Thank you to everyone who came to @nprofile1q... 7 and made it wonderful this year!

4 days of: cordial debates, technical workshops, talks and panels, interactivities, meshtastic devices, hardware hacking, the CTB puzzle. So much fun.

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1. Huge sponsor love for enabling our grants and supporting the conf: lclhostresearch @nprofile1q..., SetDevBTC, BitcoinTutorials @nprofile1q... FulgurVentures unchained jintekc @nprofile1q... @andurobtc CleanSpark_Inc lightspark, DCD

2. So many new faces inspired to build on Bitcoin. Special love to the Brazilian crew who also hit the Rust Bitcoin Summit at @nprofile1q... . Shout to @nprofile1q... on the great work with vintenum and @nprofile1q... (Nov 7).

3. Thanks for personalized education and attention from so many talented folks especially some core contributors like @nprofile1q... and achow101. And those encouraging technical education with a carrot 🥕 via CTB donors, you rock!: jintekc fedibtc @nprofile1q... Anchor Watch, TaprootWizards.

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5. Massive thanks to @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Brandon @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... and all volunteers for setup and breakdown in record time.
lclhostresearch crushed the Socratic BitDevs village as always. Hardcore trivia was amazing and super efficient.

6. Debate panels drew big crowds again. Year 2 of the format and going strong. Thanks Paul Sztorc and @nprofile1q... for setting context and involving the audience.

7. The warnet hosted by Zipkin was awesome. Big shout to chaincode for supporting it the last 2 years. Hacking LN ⚡️⚠️ nodes was a blast. Our evening WoT with @nprofile1q... 🔐workshop sparked ideas for recurring web of trust events at TAB.

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> I also think that without filters, monetary txs can displace jpgs, which doesn't look like it is the case in this graph.

I would generally agree. The minimum demand/value of a monetary tx/usecase would need to be higher than the highest demand/value of a "jpeg" tx in order to have zero spam/jpegs in the next block. This isn't intuitively represented I suppose for the graph (based on the x axis as you point out), but it's how I intended this to be interpreted.

@nprofile1q..., I'm curious if you agree with the chart.

~85% is generous imo. You could push it more aggressively to 95–99%, but I figured 85% would serve as a starting point, since I didn't want the whole discussion to revolve around the arbitrary majority needed for a filter to be noticed.

I'm wearing the @nprofile1q... hoodie today in a coffee shop, a girl there knows my name is mike. She asks me.. "Are you Mike from tunestr". Holy crap.. small world, and too many Mikes.

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Maybe written with LLM 🤖

@nprofile1q... Based on popular demand.

Can we objectively measure (point in time) relay filter effectiveness?
We can by looking at the friction a Tx/usecase faces getting into a block.

Filtering on datacarrier (preventing OP_RETURNs from exceeding 83 bytes) lives in the [pink box]
Sharing this as a discussion point.

@nprofile1q...

Hey Rusty. Just planting the seed that I'd love for you to make it to @nprofile1q... this year Oct 13-16. Happy to give you space to talk about GSR.

@nprofile1q... note, Oct 13-16 in ATL we are going to have bunch of meshtastic hacking going on at @nprofile1q...

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Well not sure all of what MSM does, but specifically for TV late night that is also available over the airways (FCC stuff). We probably won't have to, streaming services and internet content will kill these things naturally. The question will be what will be the purported reason. Easy to blame externalities that are out of the hand of the decision maker.

@nprofile1q... if you wanted me to use Nostr more, you should have just sent me this. Best marketing for Nostr I've seen to date.

Is it possible to think that late-night shows in general are on their way out? Ratings are tough because of competing platforms, these shows are expensive to produce, and the FCC shouldn't be used as a political arm to censor speech, the FCC very likely overstepped here.

AND

There was a nonzero chance this was used as a convenient excuse to suspend a late-night host as a way to bring publicity and help promote the next person who would replace this host.

Asking for a friend, because apparently whenever this is asked, the first thing that comes up are analogies comparing this supposedly "gross" question to something about Charlie Kirk's murder. Smh. We are so cooked in terms of being able to debate stuff.