Agreed. On the other hand, the Pentagon likes to keep secrets long term. If even they haven't yet migrated, then my take is that they consider their current secrets being protected by contemporary cryptography being safe for at least a few decades.

I'm not really surprised. If nostr had an angle to get rich quick, shitcoiners would be all over it.

UPDATE: As someone who, as of yet, has very few practical use cases for lightning (zapping aside) - but am hopeful that will change somtime in the near future - I have decided, in the meantime, to opt for a liquid solution - so that I don't have to worry about actively managing channels and/or ark/spark utxo's expiring, etc. (*I plan to swap funds to cashu as makes sense for more 'micro' activity - such as zapping) As such, I am going with wallet, for now - which, as I understand it, has the built right in. So far so good! PS. the RecoverBull encrypted seed phrase vault is pretty sweet, too!

I believe society as a whole has been trained to be reflexively fake for the sake of complying with political correctness (or 'wokeness', if you prefer). For most, this fake wall doesn't come down until their audience has been assessed for acceptance of individual thought. This trained reflexive conformity is how the powers that be want it.

Whoever needs to hear this: Pay no attention to what politicians say; pay attention to what they do. This goes double for Trump.

#asknostr, what's your go-to no-kyc solution for swapping BTC between on-chain and non-self-hosted lightning ? (e.g. zeus embedded node?, spark via wallet of satoshi?, liquid via aqua or bull wallet?, etc) what are the pros and cons of that solution as compared to others?

Whoa! I didn't even know that was a thing. I mean I'd heard of Boltz, but I wasn't aware of this interface. Thanks! I'll definitely give it a closer look.

💯 Though, I'm not at all convinced we're anywhere near having such a consensus; and, it feels like proposed efforts to fork regardless of consensus would just end up harming everyone.

All that consumption waste is great for China's economy, though.

This is a rare 3rd drop in difficulty in a row. Seemingly unpopular opinion: hash rate follows price. That the price dip started ~9 weeks ago compared to the hash rate dip starting ~6 weeks ago ought to clear that up for anyone who was confused and doesn't understand incentives enough to think that price followed hash rate.

Very cool! I noticed the option to use testnet in the Electrum Server Settings. Is this only available on Android? I'm not seeing it on iOS (App version 6.4.0+131).

Of course, even if they don't have to sell btc to pay dividends , they've already started selling mstr to pay dividends. Either way, it's dilutive in terms of btc per share. If issuing new shares in order to raise the capital necessary to pay earlier promised dividends sounds like a ponzi, it's because it is.

The assumption needs to be that it won't stop, though. The priority ought to not be to rely on having permission; but rather to ensure bitcoin doesn't require permission.

Full quoted portion at ~5:45.

If the quick drop from 95k towards ~80k took you by surprise, then you're just not paying enough attention to James Check (aka ) "... if you take the price down to 95... there's really very little support between there and 75, 80k... so, my concern is, if the price comes down to 95, it's a quick trip down much, much lower..." on ' show from about 10 days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjDrjd34_Zw&t=346s

Yeah, the profits of miners that pay higher energy prices would naturally be disproportionately sensitive to BTC price. I don't know if that applies to Ocean miners specifically; but, I had the impression that the bigger operations able to leverage more favorable energy deals are not typically the ones mining with Ocean.

I concur. Is it just me, or does it seem like all of big tech collectively decided that they could all just save a bunch of money if none of them bothered to provide redundancy for their services?

🤣 Apparently, when downdetector.com can't reach cloudflare (because cloudflare is down), it just assumes I'm trying to obscure my status as a human.