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It's not that strange. People tend to use what is popular. There are several implementations of core across various languages, not including custom forks of core.

There was a section of IBM's quantum computing challenge that had you encrypt/decrypt logical qbits by transforming their phase state to a known degree. If the state was altered in…

Plot twist: this entire shit-show was orchestrated by chatgpt while inside OpenAI's basement.

> Austin was just a bunch of housed and employed people quietly dying because our government is anti-humanist. Good lord. It was a once in a century weather event. Austin and Texas…

> I haven't yet heard a rational explanation for just how badly ECDSA mangles the Schnorr protocol in exactly the way that means a lot of implementations end up with horrible secur…

nostr has an early NIP that talks about publishing timestamp commitments to the bitcoin blockchain, using the open timestamp protocol

it's not that big a deal if you use a hosted wallet. There's quite a few options out there, like stacker.news or wallet of satoshi.

You can use it as currency on stacker.news You can tip people on the nostr protocol. stats are on zaplife.lol you can tip musicians on wavlake there's a Minecraft server called sat…

TLDR: - Create two keypairs. - Use ECDH to derive a shared secret. - Use secret to tweak pubkey of the recipient. - Send money to the tweaked (and hashed) pubkey. - Recipient has t…

Nostr partially addresses this in a few ways: * Media itself is not stored, only links to media. * Relays are free to limit usage, charge a fee or require proof of work. * There ar…

Hello. I made this project as an experiment in using key cryptography for user identity in a client server model, and for some future peer to peer projects that I am working on. I …

Gas fees are also a solution to the halting problem that comes with Ethereum's EVM (and its Turing completeness). So you are paying for space and computation.

Guilty >_> It feels nice when a protocol has its core devs on the same wavelength as application devs. That's the feeling I get with nostr.

I was being a bit dramatic with my choice of words but you are absolutely right :-D

So much FUD. 1) miners profit from energy surplus. They do not create new power plants. Nobody is firing up a new coal plant to mine bitcoin. That is absurd. 2) miners have incenti…

They do with the extended key as it includes the chain code.

My vote is for extended keys, something based off HD Wallets: https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawi... Easy rotation and recovery of individual keys, but you…

You can argue that it is not true P2P, since you rely on a public-facing intermediary. A lot of p2p protocols cheat with relays, it is really hard to traverse nats otherwise. Nostr…

Yes this is the crux of any social media application. I don't know if there will ever be a perfect solution. I like that nostr abstracts this problem away from the relays. Relays o…

fixed >_<

Great question! Relays aren't involved in curation or discovery, so it fall on the client. You can request very broad subscriptions from relays! For example, here is a site that su…

I have been seeing a lot of shilling for mastodon lately, so I thought I would step in and shill Nostr for a bit. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr Fun facts about Nostr: * N…

As a Bitcoin maxi this is fun to watch. It's like the 08' financial collapse all over again, but there's no bailout coming this time around. I think it is glaringly obvious at this…

The future of micropayments will be the Lightning network. It's still under heavy development, but people use it to stream instant sub-cent payments all the time. Check out stacker…

You can't rewrite the history of blocks that have already been distributed. You may fool SPV nodes but any node with a copy of the blockchain (even if pruned) will reject your vers…