giacomozucco

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npub1au23c73cpaq2whtazjf6cdrmvam6nkd4lg928nwmgl78374kn29sq9t53j

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giacomozucco@BitcoinNostr.com

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giacomozucco@getalby.com

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2024-09-02 11:40:36

#Bitcoin scaling, Trustless L2s, covenants, future soft forks.
Some clarity about many controversial topics by @npub1ej4…ndrm, courtesy of Fulgur Ventures!
#note1num…uxr9

2024-08-27 08:34:10

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Nothing against Amethyst, still great. But slow enough that I wouldn't open it just to check notifications on a random free second between doing stuff.

2024-08-24 12:00:50

Incredibility well-designed and well-realized game by D++! Masterfully hosted by Martell!
I managed to rug some money from @npub1j8y…vrvg, which is always my main goal in life!
https://m.primal.net/KKii.jpg

2024-08-23 08:43:14

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2024-08-23 08:42:35

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Still active, even if a bit downsized! Go there and check. You can still pay LN in many places!

2024-04-19 13:00:31

I have long thought that the depiction of the "HODL" sub-subculture (within the Bitcoin subculture) as viciously statist, patheically cuck and dangerously anti-privacy, was vastly esagerated, at the hands of the specular "noKYC" sub-sbuculture (that also has its very serious issues: shitcoining, keynesianism, woke bullshit, etc.). Well, I have to admit the some red flags in this sense are real, and spreading. Some "HODL" folks would go to the extent to actually agree with privacy-focus shitcoiners in promoting "privacy coins" as better than Bitcoin (clear nonsense for technical and economical reasons). Horseshoe Theory of Bitcoin.
https://image.nostr.build/0cbc8874dcb90430592f20372e8f4d8eff2d78a7b7288dce9447c26755fb1260.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/da1e8028307e38caf11407b144e6162abd068bb8572ecbd0e081878982b28872.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/2d8327d262f84e3a7846e174f8ff19808fdb119e0870e5ca38254be778762b14.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/3052b892b45fb3784bf1c7548cf14141a5938e10d8be07504f7180361dc26275.jpg

2024-04-18 12:13:33

THE GASLIGHTING NETWORK:
- "Don't believe your own memories of using LN non-custodially on a daily basis for countless times in the last few years, but believe fraudulent marketing claims by shitcoin scammers about you never actually doing what you actually did and do"
- "Don't compare LN to existent, realistic and sustainable alternatives, including its own future iterations and evolutions, but to imaginary born-perfect, silver-bullet, turn-key solutions like gigameg-blocks, miraculously brought to you by the Second Coming of Bitcoin Jesus, resurrected to bring you with him in the Hard Fork Heavens"
- "Don't think about real-world economic/monetary dynamics, pushing most actual users for much of the foreseeable future to prioritize their concern over inflation and confiscation of their long-term savings, over coffee-paying costs or risks, but make up imaginary millions of people with no fiat but somehow lots of sats to spend in billions of fast/cheap transactions starting tomorrow"
- "Don't engage in nuanced and honest discussions about the actual security-model spectrum for different use-cases, but pretend that those millions of imaginary sat-spenders somehow always need, for their imaginary fast/cheap transactions, the very same trustlessness models than slow/huge ones."
- "Don't acknowledge the fact that Bitcoin's usability for normies has been brought from nonexistent to mediocre over 15 years of hard work, but pretend its layer1 was born perfect, without inherent issues like chain-anal/coin-selection/fee-estimation issues"

2024-04-18 12:13:03

I notice a nice trilemma while teaching (Bitcoin, physics or literally anything else):
- accurate
- understandable
- concise
You can only pick 2.

2024-01-04 19:56:33

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Thank you for answering one-off even if blocked elsewhere (I block very liberally on Twitter, here it's neither possible nor needed).
The proposal you list is the second "type" I mention in my brief list. The higher order effect you mention (increasing already present offband auctions of blockspace) would be common between that and the third "type" (Much's proposal to filter out bare multisig, apparently popular among Core devs). But since Core already filters high-fee-paying valid txs, it seems to me that, at least in principle, the first "type" is the only proposal that would avoid that higher order effect completely...not the status quo. Even if I find it likely that the umprecedented move to a total lack of mempool filtering could produce way more/bigger higher order effects.

2023-12-30 16:51:04

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Uh? The only radical mempool policy change proposal I see (removing incentive-incompatible filters entirely) are from Peter Todd and Ben Carman, but don't seem to have much following. Milder, more conservative proposals come from Luke Dashjr in Knots & disrespector-patch promoters in Core (extending to tapscript the very same datacarriersize policy that Core uses for pre-taproot txs) and Mark Erhardt (filtering out bare multisig in Core as well, as Knots already does since year). All minority views. Do you hear about anything else?

2023-07-30 16:32:11

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Also, first post in a month because I finally found the time to install amethyst (via apk, since google play asks for a credit card I don't have) and transcribe by hand the hex format of a bip85 derivation from a coldcard. Postponed for so long.

2023-07-30 16:30:18

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The video was uploaded on Twitter directly. Are links to YouTube that better?

2023-06-15 15:20:40

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Should be out today in some hours.

2023-04-05 16:08:03

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For all these reasons, I was very happy when #[6] asked me to give a more elaborate version of the speech in Riga. Unfortunately nobody recorded it, there. So, I was very happy to give it again for Strike, thanks to the ghost of a lovely Rockstar (RIP <3).
Enjoy.

2023-04-05 16:07:17

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Another thing that pushed me to review my semi-serious Las Vegas speech was this presentation by Sergej Kotliar, where he separated (imo correctly) "Bitcoin the tool" from "Bitcoin the movement", but in a way that triggered a lot my Venn-related autism, because he ascribed to the "movement" only the subset of cultural idiosyncrasies I would ascribe to the "Austrian/Maximalism" subculture ("low time preference", "HODL", "NgU", "no shitcoins", "hyperbitcoinization fixes this", etc), and to the "tool" some memes that are imo very much part of the cypherpunk subculture ("privacy", "dissidents", "wikileaks"), itself very much part of the "movement", not of the "tool", which I think would instead include, from a pragmatic PoV, most of the gambling-related uses Sergej call "the Casino":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkjEcSmZKfc

2023-04-05 16:04:48

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Also, Alex Goldstein pointed out to me it was not very effective to use the term "Revolutionaries" to label all politically/culturally passionate Bitcoiners, since many of them are not, some even being the very opposite: literal "reactionaries" (I mean it in a positive sense). At the same time I wanted to give a better account of the role played in all that by "Bitcoin maximalism", since friends like #[5]
and Peter Rizzo were wrinting stuff, while my last my contribution on the topic had been this (long) talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRH_HepKUZA

2023-04-05 16:02:29

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This was prepared in about 20 minutes (really), full of inside jokes and exaggerations for the lulz, so I felt like I needed to put out lots of corrections later on. For one, #[4] rightly pointed out he's out of place in the weird spot of the diagram I forced him to. He *is* indeed, the closest thing to the unironical center of the diagram (tech startup CEO, original cypherpunk hacktivist, austrian maxi):
https://twitter.com/adam3us/status/1505508163067518977

2023-04-05 16:00:46

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The origins of this speech are actually more ancient: the first time I reasoned about the Venn diagram it's based on was during a podcast. Then #[2] asked me to write an article about it for Citadel21, but I never delivered. At the Unconfiscatable Conference, in Las Vegas, I was asked to give again the speech given at Adopting Bitcoin Conference, in El Salvador: "The Perfect Lightning Wallet". But last minute I got an inspiration and changed my mind (and slides):
https://youtu.be/GgFQgfssHBo

2023-04-05 15:58:40

Finally publishing a speech I was invited to give remotely to the Strike
team a while ago (via the intercession of a late common friend, RIP <3). It's mostly the same presentation I gave at NoobDay in Riga last year, about "Bitcoin Cultures":
https://youtu.be/Otoz02b9PiY

2023-04-04 10:57:39

Double standards.

2023-03-14 09:34:43

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Lol. Just restarted Iris and here it is. I feel such a noob here.
#[2]

2023-03-14 09:33:12

Uhm. I had a post here about Logseq and Nostr, with a few answers to check. Disappeared. I guess it's time for me to stop being a cheap bitch and to start checking out paid relays! 😅

2023-03-14 09:31:14

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Not logistically doable this time around, sadly. :(
But I hope maybe next time!

2023-03-13 11:48:52

I'm becoming a Logseq maximalist, recently. The only thing I miss is a version where it syncs over Nostr instead of git/github! :)

2023-02-28 10:05:41

I despise shitcoin scams, but I'd defend Ethereum over Gary Gensler.
I despise woke bullshit, but I'd defend Disney over Ron DeSantis.
Virtue/truth is important, but is meaningless without freedom. Freedom is what makes virtue/truth significant, sustainable, durable, beautiful.

2023-01-21 15:50:04

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Nostros for Android (but I'll give Amethyst a try asap). On laptop, via browser: astral.ninja to find people, snort.social to "like" and to set avatar/header images. But the are all working less consistently everyday. I guess they are rewriting each other.

2023-01-21 11:29:57

Why do I have to re-follow people on nostr every day? Aren't the "follow" relationship just nostr posts? I still see my public posts and my private messages, but the follow relationship disappear every few hours. Maybe some of the many apps I'm using overwriting?