Trying an alternative to Alby. Doing…

crrdlx — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 20:51:26 GMT

Trying an alternative to Alby. Doing this: (1) nos2x extension to sign #nostr events. (2) coinos.io to accept zaps (hopefully it works) and small #lightning sats. So far, I'm impressed with Coinos.io - how simple and clean the interface is.

Well this is new (to me…

crrdlx — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 12:32:55 GMT

Well this is new (to me at least) and cool: #bitcoin #lightning prediction market. https://www.bitcoinprediction.info/
#plebchain

I've got to figure out…

crrdlx — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 13:25:36 GMT

I've got to figure out my #bitcoin #lightning plan now that Mutiny is shutting down. Started researching wallets, but it's a lot of info and variables. I'd say my bitcoin-IQ is at the 6/10 level, on a good day. Open for wallet suggestions.

Got some helpful feedback from Stacker News at https://stacker.news/items/651096 but figured I'd also #asknostr

Let's throw Throwback Thursday back…

crrdlx — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 01:27:33 GMT

Let's throw Throwback Thursday back to Wednesday.

Recently, I was in a public school sitting and waiting. Whilst waiting, my eyes meandered sideways and saw a bitcoin-orange book laying there titled "research colleges on the world wide web." Okay, I'm intrigued. Is my favorite college listed there in the world wide web research book?

I thumbed it open a few pages and immediately got flashbacked backed to the 1990s via a screenshot of Netscape Navigator.

Why this book was laying there, on a desk in 2023...well...I have no explanation.

"researching colleges on the world wide web" book cover.

Copyright page.

"How old was this thing?" I wondered. I checked the publication year: 1997 with images from 1996. I thought to myself, "This is going to be classic!" and turned to the first page of text, below:

Evidently, in 1997, the World Wide Web (capitalized) "brings together all the material available on the Internet--graphics, sound moving images, and text--on one "page" or Web document." Holy smokes! Why can't we have all of the Internet on one page today?!!!

The next page or two had images of Netscape Navigator and I chuckled at the naked simplicity of the UI (which I deeply respect). So sweet were the days, so naive and innocent was the Eden of the nascent Internet.

Then things started to get a little weird...

I started to read the text that was screen-captured in the Netscape Navigator image. It was a brief history of the Internet (an Internet history written in 1996, nice). The two sentences highlighted below succinctly described the problem with centralized systems with a single point of failure versus a decentralized, rather, a distributed, system which had no single point of failure. Umm, wow. Sure this was written in 1996 or 97?

If one point in the network was blown up, the whole network would become useless. Paul Baran, one of the Rand thinkers on the project, conceived the idea for a new kind of communications network, one that wasn't organized point-to-point, but instead was set up more like a fishnet.

Still half chuckling on the next page, I guffawed at the arrows pointing out things like "Back button" pointing the button labeled "Back" and "Forward button" pointing to the button labeled "Forward button" and "Location bar" pointing...well...you get it.

Yet again, I paused to read what was frozen in the screenshot.

Zoomed in:

Netscape will bundle Cybercash's CyberCoin into Netscape LivePayment and future Netscape products. The new technology will broaden payment options for Internet consumers.

Wow. That sounds a lot like bitcoin and cryptocurrency to me. And that was written over 20 years before Satoshi dropped the whitepaper. I'm sure it didn't work anything like bitcoin, and I'm sure it must have been built on the rails of legacy finance, but, wow.

CyberCash was new to me, so I looked it up...CyberCash on CNET: https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/cybercash-opens-net-to-small-change/ It was trying to handle small payments, down to 25 cents, over the 'net. Bitcoin Lightning fans would be proud.

I can't help but wonder, "Why was that book there after all this time?" I still don't know. But, a word does come to mind and I'm eager to find out more to this story...

Serendipity.

#bitcoin #lightning #plebchain

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