Nicorama on nostr

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Good evening. A year and a half ago, Nostr spoke. And so I listened. Here’s the cover reveal for my upcoming sci fi thriller, The Stolguard Incident. I’ll share more info over the following week...

Nicorama @nicorama 1770707023

One of the best way to reflect on the present is to dream up future and alternative worlds… I can wait to read what you have been working on, congrats 🎉

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Nicorama · 49w

Braiins solo miner 🤜🤛 Umbrel https://m.primal.net/QchT.jpg

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Quick napkin math with chatGPT

🧠 Takeaways
• 🔄 Solo mining has ~52× better odds of hitting a jackpot than playing the lottery 50 times.
• 💷 Expected value is over 4× higher with solo mining.
• 📉 Both are long shots, but solo mining is a more favorable “lottery” if you’re in it for the fun of low-odds, high-reward experiments.

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Braiins solo miner 🤜🤛 Umbrel

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Nicorama · 49w

Quick napkin math with chatGPT 🧠 Takeaways • 🔄 Solo mining has ~52× better odds of hitting a jackpot than playing the lottery 50 times. • 💷 Expected value is over 4× higher with solo mining. • 📉 Both are long shots, but solo mining is a more favorable “lottery” if you’r...

Bitcoin Architect · 40w

Love the mini miner https://blossom.primal.net/8f3420c87722616a2171963a6d618a73452a8ef02b56085fde8ea570440adf84.jpg

John Carvalho · 49w

I heard nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 approves. https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/862f5488dfaca72c0bcecd596fbbf87ae392f46c/bip-0177.mediawiki

Nicorama @nicorama 1745494152

Still think this is too confusing… But it the idea really gained momentum…

IMHO would make more sense to keep sats and have 1 million :1 ratio eg rename bits (100sats) to bitcoin.

At $1m usd we get 1 btc = 1 usd and 1 sat = 1 cent

1 BTC becomes1 000 000 BTC
21 trillion bitcoin
100 sats for one bitcoin

And maybe some among convention for old vs new, maybe with upper lower case? Or rename to MBTC?

1MBTC = 1000000 btc = 100 000 000 sat

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Nicorama

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After so many years being in the space, finally attending a conference - I could not have picked a better one - has felt like coming home and reconnecting with friends that I actually had not actually met. Super inspiring, fun and signal-rich day of talks, and great events around the town, with ⚽️ 🏆and ☀️🍻 later today.

Kuddos to @Peter McCormack @Danny Knowles and team for putting together this very special event while putting Bedford on the map by just doing things.

jack · 53w

truly what matters above all else https://m.primal.net/QAHT.png

Nicorama @nicorama 1743586657

Within p2p payments imho the most asymmetric opportunities for Bitcoin at this stage are micropayments and “megapayments” eg very small or larger than average transactions which are often hard, slow, insecure, complex and sometimes impossible (eg sending 1c, or sending a remittance instantly) with fiat rails - and most importantly often unavailable to the unbanked.

Nicorama · 53w

“I plan to work on the escrow feature next, which is needed to make actual trades for physical stuff safer and before backing the currency with fiat money can begin.” What was Satoshi referring...

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Really amazing to be reading this archive

Nicorama · 53w

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“I should have set the initial BTC price higher, it was only 1€ / 1000
BTC in the beginning.” 🤣 🤯

Sirius · 110w

My email correspondence with Satoshi in 2009-2011: https://mmalmi.github.io/satoshi/

Nicorama @nicorama 1743352609

“I plan to work on the escrow feature next, which is needed to make
actual trades for physical stuff safer and before backing the currency
with fiat money can begin.”

What was Satoshi referring to here ?

Nicorama · 53w

“I should have set the initial BTC price higher, it was only 1€ / 1000 BTC in the beginning.” 🤣 🤯

Nicorama · 53w

Really amazing to be reading this archive

Melvin Carvalho · 53w

We are pleased to announce the publication of the First Public Working Draft for the did:nostr method specification: https://nostrcg.github.io/did-nostr/ This specification defines a Decentralized I...

Nicorama @nicorama 1743097802

Great to see DID & nostr devs working together, makes 100% sense to me to have a standard for multiple type of identifiers with different trade offs, nostr being one of them. For high security applications like gov or corporate identities anchoring the identity on btc timechain might still make sense? Also curious about the dht method and if it has gained traction.