GM Day 2 of the MIT Bitcoin Expo, looking forward to some more awesome talks and networking. And @calle a few of us had questions about geohashes in Bitchat given that they don't appear nested. Particularly what happens when and if a mesh outgrows a geohash. Does the person connecting via Nostr see things segmented at the block level? If you see the guy in red suspenders and you're there again today I'd love to know what happens there (or of course feel free to answer here -- you're a busy and popular guy. Especially looking forward to Kevin from Lightning Labs, especially after some L2 talk for things I'm not sure I normally think of as L2's yesterday. Folks who are at all worried or interested in the quantum stuff would be remiss to not check out Ethan Heilman's talk from yesterday. Excited for another great day of Bitcoin!

Successfull received cashu over bitchat while offline at the MIT Bitcoin Expo during @calle 's talk. Now to see who finds it after I giftwrapped it inside of an emoji and send it back out...

GM It's MIT Bitcoin Expo weekend! Should be fun to see Bitchat more in action on the actual mesh instead of Internet. Looking forward to seeing your presentations @calle @roya ୨୧ and @satsie 🇹🇭 🇱🇹

My dad just informed me they found out who Satoshi is. Why are boomers allowed to vote?

GM It's wild how kettlebell swings work. They feel really easy while you're doing them, even if you haven't in awhile. And then the next day comes and you can't walk. Also wild just how little time it takes to do a pretty full body workout with a kettlebell. Guess it's just a reminder that it's never time I'm working against, but a daily rhythm that gets disrupted. We'll see if I can remember that the easiest way to avoid being this sore is to not get out of the "swing" of things in the first place :phpbb2-mrgreen:

@Nunya Bidness A few thoughts about your idea of a quantum ready fork: The mining factor seems to be the biggest reason this is unlikely to work even if we wanted it to. The difficulty adjustment would, at the time of the split, be set based on our >1 ZH/s, and it's unlikely that we'd have anything close to that much available. I suppose it might be feasible to look at merge mining, but merge mining here would have all of the same centralization concerns it has elsewhere that it is used. Even if we handle this, manually setting the difficulty lower (assuming this can be done, I'm decidedly not a coder), there's the matter of what block you fork from. Because of course anyone who transacts after the split can then go use their coins on the other fork, and while we wait for a quantum attack, the chains have time to diverge heavily. You could consider splitting AFTER a quantum attack, with a roll back, a la Ethereum Classic (gross...), but even this assumes you recognize an attack as a quantum attack and not just someone losing their keys. There is no reason to assume that they would be foolish enough to make it this obvious, as it'd be much more sensible to appear to just be someone losing their keys. The latest episode of @npub1pxyk...7nke actually had some very good thoughts on how to address quantum. I don't think it's quite as close (or likely to ever happen) as Danny's guest, but I do think his proposed actions as if it were are a sane approach. Rolling out these proposed fixes on Testnet, Signet, etc, and then encouraging people who aren't devs to actually USE these systems to really give it some testing makes a lot of sense. Hard to incentivize this given that testnet tokens are decidedly worthless, but perhaps wallets that put it a little more front and center as a way to help new people to Bitcoin learn their way around without putting real money at risk wouldn't be the worst thing anyway. I get your rationale for considering a fork, but yea, logistically I don't think it could quite work out as well as you'd like. It might shut up the retards because they'd be too retarded to see why it shouldn't, but in terms of actually fixing anything I think it'd miss the mark. And meanwhile, building things for retards is a really good way to waste a lot of time and energy.

GM Dogs killed a rabbit this morning at 4:30 when I took them out. Guess I've learned my lesson about opening the door before turning on the light to give critters a chance to run off. I hate the sound a terrified rabbit makes at it screams for its life (having heard it more times than I'd care to). Dogs didn't even know what to do with it once it was dead either, but they were NOT interested in listening to anything I had to say. Had to bring Zoya in by the collar just to get her away from it -- and she's the one who had much more formal training than the two younger ones. I'll never stop being in awe of people who can get their dogs to do things like sit still while a steak is dangled in front of them unless and until they're told to take it. That is NOT how my dogs behave...