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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @dgy 24 Jul \ on: Frequently Asked Questions bitcoin
I'm somehow missing a nostr login that works like on https://coracle.social/ or https://coinos.io/ with scanning a QR code with an app like amber.
I would say, out of the frying pan into the fire. Is the "chat control" in the EU dead? This juridical walking on eggshells for centralized services will not end soon. More decentralization, more self-hosting, mesh networks etc. are needed.
You can find numerology everywhere including bitcoin.
Examples:
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The port number used for lightning is 9735. That is the decimal value for the code point of the unicode character "LIGHTNING": ☇
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Difficulty adjustment takes place every 2016 blocks. This number reversed gives you 6102 which may be a reference to the "Executive Order 6102" aka the banning of private ownership of gold in the US in 1933. This was the turning point to a bad money regime till bitcoin arrived in 2009.
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The bitcoin white paper was published on October 31. The same date as Luther (beginning of the reformation) published his thesis
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I guess more and more the costs of not have to buy new hardware all the time will be the reason to change to a GNU/Linux desktop as you can run those for more than five years. These company projects to switch from Win10 to Win11 are ridiculous expensive. People that care about privacy etc. have switched already a long time ago.
It's just a shame that you have to work until 70 in Denmark and you will never have time to enjoy your retirement :-> Further it is a tax hell including for your Bitcoin holdings.
I certainly will not be stopped by an IT outage at the bank / payment processor or worse transaction censorship aka CDBC in the future. Further if I want to get rid of something then it is plastic. Sats and cash only.
It seems that there is some delay to review and publish new suggested services e.g https://lnvpn.net. And a nostr pub key to follow is missing as well.
There is an adapted PR https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32406 that deprecates but not removes the option.
Because of the fixed supply of Bitcoin we can not fix the scales at a convenient level. Sooner or later a sat will be worth more than a cent. What will you do then? Redefine again? Therefore redefining is a futile endeavor.
DATUM is also running with Bitcoin Core, though Bitcoin Knots is recommended: https://github.com/OCEAN-xyz/datum_gateway?tab=readme-ov-file#datum-gateway
Bitcoin Knots in the default configuration requires quite more resources to run.
Does someone know if it is possible to configure Bitcoin Knots like Bitcoin Core in terms of resource usage and if yes how? It seems that the memory consumption of Knots is about four times higher than that of core in in this default configuration. On older hardware that may be an issue.
I agree The Mandibles is not playing in the top league of dystopian novels, but it still contains some nice ideas as well.
I liked the fact that in the end of the novel the border to Nevada was rather a propaganda line and not a death zone. Don't trust, verify. Do not believe the lie and do the work and verify for yourself if you can escape the prison land.
I guess from the dystopian novels describing the economic breakdown of a society Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand does the best job.
However you can observe threads from all the mentioned books in this article in world today: 1984 (surveillance), Brave New World (escapism), Fahrenheit 451 (censorship) etc.
I guess that open sourcing interfaces and data exchange formats will reduce vendor locking.
Further it may demonstrate incompetence (and corruption) within their software suppliers.