Apparently, absolutely nobody wants to relay a zero-fee tx from my node. Where have all the plebs gone?

Who of you left this sticker on a a directional antenna on Carenero?

@fiatjaf Have you thought about NIP-23 feeds for publications instead of pubkeys? I.e. one could subscribe to a feed of a specific blog that multiple authors write using their own pubkeys. Most blogs in my RSS reader work like this, and I think it's crucial for NIP-23 to be as useful as it can be. The cool thing about Nostr feeds vs normal RSS feeds is that the content would be properly attributed to each author and can be gathered and rendered outside of a centralized blog/feed as well. I was thinking about creating a new kind for announcing a "publication" (i.e. blog, magazine, etc.), which holds metadata similar to a kind 0 profile (display name, avatar/icon, description, ...). The pubkey "founding" the "publication" would then add tags for authorized author pubkeys, so clients could verify that when a kind 30024 article is tagged with one or more publication IDs, it's not spam or impersonation. One problem with this (and with a system without time in general) is that when a founder would remove authors later on, it would appear as if they never wrote for a certain publication. But I'm not sure it's actually a problem in practice. What do you think? Maybe I'm thinking about this all wrong? Or maybe someone has solved this already?

GM from wintery Bogotá. Not far to @Hacker Beach now.

GM

"Spain has arrested one of its top police officers after €20m (£17m) was found hidden in the walls of his house, as part of an investigation into the country’s largest-ever cocaine bust. Óscar Sánchez Gil was until recently the head of the fraud and anti-money laundering division of Spain’s national police force in Madrid."

the Guardian

Spanish police arrest ex-fraud chief after €20m found in walls of his house

Investigation into country’s largest cocaine bust reveals cash in home of former head of anti-money laundering

It's beyond me why Zcash is not regarded as a complete shitcoin. Here's the first reason Zooko states for why Zcash will switch to Hybrid Proof-of-Stake: "It reduces supply of ZEC by locking up staked ZEC and increases demand for ZEC by giving people something else to do with it." Not enough demand for "money"? People have no idea what to do with their "money"? Let's lock it up and reward investors with dividends! Now imagine someone looking at this chart, even adding it to their own blog post, and then linking said post with the comment "Zcash is winning": Am I thinking about this the wrong way perhaps? What am I missing about this amazing currency?

What's up with all the seemingly generated comments and profiles that are faking engagement at YakiHonne? Not a good look.

Initially, I didn't want to spend the whole Sunday on this, but it's basically almost done now. I started building a nice server-side renderer for long-form content on our Nostr relay: The next step is to create human-readable URLs, i.e. `/@username/article-id`. But my favorite feature will be `/@username/articles.rss`, because if it doesn't have an RSS feed, it's not a blog.

Fun fact from #hcpp24: I asked one of the crew how many payments during the conference she would estimate have been done via #LightningNetwork vs #Monero. She said about 30% XMR, but that she wished everyone used Lightning, because of how slow the Monero payments are. Point of Sale is just bad UX for anything taking longer than a few seconds. Only really committed merchants will tolerate that, and even then it's rough for them.

Anyone else here going to HCPP next week? Finally got all the things booked (except for onward travel, naturally).

Embarrassing typos are the worst on a protocol, where a lot of clients don't properly deal with delete requests. :/