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"nostr is built using tools i'm familiar with" probably is the explanation for why most devs craft solutions with it.
how to get more devs who are familiar with byte-level protocols? maybe the answer is vibecoding
Thanks for all the great questions! Hope to see some of you at a @btcpp event at some point this year
or poasting to the mailing list, or submitting PRs that help move the world forward, or building a business that accepts bitcoin for payments.
bitcoin wins because it's full of passionate people who are working to make open money work and scale -- and it's cool to be able to see the network of people doing that through the events and newsletters and deep dives we're curating at @btcpp :D
go check out our upcoming events ->
tossup between mom's gumbo and grandma's homemade flour tortillas tbh
there's something to the fact that lots of devs are excited about using nostr as a communication transport
despite the fact that lightning already includes a communication transport?
seems to be that there's not enough people that know or understand how to build on top of lightning; or maybe running lightning clients is so much more work than a nostr client?
not sure exactly but seems like there's a lesson in here that would be worth figuring out.
i was a frequent speaker and participant on the Android technical conference circuit before I got into bitcoin development. i had so much fun going to conferences and giving talks. i made friends that arguably are the reason i work in bitcoin now.
bitcoin++ is meant to replicate that experience for bitcoin development.
as for why "no virtual" i've been to one or two virtual conferences but i've never found them to be particularly worth my attention or time. maybe i'm doing it wrong. we could do a virtual event, but my interest and passion isn't there for it.
we should activate simplicity this year
hanging out at a flagship bitcoin++ with all my family and friends from around the globe; celebrating that we've hit the tens of thousand of attendees to bitcoin++, all of whom are excited to be building the future of bitcoin
whatever you set your configuration to in your node's settings?? i'm running the defaults but i'm also still on v29 because i haven't gotten around to updating my node in a minute.
the hardest part is staying on top of all the communications required. working on trying to automate more communications and build out calendars internally so we can more consistently send out signal and news about what we're up to.
also bringing in more people to help has been huge. bitcoin++ is the first time i've ever had to manage other people and i'm consistently finding that communication is the biggest key to success for coordination and alignment lol
let me make some calls; we could probably have something launched by 2040 ;)
i've been really impressed at how well Spark managed to get distribution of their protocol from existing wallets and projects. that's a really important first step for getting users.
citrea could pull ahead if they convince enough of the L2 eth ecosystem to move over though -- and it could happen. the eth ecosystem really seems like it's at a bit of a crossroads at the moment.
one not-bitcoin payment protocol i'm keeping my eye on in terms of distribution footprint is the new stablecoin project being pioneered by the paradigm team: Tempo one. a lot of 'big' eth names have recently moved over there. bitcoin has its work cut out for it in terms of adoption from existing platforms and rails, meanwhile the 'stablecoin' army is growing (imo).
how cool lightning is :)
the inevitability of bitcoin. currency becomes valuable both from scarcity but also from who's plowing their cashflows into acquiring it.
more successful business owners and founders should be bitcoiners, who are transacting with each other using bitcoin as well as stacking their gains in the currency
does paying back a friend for dinner count?
looking through my history i bought some drinks at Saturn in Austin in early January.
been joking about doing a cruise to Antarctica as a "cold storage" edition sometime in 2027. we'll see if i come through on this.
if anyone wants to help plan, hit me up. i need to find a tour operator and pick some dates and start selling it if we're actually going to make 2027 work... might be 2028 at this point but uhh yeah. that's the plan.
bitcoin++ cold storage edition: it's a boat accident waiting to happen
i'm not sure what you mean about the wallet attachment, but i can go see if my infra is working.
i run a lightning node on NixOS which uses a plugin to talk LN-address which I think I plugged into Alby's hub to work with stacker news but it's been a while since i verified things are flowing through as expected there.
oh i definitely think people like talking (i'm one of them); but getting things shipped is also such a great feeling can't recommend it enough.
ok so I just went to Franklin's barbeque last weekend (despite having been living a block away when it opened back in 2008 or whatever...). definitely at top. honestly any BBQ spot in town is pretty good. im a native texan, i love brisket.
also been loving the old school TexMex plates over at Cisco's which is a bit of a hole-in-the-wall place off east 6th, east of downtown. it's nothing special but they do crispy tacos and enchiladas for decent prices and have incredibly great spicy salsa.
Chuy's over off Barton Springs Road is also a favorite.
I also used to hang out at hacker spaces in Houston right after college while teaching myself Android, and went to Hacker School (aka Recurse Center) in 2012 as one of their earliest batches. so definitely have a strong connection to communal hacker spaces. i'd love to get a new hacker space going in Austin -- stay tuned for more updates on this front ;)
good question. I was a very involved member of AIESEC in college, and went to work-abroad through them twice to Brazil.
while in Brazil, I got added to the Organizing Committee of their national conference and lived in a hotel in Sao Paulo for two weeks getting ready for it. I got to see what an international organization was like, and how conference planning happened while a sophomore in college. (also incidentally the two weeks i flipped to fluent in Portuguese, pretty cool experience tbh)
having that experience of traveling internationally and seeing how conferences build community really informs a lot of how bitcoin++ works, in some regards. AIESEC had a saying that was something along the lines of "global community, local reality" which i definitely think applies to every btc++ event that we run.
- I'm a Knots contributor, but not a core contributor. currently run core on my machines but they're a bit out of date tbh
- lightning :D
- i haven't heard of CLINK, can you say more about what that is?
- ooh this is tough. i use Zeus to talk to my CLN node; and phoenix as my daily driver wallet.
- zero, i'm pretty focused on btc++ things these days and dont really get outside of the dev ecosystem much
this question is also known as a "resume check" one, a challenge often put out to verify the bonafides of someone in an industry or space
they're often asked of outsiders or minorities as a way to prove themselves 'worthy' of participation or respect from others who have self-nominated themselves to be gatekeepers of said space.