Join me this Wednesday at 3pm EST!
I’ll be sharing how you can get your hands on 1 of 40 paper wallets Casey @Rodarmor made in June 2022.
They contain 10,000 sats and while uninscribed they are early examples of the Ordinal Theory in action.
nitter.app/i/spaces/1mnGeRQNQqYJX
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I love being early to technology, that's part of what drove me to create the @dan_files.
There's something about an immutable timestamp that just cuts through the noise, y'know?
Here's what else I've been early on...
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You'll find 75 of the first 1000 ordinal inscriptions are on my new site: win98.dananderson.org/
Rather than upload PFPs, I rapidly created 10 small collections as part of a bigger collection I call, "The Dan Files".
It's definitely #bitcoinweird.
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After attending the first Rare AF event in New York in 2018, I went straight home and created @BitcornCrops. Yield farming before it was cool.
It was my coin that was flipped to settle who won the HOMERPEPE auction (mentioned at the start): piped.video/watch?v=vxEhzJAH…
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I really want the Counterparty community to mine for memecoins. Fairmints have a feature that will return everyone's $XCP if a meme doesn't reach critical mass, not possible with BRC-20 or Runes.
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And I co-created @RareOrdinals this month with @benchbtc and @grassfedgoat because who can sleep at a time like this?
We are exploring what's possible when you combined Counterparty and Ordinals.
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Counterparty assets in 2015. I registered over 1,000 names, seeing many potential use cases.
My first registration was PROUD, here's my entire portfolio xcpfolio.com.
I have been buying and selling domains since 2004, so these just made sense.
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So that's a bit about me. Usually I delete my tweets, except for this one that's part of @NILIcoins work.
But I figured if I want people to understand my motivation and the context for the @dan_files I would share. I have the receipts!
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Bitcoin podcasting in 2016. I hosted a show called Unconfirmed Transaction.
Including maybe one of the first podcast mentions of Rare Pepe on my Sept 16, 2016 episode.
I'm also pretty sure I said there's no second best before Saylor did.
soundcloud.com/unconfirmed-t…
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Contributing code to Counterparty in 2017-2018 and several proposed CIPs, including three letter asset names and decentralized asset ownership sales.
github.com/CounterpartyXCP/c…
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I recently came across Ordinals in October 2022, as I was tinkering with my own Bitcoin NFT project coded with Rust. Basically my vision for Counterparty.
It led me to create what I'm calling the @dan_files.
You'll find 75 of the first 1000 ordinal inscriptions are on my new site: win98.dananderson.org/
Rather than upload PFPs, I rapidly created 10 small collections as part of a bigger collection I call, "The Dan Files".
It's definitely #bitcoinweird.
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Then I went and told anyone that would listen about CryptoArt, including:
At the National Arts Club in 2018 next to John Crain of @SuperRare.
nationalartsclub.org/default…
At the first TABCONF in 2019, and at their local bitdevs meetup prior to that. tabconf.com
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And most recently at Non-NFT in Mexico City in 2022 alongside @Grandenchilada, @ilan_katin, and @stellabelle.
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Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day, at dawn look to the east $XCP
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Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day, at dawn look to the east $XCP
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It's a little bit easier to navigate than this JSON file I made to index these collections: ordinals.com/inscription/677…
(Which unfortunately contains invalid JSON forever.)
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Now that AI is fast rugging everyone while the government and billionaires role play the Titanic, I can finally focus on what’s important: being a senile NFT hoarder.
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An OP_RETURN output can’t be spent. A STAMPS output either can’t or won’t be spent, depending on the method / your commitment to the bit.
If it became very popular, there’s nothing technical preventing them from being pruned. These outputs have opted-in to being marked unspendable.
In that case, you are relying on the same guarantee as taproot witness data or op return outputs: that some nodes won’t do that.
It’s not like anyone is constructing a Stamp from the actual in-memory utxo set anyways. That’s my view.
One is harder to prune than the other, but if it became economical to do so, it would be on the table.
This is assuming the method is bare multisig outputs, but it applies to any encoding in theory so long as there is an indexing software for stamps and an expressed view that its outputs aren’t spent.
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The money is fake, the people are real. I think a debt jubilee is a decent path to maximizing freedom. Would hose a lot less people than austerity (pain over fake money) especially if we’re gonna AI huge amount of jobs (pain over fake people).
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Here are some links to things that I referenced:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
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You can see the paper wallets in question at the start of this video.
piped.video/watch?v=j5V33kV3…
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The “STAMP:” would still be the obvious part. Whatever is done, if an indexer can provide an API that a utxo is stamped or not, it’s pruneable. Because the explicit design of the protocol is that these outputs won’t be spent.
I think it’s fair to make the case that I have given that it’s not a static system and your claim is that you can’t prune these outputs. You could. But I get that it’s an important part of the narrative to be otherwise.
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No, I’m just up in the chat. I use OpenAI APIs for content generation. I like Cursor but it usually goes off the rails. I’ve started putting a script in all my projects like:
prompt.py —filter=tools —skip=vendor
That dumps the files that match the filter or all the files in folders that match into a file. And having the narrow context helps.
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Doesn’t the price chart for zcash point towards hidden inflation (on top of the inflation everyone knows about.)
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I put this in place where I worked and it was excellent. Now, I talk about it in interviews with companies and they think I'm an idiot.
"Ryan Singer (@rjs) and his Shape Up method is an incredible system that takes as input 'kludgy, clumsily scaled product org unsure about what to build and how' and delivers as output 'a focused clear thinking set of teams that has a rhythm, a method, and a purpose.”
That's how @destraynor (co-founder of @Intercom) described the impact Ryan Singer and the Shape Up method have on teams.
Ryan spent nearly two decades refining a product development approach at @37signals that helped the company build super-successful products with small teams. Based on these lessons, he wrote a book called "Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters," which describes a different way of working that an increasing number of companies are adopting.
If your team used to run smoothly but is now struggling to ship great product, this episode is for you.
In our conversation, Ryan shares:
1. A step-by-step approach to transitioning from Scrum to Shape Up by piloting the methodology with a single team before broader implementation.
2. Why traditional Agile and Scrum methods often lead teams into endless cycles of work without meaningful shipping milestones.
3. The “appetite-driven” approach to product development where teams set fixed timeboxes (usually six weeks maximum) and vary the scope instead of expanding timelines.
4. The exact process for running effective “shaping” sessions that collaboratively define projects before committing resources.
5. How to adapt Shape Up principles to your company’s unique context, even if it’s nothing like Basecamp.
6. Practical techniques for bridging the engineering-design divide by bringing technical and product perspectives together earlier in the process.
7. The powerful “breadboarding” and “fat marker sketching” techniques that help teams align on solutions without getting lost in high-fidelity details.
8. The clear warning signs that your current development process is failing before it’s too late to change course.
9. Proven strategies to implement Shape Up methods, whether you’re working in a startup or enterprise environment.
10. Why the PM role shifts upstream in Shape Up, focusing more on problem definition than project management.
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I think it’s enough to be on Bitcoin. And if you are building on Bitcoin you should try to use it in a manner that’s not basically, needlessly harmful.
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I have advanced misinformation cloaking technology that leaves you with the impression that you’ve been learnt sumtin.
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I’m shilling Counterparty dawg, duh. Aside from Namecoin being not Bitcoin, I would hold in high respect any Namecoin NFT that was registered and has never expired because it was continuously renewed. Which ones fit that criteria?
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d/bluenose is tight though. It’s like symbolics.com.
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I appreciate the appeal to authority, if you want to be Mr. Debater. Stamps can be pruned by nodes that want to prune them. They just need to query a stamp indexer. SRC-20 has bare multisig pub keys in its protocol you could filter. It’s just really not that interesting a claim.
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They are as old as the date they were re-registered at. Just like how expired domain names work, since this is a protocol mimicking domain names. Counterparty has a lot of baggage from trying to be a stock market. It is what it is.
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The tailwind docs getting rid of m-2, m-3, m-4, etc and replacing it with m-{number} feels like a big downgrade. @adamwathan
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