Zap to Zero Day 9

I am changing things up again because we should be like software, not hardware. I'll try to post these "early" in the morning now (credits to @Natalia since she mentioned doing this here). So this post today will be about my day on SN yesterday where I got rewarded for my day on SN the day before yesterday. Easy to follow, right?

As you can see, I also got the "debt collection" letter with an anxiety-inducing timer in my mail now, as @davidw nicely put it.

Also, my stacked and spent amount represent this meme:

at least as far as the number rounding in the calendar lets us see

Zaps of Yesterday

I needed to consult my wallet history for this and this is the first thing I saw:

It's like a wall of all my failed attempts to zap people because my balance was too low. The one sat invoice is especially sad, lol. But now to my daily zaps of yesterday:

• By far the best post (As Far As I Remember and according to my own personal biases): @617a7a showed up and asked stackers what needs to be done. I tried to use my social engineering knowledge to make him feel welcome. However, my own weapons might have been used against me since I immediately started to like him because he seems to be like me: he's also "heavily versed in ~crypto":

Hey, nice to meet you (over a post lol) :)

Also nice to meet you! Your replies remind me of myself a few months ago, haha

— #377835

Also heavily versed in cryptography, probably not to the extend you are however. Yes I would want E2EE DMs. I'd be interested in getting those ideas and plans around it because this sounds up my street.

— #377828

• @niftynei also announced that the Base58 Spring Classes went live. Check it out! They also offer a lot of new courses. Since I am really into bots, the Bots edition course sounds very interesting to me:

Bitcoin Builders: Bots Edition (Beta) Bitcoin bots lurk in the mempool, looking for transactions to snap up. In this four-week class, we’ll build three different bitcoin mempool sniping bots.

It sounds related to the current high onchain fee environment but I am not sure. But this brings me to the next superzap anyway ...

• @Rsync25 posted a link to a PR summary of Gloria Zhao. bitcoin/bitcoin#28408 was about limiting inscriptions via datacarriersize:

This PR updates mempool policy to restrict the amount of data that can be embedded in witnesses. Accordingly, users that configure -datacarriersize would see the limit used to restrict inscriptions as well as opreturns.

It does not implement a blanket way of identifying "arbitrary" embedded data in witnesses (as there is no way to do so). It does check OP_FALSE OP_IF ... OP_ENDIF which targets inscriptions.

I really liked reading through the summary of comments (ACKs vs NACKs). I recommend that you do this too if you didn't already. If you have time, you can also check the discussion in the PR itself.

Btw, in case you didn't know, Gloria became the maintainer of the mempool in July 2022. While searching for the PR where her keys were added to the trusted keys, I also found something completely different (as always): a blog post from her from 2019 with the title Digital Panopticon: Why Privacy is a Human Right. Sounds interesting. Bookmarked.

• @birdeye21 did some PoW again as the founder of ~earth and dropped another banger in there: When nature looks like a painting. I had something to say but I think I didn't find the right words to say it with a high enough value/words ratio (I also didn't have pictures) and then I must have forgotten about it. But I remember how touched I felt while reading these words:

In moments like these, I am reminded how much humans belong here. The earth is our home, wherever we are. And over time, it drives a deeper awareness in me of just how foreign the lifestyles we've built up in place of nature are.

Always makes me happy to see that other people have similar feelings like me about things. Makes me feel connected and that I belong here too, you know?

Just realized that post from @birdeye21 was from 4 Jan so it wasn't yesterday. I am getting really confused about which day I am writing, lol. So I'll stop here now before I get so confused that I hurt myself.

Oh no, while proofreading, I realized I posted my rewards from today and not from yesterday. See how confused I am about which day I am supposed to write? So here are the correct rewards notifications - from 2023-01-05:

Have a nice remaining day, stackers - in whatever time zone you are! :)