"Bad podcast: Someone who knows no more than me about the subject."
- but couldn't it be the case that you get a new perspective on a topic, even if the person knows no more than you do? 🤔


even more than before because soon 450 million people in the EU alone will no longer have private communications 🫡


Corporate wants you to find the differences between OpenAI and NSA
https://m.primal.net/IkaA.jpg


🇩🇪🚨 EU-Rat will nächste Woche über #Chatkontrolle abstimmen! 🚨
Lasst sie das jetzt nicht still und heimlich nach der #Europawahl durchdrücken. Schlagt Alarm und kontaktiert die Vertreter eurer Regierung. Wie das geht, beschreibe ich auf chatkontrolle.de:
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/rat-soll-chatkontrolle-durchwinken-werde-jetzt-aktiv/

https://digitalcourage.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/609/918/299/545/113/original/451d213611408030.png


Normalize anons. Reboot your identity. Delete your accounts. Start from scratch. You'll find your friends again, don't worry about that. The freedom and the privacy you'll gain is with everyone else.


"if true" 😅


Indeed https://m.primal.net/IiwU.png


Inflation is a good teacher https://m.primal.net/IiwB.png


☀ https://m.primal.net/Ihhb.jpg


Another relay added to the list of TOR relays! The list counts 14 TOR onion service relays now 🧅 🤙

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🍔   https://m.primal.net/IhBY.png


as convenient as apples "private cloud computing" or microsofts "recall" function... 🐏


"private cloud computing" 😅


they let you turn it off first and after a while, it will me mandatory. don´t kid yourself. Microsoft will do the same with Recall.


Wikifreedia 0.0.8 has been released:

DIFF!

This version gives more tools to manage merge requests:
* feed of incoming merge requests
* diff tool to find exactly what has changed

cc nostr:npub1m4ny6hjqzepn4rxknuq94c2gpqzr29ufkkw7ttcxyak7v43n6vvsajc2jl

nostr:nevent1qgs04xzt6ldm9qhs0ctw0t58kf4z57umjzmjg6jywu0seadwtqqc75spzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcqyrjlwss0fvh6gnz0e2a4z0z6n35dl9het3yhkywejpwg3racxylgvs963p3


nobody will wear a helmet for hours


At the moment they go for gold ...
Maybe we will see a different picture in  ≈2030 https://m.primal.net/IgXK.png


CPI is a lie  https://m.primal.net/IgXD.jpg


Wasabi Wallet v2.0.8.1: Safeguards for Coinjoin Fees

- "Wasabi Wallet v2.0.8.1 adds additional safeguards for coinjoin fees. Clients can now set their own fee policies to avoid participating in coinjoin rounds that cost more than expected."

- "These changes lay the groundwork to further minimize trust in coordinators. Additional efforts have yet to be implemented, but with default values, this update ensures coordinators can’t trick clients into fund extraction by manipulating parameters or lying about free remixes."

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/wasabi-wallet-v2-0-8-1/


the land of the good food 🍕 🍝 🇮🇹


💡  https://m.primal.net/Iflf.png


Why? We can just use Coinbase!💩


Of course, some players will already be committing fraud, which will only increase over time.


There are always many things you can do with your time, but implementing silent payments (https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0352.mediawiki) for Core Lightning is rising in my to-do list.

Unfortunately, we are all PSBT internally, so we need support so we can receive, which the authors argue (sensibly) should be the first priority for wallets. There's a delving post on this, so I did my bit by annoying Ava Chow into looking at it. We can probably hack in some experimental thing if we need for now, but proper support on libwally would smooth the path for Blockstream Green in future, which frankly is a much bigger win than CLN support.

Looking forward to the day when they're not "silent payment addresses" but simply "Bitcoin addresses".


🫡

TIL: Rusty is on Nostr


How has Bitcoin´s code evolved? https://m.primal.net/IIqm.jpg


Now that, at the request of regulators, coordinators are no longer by trusted companies, it'll be an interesting cat and mouse game in which apps become more vigilant on behalf of their users. nostr:note1qqq8e37huxjz7et4mx65xceh6u50hexj7wc56xxn4dp98h44fgsqqk0ynm


and now we can imagine how the other decisions are made at this company...


That's exactly how it is! After months of Rubin aggressively trying to push his fork, one day (after much thought) he came up with another idea! Namely that his first thought was not the right one and that no change to Bitcoin was needed!

Maybe it's due to his youth or lack of experience - or both - but this behaviour has been seen time and again from some developers over the last 15 years.

Too fast, too impatient and too superficial.

Fortunately, Bitcoin can fend off these "improvements".


it would also help amputees not to walk on the stumps


I hope this fraud will end in jail


I would disagree: Real estate has the superpower of being able to move enormous amounts of borrowed capital. However, like all investments, you have to understand how it works.


I see your point.

If it were the case that miners can activate soft forks from which they mainly benefit but are against the majority of the other players in the network, why haven't miners been doing this for a long time?


Kinda weird that the same people who laugh in your face for abusing witness data to jam clownfart.jpg in the blockchain for eternity are trying to convince us the opcode they want activated will have no ill effects.


Miners only have the task of organising the blocks. If miners use software that violates the rules of the network, a fork is created. Miners cannot run any other software otherwise they are no longer part of Bitcoin.
Also, there are miners who will not follow this and make a lot of money from it.


"After this policy has a chance to be further discussed, it is the intention of the project to begin disclosing vulnerabilities affecting Bitcoin Core 24.x and below. It is strongly recommended that all users and administrators upgrade to Bitcoin Core 25.0 or above within the next two weeks." https://m.primal.net/IcBy.png


just as the segwit 2x attackers were also stopped


this is the best sign that this patch will not be integrated - fortunately


Here’s to the Freedom Fighters.

Remembering the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989, and all those who daily fight for freedom, human rights, and democracy around the world and advocate for freedom tech, like #Bitcoin ✊

https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliviaenos/2024/06/04/remembering-tiananmen-35-years-later/?sh=2dd2e99b6e7f


The effect of a simple walk in nature is underestimated 🌾 🚶♂


GPT is very good at some things but really subterranean at others: GPT can't correct spelling or give examples of companies that offer a particular product. Worse still, there are answers to everything that are 100% wrong!


If we are revisiting the history of Coinbase💩
and Bitcoin, here is an archive of https://m.primal.net/IYEt.png Brian_Armstrong
's deleted tweets when he tried (and failed) to perform a hostile takeover on bitcoin:


So you don't trust their privacy policy?


It's good that not many people understand it yet, I think Nostr still needs some time.

Slow and steady 🐢


With almost all Lightning wallets, you don't need to explain anything about channels and can simply use them


too volatile, cannot be recommended to anyone.
better stack sats ⚡


The fun doesn't start until Coinbase is on it and with it most ETFs 🍿


Good advice but impossible to fulfil in reality


Bitcoin lasts


Nostr is still very new and needs more fine-tuning, but above all it needs more time. In the beginning there are always the hardcore nerds


donated 🫡


Rage Weekly 05 Coinjoin Coordinator Special is out! We cover:

🚀 Wasabi Wallet Coordinator UI
🚀 Ginger Wallet launch & first coinjoin
🚀 Mutiny ecash desktop wallet
🚀 USD stablechannel demo
🚀 CATO on corporate surveillance, sorry I mean corporate transparency act
🚀 Surveillance in FIT21
🚀 KYC in Nigeria is out of control
🚀 Bonus: Saylor Swift sticker pack
and more!

Subscribe for free or read all issues online:

https://m.primal.net/IWYu.png

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Life is like juggling an axe, a sword, a petrol can and a torch at the same time


Inb4 Bitcoin Magazine:

Wasabi Wallet launches custom coordinator selection. Where to find coordinators and how to use the service 👇

https://www.therage.co/wasabi-wallet-launches-ui-coordinator-selection/


Jihan Wu is the cancer of bitcoin


Wow just figured out Bitmain's latest fuckery in real time.

I'll give you the back story...

Once upon a time Bitmain was grinding merkle roots instead of nonces aka "covert ASICBOOST".

This gave them an advantage over other miners who didn't know this was possible. One company went out of business - KNC - citing "the Chinese having some secret advantage we don't know about" - which turned out to be true precisely for this reason.

It's one of the reasons ASIC manufacture is so centralized today and this is correctly identified by many as being one of the most vulnerable aspects of the entire bitcoin ecosystem.

The ASICBOOST issue came to a head when Bitmain used their influence to block the activation of SEGWIT (essential for Lightning) because it would break their ability to do it - at least covertly. Well, they would still be able to use asicboost, but just in an obvious way that would mean everyone else could do it too. They had patented it so as to try and prevent this because that's the kind of people we're dealing with here but I digress...

When asicboost was independently discovered by Greg Maxwell Bitmain lied and said they weren't in fact using it.

This was after years of bullshitting about segwit, with Bitmain pretending to be in favour of "alternative scaling solutions" or even doing segwit as a hard fork instead which would allow them to continue what they were doing.....

Absolutely nobody believed them thanks to GMax having reverse engineered one of their ASICs and demonstrating what they had built and tried to keep to themselves.

This was a watershed moment in the fork wars where everyone suddenly understood why Bitmain had been making nonsensical arguments against segwit forever. Wanting big/small blocks wasn't a related discussion. Segwit fixed TX malleability and was a no-brainer upgrade and in the end was combined with a block size increase anyway as a compromise.

So we proceeded with segwit anyway, at which point Bitmain switched to overt asicboost which is actually even more powerful, it just requires grinding version bits instead of merkle roots but it's obvious if a miner is doing this.

Now everybody does it so essentially the net effect of it being possible is zero, except your node asking you wtf miners are doing signalling for upgrades your node knows nothing about (upgrade coordination is what version bits are actually supposed to be used for).

Oh well, relatively little harm done. If you're happy to ignore the obvious dishonesty and effort to undermine what's arguably Bitcoin's most important ever upgrade.

Fun extra tidbit: Antbleed - an intentional backdoor with which Bitmain could remotely shutdown any Antminer in the world. They said it was for shutting down stolen ASICs but immediately patched it once it was discovered.

Anyway, this company now accounts for 25-30% of all blocks found, if you naively observe the blockchain.

That's not enough to spook anyone, but unfortunately many smaller pools are in fact just fronts for Bitmain which we know for three reasons:

1. The smaller pools are clearly using blocks constructed by, or for the benefit of, Antpool.

2. They share the same custodian of their newly mined coins (Cobo).

3. They have a lending program to bail out smaller pools who get in over their head due to FPPS.

And the trend is sadly in the wrong direction, given Braiins recently abandoning its old payout model and becoming just a simple proxy for Bitmain as result of switching to FPPS.

[Massive shoutout to @mononautical and @0xB10C for helping uncover how centralized pools have become. Those are their Tweeter handles, idk if they're on Nostr.]

Summary - Bitmain is not just Antpool, it probably accounts for >50% of block templates and manufactures >90% of the mining hardware in the world.

So where am I going with all this?

Amazingly, it's about empty blocks.

What does that have to do with anything?

Well, famously OCEAN has found 3 empty blocks in its short existence, causing many to wrongly make allegations of some sort of issue with the pool itself.

This spurred on endless debate about why pools make empty templates in the first place and the actual reason so many of them get solved.

In short, pools send empty templates then immediately follow up with full templates. So quickly, that the interim period accounts for a tiny minority of the empty blocks that get found on the network, and none of ours.

In all three cases with OCEAN, the miner solved the empty block long after already having a full template to work on -

   - leaving the pool in a position to either throw away a perfectly good (but empty) block or to broadcast it to the network and get miners >90% of the reward of a full block. Obviously the latter makes sense and does zero harm to the network while still adding to the overall PoW necessary for any attacker.

So why would an empty block happen a few seconds after the pool had already sent an updated job for a full block?

Because Antminers suck.

*What we didn't realize was that they intentionally sucked.*

You can send an updated job to an Antminer and watch it continue to work on an old job for over 60 seconds in edge cases.

This was something we assumed was due to design of the ASIC itself, and thus just poor engineering on the part of Bitmain.

But it turns out we were wrong, it's due to Antminer firmware.

We know this because they just released a fix for it.

So Bitmain watched, while people kept mining empty blocks, everyone would wrongly attribute it to pools, while explainers on popular websites like mempool(.)space would offer wrong explanations about it happening due to pools being slow to send proper templates and seemingly no one would understand even the motivation for sending empty templates, let alone the reason they get worked on for so long.

But the fix being something that gets released right after OCEAN starts explaining what's really going on here is beyond reasonable doubt.

They had a fix for it, and have been using that fix for their own mining.

Now they can't get away with it because increasingly people are realizing that Whatsminers and ASICs from other manufacturers aren't finding anything like the amount of empty blocks because they switch jobs far more quickly.

An Antminer has a far greater likelihood of finding an empty block because it spends longer working on old jobs.

We've been out here yelling that the issue is with the ASIC *NOT* the pool.

The fact that Bitmain intentionally crippled the firmware on the Antminers they would sell to the world, while keeping more functional units for their own mining is typical of everything Bitmain.

Sure it can be incompetence and coincidental timing on the fix, but I sincerely doubt it.

The conversation around empty blocks reached the point where people were beginning to realize something was broken with Antminers and then they just happen to release a fix for it right after people finally start catching wind of what's really going on.

__________________

So imagine this -

You sell shovels to gold miners, and as we all know, the people who make money during a gold rush are the people who sell the shovels.

But in this case the shovel seller is digging for gold himself too.

And he has intentionally sold crappy shovels to all of his customers so as give himself an advantage.

Empty blocks kept happening, people kept blaming pools.

OCEAN got attacked over it. We explained the real reason they happen so much, and Bitmain releases a fix right after.

Insane.

This goes further than empty blocks.

It's not just empty templates that take forever to work their way out of an Antminer, it's *all templates* and pools are constantly updating work as new transactions show up.

A super lucrative transaction shows up in your mempool?

All other pools are sending an updated job to hundreds of thousands of Antminers who will ignore it for a while, while Antpool has their miners working on it more quickly.

It's not hard to see the motivation for all this, especially going forward as TX fees become more and more important.

Again, insane.

_________________

If you want to watch @wk057 and I figure this all out in real time, watch the video below which was just intended to be a discussion on why empty blocks happen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BkyhdxnDrM


both look gay


The argument is also used to justify chat control: monitoring
450 Million people to catch a few thousand offenders


Might fuck around and get this pie chart framed

https://m.primal.net/ITuq.png

https://disruptive-horizons.com/p/kyc-aml-destroying-world#footnote-18-133915966


and stack the fucking sats! https://m.primal.net/IVDq.png


another reason why the EU must die so that the citizens of Europe can be free again


We'll have to rebuild everything.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom 🌻


if you generally can't sleep well, travelling is a good way to make it even worse


tried a couple and stayed with primal


Reminder: you can watch the  nostr:npub1v60thnx0gz0wq3n6xdnq46y069l9x70xgmjp6lprdl6fv0eux6mqgjj4rp stream directly from your terminal by adding this function to your bash aliases (requires yt-dlp and mpv):

https://m.primal.net/IUwt.png

https://m.primal.net/IUwx.png

Go zap the herd some treats today!


finally i can feed more than just chicken! ⚡


the early adopter grind


Are you offering cloud-mining?


Thank you for the clarification. Donated


just arrived and already complaining 😝


Craig Wright is a fraud.
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looks a bit strange, i wouldn't donate anything for the time being. there are better alternatives


Bitcoin's code has grown from 26k lines in 2009 to 780k lines in 2024 https://m.primal.net/IIqm.jpg


Pura Vida 🧘♂  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSKxvLWqyOY


Three weeks ago I wrote an article on the EU's new AMLR in Bitcoin Magazine, detailing how the EU passed ALM laws restricting the use of Bitcoin privacy tools without any data to back up their claims that privacy heightens money laundering and terrorist financing risks.

Alex Stachtchenko took it a step further and ran the numbers. For every Euro confiscated, 200€ are spent. This means that the EU's AML compliance costs of 144B Euro exceeds all money ascribed to crime per year at 110B Euro – and still, 99% of criminal profits escape confiscation.

Despite their absolute inefficiency AML laws continue to be expanded, subjecting all EU citizens to total financial surveillance for the price of catching 1%. It is a system that has grown completely out of control and is in no way proportionate to the right to privacy enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

It's a long read, and its in French so you'll need to translate it, but I guarantee that it will be worth every minute of your time.

BM article:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/eu-parliament-adopts-aml-laws-regulating-bitcoin-based-on-questionable-assumptions

Alex' article:
https://medium.com/@AlexStach/les-d%C3%A9rives-de-la-surveillance-financi%C3%A8re-menacent-nos-d%C3%A9mocraties-323fbdc1ccbf

https://image.nostr.build/0d7632afe0b2d12e5c537683aeea5a2eab16f94acbb1842d1303e17e030b5e22.png
https://image.nostr.build/514287cc9ae1fe3d36a5de492cae8516d80643a9e56fb3cd4d4727ca344d90d2.png


A Real-World Law-Enforcement Breach of End-to-End Encrypted Messaging https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeKRS6_zxoc


Act accordingly.
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The new gold playbook and the competition from Bitcoin https://m.primal.net/IHun.png


I heard it can be a pain in the ass to set it up and maintain it. There are tons of people on Craigslist who can print anything you like


"Twitter’s current marketing angle is to be known as the free speech platform in the US, but then to quietly comply more readily than ever before for censorship requests in other places like Turkey or India. "  👈

and don´t forget the US.


t has been 5 years since the great consensus cleanup softfork was proposed. The majority of bitcoiners have joined after that and are likely unfamiliar with it or the some of the dramatic things that could occur without these fixes.

Let´s fix the house instead of enabling monkey pics with CTV💩

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/03/05/#fix-the-time-warp-attack


I'm finally in the top 1% for once


Say hello to https://silentpayments.xyz/

Wanting to learn more about Silent Payments, see which wallets support them, or find out how to integrate them into your wallet?

I've built out a website with all of that info and more to do what I can to speed up Silent Payments adoption. https://i.nostr.build/EnGDG.jpg


As long as you are not banned on Telegram, you are not an OG


Money from bankrupt countries https://m.primal.net/IHdJ.mp4


i find this character rather annoying and unimaginative


history repeats itself


When Coinbase is hacked in the future, we need more than just Popcon 🍿


donated 🫡


BITCOIN CONSENSUS IS NOT DICTATED BY TWITTER.

WILL NOT UPDATE ANY OF MY NODES TO SUPPORT OP_CAT.

WILL TREAT ANY ATTEMPT TO PUSH THROUGH ACTIVATION AS HOSTILE.


1000%
OP_CAT could not be further away from the critical conservatism and caution in protocol stewardship that made #Bitcoin’s very existence possible.

Thats a hard fucking NO from me dawg.

https://media3.giphy.com/media/fjKUYm8N3GWdO/giphy.gif?cid=2154d3d7xhr1cuwir11igxzb74z0o44u4pz2jzp451e1araa&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g nostr:note1prrgyfue7xxaazapa3lg3p568tpd8883hnunta0ddvmu5ptljyhs2quhg8


Lots to explore on nostr!!! https://www.nostrapps.com/
 https://image.nostr.build/0eccaaa325d866fb81abfe1b5cb87dbe7e078d783e4a8e48d093d9ac9c75cca4.png


we are still early 😝


You would think that you could already track down the hacker based on his statements...  🤔


The hacker interview is on nostr. Thanks to whomever uploaded it. https://media.nostr.build/p/7GDv2.mp3


Wikileaks should also disseminate the data sets via Nostr 🤔 ...


Saying blackrock, for example, “owns” their underlying Bitcoin ETF holdings is no different than saying Coinbase “owns” it since they actually hold custody.

They are required by law to hold the asset backing their ETF and so you could say it even “belongs” to the investors. All of these are ultimately incorrect.
Who really “owns” it is the US government as they could pass legislation to seize it at any moment. If they can change the constitution to legalize income tax, surrender their sole constitutional authority too coin currency to their banking donors and establish the Fed, issue an executive order to seize gold from private citizens, etc. then they can clearly pass legislation to seize the Bitcoin holdings in the event of a dollar collapse or “hyper-bitcoinization”.
In fact, it would be incredibly foolish of anyone to assume they wouldn’t.


you are always the optimistic part 😅


I hope the case can be taken to the next instance


Tether is a time bomb that will eventually cost a lot of people a lot of money. The shitcoin of shitcoins💩 . How often have states and companies claimed that their money was "covered" until it was "suddenly" uncovered? Someone once wrote something about it...:

"The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. Banks must be trusted to hold our money and transfer it electronically, but they lend it out in waves of credit bubbles with barely a fraction in reserve. We have to trust them with our privacy, trust them not to let identity thieves drain our accounts impossible." 🤔


if one things stinks, it´s Telegram telling others how insecure their tech is 💩


CTV proponents hate that one little trick


what gender was the AI?


can´t ChatGPT scan these pdfs?


finally AI will boil the oceans and not bitcoin anymore


No joke: it will be quite tempting. And the provider behind it can use it to control people well https://m.primal.net/IGag.png


learning through pain, a good lesson


After your server was hacked, I would no longer download anything from this source


NYKNYB https://m.primal.net/IGab.png


Taproot has enabled a few negative things that no one had previously realised. What negative things are made possible by CTV? Why can't it be tested on Litecoin or any other chain first?


hopefully an AI that can at least edit images 😅


That's also the problem with every chart that is "adjusted for inflation". The chart is always adjusted for inflation according to the official figures, which are inherently wrong


It brings no discernible benefit but allows for more attack vectors


the same as always: no one puts this damn helmet on their head for more than an hour. The same hype as 3D TVs. At some point there will probably be devices that are more accepted - small, light and inconspicuous.


https://m.primal.net/IFzE.webp #lookatmeiamSaylor


GM
https://m.primal.net/IFvB.jpg


and stack the fucking sats 💪


For 4 years Bitcoin has been leaving exchanges🚀   https://m.primal.net/IFgk.webp


The Department of Justice indicted the creators of SamouraiWallet, an application that helps people spend their bitcoins anonymously. https://m.primal.net/IFaw.mp4


Terminology matters.  Words mean things.  There is no such thing as a "custodial wallet"; that is an "account" you have with a custodian.

When you say "non-custodial wallet" you are playing the tyrant's word games.  "Non-custodial" implies that "custodial" is the norm.  It is not and never should be.

Because there is no such thing as a "custodial wallet," there can be no such thing as a "non-custodial wallet"; that's just a wallet.

If you see people use this undermining terminology, correct them.


useful if Bitcoin apps are soon banned from normal app stores due to regulation


📣 Introducing zap.store 0.1.0

For months I have been dreaming of a better app store, frustrated by big tech's permissioned bs, GPG's complexities, and Obtainium's reliance on centralized services and poor UX.

Here's the first (very alpha) iteration of zap.store, a permissionless app store leveraging the nostr social graph.

✔ Android only (for now! Desktop coming soon)
✔ Obtainium drop-in replacement (smaller catalog but growing)
✔ App releases are signed/curated by this account, as developers start self-signing
✔ Web of trust check before installing an app

Get it at https://zap.store or https://github.com/zapstore/zapstore

(SHA-256 hash of the APK version 0.1.0 is 8540bd492064c17d83bcdc6d2a463c2aea46f13c2b0d13b8a96023df95bd0c9d)

Feedback more than welcome, it's also possible to send directly from the ⚙ screen in the app

s/o to nostr legends nostr:npub149p5act9a5qm9p47elp8w8h3wpwn2d7s2xecw2ygnrxqp4wgsklq9g722q and nostr:npub1zafcms4xya5ap9zr7xxr0jlrtrattwlesytn2s42030lzu0dwlzqpd26k5 for their invaluable help


With Telegram it is really obvious that it has back doors. it's already crying out for it.


tweets < memes


Nostrgram can´t come soon enough 🌐


I just got banned from Telegram.

https://media.gleasonator.com/e286481e812e2cbaab84074cb43b84455896a0d3c3ff7d01d7f7cef75cb2ef9b.png


Yeah but you know that some have to do it 🤔


"The Arrest of Samourai Wallet Developers Shows the US Government Hates  Privacy and Freedom"

https://mises.org/mises-wire/arrest-samourai-wallet-developers-shows-us-government-hates-privacy-and-freedom


Zap.Stream 🎷 🎶 🥁   https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjr2c3jxvmk2d3e94jkgvr9956rxve3943rywrp943k2dfevesnqdfnxvuxxqg3waehxw309ahx7um5wgh8w6twv5hsygx0gknt5ymr44ldyyaq0rn3p5jpzkh8y8ymg773a06ytr4wldxz55psgqqqwenswvptvv


-Payjoin-
Scale Bitcoin, save fees, and preserve privacy all at once
https://payjoin.org/#why-payjoin


Silent Payments, as proposed by Ruben Somsen, are a novel concept that allows individuals to make payments to a public identifier (commonly referred to as an "address") without revealing that identifier on the blockchain.

This fundamental feature enhances privacy and security in Bitcoin transactions."

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0352.mediawik


Sport is one of life's best medicines   https://m.primal.net/IEhK.png


study bitcoin or get rekt 🫡


It is rather a friendly reference to hypocrisy


I think it's fair to say that one of the founding premises of Signal is that you can't trust the server that operates the messaging service.

So the answer is that you design your service in such a way that it doesn't matter, for privacy and security purposes, what server it's running on. Once you've done that, you have the freedom to just use whatever's the most reliable and/or affordable.


Elon´s post about Signal was noted for example


can confirm, it seems they are not 100% disabled for Elon


Best explanation of the fiat monetary system I've seen thus far:

https://youtu.be/iFDe5kUUyT0


Correct, you said it on Twitter, which makes your statement absurd.


Absolutely ridiculous, but according to Dorsey, the 'freedom' platform. 🤡


True intelligence lies not in the accumulation of knowledge, but in recognizing the boundaries of one's understanding, and embracing a perpetual state of curiosity and openness to new ideas. 💡


That´s how a bitcoin miner looks like  https://m.primal.net/IEOL.png


probably true but Signal is open-source. But we need to keep an eye on them.

NSA : Thanks for sponsoring open source tools


can’t wait for signal/simplex-grade comms on nostr nostr:note1dfguxeddugr5x82g3vj7p5la9jmavrtysffnsr4waxfk2hz26l7s7wl4tg


No association of states has ever lasted long, especially not a sick association of states like the EU.

A state has already shown how to leave. A good start.

Fortunately, the EU will fall apart. In the meantime, the free people of Europe need the necessary tools to save themselves. 🪽

"'Europe is mortal,' Macron warns"
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/04/25/europe-is-mortal-macron-warns-as-he-calls-for-more-eu-unity-and-sovereignty-in-landmark-sp


One of the magical properties of real estate is the fact that you can move enormous amounts of borrowed capital. And printing money helps to reduce debt.


Good morning. A reminder that you don’t need to write code to contribute to the #Bitcoin (or Nostr) ecosystem:

“You can be extremely useful to basically any project out there simply by doing what you are marginally best at. The thing that you're really, really good at, much better than anything else that you do, just keep on doing that for whatever project you're interested in. And you're probably going to make a quite valuable and meaningful impact.” — nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt on nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8
#Titcoin
https://v.nostr.build/xE8el.mp4


A good post from fiatjaf on how Nostr is centralized and not very censorship resistant -as of today-.

https://fiatjaf.com/87a208d9.html


Unfortunately, it is not possible to lend Bitcoin without a major counterparty risk - either from a technical point of view or because you no longer have any real control over your Bitcoin.

Hodl, don´t lend.


As always, Coinbase💩  blames its own incompetence on others, in this case Lightning   https://m.primal.net/IEFy.png


"On Reviewing, and Helping Those Who Do It"

"Several hundred pull requests are open at any given moment in Bitcoin Core waiting for review and testing, and the stack continues to grow higher — 280 in November 2019, 380 at the end of April 2020, and 400 at the start of June 2020, when the number of PRs in the blockers list also reached a record high number. "

https://jonatack.github.io/articles/on-reviewing-and-helping-those-who-do-it


L2 season be like
 https://image.nostr.build/0be4bc0a3342ad99d6a19243c8082b64e05f68714273313cd07bf104cdee8544.jpg


“don’t depend on corporations to grant you rights. defend them yourself using freedom technology. (you’re on one)” https://m.primal.net/IDuf.png


Hurry! Coinbase will add this feature in10  years!


Devs, do not sleep on Nostr Wallet Connect. Nostr allows you to link any app with any other app in this world. No IP addresses, no ports, no NAT, no firewalls, no bullshit.

Soon coming to a Cashu wallet near you.
 https://video.nostr.build/f3331c19afdf233db91937161e9f8369e374662f409a75194cfb49b48ebb3e61.mp4


a build in coinjoin wallet


"no account" and "throwaway account" are #nostr superpowers. Use them & build them into clients.


Coinbase has $400 Million in total insurance. That represents about 1% of the $40 Billion of customer funds that are sitting on their platform. Investing in an ETF where Coinbase is the custodian also shares that risk with all the other altcoins offered on the platform. 💩


https://m.primal.net/IDbZ.webp I would like to kindly remind you that almost all ETFs store their (allegedly purchased) Bitcoin at Coinbase. Coinbase does not have anything close to adequate insurance in the event of a hack. And the latter is only a matter of time.


One underappreciated feature of gold is that you can just leave it on the table and walk out.


Are you a developer who wants to add privacy to your bitcoin app?

Here you go:
https://payjoindevkit.org/introduction/


Full agreement. I think we can assume that the terror from Brussels will lead to this. Donations for open source app stores are urgently needed.


The EU must be dissolved. In the meantime, people need tools to defend themselves against the terror from Brussels.


I suddenly find myself much more interested in coinjoin protocols. funny how being attacked tends to do that. fucking with bitcoiners is not going to work out well for them.


https://m.primal.net/IDVW.png The FED starts the printer again


using twitter in a world where nostr exists makes absolutely no sense to me. So grateful to have filtered that noise out of my life


Bitcoin Adoption vs Internet Adoption https://m.primal.net/IDBa.jpg


maybe you have a bad day today.

but imagine losing $68M due "transaction poisoning"  🥴


I've been warning Bitcoin developers for ten years that sats will be the standard. This is the final warning. The clock is ticking.


Fortunately, the people there are quite tech-savvy and there are the necessary tools to circumvent this censorship


nans on nostr


i hope this fraudster will be sued until the end of his days


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FATQ0Yf0Fhc&t=708s

She loves MMT 🤡


be patient fellow Bitcoiner


TIL Mullvad is on Nostr - cool 🫡


Proposed Bitcoin Privacy Improvements
https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/proposed-bitcoin-privacy-improvements/


This is the karma you get when you attack Bitcoin


Proposed Bitcoin Privacy Improvements

https://sethforprivacy.com/posts/proposed-bitcoin-privacy-improvements/ Hope


For anyone interested in the actual answer, the Federal Reserve "prints" money (aka, expands the money supply) in three ways:

    It can ease its reserve requirements for banks, which makes more money available for banks to lend (It's been 0% since 2020, which means banks can lend out 100% of your deposit and keep 0% on hand)
    It can lower the discount rate at which it lends money to other banks, which makes it more attractive for them to borrow
    It can conduct "routine open market operations" whereby it purchases Treasury securities from financial institutions.

This last one is what most people think of when they say the government prints money. The Federal Reserve buys those Treasury bonds from the U.S. government with "newly created electronic funds and the bank adds those funds to the seller's account."

The Fed literally creates new money, digitally, with a few keystrokes, and uses it to buy bonds from the government.


https://m.primal.net/ICoQ.mp4  Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors for Joe Biden 🤡


or self-hosted wallets are banned from the app stores. that nearly happened not so long ago within the EU💩


The bullish case for Noderunners

Now that privacy is on the verge of being outlawed is the best time there has ever been to set up and run your own Bitcoin node.

This is probably going to sound like a sales pitch because it's coming from me, but that's really not the intention of this post.

It doesn't matter which node implementation you choose, just choose the one you want or whatever is the most convenient for you to get started. Run Core, run Knots, run Start9, run BTCpayServer, Parmanoodle, Citadel, my god, even Umbrel if you must.

The important thing is that it's YOUR node.
Think about it. We have ~18000 Bitcoin nodes online which is a laughable number when you compare it to the number of people on Nostr, Bitcoin talk and Twitter. At least three of those 18k are mine, and I suspect more people run multiple nodes, so the actual number of noderunning individuals is probably another magnitude smaller.

These Noderunners are serving the network, but much more importantly, they can verify that they get real Bitcoin when receiving UTXOs. And they can do so independently, over Tor, which means that, to this day, no one can stop them from doing so. With privacy services shutting down and wallet apps disappearing from appstores in certain jurisdictions, having your own money transmitter might not only come in handy, it could be the only way to transact if you have to.

No one knows what's going to happen next, but don't make the mistake to think the EU won't follow suit. Be prepared for the when your favorite wallet shuts down. Practice recovery with Sparrow or a similar wallet which allows you to connect to a node which is behind Tor. Preferably your own, but Uncle Jim Nodes work too. Ask your friends if you can't run your own.

At this point in time, individual Noderunners have not been targeted, because it's hard and the effort mostly outweighs the benefits for the gubberment, so far... And with every node coming online, it gets harder to take Bitcoin down. Which in return strengthens each and every one of us. A critical mass of NodeRunners is an unstoppable force, I don't claim to know when that critical mass is reached, but I am fucking sure it's not 18000.

So, what to do now? Bust out your Raspberry Pis, RockPros, old Laptops, iMacs, PCs. whatever you have and get to work. Build a node, run it and learn to connect to it. Do it before you need it. There's no need for a clearnet connection if you're not selling stuff or are otherwise uncomfortable with linking your public IP. Running it behind Tor is absolutely fine. No need for lightning either (but it's fun if you want to).

Too dystopian for you? GFY and take a look around. It's going to get worse before it can get better.


collaborative inclusive transactions of colour 🌈


government here - you seem to need a bit of licensing!


"Try again on Nostr"


With an inert mass of people, you can always pass such laws. The abstract democracy of the EU, which hardly deserves the name, helps here.


JOINMARKET - Jam App For Easy BTC Coinjoin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbyjG2upGO8


We are moving fast in a direction, where even end-to-end encryption is outlawed. Wild times. The coders that fight back are modern day heroes


#freeassange

https://m.primal.net/IAXA.jpg


Bitcoin Judas 2.0


Tip to feed the god damn chickens  🐔 - my favourite https://pollofeed.com/


Why nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx thinks nostr will eventually win.

#whynostr
https://m.primal.net/ICAB.mov


Can Saylor post an AI art pic of that?


i had my first spammer a couple of days ago


“Why would we make this? The global potential market for copying machines is 5,000 at absolute most”. IBM, to the guys who would eventually found Xerox, 1959.


probably only 10% of his coins. not a huge sign of conviction


I share Dan´s view on that 🤷


https://m.primal.net/IBuh.png  The world is healing 🌐


“I have no doubt that we’ll have nuclear-powered vacuum-cleaners in say, 10 years time”. Alex Lewyt, CEO of a vacuum-cleaner company, 1955.


Back in the old days, people only had Bitcoin QT to transact... much has improved in regards to scaling technology and privacy 👴


And they accept Bitcoin 🫡 🫡


https://m.primal.net/IBbN.jpg Cyberpunk 2077 is about 10 times better than any current game from Bethesda in every respect. Aesthetic, story, graphic, game mechanic, atmosphere...


for me, the best client so far


We can´t. It is only an estimation. Alot of miners use VPNs too.


E2EE DMs are coming to Nostr 🔒

After being nerd sniped by hearing  nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 mention OTR for the millionth time on the Bitcoin Review podcast, I spent the last few weeks digging into OTR, the Signal protocol, and a grab-bag of other cryptography.

The end result is that I (am pretty sure at least) that I found a way to do E2EE (end-to-end encrypted) DMs on Nostr in a way that is both forward and post-compromise secure AND doesn't require any centralized servers.

Demo video: https://share.cleanshot.com/nMKk6cn0

Live demo app: https://drdm-demo.vercel.app

And finally, the NIP (for those of you with bikes in need of a shed): https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1206

Huge thanks to  nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt and  nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft for the chats while I worked out the details.


"DOJ’s New Stance on Crypto Wallets is a Threat to Liberty and the Rule of Law"

https://www.coincenter.org/dojs-new-stance-on-crypto-wallets-is-a-threat-to-liberty-and-the-rule-of-law/


“No-one will ever need more than 637KB of memory in a computer. 640KB ought to be enough for anybody.” Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, 1981.


China makes up between 20% - 30% atm.
Alot less than a couple of years ago, when we saw 80%.


don´t forget to register the frying pan as a money transmitter


I appreciate your attack on the testnet sir 🫡


https://m.primal.net/IBQF.png Reddit censorship. Nostr fixes this


The fact that Gavin was the only airhead to accept this invitation explains his later decisions. This shows how self-absorbed he was in his actions.


Satoshi may not have received any encouragement from outside, which many people strive for, but he has achieved inner self-satisfaction. I think that speaks for his strength of character.


you seem to collect blockings 🤔


You cannot "own" #Bitcoin in the traditional sense of owning stuff.

No matter what governments, courts, chain-anal people, or anyone else tells you, there is no way of proving that someone DOESN'T know a string of information such as a private key.

From this perspective, satoshis aren't ever transferred but rather reorganized on the timechain for communication purposes.

The twelve magic words do not belong to anyone. They're just twelve words.

What Bitcoin makes so blatantly obvious is that money was never anything but information.

A ban on "self-hosted wallets" is as absurd as a ban on using your brain.

Such a ban would have severe consequences.

It would deny you the right to keep a secret while granting the government the right to claim that you do, making everyone a criminal.

YOU would have to prove that you DON'T know something, which is impossible.

You would be guilty until proven innocent, which cannot be proven.

Any law trying to stop or restrict Bitcoin usage is nothing less than a crime against humanity.

IMHO, the Bitcoin community should do everything in its power to prevent such laws. Your ability to use a communications network shouldn't depend on where you were born.

Do your part and educate as many people as you can as often as possible.

Speech is never free but always costly. It's high time to separate speech and state!


Bitcoin Bill of Rights 📜

Article I.
Freedom of Use: Congress shall not legislate any laws that establish control over Bitcoin, nor shall it prohibit the free use of Bitcoin. Furthermore, no governmental interference with Bitcoin's operational protocol shall be permitted.

Article II.
Security of Keys and Nodes: The right of the people to secure their private keys, operate full nodes, and validate transactions through mining, being necessary to the security of a free state, shall not be infringed.

Article III.
Protection Against Seizure: No Bitcoin shall be frozen or seized without a judicial order that demonstrates probable cause and adheres to due process.

Article IV.
Right to Privacy: The right of the people to be secure in their digital personas, homes, devices, and Bitcoin wallets, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue without probable cause.

Article V.
Due Process in Disclosure: No person shall be compelled to reveal their private keys or other secure authentication methods in any legal or criminal proceeding, without due process of law.

Article VI.
Non-Discrimination in Bitcoin Use: The use of Bitcoin shall not be denied or abridged by any state due to the digital nature of the asset, nor shall states impose discriminatory regulations that target Bitcoin uniquely.

Article VII.
Innovation and Development: Individuals have the right to innovate and contribute to the Bitcoin network, including the development and propagation of software, without undue interference, provided they adhere to the decentralized ethos of Bitcoin.

Article VIII.
Financial Sovereignty: Individuals shall have the right to financial sovereignty and privacy, to mine, hold, and transact in Bitcoin freely, without fear of reprisal or disproportionate taxation.

Article IX.
Right to Anonymity: Individuals have the right to anonymity in their Bitcoin transactions and holdings, to the extent that it does not infringe upon the rights of others or violate the law.


“I don’t know… there just aren’t that many videos I want to watch.”  Steve Chen, founder of YouTube, expressing doubts about YouTube’s viability as a company. 2005.


let the haters zap 😅


but he can mute him 😉


true but just a matter of time. COPA and others should combine forces to push back. we the plebs need the right tools to use it even after a ban.


This is to be expected in an unfree country


Banks close all the time. And there is an unlimited amount of fiat in the central bank.


https://m.primal.net/IAXD.jpg KYC is a trap


EU will Bitcoin-Werbung auf Social Media verbieten

"Im Rahmen neuer Regeln, um "Influencer Marketing in der EU zu harmonisieren“, streben die Verbraucherschützer der EU-Staaten in der nächsten Legislaturperiode ein Werbeverbot für Bitcoin in den sozialen Medien an."

https://www.blocktrainer.de/blog/eu-will-bitcoin-werbung-auf-social-media-verbieten/ #nostrfixesthis


“Mobile phones will absolutely never replace the wired telephone”. Marty Cooper, inventor of the mobile phone, 1981.


when swiss?


they will come for you too at some point. be prepared.


Taxation of unrealized thoughts


a useful rebelion to this samurai injustice would be to use JAM, or Joinmarket. Maybe they can crush one of us, but they can't touch an army in it's thousands 🤙

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbyjG2upGO8&ab_channel=BTCSessions


money-laundering is conceptually flawed; it's a made-up term that implies acceptance of multiple dubious claims the state puts forth


nice feature


when Primal wallet? 😩


https://m.primal.net/HzoB.png NgU Tech


Reminder that “money laundering” is a fake, fiat-era crime.

It presupposes the state has the right to know nearly every financial transaction made by its citizens, despite the 4th Amendment.

It has only been a crime since the 1986 Money Laundering Control Act. And the term itself only goes back to the 1970s, a typical case of wtfhappenedin1971.com. https://image.nostr.build/44dbb9966b80c5b242636e991e2ff9d182304ee757c035a0a1df90b3a6bc4aed.jpg


2100 Sats that he will post a generic AI pic next


The problem might be that they bragged about the illicit uses of their mixing service on their website and profited from it. That was an easy target.


Thanks for supporting freedom tech


https://m.primal.net/HzgU.jpg Bitcoin is the hardest money on earth


No. It´s more the fact that his posts are generic and boring. He is just lazy.


I'm not here on Nostr because I run away from Twitter. I'm here because I'm in search for an internet as it once used to be.

I'm a hacker who fucking hates that social media is in the hands of private companies. I remember using IRC and meeting likeminded anons online. I remember what the internet utopia felt like. People who didn't care what your name or status is, people who aren't interested in sharing their boring holiday pics with random strangers online. I'm not interested in what politicians and influencers have to say. I don't care about the latest mainstream trend that's going viral.

I want random weird interesting smart people around me who share their ideas in a free and open space that isn't controlled by anyone.

That's all I'm looking for. There aren't many such spaces on the internet.


It has become a nightmare. Surprisingly, some people don't even use ad-blockers these days. How can you navigate the web in that way is a mystery to me 😅"


Minings pools and Jihan Wu will try again 🤮


AI pics are not 🤦


Ahhh, the first spammers & scammers have arrived on Nostr😅


https://m.primal.net/HzUQ.jpg Bitcoin vs Internet adoption


slow and steady 🐢


He should just admit that they accept shitcoins because of the profit. 🤷


The EU should be abolished. We must return to free countries in a pure economic union, as it once existed.


good read. let's spread the word


Don't look now but bitcoin mining pools are critically centralized and it could be existential to the network if miners don't act.

https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-mining-pool-centralization/


“Remote shopping, while entirely feasible, will certainly flop. It has no chance of success.” Time Magazine, 1966.


https://m.primal.net/HzNU.png Room to grow


Preisprognose 1 BTC = 1 BTC


Oh, how low reddit has fallen. https://image.nostr.build/622df7890f8ef479e121d4a67102ac6ccfa014e3ec31564a59f077f203d71691.jpg


" If you have nothing to hide..." 🤡


Not only that, but also the censorship and the fact that you are banned for saying harmless things 🤮


We're all criminals, they just haven't written the laws yet.


that would be great. WE ARE 🐢


And the best part is, that no one can censor or ban your account 🥳


If criminals would not use it, we would have contributed to a dystopian 1984 style world


"tokenized on a blockchain" - the year 2015 is calling 😅


They don´t want China to spy but they want that the US can spy as much as possible


keep up the good work🫡


i like the little rockets 🚀 👨🚀


possible but highly unlikely


so true 😅


Let's work together to make the epicenter of the Bitcoin world during the 2028 halving be on Nostr🫡


Yes but not that grumpy ☝ 😅


The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust.


https://m.primal.net/HxlE.png  🥳 🌜


https://m.primal.net/Hxkv.jpg  Team Slow and Steady  https://www.erisian.com.au/wordpress/2024/04/20/team-slow-and-steady


It is an historic event ☝


https://m.primal.net/HxOm.gif ...soon!


shadow zapped 😅 ...the world is healing


and another AI generated picture


Good morning ✌
https://m.primal.net/HxLm.jpg


not that grumpy but...yes 😅


decentralization & censorship resistant systems are the only hope


How is it decentralized if pool operators can still unilaterally reject user templates in Stratum v2? The central point of failure still remains.


Now you see how it feels to be a pleb with only 100 followers🫡


BIP324 v2 Transport On by Default 🫡


MEVil (or centralizing MEV) is one of the biggest threats to bitcoin’s value, but it’s poorly understood. I wrote about what it is (and isn’t) and how developers and bitcoiners must consider it carefully if we want bitcoin to survive.

Notably, we need to be incredibly careful when we’re looking at the new wave of bitcoin L2s - rollups can be incredibly nasty for the destruction of bitcoin - or not. Devs building these things have a responsibility to bitcoin, and the bitcoin community a responsibility to inform and avoid systems that risk bitcoin.

https://bluematt.bitcoin.ninja/2024/04/16/stop-calling-it-mev/


Are there proposals to address this problem other than
Stratum v.2?


Looking at the merkle branches that mining pools send to miners as part of stratum jobs, it's clear that the BTCcom pool, Binance pool, Poolin, EMCD, Rawpool, and possibly Braiins* have exactly the same template and custom transaction prioritization as AntPool.

 https://image.nostr.build/33d5ac0f59082e8fbb5d02ccd9a50dccea43327ae97e10db06effaede7f7c064.jpg

Stratum v1 jobs include (parts of) the coinbase transaction and the merkle branches a miner needs to compute the merkle root. If all branches are equal across pools, the block template is exactly the same.

This is a smaller merkle-tree with the stratum job branches highlighted.

 https://image.nostr.build/dab683037cc63f0e4805ae16561800dd342dd53dbb646c91e6c066044a51b2d6.jpg

Here, branch0 is the txid of the first transaction in the block after the coinbase.

In the AntPool/Binance/BTCcom/.. template, it's a manually prioritized transaction paying 9.03 sat/vbyte https://mempool.space/tx/c938e8027a7fba782a092695a53d37654021bf20df71ca91b4a6daa9198b0c73

Many of the other pools didn't prioritize a transaction and included the highest feerate transaction https://mempool.space/tx/96608dc747677d6dfbc3a2b37f8a0146abae132799b13c130066bd3716fdf91a paying 301 sat/vbyte. ViaBTC prioritized another transaction and has a vastly different template.

This indicates that F2Pool currently is not using the AntPool templates, even if they share the the same custody provider. We know from multiple occasions that F2Pool has been building their own templates (https://b10c.me/o11, https://b10c.me/o9, https://b10c.me/o8)

Note that SigmaPool and SecPool both seem to share the same template (distinct from AntPools template). Two names, but probably one pool.

Some overlap in the first branches of distinct pools is expected as these branches consist of few (usually high feerate) transactions. For example, Ocean's "default" and "core" templates overlap up to branch3. At least the first 15 tx (2⁴ - 1) in the template are equal.

* similar to EMCD in the picture, Braiins sometimes differs from AntPool in the later branches of the template. This could indicate they're only helping with AntPools transaction accelerator and directly syncing with AntPools mempool, causing occasional differences in templates.

I've heard speculation about this all being liked to an FPPS partnership with AntPool/Bitmain.

Bitmain insures against bad pool luck but you have to use Bitmains templates/transaction prioritization and pay the mining reward to the insurer for later distribution.

Essentially a pool of pools and a lot of mining centralization.


https://m.primal.net/Hvwd.png The Halving is Near


Where will the Norwegian government draw the line between what datacenter activities are welcome and not welcome? If datacenters only get to use energy on stuff that is important to society, when will Tik Toks, cat videos, tv shows with a 5.0 or worse rating on IMDB, etc, be banned from Norwegian datacenters? nostr:note12mdgtwms8khf4d9lgvnxc8grsl76gh2nv2pqfvpzfzzu9qx9cwes0hl4l6


Maybe he didn't think it through what he signed up for.


https://m.primal.net/HvYo.jpg  Less than 700 Blocks remaining until the Halving!


https://m.primal.net/Huyj.png The Halving Is Near


Can you post more than AI art?


https://m.primal.net/HujR.png The Halving will Free us All


It’s time for miners to wake up and start migrating to Sv2.

Mining centralization is as bad as it’s ever been and the bullishness on bitcoin is totally unjustified given miners don’t seem to care about bitcoin in the slightest.

If it doesn’t get better nearly every PoS chain is literally going to be more decentralized and censorship resistant than bitcoin.

If you care about Bitcoin you are responsible for fixing this. Pressure miners.


Nothing prevents these attacks. The attacks will get stronger and better funded,  Bitcoin has to adapt. The more cyber hornets the better 🐝


Not doing it requires discipline and awareness


gm nostr 🤙 As of today April 11th, #Julian #Assange has been locked up for 5 years straight in Belmarsh high security prison in the UK. #FreeAssangeNOW

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NOPE. THEY BOTH COMMITTED TO SUPPORTING DEVS. THEY ARE LEGIT.

THE OTHER ETFS DID NOT SUPPORT DEVS. ONE SPECIFICALLY WAS GOING TO AND PULLED OUT AFTER TALKING TO SAYLOR. I DO NOT FEEL COMFORTABLE MENTIONING WHICH ONE BUT IT WAS INCREDIBLY DISAPPOINTING. I TRIED TO HANDLE IT PRIVATELY BUT IT HAS BEEN OVER THREE MONTHS SO FELT LIKE IT SHOULD BE MADE PUBLIC.


Positive because know how to use the good side of it. But for society i would argue it is a net negative


Source?


“Paper money eventually returns to itsintrinsic value: zero.” Voltaire

Study #bitcoin 🧡 https://video.nostr.build/2515c48f083ad090841a8f1b41f95d73f821e1f6151e79bc41c125d61bc39e1c.mp4


and a long time horizon 😅


Or the "halving is a non event" crowd 🤡


HRF is excited to announce the CISA Research Fellowship 🎉

Cross-Input Signature Aggregation (CISA) is a proposed upgrade to Bitcoin that could potentially enhance privacy and provide cost-savings for transactions

HRF is sponsoring a four-month research fellowship to help analyze the state and future of CISA

The product of the fellowship will be an industry paper that seeks to answer the following questions:

1) How could CISA improve Bitcoin privacy?
2) Exactly how much cost-savings could CISA provide across different types of transactions? This will include a comparison of full versus half aggregate implementations.
3) How meaningful might these cost savings be to different industry participants? Given historical precedent, could these cost savings make Taproot the default script type, as Native Segwit is today?
4) Could CISA, if adopted widely, reduce the effectiveness of chain analysis?
5) Could CISA pave the way for cheaper transactions in a high-fee environment?
6) Could CISA lower the minimum economically spendable account at a given fee rate?
7) Could CISA help exchanges by, for example, saving them money while they consolidate small UTXOs?
8) How does CISA compare to other aggregation strategies?
9) Are there any ways in which CISA could help upgrade or complement the Lightning Network, eCash, or existing CoinJoin mechanisms?
10) How might CISA protect the social and legal choice of Bitcoin users and businesses to CoinJoin, and the likelihood of more CoinJoin behavior, if users could state (if asked) that their decision was based on saving money, not simply seeking more privacy?
11) How would Bitcoin Core need to change to integrate CISA? Are there any known current improvement proposals?
12) How would SegWit need to change to integrate CISA?
13) Could CISA be packaged with (and might it be mutually beneficial with) any existing softfork convent proposals?
14) Would CISA have any impact on output destruction versus creation? How would implementation relate to the witness discount?
15) How problematic would the interactive nature of full aggregate CISA be? What strategies might be adopted to ameliorate this?
16) What would be the main downsides and risks of bringing CISA to Bitcoin?
17) How would a CISA-powered for-profit service that could help people save money on fees, if they are willing to enter an interactive pool, work?
18) What other kinds of CISA-powered apps can be envisioned?

The fellowship is being created with the acknowledgement that CISA may not be a helpful or appropriate addition to Bitcoin, but with the open mind that it might be

The fellow will receive 50 million sats to support their efforts during the research and writing period

The research is expected to be on par with the standards established by bitcoinrollups.org, a previous HRF research fellowship paper reviewing rollup technology

To apply, please email cisafellowship@hrf.org before May 15, 2024

Please include relevant information about your industry or academic background, a research plan in terms of who you will speak to, and your current sense of the impact CISA could have for Bitcoin 🙏


https://m.primal.net/HqrJ.png The Age of Fiat. #followthewhiterabbit


Did you see the senate hearings about the UFO stuff already?


https://m.primal.net/HqSh.png  LN to the MOON!


Your flex isn't a flex.

No one cares about your car.
Or your bigwig job title.
Or your watch.

I was just in a room full of c suite execs from fortune 500 companies.

People that have reached the pinnacle of traditional success.

But they aren't in control of their time.

Most of them completely missed their children growing up.

Many of them are unhealthy.

And few of them know how to enjoy life, because they have spent their lives focused on the next rung of the corporate ladder.

Conditioning themselves to live for "someday" that will never arrive.

In their defense, when they started their careers decades ago, it was a lot harder to achieve a high quality of life outside of the big corporate setting.

But now the status symbols they aimed at (the title, the big house, etc.) have lost value.

The new status symbols are:
- Control over your time
- Control over where you work
- Freedom to watch your children grow up
- Ability for your spouse to stay home
- Ability to travel whenever you want
- A fit body and a healthy mind

Just like the old status symbols, nobody really cares whether you achieve these things.

But your family will. And that's what matter most.

So how to get these things?

We live in an age of incredible opportunity.

The opportunities for individuals and small teams to build wealth via business have never been greater.

You no longer need to slave away in an office for decades to bank $10+ million.

Traditional media used to monopolize the power to influence; today that power has been decentralized by platforms like X.

Similarly, corporate influence has lost ground to individual influence.

Authentic individuals are the brands that people now trust.

And people will always prefer to buy from brands they trust.

This is an opportunity for those who recognize it and act upon it. That alone should make you optimistic.

But what if you don't want to start a business?

You can still get there by choosing to save in #Bitcoin

Families that have adopted a Bitcoin standard for their savings have seen dramatic increases in living standards compared to people who save in assets like the S&P500.

For every Lambo-flaunting crypto scammer, there are probably 1,000+ families spending more time together because of Bitcoin.

And at the end of the day, that's the only status symbol that really has any substance.

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Lightning Growth 🚀 https://m.primal.net/HqLb.png


in Satoshi we trust 🙏  https://m.primal.net/HqLa.png


most of the time


https://m.primal.net/HqGq.webp Plebs together strong!


ELON CAN TAKE HIS BLUE CHECK AND SHOVE IT UP HIS ASS.

NOSTR ONLY 🫡

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It’s still hard to believe that Bitcoin is not trading at millions per coin by now but more time to stack sats 🤷♂


FREEDOM MONEY - EPISODE ONE - GIGI |  nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc

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#FreeAssangeNOW

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Don´t buy that stock, buy Bitcoin. Don´t trust, verify.


GOOD MORNING NOSTR, CORRUPT POLITICIANS WILL ATTEMPT BITCOIN BANS, WE WILL MAKE THEM IRRELEVANT. 🫡


The cash limits are deliberately not adjusted to inflation in order to introduce a creeping ban. The war on cash is a war on freedom.


This is the way


Why nostr:
- You own your identity
- Your speech stands on its own
- You can run your own everything
- You own and control your social graph
- You are free to say and do anything, but you are not free from consequences (non-repudiation of cryptographic signatures)
- You can proof realness via proof-of-work, either directly or indirectly
- Proof-of-work is what allows you to successfully combat bots, spam, and trolls, as it brings real cost to destructive actions
- Ownership and realness allows you to build and curate webs of trust, which allows for canonicality without central authority


Is primal an gateway to nostr which does not suck?


Lightning - https://image.nostr.build/ca525d43dfea38574855defd1023ac18e1974b0299548b13893578ed2fc43c91.jpg


FediMint & others could solve this?


Same is true for the Tether fan boys...


How many relays would u recommend?


so far iris