edilmedeiros
Edil Medeiros

Hoje a @npub13s0…5g70 lança o programa de capacitação para devs brasileiros em projetos open source de Bitcoin que estamos construindo juntos.
Muito feliz de ver esse projeto avançando e ansioso para contribuir ainda mais com o ecossistema Bitcoin no Brasil.
#note159s…q4sh

2024-09-03 23:03:19

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Mais provável que vão empurrar com pequenas reformas por anos a fio, com algumas mudanças maiores a cada 15 anos mais ou menos. Vai ser um processo longo e gradual de carestia.

2024-09-03 20:38:43

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Eu com 40 anos poupando que nem louco e um monte de gente me perguntando se aposentadoria de servidor público não é boa… Meus colegas realmente não entenderam que não vai ter aposentadoria pra ninguém da nossa geração.

2024-09-03 20:36:08

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What a shame, doesn't? I leave for a walk twice a week without my cell phone, exactly to be able to appreciate the surroundings.

2024-09-02 15:08:45

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O máximo possível. O tempo é o fator mais importante é o seu efeito é exponencial, tanto para ajudar quanto para atrapalhar.
Quer dizer, se você começar na metade do caminho, precisa poupar mais que o dobro a cada mês para chegar no mesmo resultado.
Eu comecei com 33 anos e procuro poupar cerca de 30% da minha renda todos os meses, incluindo os extras que eventualmente consigo (sim, 30% é muito e exige muita força de vontade). Depois de 6 anos não posso reclamar da tranquilidade que isso me dá, mas creio que vão ainda uns bons 15 anos pra eu cogitar viver de renda.

2024-08-31 22:01:16

Have you watched Game of Thrones?
It's a fictional representation of what happened in all times and places: small folk have nothing to do and, apart from making jokes, care very little for the quarrels and plots of rulers.
Rulers are capable of turning its people outlaws and impose unfair punishment over them for supposed crimes they didn't participate.
But after sufficient time, what happens?
Either bloodier plots or a war.

2024-08-31 15:03:34

Well, I wasn't expecting nor hoping this would mature so well when I drew it in 2022.
https://m.primal.net/KXNv.png

2024-08-31 13:15:34

Who pays for Bitcoin block rewards?
Bitcoin hodlers do.
The payment is hidden by the more apparent appreciation in price when compared to the unit of account (e.g., dollars), but nonetheless real.
By contrast to a world in which block rewards are zero, and so miners receive only fees, block rewards expand the pool of BTC in circulation, diluting the purchasing power of each existing BTC unit (holding real demand constant).

2024-08-30 02:31:37

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So far, Damus looks better, Primal seems to work better. 🤔

2024-08-30 02:14:43

Primal or Damus?

2024-08-29 18:33:52

Bitcoin is bad because it's backed by nothing… 🫠
“Over the years, all the governments in thew world, having discovered that gold is, like, rare, decided that it would be more convenient to back their money with something that is easier to come by, namely: nothing."
Better Money, L. White

2024-03-06 21:35:03

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Thanks for pointing out, but can't see how this would promote accretion of knowledge since the interface looks centered on individual perspectives and not on the knowledge entry itself.
https://m.primal.net/HiQO.png

2024-03-06 15:50:46

Every online resource is someone else's computer. There's no free lunch.
Don't take valuable resources for granted. Consider paying a subscription or donating a small amount if you can. In the case of Wikipedia, you can also contribute by correcting mistakes or writing technical articles.
Most "free" services are indeed paid by ads, incentivizing people to create addictive crap instead of true value. We end up with bloated platforms in which the gems are buried in a sea of nonsense.
That's also why I'm experimenting with #nostr: zapping gives users the power to decide what is valuable enough to be paid for.
https://m.primal.net/HiLJ.png

2024-03-01 14:23:24

Yesterday, I gave a talk about the principles behind the #bitcoin protocol. This is part 1, covering:
1. the problem we need to solve to build an #economy based on digital transactions;
2. the bitcoin transactions data structures; and
3. the embedded programming language that makes #money programmable.
https://youtu.be/vOiRQoLhIoY?si=n-KXjr1Tf8UB66nk

2024-03-01 01:06:40

The more I dig into the nitty-gritty of the protocol, the more convinced I am that #bitcoin truly is the internet of money.
It's not only a superior form of money but also a platform for supporting financial applications we can barely imagine right now. Feels just like the #internet in the year 2000, just before we woke up and realized all aspects of our lives depended on it.

2024-02-25 01:40:07

AI will kill coding just like restaurants killed home cooking and Spotify killed live performances.
https://twitter.com/ammohitchaprana/status/1760619467019804878/video/1

2024-02-24 03:20:33

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Yeap

2024-02-24 03:20:19

Historical picture revealed today: Satoshi Nakamoto attending the bitcoin++ conference in Argentina in 2024.
#btcplusplus #vinteum #base58
https://m.primal.net/HenZ.jpg

2024-02-14 02:42:30

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❤️

2024-02-14 02:00:17

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And what does "intrinsic value" mean, exactly?

2024-02-14 01:45:29

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Maybe you may educate me.

2024-02-14 01:38:44

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Because the issuer continued to issue more dollars. This is a policy, if they chose to not do it, it would probably not happened like that. Gold redemption indeed made it more difficult for governments to issue money. But this is not a requirement to people actually using something as money.

2024-02-14 01:36:35

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Thanks!

2024-02-13 19:13:41

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Interesting to see that when the gold standard was raised the dolar price didn't plummeted to zero compared to other currencies, even though they couldn't be reddemed for anything anymore. People didn't even notice the change, the fact that it was redeemable before was irrelevant for the real economy. This is evidence that being redeemable for something else is not what makes currency valuable.

2024-02-13 19:09:11

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Bitcoin entitles you to a set of messages that are practically impossible to modify.
I'm sincerely trying to see where your argument goes.
So, I assume from the previous note that you consider gold to have any kind of intrinsic value. What does owning a troy of gold entitles me to?
Well, nothing but the gold itself. No cash flows, no IOUs, just the physical matter itself.
Value from commodities doesn't come from the commodities themselves, they emerge as consequence of people using them as a medium of exchange.
I understand the point of saying that there's no non-speculative demand for bitcoin today: most people seem to be exchanging it trying to get more fiat back when selling it to other people that are trying to do the same.
But this assume other stuff have some kind of intrinsic value to serve as money. They have not.

2024-02-13 18:36:49

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Thanks, Will. And thanks for building Damus. I'll check the GitHub repo to find out how I can contribute.

2024-02-13 18:33:50

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And right now, this makes me think a lot about the current state of internet social media. It looks like the early stages of the Internet, where it was more a curiosity than a mass-adopted technology. But I see a lot of potential, considering governments will probably increase censorship.

2024-02-13 18:30:32

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I'm studying the Bitcoin protocol in the Chaincode Labs program, and someone commented about it, so I'm checking it out.

2024-02-13 18:29:24

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Yeah

2024-02-13 18:28:52

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The same reasoning could be used to argue that stocks are worthless because they are just ledger entries somewhere. But stocks represent a physical thing, a part of a business operation in the real world. Bitcoin does the same; it is issued in return for a physical process performed by someone. What would be a non-speculative demand for stocks?

2024-02-13 17:51:58

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Thanks, Derek. Trying to understand the protocol and applications built in it.

2024-02-13 17:41:47

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Obrigado!

2024-02-13 17:41:13

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I just learnt about it, trying find my way on it.

2024-02-13 17:38:30

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Hey, thanks! First lightning transaction I ever participated.

2024-02-13 17:37:52

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I tend to not agree as bitcoin is based on real physical processes to be issued.

2024-02-13 17:35:21

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Thanks!

2024-02-13 17:34:43

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Thanks!

2024-02-13 17:34:34

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Thanks, @npub1h50…rqev Trying to find my way here.

2024-02-13 14:30:06

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Just figured out how to make it work.

2024-02-13 14:28:31

@npub1kuy…kdj8 I wanted to say thanks for your video about how to connect a LN wallet to Damus. I just got started on this nostr thing and it was quite helpful.

2024-02-13 04:23:24

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I'm from the field of embedded systems originally but have been working on functional programming and models of computation more recently. About bitcoin, I'm still digging the internals of the protocol before focusing on an specific subfield. Also, I'm attending chaincode labs FOSS program in the hope to accelerate my learning.

2024-02-12 22:36:26

I'm a professor of electronics and computer engineering at the University of Brasília, currently pivoting my skill set to the bitcoin space.
#introductions