“When closing these channels, users are incur less fees and are given more privacy as they appear to like any other Taproot spend when examining their on-chain footprint.”

Not quite correct.

What you should say is thet under normal conditions taproot channels look like to any other taproot spend. That true whether you are opening or closing the channel.

Abnormal conditions, like force closes, do identify the transaction as a lightning channel.


“Extra-virgin olive oil is olive oil that definitely hasn't had sex.”


*leaf, inner, or null

Need to account for the case where only one side is populated due to bits colliding between the only two keys in a level.


https://docs.lightning.engineering/the-lightning-network/taproot-assets/taproot-assets-protocol#docs-internal-guid-5a068ff4-7fff-ecac-596d-f7631d0a2edd

Why on earth did Taproot Assets decide to use Sparse Merkle Trees? There is zero reason for indexed merkle trees to go the full depth. It's much more efficient to simply mark nodes as leaf or inner nodes, to allow the tree to terminate once only one side of an inner node pair is populated.


No. That would be subsidizing transactions, as the capital costs of LN transactions are very real. Subsidies set bad expectations.


Someone posted an image of my encrypted nostr DMs on Twitter. Of course I know that it's possible to see the metadata but I didn't realize how creepy it feels. You can see who I talk to and when. You could deduce my social circles, maybe even real world activity related to my messaging patterns.

From now on, I will stop using normal DMs on nostr. The traces they leave is horrifying and you shouldn't use DMs either.

*Please do not send me any DMs from your npub if you have something to communicate to me.*

Use a random npub or a giftwrap or use a different method or use a different network to reach me.

Nostr DMs have always been a complete privacy hell and I urge anyone to realize this and act accordingly.

I repeat: DO NOT DM ME. I WONT DM YOU.


“JFK shot first.”


The fact that Python is listed as non-critical suggests that the EU is clueless about how software dependencies work.

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TempleOS no, because they don't accept donations. But I get paid for it...


Just EU doing EU things. Let it be known that no one can put more red tape than no-name EU bureaucrats.
I'm sure this will drive innovation /s
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/understanding-the-cyber-resilience-act


Don't need a thermometer built in to your phone? 😂


https://mynorthkorea.blogspot.com/2023/09/pyongyang-covid-fortress.html?m=1

The fact that this story is dated Sept 2023 shows how COVID got used as a means of social control.

North Korea is simply the last county with so little freedom that the government is still able to get away with it.


I was hoping this was sarcasm....

https://youtube.com/shorts/M7Bw5RUvRHo


Bitcoin blockchain is fighting fraud in Guatemala’s presidential elections. - Article by Bitcoin Magazine ⚡🌎

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-blockchain-is-fighting-fraud-in-guatemalas-presidential-elections


Correction:

Thanks guys!

So far I've gotten:

401,500 sats zapped
386,722 sats via lightning
233,853 sats on chain
1,022,125 sats total

That should be enough to run both my OpenTimestamps calendars at current fee rates and average time between timestamps for another ~6 weeks.


Thanks guys!

So far I've gotten:

401,500 sats zapped
386,722 sats via lightning
233,853 sats on chain
1,022,125 sats total

That should be enough to run both my OpenTimestamps calendars at current fee rates and average time between timestamps for another ~6 months.


Maybe the cats have an arrangement with the chef?


As with climbing Everest, because it's there.


Mathematically, if there are two or more mempools, the only way for there to be no second best is if all mempools are equal.


That's a really good question!

While many uses of timestamps only need quite loose precision, in some cases better precision helps. That's why I created the https://github.com/opentimestamps/restamp project to re-timestamp Bitcoin blocks with high accuracy trusted timestamps – the Guatemalan election was being timestamped and having as good precision and accuracy as possible was useful. (My client even paid to timestamp every block during the election itself)

Of course, it's a trade-off between cost and precision. So right now I'm seeing if the community is willing to step up and pay for that precision. So far people have been willing, so I'm hopeful I can keep it at the ~5 hour level.


At the moment my OpenTimestamps calendars have a bit less than two weeks worth of funds remaining. At current fee rates it costs ~$30/week to timestamp every ~5 hours.

Donations would be appreciated. You can donate either on-chain, or with lightning, via: https://alice.btc.calendar.opentimestamps.org/ or by zapping this post.


https://youtube.com/shorts/EC3Jms8DQcA?si=mE9LM79sT9AB4m8b

Read the comments. It's full of people saying that roller coasters saved their life, because they were the one time they were clearly denied something because they were fat. The kick in the ass they needed to lose that weight and turn their life around.

Really says something about "body positivity"...


Ah, yeah, sorry I misread what you said.


Technically you don't know if they contained PFAS. There are other ways to make paper straws waterproof.

Surfin' Bitcoin in France had decent bamboo(?) straws. I'm sure they're a lot more expensive than paper and bioplastics though.


MinerPal


Actually the EU seems to have significantly better straws than Canada now. I don't know if it's a legal difference. But in the EU I frequently see bioplastic straws that are basically identical to plastic straws, while in Canada you pretty much only seem to get true paper straws that just turn into mush.


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Las entradas para los salvadoreños cuestan 21 $.

https://image.nostr.build/9776eedb19b133b00b7adbc5dbd644bcc62b7a8b91f4cfb68b16b04c21106af0.png


The global feed will probably get worse over time as the spammers ramp up. Especially if they start creating content with AI.


 Could someone please spam my nodes?

I want to find out for myself how lightning is entirely broken and will soon be forced to add PoW to stop this.

Thanks!

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A nibble.


Yeah... I'm not sure this one is universally unique...

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Makes a lot of sense unfortunately. While you can achieve very good privacy on Bitcoin, you can also get very bad privacy if you make common mistakes.

Things like Monero are popular in darkmarks because the minimum level of privacy most people achieve is better than the minimum level of privacy on Bitcoin.

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Mostly stupid.

We should be paying for services rather than forcing companies to rely on ads. Especially when ad buyers that all too often become a tool of political control. $8/month is a perfectly reasonable price for Twitter.

The only issue is that you can't pay anonymously, with a crypto currency. Even dogecoin would be better than nothing.

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https://youtu.be/KJUtxOOctTY

This, obviously.


What do you think makes it complex?


OpenTimestamps? :)


Sounds like O(n²) scaling.


He might have been complaining about the specific cryptographic technique proposed in that case; in general nostr certainly needs delegated keys. No doubt about thst.


It's a good thread. Nostr has a _long_ way to go before it's safe to use as an identity. Or even, arguably, safe to use at all.


You should always pay with cash. It's the #1 thing we can do to stop CBDCs.


People like Velvet Blue would make more money I'd zaps didn't dox the sender.

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The fact that Liquid launched a half decade ago is making me feel old.


Well here's the address:

Terraza San Miguel en Tepoztlán
+52 735 268 0978
https://maps.app.goo.gl/pchwpssRD9yC2HCW7

Go check it out yourself. 😂