This is a scam account. I'll block now

The real one is here: @nprofile1q...

Her X account mentions the same, correct, npub

https://xcancel.com/franfinney/status/1866877582324666482

Remember the "Ice Bucket Challenge" for ALS research? My variant of that is 15 minutes in icy water every weekend 🙂

Thanks to Hal and Fran for everything they've done for Bitcoin and ALS!



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Watching the ice skaters while prepping to go in:



One of us opening the ice:



@nevent1qqs...

Yes. Time for Bitchat!

It may be too late to help much in Iran, as presumably it would need a lot of adoption there in order to be usable when the state fully switches off the internet

In any case, we need more people everywhere to install it

It's starting to become urgent

Let's assume that governments continue to exist and collect non-negligible amounts of tax.

I think that a property tax is the fairest tax.

Georgism is an ...



What's the practical alternative, under the assumption described above?

Under hyperbitcoinization, where the state and corporations will have little able to monitor our transactions, I think that a property tax will be the main tax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

The creator closed it again with merging. I'm looking forward to seeing a polished version that works 😀

This paper is fake research, there is zero evidence that vaccination causes the flu, despite what this says

I've read the paper. No randomised control of the vaccination

People who are older and less healthy are more likely to agree to be vaccinated, and also more likely to get tested, and therefore you'll get these misleading numbers

I'll be unfollowing/blocking some people, I don't want my timeline filling up with this slop

So Claude is tired?

At first, I was annoyed that Claude forces me to take an hour-long break when I overuse it

But maybe it's a good thing; for example, this has reminded me to eat lunch 😀



(Maybe it's time to switch to Max20, up from my current Max5)

Instead of ads, the users will pay for the infrastructure by paying tiny amounts of bitcoin when downloading (uploading) from (to) a Nostr relay

Some of us are working on the tech to make that a reality. High frequency, trust-minimized, bitcoin payments allowing any new relay to accept these "Cashu Spilman channel" payments with minimal setup

There is also @nprofile1q... 's notary system: Anyone who writes a note can spend a tiny amount - which is then "burned" on chain in an efficient way which is easy for Nostr consumers to verify - and then consumers (relays and nostr clients) will give higher priority to nostr events which have been "notarized" like this. This won't directly fund the infrastructure, but it will discourage spam and therefore might decrease the cost of running Nostr infrastructure

Will there be a community call this month? Tomorrow, right, as it's the second Tuesday of the month?

I didn't see anything like this in your replies, probably because I already block a lot of retards and rage bots

In Nostr, I think we have to just mercilessly block and move on. Most sane people will block the same people

Interesting. Thanks for that. I guess I should have checked myself 🙂

Do they consider only archival nodes, and request a random block uniformly going back to the genesis block? Or just from the most recent few hundred blocks?

I ask because this might be basically about increased size of the chain. More blocks means the node is IO-bound while searching for an old block

Also, are recent blocks bigger? My BlockStats Explorer suggests that blocks are getting bigger in the last year or two



https://satsandsports.github.io/blockstats-explorer/www/