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World be nice if the setup was more automated do that we don't have to "Please email your ssh key and choice of OS to Support"..


The question is not whether the majority of trading volume is speculative daytrading institutions/regulated entities, but whether you still have the ability to carry out your "darknet"/censorship resistant transactions.

I think the day-to-day tx volume will always be short term speculators; it's just human nature. But as long as we still can do txs in a permissionless way if shit hits the fan, we're good.

And we mostly can although there are arguably already many restrictions, in particular on volume. That is the real threat


LFG!


Come on over to LNServer.com for the most affordable lightning channels around.

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What some of our clients are saying about us:

- "LNServer will be ideal for opening well connected channels to your node at cheaper rates. I recently opened with them a 5M channel for a fee of 15,000 sats"

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- "Super node services"

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#bitcoin #lightning #nodes


I have tried to inform you as objectively as possible of what happened in Valencia, the visit of the King and the president of the government today has been the culmination, it has been shown that there are two realities, the reality of politics and the media disinformation and the reality of the people, the reality of the people, the reality of the truth.

I have been fighting for freedom for years, years in which I have had to swallow, I have been called radical, nonconformist, that I should accept what there is, work and shut up. Unfortunately everything that has happened has only proved me right, much to my regret.

I am a Bitcoiner because I suffered first hand the boot of the state on my head, it took from me what I loved the most due to medical negligence, it then wanted to take away the few savings I had due to bureaucratic negligence.

I also lost my house in its day by floods and urban negligence and I did not receive any help, the Valencians have to live with the floods, it comes in our genes.

I have never told my intimacies, but I think it can help you, I have not exactly been lucky in life, but here I am, I am the proof that life goes on, I am the proof that what does not kill you makes you stronger.

I do not know if today will be a before and after, but Bitcoin was a before and after in my life, Bitcoin taught me to fight, to endure, to have dignity, to be a man, to follow yes or yes, to get up if you fall, until the last day, until the last breath, many will sound exaggerated, but Bitcoin gave meaning to my life along with my family.

All this anger that the people have shown today must be channeled as I did, voting is not the solution, the solution comes from self-management, to take power away from the state, politics has never been the solution. In what I can help the Bitcoin community I will always be available, albeit anonymously, but I will be there.

I will continue to report on what happens, although as I say, today has been a before and after and I'm tired, especially mentally.

Cheers, Family and Bitcoin.

Amunt Valencia!


Yes lack of updates (although iirc there was a new version of the Android app "immanent"), but also no response on GH comments.

But good to know things are still progressing 🤙


Welcome to ze Nostr https://image.nostr.build/f07d6d41e0ec07a1f3f4320bb45663b2e6b61cafa7d0b16c028b38ab73bc8e93.jpg


Yo nostr:nprofile1qqstnem9g6aqv3tw6vqaneftcj06frns56lj9q470gdww228vysz8hqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg6waehxw309ahx7um5wghx7unpdenk2urfd3kzuer9wcq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwvd6hyun9de6zuenedyvu6425 - do you know what's up with Holesail? Seems stale for a few months..


This one's pretty good (albeit not cheap). Unfortunately they only ship in 🇩🇪

https://lyacoffee.de/


Yet another example that to get privacy in cryptocurrencies you need privacy at the blockchain level and privacy at the network level.

This last point is not understood by most people, and it is not only enough to use tor, even ecash (cashu) is vulnerable to this.

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Saylor thinks you are a paranoid crypto anarchist if you hold your own keys and don't trust the government.

He has always been a bad actor, I will repeat it as many times as necessary.

https://m.primal.net/LcwW.mp4


Did you know there is a Bitcoin event at the Bundestag today?


SimpleX response to the WIRED article.

"Wired's Attack on Privacy"
https://simplex.chat/blog/20241016-wired-attack-on-privacy.html


- AlbyHub
- phoenixd
- Lite node, ala Valet/Standard_Sats

Doesn't get easier that that. BUT -yes, the majority still won't do it..


The website in your blog does not exist. The correct website of the chain's online shop is https://www.edeka24.de but they do not accept BTC (and doubt they ever had).

FWIW, Lieferando.de (known as Just Eat/Takeaway.com in other countries) accepts Bitcoin/LN -- through Buttpay ☹.
Chances are if you're on a VPN you're asked to log in/register a Bitpay account. Although I had occasions where I just had to provide an email..


Edeka Germany (groceries) does not accept Bitcoin afaik...
Can you share where this information is from?


Sounds like a bit like extra complexity. I'm a simple man, I like direct payouts via Bolt12 offers (like OCEAN)


Pools using eCash to account for user shares?


Junkies, homeless etc


FWIW, there is a UI for Liquidity Ads in RTL (Ride the Lightning) where ppl can easily browse LiqAd offers and take them with two clicks.

(But yes, you need have the --experimental flag enabled first)


New Tails release fixed a critical zero day vulnerability which affected Firefox and Tor and was reportedly actively used to deanonymize Tor users.

https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6-8-1/


Is there a way to get it maybe from the logs?


Where can I see the closing transactions of channels in AlbyHub, nostr:nprofile1qqsdhcrqt2w8x9et446j8ge8kgmd2h4ykc6wsrnc4yqnmdu3lr74ktqpzamhxue69uhh2mtzwfjkctnvda3kzmp6xsurgwqpzamhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpzemhxue69uhkummnw3ezu6m0wdkk7uewdaexwsey249 nostr:nprofile1qqsrxra3gv0lnkxz2pcxh0xuq9k4f9dr7azwq3aypqtnay4w0mjzmtqpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqpzamhxue69uhkzarvv9ejumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucunm6wg ?
All I can see is a notice about the pending channel close, but I want the actual txid..

Thanks 🙏


"Next versions is gonna fix that":TM:

full chain membership proofs.


I wonder if it's not possible (and better) to use Keet/holepunch rooms powered by DHT as a more decentralized way for coordination, instead of Nostr relays.

I can't help but be wary that relay operator will be (forces to) censoring joinstr events , of pressured.


So the client  has an always-on VPN to RiseUp, when they communicate with the relay? Or does it work differently?

(I should read up on it again. It's been a while..)


Joinstr uses Riseup VPN?


It's the sad reality; pleb node runners will usually just install what their respective node package (mynode, raspiblitz, umbrel, start0s etc) recommends them on the main screen.

Which is why the whole "run your own node" is in reality much overblown. But even if ppl ran their nodes and checked the release notes & decided what to run, how many of their day-to-day transactions really *use*  that node, and not the default electrum server baked into whatever mobile wallet they use?

Or what is the consensus block explorer people turn to when they want to "proove" they paid someone? mempool.space, or joeshmo's home node?


Logic Board = mainboard, right?

I like the concept, and those plug&play expansion cards looks also neat. So far I have been always pimping old laptops (which I have plenty; my 10+ year old Acer i5, 16GB RAM is running a perfectly fine Start9OS with bitcoincore, monero, Liquid & CLN nodes on a 4GB SSD) but yeah eventually you run out of options once you hit the CPU or motherboard-RAM limits.

Thanks for sharing. Had never heard of https://frame.work before


(Audio ON 🔊)
https://v.nostr.build/lsHZunkSGn6irpqa.mp4
#meme #funstr #weirdstr


Well MiCA (or was it the latest AML directive? 🤔) explicitly states that "any method that obscures the blockchain origin" (i forgot the exact terminology) is deemed illegal.

It's so broad it'll affect Lightning, Liquid, etc


I'm curious: did you consider using used ThinkPads? Afaik you can also pretty much replace all important parts, and works great with Linux.

(and >50% cheaper)


Great! You'll be happy to know that we're taking the core algorithm of renepay and using it to drive a new payments system in the next release!


Can confirm this works great.
renepay is much better method for paying with a CLN node. Being able to use it on the go with nostr:nprofile1qqsrf5h4ya83jk8u6t9jgc76h6kalz3plp9vusjpm2ygqgalqhxgp9gpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzyrhwden5te0dehhxarj9ekxzmnyqyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskueq555fk2 or nostr:nprofile1qqs8u5uf0rd2p9wmdxxaznpn54tkq8wwspmljy0cjqw6jdgm5kv84dspw9mhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0dec82c338pmn2mfndcmxxur3x3shsmrgwee8q735ddnrgmt3df4rsdm2x4mhxerywee8yu3hx4envemkw4k8w7nrxdengdfcwuerw0mzwfhkzerrv9ehg0t5wf6k2fn8d3hkyctv84skcmq4f0ce8 is a huge step up. 🙏 nostr:nprofile1qqs24sraj5yfee4d7z9ez4k58sdy4dv5ccfsklwtztkpnyqgckqe5tcpg3mhxw309ann2enhw94hvdejd4sksmnsxaexjm3nwasnwv3kw9h85dtcdek85cmexcmnvetsw4h8weth0pjxjvmkd33kxc3jv9jzummwd9hkutcpg3mhxw309umkzafndyexwe3nddnhsum9wdhkuvmzw95hg7nexvervcnfdahkgmfhxf6kvv35vfaxwdthwdh8wut8de6x5um8d9jzummwd9hkutcpg3mhxw309uehyuredd6hwensva4xj6ned56r2umkvda8v7nsvf6hydn5xeurgc3kxakxuansxemhserjv5exxut00ymxzdry09jzummwd9hkutchpc0zh

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If you can, please consider supporting us, so we can label you a far right extremist for wanting a private way to speak freely, and freely associate with others.

Guardian doing great work attacking tools that keep human rights activists safe 👏. https://image.nostr.build/8c02bf593260ed6c3e16113fea338ab9d4a25a29abf53852ce61851b199b4e9b.jpg  nostr:note15ttnvmf6cvps4t4q64kdg9ncnenwt0km7n8w5qv5h35ex83p77jsrf8ta8


Sad to see The Guardian from opposing the surveillance state to simping for it.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/04/telegram-simplex-far-right


Nice 80s action movie poster 😍
Have to watch/listen


Honestly? No.

AlbyHub/NWC , or even phoenixd solves 99% of the use cases i would have for e-cash. Very little i would even need eCash for, let alone considering the custody tradeoffs


The downside of WoT (web of trust) relays:
https://image.nostr.build/d753f4aca0245a9db8ae1d3fe2567bc8c27261e2a46a737573a2dd62f5ee175f.jpg


Morons.

Always have been.


Introducing: 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗠

𝗗ecentralized
𝗔lternative
𝗧emplates for
𝗨niversal
𝗠ining

Read the Press Release here:
https://url-shortener.newsdirect.com/5pu4AhQL

It’s happening.
https://video.nostr.build/a05b3c70a1b6cb9f9089feef6d38fbb2cd8a87baceed57f091692b771bdcf723.mp4


Hey is it technically possible to have zaps to BOLT12 offers?

nostr:nprofile1qqs04xzt6ldm9qhs0ctw0t58kf4z57umjzmjg6jywu0seadwtqqc75sprfmhxue69uhhq7tjv9kkjepwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5hsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0y8qdrm nostr:nprofile1qqsraldwhvwcjgltmxwfu7kw8dqef2692yhzheuurd7k3kfy8cxjdqgpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3samnwvaz7tmhv4kxxmmdv5hxummnw3ezuamfdejsz9thwden5te0v4jx2m3wdehhxarj9ekxzmnype9f6h nostr:nprofile1qqsr9cvzwc652r4m83d86ykplrnm9dg5gwdvzzn8ameanlvut35wy3gpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0wd68ytnsw43qdwkdtx


Can't zap you btw. Timeout


This is cool.
Although I doubt regular Joes can compete with Boltz in terms of fee, since they don't have a Liquid peg out key.

They are dependent on (and pay their fees) PAK holders such as Side swap, Bitfinex or Boltz to rebalance BTC and L-BTC


Invincible Privacy Group

IPG is a group of bitcoiners which is focused on funding bitcoin developers improving privacy. Donors can either donate directly to the recommended projects or contribute in the pool which is used to help developers regularly.

https://invincible-privacy.github.io/donate/


I hear you. But It is one thing to trust the binaries (apk) represent the published code on GitHub;
at least there are people like nostr:nprofile1qqsydl97xpj74udw0qg5vkfyujyjxd3l706jd0t0w0turp93d0vvungppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy08wumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wshsz8thwden5te0dehhxarj9ekh2arfdeuhwctvd3jhgtnrdakj70vc385 who check the builds for us.

Yet not even having the v0.2.3 and v0.2.4 code on GitHub, while binaries of these versions are being distributed via app stores for quite some time.... is pretty meh.
At the very least, unprofessional.

And yes, everybody should install from GitHub/Obtainium 👍

PS: I wished more projects publish Dockerfiles for builds, so regular normies can build themselves. The Build process is oftentimes so poorly documented, and/or requires manual steps that it's just a pain in the ass to build apks yourself, so ppl just trust whatever is published.


Yes, they quickly added it yesterday.
It's still weird (some would say suspicious) that they produced two builds/apks locally, without even pushing the commits to GH.

And then uploaded the apks to Google Play.

Discussed here:
https://x.com/steepdawn974/status/1837435760196137062


This used to be such common knowledge that it didn't even have to be mentioned any more.


lost all people i followed on #primal
there was even an warning sign
but i ignored it!

What happened?
#asknostr


Is AQUA quietly no longer open source, nostr:nprofile1qqsfwecny3krdkc6gdj0j9aesceuhcyqt4r2lzq0ddg22pw5avew63cprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctvqyx8wumn8ghj7cnjvghxjmcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduyakpmn nostr:nprofile1qqsvnvvlln2ru6jlyweayugxecv7ftfdlzd6zqca63sh7x6ercggjegpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq32amnwvaz7tm9v3jkutnwdaehgu3wd3skueqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqsu0f2w ?

You are distributing a v0.2.3 on Google Play, whose source code cannot be found in your repo.
The latest code in GitHub is over a month old, and it's at v0.2.1

https://github.com/AquaWallet/aqua-wallet


Wait, typing one's nsec into some website..isn't that bad?!


GM, the German Government just flat out lied denying the use of chain analysis software.

In an answer to a inquiry made by MPs, the German Government denied the use of chain analysis software for asset seizures – but procurement records show contracts with Chainalysis for German federal agencies, which directly advertises its software for the use of asset seizures.

Questions on the use of mixers to conceal criminal activity were classified as secret citing risks to national security, while the Government responded that the German FIU and customs had received merely 27,000 reports regarding crytocurrency transactions on suspicion of money laundering between 2020-2024, compared to over 280,000 suspicious transaction reports overall in the year 2020 alone.

Full story:
https://www.therage.co/german-interior-ministry-dodges-questions-on-chain-analysis-software-mixer-risks/


Yes. But you are still not fully immune to force closes; these are part of the LN network and if your channel wants to FC on you, they can - no matter which node you have.

But the recommended channel peers in AlbyHub tend to be pretty good in that regard.


Hmm, when I bring up a new AlbyHub v1.8 it still asks me to connect my Alby account during the onboarding to get the Authorization code..

(and yes, I tried deleting ~/.local/share/albyhub)


Thanks. I wasn't familiar with that term (and what it means in practice.)

I already use filter.nostr.wine ..i guess that should do .


AlbyHub does support several backends (LND, CLN, BreezSDK, Greenlight, Cashu etc) - but it also come with its own embedded node (using LDK), which is the easiest nntaleb way to start for fresh users. Just deposit on-chain funds, press Open channel and off you go. Or alternatively, purchase an incoming channel from an LSP


It's the go-to way to self host, hand down. 🙌

Once they remove the requirement to have a getalby account, it'll be truly self sovereign.


What is a WoT relay, and how do I set it in Amethyst?


Another Microsoft company breaching users privacy. 😂 LinkedIn Is Training AI on User Data Before Updating Its Terms of Service https://m.slashdot.org/story/433249  😏


ELI5. Should people add these relays to their client and send their notes to?


Matters nothing if no one subscribes to my personal little relay to read what I have to say.

We've been there like 15 years ago: self hosted blogs, and RSS. It died miserably, bc Users demand easy discoverability. Having to go some (central) repository to look up where we each your frens is posting, is not gonna cut it.


But no, Nostr cannot be censored! 🙃

nostr:nevent1qqs0g68qd2payk6tstw78ch2w2vuf6runexerd7gl8ukjpdl7gerafsprpmhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qgsr9cvzwc652r4m83d86ykplrnm9dg5gwdvzzn8ameanlvut35wy3grqsqqqqqppqa2du


The reporter claims to have “evidence that shows that in several cases German law enforcement authorities were able to locate the Tor entry node of onion services and thus successfully deanonymise Tor users. V2 and V3 onion addresses were affected at least between Q3/2019 and Q2/2021.” The reporter further claims that “law enforcement agencies used so-called timing analyses and broad and long-term monitoring of Tor nodes in data centres.”

🤔

https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays-important-update-on-an-upcoming-german-broadcasting-story-about-tor-onion-services/14656


The Open Dialogue Foundation is working heavily toward educating politicians, and needs much more support imho
nostr:nprofile1qqsg7etgmmkqzg9vk2jdre8rz8ygr5cxcwt2j2ytpgrl2exjpuvxy6qpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctvqy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsmrcrsz


I was interviewed by German weekly ‚Wirtschaftswoche‘ about three years of Bitcoin in El Salvador.
The article came out quite positive but very short.

https://www.wiwo.de/finanzen/geldanlage/kryptowaehrungen-el-salvador-und-der-traum-vom-bitcoin-wunder/29991624.html


Gdzie to jest? W Warszawie?


Yo nostr:nprofile1qqsyv47lazt9h6ycp2fsw270khje5egjgsrdkrupjg27u796g7f5k0spzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcprdmhxue69uhkummnw3ez6vfwde3x7tnpdenkzmnf9e3k75xqss4 , why does one actually need a getalby.com account when spinning up an AlbyHub? What of i just want to connect an NWC to it, and not use all the features of a Alby account?


Damn you ship faster than I can do a `docker pull` 😉


It is self-hosted, and it is already 1.7.3 (see upper left corner).


Robosats' federation is now starting to run their relays and soon there will be a global decentralized order book.

This will reduce load times, keep the book info available even if the coordinator goes down and allow anyone interested on it to have a single place to fetch everything.

And of course, Robosats will be able to easily display orders from other clients out there. 🚀


Hey nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm , I can't find this new Family & Friends app in the App store that was mentioned in the 1.7.2 release notes. Any ideas?

https://image.nostr.build/358f4193b56e1720c63f4fcdb996a0d8991ca1e5bbd5fbebe5584a7262ee2518.png


Sounds like the next court appearance has been moved to September 17th for both devs. Keep showing your support any way you can 👊

https://p2prights.org/donate.html nostr:note1sqkpeuxea4pkznj4uyhj29jwhptczgzc0dvj76twdxcdg04r8h3szf4klp


Looks like this has been raised before. I'll comment there

https://github.com/getAlby/hub/issues/486


Hmm, AlbyHub (/bin/main from Docker) is consuming a full CPU, constantly. Is this normal? nostr:nprofile1qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcprpmhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qghwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8qunfd4skctnwv46z7qghwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxkmmnd4hhxtn0wfnj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcqyrd7qcz6n3e3w2adw536xfajxm24af9kxn5qu79fqy7m0y0cl4djclkvfkk

`docker compose logs` does not show anything unusual though..


📰 On this day 🔹1666

https://www.onthisday.com/images/articles/great-fire-of-london.jpg
Great Fire of London begins at 2am in Pudding Lane, 80% of London is destroyed

#OTD | #PlebChain | #GrowNostr


What's citrine?


Let's hope `pay` is usable now
nostr:nevent1qqsz4nrwasd39d00tknv0y8j75llla8eh6n83raf0hrnpfat27cya0spz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchsyg9e55m4ywa69lx6aptajrv2wcx7fusnnj0epkvx7aruulgwcrgh85psgqqqqqqss6geza


Just got mine set up the other day - am very satisfied.
After having tried every node package your there, i have to say it's the first one that is actually mass compatible for regular (albeit not non technical) people.

Please add a donation button or notification somewhere, so the self hosters have a low friction way to send you some sats


Hmm, I was able to sign into Amethyst, and browse, open DMs etc.

But in the ntfy app, where it did automatically create the subscription, it also just says "Connecting..."

Is there any specific way to test it's doing what it's supposed to? I literally learned Amber + ntfy .. and have little clue what to do


Yes, ntfy. Alright figured it out. Here are the steps:

1) Install ntfy from F-Droid
2) If you have already done so, and there are entries that are of the form ntfy.sh/xGH... ➡ Delete them
3) In ntfy app > Settings > Default Server: change to your self hosted url (e.g https://ntfy.mydomain.tld)
4) In Amethyst, log in with Amber, and follow the poop up steps. The process will make the ntfy app to create a new subscription, but this time to your server (not ntfy.sh)


The "connected with your server" part is the issue.
Do I need to create a Topic on the server first? And then have the app subscribe to it?

Anyway if there was a simple step guide, that would help


Assuming one has an own instance of ntfy running, is there a decent guide on how to set up the whole notification thing properly?


The one thing the absolute vast majority of end users want is relevant Content Discovery.

And it's exactly where Nostr sucks the most (a new user dl Damus or Amethyst will see the Global feed, just find spam, and leave in 5min)

We should not be surprised.


What are the tangible benefits for end users?  Do they get a better global feed, better recommendations, ..?


There is a strong relation between overall activity in the so-called Bitcoin community and the BTC-fiat price.
And when the tide recedes, you just see that many were swimming naked (aka the LARPers).

They just move on to the next thing, but of course always have some really well sounding explanations (McCormack, Nic Carter, etc). Few are actually in it for the Freedom


Been thinking about scaling in #Bitcoin vs #Ethereum lately. Gotta say, I'm not sold on the whole #rollup thing.

Rollups basically create a separate blockchain. Even with trustless bridges, you're splitting your ecosystem. It's like having two competing universes instead of one cohesive system.

Bitcoin's approach with Lightning and Ark? Way more fluid. These are just unconfirmed txs we choose not to broadcast, protected by some clever counterfactual schemes.

Take Ark: mempool empty? Just send on-chain. Congested? Join an Ark round. Same wallet, smooth transition. It's all one system, not two competing layers.

This is why I think Bitcoin's scaling smarter. It's not about adding more blockchains, it's about making the base layer more efficient and powerful.

Curious what you all think. Are rollups really the future, or is #Bitcoin onto something better here? 🤔


Legend
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Why would you need channel management in Amethyst UI? You only have to set it up once and should do in the AlbyHub UI.

Also, i should also support self hosted AlbyHub (but that should be no problem given it's all NWC)


It's the only truly working backup method for eCash. It is known.
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How does backup of the embedded LDK node work? Does one need to save the channel.db a la LND/CLN , or is the seed phrase enough?


Twitter is no longer in Brazil. Long live nostr https://image.nostr.build/cdd523fee98a30549b751c1ce2f3855daac1d6863c30b28b12c508cde42ea74d.jpg


It's arguably very hard. How would someone not an expert on Nostr understand where to publish their notes to to be discovered by their intended followership vs where to Read from, and where to Search for etc.

If you want to make sure you are not missing sth/are bing missed then the rational safe option is simply to blsst to as many big relays as possible, and read from as many as possible. It's just the network effect.

I don't see any careful relay curation strategy can live up to that (beside it being totally impractical as there are many less than 50 ppl worldwide who have the knowledge and skills to actually make it work)


And less than 1% of users do that. 99% just just hit Subscribe > All on whichever top 20 relays their client recommends.

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Adding crypton.sh to the list of options, for reference. Had bookmarked them ages ago, but somehow forgotten


Any good recommendation for a SMS relay solution, e.g. for those 2FA SMS that are tied to linked phone number? (e.g. banks).

basically want to leave a legacy phone with the physical SIM in a fixed location (office etc) but still be able to access the SMS it receives


Why does the nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qyfhwumn8ghj7ur4wfcxcetsv9njuetn9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ukzcnvv5hx7un89uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xwtcprfmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuurvv43xx6rpd9hzummjvuhsz2rhwden5te0dfhhv6tpdskkvatrdpekjcfdv46ks7tzdakkztnnvdshyctz9e5k6tcpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6vfwde3x7tnpdenkzmnf9e3k7tcpzamhxue69uhkvun9deejumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcqypr90hlgjed73xq2jvrjhna4ukdx2yjyqmdslqvjzhh83wj8jd9num45ycm   AlbyHub Start9 package have LND as a hard dependency??
Can't it connect to any of the other node backends? nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy08wumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wshszythwden5te0dehhxarj9emkjmn99uq3xamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvhsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwdaehgu3wvfskuep0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qyvhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndehhyapwwdhkx6tpdshsz8thwden5te0dehhxarj9e3xjarrda5kuetj9eek7cmfv9kz7qpqxv8mzscll8vvy5rsdw7dcqtd2j268a6yupr6gzqh86f2ulhy9kkqe5ldyq  nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytntdaek6mmn9ehhyee0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9mhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wshszxrhwden5te0ve5kcar9wghxummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcqyrd7qcz6n3e3w2adw536xfajxm24af9kxn5qu79fqy7m0y0cl4djcmlx6l2

https://getalby.com/nwc/umbrel_start9


Having set up an own AlbyHub (on Desktop), I was still required to create an getalby.com account which i didn't have. I had thought that "AlbyHub" gives me essentially a self-hosted version of the getalby.com - which I can run under my own domain.

So the stack is as follows (plz correct me if I'm wrong!):

1) getalby.com Account is always required. This acts as the "management UI" of my underlying hub
2) Alby Hub: that's the backend server my mandatory getalby.com Account connects to (through NWC). I can self-host, or use the alby cloud one.
3) LN Node: that is funding source beneath the Alby Hub. Can be bring-your-own-node (LND, CLN, phoenixd, any node via NWC ), embedded (LDK), external (Breezsdk, Greelight)  and connects via the methods the my chonse  implementation supports: gRPC, REST, NWC etc.

If so, then I know where my confusion came from. My natural association with the term "Hub"  is essentially "management UI", i.e. 1).
What you call "AlbyHub" , I would call "Alby Server".

let me know if i got this correct


Well. It's not that Coinpayments.net as a payment processor business would want to run their own node, since their objective is to swap into fiat anyway (they are not self-custodying anyway). They could thus easily just integrate some LN backend API to enable receives: OpenNode, Alby, Lipa, Strike, etc
Would give them another supported payment option at virtually no integration cost.


Finally found the original pictures I scanned of a family friend who owned a gym in Florida back in the day, and was good friends with Terry "The Hulk" Hogan and a few other pro wrestlers you might recognize, like Lex Luger, Sting (whom I met as a kid), The Steiner Brothers, and more!

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https://i.nostr.build/3DNzJWGHpPj00miu.jpg

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https://i.nostr.build/roLwa.gif


Opens the Share menu, but only with messengers. It treats it as an email.

Anyway, doesn't matter. I can copy the note id and add the domain manually


PSA if you use SimpleX. Make sure that you are downloading the application from the correct website.
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Damn, Amethyst thinks it's a hyperlink and puts a http:// I'm front of the lnaddress


Yes, it's a nice workaround. You'll essentially try to be Barney.
I just wonder how many people actually do run the infrastructure to keep copies of their notes (and images!!!) to be able to rebroadcast them at any point.

https://image.nostr.build/bc7da2994bcad67c46fa4cfac8060048b4dbe1ff9eae0b3378e445eb1db8578c.jpg


"run your own relay" yes- you are making my point.
It's the same as hosting my blog, my own YT etc. It's the only way to be self-sovereign, but with no reach and unlikely to be discovered.

We had open protocols before to access dispersed self-sovereign notes and blogs (RSS), yet it failed to catch on and people gravitated to the big platforms Medium, Substack etc.

Nostr is also essentially the set of "relevant" central relays which everybody subscribes to to find and be found. We trust them to continue to behave honestly.


"And Other Stuff" over Relays.  Nostr is used not just for shit postings.


What are any good Sports Torrent trackers out there?


Yep exactly my point.


LOL. Bitcoin has some 10,000 nodes, which all constantly replicate all data amongst each other.

With Nostr I publish data to a set number of relays (11 in my case), and the data is not rebroadcast. If they delete it, it's gone forever (and I dont even notice)


Great no one can alter my notes, but they can be suppressed by the relays or deleted altogether. I really have no guarantee that what I want to tell the world, can be seen by the world; I have to trust that some unknown operator(s) will be so kind to serve it.

If I want to make really sure stuff exists and is accessible to everyone (e.g. my blogs Git repos, Shopstr listings, etc), then I am back to self hosting.


New EU Vaccine Passport Raises Concerns Over Data Privacy and Control https://image.nostr.build/03b281d17fbdba9507eee454f2226db649a4d0125ddf3b4b95ac7a91f0b1ba88.jpg
Starting September 1, 2024, Germany will launch a pilot for the new EU Vaccine Passport as part of a broader initiative called "European Vaccination Beyond Covid-19" (Euvabeco). This initiative, set to roll out across the European Union by 2026, will not only document vaccinations but also integrate personal health data, effectively placing citizens' private information at the fingertips of state and institutional powers.

The EU claims this project will empower citizens, but the reality suggests otherwise. Under the guise of public health, the European Union is trampling on individual freedoms, further tightening its grip on the personal lives of its citizens. This move, aligned with the World Economic Forum's broader agenda, leaves little room for dissent. Any semblance of opposition is muted, as most political forces either comply or turn a blind eye, leaving the path wide open for a future of total surveillance and control.

Despite this radical shift toward centralized authority, public consultation was minimal and controlled, highlighting the EU’s disregard for genuine democratic engagement. The quiet rollout of this program signals a disturbing trend—one where personal freedom is sacrificed on the altar of "public good" with little to no resistance.

As Europe heads down this path of digital health tyranny, the erosion of privacy and autonomy becomes inevitable. The window to resist this overreach is closing fast, and without a significant pushback, the infrastructure of total control will soon be fully operational.

#EU #VaccinePassport #PrivacyInCrisis #TotalControl #DavosAgenda


Name me a single person who is part of the committee that approved this. Unknown behind the scenes decision makers.

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I learned 'the Cloud is just someone else's server' (which can't be trusted/relied on). How is Nostr any different ?

#askNostr


🚨 For the first time, a government is being overthrown by 3D-printed weapons 🔫

The longest-lasting civil war today took an unexpected turn... when the resistance adopted plastic weapons and cryptocurrencies.

You NEED to know what's happening in Myanmar 👇

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Myanmar has never had political stability since gaining independence 76 years ago.

The latest coup was in 2021, banks were drained, and the local currency lost 60% of its value in the following months.

Rebels have since been using CRYPTO to finance themselves.

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They declared TETHER as the official currency 🏅

They launched a stablecoin and a crypto bank on the Polygon network that accesses Uniswap pools for buying and selling currencies.

They even created a digital lottery and boycotted the national Myanmar lottery, which saw its revenue drop by 80% 📉

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The rebels have raised about $100 million in recent years.

They even auctioned "revolutionary bonds": buyers could receive a share of a deposed general's mansion, for example.

But this $100 million is nothing compared to the nearly $1 billion that the junta has invested in the war since the coup.

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This ASYMMETRY of resources suggests a protracted conflict with no end in sight.

The junta is unable to eliminate all the decentralized insurgency hotspots... but it can exhaust them financially.

However, the asymmetry is decreasing, thanks to DISSIDENT TECHNOLOGIES...

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JStark would be proud.

In recent months, there have been reports of FGC9s in use in Myanmar.

FGC9 is one of the most popular models of self-made firearms.

FGC = Fuck Gun Control

No one conquers a city with FGC9s.

But it is certainly possible to...

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... defend a mountain pass or a village surrounded by forest with them.

Moreover, the resistance has mastered the art of producing and piloting homemade patrol drones.

Check it out 👇

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The insurgents have already liberated ~50% of the territory.

The military junta controls the most populous and economically significant areas.

China supported the last coup in 2021. The West never had enough incentive to confront Beijing 🇨🇳

But in 2024, everything starts to change.

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China's interest is economic.

They need to be on the side of the "winner" to ensure access to Myanmar's strategic pipelines and ports.

But in March of this year, Beijing lost its patience.

Hold on to this:

😳 44,000 CHINESE were in Myanmar as "slaves"...

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...and they were finally discovered and "returned."

They were working in "ONLINE SCAM CENTERS" operating in the northern part of the country. They were lured with fake job advertisements.

This is a scam center on the border with Thailand, packed with Chinese workers, scamming people worldwide 👇

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Think about this 👇

You’ve probably been targeted by some online profile trying to scam you, operated by one of the THOUSANDS of trafficked Chinese people working in centers like this.

What year are we living in, folks?! 😳

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The fight against tyranny still seems far from over. But the end appears to have already begun.

The balance of power is shifting.


Keet is not, despite all the gaslighting.

Some 500+ libraries are, and they say that Keet is just a UI for these. But no one can verify that claim - you have to trust them that the Keet binary does not contain some additional malicious code


Yeah you're weird. Both are just represented as a digital balance in an app. Why would one feel more tangible than the oyher?


I hope Nostr doesn't shine during the social media bans the way Bitcoin shined during the Candian trucker protests..


Exactly!!


Yeah, CONTRIBUTING should be basic instructions on forking, branch setup/naming, setting up Dev environment, making a good PR etc


If you can, run a #SignalProxy !

https://x.com/signalapp/status/1822040090157133869


I am now a strong advocate that all free relays should delete all non-metadata content (not kind 0, 3 and 10002) after 90 days.

Most users not only seem fine with it but don't really care about saving their notes at all. They are here for the moment and not to build a database of posts they can look back on. Those who are here to build content are already paying for relays.

Then all free relays should offer a paid option that simply keeps all posts for as long as the user pays. Relays can use the NOTIFY spec to warn users they are about to delete some of their stuff.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/901


The US just recommended a 30-year prison sentence for alleged Bitcoin Fog operator Roman Sterlingov.

Sterlingov's case became known as the case to "put cryptocurrency tracing on trial", as much of the evidence presented was collected using Chainalysis' blockchain analysis software Reactor – The prosecution "haven’t pointed to any smoking-gun digital evidence retrieved from Sterlingov’s possessions or devices", as WIRED reported following Sterlingov's arrest.

Chainalysis described Sterlingov's guilty verdict as setting precedent for "Chainalysis blockchain analytics being used by prosecutors as evidence when they take criminals to court", arguing that the verdict "affirms the ways in which our solutions have become the industry standard, made possible by our partners in government who use our tools everyday to fight illicit activity".

The only problem: experts believe that the government's got the wrong guy, and that the jury has convicted a user of Bitcoin Fog as its operator – arguing that Chainalysis' tools are "flawed" and "shouldn't be trusted to convict defendants when they face decades in prison".

2024 is the year of dangerous precedents in which not just your right to privacy is on the line, but the very question of how much science matters in a court of law when it comes to BTC.

All the tea:

https://www.therage.co/bitcoin-fog-sentencing/


Satstralia is now posting all their 38383 orders to its own nostr relay and synchronizing with a clearnet relay hosted in wss://nostr.satstralia.com

Everything seems to work, likely next week or so all coordinators will be able to post an sync orders between each other. And after that, fetching this data from the client app should be easy peasy.

Decentralized Cache 🤘

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Oof. This gonna happen at bitcoin conferences eventually? https://image.nostr.build/87164cf5ac29e74beae488186229a19ba3e0073ca990e9bf93949022d14b8b99.jpg https://image.nostr.build/242d65a0720655dbcf8011fc161de459c392a8c5dbeaaf4f4912096cc7870dd8.jpg


1) Every project seeking collaboration should have a CONTRIBUTING[.]md page with guidelines.

You wouldn't believe how many people are struggling with and are afraid of the basics:
Do I need to fork first? Should the change be a branch on my fork, or on master? How to do a proper PR? Etc

2) Maintainers should provide Good First Issues on GH , well scoped, with clear description and what's expected (DOD), and (most importantly) hints/instructions how to get started to encourage

3) These would ideally by encouraged by bounties (sats)

The absolutely most brilliant reference project on how to encourage and empower collaborators is nostr:nprofile1qqsq4qcw4c0z3jq3nlselj46qxumysl8hndd8sgy89r6nxq2c8jlspspzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0j5k08k .


This is not new phenomenon, it's called Tragedy of the commons.

You obviously could make them all payable, but then ppl would just use the "free" alternative (Twitter)

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If ppl checkout with Google Pay on online purchase (not contactless on a POS), do you still see card holder name, card number etc? I would have assumed if Apple/Google Pay is used, always only DPAN is transmitted


Venezuela is restricting all social networks including WhatsApp.

Learn how to use Simplex for several reasons:

- There is no central server to censor.
- You can set up your own server in 5 minutes.
- They can't find out your identity.

https://simplex.chat


yes, sure! that's what we build it for.
In the extension you use the NWC connection right now for this.
Add a new connection in the Hub with the permissions you like. then go to the Extension and "connect a wallet", "find your wallet" and use NWC.


Or maybe that was Pairdrop? Need to check again and test LocalSend


Can't get it to work when running ProtonVPN (even if both devices are on the same VPN server)


"All because the EU has no mechanism for self-correcting its legislative failures, even with years of evidence in the bag. The bureaucratic maze almost guarantees that all the noble intentions eventually find a dead end in which to get stuck" 💯

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Afaik (I'm not an expert here), Apple pay/Google pay et al generate a device specific Device PAN (essentiy a fake Id) of your card, and they only transfer a token to the merchant. I.e. the merchant does not see your actual card number, nor who you are. Apple/Google of course do..

Merchants can track DPANs to e.g. identify recurring purchases of you (without knowing who you are). But the same Credit Card on different devices will generate different DPANs...so you could add your one card to diff wallets to throw off the tracking a bit (not very practical though)

That's what I could find on the topic:

https://support.stripe.com/questions/how-do-card-numbers-work-with-apple-pay-and-google-pay-and-what-is-dynamic-last4


Can I connect the Alby Browser extension to my own self-hosted AlbyHub on my domain?


Their payment processor (Coinpayments.net) no longer supports Lightning :(

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I remember listening to Stadicus on a podcast right when the BitBox02 came out (was still quite a noob), explaining their approach to privacy and fully open source - and I know this is the only HWW I'd trust.
Never looked back since 🤙


Great work demonstrating this attack!

The BitBox02 was actually the first wallet to fix this:

https://bitbox.swiss/blog/anti-klepto-explained-protection-against-leaking-private-keys/


but building on lightning is still a pain, and getting it reliable with all the moving parts is still close to impossible.
we’ll get there, luckily we’re all excited early adopters here, aren’t we?


The problem is not the trading. But assuming that BTC will magically make you money, while you fuck around with your hobbies.

BTC is censorship resistant money, not some automatic magic "NgU tech"


Indeed.

NWC + own node and/or a self-hosted AlbyHub are also great alternatives


NORWAY IS GOING TO BAN BITCOIN MINING WITHOUT PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS -
WE NEED TO ACT NOW

Norway's Ministry of Digitalisation and Public Administration responded to @ODFoundation that it "has no plans to conduct a public consultation" on a ban on cryptocurrency mining.

There is no doubt that the ban designed to target #Bitcoin mining. Unfortunately, that's a stance of the @Stortinget and the Norwegian government.
https://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Publikasjoner/Innstillinger/Stortinget/2023-2024/inns-202324-383s?all=true#m2

🔴 Why we should protect our #freedomtech Bitcoin in #Norway NOW:

(1) Norway is fully integrated in the European Single Market throught the European Economic Area (EEA) and Schengen Agreement. It means Norway can provide its legilsative approach as an input for new legislation for the EU/EEA both:
- during the preparatory phase, when the @EU_Commission is developing proposals;
- during work of expert groups and committees of the European Commission;
- submitting proposals and comments to European Free Trade Association on upcoming legislation.

(2) As a co-founder of the @OECD , Norway sets an example of regulation worldwide and provides its legislative recommedations for global standards.

(3) Norway has historically been a place to meet, share experiences and educate human rights defenders and bitcoiners from around the world.

Norwegian goverment will present its investigation a ban on cryptocurrency mining by the end of 2024.

🔴 What we should do together to prevent Bitcoin mining ban:

(1) Repost this post and join our #BTC Coalition to educate local communities and media about social benefits of Bitcoin mining in Norway and worldwide;

(2) Help us pool resources and best practices to convince Norwegian politicians and media to explore the social benefits of Bitcoin to prevent this repressive regulation;

(3) If you are a Norwegian citizen: write a letter to your legislator and government asking for public consultation and providing arguments about the social benefits of Bitcoin mining for Norway.

🧡 https://video.nostr.build/8c4d22ba81461b980e8de30b0b4d90831eba257efd45e501408fdd26836ee9f0.mp4


Sad to hear this. Mutiny has been prime on what what is currently possible in Lightning on mobile. If they couldn't sustain it without going custodially, i doubt anyone can.

From an end user UX perspective we really have not progressed much further than 2019' nostr:nprofile1qqsvtnw4wdly0a2zdjw75fpszggja430hfa4x3ugdqtqdault2uks2spr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9upjesmn (lite wallet with reliable Sent + custodial component for Receive, up to a limit)


Important update: Mutiny Wallet will be winding down operations by the end of the year.

We're exploring new directions as a company. For full details on the shutdown and our future plans, please read our latest blog post: https://blog.mutinywallet.com/mutiny-wallet-is-shutting-down/


This. It really is about if you have a daddy who will fund your habit

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Phoenix, while being a great wallet/service, market dominance is not healthy.

For instance, they know balances (and when they pay/get paid) of all their user's nodeIds - and once you share an invoice or BOLT12 publicly they can now tie it to your social.

We should not put so much trust into one entity (even though they have been a good actor so far)


Carvalho wants to have a word LOL (Except that he's just busy hot taking on Twitter and conferences while Bitkit has been a shit show)

Joke aside, Mutiny pretty much has been apex in what is currently achievable mobile yet self-custody LN..and it still wasn't enough.
This is a sad day


The halving also didn't do shit, despite all these price model promises. Yet pundits come up with new wild excuses why Bitcoin today is stuck at the same price as 3 years ago when Taleb announced he sold all his BTC, everybody yelled "NGMI".

The problem is: all these price projections are based on historical data when the economy was in the longest and biggest economy bull market since the war. The "everything bubble" lifted every boat, incl. BTC (albeit over-proportionally). None of this means anything in a world of crisis and war


Also: http://holesail.io/
(although no reverse proxy)


Thanks for the tip. I had little clue what these were about, but Kagi fastgpt-powered search  helped me out. Traditional Google search is so dead https://image.nostr.build/05d425ad943ebee8107a49ae120af4279979614e61584e5d1aac1239c1
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Luckily, thanks to gun control, everyone in Venezuela is at a very low risk of being killed by an assault rifle… see guys, tyranny is good. nostr:note1eaf2ufws33kaxelfvrm2ekwntk2ur0r3v0mq8uma25hwjxtm63rqvwtquz


EUSSR is looking for a real time system to scan for DSA violations. Tender started

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Any plans on wrapping this into an executable/daemon a la phoenixd? 👀


Dafuq?!
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Tip for a chill day in Paraguay - find a body of water, throw in some meat, sit down and watch piranhas do their work. It's like feeding ducks, but better.

https://video.nostr.build/65f7e0c1def778e088f1af906c7f3f220126e7ddef0913fff57497187664b911.mp4


Nothing shows the little respect he has for Bitcoin more than this quote 😂😂😂

"Have a good time with your bitcoin, your crypto, and everything else that you’re playing with"
Trump

YOU COULDNT END A SPEECH ANY WORSE AT A BITCOIN CONFERENCE 😂


💯
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Pathetic! 🤮🤡
P.S. I wanted to visit El Salvador before the shills took over, but seems like it’s not gonna happen any time soon!
https://m.primal.net/JgOb.mov


Yeah I know. Was just curious. Thanks.


Jacek Karpińśki, the computer genius the communists couldn't stand (2017)

Link: https://culture.pl/en/article/jacek-karpinski-the-computer-genius-the-communists-couldnt-stand
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41072026


Is the embedded LDK node considered to be mainly a spending node, or could you run it as routing node as well? (Although I'm not sure there's any good tooling out there for rebalancing channels etc)


Sonos never worked on a VPN. So I force-ditched my speakers years ago. What a shitshow of a company

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“Bitcoin conference” 🤡 #bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/618f346969c57a47f1e6c716503ed1eb22a49d61bda6244fb72e7b9296b64244.jpg


🤭🤭

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Samsung-Handy des Trump-Attentäters in nur 40 Minuten geknackt

Mit neuer Cellebrite-Software wurde das Handy des Trump-Attentäters in nur 40 Minuten geknackt, berichtet Bloomberg. Es soll sich um ein Samsung-Gerät handeln.

https://www.heise.de/news/Samsung-Handy-des-Trump-Attentaeters-in-nur-40-Minuten-geknackt-9806380.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Android #DonaldTrump #FBI #Smartphone #Samsung #news


Linux/BSD and Bitcoin have so much in common...

In the same way Windows and Fiat money have so much in common...

If you want to see the future of Bitcoin look at the future of Linux, the trajectory will be similar.

Linux dominates the server world, the 500 most powerful computers in the world use Linux, 99% of servers are Linux, the commoners still use Windows and that's the way it goes, the shitty companies still use Windows and that's the way it goes.

In general the majority of computers use Windows and the retards tell you that Linux is very difficult, Linux is not difficult what happens that we do not care about making things easy for retards, in life you have to work a little, the same also happens with Bitcoin, is that opening a lightning channel is very difficult, then stay with your shitty visa card.

We have created a world of retards where to reach the masses you have to make things extremely easy and this is one of the problems of today's world.


Guys, I started working at the cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike. Today is my first day. Four hours ago, I pushed major code to production. I am so proud of myself 🧑🏻💻👍🥰


Bullish on self-hosting companies

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Gemini AI Platform Accused of Scanning Google Drive Files Without User Permission https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/07/15/204200/gemini-ai-platform-accused-of-scanning-google-drive-files-without-user-permission?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon


Anyone?

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Has anyone here on Nostr have experience with the Volla non-Google privacy phone?

#asknostr

 https://volla.online/en/


And it allows you to accumulate a larger balance off chain, before converting into a UTXO.

UTXOs <1m may well become economically unviable in the future


Some mobile LN wallets generate a random node id on each receive -- and are compatible with 🤖Robosats.

E.g. Valet  https://github.com/standardsats/valet


But can it trick KYC video verification?


Das BKA bestätigt heute nicht nur, dass Kindesmissbrauch in aller Regel (über 90%) aus der Umgebung geschieht. Es meldet auch einen Höchststand an Falschverdächtigungen (fast 100.000) aufgrund der freiwilligen #Chatkontrolle 1.0.

Mein Kommentar: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/bka-hoechststand-an-falschverdaechtigungen-aufgrund-der-freiwilligen-chatkontrolle/


https://i.imgur.com/iexBI5J.jpeg

As promised, here’s my Lightning Server repo – it implements your Lightning Address and blows up your phone with push notifications anytime you receive a payment! Zaps (NIP-57) are integrated along with some other fun features… Oh, and you can set your address to an emoji, e.g., ⚡@dplus.plus.

I hope this helps someone; I have been working hard on it! 🖤

🔗 https://dplus.plus/lightning-server


This is what mullvad browser tells me if I click an X link using primal desktop.
https://m.primal.net/IrgB.png


Nostr is inevitable
Bitcoin is inevitable
Death is inevitable
Taxes are inevitable
The sun rising is inevitable

Me being tired of all the 'x is inevitable' shit is inevitable.

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Wow I didn't even know that. Really bad.

But in general, the Nostr protocol is just not private, but pseudonymous - and thus succeptible to the same dragnet-style surveillance as Bitcoin. You just need to collect enough metadata..


but the relay operator can always log incoming connections and IP addresses, no? Outside of the Nostr protocol. So they are huge data collection honeypots


Having a permanent public record of all my npub's activity, plus associated metadata (IP address, timing) - it feels like a disaster to happen.
Not having an option to roll over your identity into a new npub is a major issue for.

It's like constant address reuse in Bitcoin.


DuckDB seems like a pretty cool project. Anyone have practical experience with it? Are there any gotchas?

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H.O.R.N.E.T Storage Nostr Relay Launch🐝

Live Demo of Panel 📟
https://hornetstorage.net/

Nostr Relay & Panel in Alpha 💾
https://github.com/HORNET-Storage/hornet-storage
https://github.com/HORNET-Storage/hornet-storage-panel

Toggleable Storage Support 🎛
- Unchunked files as Blossom Blobs🌸
- Chunked files as Scionic Merkle Trees🎄

https://v.nostr.build/BRQ0D.mp4


*not work equally (damn autocorrect)

And if you you run also lnbits, you can even connect your phoenixd to Zeus. Here's a package

https://github.com/bitkarrot/lnbits-phoenixd


This is a very good read (well, listen) on the history and topology of p2p networks/protocols
https://fountain.fm/episode/gRChg0Y0KMGvScxtXeKJ


Absolutely phenomenal talk by nostr:nprofile1qqsglcljg053zgvpsyrcwh23hjj08l84gdph42t329gweqpkxkynn3gpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcva6atu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_8KhEBy4WA


Well. Not *pointless*
But it will likely but work equally on all devices/setups, if relying on phone wakeup. See Graphene.
I'd prefer to just have an always-on Raspi with phoenixd running, and be on the safe side


Change the code! 🤣

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phoenixd is the answer. Lightning just needs an online device - trusting on some phone wakeup is just a hack and destined to fail under too many circumstances


Yes, LNbits-bridge (via lndhub) is what I'm currently using. But It's not showing the same balance as phoenixd...i think it gets confused with that unspendable credit/reserve balance. Besides, the lnbits code base makes me really nervous; not leaving more than 100k sats on there

Native Zeus support would be nice.


Wen Zeus node interface for phoenixd?


Channels here! Get your channels!

https://lsps1.olympusln.com/

You no longer need to use ZEUS to get channels from Olympus. All you need is a lightning node!


600.000 Kunden betroffen: Südkoreanischer ISP soll Malware installiert haben

Ein koreanischer ISP soll absichtlich Malware auf Kundenrechnern installiert haben, um die Nutzung von Filesharing-Diensten zu drosseln.

https://www.heise.de/news/600-000-Kunden-betroffen-Suedkoreanischer-ISP-soll-Malware-installiert-haben-9783584.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#BitTorrent #Filesharing #Malware #news


Are 'Immortal Stars' Feasting on Dark Matter in the Milky Way's Core? https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/06/29/0252245/are-immortal-stars-feasting-on-dark-matter-in-the-milky-ways-core?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon


What is the best way to connect phoenixd to Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC)?
#asknostr


.nostr:npub1atn7mlwt08erz4ap47gef92xfey65a4z9ed9vec53u5kc9v94pusl6h4x3 & I are recording with Braidpool tomorrow. What questions do you have? Anything goes, don't be shy ;)

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Yes, that was a glorious tournament 🤙


Blinded Authentication Tokens in Mutiny
Mutiny's unique privacy-preserving approach to solving lightning addresses with fedimint and blind authentication tokens.
https://blog.mutinywallet.com/blinded-authentication/

Mutiny has an informative blog post on exactly how they managed to add privacy to LNURLs.

They use a Fedimint gateway and issue ecash to the user to redeem using their public key, but they go further by blinding the addresses themselves! The privacy aspect is looking less like a nice-to-have and more like a necessary part with the DoJ starting to crack down


World Champion now ;) https://image.nostr.build/868ac42bd7aaa4841ff16d0a65fe99b6c7fe3a73586c6a5dcfdac254099ea215.jpg


🫡 https://image.nostr.build/80dd16aac83ed4a2b6e45e404baf508741b9d9809ab1bbf8a6c6ad17afaf0aa2.jpg


Few.

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The same for Kagi. Although you can just provide any address, no checks...


We've just published Nirvati 0.0.10.

This release contains a few bug fixes and allows you to "lock" individual apps with your username and password.

It is available via the update menu on existing setups and at https://get.nirvati.org for new setups.


There are two forms of Sybil protection in Joinmarket, because of the taker-maker asymmetry. Both forms use utxo ownership. The takers have to produce what we call a "PoDLE", a commitment to a proof of discrete logarithm equivalence - in English, they publish a hash and have to reveal the utxo behind that hash to makers that agree to join with them, revealing the utxo behind it. The attack this dissuades: constantly spamming request to find out maker utxos. If someone can see all the makers' utxos they can deanon coinjoins, so it's a "snooping" attack. With PoDLE you are quite heavily rate limited in how many coinjoin requests you can make.

See the first two articles on my blog (P(o)ODLE and Racing against Snoopers) for more on that. https://reyify.com/blog/racing-against-snoopers-in-joinmarket-0.2

The makers have to publish a fidelity bond, as others have noted. See docs/ subdirectory in joinmarket-clientserver for some explanation and links to further explanation.

Fidelity bonds directly dissuade Sybilling and are much weightier, in general (the size of the utxo involved tends to be large), but note that in neither case are utxos spent, they are just held (for PoDLE) or timelocked (for FB). And FB UTXOs are actually published, which is a bad thing; I've recently spent a lot of time looking for efficient utxo set proofs, partly motivated by that.

(Although it's a bad thing, those utxos can be completely separate from utxos used in coinjoins, so it's not *that* bad.)


One needs to clone himself to listens to all these great talks at dev/hack/day


Maximum retard level: Donate your bitcoins to politicians who will then tax you.


Hello world!


Analyse: Streit in der Nix Community – geht alles den Bach runter?

Es gibt Streit im Nix-Projekt. Worum geht es dabei und welche Folgen hat das? Ein Überblick vom Nix-Experten Jacek Galowicz.

https://www.heise.de/news/Analyse-Streit-in-der-Nix-Community-geht-alles-den-Bach-runter-9742743.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#OpenSource #news


Don't make me look up the tweets, Guy...


Nevermind. Found it here nostr:nevent1qqsr3tphmpy4avzwxdpcewg25ew4j45ynj24m34k7u8pl4cltw90mmcprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0d4hhxarj9ecxjmntqgsfdjrhvhvspvtf7h7a30qeh7tmmrrdzcllg94gn4zuhd72cjxfgvcrqsqqqqqpjh4sc8


That being said: Have not heard about Holesail yet, and can't find anything online.
Are there some notes somewhere?


And I could totally accept it (although not use it), it they would constantly make this gaslight claim "Look, it's open source" while the app clearly isn't


Or so they say (Keet just being a Ui slapped on top the Foss 🍐 runtime)...

I'd rather not trust, but verify.


👀 Wow.

@GrassFedBitcoin
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.]

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 longer 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.

_________________

https://x.com/GrassFedBitcoin/status/1796311998466003418


Linux: root-Lücke wird aktiv missbraucht

Die IT-Sicherheitsbehörde CISA warnt vor aktiven Angriffen auf eine Linux-Lücke. Angreifer verschaffen sich damit root-Rechte.

https://www.heise.de/news/Linux-Luecke-Angreifer-verschaffen-sich-root-Rechte-9742699.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Linux #Security #Sicherheitslücken #news


#WhereIsTDevD


Huge Google Search Document Leak Reveals Inner Workings of Ranking Algorithm https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/28/2236255/huge-google-search-document-leak-reveals-inner-workings-of-ranking-algorithm?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon


Saylor finally comments about development on the new WBD podcast and it isn't great. Props to Peter for the constant pushback because Saylor fumbled hard.

I really got sick of him conflating open source development with government, and I really really got sick of the hyperbole of adding numbers to our numerical system and finally I really really really got sick of him constantly insinuating bitcoin developers don't know what they're doing.

This guy is bad news for bitcoin development.


I don't know why you are surprised, Saylor only uses Bitcoin for his own benefit, with Microstrategy he already made it clear that he simply took advantage of the gap of an ETF in the market, that's the only reason why he bought Bitcoin, not because he believes in its principles.

Saylor is an agent Smith.

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Yeah I know.. having one board with 4 or 8 ASIC chips would be ideal for home mining, and a good form factor for immersion.


What `kind` number should I choose for joinstr events?

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips?tab=readme-ov-file#event-kinds


Excellent blog post by nostr:npub168euw93e4cam59llcmydav0akwjk2p4nfy3p85pn22xv9y2jxuzq4s9uaw 👌

https://mullvad.net/en/why-privacy-matters/going-dark


I want to see builds with immersion cooling, ideally multiple boards at once.


Twitter web on mobile seems to be broken.

Seen one account where all buttons are gone, another one is with endless loop trying to log in.

Anyone else seeing the same?


*Hopefully


Hollow he didn't try the Super Jab me!


Friendly reminder to fill out this quick Shopstr Research Survey to help us make Shopstr better!

As a thank you, everyone who completes this survey will receive 1K Sats as a zap. If you have already filled out the survey, we will follow up to send you the Sats.

Additionally, if you complete this survey you could be chosen for a follow-up study. Those who eventually qualify and participate in the research study will receive 30k Sats as a thank you!

Survey link: https://forms.gle/mWC9Gr5ntj5HaKuB6


Undisclosed WhatsApp Vulnerability Lets Governments See Who You Message https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/05/22/1829203/undisclosed-whatsapp-vulnerability-lets-governments-see-who-you-message?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon


🇬🇧 🚨Alert: The #ChatControl proposal which has been stalling could be adopted by EU governments after all. The "compromise": Either you agree to have your chats scanned or you can no longer share pictures/videos! Read all about it: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/let-yourself-be-monitored-eu-governments-to-agree-on-chat-control-with-user-consent/


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Animated QR codes finally made it into the live-version of npub.cash 🤙💜

Not all wallets support the format yet, but most do. I took this opportunity to give the modal some touch ups as well 👀 https://video.nostr.build/c007e85c2cea68ee511123252aac6aa568aae794d1201168658d435f0d11d5d4.mp4


Meanwhile in Arnhem, Bitcoin city of The Netherlands. Awesome Bitcoin posters are been spotted by JD and NGU technology. Adopting Bitcoin soon... Follow nostr:npub1uv2tr83c5y7k82af6zdzlqs8m0klcmndd8u5vmlg2eyrskld6uzsv4rmr8 to discover more. #Arnhem #bitcoin #btc
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21M (instead of N26) 😉


You know, someone should actually dig into the regulation whether *actual banks could not operate an ecash ledger* instead of traditional account based ones.

Wouldn't be surprised if it's not specifically defined, but rather a "always done so"

nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg could open an actual Cashu bank (licensed) in Malta or Lithuania 😜🤘


🎧

https://fountain.fm/episode/dXe9ofoqdk80yzgAFdGG


Since returning from Bitcoin++ in Austin, I've been trying to alternate between working on Lightning one week, and Bitcoin hacking on the other.

Mainly, I've been finishing my Script interpreter cpp modification so I can make more comprehensive benchmarks. I've also given in and ordered a raspberry pi 3, 4 and 5 to benchmark.

I hope to answer the key questions on what a realistic budget for large stack objects should be. In particular, there are four reasonable limits on their size (I'm not considering changing the 1000 stack element limit, since that seems roomy!)

1. 520 bytes. We are here now, but as Script gets better that will be very limiting.
2. 520,000 bytes: simply limit the total stack size, not individual entries.
3. 4,000,000 bytes. This allows you to put the largest possible transaction on the stack. But you need a total limit of at least twice this, so you can make a copy: you can't do much in script without doing this!
4. 400,000 bytes. If number 3 is too much of a reach, this means you can put any standard tx on the stack. Again, you want a total limit of at least twice this.

My laptop, with something stupid like 26MB of level 3 cache, and my build machine with 32MB, can handle this fine. But what about the Pi?

I'll find out next week...


Telegram, the secure messenger 😂

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


IBEX halting operations in the US.
https://i.nostr.build/GeXeQ.png
nostr:npub16vrkgd28wq6n0h77lqgu8h4fdu0eapxgyj0zqq6ngfvjf2vs3nuq5mp2va We just onboarded our butchers with them... Time to get a BTC Pay Server set up instead.


Well akchually.. you are _increasing_ your risk of getting rugged (by any one mint) the more mints you use


64 months in prison for developing privacy software.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2024/05/14/tornado-cash-developer-alexey-pertsev-found-guilty-of-money-laundering/


Microsoft Creates Top Secret Generative AI Service Divorced From the Internet for US Spies https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/07/162220/microsoft-creates-top-secret-generative-ai-service-divorced-from-the-internet-for-us-spies?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon


Iris & Snort users: how do you find the "For you" feed? Do you use "for you" or "follows"?

Personally I'm finding "for you" more interesting. It's not great, but it brings up new posts every time and it's not dominated by chat messages in Japanese.


Nostr users can now follow Bluesky accounts thanks to a combination of the Mostr Bridge and  nostr:npub1pqr3g2gk3vsnrqk9kwfqqcxc6d5cwjr0hyc0nlzz9py5nf92vd9sn02sck! Learn how to follow Bluesky users from #Nostr:

https://soapbox.pub/blog/follow-bluesky/


Yes. It is directionally correct


These are the _maximum_ personal tax rates, not what people actually pay.


Here is why you lost your funds on the LNbits “demo” server.

For invoices the field for checking if a payment was completed or not was `paid` (on PaymentStatus), but the code checked for `pending`, which did not exist, and not None is True. So the payment got marked paid.

I don’t know how this code passed tests, QA, and how there were no audits on inflow/outflow compared tk LNbits wallet balances.

This is not on any released versions thankfully.

https://github.com/lnbits/lnbits/blob/1988dd12f2e59a914c25a146b9f45846a887067f/lnbits/core/models.py#L275


bittorrent is really the only reasonable way to fight video censorship. nostr definitely does not fix this, but it would be a great torrent indexer. https://i.nostr.build/4oxJm.jpg


GM Nostr ☕

Ive no idea who created this, but it needs sharing far and wide.

Please do so and have a great day 🧡⚡

https://freesamourai.com/


https://hodlboard.org

To sign up for writing on the forum, you need to prove current ownership of one utxo (which you do not reveal; zkp) of taproot type of value 500K sats or more.

Instructions on how to do it linked from that main page. It's a bit fiddly but not difficult if you have tech experience. You can use Sparrow for accessing the coins after creating the ZKP of ownership, or you can use Core.

(Also it *should* be easy, not 'fiddly' but wallets don't support accessing private keys).

Despite the 'hodl'  name, the coins are not locked after you make the proof, you can spend them immediately.

General background reading, first half of https://reyify.com/riddle

The anonymity set is about 200-300K utxos, but the server can verify your proof ~immediately!

The proving tool is at https://github.com/AdamISZ/aut-ct ; follow installation instructions on readme or choose binary release for macos or linux.

Still a WIP. Keep a copy of the private key until you spend it! Bear in mind the keyset updates once per 24 hours. Make sure your utxo was confirmed before the blockheight of the current keyset in /keysets.


What's been going on with testnet recently?

I explain my shenanigans in today's post.

https://blog.lopp.net/griefing-bitcoin-testnet/


I wrote a quick guide for  nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 noob users that sometimes get in trouble and don't know what to do in difficult situations.
This mini guide could help you a lot. Please bookmark it.

https://stacker.news/items/528574


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And this PR basically let's you use the `mpay` instead of `pay`  for all lightning-cli pay calls?

That would be nice. They should probably just scrap pay altogether and ship mpay


Is the default CLN `pay` still as bad as it used to?


Someone please give me the arguments *against* MWEB on Bitcoin.

Why has it disappeared from the discussion, what is the history on that?

Genuine question, cuz I feel under-informed.


The issues raised by lipa in their post (that LDK is a complicated API and a lot to work with, that RGS had some stability issues, and that LDK’s pathfinding was sub-optimal) are things that were true a year ago, but are also things that have been largely addressed by LDK itself since -

The introduction of ldk-node has made it incredibly easy to get from zero to a full lightning node on a phone in minutes, RGS has seen a lot of debugging and improvements, and LDK’s pathfinding is now by far the most advanced in lightning (but, like with all lightning nodes, you need to be well connected or have sent a lot of payments to have data to use for pathfinding). nostr:note1zsmqhmny6q3zvrlqyfj7r2uu6wgrge8473d0vj95hmh98k98vj7qzga33w


First ARK wallet on Liquid, you can also use it on Tesnet.

https://ark.vulpem.com/


Oh boy 👀
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🇩🇪270 Wissenschaftler aus 33 Ländern zerreißen den neuesten Vorstoß des EU-Rats zur #Chatkontrolle in der Luft und warnen vor "katastrophalen Konsequenzen":
▶untergräbt Kommunikations- und Systemsicherheit
▶nie gekannte Überwachungs- und Kontrollmöglichkeiten
▶Millionen Falschtreffer zu erwarten
▶#Chatkontrolle ist Techno-Solutionismus und wird Kindesmissbrauch kaum eindämmen

https://nce.mpi-sp.org/index.php/s/eqjiKaAw9yYQF87

#Piraten


👀

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It's really embarrassing to see how quickly this space folds.

But hey as long as $MSTR and Blackrock hold the price still up, most "Bitcoiners" just shut the fuck or at most shake fist at sky.

You know it is really a waste of energy if you are running all these machines to "secure" what is becoming a controlled and permissioned system


These mf'ers
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Aaand it's gone...!

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GNUTaler mentioned! nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlyloH3jzB4


And yes, I know it's a cover. But the best cover


Just got off listening to nostr:npub1a8jzweysxa9qmtmht874736aalm0lwdsl306nrys9d05ktlrhw3qcr5pj4 nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx on Dispatch.

"Being in the trenches together" 🤘

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=XTp6G_h-VGw


On my bucket list.
Alas I don't think I feel too comfortable entering the "Land of the Free"™ anymore..


Ben is on 🔥🔥🔥


It's time for Lightning⚡ and it's time for BOLT12🔩
 https://image.nostr.build/a1432b1a98f5b8b541b4fcf13cc3f38e8fc6b4f93ba1fec9d7da3ce636c707c7.jpg

As of today, OCEAN miners can attach a BOLT12 offer to their #Bitcoin address and get paid out over Lightning!

BOLT12 offers allow us to request multiple invoices for any amount while only requiring the miner to set things up once.

Miners simply sign a message containing the offer using the private key associated with their Bitcoin address.

Using BOLT12 also allows us to prove to the world that a payment was made, the size of the payment, the node to which it was paid, and that it was paid by us.

This means we can continue to offer fully transparent and verifiable pooled mining while no longer being restricted by the base layer!

Using the Bitcoin stack to its fullest is how we eliminate the need for trust and bring sovereignty to mining.

https://ocean.xyz/docs/lightning

https://newsdirect.com/news/ocean-innovates-bitcoin-miners-offered-first-ever-lightning-payouts-using-bolt12-946331135


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.


The shitshow is just starting, they want to know everything and control everything, kyc everything is immoral and should be illegal for a wide range of services, the negligence of storing your personal data in whatever db puts you in extreme risk of data leakage, force everyone to give their identity to whatever service provider, it's a burden for both parts.
https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-know-your-customer-proposal-will-put-an-end-to-anonymous-cloud-users-240425/


Celtics home game? 😉
⛹♂


Privacy is not a crime.

#FreeSamouraiWallet


It's not just these four pools. Many more use the same (Antpool's) block template


RHR AT 1800 UTC TOMORROW.

https://rhr.tv

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Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world.

If two parties have some sort of dealings, then each has a memory of their interaction. Each party can speak about their own memory of this; how could anyone prevent it? One could pass laws against it, but the freedom of speech, even more than privacy, is fundamental to an open society; we seek not to restrict any speech at all. If many parties speak together in the same forum, each can speak to all the others and aggregate together knowledge about individuals and other parties. The power of electronic communications has enabled such group speech, and it will not go away merely because we might want it to.

Since we desire privacy, we must ensure that each party to a transaction have knowledge only of that which is directly necessary for that transaction. Since any information can be spoken of, we must ensure that we reveal as little as possible. In most cases personal identity is not salient. When I purchase a magazine at a store and hand cash to the clerk, there is no need to know who I am. When I ask my electronic mail provider to send and receive messages, my provider need not know to whom I am speaking or what I am saying or what others are saying to me; my provider only need know how to get the message there and how much I owe them in fees. When my identity is revealed by the underlying mechanism of the transaction, I have no privacy. I cannot here selectively reveal myself; I must always reveal myself.

Therefore, privacy in an open society requires anonymous transaction systems. Until now, cash has been the primary such system. An anonymous transaction system is not a secret transaction system. An anonymous system empowers individuals to reveal their identity when desired and only when desired; this is the essence of privacy.

Privacy in an open society also requires cryptography. If I say something, I want it heard only by those for whom I intend it. If the content of my speech is available to the world, I have no privacy. To encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy, and to encrypt with weak cryptography is to indicate not too much desire for privacy. Furthermore, to reveal one's identity with assurance when the default is anonymity requires the cryptographic signature.

We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence. It is to their advantage to speak of us, and we should expect that they will speak. To try to prevent their speech is to fight against the realities of information. Information does not just want to be free, it longs to be free. Information expands to fill the available storage space. Information is Rumor's younger, stronger cousin; Information is fleeter of foot, has more eyes, knows more, and understands less than Rumor.

We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place. People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes, and couriers. The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do.

We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.

Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it. We publish our code so that our fellow Cypherpunks may practice and play with it. Our code is free for all to use, worldwide. We don't much care if you don't approve of the software we write. We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down.

Cypherpunks deplore regulations on cryptography, for encryption is fundamentally a private act. The act of encryption, in fact, removes information from the public realm. Even laws against cryptography reach only so far as a nation's border and the arm of its violence. Cryptography will ineluctably spread over the whole globe, and with it the anonymous transactions systems that it makes possible.

For privacy to be widespread it must be part of a social contract. People must come and together deploy these systems for the common good. Privacy only extends so far as the cooperation of one's fellows in society. We the Cypherpunks seek your questions and your concerns and hope we may engage you so that we do not deceive ourselves. We will not, however, be moved out of our course because some may disagree with our goals.

The Cypherpunks are actively engaged in making the networks safer for privacy. Let us proceed together apace.

Onward.

Eric Hughes

9 March 1993


3 Decades Later… same fight https://image.nostr.build/30c5c49c8eeeff5d5673741b810edb2ee87859fd19d63ea1f3b71256508225c5.jpg


What tree am I barking at? i 100% agree with Matt.

To your point: fees don't "solve" spam. They simply price out certain transactions, and it's just an (unproven) assumption that it would hit the spam ones. if spam pays more than monetary transactions, then these would becomes the ones priced out.


Noise is the correct term. For the spam.
But I guess Thisisfine.gif


#BFF24 Day 03.

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


This. And 95% of what's currently getting added to the bitcoin blockchain is arbitrary data. Hard to convince anyone this is the "best money ever invented" if the system can so easily being spammed to not process any money transactions anymore...


We should never have them collect our data in the first place

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🇬🇧 🎥 Join me tomorrow for a #Pirate-organised screening-debate on #FreeAssangeNOW at 8pm at the Star Saint-Exupéry cinema in Strasbourg showing the documentary @IthakaMovie, followed by a discussion with @Stella_Assange and @khrafnsson

https://cinema-star.com/film/601710/

https://digitalcourage.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/321/533/788/380/941/original/9faeb35cc3ecdeeb.jpg


Today we are drastically reducing network fees for Liquid  swaps - finally making ⚡micropayments via wallets like Aqua, Marina, Bull Bitcoin or Helm economically viable 🫰

Network fees drop from previously ~400 sats total to ~40 sats total🤯

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


3. #EU #AML PROPOSAL TARGETS PRIVACY PAYMENT INSTRUMENTS AND FREEDOM TOOLS

The current AMLR version specifically targets self-hosted wallets, ignoring their role as vital financial tools as #Bitcoin  for millions of activists facing financial oppression.

Labeled high-risk, self-hosted wallets are now seen as significant money laundering and terrorist financing facilitators. Changes include revisions to Recitals (20) and (21) and the addition of Article (31b) in Charter III, which increases operational and compliance costs, affecting business strategies and client relationships.

The consequences for EU users of self-hosted wallets are serious. Additional compliance checks will complicate, if not block, the conversion of crypto-assets to fiat currency for activists and civil society members already facing financial exclusion. The AMLR overlooks the crucial role of self-hosted wallets in transferring funds to non-democratic or conflict regions, exposing donors and recipients to repression by authoritarian regimes using AML/CFT laws (e.g., in #Belarus, #Kazakhstan, #Turkey).

Smaller clients with self-hosted wallets, viewed as higher risks under Article (31b), may be deprioritized or excluded due to higher transaction compliance costs. This makes them economically unviable for financial institutions, which often favor larger, lower-risk clients for efficiency. The latest AMLR version could effectively ban self-hosted wallets in the EU, significantly impacting the cryptocurrency sector and those vulnerable to oppression.

See our reaction in our Submission: https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/725781,building-true-change-btc-coalition-submission-on-the-eu-proposal-for-a-regulation-on-the-prevention-of-money-laundering-or-terrorist-financing/ https://image.nostr.build/9f0269ec843fd6e399f9e795c266c90af43170334412e3d36b4e6958d43bd2af.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ae5cb7a84266cd45d0789dc4e6abf2d9867e132df47d5b6183bb76bbea46fec4.jpg