0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nerd2ninja OP 22 Apr \ parent \ on: How America Became So Stupid culture
Ayyy I wrote on this The Importance of the Pain of Consequences
161 sats \ 1 reply \ @nerd2ninja 21 Apr \ parent \ on: Bitcoin has no leaders. Soft forks do. bitcoin
Man, no sidechains are ass. I have not seen a single sidechain that doesn't have unacceptable trust assumptions and if you build a whole ecosystem on that just to prove the point that people want it, how are you gonna come out and say "Hey, by the way this solution is ass please go use these features on mainchain Bitcoin now".
On the other hand, if you start out by saying "Hey this solution is ass, but come over and see how you like it" its like, but its ass so why would I use it?
Testnet apps are the way you can demonstrate functionality of something without developing an ecosystem on a harmful solution. I don't think you're trying to present an option for development to prove a soft fork's use case, I think you're just trying to make a cop out for something you think you don't want to deal with.
On the other hand, there isn't a testnet app for CTV + CSFS LNSymmetry multi-party channels. So you would have me there. However, there is one for APO based ones. Just test it out and see how you like it.
100 sats \ 0 replies \ @nerd2ninja 21 Apr \ parent \ on: Coinbase Sends a Message to Bitcoin Miners bitcoin
I'm much less concerned about them partnering with FEDs (Unless they went out of their way to do so, but otherwise one would just expect a company to comply with the government their based in otherwise they'd get shutdown) and much more concerned with how they actively fight bitcoin.
It would be one thing if they were just on the wrong side of the block size wars and we moved on from it, but the con in conbase is their "educational" courses where they push shitcoins onto people.
Imagine if you sent your friends or family to a broker hoping they'd buy SPY (an S&P index fund) but instead the broker gives them an educational course on a pink slip penny stock!
This analogy doesn't work perfectly, but hopefully you get the idea. Coinbase sucks in every way they could suck.
131 sats \ 3 replies \ @nerd2ninja 21 Apr \ parent \ on: Bitcoin has no leaders. Soft forks do. bitcoin
Because I don't respect liquid. Thought a testnet app was good enough.
I will remind everyone in this thread that CTV being one of the BIPs in LNHance by itself enables timeout trees which John Law wrote a paper on as well when combined with CSFS (as it is in LNHance) it allows for LN symmetry which you may know as Eltoo.
What I would like to see with these two structures, is a multiparty channel of pleb nodes which issues timeout trees to casual users. A pleb LSP if you will.
I do feel as though I'm the only idiot shouting into the void that CTV is useful and good and also fuck shitcoins and fuck the BIP authors whiney fits in the core repo. Can we not just claim it for ourselves? Is there no way to separate them from the code somehow?
Yeah that's a huge understating of what conbase did, but also what conbase is doing right fucking now.
Fuck conbase and shitcoin magazine both. They are birds of the same feather
Don't give the scammers your brain power dammit. Be extremely skeptical of ANY new release or feature. Typically its just a scam to get your money.
Second and third order effects not second and third follow ups. You're done. You've said what needed to be said to them. Either someone else will see what you said and benefit, or they'll think about what you said a few years from now.
Little article on second and third order effects: https://www.weskao.com/blog/second-and-third-order-consequences
The only thing that's left is the work that always needs done. Work on yourself. I mean that in the sense that everyone has to work on themselves always. Work on explaining things clearly, work on understanding what the other side was saying so that you can better address those issues. Things like that.
But its a bit besides the point. Presenting the information doesn't suddenly become a worthless endeavor because people's minds aren't changed by it. Having the conversation is enough.
I know you can't get someone you're debating on the internet to say you're right and yet, I have arguments on the internet anyway. Why? Because other people can read that debate and get information from it, but also because an argument had today can be a memory in the future when its relevant to that person and their experiences start to reflect your side of the debate. If the debate was never had, if no one bothered to explain it to them before just because their minds weren't changed in the moment, they'll be left just wondering why with no answer and maybe keep running into trouble with different ideas for why until finally learning.
Ironically I'm literally telling you to have long time preference with your internet debates and to think in terms of second and third order effects rather than primary effects alone lol.
"Option for freezing and unfreezing: an LRC-20 token issuer can opt into the ability to freeze and unfreeze LRC-20 tokens"
I swear I take psychic damage every time I read one of these things lmao
Feel free to analyze them on their merits.
hardfork software updates that change the rules of the network that can not be resisted by its community of users
Pretty big one that really just that by itself every coin, but Bitcoin seems to have.
Oh and you don't have to buy them to analyze them on their merits btw.
You can read megalithics article as well that they posted here in the comments too, its decent.
No. I can not stand by and watch someone who I know is being deceitful straight out of the gate "experiment" on people who don't know better. Its just not a normal human reaction to allow something like that.
I can understand that, but there are 2 goals.
- Help normies understand the difference
- Create a social stigma against the scams as all scams have a stigma against them
You have to understand your audience of course. While you might open on a newbie with "Oh don't go talking shitcoins here" (the social stigma) I would also say that explaining to them after the meetup or something exactly what the problem is would also be important.
16 sats \ 0 replies \ @nerd2ninja OP 14 Apr \ parent \ on: Make Cinnamon Look Like Windows 7 (2020) NixOS
Well don't forget you can use any desktop on any distro. I've personally installed cinnamon on Ubuntu before and I have cinnamon on NixOs as well.
What's your favorite desktop environment?
The site mentioned in this video has moved to this new URL (https://b00merang-project.github.io/linux-themes) the old URL will tell you that this is the new URL. I have archived the old sites message so that you and future readers can verify that this is the new link rather than trust. https://archive.ph/dAHTR
You will notice that this site has more themes than just windows 7 and the installation for them I assume would be the same so if you see something that interests you, you should check that out as well.
I think you would be interested in this proposal: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/economic-majority-signaling-for-op-ctv-activation/635
I myself am starting to think about putting "LNHance good" in my services field or something so when people look in their peers list they can see what their fellow node runners think.