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55 sats \ 3 replies \ @TheWildHustle 26 Jun 2023
What are the downsides of using a PWA.
Are there more security concerns?
Seems like a great way to get around walled gardened app stores.
Pretty soon we're going to have a PWA Nostr client marketplace, using alby for the zaps.
And we'll be contributing a percentage of our zaps to our custom zap pool
And we'll be Zapvertising in the comment section of a bitcoin hit piece with Highlighter
And we'll have celebrations where we spend a part of our day auto-zapping every post with #Zapathon
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @DandelionLightning 27 Jun 2023
Maybe just the issue that Apple could eliminate the ability to add these PWAs to the home page with safari. Apple problem only obviously
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheWildHustle 27 Jun 2023
Safari is not the last bastion of hope for nostr
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DandelionLightning 27 Jun 2023
Agree.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullama 26 Jun 2023
What's the cheapest way to move sats from a custodial lightning wallet to an on-chain address?
Something like fixedfloat
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheWildHustle 26 Jun 2023
https://liquid.boltz.exchange/
Lighting to Liquid to on-chain
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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 26 Jun 2023
A while back, maybe a year or two someone wrote a great article that listed many ways state actors might attack bitcoin. It was very well written. I can't remember who wrote it. Anyone know what I'm taking about. I'd like to bookmark it.
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33 sats \ 4 replies \ @ramenbased 26 Jun 2023
dear diary,
i feel people are confusing censorship resistance with security and use it interchangeably which leads to incoherent conversations.
bitcoin can be secure and still be censored, or be permissionless while insecure. it seems to me the two have very little in common.
i see security as backwards looking while censorship resistance as forward looking. what irritates me is when people argue about the "security budget", that you have to allow all data/tx onto the blockchain for "the sake of" security. its an argument most probably would agree but it falls apart rather quickly.
if i was the government, i could pay miners a premium per block for that they censor certain on-chain conduct. this would increase the "security budget". thoughts?
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64 sats \ 3 replies \ @kepford 26 Jun 2023
I have heard this potential attack on transactions discussed. While this could be done what would likely happen is that other miners not being paid would pick up the "censored" transactions. This is one of many reasons keep mining dispersed through different jurisdictions. In general bitcoin's approach is based on incentives and if you want to do things like this it will be very expensive to do so and even if you can do them you can't do them for long.
Someone wrote a great article a while back that outlined many attack vectors that could be taken on bitcoin. I can't recall who wrote it or where.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @ramenbased 26 Jun 2023
but the “for profit” incentive can be distorted. no company will deny the holy water that is public funds, so that very incentive is what makes bitcoin open to attack. ethirium has like what 50-70% of their blocks effectively sanctioned and people are okey with it.
it seems to me geographical distribution is probably the most important PoW metric?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 26 Jun 2023
This isn't the article I was thinking of but it is worth looking at. Attacker has a lot of computing power.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 26 Jun 2023
If you think every miner (including individual bitcoiners) will take dollars from the US to censor transactions I don't know what to tell you. Public companies would for sure.
I agree with you on Eth but if you haven't noticed bitcoiners are very different from eth heads. If you believe there is a future with eth you really don't understand why bitcoin is even needed.
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223 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 26 Jun 2023
RISC-V is quite cool. Basically an open source alternative to chip design companies such as Intel or AMD.
If you have an FPGA you can compile your own RISC-V CPU that can run Linux, using open source only.
Even Ubuntu is available now for RISC-V
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21 sats \ 5 replies \ @DandelionLightning 26 Jun 2023
What are the best calendar/organization apps or tools that people use to coordinate your week? Bonus points for tools that can be shared with someone else to coordinate schedule for the week with my wife.
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22 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 26 Jun 2023
Nextcloud is what I've been using for a while, it does much more than this but I find the calendar tools very useful. Not hard to self host. Its open source and free.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DandelionLightning 27 Jun 2023
What do you host on?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 27 Jun 2023
Right now on a TruNAS server VM. I'm using Docker though. There are many ways to self-host Nextcloud.
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22 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullama 26 Jun 2023
The ideal is to have your own CalDAV server. Radicale and SabreDAV are great. Just choose one and set it up in a few minutes.
Then on your phone, install DavX5 which is an android app to sync with CalDAV/CardDAV. Your local calendar app will be able to read from that.
Then for desktop, Thunderbird is a nice client that connects to CalDAV.
And that's pretty much it. That way you will have your own calendar and contacts (and files), on your own server.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DandelionLightning 27 Jun 2023
This sounds a little tricky for someone that just uses an iPhone? Although with all the fuss lately with apple I’m tempted to make the jump over
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43 sats \ 2 replies \ @nkmg1c_ventures 26 Jun 2023
Today is a cleaning day. And a job application day. w000000
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0000 26 Jun 2023
GL with the hunt I am getting my tight butthole pounded on that front. Cleaning is satisfying when it is your mess.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullama 26 Jun 2023
Cleaning work, 2 birds one stone.
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullama 26 Jun 2023
The Wave is an interesting German movie about "an experiment to demonstrate how easily the masses can be manipulated"
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nkmg1c_ventures 26 Jun 2023
Cool
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34 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr 26 Jun 2023
NYC’s Department of Environmental Protection has drafted new rules forcing coal-fired and wood-fired pizzerias to cut carbon emissions by up to 75%.
https://nypost.com/2023/06/25/nyc-rules-crack-down-on-coal-wood-fired-pizzerias-must-cut-carbon-emissions-up-to-75/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost&utm_source=twitter
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44 sats \ 1 reply \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 26 Jun 2023
Back to work, stacking sats for a better tomorrow!
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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 26 Jun 2023
Fiat mines are tough
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327 sats \ 9 replies \ @orthwyrm 26 Jun 2023
Day 72 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.
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60 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 26 Jun 2023
👍
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134 sats \ 7 replies \ @orthwyrm 26 Jun 2023
Seems like some big names dropped out of the top cowboy rankings in the last few days.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 26 Jun 2023
Don't call it a comeback
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10 sats \ 5 replies \ @ek 26 Jun 2023
indeed
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @orthwyrm 26 Jun 2023
You're number 2!!
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 26 Jun 2023
number 2 of the cowboys who don't hide their hats in the ranking ;)
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @orthwyrm 26 Jun 2023
Interesting, didn't know they could be hidden.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 26 Jun 2023
Where are the rankings?
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70 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 26 Jun 2023
Click on "top" and then select "cowboys" instead of "posts". Make sure you are in the "home" sub.
Or click here: https://stacker.news/top/cowboys
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