Cypherpunks on Nostr, how did you learn cryptography? University? Hacking around? Online courses? Books?

Does anyone know of some good high quality resources to learn cryptography? It would be nice if they had a focus on public-private key cryptography and programming.

Trying to write a more long form article. Everything comes out pompous and convoluted. Writing is hard.

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Confused TikTok mom asks for help when random child comes over to play with her kid

A mom took to TikTok, begging for advice: "My kid was outside, another kid was walking outside somewhere, and then they stopped and started playing...

I didn’t realize until I got to the bottom of the article that it was not in fact by the Babylon Bee.

@jb55, could I try and bring

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Proof of work by 0xtlt · Pull Request #172 · damus-io/damus

Because the application must remain understandable to everyone, it will not be possible to choose its PoW level, instead 4 distinct levels will be ...

up to date (probably as a new pull request) so that Damus sends messages with PoW automatically? I know you said that you think Lightning is a better filter, but every single person sending notes on Nostr can calculate PoW since they obviously already have a computer whereas the same is not true for Lightning. If Damus leads the charge on this and if we can get @Vitor Pamplona on board we could make PoW default on notes which could almost completely solve the spam problem.

We need to make proof of work on posts the standard.

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If you were going to build a new client from the ground up, what would be the essential features? I’ll start: - Gossip model - Anti-spam measures for protecting your DMs and replies with PoW and Bitcoin.

Dear God, I thought I just broke the concept of Python virtual environments and had a little existential crisis because Python was randomly and inexplicably losing dependencies. I finally realized that because the code was in an iCloud folder on my Mac and I was low on storage it was being offloaded to iCloud Drive.

Bring back the days of the long guitar solo.

If inflation continues Bitcoiners won’t have to worry about $5 wrench attacks because you won’t be able to buy a wrench for $5 anymore.

There a some moments programming you look back on with shame. Perhaps my worst moment was when I started learning programming and didn’t know how to extract a value from a tuple in Python so I cast it to a string and used Regex to extract the integer.

Every now and then we need a reminder that our time here on Earth is limited with a hard cap. How do you want to spend that limited and fleeting time?