. They got back together for the kids. Great vid.
If you haven't taken a look at Spiderchains, a proof of stake Bitcoin sidechain, yet, might be something here. Would be a gamechanger if it worked out. Could be Bitcoin's first permissionless 2way peg. And unlike a certain controversial topic, (Drivechains) no fork necessary. It is an EVM chain, which I can see how maybe that was an easy funding pitch. "Let's bring to Bitcoin the Ethereum stuff that Bitcoin can't do!" But, I am more hopeful of this security model working in the future than an EVM (Ethereum-y) sidechain becoming popular and hope to see different spiderchains pop up.
It has certain obstacles. Stakers get paid with ONLY transaction fees. (No base reward fee seigniorage.) But you need users to pay the stakers. And you can't have users without having stakers first. So, chicken or the egg problem. Will transaction fees be enough to keep stakers happy? Rootstock only pays miners with transaction fees, but it's mergemined with Bitcoin, an activity they do anyway. So staking will have to compete against rates on other chains. Apparently they will have an initial fund that will start staking and will slowly phase out of this.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/spiderchains-a-proof-of-stake-second-layer
UK courts suck. Craig sued Bitcoin. Org owner anon "Cobra" over having the whitepaper on his website. Judge ruled he cannot fight this while staying anon. @odell
9/20/2023, 1 engagement
NGL, I was REALLY into this Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Original Buffy cast new Audible series about Spike. Starting Oct 12. With James Marsters, Charisma Carpenter, Anthony Head, Juliet Landau, Emma Caulfield Ford, Amber Benson, James Charles Leary and Danny Strong.
9/15/2023, 2 engagements
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/chainalysis-the-theranos-of-blockchain-forensics
in case you haven't seen this yet, HUGE break in the Sterlingov Bitcoin Fog case. They basically admitted in court it doesn't work. Now it's on record. Huge.
I'm trying to study from my dystopian digital textbook that disappears from my clutches 18 months from now, but I can't,, because they are having server problems or whatever. "You will own nothing, and be stupid."
"We are having trouble retrieving your access code. Please wait a few minutes and try again."
9/3/2023, 5 engagements
This guy hopped on my knee when I was drinking my coffee on the porch and then hopped away. He had some POWER behind him. Probably the length of a US $1 Coin (the Sackagawea/US President (Golden) ones)
Cricket? Grasshopper?
8/27/2023, 14 engagements
Here's an article from the New York Times about how more people die in the US than should. Yes, they avoid what you'd expect them to.
"...several years ago, after decades of steady improvements, life expectancy in the United States took an unprecedented turn for the worse, placing it not among its wealthy peers, but below Kosovo, Albania, Sri Lanka and Algeria (and just ahead of Panama, Turkey and Lebanon)"
Instead of unexpectedly rapidly improving and becoming increasingly intelligent and surpassing humans as... expected, ChatGPT4 has gotten worse at math than the previous version, demonstrating a phenomenon called "drift."
8/10/2023, 1 engagement
Is there a Nostr Fiver replacement thing (but with Bitcoin) in the works yet? I feel like that'd be cool.
8/3/2023, 3 engagements
https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000003cae28581cde89dccdd9b37d043e4a7a2448234b2d8b4
Pretty interesting post from Super_testnet.
I'm checking out Kiwi. No, not the browser, Nostr.Kiwi a browser based nostr client.
As far as things that stand out... Communities (like Amethyst, but some different ones from eachother and a few the same) Also "Lists". In your feed, you can click on the user's profile picture, get a dropdown menu, and add the user to a list, without having to go to their profile. Nice flow!
Pledditor posted this post of this Instagram influencer with over 2 million followers being paid to shill the orb.
Of course she's only faking getting it. Why? She's AI generated.
7/28/2023, 1 engagement
This unlikely cultural crossover reminds me of a piece of writing I saw on Stacker News. It's a on John Perry Barlow, Grateful Dead lyricist, digital right group EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) co-founder, and generally seen as an early member of the cypherpunk movement.
Highly recommend you give a read to someone that seemed to "Forrest Gump" himself into a couple of completely unrelated counter-culture movements.
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7/28/2023, 1 engagement
from
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podcast!
https://fountain.fm/episode/209pa9hUnimYGWMS9okb
"Tony Giorgio is the co-founder and CEO of Mutiny Wallet, a self-custodial Lightning wallet that runs in your web browser."
Elon made announcement about the platform only being dark mode. And yes, Nostr fixes this, but no, the post isn't about that. The comments are weird. Everyone seems to either be...
- Mad because they preferred Light mode
Or...
- Totally pumped that their preference was chosen to be imposed on others.
It made me think that whatever psychological phenomenon is occurring is the same one that is happening in politics. Definitely here in the US, where I live, we take turns every 4-8 years switching masters of our clubs that impose their preferences on half the country against their wishes. If given an opportunity where both groups could be happy (Light mode AND Dark mode both existing) the President will do their best to make sure that only one does. And why wouldn't they? They just had to deal with 4 years of ONLY LIGHT MODE under the last president. Anyway, last thing I will say is Elon preferring Darkmode over Lightmode so he makes the choice for millions of users... that's the kind of personality that couldn't handle not having control over the direction of Bitcoin.
7/27/2023, 1 engagement
"So, the point of Worldcoin is to help humans figure out who is human or not by handing the maker of the AI that might decide to go rogue against humans all the data it needs to better target humans rather than rival AIs on the internet."
-Izabella Kaminska
7/27/2023, 1 engagement
Here, you can own things. They are yours. Which means they are yours to give, or sell, such as your keys or Nip-05.
7/27/2023, 1 engagement
check out this actual review of the Worldcoin app. (Everyone is totally going to accept the cbdc)
7/25/2023, 5 engagements
Man. He's the best at forcing the EXACTLY OPPOSITE things most people want and nobody can do anything about it.
This is why being able to hop clients in Nostr is so important. (If things more important than horrible logos come up.)
Hell, most Nostr clients are open-source, you can keep your client if you like it, and just change the one thing you don't like about it.
Nostriches on Mars.
Found some money in my fiat this week. Been a while since that happened. 1964. Currently worth $1.78 of silver melt value....
(aka 5,920 sats)
7/24/2023, 2 engagements
Some news on the enemy's position: Also, X logo is expected to replace bird logo today. Purple bird will be only bird in town.
7/23/2023, 2 engagements
7/22/2023, 4 engagements
Lol, what?
Anyway, link to cointelegraph article:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/pre-mined-ethereum-worth-116m-resurrects-after-8-years
(I can't believe the article is "the importance of hodling themed," as opposed to a critique on pre-mining)
Okayyyyy. I'll do one too.
7/17/2023, 7 engagements
How whale-y is BTC? According to app.intotheblock.com/coin/BTC the "Concentration by Large Holders" BTC is at 11% while, Ethereum is at 42% (likely due to the Foundation & Consensys.) BCH is at 37% (probably due to the fact that to be a major holder of it, you are likely a believer in it, which not everyone is), ADA 32% (similar reasons to Ethereum), Polygon 85% (👀Oof!), AVAX 78% (Also oof.) Then I came to two last coins that. I'm going to be honest. I thought might have been almost as distributed as Bitcoin. Litecoin and Doge. Litecoin was 50% and Doge was 65%! Don't know why/how these last two are so bad.
Also, the numbers show (despite Saylor's best efforts) that distribution is only increasing over time. (Although numerous news outlets such as Time and CBS has published articles critiquing Bitcoin's coin centralization as largely held by few (HELLO! Have you heard of fiat?!) Here's a great piece by a analytics company Glassnode proving the increasing distribution over time.
Something I haven't heard anyone mention (in relation to Instagram's Threads app) is that Nostr has a Mastodon-Nostr Bridge (Mostr). When Threads does add Fediverse interoperability, it can likely be interoperable with Nostr, too and Threads users can be zapped.
7/16/2023, 3 engagements
Man a big difference between Bitcoin Twitter culture and Nostr culture is circular economy vs HODL ONLY. Look at this fiat-loving nonsense.
7/9/2023, 3 engagements
Have you noticed Twitter is displaying YouTube links fully again? For a while they weren't, and only the shortened link showed. (My assumption was this was to discourage any leaving of the platform as you don't know for sure where the link really would take you.) I wonder why they changed their mind.
Twitter moving to "primarily a subscription model"
7/7/2023, 2 engagements
Wowza. Kinda surprised Apple allowed this. Isn't this one of the things you got problems about with Damus,
? The not being able to delete user accounts? Well, I guess this is an option for deleting their account. (Not a very good one, but an option)
(Image from Fortune article)
7/6/2023, 1 engagement
The world's richest man is Nostr's PR department.
7/4/2023, 6 engagements
Just found this gem over there.
7/3/2023, 7 engagements
Imagine photo of a cyberpunk young woman, blonde hair blue eyes, tattoos on arms, smoking a cigarette, wearing a black tee shirt with a big orange Bitcoin logo on it. Sitting in a cluttered cyberpunk futuristic computer repair shop, fixing a computer. Partly assembled computers everywhere with screens lit up. This windows reveal this room is in a tall building in a cyberpunk city with holographic billboards and advertisements. It is night time outside.
7/2/2023, 2 engagements
hey, how do I use you?
It's a little communist, but 🤷♂️
7/1/2023, 3 engagements
7/1/2023, 3 engagements