Made the same tweet and nostr note. Note: 5 likes, 210 sats Tweet: 10 likes, 0 sats Plus I pay about 20k+ sats per month for Twitter, so I'm losing sats with that platform (though I've also supported plenty of paid relays, too)

Our code contains few comments, and recently that left room for ambiguity which was caught in code review. I added an assertion and error condition to catch the ambiguity, but I realized; if I had written a comment, would I have ever come to write the code to handle this error condition? Lesson: Don't comment your code, just write more code. There are lies, damn lies, and then there's documentation.

In a furry chat I started a while back, someone posted a hammer & sickle, or as I think of them, the "soviet swastika". I told them it was tasteless and the cause of much death and misery and I'd rather not have it in the chat. They pushed back, saying, hasn't the dollar done the same thing? Will you ban images of the dollar? And I thought about it for a moment, and I responded: "I'm fine with that. It's well-known that debasement of the petrodollar is used to fund the military industrial complex to fight forever wars." They weren't mad, in fact, they were impressed by my consistency. I think many a Bitcoiner would be hard-pressed to disagree with me there, either. After all, we understand better than anyone, the dollar is not synonymous with the practice of capitalism. In many ways, becoming a Bitcoiner lends a sense of perspective that transcends traditional politics. That said, if you want to add a new opcode to Core, things might get a little contentious.

I had a very @Lyn Alden thought just now... I just think it's interesting that W2 employment came about in order to fight wars and reduce inflation caused by deficit spending.

Current Tax Payment Act of 1943 - Wikipedia

And here we have the war, record deficit spending, more funding to the IRS, increased financial surveillance, FedNow, and CBDCs. History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

If you want a simple explanation of #RGB to share with your friends, I've put one together. Feedback appreciated. -- RGB is a generalized smart contract system built on #Bitcoin and #Lightning. It's scalable and private because it keeps contracts off the blockchain, and the parts of a contract that can change are anchored to a little piece of a bitcoin called an Unspent Transaction Output (UTXO). When this piece of a coin is spent, it can never be spent in the same way again, so we know, that part of the contract has changed. This is similar to a tamper-evident single use seal, like a bag with a zipper that can only be zipped once. Even better, only the person who owns the bag with a single use seal can zip it. And like a bag, it can contain multiple items. Multiple tokens can be anchored to a single UTXO, and when they're spent, the ones you're not spending are sent back to yourself, to another UTXO you own. Because contract data is kept off-chain, decentralized storage protocols like Storm and Carbonado are used to keep and communicate contracts reliably. This is then used by wallets to do things like mint, transfer, accept, and verify on token contracts. There's not really a need for an RGB node, even in web browsers, since the code needed to validate contracts can be built to run in browsers. This is what is meant when we say client-side validation (CSV); only the wallet needs to know about the contracts, and only peers that interact with each other need to know the contract data. This allows for privacy and scale in a number of ways: - Contracts are not put on-chain - Contracts are not executed on nodes - Multiple contracts can anchor to a single UTXO - The UTXOs are very small and look like ordinary Taproot payments If you request a payment from someone, nobody can see what other tokens you have, even if they have the contract. This is because a really big number is added to the UTXO to make a blinded payment. Nobody can know which UTXOs have tokens by scanning the chain on an explorer, and there's no way to send someone tokens if they don't request and accept them. -- I hope this is a good start towards understanding RGB! A great way to understand it even better is to actually try it out on any of these wallets:

MyCitadel - Ultimate digital sovereignity for bitcoiners

MyCitadel - Ultimate digital sovereignity for bitcoiners

MyCitadel is a suite of software, hardware and Internet services focused on digital individual sovereignty and privacy. Primarily, is a wallet for ...

Iris Wallet

(not to be confused with iris.to, or IRS wallet)

BitMask Wallet

The Browser Extension for Decentralized Applications on Bitcoin. Access Bitcoin Finance, NFTs (UDAs) and more using RGB protocol, with full financi...

I'm a huge fan of relay aggregators like #[0] They help the network scale, almost like an L2 for the Nostr protocol. I'm happy to provide value for the value that provide me. I'm able to reduce my relay count and extend my reach more effectively because of filter.nostr.wine.

If something is valuable enough, monumental efforts will be made towards rectifying its flaws. 786107

Hi, yes, you, the Karen standing behind the obviously gay couple in the line at the local Whole Foods who gave me the "side eye" when I cracked the joke when we were carded for buying wine, "that's how they get ya, they'll come for the wine drinkers first", actually, yes, we don't trust the government, you know why, honey, do you really want to know why? Biden won't be president forever. You have a good night now.