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 You touch it to sign tx, like a yubikey 
 Oracle time: Which technology do you think is the ECB digital euro CBDC going to be based on? 
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 For the first, couldn’t you use a certain block # for the key, decrypting only when that block ... 
 You're looking for witness encryption, where the decryption key is the solution to an arbitrary Turing complete problem. The problem here is a check of the bitcoin blockchain length.

Search for "How to build time-lock encryption" by J. Liu, T. Jager, S. A. Kakvi and B. Warinschi (2018), a paper that explain this very thing, using bitcoin as the time lock.

The only downside of this techniques is that witness encryption is still very new, and way too slow to be practical yet. But from a mathematical perspective, it seems to work, so I guess we can be rather hopeful. 
 Crypotgraphically verifiable proof or bust 😤

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 Yeah I hate it too when God burns my car and noclip a giant purple pill into i just to test his latest physics engine, hopefully my insurance will cover that 
 So..

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 More of this, in every wallet: https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/coinswap/ Even peoples that don't use will benefit, as it cast doubt on every transactions. 
 I'm more bullish on coinswaps than coinjoins tbh 
 Wow. I never went reading the other headlines and adverts of it. Makes it even more fascinating. 
 You can still reply to someone that mutes/block you on nostr, so I wouldn't call it cancelled. 
 Uh, everyone that did not mute you will see it, and especially those that are following you will see it on their feed (at least on Amethyst). 
 To me, to "cancel" someone is to force him away from interacting with your community at large, not just yourself. You can't do that on nostr, you can just choose to not see what he writes. Even if clients did not have a mute button, you could still just past-scroll and ignore, so it literally just like real life to me. 
 “We have built an uncensorable social media protocol so that you can post your most controversi... 
 You can still reply to someone that mutes/block you on nostr, so I wouldn't call it cancelled. 
 Yes your purchasing power got destroyed, but we printed so much value to asset owners. 
 Probably, search for ControlNet Stable Diffusion 
 The amount of incredibly solid applications we're receiving is brutally energizing me this mornin... 
 two months abroad is hard for those of us who need to keep their fiat job 😭 
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 Quoting again this question in case someone has an answer... It doesn't have to be a microblogging client, some niche use case client could still be interesting... #asknostr #nostr

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 Just shiming in to point out that graphene also randomize your MAC address (the hardware network identifier of your device used in WiFi) every time you connect to a router, so the same router can't easily track you using that.

You can't do that with cell towers obviously, your SIM doesn't change frequently, and even if change SIM every day say with eSIM, there isn't a lot of devices that let you edit your device IMEI (it's illegal in most countries supposedly to "prevent theft") 
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 While marketing should always be taken with caution, and I agree this slide doesn't tell much, why hating a company should disqualify the use of material they produce to explain the hate?

Hate and distrust are not the same thing. I can trust that Google Terms of Service reflects partially what they do, and I hate them for it. 
 I had time to waste, so I watched the actual presentation the slide come from, and they admit they don't know where the transaction come from: https://youtu.be/dyyA0YjSslU?si=Cnm60dS_rA0q_Yd_&t=33m44s

At the Q&A, they also admit they can't monitor transactions of other nodes, all they do is just try to know who is behind a node.

It looks more like a compliance tool than a monitoring tool.