There is a deep irony that the BIP-110 supporters who allegedly stood for decentralization, against big miners, etc have now decided to go against overwhelming consensus to start their own coin. Hashrate consensus, node count consensus, every form of consensus Bitcoin is based on said NO to BIP110. A UASF only works when the majority of important nodes signal they will fork, yet not a single major exchange or other provider even did that. Not coinbase, not kraken, not strike, not BTC pay Server, not Bisq, nobody. Most people opposed to BIP110, myself included, would have gone along with the new mechanics if BIP110 supporters had established hashrate dominance. But they didn't even come close. We need better processes for establishing consensus and experimentation. Core devs can't be the final word on anything. Drivechains help with this and are worth discussing. We are stronger together than apart. I hope big egos dont stop BIP110 supporters from seeing this. Bitcoin needs you too.

We've all been joking about the BIP110 fork because it distracts us from eCash and drive chains, a fork that points out actual, significant problems with Bitcoin. That's uncomfortable. Drivechains offer workable solutions where Bitcoin doesn't continue to lose market share to chains that enable you to do more with your money, and do it easier. Lightning is not the final answer. Spark isn't either. "Unilateral exit" is not enough if there's not even space for even a small portion of humanity to unilaterally exit at once. Let's be real, if the globe adopts Bitcoin and this is all we have, only banks and other large actors will be able to afford an on-chain transaction. I'm not saying I support the eCash fork, I'm saying we absolutely need to be having that discussion and drive chains are closest I've seen to a proper solution to the L1 scaling issues. #bitcoin #drivechain #bip110

They just want to keep all the Taco Bell for themselves. Don't listen to their lies. 💯

If I wanted to make a contribution to the Bitcoin space in the promotional/educational materials dept, are there other options for funding aside from opensats? Curious as to what the options are. @ODELL @Derek Ross Thank you :) #asknostr

Ok guys here me out: locust as the new nostr mascot. Why? Nostr is all about returning control to the user instead of platforms they don't control. When we do that, we give the user back their locust of control 🦗🤣

Most people think the negative consequence of caring about shit that doesn't matter is that it wastes your mental energy. Wrong. The loss of mental energy is only a minor downstream effect. The real cost is that you have surrendered your emotional state and your locus of control to an external force. People's opinions. Your boss's feedback. Your sports team's performance. What the news says. What some celebrity is wearing. How much money someone else has. Fuck it all. If it's not your fam, your goals, or your people, it's not worth it. Put your agency first and you'll discover powers you didn't know you had. Say "NO" more. When you have purpose, everything else falls away. But only if you keep saying no to everything else. #motivation

Very disappointed to find out these energy drinks labeled as "ghost" do not, in fact, taste like ghost. #nonerdmondays

GM, another great day to build the next generation of freedom tech. Nostr let's go 🚀

Came across an interesting #bitcoin project today: whales.exchange. Its a decentralized submarine swap portal. Many people use boltz to swap lightning to on chain and vice versa. While boltz is non-custodial, it is centralized. Electrum wallet introduced decentralized swaps (any wallet user can offer swaps via nostr). This site enables anybody, not just electrum wallet users, to be able to use those swaps. In addition to being decentralized, these swaps are often cheaper than boltz.

🫡 This 4th of July, I want to honor somebody who embodies the American spirit: Andrei Zeltser. Andrei was a father. A peaceful, reasonable man who was pushed to do unreasonable things. He was also an American IT worker in Belarus. For those unfamiliar, Belarus is a vassal state of Russia and a former member of the USSR. After establishing independence in 1994, the country had its only free and fair election, electing Alexander Lukashenko who has ruled the country ever since as an authoritarian dictator. 🤔 It's 2021, yet another "election" had been rigged for Lukashenko. Andrei knew the election was stolen and he would not be quiet. Everybody else knew too. But he had the courage to speak out: He posted on social media about it, and so the Belarusian KGB alleged his was a terrorist, showed up at his apartment, guns drawn, to take him from his family and throw him in prison. But Andrei knew what was coming. He was waiting for them, shotgun in his hand, camera on the wall, and took down as many of their goons as he could. He, of course, lost his own life in the process. It reminds me of the saying from Thomas Jefferson: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants". After the incident, the government arrested over 100 more people based on their social media commentary surrounding the incident. The video of the incident is below, viewer discretion is advised. 🌎 This story could be about most places on earth, with names and locations swapped. Approximately 50% of the global population lives under a dictatorship where a dissenting thought could land them in prison or worse. Freedom as we have come to know it in America is rare and exceptional, especially against the backdrop of history. 🇺🇸 Initial media reports described Andrei as an American, but the US government, perhaps for diplomatic reasons, was unable to confirm or deny it. But if he's not, he sure as hell deserves an honorary citizenship, there is nothing more American than standing up to tyrants. Freedom stems from the barrel of a gun. Never forget it. ✊ We remember you Andrei, rest in power. Freedom for the people of Belarus! And I hope one day the American experiment will be exported to every last nation on earth. We're already 50% done. https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/pxodsv/belarusian_kgb_officers_in_front_of_the_family/ #belarus #lukashenko #4thofjuly #america #freedom #freespeech

Curious about people's experiences with server colocation. Are there colos for <$100 a month that could do a 1U rack? Are there some that will sell you a refurbished server to use? If so, that means we wouldn't have to locate the server in the same area, our services aren't low latency so a different continent is fine. #asknostr

Just saw a block with a lowest fee of 4 sats/vbyte. People are using block space again. #Bitcoin is healing 🫂

😡 Leftists hate this one simple fact: America is the biggest, longest running, most effective anti-colonialization project in human history. 🗽 In 1776, American revolutionaries not only ensured freedom for their families for generations to come by kicking out their colonial overlords, they exported their revolution globally. Today, only 50% of people live under a dictatorship, an unthinkably large number only a few hundred years ago. The arsenal of and the birthplace of modern democracy. Happy 250th birthday America 🇺🇸.

What is the expected latency delay on nostr gift wrapped DMs? Like, if I want to build an app that communicates via DMs, how long can I expect "send a message, get a response" to be? #asknostr

Working with Claude and this MF loads a "sample test page" of a YouTube video for Rick Astleys "never gonna give you up". The audacity.

I remember seeing some posts about being able to publish/host a website on nostr, but I am confused. What tools are best for this and how would an ordinary user access such a website? #asknostr