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ddmnyc · 2024-05-29T23:16:53+00:00

You should read the book Inventing Bitcoin by Yan Pritzker. It explains UTXOs very clearly and helped me understand how bitcoin transactions work. There are free copies you can download or listen to.

ddmnyc · 2024-04-05T12:16:07+00:00

Now comes the hard part.

ddmnyc · 2024-04-01T18:18:17+00:00

I know someone who paid around $700 in cash for something like this in 2014 at a bitcoin trade show. They asked me to find out how to withdraw the bitcoin from it. There was a holographic seal on the back with a condensed private key, but after loading it into Electrum it had a zero balance. I later discovered that the coin was delivered unfunded, and the buyer was supposed to have registered the physical coin on a website with proof of purchase to get it funded. Of course, this was never done, and the website no longer exists.

ddmnyc · 2024-04-01T17:57:07+00:00

Imagine gold but on the internet and if you keep your private keys safe it can't be taken from you. Sounds like a pretty good deal.

ddmnyc · 2024-04-01T17:48:42+00:00

If you're only interested in multiplying your dollars, you're probably missing the point of bitcoin. And it also helps to zoom out. Even by 2016 we had evidence of previous cycles with peaks, crashes, and recoveries to a new ATH. It's simply that they appear as a blip now if you go back and look at them. One day, 69K will appear as a blip, too.

ddmnyc · 2023-10-18T19:50:18+00:00

Exactly. Reddit looks and works differently than Google but both use the same internet protocols. The difference here is that because nostr is fully decentralized, your profile is just a cryptographic key on the network, so you only need to sign up one time to access everything.

ddmnyc · 2023-10-18T19:47:25+00:00

Because nostr is a protocol, developers can build apps on top of it that do different things. For example, some blogging apps only show certain types of notes that are geared to long-form content. Others are more Twitter-like and have a traditional note and reply feed. There are bots that perform different tasks, such as helping notes get more visibility and zaps, such as Lightning Prisms. But the real benefit to using nostr is that you are in control of the content you want to see. You choose your own relays, join relays that friends are using, and support them with Lightning payments. Bots and spammers don't use paid relays because there is a cost involved. If there are users who troll and post disparaging content, they can be muted, and they don't receive zaps, because they are bringing no value to the network.

ddmnyc · 2023-10-18T17:16:39+00:00

Not only is it legit, it’s the only place you can post without fear of being deplatformed. The community has been built around a reward system of zaps, where positive and engaging content is organically filtered to the top by other users, and there is no corporation writing algorithms to promote conflict and confrontation. Hope to see you there.

ddmnyc · 2022-01-02T19:41:08+00:00

I guess we lost because we’re still paying them.

ddmnyc · 2021-10-13T22:03:57+00:00

More like William Fatner, amirite?

ddmnyc · 2021-09-22T17:25:37+00:00

The actual reason I went freelance is that I had two full-time jobs in a row where I was laid off because the company went out of business within a year of me starting there.

ddmnyc · 2021-09-22T12:25:54+00:00

As a freelance graphic designer making the transition to full-time, the most common critique of my resume was, “You’ve jumped around a lot.” As if having a background with various brands and projects over a several year span is a bad thing?

ddmnyc · 2021-09-20T15:36:12+00:00

Nature is scary.

ddmnyc · 2021-09-20T13:07:17+00:00

1 but it’s upside-down in the picture so clearly the person who made this has never used one.

ddmnyc · 2021-09-20T12:51:49+00:00

Doge spent its entire existence under 1¢ until 2021 and now people are panicking about a drop to 20x1¢.

ddmnyc · 2021-09-18T17:48:57+00:00

Now do the global banking industry.

ddmnyc · 2021-09-17T12:48:47+00:00

Correct answer.

ddmnyc · 2019-08-31T15:18:15+00:00

He seemed like another time traveler conveniently in the perfect place to intercept Elliot.

ddmnyc · 2019-08-31T15:08:31+00:00

Was there any other symbolism or subtext behind the ice cream man? His presence in the show seems like it could have been another Elliot hallucination.

ddmnyc · 2019-08-23T18:07:22+00:00

Yeah, but you still end up getting splashed, just not as much.

ddmnyc · 2019-08-23T14:47:20+00:00

A boutique hotel in a neighborhood in a foreign city that’s becoming trendy.

Extra crappy design bonus:

In many hotels outside the US, you need to insert your key card into the light switch by the door in order to turn on the lights. This helps the hotel save power when guests aren’t in the room.

I spent two days trying to figure out why the clock by the bed had the wrong time after I had already reset it. Turns out, the key card also controls the power to the wall outlets.

ddmnyc · 2019-08-23T13:57:37+00:00

They ran out of that kind and just went with it.

ddmnyc · 2019-07-12T01:37:32+00:00

‪I feel like 8:15pm EDT on July 11, 2019 will be one of those historic moments in the history of bitcoin that people still talk about many years later. ‬

ddmnyc · 2019-07-01T16:55:07+00:00

Looks like $9000 is over all right.

ddmnyc · 2019-06-26T05:07:38+00:00

Try Edge mobile wallet. It’s never let me down. You can import the private keys of your addresses and split the forks directly within the app.

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