The Fediverse is unhinged. They are the funniest people online (excluding Mastodon which is the exact opposite). I just wish they wouldn't say the n-word so much.


How could they trace it?


To be fair, it's not unreasonable to have this primal desire for subkeys and key rotation. The problem is that:

1) it's not possible to do without centralization (or a blockchain) -- Bluesky tried, and the best solution they came up with was a big server that hosts a history of keys for everybody and can censor anyone;
2) doing it by means of Nostr events that declare subkeys or delegation or whatnot, creates insurmountable complexity that turns Nostr into an unusable pile of bloatware and away its most basic feature: the chance of working;
3) it's not the only way to protect your key from rogue computers and apps -- NIP-46 and other methods exist and are much nicer to use, with still many unexplored possibilities;
4) it's not clear that more than 16 people in the entire world want this at all -- when was the last time a normal person thought about rotating their PGP keys?


Nostr has been promoted to the status of "absolute joke": https://cdn.satellite.earth/943d5b5c4ab21939a5a1f3094cf92e24a3ac80507d50c71766a0d41d08185b62.jpg
https://x.com/jamesob/status/1839626122671116528


xd

https://image.nostr.build/cb8b098ccc5aa44dd066e7d76ae634d5155016a22ade55aff322704964296617.jpg


nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z, can you please implement a #Monero wallet into Amethyst (à la garnet)? I miss daily driving the lastest #Amethyst, and the demand for #Monero integration is demonstrably solid.


It's not the relays. Its amethyst. Amethyst has a spam filtering tool built in that allows you to keep a block list and a blocked words list, but it also distributes a list that is in there that you can't see, which is unethical IMO. I figured this out when I tried to talk to someone that was blocked in there, I tried to unblock him but he kept getting auto blocked. Blocks are put together from user reports of accounts. The whole thing is pretty opaque. If they want to distribute lists they should be visible to users so they can remove users and words from blocklists.

Since garnet just merges upstream and does not change any of this functionality it inherits these features. I've considered opening an issue to make word and block lists visible, but I wanted to see some other issues closed out first so as not to overwhelm the maintainer. There was an amethyst fork a while back that I used that took that stuff out, but it is now unmaintained. Personally I'd just make them visible, since I like avoiding spam and CP and whatever else and I like the collaborative approach to filtering that amethyst does, nostr is wide open wrt spam as long as relays and clients don't implement PoW, but I should be able to see what I'm being prevented from seeing by default so I can decide if I want to see it or not. Imagine they put "Monero" in that hidden words list, that would break garnet, it should be a priority to make that stuff visible and editable by users.


FYI, Bitcoin is to the CBDC,
What the npub is to the coming Certificate of Identity Verification


While you were busy making fun of the UK for criminalizing free speech, the UN finalized its Cybercrime Convention which will overrule bank secrecy and criminalize hacking, whistleblowing, and security research.

The convention, which was finalized last friday, drastically expands government surveillance powers and enables the widespread sharing of personal data between UN member states.

The convention mandates the identification, tracing, confiscation and seizure of "proceeds of crime, property, equipment or other instrumentalities" and the collection of real-time traffic and content data on behalf of requesting member states.

It further mandates member states to establish criminal offences for "the concealment or disguise of the true nature, source, location, disposition, movement or ownership of or rights with respect to property" and  "the conversion or transfer of property [...] for the purpose of concealing or disguising the illicit origin of the property" when committed intentionally.

As the Electronic Frontier Foundation explains, the convention includes "documents saved on personal computers or notes stored on digital devices. In essence, this means that private unshared thoughts and information are no longer safe. Authorities can compel the preservation, production, or seizure of any electronic data, potentially turning personal devices into spy vectors regardless of whether the information has been communicated".

While the treaty defers most articles to the governance of local laws, it states that states "shall not decline to act [...] on the ground of bank secrecy".

Full story:

https://www.therage.co/un-cybercrime-convention-bank-secrecy/


Crypto is a tool but it can never be a goal. It's how we buy back our stuff but then we'll have to decide if such a thing as property even makes sense, theres indication that it may not.

Besides even for privacy coins, ¿how do we know ISP's are not going to be collecting data on us?. Maybe they won't be able to see everything but they may be able to get plenty of info even if the blockchain is obfuscated.

I hope they can actually help and let us buy back our stuff and we can end slavery without much violence but i doubt crypto alone will achieve this, even privacy coins. I wish it could and if it turns out to work i'll be as glad as any of you, but i wouldn't put all my eggs in that basket. It makes little difference to use crypto but to keep buying the same crap we don't need nor genuinely want from the same corrupt manufacturers and retailers.


I joined Neil Oliver for an interview about power and corruption. Available on YouTube and podcast apps. https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/08/press/neil-oliver-podcast/


Wen private bch on chain


Bitcoin vs Monero #privacy https://image.nostr.build/8f74c95366fc11e627d5c814c547d50266f649ac97e1b736a450d13e6a24bb14.jpg


There are only 2 ways to scale Bitcoin: you either upgrade it, or else create monetary inflation through useful forks that serve a designated use case.

Essentially, the entire crypto market is Bitcoin’s experimentation layer & consists of stuff that could have been built on Bitcoin.

In a perfect world, there would be no “privacy coins” & no blockchain analysis industry: Satoshi wanted privacy, Hal Finney famously tweeted about trying to make Bitcoin more private. But somewhere down the line the “Bitcoin is transparent” narrative prevailed because it makes more people trust the system.

It doesn’t have to remain so. Bitcoin without confidentiality is a panopticon and every authoritarian’s wet dream. Time to get better!


GM, FATF has issued a new report claiming that „Virtual Assets are increasingly used by terrorist groups“.

The only problem: Their statement is directly contradicted in their own report and lacks any corroborating data to back it up, while highlighting that *a lack of data* – particularly for peer-to-peer transactions – remains a main challenge to FATF compliance.

Of course, that doesn’t stop FATF from recommending that all jurisdictions „act rapidly“ to implement the FATF Travel Rule, which requires ‚VASPs‘ and financial institutions to „obtain, hold, and transmit specific originator and beneficiary information immediately and securely when transferring Virtual Assets“ to address the „emerging and increasing risks“ which, again, cannot be corroborated by the report itself.

It is unbelievable that an organization with *such* low standards is being taken seriously at all, never mind allowed to guide the implementation of AML/CFT around the world.

Full Story:

https://www.therage.co/fatf-report-finds-virtual-assets-increasingly-used-by-terrorist-groups/


There are a few other crypto that come close in privacy or even technically better in some ways (just very low adoption, not battle tested, or have other major drawbacks).

To name a few:
Zano, Beam, Grin, Litecoin(MWEB transactions), Zcash(z2z transactions), Pirate Chain(basically Zcash with default z2z txs), Ethereum Railway shielded transactions


NLP from Langley is just weird 😂👌


Congratulations to the CIA for winning the elections in Venezuela! https://video.nostr.build/64b09c279faa6c03144d26c6e68a4d7a734e03f0b6fb11c67c142a000dc80dfd.mp4


United States of America is one of the biggest spook countries and you guys think that bitcoin industry doesn’t have any undercover agents injected 🤨 Question everything and everyone


https://www.monero.how/why-monero-vs-bitcoin

Why might #Monero see greater future adoption than Bitcoin?
The most critical flaw in Bitcoin is its lack of privacy. If you give me your Bitcoin wallet address so that I can send you a payment, you immediately compromise your privacy. I can see as a matter of public record how much money you have in your Bitcoin wallet (there are messy workarounds to attempt to fix this problem, which we will address shortly). The same situation applies even if you are the one sending Bitcoin. Any recipient can then see how much money you have in your Bitcoin wallet, both now and in perpetuity. To understand how critical this privacy problem is, consider the following scenarios:

1. You are travelling through parts of a country with a medium to high violent crime rate. You need to use some of your Bitcoin to pay for something. If every person you transact with knows exactly how much money you have, this is a threat to your personal physical safety.

2. You are a business that receives a payment from a supplier. That supplier will be able to see how much money your business has, and therefore can guess at how price sensitive you are in future negotiations. They can see every single other payment you’ve ever received to that Bitcoin address, and therefore determine what other suppliers you are dealing with and how much you are paying those suppliers. They may be able to roughly determine how many customers you have and how much you charge your customers. This is commercially sensitive information that damages your negotiating position enough to cause you relative financial loss.

3. You are a private citizen paying for online goods and services. You are aware that it is common practice for companies to attempt to use ‘price discrimination’ algorithms to attempt to determine the highest prices they can offer future services to you at, and you would prefer they do not have the information advantage of knowing how much you spend and where you spend it.

4. You sell cupcakes and receive Bitcoin as payment. It turns out that someone who owned that Bitcoin before you was involved in criminal activity. Now you are worried that you have become a suspect in a criminal case, because the movement of funds to you is a matter of public record. You are also worried that certain Bitcoins that you thought you owned will be considered ‘tainted’ and that others will refuse to accept them as payment.

Monero solves these privacy issues by automatically applying privacy techniques to every single transaction made. You can have confidence that it is not possible to own ‘tainted’ Monero. This is a concept in economics known as ‘fungibility’ and is historically considered an important characteristic for any currency to have.

The Bitcoin community has attempted to solve these problems by introducing ‘mixing’ features. Their solutions have been described as ‘a band aid over a stab wound’.


Why does it cost one hundred and ninety four Swiss Fancs to read the SQL standard?

https://image.nostr.build/d5629c8f90949d533a7681468a78cf7058bb7a34fbd1b191a241ec8f22badd86.png


I find sometimes it's hard to differentiate between lying/LH spooks and people that are just ill informed, but i think thats just part of their game


OOOOOHH YEAAAH FRACTAL BITCOIN


Mark if you read this don't take it too seriously. You've given a lot of useful info but i get the impression you're too focused on BTC which is unusable as p2p electronic cash. Ver has already told us the extent to which it is captured.

I just can't be sure that anyone isn't a limited hangout from TPTB.


Testing out a Garnet, a brand new fork of Amethyst with #Monero tipping support!

https://github.com/retrnull/garnet

You may recognize some of these contributors

https://i.nostr.build/524FO10XjG4VM4yW.png

Check out these screenshots!

https://i.nostr.build/mQgnhMmgJb0rFV29.png

https://i.nostr.build/8UBip1f0VteZGV7S.jpg

Note: It's only on its first live alpha/beta testing release (v0.2.0) that dropped yesterday, so there be dragons like editing a saved draft makes the draft disappear, and it currently can't be installed alongside Amethyst etc., but I'm daily driving it. Super stoked. This is AWESOME!


Fuck why am i so rude


he strikes me as too BTC maxi while still pointing out the dangers of the bitcoin-dollar. i don't get it.


Mark Goodwin has to stop promoting bitcoin or imma start making fun of his habsburg chin


Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin joined TFTC to discuss the partnership of the private tech sector with the surveillance state. https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/07/press/tftc-524/


Nostr sucks, I agree, but what is the alternative?


On the MimbleWimble protocol for private blockchains and the BEAM currency.

https://nitter.poast.org/dbadol2000/status/1776668722108797172#m


i haven't found any. maybe i just don't know how to read stock info. the only thing i could find on Trump Media and Technology Group's website was a spike in stock prices and volume the day before. Nothing related to shorts as far as i can tell. Also most other sites (which mostly reference NASDAQ) list said spike on monday, not on friday, could mean this is a dead end or that there has been a coverup.

I personally find it hard to believe a lone nut did this, specially with the secret service being so lax that day. That the guy failed but just by a couple inches is suspicious, i don't think the deep state actually wanted to kill Trump, maybe they want us to think they did. As i see it Trump is the same sort of puppet as Buden and all the other presidents from either party.

if the attack was in fact staged then i don't see why the stock movment couldn't be part of the same show.

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


You definitiv need go deeper with your researches....

Telegram
= NO privacy & NO Dataprotection at all= it´s #Putins Messenger to destroy democratic states.
Everythins is stored in some russian cloud.
And everyone can hack into any Telegram account with Websites like TGTracker!!!

Signal

All traffic of the SignalApp goes over the Clouds of Amazon, Google, Microsoft & Cloudflare - they only talk about "third partys"!

Do you think thats secure?

Especially in combination with US (Spy) Cloud-Act

"The CLOUD Act primarily amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) of 1986 to allow federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based technology companies via warrant or subpoena to provide requested data stored on servers regardless of whether the data are stored in the U.S. or on foreign soil."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

Everybody can verify this. These subdomains, are used by signal

Amazon:
textsecure-service.whispersystems.org, cdn.signal.org, sfu.voip.signal.org
Google:
storage.signal.org, contentproxy.signal.org
Microsoft:
api.directory.signal.org, api.backup.signal.org
Cloudflare:
cdn2.signal.org

Make a "tracert" in your Windows-Console and you will see that the last contact is always the IT-Gigant above.

Its even more worse:
These 4 big IT-Gigants can see and store the IP Adresses from the sender and receiver. So they can collect all the metadata around your person.

MetaData is, what it is all about!!!

"Metadata absolutely tells you everything about somebody´s life. If you have enough metadata, you don´t really need content."

SA General Counsel
Stewart Baker

Read:
"We kill people based on metadata"
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/05/10/we-kill-people-based-metadata/

Also Signal:
"we showed that the multi-device support of the #Signal messenger can be abused to eavesdrop on all communication after a one-time credential breach.
Thus, currently, the Signal messenger does not provide message privacy in the post-compromise security scenario."
https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/626.pdf

It´s NOT possible to use the Signalapp anonymous, as you need to give out your mobilenumber. So you can be tracked with "silent SMS".

Matrix / Element
Matrix is a (h)spawn of the American Amdocs Group!

"The initial project was created inside Amdocs..."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol)

You should take a closer look at what they do:

In more than 90 countries with over 26,000 employees, they generate mobile phone bills for more than half of the world's population and provide services for the mobile phone industry!

Mobile phone companies send them the connection data and Amdocs apparently only creates the bill.

This means that since the 1980s they have known who has been in contact with whom, how often, for how long and at what time!

So you can easily say that Amdocs is the world's first big metadata company. Even the USA went too far and in 1999 they tried to investigate the company and shut it down!

Amdocs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdocs

So we shouldn't be surprised if they now want to continue this metadata collection "passion" with messengers too.

The Matrix protocol is intentionally designed to reveal metadata!

The Matrix Client Element even openly admits that they use metadata to profile users!

This is stated in their privacy declaration (under 2.2):

"... but we might profile metadata ..."
https://element.io/privacy

The Matrix Client Element even openly admits that they use metadata to profile users!

The Israeli Morris Kahn doesn't just invest 20 - 30 million in Matrix & Element, he always wants something in return = MetaData.

Session
Session comes from the creators of the most unsuccessful cryptocurrency Loki!

I think the only purpose of this messenger is to fill their dead blockchain with life

There are also dubious backers from China behind it - see: https://loki.network/team/

SimpleX Chat

everything is alread said here:
https://primal.net/e/note1g0vd77lghpsukc47dqmzqfk3w820heh8ej2q3vndvsnr5vhwpjcs9ff37q

or note:
note1g0vd77lghpsukc47dqmzqfk3w820heh8ej2q3vndvsnr5vhwpjcs9ff37q

###############

When you gonna learn:

There is no such thing as a "free messenger" - there are always a data collectors behind it!

Look where the money comes from = Look who´s behind !!!

###################

There is only one messenger, for which the user pays a one-off fee and which does not collect any data in return.

Threema only stores messages until they have been delivered to the recipient.

And most importantly: Threema is the only messenger that does not store any metadata or IP addresses.

If you communicate digitally - and we all do that today - and don't want to leave any traces behind, there's no way around the Threema app.

Check it for yourself:

Visit

https://www.securemessagingapps.com

Rate:
🟩=3 🟨=1 🟥=0

Results (and where the money comes from)

1. Threema = 86 = most secure Messenger (User pays one-time)

2. Signal (OTF / Brian Acton / Ex-WhatsApp) = 80
3. Session (Loki Coin & suspicious Chinese) = 77
4. Wire (Janus Fries / Ex-Skype) = 68
5. SimpleX Chat *= 67
6. Wickr (Amazon) = 61
7. Element / Matrix (Amdocs / Morris Kahn) = 56
8. Apple iMessage (Hardware sales) = 37
9. WhatsApp (Meta) = 32
10. Google Messages (Ads) = 28
11. Telegram (Putin) = 27
12. Facebook Messenger (Meta) = 26
13. Microsoft Skype =10

* SimpleX Chat got 380.000 $ from VillageGlobal.vc = Jez Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, ect.

OFT = OpenTechnologyFund = US-Goverment

If you want to buy Threema you can do it from me:
https://primal.net/e/note14r3uwldurcseuuu9wzntgjsacag3wh3yesrezs5y3ukde6zgmk2sw5708f

or note:
note14r3uwldurcseuuu9wzntgjsacag3wh3yesrezs5y3ukde6zgmk2sw5708f


Privacy Ranked:

I’m going to rank these least private to most, and explain why on each step.

Discord
Why: Discord is as bad as it gets.  It's not only completely unencrypted, but they maliciously sell your data and have such huge restrictions on VPN IPs and SMS VoIP verification.

SMS
Why: It’s going naked over the phone lines, but isn't heavily sold in such a rotten way as Discord.

VoIP
Why: VoIP is just as horrible as SMS, but separates your real physical location from the cell tower

Telegram
Why: Unlike VoIP, it does have end-to-end encryption, but only on mobile.  And with weak encryption that they made up, that hasn’t been properly reviewed [Source: Madaidans of Whonix]

Signal
Why: Telegram has no metadata protection, while as Signal has sealed sender.  Signal’s encryption is stronger and more thoroughly peer reviewed.  Also Signal has a good legal track record and isn’t strict on crypto VoIP burners like Telegram.   Having phone numbers isn't that big a deal if I paid $1 of crypto for a random VoIP burner in Cambodia without restrictions on Tor.  Btw, my Signal # is Cambodian: +855 68 504 905

Matrix
Why: Tucker Carlson’s Signal was hacked.  Also, academic papers have shown Signal’s sealed sender has flaws.  If you self-host Matrix, that's much more control than trusting Amazon's AWS, which is a CIA contractor.   Many open source projects use Matrix rooms.

Session
Why: Most Matrix users use Matrix.org which is Cloudflare with Gmail verifying the emails.  Setting up a Matrix server is more expensive and complex than just opening Session and hitting "create account".  Session’s onion routing, non-location based DNS, and decentralization is stronger than Matrix's Cloudflare-dominated network.

SimpleX
Why: Session lacks (by default) rotating keys and multiple identities. You can manually rotate keys using your blockchain name, and manually get multiple accounts at once via enabling it on Linux, but most won’t want to do this just to avoid government domain names (which most SimpleX users use).  Session is better for censorship of servers, SimpleX is better for end users being invisible.

Self-hosted Tor XMPP
Why: SimpleX is hiding from servers, but if you control the server, that’s stronger.  Even a self-hosted SimpleX server only picks half the conversation.  Also, XMPP has a longer proven track record, which is more eyes on the code.  Now if you DON'T self-host XMPP, it's way up on the list next to Matrix.

Self-hosted Tor XMPP w/ OTR
Why: OTR nukes the conversation when it’s done. It literally destroys the encryption keys.  Game over bro.

Conclusion:
Anything is better than Discord.  Now, let's play a game, pick a communication method I did not mention, and you tell me where you think it should rank on the list.  Then, we'll discuss.


Un mensaje que le escribí a un amigo sobre algunas cosas que he escuchado/leido sobre bitcoin y el panorama monetario/financiero actual:
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Te recomiendo investigar sobre bitcoin un poco. He estado siguiendo los podcasts de Whitney Webb ya un rato y más recientemente también a Mark Goodwin

Y pues hablan de cómo el dólar es una burbuja que tarde o temprano va a explotar pero justo se quiere usar bitcoin para respaldarlo, crear un mercado de bitcoin dependiente del dólar. Así el dólar no muere pero ahora todo está respaldado en bitcoin lo que chance es peor porque bitcoin es súper vigilable.

Por eso Blackrock y demás han estado comprando BTC.

Hasta dicen que estamos viviendo un cambio de panorama financiero global pero un poco menos a la vista. La economía se ha despetrolizado en buena medida aunque no totalmente, el principal respaldo del dólar, desde que Nixon abandonó el patrón oro, ha sido el sistema petrodolar. Con este sistema muriendo, el dólar deja de estar respaldado en algo y por eso lo quieren mover a bitcoin BTC.

Al principio, la idea de bitcoin era ofrecer una alternativa al dinero fíat, un medio de intercambio independiente del dinero respaldado en deuda (cómo es el dólar): la gran mayoría de los dólares en circulación son dinero deuda, cada que alguien se endeuda con un banco comercial, se crean de la nada nuevos dólares, cuando se cubre la deuda con intereses, los nuevos dólares desaparecen y los intereses quedan como ganancia para los bancos comerciales. Las tasas de interés regulan el mercado del crédito y están controladas en parte por los bancos centrales.

El dólar se establece como moneda de intercambio global a partir de Breton Woods en los 40s si no me equivoco, en ese momento tenía algo de sentido porque la industria estadounidense era fuerte, tener dólares significaba tener acceso a productos norteamericanos. Ese ya no es el caso, la mayoría de la industria está en otros países pero el dólar siguió fuerte por un tiempo, aún después de dejar el patrón oro, gracias al petrodólar. Ahora el sistema petrodólar parece estar decayendo y no hay industria que lo respalde, lo que hay si a caso es la industria del Big Data, ahí es donde entra bitcoin, al ser un registro de transacciones sirve para el propósito de generar y comercializar muchos datos. De ahí que se quirra respaldar el dólar en el.

El nuevo panorama financiero entonces se favorece de generar una enorme cantidad de cantidad de datos. Lo que ahora respaldará al dólar y que tal vez lo haga más y mejor que antes son los datos, potencialmente esto implica que cada vez el mercado del dinero y el internet sean más vigilados, que todo se registre cada vez más para sostener el dólar.

La tecnología de
blockchain es ideal para esto porque cualquier transacción queda registrada (en la blockchain) y además se pueden atar bienes reales a la cadena de bloques. Una vendida queda registrada como una tele vendida en la cadena de bloques, un terreno queda registrado como tal, incluso servicios, etc. Es lo que le llaman _tokenizar_ la economía. Básicamente se vuelve económicamente víable y profitable vigilar y registrar cada movimiento en la economía.

Una pieza muy importante en este juego son los bonos de carbono

Con la excusa de combatir el cambio climático se legisla sobre la cantidad de carbono que una empresa (con algo de mala suerte un particular también), esto se registra en la blockchain y potencialmente se comercializa: más respaldo para el dólar y el sistema fíat en general que están en decadencia.

Bitcoin que tenía como propósito original ofrecer una alternativa al dinero controlado por entidades a puertas cerradas, que además en buena medida es dinero por decreto (fíat), ahora, al menos BTC y ETH, es capturado para servir al mismo sistema que buscaba combatir.

En el caso de BTC, bajo circunstancias sospechosas, se limita el tamaño de los bloques de la blockchain:

Bloques pequeños => pocas transacciones por bloque => tarifas altas y tiempos de transacción lentos => para usar BTC para transacciones del día a día se requieren soluciones fuera de la cadena de bloques, i.e. intermediarios con un _libro menor_ que manejen las transacciones pequeñas para no tener que registrarlas todas en la blockchain. Básicamente se crea un mercado de banqueros de bitcoin. Además estos terminan siendo los mismos de siempre.

ETH por su lado cambió el protocolo de consenso de ser prueba-de-trabajo a ser prueba-de-participación, básicamente dándole a los jugadores más gordos más poder de decisión sobre la cadena de bloques.

El sistema fíat decae gracias a que deja de estar respaldado en bienes tangibles. El dinero electrónico de persona a persona (peer-to-peer o p2p) ofrece una alternativa, pero BTC ya no puede ser llamado dinero p2p porque las altas tarifas no permiten que sea usado como medio de intercambio para intercambios comunes, requiriendo de terceros (Véase Lightning Network, Servicios de Intercambio o Exchanges custodiales, etc.) para ser usado, por eso se le quiere presentar como "oro digital": "no lo uses, guárdalo con un neo-banco y ellos te permitirán comercializar sujeto a su precio".

En 2017, suficientes mineros y desarrolladores se organizan para crear un fork de la cadena de bloques de bitcoin, a saber, Bitcoin Cash o BCH. El propósoto original era eliminar la restricción arbitraria sobre el tamaño de los bloques, así más transacciones caben en cada bloque, hay menos tiempos de espera y clmisiones mucho más bajas (centavos de peso mxn en BCH contra varios dólares en BTC). Así BCH puede ser usado como dinero electrónico p2p *directamente en la cadena*, sin necesidad de intermediarios. Aún así queda la preocupación de que sigue siendo un registri público distribuido suceptible a la vigilancia.

Existen alternativas, como Monero (XMR) que es una moneda digital que por diseño y directamente en la cadena de bloques es imposible ver quién hace movimientos y cuánto XMR se mueve en cada uno. Además es resistente por diseño a la minería por medio de Circuitos Integrados para Aplicaciones Específicas (ASICs por sus siglas en inglés) lo que obstaculiza oligopolios en los nodos mineros que verifican la red. Cosa que ya se puede ver en cierto grado en BTC.

Tiene la particularidad de que a diferencia de BTC, BCH y otras criptomonedas, no tiene un límite fijo (21 millones en el caso de bitcoin), lo cual desanima a algunos que buscaban en bitcoin un escudo contra la inflación, pero tampoco es demasiado grave porque tiene una inflación fija de 0.6% anual [si no me equivoco], lo cual es bastante menor a la mayoría de las dovisas fíat actuales.

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Detalles de exáctamente cómo sucederá la dolarización en base a criptomonedas no sé mucho. Mark Goodwin, que es el editor en jefe de Bitcoin Magazine lo explica más a detalle, también tiene un libro, _The Bitcoin-Dollar_ que habla de eso pero me parece un poco sospechoso que no suele hablar de alternativas como BCH o XMR. Roger Ver en su libro _Hijacking Bitcoin_ explica el surgimiento de BCH y cómo se cooptó BTC. Whitney Web tiene más documentado al entranzamiento entre las agencias de inteligencia y los Fat Cats financieros y tiene un libro en dos volúmenes, _One Nation Under Blackmail_, que lo explica. También la veo más activa advirtiendo sobre los aspectos de la vigilancia global que parece estar empezando.

Se teme que algunos aspectos de este nuevo sistema que parece acercarse puedan ser acelerados por una _false flag_ (operación militar donde se le echa la culpa a alguien distinto al perpetrador), un ataque terrorista (como 9/11) para justificar la criminalización del uso de criptomonedas, incrementar la supervisión del internet por parte de agencias gubernamentales, restringir el movimiento de ciudadanos (como en covid), etc. No es seguro pero es posible que el aparato militar/comunidad de inteligencia tengan ciertas capacidades para una operación del estilo.

En diferentes países se va a ver diferente claro. Mi sospecha es que un ataque del estilo tenga como objetivo sobre todo a los ciudadanos de EUA, pero podría tener más alcance. En México podría vigila-bitcoin-dolarizarse la economía de manera encubierta ppr medio de los Bancos del Bienestar o algo así. Bien podría ser que no se note un cambio importante en el día a día durante el proceso de la bitcoin-dolarización (potencialmente global) pero que en la infraestructura detrás de los bancos, etc. se de el cambio. No es clara una sola manera en la que se pueda dar el cambio de panorama pero sí hay varios factores que posiblemente jueguen en contra de la privacidad financiera y la privacidad en internet.


mostly the btc maxis, monero and bch actually make sense


nice, i wish i was a developer, i'm taking a course on software engineering next semester tho.


It probably was tho


Everything you will be told in the next 24 hours is a lie.

I promise you that.


i'd just like to see a Bitcoin Cash wallet implemented through Reticulum. Transactions done directly on chain


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAX8GFn5uCI
#Nutband


BTC is a cult, high transaction costs make a p2p economy unfeasable. BCH is a fork of bitcoin from 2017 that actually allows for low transaction fees and instant payment verification without Lightning/2L/thirdparties, etc.


p2p cash through the Reticulum Network when


NIP-BCH when


Poof. Study #bitcoin https://video.nostr.build/f0317765c328ca354c40ef7e596b0c767cb52a3538bdf4c4d9c93a8b2d9ebb89.mp4


BTC secuestrado https://yakihonne.s3.ap-east-1.amazonaws.com/9c2291da6d7c3713931496b78be5c83e4fb715aca7c0c0f568aed4ce5cfffd88/files/1719683914861-YAKIHONNES3.jpg


JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE 🕊

https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1805390138945528183


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everything about monero is great except its name. esperanto is bs


Ever fewer can see that it'd been the CBDC from the very beginning and has normalized insane amounts of transparency!

A bank account was bad enough, the bank can see all the transactions, the government can and does spy on the bank to spy on the customer, and the bank can and does sell customer data to third parties. And don't get me started on VISA/MasterCard being there in the middle so essentially a pretty good chunk of the world's financial data ends up at the NSA & co. And it's all neatly tagged (KYC).

Then along come cryptocurrencies, and now it's not just an institution that can look into your shit, oh no! IT'S THE WHOLE WORLD!

Forever, and retroactively!

And people don't see a problem with it until about 15 years later, and even then they resist and resist and resist!

Even more puzzling, they reject the tool that does the sane thing (#monero) (only you can see your transactions, like cash) because it's not part of their religion/football club!

Amazing!

But wait, it gets even better. They also rationalize why Bitcoin should not have privacy and anonymity baked in, because of inflation bugs, of which Bitcoin has had two whilst being as transparent as a Socialist's lust for other people's money!

Sometimes I think I'm from a different planet. The whole thing just seems nuts to me.

The way I see it, this is very simple.

If we are spied on all the time we're being stalked and hunted by a giant parasite-predator that does not have our best interests in mind.

This thing is infinitely more powerful than any one of us. We can try to limit its power, human history could be viewed as repeated attempts and failures to do this.

An excellent way to keep it in check is enough of us not accepting constant pervasive mass-surveillance, because then we can't as easily be picked as targets individually (less data to make a targeted choice).

It really isn't so hard to understand.


Makes sense. Nostr is pretty lightning dominated right now. Sent you a little something.

There's a Nostr client being worked on right now for Monero that is Amethyst-based. Should be out sometime this week based on recent comments.
https://bounties.monero.social/posts/94/42-349m-nostr-client-for-monero

There's also a prototype web client:
https://anarkio.codeberg.page/nostril/#/home/


I wrote a very basic overview of watermarking, fingerprinting, timing analysis and supernodes for Bitcoin Magazine's last print issue, which is pretty much an unsolicited advertisement for why I think we need a second mempool (and also mixnets, but thats a longer story). Since no one cares about stuff like this on Twitter anyway, I'll explain here.

Bitcoin has a privacy issue on baselayer. I know this. You know this. Everybody knows this. The problem is that there's a lot of stuff we can't do to solve this issue without completely fucking up how Bitcoin works, like, say, anonymous amounts. But there is some stuff we *can* do to increase privacy on the Bitcoin baselayer. One of those things is incorporating a second mempool to integrate Dandelion++, the routing protocol used in Monero. Hear me out.

One of the ways blockchain surveillance firms identify who what transactions belong to on the Bitcoin blockchain is by operating so-called supernodes. A supernode sets up as many connections to other nodes as it can, and by doing so can establish where a transaction was first seen in the peer-to-peer network, ergo ascribe whom a transaction belongs to.

Here's where Dandelion++ comes in. Instead of propagating transactions to *all* connected peers, Dandelion++ propagates transactions like, well, a Dandelion.

In Dandelion++ propagation, Bitcoin nodes send transactions to *one* peer, instead of to all of them. This peer sends it to another peer, they send it to another peer, and so on and so forth. This is called the "stem phase".

When we've established enough plausible deniability, Dandelion++ reaches the "fluff phase". At this point, a node that did not *create* the transaction, but is simply relaying it, propagates it to all nodes in the network it is connected to, including supernodes, and the next node does the same, and so on and so forth – business as usual.

Incorporating Dandelion++ (or any other anonymizing propagation protocol, like Dandelion, Dandelion Lite, or Clover) would arguably seriously fuck up the blockchain surveillance stick as we are taking away the most obvious attack vector for blockchain surveillance firms. It's also not a trivial task, see ajtowns' overview of stempools (and no one wants to maintain another mempool on bitcoin, if we're honest). But it's a really interesting proposal to think about to increase privacy on Bitcoin that, yes, would be a lot of work to implement and maintain, but also does not get talked about enough imo for everyone yapping about Bitcoin baselayer privacy.

AJ Towns' Stempool overview: https://gist.github.com/ajtowns/f3a19c33b80750a47c5b83ecf6a09aaf

BM Article:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/print/whistleblowing-in-the-surveillance-age

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Imagine being a US citizen, rocking your real name and face on Nostr, buying and zapping kyc coin without a VPN or Tor, and thinking it's private.

Stack sats. Use a VPN. Use Tor. Use Monero. There's a reason 'Satoshi' is a pseudonym.

The BTC ledger is both public and permanent. Lightning is not private or non-custodial the way 90% of people use it.

This isn't 2008. BTC is an awesome store of value, but it is still not private or fungible on a protocol level. Everything you do on Nostr is being recorded on a public network. Malicious relays are a thing. Act accordingly.

Remember WHY Bitcoin.

Stay safe out there.

#cybersecgirl

https://i.nostr.build/XVQ2Z.jpg


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


The Lightning Network is spook tech


On CBDCs

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


yeah, you're probably right. besides there's never going to be more than 21 million


i hope most of these rich guys are just lucky early adopters instead of the usual suspects i.e. big banks.


I REPEAT: what is the plan to fix BTC/BCH wealth distribution? What are we going to give the big ones in exchange for the majority of the coins which translates to influence on their price?


can someone explain to me how are we planning to make bitcoin mean liberation if this is the wealth distribution (which is similar on both BTC and BCH).

Are supposed to buy from the big ones until the masses have the majority of the bitcoin? what if the big ones want to hold? as we gain a bigger proportion of bitcoin, isn't the USD or whatever we plan on trading for bitcoin from the big ones going to be so devalued the whole operation will be futile?


bitcoin owner distribution. 2% of the wallets hold around 90% of the available BTC

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


when are we getting BCH support on nostr? i may be erring by complaining too much as a user and not seeing the developers' side but it seems BCH would be easier to support than lightning which is 2L.

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


🤣🔥💀

https://media.gleasonator.com/5b0c26c8921f593454cf5e510d2152736925e12d4a782a3580b93786a29e271f.jpg


As to your point out being divided and isolated, I think it's a universal problem now, not just Japan. Most human interactions today seem to be mediated by a pane of glass. When I lived in Japan, I remembered that on the train to Tachikawa, it felt like every face was looking down towards a phone. But it's the same in Moscow. It's the same everywhere.

Even in restaurants, you witness couples that aren't looking at each other — they're both looking at different apps. Sharing distance.


many of you guys need to take this pill

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


Me rn

https://media.gleasonator.com/50343f0a78800b17919207d621c332107df6736ec881af293c35ffe371ae1b86.png


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


it's gonna crash


MODERN SHOES ARE BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH AND POSTURE!!!!!!

Guys your shoes are ruining your feet. They are way too narrow and the elevated heel produces unnatural standing and walking postures which eventually fuck up your knees and backs.

The solution is to not wear shoes at all or to wear some with minimalist (also called barefoor) design which consists of a thin and flexible sole, wide toeboxes and no differemce in elevation between your toes and your heels (this is called zero-drop).


I feel like these new Bitcoin L2s can never go anywhere, even those that aren't scams, because they are tied to companies and centrally controlled, even if not strictly custodial. This is probably valid for Ethereum L2s too, zk-rollups and whatnot.

If you're an external individual or company you shouldn't really be investing time and energy and your brand into a thing that is just another company with zero network-effect. You would have to be part of that growing network-effect and you shouldn't do that organically and for free (this is probably why these things always do a lot of "partnerships"), and we need that organic stuff for Bitcoin to work.


When I move to Nostr I'm going to give everyone my private key.

Why not? It'll be funnier that way.


As I said yesterday, samourai is just the first domino to fall. Non-KYC exchanges are next. After that, new 2025 IRS regs and form 1099-DA will seek to acquire identifying info on *every single transaction* made by *every single wallet*. This is a coordinated effort by all agencies to eliminate privacy in Bitcoin. nostr:note1l5s3k09tlhxne0qhdxjfad23c8c95nhkw6ley4gjgy0qfkupts5s64ycuy


FBI can go fuck themselves!


Are people aware that any relay, nostr address or media server admin can see their IP? 😅😂

Always assume that you will be, at a least, registered in a DB. Act accordingly.


Got #Ditto up and running with Postgres this weekend. 👀

https://media.gleasonator.com/b6f3f6103e2a1a2647b092f6c6ac0a2c604b44556dd4c07794197fa829b2ac8b.mp4


Happy Halving Day 🥳 https://image.nostr.build/bc93702e41a1e70761ecaf663545ba3d5e50ac9f422c15b1c04c69d1879377c2.jpg


GUYS YOU SHOULD BE LOOKING UP BAREFOOT SHOES.


Whitney sheds light on the sketchy carbon credit “market” and “decarbonization” scam as instruments for surveillance and control.

Excellent work, pod, and investigative writing. nostr:note1lt34ej0535acmpxcukxla6ktz9cdwcvqw8ttv4de7urgxxx29sqs3dg7cn


Who is the guy on the picture?


we should all stop wearing shoes


Attack ideas, not people.

You can't be "mean" to an idea.


*some sense

I'm just speculating ok


This way the ones who make up the cultural and moral codes, the religious arm of the elites. Control women, the reproductive class of humanity, through men, the "economic" or "productive" class.

I mean i don't know if this explanation is actually the case circumsicion exists but it makes sense to me. A historical  investigation should help, but i don't know if i feel like doing it rn


We're living on a patriarchy but we're also living under concentration of power by warmongers, bankers and religious institutions. Most of circumcisers as I understand it ar not judes but muslims.

The way i see it is that it is religious justification for mutilation. If men are affected by it and they aren't free to decide on their own bodies, then women, who are pressumed lower on the food chain by these religions, ought to hold even less rights over their own body. Hence others are justified to decide over their reproductive life, marriage, rape, unwanted pregnancy, etc.


delete


hahahahaha WHAT???

https://maymays.breastmilk.club/media/69e65a080326ed044c0208fe13f3d22e10ff90cd574b3bd4af2daeb0476f6c52.png


GOLDBUGS AREN’T BITCOINERS

And they never will be.

Yes, they’ve identified a common enemy - central banks and governments who print money out of thin air.

And they have the right prescription - sound money.

Logically they should be our greatest allies, but they are not; why is that?

Because Goldbugs are in it for themselves. They want a return to a gold standard not because it would free people from fiat debt slavery, not to help the unbanked or to separate money and state.

No, they are goldbugs because it would pump their heavy bags. The fact gold is already captured and controlled means Goldbugs cheer when Central Banks buy more because they don’t want to overthrow the table and reset the system; they just want fiat repegged to shiny rocks in a vault no matter their rhetoric.

This is why so few actually convert to becoming Bitcoiners; they’re not in it for something greater than themselves - they’re in it only for themselves.

The few who have joined us had ideological axes to grind. Whether it was nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak watching his country get rekt, or nostr:npub1d3f4m9dgvkdjxn26pqzsxn6lpfn78sxwllxyt8mp76q0a9zyyjlswhr4xv who got fukt in the GFC or Quoth the Raven who realised the “cult” would be a self-fulfilling prophecy - they saw beyond 5000 years of history and understood this could be bigger than all that, and might actually work.

And this is why the Goldbugs ultimately failed - they had no positive vision to articulate for the world, and thus no identity for others to adopt.

They could tell you about a better monetary system but economics is inseparably intertwined with politics and culture and philosophy; without which they lacked a comprehensive worldview and aspirational conviction for others to follow.

Bitcoiners must learn from this lesson of the Goldbugs if we are to succeed. Millennials need to step up and lead the way, demonstrating a better life that people want to emulate and opt into.

Merely asking of the fiat system to use our money is not enough. https://i.nostr.build/M5zm4.jpg


Katy Gallagher doing the rounds trying to assure people the #AUStriches Digital ID is voluntary and people will benefit by making it available “across the economy”.

It’s already mandatory for company directors, this will be as voluntary as jibby jabs were.

Wonder what will happen when this is breached? 🤔 https://v.nostr.build/nW3K3.mp4  nostr:note1tclu9g7w32fu66pf70pqx6jwadehtkxnukv5lkzwv2armzc5muhqs9sg0l


Tyler solved online harassment more than a decade ago. https://i.nostr.build/5GYyg.jpg


“It is no bad thing, to celebrate a simple life”

 -Bilbo Baggins


Encontré este enlace sobre animación de trigonometría, la verdad yo me enamoré, ¿que si tiene que ver con #Bitcoin? Quizás, al fin todo está conectado. ✨

Por si se enamoran.❤

https://www.eighty-twenty.org/2010/04/19/trigonometry https://image.nostr.build/7ce5d305f393023fee358736cf96e752ab496f0bf6dc9cb035f82af5582f401c.jpg


Someone with no affiliation to Bitcoin should create another protocol that works exactly like Nostr and gather leftists and other people into it, and then after 2 years they find out that everything they had built is 100% compatible with the Nostr ecosystem and then we merge.


Hell yeah barefoot shoes


How can I start using this? I already linked my nostr account, could you help me out?

https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_9705475888640327241705120560.webp


Y después de tanto buscar, Sarvo descubrió que los huesos estuvieron dentro de el mismo todo este tiempo


It had to be Derrick


This looks yoo cool


I mean they are a scam


They're underground forest-brains that drop spores through ther hats-on-sticks after rainy seasons.