DEBATE: CAN BITCOIN RESIST THE STATE? w/ Alex Gladstein & Fictitious Capital

@npub12rv5lskct… said "get in touch with me directly if you want to work on/with #cashu". 🙋‍♂️Hi, right here! I'm respecting his "don't Nostr DM me" profile note but wasn't able to find him in my Matrix client... I want to use trusted Cashu mints as a fundamental piece of an escrow system that backs a free market of bounties and work-for-hire (over Nostr, of course) I already have a minimally-viable relay implementation and a web client that handles the happy-path actions. I've integrated zaps for escrow payments and funds dispersal. Deeply-embedding Cashu mints into the escrow system will really take this idea where it needs to go. If you're ever available to share some thoughts on the design or provide some Cashu guidance I would be deeply appreciative @npub12rv5lskct… ! You know where to find me. Thanks! (If I don't respond to a DM it means I definitely didn't see or receive it. Tag me in a note in that case!)

"Oh yea, we're going to scale [Bitcoin] without shitcoins. That's for sure.". - @npub12rv5lskct… ♥️♥️♥️

This intro from @npub12rv5lskct… about art/code/creativity.... Wow. How did we end up with this guy? What a world.

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Andere Kritikpunkte stimme ich zu.

Super Argument Dennis. Tom blendet Kernproblematik aufgrund von Indizien-DoS ab und kommt zu falschen Rückschlüssen. Ganz ohne technisches Verständnis kann man halt leider keine Rückschlüsse auf Validität der Indizien und Schutz vor Zentralisierung ziehen, sorry Tom.

Genau andersrum, Ver und Co waren die großen Player (Exchanges, Miner, ..) die ihre Geschäftsmodelle schützen wollten und via Blockgröße einfachste Lösung durchdrücken wollten (Zentralisierung). Mining Pools würden mit Bigblocks noch mehr zentralisiert sein weil schwerer Nodes zu betreiben. Pools ist ein Problem, Lösung Stratum v2, Ocean/Datum um Blocktemplates zu dezentralisieren. Ver/Bigblocks hätte nichts daran geändert bzw. verschlimmert. Blocksizewar als neutralere Quelle lesen.

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sats for holidays: back in the paper wallet days i printed some out for nieces and nephews as bitcoin stocking stuffers. since then i've swept them to hardware cold wallets, all the while sliding more sats in every year. each year i help their parents get a little closer to legit self-custody without my involvement. started with me as the custodian.. end goal being a self sovereign extended family (with a nice starter stack). bitcoin uncle club!

vinney here (the "v" in "v cavallo" 😆) i have a fully self-hosted lightning address at my own domain - [email protected] - that i achieve with lnbits on a public vps and a tunnel to an umbrel node on my LAN. it is a pain in the ass but it **does** work and makes me happy. the externally-reachable vps is the key. dm me on nostr if you want more details!

I'm not picking a side here. I just want to clarify Mechanic's point as I understand it. A scammer just needs to get Granny to double-click on an application that does those things automatically. Fetch op return data from a block on the chain, does whatever parsing and chopping, and then runs it locally on her machine (stealing her credit card number or passwords or whatever arbitrary malicious malware activity). If the scammer hosted this malware on his own server, downloads would leave a paper trail that investigators could follow. Uploading the malware to any other public server would likely be blocked or filtered by whatever security and content restrictions that plarform has. his point is the Bitcoin blockchain becomes the least filtered, easiest place to upload that sort of thing. whether one sees this as a problem or not is up for debate, but I wanted the argument to at least be clear.

you asked how the bill pay thing works for me: i get "bank account and routing numbers" from Strike, where i have a bitcoin balance and zero USD. i put that "bank" account number in my credit card, mortgage, car payment, etc. - literally everywhere. so all my USD bills are paid from my bitcoin "checking account" balance in Strike. importantly, i have an auto-withdraw threshold on Strike where anything above that amount is moved to a (new) address in my cold storage automatically. so life is like: get paid in bitcoin; "checking account" balance stays in Strike for monthly expenses; excess above that is automatically hodled in cold storage. it's actually fairly mindblowing...

This was supposed to be a much bigger boost. I mis-tapped

npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx and npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m and npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx said "Twitter is a walled garden, so you can only post screenshots to Nostr". If **you** can see a tweet (or any other "private" content on the web) you can make a perfect web-archive of it. And then you can share it peer to peer in an uncensorable manner, removing all the internet's walled gardens - including paywalled ones. When someone else replays that archive in their browser, they're seeing the private page exactly as you did. The available tools for doing this are a bit clunky at the moment, but my team has built 95% of a frictionless user experience for doing just this. We'll be done with it within the year (or we'll be out of business). And Nostr provides all the rest of the infrastructure needed to make a proper network out of this. Extremely exciting!

Whic pr?

Thanks for the insights. 👏

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Great content from @npub1klkk3vrzm…, thanks for reading. 🤙

Sehr interessante Blickwinkel, Danke.

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Bitcoin is a monetary network and we can't give an inch to make it become a garbage storage. It would make Bitcoin indistinguishable from any random shitcoin.

BTCPay und Wasabi Wallet nutzen nbxplorer und der hatte ein problem mit dem blockheader des besagten blocks, daher beide projekte betroffen.

Puh, wenig Insights in die Problematik. Die op_return filter datacarrier und datacarriersize sollen auch entfernt werden, also nicht mehr konfigurierbar. op_return kostet 4x fees daher wird weiter über witness gespamt werden, und noch paar andere Punkte die das Ganze kontrovers machen.

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Sehr interessante Gedankengänge.

Super insider infos. Bestätigt dass Jiurnalismus quasi Tot ist, jedenfalls in Massenmedien. Es wird nur noch das vorgegebene Narrativ propagiert.

LFG!

my mempool my choice

#cashu is a genius act cashu ecash will be to megacorp coins what Bitcoin is to fiat.

this is my Bitcoin

re bip110: best case scenario is that the forced-move game theory that Mechanic describes actually teaches node runners that they shouldn't be ambivalent, now or in Bitcoin's future, lest they get played by a motivated minority. Maybe this was always the goal...

The reason I stick with nostr is the same reason I stick with all open protocols: NO to permission and coercion; YES to voluntary cooperation. exit, opt-out, opt-in, reorganize voluntarily.

"donate to the show" okay!

let's do something about that zap amount floor.

fun song!!

here's to your hourly rate

I have so much fucking appreciation for @Knut_Svanholm_∞/21M @npub1jt97tpsul… and @npub1fk8h6g8zh… repping theism skepticism this well and hard in the Bitcoin space