This was recorded last week at Bitcoin Park during the monthly Mining Monday Meetup. There are a couple exciting announcements:
1) The 256 Foundation has a new supporter, Heatbit. Check out their Bitcoin mining heaters at https://heatbit.com/
2) The 256 Foundation officially launched the first grant project, an open source ~100W hashboard led by the one & only, nostr:nprofile1qqsq04ppqc5dzfk5p86fg08xu2stpnnhtzfu6fh9vv0vgp43qg8jvucpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsxraysd
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Ben's recent Asgigaru tutorial is un-searchable on YouTube.
Here is the link to the video someone doesn't want you to see: https://youtu.be/ULZoPMCYPfk
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Had a great time at HRF's Global Bitcoin Summit this week. Looking forward to making Bitcoin mining free & open with these two legends nostr:nprofile1qqsq04ppqc5dzfk5p86fg08xu2stpnnhtzfu6fh9vv0vgp43qg8jvucpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsxraysd nostr:nprofile1qqsw4eldlh9hnu3327s6lyv5j4ryujd2w63zukjkvu2g72tvzkz6s7gpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqz9mhwden5te0dehhxarj9enx6apwwa5h5tnzd9aqvhsv6z https://image.nostr.build/5bb3017f293f1b201912c4648457fad1eb0cf25978546cd4ca9d59c503d8c218.jpg
From what I understand, archives people had made up to and including SW's last release before the arrests, 0.99.98ii; since the SW servers including their Gitlab were seized. Laurant has been working to compare Ashigaru to SW v 0.99.98ii, which I think explains a lot but there is still more work to do.
https://gist.github.com/LaurentMT/891bc518bc94cc549e6af25647d66a4d
Since you can't name any specifically I'll assume you're referring to whiny complaints that were hurled at the devs on Twitter from people who didn't even use the wallet.
Jam Wallet: "International transfers such as SWIFT & SEPA". Sound like a real promising contender in the fight for privacy 🙃
Mainly that SW is currently not being maintained and the Whirlpool requests have no where to go since the servers were all seized. Ashigaru is being actively maintained and the Whirlpool functions have been taken out of the wallet for the time being. Ashigaru pairs with RoninDojo the same way SW does.
So instead of helping manually rebuild the missing library codebase your move is to prance around Nostr laughing? The archive missed the library's repo & the servers were seized; not an ideal situation for anyone. Yet, some devs have put their own lives at risk to work with what they have & rebuild this project, and this is what you have to contribute?
1) Ashigaru is released under GNU GPL v3; what's is this "non fully free non fully Foss" nonsense?
2) Can only speak for myself: because it takes time to understand the issue and articulate a response.
3) "Omitting this fact" is a strange way to frame it considering you had prior knowledge no one else seems to have known; with the exception of maybe the devs themselves. Up until a few days ago, I had never heard of bitcoinj-core so don't act like I made a deliberate decision not to mention it in my OP. What "hiding & censoring"? That's a ridiculous claim.
GM miners are going to have free & open-source hash boards, control boards, & firmware; complete and fully customizable mining systems that out-perform Bitmain products.
Big announcement this week, HRF has thrown their support behind The 256 Foundation's mission to make Bitcoin mining free & open.
Hear all about it and more with our special guest Skot9000 on our first episode recorded in front of a live audience.
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Tomorrow marks the beginning of the end for the DOJ's campaign against privacy & open-source devs.
All the best to the Samourai Wallet team. Kick the tires and light the fires, guys 👊
Support their legal defense fund: https://p2prights.org/donate.html
Monday Mining Meetup #1 tonight, 9/16 doors open at 16:30, runs until 19:00. nostr:nprofile1qqsqhk42dz0exfcsln4yqmdkjys0nvd7dqndgacpsa7w7pt7njq2uuspr3mhxue69uhkzem9de6x7unpdenk2tnwdaehgu339e3k7mgpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwdhx7un59eek7cmfv9kqrlrq7s episode #56 will be recorded in front of a live audience with special guest nostr:nprofile1qqsq04ppqc5dzfk5p86fg08xu2stpnnhtzfu6fh9vv0vgp43qg8jvucpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsxraysd
Join us for special 256 Foundation announcements, Socratic style QnA, food/drinks, & more.
https://www.meetup.com/bitcoinpark/events/302996672/?eventOrigin=group_events_list
Sender & receiver generate addressess derived from their unique cryptographic connection, so they can see those addresses but not the addresses between the receiver and a different sender.
Give this nostr:nprofile1qqs2vrneurk665gq6a2rke572y7mc8ppwr5wnd60mw8fwxharc8xsycpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0j9cycq article a read to learn more:
https://bitcoiner.guide/paynym/
False equivalence, asinine assessment. The user could have just spent from their post-mix wallet but instead re-used addresses from their pre-mix wallet and consolidated. The user had to deliberately choose to do this by fetching pre-mix wallet addresses and manually paste them to the post-mix wallet.
Comparing intentional and deliberately retarded user behavior to Wasabi which has symmetric address re-use (same address on the input & output sides of the mix) as well as systemic address re-use (mix outputs sent to previously used change addresses) without any unexpected user behavior triggering the failure demonstrates your continued efforts to misguide and confuse people. You're deplorable and I encourage you to do the world a favor and delete your podcast.
As I mentioned, there is a non-zero chance Wasabi's systemic address re-use vulnerability will send a mixed output to a previously used change address, that's one reason choosing Wasabi would have been a poor choice. Another is that there is also a non-zero chance that Wasabi's symmetric address reuse vulnerability will include the same address on both the input & output sides of the mix. Additionally, fees paid to Wasabi helped support chain analysis companies; utxos are ground to dust if left to CoinJoin for too long; and now that ZKsnacks' coordinator liquidity has been broken up among several new coordinators, users can enjoy dancing with themselves in shallow liquidity pools that offer no practical anonymity benefits.
Further more, the existence of doxxic change makes no difference when a user is intentionally sending all their outputs to their pre-mix wallet (of all places) and then consolidating them. To even achieve what you've demonstrated the user would have to put in considerable effort to make such a mess of things.
Your example is one of intentionally destructive user behavior and this entire exercise has demonstrated that you are purposefully attempting to misguide people and/or you have little to no grasp on the subject. Despite your inability to identify that example as a blatantly obvious and intentional maneuver to consolidate outputs, you chose to confidently use it as an example to equate the vulnerabilities in one wallet with the deliberate choices made by the user in another wallet. The fact that you have been engaging in tactics such as this for years is disturbing and the fact that you continue to do so after the Samourai Wallet coordinator has been shut down is deranged.
If you could then you would have but you can't because you're out of your depth. None of your examples are the result of address re-use in the CoinJoin. Unlike Wasabi's systemic & symmetric address re-use vulnerabilities which both occur in the CoinJoin transaction.
To clarify further: in your first example above, the coordinator fee is provided during the tx0 transaction while the wallet is setting up for and prior to the CoinJoin transaction. Tx0 transactions have obvious on-chain fingerprints and I fail to see how identifying the address used by the coordinator to collect the fee has any bearing on the anonymity of the user.
In your second example, the re-used address was also re-used in a Wasabi CoinJoin tx so that doesn't help your case but more importantly, when it was re-used by Samourai, it was in the tx0 - not the CoinJoin transaction. Additionally, based on the comments in that thread, the wallet was imported to Samourai and admittedly wasn't fully synced.
Finally in your third example and like the others, this was not a case of address re-use in the CoinJoin transaction (unlike Wasabi) but rather limited occurrences of address re-use in post-mix spending tools like Stowaway, Stonewall, & Stonewallx2. As explained in Samourai Wallet's write up of their investigation into the reported issue: not nearly as many addresses were effected as originally claimed and for good measure Samourai Wallet introduced Strict Mode after this report to mitigate unintentional address re-use by the users when transacting with post-mix spending tools.
Despite your efforts to equate Wasabi's address re-use vulnerabilities to Samourai Wallet, you have come up short yet again.
First of all, you have failed to demonstrate any Samourai Wallet "address reuse bugs" that can be equivalently compared to the systemic & symmetric address re-use vulnerabilities in Wasabi although you claimed them to be equivalent on Vlad's podcast. Second, I do not claim to be "aware of all", I have merely responded to your shitty and misleading examples.
Doxxic change in Samourai Wallet is not part of the CoinJoin tx, it comes from the setup tx (tx0) and is separated afterwards, never entering a CoinJoin round.
As for Ergo's tweet, when he says "unmixed" change, he's talking about change that comes out of a Wasabi CoinJoin tx, change that doesn't match the mixed like-amount outputs. These change outputs are far from untraceable and have been the downfall of many users. Take for example, this video where Samourai Wallet demonstrates how easy it is to unwind a Wasabi CoinJoin transaction featuring a systemic case of address re-use. Take special note of the keywords "unmixed change" in the video's caption, which sates: "The 25 BTC unmixed change went to the same address as a 0.401 BTC mixed output. User didn't do this address reuse, the client did."
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=alcLdBsoDDg
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23 years ago today, the CIA orchestrated 9/11 under the guise of a large-scale coordinated terrorist attack. This false-flag event was then used as justification to expand domestic government overreach resulting in:
• widespread invasive surveillance of all communication platforms
• heightened restrictions on access to and use of financial services
• and among many other abuses of power, expanded federal authority over many things like what songs could be played on the radio to how many ounces of peanut butter one is allowed to carry on an airplane.
Not to mention the international implications from the resulting Global War on Terrorism but I digress.
If you're old enough to remember the way life was prior to 9/11 then I think you will agree that the world you were born into no longer exists. The systematic erosion of basic human rights has radically changed the way humans think, act, & communicate.
On this day, I think it is important to remember what life was like in a world before invasive government surveillance, crippling financial restrictions, & hypnotizing fear campaigns. I think it is important to highlight tools like Bitcoin, e2ee comms, & Nostr. They are especially fascinating to me specifically because they are anchored to the free world I came from where my financial transactions were my business and no one else's, where my communications were private, and where I could express my ideas without looming consequences.
If you're reading this then you are already clearly on the path and I encourage you to continue pushing forward and fighting for your freedoms, it is worth all the effort.
She has a point about the chips, the majority of Bitcoin mining infrastructure is proprietary and closed source; which is exactly why nostr:nprofile1qqsw4eldlh9hnu3327s6lyv5j4ryujd2w63zukjkvu2g72tvzkz6s7gpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqz9mhwden5te0dehhxarj9enx6apwwa5h5tnzd9aqvhsv6z & I co-found The 256 Foundation with the goal of making Bitcoin mining free & open.
As far as Bitcoin becoming a thing that's just held and not peer to peer electronic cash, yeah what she describes seems reasonably within reach of a psychotic power-hungry cartel IF that's what they're trying to accomplish. I don't know if Bitcoin is really the tool they've been waiting for to execute such a nefarious scheme though. Seems to me like they have complete control over the existing financial system and they could accomplish a similar outcome without Bitcoin 🤷
I will say however, that the NgU narrative has arguably been the most dangerous meme in the Bitcoin ecosystem and fuck faces like Saylor have been a net-negative. I've said it before and continue to believe that Bitcoin is just software, a tool that can be used for freedom or a tool wielded for tyranny. The ideas that Bitcoin has already won or that the Trojan horse hypothesis will just magically make the State's monopoly on violence go poof are intellectually lazy and will prove to be the catalyst for making Bitcoin the greatest revolution that never happened.
Fuck this dystopia.
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