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Lightning and its fake HTLCs Lightning is terrible but can be very good with two tweaks.

Replacing the web with something saner This is a simplification, but let's say that basically there are just 3 kinds of websites: Websites with content: text, images, videos; Websites that run full apps that do a ton of interactive stuff; Websites with so…

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On the state of programs and browsers Basically, there are basically (not exhaustively) 2 kinds of programs one can run in a computer nowadays: 1.1.

The P2SH Wars This article on the history of P2SH implementation on Bitcoin has two valuable lessons and illustrates the benefits of bitcoind decentralization: The benefits of multiple codebases: Russell O’Connor found the bug in OP_EVAL while working on…

nostr - Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays The simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global "social" network once and for all.

lnurl-auth explained You may have seen the lnurl-auth spec or heard about it, but might not know how it works or what is its relationship with other lnurl protocols.

Libertarianism, left and right, a worthless thought Every person is either in the left or in the right.

A "política" é a arena da vitória do estatismo O sujeito que quer menos Estado, menos leis, menos complicação desnecessária, menos gastos jamais vai se interessar pela política do dia-a-dia de uma câmara de vereadores.

Parallel Chains We want merged-mined blockchains.

Donations on the internet (This was written in the context of donations to people who do free stuff on the internet, open-source software and so on.)

Ripple and the problem of the decentralized commit This is about Ryan Fugger's Ripple.

UBI calculations The United States population (counting only people more than 25 years old) is 222098080 people, the United States GDP is 20807000000000 USD.

Thomas Kuhn sequer menciona o "método científico" O que define uma ciência é o recorte de uma realidade a partir de um paradigma que todos os que entram no campo daquela ciência aceitam como verdade.

idea: Rumple a payments network based on trust channels This is the description of a Lightning-like network that will work only with credit or trust-based channels and exist alongside the normal Lightning Network.

Ryan Fugger's Ripple Before XRP, the shitcoin, bought it, "Ripple" was used by Ryan Fugger as the name for his project to create a peer-to-peer network of trust channels for money transfer.

A estrutura paradigmática da ciência N'A estrutura das revoluções científicas, Thomas Kuhn descreve como surge uma ciência: um monte de gente fica tentando descobrir como uma coisa funciona a partir da sua própria experiência e escreve livros descrevendo…

Liberalismo oitocentista Quando comecei a ler sobre "liberalismo" na internet havia sempre umas listas de livros recomendados, uns Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman e Alexis de Tocqueville.

Democracia na América Alexis de Tocqueville escreveu um livro só elogiando o sistema político dos Estados Unidos.

A biblioteca infinita Agora esqueci o nome do conto de Jorge Luis Borges em que a tal biblioteca é descrita, ou seus detalhes específicos.

Soft-fork activation through bitcoind competition Or: how to activate Drivechain.

bitcoind decentralization It is better to have multiple curator teams, with different vetting processes and release schedules for bitcoind than a single one.

Anglicismos estúpidos no português contemporâneo Palavras e expressões que ninguém deveria usar porque não têm o sentido que as pessoas acham que têm, são apenas aportuguesamentos de palavras inglesas que por nuances da história têm um sentido ligeiramente

Família e propriedade A idéia tradicional de família está associada a propriedades imobiliárias fixas, passadas de geração a geração.

idea: Custom multi-use database app Since 2015 I have this idea of making one app that could be repurposed into a full-fledged app for all kinds of uses, like powering small businesses accounts and so on.

Etleneum A programmable escrow for satoshis with self-contained stateful micro-apps defined with Lua anyone can create and call to deposit money while simultaneously changing their state.

Ethereum Just bad things.

Memórias de quando eu aprendi a ler A professora ensinou um método segundo o qual para ler uma sílaba, por exemplo, to, dizíamos rápido o nome das duas letras, cada vez mais rápido, tê ó tê ó t-ó tó, até acharmos o som correto da sílaba.

idea: An open log-based HTTP database for any use case A single, read/write open database for everything in the world.

Conjecture and criticism I heard about this epistemological method conjecture and criticism in this video.

Programming quibbles About CouchDB my personal approach on using let, const and var in javascript A crappy course on torrents Multi-service Graph Reputation protocol The monolithic approach to CouchDB views My stupid introduction to Haskell The unit test…

A chatura Kelsen Já presenciei várias vezes este mesmo fenômeno: há um grupo de amigos ou proto-amigos conversando alegremente sobre o conservadorismo, o tradicionalismo, o anti-comunismo, o liberalismo econômico, o livre-mercado, a filosofia olavista.

Multi-service Graph Reputation protocol The problem Users inside centralized services need to know reputations of other users they're interacting with; Building reputation with ratings imposes a big burden on the user and still accomplishes nothing, can be

idea: Graph subjective reputation as a service The idea more-or-less coded in https://github.com/fiatjaf/multi-service-reputation-rfc, but if it is as good as I think it is, it could be sold for websites without any need for information sharing and without

idea: Patreon, but simple, and without subscription Basically instead of a subscription and becoming member of something, you just get a forum for your inner circle and people get lnurl-pay codes they can use to donate.

idea: Link sharing incentivized by satoshis See https://2key.io/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?

idea: Hosted-channels Lightning wallet that runs in the browser Communicates over HTTP with a server that is actually connected to the Lightning Network, but generates preimages and onions locally, doing everything like the Hosted Channels protocol says.

idea: "numbeo" with satoshis This site has a crowdsourced database of cost-of-living in many countries and cities: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/ and it sells the data people write there freely.

Money Supply Measurement What if we measured money supply measured by probability of being spent -- or how near it is to the point in which it is spent?

Reisman on opportunity cost If I bought things for 10 and sold them for 20 did I earn a profit of 10?

Profits, not wages, as the originary factor Adam Smith says that there were first workers earning wages, but then came the capitalists and extracted profits from those wages.

Drivechain Understanding Drivechain requires a shift from the paradigm most bitcoiners are used to.

Precautionary Principle The precautionary principle that people, including Nassim Nicholas Taleb, love and treat as some form of wisdom, is actually just a justification for arbitrary acts.

Rede Relâmpago Ao se referir à Lightning Network do O que é Bitcoin?

Alternatives to Drivechain If Drivechain doesn't get soft-forked into Bitcoin, the alternatives people are left with are: Altcoins.

A estrutura lógica do livro didático Todos os livros didáticos e cursos expõem seus conteúdos a partir de uma organização lógica prévia, um esquema de todo o conteúdo que julgam relevante, tudo muito organizadinho em tópicos e subtópicos segundo a ordem l…

Bitcoin A collection of notes related to Bitcoin.

nix Pra instalar o neuron fui forçado a baixar e instalar o nix.

localchat A server that creates instant chat rooms with Server-Sent Events and normal HTTP POST requests (instead of WebSockets which are an overkill most of the times).

A crappy zk-rollups explanation attempt (Considering the example of zksync.io) (Also, don't believe me on any of this.)