GM, #nostr! I've met someone new on nostr today: @npub1fem6...0u2m

It never ceases to amaze me how incompetent children are considered nowadays. We told our boys (2nd and 3rd grade) to walk to their grandma's house after first day of school. It's a 10-minute walk from school. The teacher called both the grandmother and us in disbelief that we would instruct them to do so. I mean... what the heck?!

Hey, @cloud fodder , I made a pull request for relaycreator, interested in feedback. Also you said you wanted to add influxdb... what did you need it for?

Good morning, #nostr!

I just missed my ride to Mars. 🙁

A couple of years ago I bought a helium miner. Had to buy an antenna and a cable (which was a separate kind of hurdle since almost nobody here had the kind of cable I needed, and when I'd found it I couldn't find suitable crimps to install connectors on said cable). When I'd finally installed it all, I'd nearly forgotten about it except for a couple of times, usually around the time when I was changing my ISP. Once I needed to manually install some firmware and it was good that I did because the company I'd bought the miner from seems to have vanished off the face of the Earth afterwards - only a semi-functional website remained of them. Anyway, yesterday I pulled some helium I had mined on it and it just about covered the initial costs of the installation. But hey, the thing had stopped mining helium and is now mining solana. I have about half the worth of helium I had before converting to BTC - in solana now. Nice!

GM, #nostr!

GM, #nostr! Some of you have great insights to share first thing in the morning. Not me. I'm dumb when I wake up. Or maybe I just notice it better in the morning.

Here are all the #bitcoin seed words. Someone recently commented on this list claiming that it's rather short. So let's see how secure it is. With this list, even the shortest seed phrases of only 12 words give a vast search area for a potential attacker, with 10^39 order of magnitude search space. While generating a seed phrase is relatively easy, the cryptographic algorithms needed to derive a private key from the phrase are resource-intensive. In addition, for each private key generated from a randomly generated seed phrase, an attacker would have to scan the blockchain to see if the wallet is funded. If they were to scan the blockchain in this manner, they would be rate-limited and detected long before they even had a chance of finding a valid seed phrase. Even if they ran a full node (the only viable option), the demand for resources would be huge, and scaling the attack, they wouldn't be likely to be able to test more than 100k - 200k seed phrases per day. Theoretically, however, if an attacker could somehow test 1 million phrases per second, in order to have a 50% chance of guessing the phrase of just one funded wallet (assuming there are 50 million funded wallets today), they would have to run the attack for 2.39 * 10^19 years (that is 23.9 quintillion years). And this is for 12-word seed phrases only! In addition, some wallets allow for a passphrase (a so-called 25th seed word) which is chosen by a wallet's owner and an adds another level of security, making any attack an expensive and hopeless endeavor. So rest easy, your bitcoin wallets are safe.

If you're using FreeFrom Android client you can easily block the reply guy by clicking on the three dots on his post and select "block user". He has multiple accounts so just block them all.

Just finished mowing the grass and it's already growing again. Does it ever end? 😵‍💫

GM, #nostr ! Couldn't boot up my computer today. There's always problems with NVIDIA drivers on Debian. Removed them completely, now using nouveau. How's your day going?

Does power corrupt, or does it simply attract people who are already corrupt?