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fiatjaf
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- 279 from 12 Nov 2006 to 28 Jun 2026
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2026 2
2025 10
- The only solution to Nostr spam
- Nostr: a quick introduction, attempt #3
- Visual depiction of the architecture of 3 different decentralized social networking protocols
- The end of NIPs
- How can web apps be independent protocol clients?
- Nostr is pro-censorship
- Keys are meaningless
- Redistributing Git with Nostr
- P2Panda and the super-peer curse
- `document.characterSet` and another meaningless example of flexibility destroying protocols
2024 10
- The case against edits
- `kind:1` maximalism and the future of other stuff and Nostr decentralization
- Nostr: a quick introduction, attempt #2
- Why relay hints are important
- How to do curation and businesses on Nostr
- About Nostr, email and subscriptions
- Censorship-resistant relay discovery in Nostr
- Nostr is not decentralized nor censorship-resistant
- a way to do an open and permissionless mesh network
- Nostr: a quick introduction, attempt #1
2023 20
- Just malinvestiment
- GraphQL vs REST
- Rust's `.into()` is a strictly bad thing
- The place of Drivechain in Bitcoin's future
- Soft-forks on Bitcoin
- ZBD Social
- A violência é uma forma de comunicação
- A response to Achim Warner's "Drivechain brings politics to miners" article
- Things a coalition of evil miners can do on Bitcoin
- The "Drivechain will replace altcoins" argument
- Reasons why Lightning is not that great
- Criteria for activating Drivechain on Bitcoin
- Reasons for miners to not steal
- Bluesky is a scam
- Using Spacechains and Fedimint to solve scaling
- Thoughts on Nostr key management
- Why I don't like NIP-26 as a solution for key management
- How being "flexible" can bloat a protocol
- Setting up a handler for `nostr:` links on your Desktop, even if you don't use a native client
- A vision for content discovery and relay usage for basic social-networking in Nostr
2022 21
- The problem with ION
- The problem with DIDs
- What is better than bounties and grants?
- On Bitcoin Bounties
- Hosted Channels vs Fedimint
- A flexibilidade da doutrina socialista
- Sol e Terra
- A prediction market as a distributed set of oracle federations
- Truthcoin as a spacechain
- The flaw of "just use paypal/coinbase" arguments
- The illusion of note-taking
- Excerpt of discussion about DIDs and ION
- Formula for making games with satoshis
- Buying versus donating
- A Lightning penalty transaction
- Doing automatic payouts to users on the Lightning Network
- Scala is such a great language
- `OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY` and the "covenants" drama
- How to fight a war without a State
- Bitcoin is not inherently volatile
- A list of things artificial intelligence is not doing
2021 11
- bolt12 problems
- A big Ethereum problem that is fixed by Drivechain
- Bitcoin Hivemind
- On HTLCs and arbiters
- Why IPFS cannot work, again
- Lightning and its fake HTLCs
- Replacing the web with something saner
- Carl R. Rogers sobre a ciência
- On the state of programs and browsers
- Blockchains are not decentralized data storage
- How to attack Bitcoin, Anthony Towns' take
2020 79
- Bolo
- The P2SH Wars
- Gŕecia Antiga e homosexualismo cultural
- 555f2e5e
- nostr - Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays
- Que vença o melhor
- Como não houve resposta, estou enviando de novo
- lnurl-auth explained
- Libertarianism, left and right, a worthless thought
- A "política" é a arena da vitória do estatismo
- Parallel Chains
- The Lightning Network solves the problem of the decentralized commit
- Donations on the internet
- Ripple and the problem of the decentralized commit
- UBI calculations
- Thomas Kuhn sequer menciona o "método científico"
- idea: Rumple
- Ryan Fugger's Ripple
- A estrutura paradigmática da ciência
- 3385b597
- Liberalismo oitocentista
- Democracia na América
- A biblioteca infinita
- Reclamações
- Pequenos problemas que o Estado cria para a sociedade e que não são sempre lembrados
- Soft-fork activation through `bitcoind` competition
- `bitcoind` decentralization
- Anglicismos estúpidos no português contemporâneo
- Família e propriedade
- idea: a website for feedback exchange
- idea: Custom multi-use database app
- Etleneum
- Software
- Ethereum
- On "zk-rollups" applied to Bitcoin
- Memórias de quando eu aprendi a ler
- idea: An open log-based HTTP database for any use case
- Conjecture and criticism
- O VAR é o grande equalizador
- Programming quibbles
- A chatura Kelsen
- Per Bylund's insight
- Multi-service Graph Reputation protocol
- idea: Graph subjective reputation as a service
- idea: Patreon, but simple, and without subscription
- idea: Link sharing incentivized by satoshis
- idea: Hosted-channels Lightning wallet that runs in the browser
- idea: "numbeo" with satoshis
- Money Supply Measurement
- Reisman on opportunity cost
- Profits, not wages, as the originary factor
- Economics
- Drivechain
- Mises' interest rate theory
- Precautionary Principle
- Rede Relâmpago
- Drivechain comparison with Ethereum
- Alternatives to Drivechain
- A estrutura lógica do livro didático
- Revista Educativa
- Bitcoin
- 055c1420
- Zettelkasten
- localchat
- A crappy zk-rollups explanation attempt
- A crappy course on torrents
- A Canção do Cavaleiro Bolsonaro
- idea: Per-paragraph paywalls
- Democracy as a failed open-network protocol
- The illusion of checks and balances
- neuron.vim
- P2P reputation thing
- As valas comuns de Manaus
- Um algoritmo imbecil da evolução
- lnchannels
- An argument according to which fractional-reserve banking is merely theft and nothing else
- How IPFS is broken
- E03d51f2
- trustedcoin
2019 29
- Maybe a new approach to the Austrian Business Cycle Theory, some disorganized thoughts
- 6cd4aa42
- Lightning channels without HTLCs
- Ffdfe772
- Bitcoin, not you
- Cultura Inglesa e aprendizado extra-escolar
- Músicas grudentas e conversas
- Obra aqui do lado
- Não tem solução
- "House" dos economistas e o Estado
- A memória está nas coisas
- idea: clarity.fm on Lightning
- Bitcoin transactions explained
- O Bitcoin como um sistema social humano
- Comprimido desodorante
- Channels without HTLCs
- A podridão
- IPFS problems: General confusion
- My personal experience (as a complete ignorant) of the blocksize debate in 2017
- Liquidificador
- "Você só aprendeu mesmo uma coisa quando consegue explicar para os outros"
- IPFS problems: Community
- IPFS problems: Inefficiency
- IPFS problems: Dynamic links
- IPFS problems: Shitcoinery
- IPFS problems: Pinning
- IPFS problems: Conceit
- IPFS problems: Too much immutability
- @lntxbot
2018 23
- litepub
- howoldis
- gravity
- Ff0d669f
- Haskell Monoids
- O que é Bitcoin?
- Propaganda
- superform.xyz
- Firefox in comparison with Chrome as of 2018
- Ver Jesus com os olhos da carne
- fieldbook-to-sql
- Cadeias, crimes e cidadãos de bem
- sitios.xyz
- Castas hindus em nova chave
- LessPass remoteStorage
- TiddlyWiki remoteStorage
- Aa7ede17
- jq-finder
- jiq-web
- Jethro Tull, uma breve história
- Google, Uber e ostracismo
- hledger-web
- Token-Curated Registries
2017 17
- Who will build the roads?
- IPFS-dropzone
- Filemap
- My stupid introduction to Haskell
- O mito do objetivo
- Músicas que você já conhece
- Músicas novas e conhecidas
- Personagens de jogos e símbolos
- Agentes racionais
- A entrevista da Flávia Tavares com o Olavo de Carvalho
- trackingco.de
- 9ad256d3
- 10b00e50
- Sistemas legais anárquicos
- notes on "Economic Action Beyond the Extent of the Market", Per Bylund
- Como conversar com esquerdistas
- Gold is not useless
2016 17
- The unit test bubble
- A memória humana e as databases
- Batch for Trello
- Idéia de um sistema jurídico centralizado, mas com um pouco de lógica
- busca múltipla na estante virtual
- hyperscript-go
- SummaDB
- Flowi.es
- D9b0f723
- About CouchDB
- Método científico
- 012db3c3
- requesthub.xyz
- Boardthreads
- Module Linker
- D2fc98ec
- Splitpages
2015 18
- my personal approach on using `let`, `const` and `var` in javascript
- There's a problem with using Git concepts for everything
- Thafne venceu o Soletrando 2008.
- Sócrates homofóbico
- Trello Attachment Editor
- E87f1499
- Empreendendorismo de boteco
- Websites For Trello
- The monolithic approach to CouchDB views
- O Planetinha
- WelcomeBot
- Veterano não é dono de bixete
- Temperos
- Lagoa Santa: como chegar -- partindo da rodoviária de Belo Horizonte
- jekmentions
- Classless Templates
- Gerador de tabelas de todos contra todos
- Uma boa margem