With WoS shut down, I severely fear the implications for Nostr/zaps of Alby being shut down. Can people start more custodial services? Just so one move doesn't debank 85%-90% of Nostr? Not a real solution but a quick one.

It was always going to happen. @ODELL

Yet another whitepaper drops (which doesn't require a change to Bitcoin.) This one, Durabit uses Bitcoin backed E-Cash to incentivize filesharing through torrents. This has been a CLASSIC altcoin project remember BTT (BitTorrent token on Tron)? I would love to see sats become the native currency of filesharing. Someone from the Monero community commented on one of callebtc's posts, something like "let me know when you have significant DNM use with E-Cash." He has a point. But maybe filesharing could be the first real use case for Bitcoin E-Cash.

Fortune

X will begin charging new users $1 a year | Fortune

X owner Elon Musk has long floated the idea of charging users $1 for the platform. Now the team is moving the idea into production.

there ya go. Not about killing bots. About deanonymizing people. Usually when you pay for stuff, no ads. On Twitter, you still get ads, because those ads are worth more to a deanonymized person, which will be more people soon. @ODELL (was right)

Why Nostr exists: New "Elon making his garden wall higher" just dropped. Another move to make it less pleasant to click off platform. This, will likely be pretty ridiculous come election-time as people try to guage retweeting an article or not (because we know many do *before* they read) on only looking at a picture. @ODELL

With all the PWAs I've been seeing lately (Mutiny, all the Cashu stuff, Nostr), there should be a Bitcoin and Nostr-centric progressive web app store.

Luke Palmer, at Monerotopia23, a little after the 13 minute mark starts talking about Nostr and how to implement Monero for zaps. I have heard of other ecosystems implementations using Nostr (mostly Monero and Minds) But I'm sure we will see other ecosystems end up here. I don't really mind, I think the biggest community here will be Bitcoin. The only thing that can ruin that is a well-funded a16z coin. Any other community that joins nostr will just be making nostr (Bitcoin's platform) bigger, even if that particular community isn't a Bitcoiners community. Note: At one point he refers to a "Lightning improvement proposal" I guess the phrase would be either a NIP or a BOLT. Probably a NIP, that doesn't sound like a problem with the Lightning network in general.

Any blink 182 fans out there, a new song with the original lineup. They got back together for the kids. Great vid.

If you haven't taken a look at Spiderchains, a proof of stake Bitcoin sidechain, yet, might be something here. Would be a gamechanger if it worked out. Could be Bitcoin's first permissionless 2way peg. And unlike a certain controversial topic, (Drivechains) no fork necessary. It is an EVM chain, which I can see how maybe that was an easy funding pitch. "Let's bring to Bitcoin the Ethereum stuff that Bitcoin can't do!" But, I am more hopeful of this security model working in the future than an EVM (Ethereum-y) sidechain becoming popular and hope to see different spiderchains pop up. It has certain obstacles. Stakers get paid with ONLY transaction fees. (No base reward fee seigniorage.) But you need users to pay the stakers. And you can't have users without having stakers first. So, chicken or the egg problem. Will transaction fees be enough to keep stakers happy? Rootstock only pays miners with transaction fees, but it's mergemined with Bitcoin, an activity they do anyway. So staking will have to compete against rates on other chains. Apparently they will have an initial fund that will start staking and will slowly phase out of this.

Bitcoin Magazine

Spiderchains: A Proof Of Stake Second Layer For Bitcoin

Botanix Labs has designed a mechanism for governing a two-way pegged Bitcoin sidechain system with proof-of-stake collateralized with BTC.

UK courts suck. Craig sued Bitcoin. Org owner anon "Cobra" over having the whitepaper on his website. Judge ruled he cannot fight this while staying anon. @odell https://www-coindesk-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/09/19/cobra-cant-fight-700k-craig-wright-legal-fees-as-an-anon-uk-judge-rules-again/?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&outputType=amp&usqp=mq331AQIUAKwASCAAgM%3D#amp_ct=1695172705522&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16951727009588&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.coindesk.com%2Fpolicy%2F2023%2F09%2F19%2Fcobra-cant-fight-700k-craig-wright-legal-fees-as-an

NGL, I was REALLY into this Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Original Buffy cast new Audible series about Spike. Starting Oct 12. With James Marsters, Charisma Carpenter, Anthony Head, Juliet Landau, Emma Caulfield Ford, Amber Benson, James Charles Leary and Danny Strong. https://variety-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/variety.com/2023/tv/news/buffy-the-vampire-slayer-cast-reunites-spike-series-1235722897/amp/?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQGsAEggAID#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=16947057709939&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fvariety.com%2F2023%2Ftv%2Fnews%2Fbuffy-the-vampire-slayer-cast-reunites-spike-series-1235722897%2F

Bitcoin Magazine

Chainalysis, The Theranos Of Blockchain Forensics?

Evidence is mounting that Chainalysis’ blockchain forensics heuristics may be more of a swindle than a science.

@ODELL in case you haven't seen this yet, HUGE break in the Sterlingov Bitcoin Fog case. They basically admitted in court it doesn't work. Now it's on record. Huge.

I'm trying to study from my dystopian digital textbook that disappears from my clutches 18 months from now, but I can't,, because they are having server problems or whatever. "You will own nothing, and be stupid." "We are having trouble retrieving your access code. Please wait a few minutes and try again."

This guy hopped on my knee when I was drinking my coffee on the porch and then hopped away. He had some POWER behind him. Probably the length of a US $1 Coin (the Sackagawea/US President (Golden) ones) Cricket? Grasshopper?

Here's an article from the New York Times about how more people die in the US than should. Yes, they avoid what you'd expect them to. "...several years ago, after decades of steady improvements, life expectancy in the United States took an unprecedented turn for the worse, placing it not among its wealthy peers, but below Kosovo, Albania, Sri Lanka and Algeria (and just ahead of Panama, Turkey and Lebanon)" https://archive.li/MJqxA

https://archive.li/pO1Dm Instead of unexpectedly rapidly improving and becoming increasingly intelligent and surpassing humans as... expected, ChatGPT4 has gotten worse at math than the previous version, demonstrating a phenomenon called "drift."

Is there a Nostr Fiver replacement thing (but with Bitcoin) in the works yet? I feel like that'd be cool.