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@quest

Joined 21 November 2019 · 448 posts

I like terminal prompts.

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I have to say, https://tangoswap.cash is pretty damn nice. Congrats to the Bitcoin Cash Argentina and KTH devs that built it! Love to see the space expanding!

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Tonight's sunset. Just a tiny sun, but still beautiful.

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So I know a lot of people here are trying to get their first full BCH! I am curious, when you hit your goal, what are you planning on doing with it? What about crypto helps make your life better? What are your goals for the future?

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Amazon Ion - A richly-typed, self-describing, hierarchical data serialization format offering interchangeable binary and text representations. Neat they made all the code open source. I wonder if it will catch on. https://amzn.github.io/ion-docs/

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It is important to be informed about COVID. Unfortunately trusting mass media and government information has not proven reliable. Here is a site with great videos from doctors all over the world. They are recommending vaccines for those at high risk, but are against giving the vaccine to kids or those who have natural immunity! https://globalcovidsummit.org/

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Over the past two weeks I tried something unthinkable, I went back to Firefox on my desktop and phone! TLDR -> Went to Firefox full time and ditched Chrome/Chromium/Brave. A long time ago, before Chrome existed, I used Firefox (and before that many others). However, WebKit changed everything. The original Chrome was so much nicer than Firefox, users left in droves. The truth is, the experience was faster, the browser felt more responsive, and Firefox/IE was an afterthought for many. However, over time Google as a company changed. Their ethos changed. They no longer wish to "Do no evil". I didn't feel comfortable syncing all my passwords and data with Google. So I looked at Chromium. Chromium was okay, when it worked (99%). Unfortunately some DRM content wouldn't play for mysterious reasons, and I would always have to keep Chrome configured as a backup because I would want my favorites and extensions around. So much for getting rid of Chrome... At least I was using it less. Then I transitioned to Brave, I had high hopes, they wanted to bring in some key extension functionality and have better implementations of IPFS, an integrated crypto wallet, and even paid me for my time through BAT rewards. It had a good development team that understood the web. This was the answer, or so I thought. Well Brave didn't deliver on its promises. - The Crypto Wallet in Brave is not very nice. The UI is significantly worse than MetaMask. Most brave users turn it off and still load MetaMask. - The IPFS features have subtle bugs, compared to using the IPFS companion extension by itself. Again I had to turn it off. - Getting paid for ads, sounds great at first. Then you get way to many notifications. Plus the payouts are absolutely tiny, then you need KYC to even get the rewards! There is entirely too much friction. Plus the Brave Rewards icon would regularly show incorrect verification status. Well, I was living with all those problems, and didn't switch. The fatal blow was the Solana announcement. When Brave announced their deal with Solana, stating it would be the default DeFi platform for the browser, I looked at the bugs above, and was in disbelief that they would add yet another giant feature, for a network that is quite new, over fixing the issues they already had... Their priorities didn't match mine. So it was time to re-evaluate. Enter Firefox. I was told it had improved greatly, plus have been following its progress for decades. It was missing a few key things, so I installed: - LastPass - MetaMask. - IPFS Companion - Privacy Badger - WebRTC Disable I setup Firefox sync, went through the settings. Things improved a lot since I left. The UI was greatly improved. Speed was on par with WebKit based browsers, and I saw no compatibility issues with websites I visit. Mobile Firefox used to be a disaster. Actually terrible, and again, I was amazed at their progress. The phone browser feels fast and responsive. Firefox sync worked as expected. It has all the features I had before, and I am happy to finally be out of the Chrome browser universe. To those that read this far. Thanks!

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New EatBCH flipstarter is now up! Let's show our support and help out a lot of families this coming holiday. Things have been really hard for people all over the globe, now is the time to give a little back. The work EatBCH has done over the past few years speaks for itself. Lets keep one of the oldest projects in BCH well funded to help those in need! https://flipstarter2.eatbch.org/

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Been here a long time. Sad to see the economics here change so drastically. Engagement seems way down, at least for my friends.

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Seems like even when I post interesting/unique content I still don't get tips anymore. Guess it isn't worth it to only post here now, might as well cross post on Twitter if there is no incentive. Need to post to the largest audience possible.

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I have a new favorite laptop, the Framework Laptop! https://frame.work/ So, what makes it special? - Runs Arch Linux or any other Linux distro perfectly. - Excellent battery life. - The most repairable/upgradeable laptop ever built! 10/10 iFixit score (https://www.ifixit.com/News/51614/framework-laptop-teardown-10-10-but-is-it-perfect). - Huge assortment of build options, with up to 64GB RAM and 4TB storage! - Aftermarket parts are coming soon to the Framework marketplace (https://frame.work/blog/announcing-the-framework-marketplace). If you are in the market for a new small laptop, this might be the one you want. =)

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Is it me or has noise seemed less active lately? I am seeing far less activity on my posts, perhaps I am just boring?

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I have always loved The Tao of Pooh and The Te of Piglet. I never realized there was so much controversy over Penguin Publishing. Sounds like they treated the author extremely poorly. I can't wait until people are just paying content creators directly in crypto, a much better way. https://www.benjaminhoffauthor.com/

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Today I got to meet a bunch of folks from Club1BCH and they were super friendly! I love seeing people all over the globe come together for financial sovereignty. I wish the best to all of you. =)

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A new release of smartBCH juts became available, if you are running a smartBCH node, it is time to upgrade! https://github.com/smartbch/smartbch/releases/tag/v0.3.4 The new version includes some important bug fixes! - Fixed eth_getBlockByNumber, so lookups of block 0 work correctly. - Fixed eth_gasPrice, so it provides an estimate instead of returning 0. - Fixed transaction's V,R,S (issue#25) which fixes issues faced by DEX teams. if you are using https://smartbch.greyh.at in MetaMask you are already connecting to an upgraded node! No need to do anything. =) Progress!

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Just had an earthquake here in Hawaii. My whole house shook for about a minute. Went online and it was a 6.1 magnitude. Checked with friends and it seems everyone is ok. Can be a little scary living on a volcanic island on the Pacific. ;)

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I am slowly building up a #bitcoincash channel on https://libera.chat/. I have been using IRC for decades and I would rather be chatting in irssi than all these web based chat clients. If you like the old school terminal way join us. To motivate people to join, I will be giving away the occasional Poolside Puffer to folks that want to play around with smartBCH NFTs!

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CryptoSorted just reviewed Noise.cash and it was super positive. In fact, they are recommending Noise.cash as the best way for people to easily earn crypto! Congrats Noise team, and thanks for building an awesome environment for everyone! https://cryptosorted.info/earn-crypto/

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People may have walked along the shore of a lake in New Mexico 23,000 years ago... "Footprints left behind in layers of clay and silt at New Mexico’s White Sands National Park may be between 23,000 and 21,000 years old. That’s based on radiocarbon dating of the remains of grass seeds buried in the layers of sediment above and below the tracks. If the dates are correct, the tracks are evidence that people walked beside the now-dry Lake Otero during the height of the last ice age, when kilometers of ice covered the northern half of the continent. And that would mean that people must have arrived in North America—and made their way to an area well south of the ice—before the ice sheets expanded enough to close off the route." https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/23000-year-old-footprints-suggest-people-reached-the-americas-early/