Gigi @[email protected]

I'm currently working on my second book, 21 Ways. It will be released under an open and permissive cc-by-sa license, just like 21 Lessons.

You can support me on Patreon https://patreon.com/dergigi or directly via bitcoin: https://dergigi.com/support/

If you want your daily dose of bullish bitcoin quotes this little side-project of mine is for you:

https://www.bitcoin-quotes.com

Bitcoin is a relentless teacher.

I did my best to gather some of the best books, articles, podcasts, and other resources that were helpful to me.

https://bitcoin-resources.com/

I wrote a book on Bitcoin. You can read it online for free. You can also buy it. Or you can listen to it.

https://21lessons.com/

Surveillance renders all other freedoms useless.

@dave @adam regarding an index of Lightning Addresses: a lot of users are putting their lightning addresses prefixed with a ⚡ in their profiles, e.g. ⚡[email protected]

Alby and ZBD support this already. There is also a meta tag for HTML: https://github.com/BitcoinAndLightningLayerSpecs/rfc/issues/1

Both could be crawled and indexed.

Thanks again for having me @dave & @adam!

https://twitter.com/dergigi/status/1504948966655512579?s=20&t=H5BeXJQ8L7XBixA8gHA0Pw

Just published a long piece on #Value4Value

https://dergigi.com/2021/12/30/the-freedom-of-value/

@dave I think we found a bug in the podcast index.

Not sure what repository is the right one to create the issue, so I'll outline it here.

We updated the pubkey of John from 02a9cd... to 02aad... - the pubkey was correctly updated on the podcast level, but not on the episode level.

More than 24h later it's still wrong, so it doesn't seem to be a simple caching issue.

Here is the feed: https://github.com/closing-the-loop/closing-the-loop.github.io/blob/master/feed.xml

It's also not just an UI issue. Fountain and Breez get the wrong info too.

@dave are there any tools already to parse boostagrams from the command line?

I'd love to parse them on my node and display them for each episode.

13/ "Bitcoin Is Time" is one chapter of my upcoming book, 21 Ways. You can support me and follow along here:

https://bitcoinhackers.org/@dergigi/105545025769523663

12/ Thanks to everyone who helped with this piece: @Croesus_BTC, @FriarHass, @citizenbitcoin, @skwp, @joernroeder, @SwanBitcoin - and thanks to all my supporters. I wouldn't be able to do this without you.

11/ I hope you have enjoyed this time-centered view on Bitcoin. The next time someone asks what Bitcoin is, simply answer: "It is time."

10/ By creating a novel definition of time, Satoshi managed to solve an otherwise intractable coordination problem in our relativistic universe: agreeing on the order of things on a global scale.

9/ The difficulty adjustment makes sure that Bitcoin's time and our time stay in sync. It is the probabilistic metronome that orchestrates the intricate dance of the network.

8/ This intricate dance of coordination creates a moment in time that every node can verify for itself. It can trust, with a very high probability, that this is what actually happened in the past.

7/ Bitcoin uses SHA-256 and digital signatures as its causal building blocks and the ever-changing interactions of its peers, as well as the randomness of PoW as its source of entropy.