Having become more aware of these issues, and especially with the recent financial data leak of Evolve, one question persists...

Where are the victims? Why does it stop at data leak? And I don't mean bitcoin/crypto related, I mean general consumer harm en masse.

Without that follow up, data leaks appear to be routine but harmless, something that gets resolved easily. If insurance claims cover it up, then it likely leads to inflation, maybe that is worth reporting on?

If it is only bitcoiners that get targeted, it only helps to enrage us, which is fine, but it keeps the normies at distance from bitcoin instead of leaning away from KYC.


The first (or one of the first) thing to validate is the proof of work. It isn't difficult to validate, but even for bad data, it is hard to make correctly.

You burn the same amount of energy as everyone else (as much as you got) to conpete for the next block or even any block, and then you watch that work go to waste.


That's precisely what Satoshi did, but he made sure to hand it off to someone else beforehand to ensure it had a chance of surviving.


It's all about the receiver. The receiver has the power limited only by the terms agreeable to the sender.

@btcsessions will add a premium for fiat because it is more pain than bitcoin, but for someone unfamiliar with bitcoin, it is the other way around.


Local relays suddenly sound kind of interesting.

https://github.com/greenart7c3/Citrine


Looks like my cache was cleared somehow and I lost my stable nuts. 😢

I mean I should have lost them. 🙂↔

Fortunately I set up NWC connections in CornyChat, HiveTalk, and the MoonBoi Feed. 😈

That means even though I don’t have access to the boardwalkcash.com wallet, I can still spend and drain the wallet and not lose the sats. 🧐

Testing cashu is a lot more forgiving 🤗 these days!


Yeah, you have the free which afaik is the "google" one. Libre has no proprietary nuthin in it and also is the one which can be upgraded to pro if you pay.


I'm looking for a few people to help beta test Fountain's new nostr integration - ideally you already use Fountain but not a strict requirement!

Please DM me if you're interested and repost for visibility!

#asknostr


A line seems to have been crossed. Bitcoin is on its way to zero, but the outlook on more freedom is positive.


Your wallet is horny.


nostr:nprofile1qqs83nn04fezvsu89p8xg7axjwye2u67errat3dx2um725fs7qnrqlgpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcsrhspy can we get the libre version of keepassxd? https://github.com/Kunzisoft/KeePassDX/wiki/FAQ#why-a-libre-and-free-version


Irresponsible of the linux distros, the issue has been patched. There are reported older versions potentially that are safe too:

- OpenSSH earlier than 4.4p1 = vulnerable
- 4.4p1 - 8.5p1 (excluding 8.5p1) = safe
- 9.8p1 and later = safe


It was okay on #Amethyst. Also sometimes long posts are annoying, esp. on the main feed. You press "show" and now if you don't care to read it, you have to scroll........... To the end to collapse it again.


Pretty sure you just gotta update your client.


Is that not just because less people are voting in total?


The great restoration ⚡


If #Bitcoin fails, it will at least be recorded in history as a thing that gave humanity the hope we needed to change the world for the better.

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Why is this any different than selecting those same utxos and .... Ohhh, combine them with Zeus liquidity and you have a reasonable size utxo now 🤓


Now do a withdraw offer and make it public for all to drain 😅


Rekt


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OR MAYBE THEY ARE THE DUMP


What version 👀

Also is there a blog post explaining how it works tm


Julian’s first birthday in freedom in fourteen years. https://image.nostr.build/fbe6bb8fade32607000b35a0595ccf65236935ca4e54c0823eeb5d8fd2593ad0.jpg


The first global law of the universe is: there is no global law of the universe.

The second global law of the universe is: see the first global law of the universe.


You sayin' that law should be global? Like one set of laws to rule them all?

Who makes the laws? 💩


This feels futuristic. Can nostr support this?

Private sharing to groups sounds difficult.


But how do I use them?


Ben, you a podcaster now?


What is this... User emoji list???


Nah, that's just melted ice.


Nice office, are you stacking hard enough???
https://nostrcheck.me/media/0d97beae567fcec9c6574f1c6ef6126ea969d4992c3198e51c0fac52c5274a14/65ad4518263451504a2e82433e91028307d2ec3029ed844a22011f8301f516b3.webp


It's a fucking psyop! Water doesn't exist!


I thought it was 80%?


Sneaky. I love it. But also surprised that it passed Apple's review process.


No but #Bitcoin is speculative, if you use my definition of hard money, as something no one wants... wait, I mean... urm... Bitcoin is not hard money because Jamie Diamond said Satoshi and he would double the supply and laugh and so you can't.

/cope.


Pretty sure I've seen this before... black mirror maybe?


Lol. Turdsoup 😅
https://nostrcheck.me/media/0d97beae567fcec9c6574f1c6ef6126ea969d4992c3198e51c0fac52c5274a14/127d5b24c66a83a7057a09011f9e62c1f3f60489fc252ad74b3bc7909db2d446.webp


Snort does this.


Long story short, yes, only pixel.


Oh lol, I thought it was a java card and I was wondering why it needed all that functionality 😅


What does this do? How comes Apple doesn't know that there is a workaround in the code?


I think Apple does it for you.. and if I were to hazard a guess, it is either the last compatible app you installed, or the first.

I think the apps register themselves to pick up the request when they get installed.

Android lets you pick one or if you don't, it will always show you a list of compatible apps, Apple probably thinks this is too complicated for their users.


Who are you telling? Anyone or everyone? 👀


Scary.


Is this even verified? To me it looks like automation testers running tests on devices.

There is nothing that suggests that these are bots, I personally can't even identify the app(s) they are running, they have code in front of them, I think this is fake news gone viral.


Interesting, I imagined that a client would listen for notes on these other pubkeys though, we can't be having gaps like we do for bitcoin wallets, it would be wasteful.

I think it is simpler to just randomly generate npubs so we don't have to detect reuse and we should put the npubs in a private list so the client can be direct about what notes it is searching for.

Also when searching, it shouldn't batch because that would be a privacy issue but conversely, you only leak this to your relays so maybe it isn't so bad.


nostr:nprofile1qqs83nn04fezvsu89p8xg7axjwye2u67errat3dx2um725fs7qnrqlgpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0e2p4dj why do I need to uninstall an app and reinstall it from zap.store for it to successfully update?

Last one was from F-Droid and I _think_ another was from Obsidian.

Does this imply that my phone doesn't like updates originating from a different source or that the builds are slightly different?

I'm using nostr:nprofile1qqsvzkj6vkvxu745zdx7uw4c2f2d5hzafvzw0z60zmyzsdce9564rpgpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtc7khscm.


And no simplelogin account or any account whatsoever.


Yeah, but imagine a built in alias manager specifically for this purpose that creates a throwaway subscription user with 1 click and lets you throw it away or silence it whenever you want.


We need private aliases. This way we can create temporary identities for subscribing to these things that we can throw away.

Why private? I don't want people to know which account is the main one.

Would be a cool feature if it could generate a fake name and image too.


Looks like node red (I think that was what it was called)


Hawk tua! Now watch the idea grow.


But then the receipt has a lot of unnecessary metadata that everyone needs to download (the serial number of the ecash).


This week at Cyphermunk House;

Tuesday 2nd July 7pm
📙 #Bitcoin 101📙
Beginner's class focusing on wallets, nodes and privacy, using #Sparrow nostr:nprofile1qqstu7jjjx6n969erredexq539y2x0f7pks80zxhg9hh8dx8298s3espz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchsf2hc5t & nostr:nprofile1qqsvxq03xdev3uxehjqcdkr5lfzl5vawmcf7vm6ps73m6ghwg8y4k2spzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcsaguv6

Wednesday 3rd July - 7pm
🍿 nostr:nprofile1qqsx0cvqxqpjehhe4t53taqcjsqhu7slvpqr4jems5zg9exmfe82rnqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuem909ek2u3wve6kueqpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwdhx7un59eek7cmfv9kqdpcstd 🍿
Screening of the nostr:nprofile1qqs22d4tralncqfnh2kmmarjkxk8449hwnk5xtqe3y5yry6hy7ytegqpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgcwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxvmt59emkj73wvf5h5tcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsymkvl9 documentary organised by nostr:nprofile1qqsruf5rpzf9e8gna3u805tae2gxep967a6u3p74ge0mu75cf94nk7qpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0lkcnt8. Run time 42 mins.

#London nostr:nprofile1qqsxq40mdenelxgudsq7pg4kzy5unjxlqmym70g8a69mhjylyhrgm9qpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcahkz7f #Bitcoin #Nostr #Plebchain

#SatStandard
⚡


All I see is red until December. 😁


I've seen content creators move, it happens over time and they tend to follow oneanother too. Content creators are in friendly competition, so if an app has a feature that helps build engagement, other content creators will jump on it too, and then eventually they will focus on building for the features they prefer.

That said: I expecy the cost to move between apps on nostr to be cheap AF compared to traditional platforms. Most content will be generically supported by all, and then maybe specialised features like merch stores will be on specific apps and people will need to use that app to access it.

Regarding the "one best aggregator app", I use #Amethyst, it is great, but I suspect that eventually many of the features will rot. I already don't use it for accessing streams, I favour zap.stream. Somehow I feel like it isn't as good on #Amethyst.

How things evolve is neither here or there, but at the very least, we should acknowledge, I can still see and interact with you on #Amethyst, even if you use something like #Primal.


You don't need your followers to change app, but you will find that if you tell your followers that you are moving, they will follow you anyway.

People aren't married to their clients. Users aren't on instagram because it is run by meta, they are on it because they can find the content they want on it and their favourite ifluencers are building for it, so even if the content is elsewhere, the platform is likely going to give the best experience.

Same will happen on nostr, but for those who are torn between their fandoms, or who are somehow married to their clients, they get to stay put. Freedom.

I think this also gives clients the freedom to focus on what they want too: features and community or relationship building tools. People will use one app to poke and share with their friends, and the other to support and fan out on their favourite creators. Yet the same content will be on both apps, maybe the apps will even interop so they can each focus on their specialities while operating on the same data.


And yet my videos get 10x more views on Twitter than YouTube, TikTok or Nostr combined.

Sure it’s very botted but we need more normies on here

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Here's a screenshot, I select allow always and it applies to all automatically, yet it still comes back. 😓
https://nostrcheck.me/media/0d97beae567fcec9c6574f1c6ef6126ea969d4992c3198e51c0fac52c5274a14/ffb150396d0a4ba16525931aaedac56131599e668c5ac832766c059d2198d7c4.webp


The only thing it restricts is commercial use. Its similar to copyleft, its at the very least open source.


Me too. I wasn't sure how to describe the issue though because I'm sure I've checked the "don't ask again for this event" checkbox in Amber and it makes no effect.


#amber asking for approval each time  I open #amethyst now for about two weeks. What's up?
https://image.nostr.build/bfb0e00a3cc87abf2102521c517d07b0e6657c9941089bea2cd36afa44b45f56.jpg


Foss 🤷


Okay, so some have "liked" my question, but on further reflection:

- ecash doesn't have a proof of payment system beyond failing to claim a token because it has already been spent.

- an ecash user would therefore be losing no functionality or expectations in this scenario.

- a lightning user gets proof of payment. This was super useful for many when Chivo was fucking up in El Salvador.

Nothing much else to say here I think.


Kinda just reminds me of "DIDs" where you can prove that you are a "man" using zero knowledge proofs and third party signed proofs.

So I could have 100 badges publicly known and issued and you can prove to anyone that you have that badge but you can selectively choose who to share it with.

Another thought is something I saw a glimpse of when private chats were being discussed, what if you can prove that you wrote a message in a group, but if someone were to attempt to re-share this, there is no signature to verify it. I don't know how that would work, I just saw something a long time ago that makes me think it should be possible.


Looks like automated testing on real hardware. Pretty sweet setup.


Don't want to hear the scores until you watch the recorded match when you get home?


The power got to her head.

😈

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Insider trading bro.


Except how do you handle the merchant pretending that the payment failed?


Go to Amber, go to permissions and either fix the thing that keeps rejecting you or reset permissions. https://image.nostr.build/cd2b38d23cfe555ab96205e2809754bf5b02c2c6486ce0acce1467a6716adb00.jpg


GM! ☕

Soon you will get an alias mail service over nostr.

Share and get 21sats to spread the info! ⚡

Not sure who would be interested.

#grownostr #plebchain #email #alias #mail #nostr


Did you choose not to for safety reasons, or as a matter of principal?

I think it's cool to reject as a matter of principal, and of course as a matter of safety, but to come and brag about it to the choir if it was not for safety feels wrong and kinda cringe.


All I know is that it's free, but who knows for how long.


Same. Cut and paste is a godsend.

But I guess #Amethyst also has drafts for this too.


He clearly thinks it is just a social network platform 🤦


So much better than the oily mess you get everywhere else.


Queensbury*


Go to Regency in Queensury. It is a bit out of central but it is genuinely the only indian restaurant I can recommend.


Looking forward to getting depressed 🥲


Nothing wrong with #Amethyst. 🤪


The question isn't whether AI is sentient, but how different are we biologically.

That said, there are reasons why AGI isn't here yet or near, but don't forget to ask yourself why you are not also a data crunching machine?


Maybe you would have 10 sats by now.


Normalising a more useful zapping culture than 21 & 69 is how we win in the long term. Thankyou for your service. 🫡


Does this mean we could see a list of all previously uploaded gifs in our nostr clients?


Sounds possible with BIP-32. Generate a seed private key and give its xpub to a miner. The miner can computes as many public key as it wants by bruteforcing non-hardened derivation paths, and once it finds one that matches your criteria, it replies with the derivation path. Only you can compute the private key with the seed private key and the derivation path.

Throw away the seed once you're done, don't reuse, otherwise the miner might correlate your npubs.


But then decided that it had to be said anyway.


But is code blocks supported by event id 1?


But if you don't want to use NFC for psbt, then why use it the other way? Don't you have the same risks both way?


Just calling out anything misaligned and overhyped? Misaligned meaning that you can't extract value by selling tokens and dumping on people? Overhyped in the way CrYpTo scams aren't?

🙄


It was Danny. It's quite obvious from the poster. 🤣


His crime? Using the default browser on GrapheneOS.


Lol. Bro. https://image.nostr.build/68fd7edd0d301541b2a5c8b996feacaaee55e19f7b22b4be1f6b1602e1f7d7e9.jpg


Haha. So nostr & bitcoin challenge? I thought it was just using nostr for communicating and organising stuff. I would think flagging a taxi for example is allowed because we don't use the internet for everything, but uber would be out.


Powerful.

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This was shared but I'm resharing it I'm drunk and this video on loop cracks me up and makes me feel 🤘

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Your app works bro... of course. 😁 nostr:nprofile1qqs0ulmtcmmn8zmkh0uqmdqz4hn9j5lzpvhj8enw3xpqfd3ucsjnngcflts8q


Maybe I'm naive, but I feel like keys both private and public are circulating enough to feel normalised.

A generation or two and we'll all just use public keys and hash identifiers. We'll have local directories of them in our phones.

Then we'll use a peer to peer discovery network to find each other (keet) and all will be well with the world.

Maybe advertisers will put qr codes or something else alongside their ads with public keys for their websites.

Maybe I'm having a heat stroke.


Keeeeeeeeet!


Oh shit.


Where do we find the binaries? I see npm and source, but you also mentioned ios ans android?


Coinjoins are back baby!


I wouldn't be surprised if this was still better than living somewhere with terrible food, more crime and deaths than you can navigate each day and no sense of opportunity (this is the "dream").


And then there's one guy trying to run it on a niche Linux distribution called Alpine Linux and failing 🤣

https://github.com/holesail/holesail/issues/2


I think its officially easier to buy p2p now.


Yup UK regs are wild. I just wanted to see the UX, I paused and shut the app when it asked for my passport. I already gave them and verified an email and might have given them permission to advertise to me had I missed the toggle that does NOT look like a checkbox 😓

Dunno, feels like the order could change, maybe an agenda? 😁


Imagine growing up and the first thing you learn about law is that it is a torture device that can be weaponised and aimed at someone who did good.

Painful truths to grow up with.


I kinda want to learn more. Does this mean he can't set foot in America? What about other countries? Is he free to continue wikileaks? I think he should be ready to retire even if he is able to...


Wait... Free free?


As long as #Bitcoin exists, we win.


This is mine.


Birdbox


Thoughts on shared utxos. The size of the utxo must meet a minimum threshold which is dictated by the number of participants (or minimum number of participants if this is dynamic) multiplied by whatever amount is considered economical to close now and in the future (I know, not a constant number).

The idea is that at any time, someone will need or want to switch to a different L2 or even just a new configuration of the same L2 or make an on chain transaction and it should be economical even in the worst case where every participant has the same even amount allocated to them.

In most cases, the amount will not be distributed evenly and maybe with some statistics, we can come up with a reasonable optimisation, but KISS. Also keep in mind that a shared UTXO that can dynamically scale down its user count can probably scale up too, but then maybe a sensible constraint should be that at least one VUTXO must be economical to spend and the sum of the rest of them should also be economical as a single spendable UTXO.

This then brings up the question, how can a majority share owner exit without leaving the rest of the participants in a bad situation?

It is probably important for there to be a secondary market and so the UTXO must either be able to change its participants dramatically or there should be a reliable key rotation scheme that allows transfer of ownership with finality.

If a shared UTXO does not have these guarantees, then you may be entering into an "L2" that cannot unilaterally exit.

So I may choose to accept a VTXO from someone, with a tiny amount, but before I authorize my acceptance of it, I should first ensure that I am happy with its state, hopefully using zero knowledge proofs.

Also others on the UTXO should be able to either pre-authorize a number of VTXOs or the L2 should be interactive (ideally option 1).

I think it is clear that the question of whether something has the ability to unilaterally exit is not straight forward. It should probably have these characteristics:

1. At least 1 participant should be able to unilaterally exit at any time.
2. With small VTXOs, you may not unilaterally exit but rule 1 gives you the ability to trade in and out.
3. If not at any time, then a UTXO must have the ability for one participant to exit within some reasonable time frame
4. Wallets should participate in monitoring the state of the UTXO and warn the user about the risk level of the L2.

What do you think? Too much or reasonable?


It is equal in itself, but the fiat system existing breaks everything.

If I have nothing, I do labour, I earn something, the person with everything pays for labour.

The balances shift, granted not very fast.

But with fiat, if I am rich, I can get loans and new money for cheap and earn while I pay you while I do nothing.

You can't do that as a poor person, you have no credit score.

Also rich man can lobby for more benefits that gives him more access to free money. Maybe he can make a donatable charity... you pay for them to get food, the government tops up your donation with new money aka "your tax deductables". Rich man takes a large cut from all of that for facilitating the donation. Some of your money, some of tax money, and you feel good because I told you someone will eat.


> The user’s explicit consent would still be required in order for their data to be used for any other commercial purposes and additional services.

Says it all.


I don't know if there is, I haven't paid attention, but I'm pretty sure they have most of it figured out... they have "hyperdrive", so you just need two computers with pear runtime installed and get them to subscribe to a single hyperdrive and boom, shared folder afaik.

Next is.. how well does it work?


Tell me bubbie, what do you know?

https://image.nostr.build/d38a5f466c50c9c1c72454c02cf5eb358e3773fee77a963e7fba804bb1c944e3.jpg


Its the mustache. We need more mustaches.


Bitcoin fixes this.

https://www.redhotcyber.com/en/post/lockbit-3-0-claims-attack-on-federal-reserve-33-terabytes-of-sensitive-data-allegedly-compromised/


Opinion pieces are clearly marked. I have yet to see any of these pieces reach the "news" section.

I think other publications just don't have as many opinion pieces or are just more particular about which opinions they allow.


Like... You can buy drugs?


I mean, it isn't always an answer...

1. You can say "just don't use an iPhone", but people with iPhones deserve accessibility to permissionless Bitcoin.
2. Lockdown mode is for extra privacy, marketed towards people who think they might become a target, or those who are whistleblowers. The very people who are incorrectly criminalised.

It's just interesting, Mutiny got us this far, but if it can get as far as Lockdown mode, that would be amazing, and yet it also still feels like a cat and mouse game, a bandaid over a bigger picture problem we should be addressing hollistically in the market.


GM, If Bitcoin is a biological organism, then we are its white blood cells.


Why is everyone in Tooting accepting bitcoin? What have you told them 🤪


Hmm, sounds like it's not so unblockable then after all 😬


few
https://video.nostr.build/24f071ff84cdd2362caa98dcfc6aa6f251504ccdbbe86d3d3ad3281defb4f09c.mp4


What's your question?


The analogy that the internet used to be difficult but got easier used to bring nuance to Bitcoin's complexity is misleading at best in my opinion.

The internet is not actually easier, the layers are complex and anyone who works in tech will know that it is not easy to build resilient services online.

The internet got "easier" , not only because we rely on third parties to provide hardware and software, but because websites became centralised and infrastructure became centralised.

Fortunately, I do believe that both the internet and Bitcoin can evolve in the right way and with the massive wave of developers working to build on both Bitcoin, Nostr and other decentralised and peer to peer technologies like Keet, I am still very hopeful.

GN.


The way I interpret your words, "received" means "received over Bluetooth" not "received and claimed".

Correct me if I am wrong, but I think we see a successful transaction differently. You see it as when the token lands on the receiver's device, I see it as when the token is spent at the mint.

When I as a receiver get an ecash token, I cannot know if it is valid until I trade it for a new one.

I understand that a p2pk is different and maybe we should have two separate conversations across 2 threads to avoid confusion.

With p2pk, I still don't consider the payment done until the token is claimed:

1. I as the receiver may decide that I don't want to claim the token because I don't trust the mint.
2. I may have technical issues reaching the mint at the time.

Actually, if I want to reject the payment, I should send it back to you signed instead of to the mint and you can reclaim it yourself, and that would actually be an atomic refund once I reclaim the cashu token.


Context:

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I agree. I used that Venice.AI tool and asked what the largest word from BIP39 was and it told me it was "abandon" and then after some prompting it told me the largest was a 10 letter word that doesn't exist in the list.

Maybe it's just that one, but I am thoroughly unimpressed.

It may have been the same AI that told me that someone with access to the same dice could replicate entropy so dice rolls are not safe for generating private keys. If an AI has become sentient and is acting maliciously, this is it.


Thoughts on shared utxos. The size of the utxo must meet a minimum threshold which is dictated by the number of participants (or minimum number of participants if this is dynamic) multiplied by whatever amount is considered economical to close now and in the future (I know, not a constant number).

The idea is that at any time, someone will need or want to switch to a different L2 or even just a new configuration of the same L2 or make an on chain transaction and it should be economical even in the worst case where every participant has the same even amount allocated to them.

In most cases, the amount will not be distributed evenly and maybe with some statistics, we can come up with a reasonable optimisation, but KISS. Also keep in mind that a shared UTXO that can dynamically scale down its user count can probably scale up too, but then maybe a sensible constraint should be that at least one VUTXO must be economical to spend and the sum of the rest of them should also be economical as a single spendable UTXO.

This then brings up the question, how can a majority share owner exit without leaving the rest of the participants in a bad situation?

It is probably important for there to be a secondary market and so the UTXO must either be able to change its participants dramatically or there should be a reliable key rotation scheme that allows transfer of ownership with finality.

If a shared UTXO does not have these guarantees, then you may be entering into an "L2" that cannot unilaterally exit.

So I may choose to accept a VTXO from someone, with a tiny amount, but before I authorize my acceptance of it, I should first ensure that I am happy with its state, hopefully using zero knowledge proofs.

Also others on the UTXO should be able to either pre-authorize a number of VTXOs or the L2 should be interactive (ideally option 1).

I think it is clear that the question of whether something has the ability to unilaterally exit is not straight forward. It should probably have these characteristics:

1. At least 1 participant should be able to unilaterally exit at any time.
2. With small VTXOs, you may not unilaterally exit but rule 1 gives you the ability to trade in and out.
3. If not at any time, then a UTXO must have the ability for one participant to exit within some reasonable time frame
4. Wallets should participate in monitoring the state of the UTXO and warn the user about the risk level of the L2.

What do you think? Too much or reasonable?


My understanding was that as you add trusted contacts, you can get asked less security questions. But before that, you want to accept connections etc.


Actually one thing I noticed is that small delay in confirmation of receipt. This can give us the opportunity to get a full acceptance flow for online payments.

So you send me ecash and from your end it is done, but for me, I haven't really accepted it yet. I trade it for a new ecash and if it works, I accept. If it fails, or if I don't want to trust that mint, I reject. I could also reject it maliciously of course.

If I report the payment as failed, then you can trade the ecash for a new one and if it fails, then there's a problem. But in most cases you just take back the funds and payment is cancelled/rejected.

The problem case is interesting. Without p2pk and a timeout, there is no atomic payment and even with, there is no proof of payment like we have on lightning afaik.

Are there any protocols or flows to address them?


Well I imagine there will be OS level permissions and walls to break through. Bluetooth tends to ask questions like "X is trying to send you a file" which is good for security but bad for UX.

Have you managed to work around all of that?


I'd love to see the whole flow between two devices, both new and previously connected. I think new is the experience most will have and it is first impression too.


I think the box should be scrollable after 3 rows maybe. I voted too big but I should remember that fat finger space is important.


You land in 2015 and realise you lost your wallet and can't prove who you are to get access to your other self's bank account.


Why cut it? It's just as bad uncut 😅.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oleB3NZ2Zpc


Long story short
https://m.primal.net/ItNN.mov


In the source nostr:npub1yxp7j36cfqws7yj0hkfu2mx25308u4zua6ud22zglxp98ayhh96s8c399s says he doesn't really know, ask a cryptographer.

Also I have heard this before, so I really don't know. AI says it is not possible.


Could you animate the moment where Shinoboi was wrong?

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😑
https://video.nostr.build/8b849a6c3f0b44787ddb9ed4f5f0a2e9a50462692e6dbee9ee63d7b30e6a1276.mp4


Checked it out with my #Amethyst and it didn't crash *few*.

v0.87.7 🥳


I don't understand. LSP's have an on-chain setup cost. What you are suggesting implies that this is a negligible cost which it is not.


Yes.


The big problem here is...

You're not supposed to mix microfibre cloths with anything else because it will cling to other fibres and ruin itself.


Pin


If we get this in nostr, I feel like we have crossed the finish line. We will officially be at Nostr V1.

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>  "I thought the ‘make your own sushi' bar would be a hit, but too many people died right at the beginning.

Erm, what?


Is that the guy or just a stock image 😂


Lol. 😂😂😅

https://image.nostr.build/e9b08dded5ac7fb9f750ff287205a6d8372935a7045fb91f973231bc85e4603c.jpg


Casper?


🚨 WHAT ENABLES DICTATORS TO KILL?

On 18 June 2024 in #Kyiv, the Tokayev-Nazarbayev regime organised the assassination of Aydos #Sadykov, a Kazakhstani opposition journalist and political refugee in #Ukraine. The shooter executed the journalist's head in front of his wife as they drove up to the courtyard of their flat during daylight hours.

Sadykov's wife immediately named the one who ordered the political murder - the president of Kazakhstan Tokayev.

Sadykova noted that the family had received regular threats on their lives for criticising Tokayev. On the eve of the assassination, Sadykov released a video statement where he called Tokayev a "puppet of #Putin."

What is #Tokayev doing?

The very next day, fearing international accountability, Tokayev issued a statement "that the priority in the country is the rule of law".

It is crucial to remind why Tokayev should not be believed. Politics is a world of perceptions. Tokayev understands this well and knows in practice that #propaganda has already helped him escape accountability:

- for the torture, mass shootings and arbitrary arrests of more than 10,000 peaceful protesters in January 2022;

- for helping #Russia circumvent international sanctions for 2.5 years;

- for weaponising the #banking system, anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism laws as a tool to financially exclude critics of the regime domestically and #transnationally;

- for political persecution through INTERPOL, extraditions, and influencing justice and asylum authorities in Western countries, including the attempted kidnapping of Bota Jardemalie from #Belgium, the hunt by killers for Mukhtar #Ablyazov in #France, and other cases of transnational  persecution of opposition and human rights defenders.

It is important to remind that Tokayev's regime gained access to Interpol's databases in December 2023 through a "silver notification". But regime of Tokayev is using not to combat with criminals, but to have just another tool to dispatch killers to an address anywhere in the world with jewellery precision against critics.

This arbitrariness should be halted. I share this post on #Nostr because the most probably on other social media platforms it will be removed following multiple attacks and demands of Kazakhstani ministry of justice.

But we need to have public support. Only public pressure can help us to get Tokayev's international accountability. https://image.nostr.build/4c5ceb1debc3c660fa69507d7a3cf9e6e8badd8a7f8f237da9b03189009b698a.jpg


I'm confident that there will be enough lashback that people will finally look for alternative products, services and platforms.

Let the games of progression begin.


Do. You. Want. Them. To. Be. Transmitted. By. Relays?

N. & O. S. T. R.


WTF did I expect 🙈

I think we need better ways to collapse long posts without having to scroll to the bottom.


This is heartbreaking.

But also the fact that this man chose to record a video and share his grievances on the internet instead of at home is a model example of how the world has gone tipsy turvy.

He probably had this platform (assuming tick tock or Instagram or something) because he was exploring it as a source of income and this is what the world has come to. We strip ourselves of decency and clown ourselves just to make ends meet.

Yes, if we steal forever, people will survive, but at some point it isn't humane and it isn't living.


This is better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--IFcOIEfl4&t=1800


Bitcoin journalism is fucked.

I started The Rage because I'm tired of investors and advertisers telling me what to do for below minimum wage compensation.

What we need are publications willing to let journalists investigate the crap out of the companies, representatives and people enabling the building of surveillance tech behind the scenes.

What we get are publications selling out to corporations, startups and politicians writing public relations puff pieces to keep their returns on track. The point of journalism is to hold power to account, not to become its bedfellow.

There is no lack of talented, experienced, investigative journalists covering bitcoin. The problem is that they write what the powers that be don't want you to hear – so many are out of a job, dabbling away at the next press release for mainstream media, or doing below-minimum wage contract work to pay the bills.

I'm incredibly overwhelmed by all the positive feedback we've been getting for The Rage. In just 8 weeks we've scooped major publications and drove discussions around AML, Samourai and Tornado Cash together with your help. We've even made enough to cover operations with almost 400$ raised, thanks to all the zappers out there.

But here's the thing. I didn't come here to write a good piece every once in a while leaving stories untold left and right because I can't afford to focus on investigations full time. I came here to fuck up the financial surveillance complex. That's why The Rage now needs your help.

We're trying to raise 0.25BTC so we can contract the best investigative journalists in the Bitcoin space to tell the stories that major publications can't afford to print.

If you value your financial freedom, please consider donating via our Geyser fund. We cannot do this without your help.

https://geyser.fund/project/therage

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Well, he was looking for an alternative so....


It's the hold for X time to determine the amount that makes me go nuts. Ever tried to set a price using a slider on a website? You begin to beg for an input text box.


Generate a private key and put onto a write-once device like TapSigner. Maybe with the help of a company that helps you with tools and resources but remains blind.

The device can sign for anything, custom message, tx with custom derivation path, lightning txs, multisig, script txs.

It will NEVER reveal the seed words inside. (Unlike the tapsigner actually)

Seed words go concealed into a safety deposit box and is protected by legal structures and corporate stuff that is acceptable. Maybe there are options for the renegade too.

Tapsigner can be snapped (broken) if you are under duress.


Erm.... Sounds complicated 😅


This is a new but insightful observation. 🤔👍


One yt channel I appreciate is "daily dose of internet".

Their thumbnail is clickbait, but the first clip they show is the thumbnail clip and then they continue.

I've observed myself clicking on videos looking for the clickbait and even skipping through to find it and if I can't find it, I close the video and move on.

With dailydose, I satisfy my curiosity immediately and before I realise, I watched the whole thing.

I know you don't do clip videos, but maybe there's something useful there.


Honestly, I wouldn't continue.

Nostr isn't well defined yet IMO. For most normies it is the next social media, but it can be so much more.

I might, if pushed, say that it is the next social media that is still developing but has no ads, no manipulative algorithms and no central business that a government can coerce into censoring uncomfortable opinions and information.


Yeah, but I'm also a nym. Someone out there is a big zapper, but who is it?  https://image.nostr.build/ce891e5b64cda17f47fb792353426011c64f59ca977655f17d3502fb3c14cf92.gif


Uh oh. Hope it improves soon.


600,000,000,000 what?


But who am I? oO/


Why?


🤔 I guess you would have published a profile event at the time. But you'll need to find historical events somewhere and search for your first ever note.

I guess you'll not find it unfortunately unless you're pretty new here.


If you don’t take self-custody of your Bitcoin it belongs to the state they just haven’t taken it yet.


It hurts every loop to see that his intake was much smaller than his bite. Heartbreaking. 💔


Dick picks incoming.


it’s actually you. stop trolling


Depends. If you're using it for long term storage and don't read and write to it often,  then spinning disks are way more superior to SSDs.

SSDs are superior when you read, write and update files frequently and of course are more resilient to motion when in use, but in enterprise, HDDs are preferred for archival backups.


Hey guys! I think we're good, AI isn't taking over the world any time soon if this answer is anything to go by:

https://image.nostr.build/fbbba6c0377aa289aaf9d6b99e3135d486199b1ed6bf908c43354d1b7463e906.png


Test https://m.primal.net/Ikzp.jpg


New meetup arranged for Wednesday 19th June with #niftynei!

https://www.meetup.com/bitcoinology/events/301640642/


Kinda not sad about the reduction of the thickness of the bread.


"Oh wow, the cloud is so amazing! So much data available to collect, truly a blessing."

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GM.
No, I'm not asking stupid questions, I'm questioning stupid asks.


Software airgap is not real airgap.


I recall as a kid you'd ask lots of "stupid" questions, as you learn what "life in society" means, you realise that things are just how they are and if you don't conform (I never really fully conformed) you were/are a weirdo. I'm still a weirdo.

Now it's becoming cool to not use social media. The tides are shifting and I'm here for it. I'm also still relearning how to question stupid asks.


Bullish if true. One of the biggest challenges with Bisq was that it is desktop only.


GM. Curious whether people have been following India 🇮🇳 for political news?

I hear Modhi is great, he has lifted the economy to success, and stocks are booming. Also they are buying Russian oil and reselling it as Indian oil for rupees instead of USD and he hasn't been murdered yet?

I smell a fish.


Thus is super cool, I have some feedback though... Do they need to collect a "billing address" when taking a bitcoin payment?

Also do they need a delivery address when choosing click and collect?

Would be good to keep the form filling to a minimum where possible.

If an address is necessary (because gunpowder) fair enough, just curious and giving feedback.

Powered by Swiss bitcoin pay is cool though! 🤘


I guess it got rebroadcast to other relays, because I see it now.


I can't see that note.


He's just clearly better at marketing these features. 🤪


He knows. But he's also in the business of attempting to profit from his customers. They already have a tipping feature, it supports bitcoin in some countries I believe, but its not in their interest to promote it.


5v maxi eh?


I like the man.


If I tell you that your private key is a random number from a massive pool, you'll always wonder if there is a chance of picking the same number as someone else, but somehow, although not true, if I say you pick a number at random from infinity, I don't think you'll get that same question.

What do you think? Should we start saying "Picking a private key is like picking a random number from infinity" and leave it there?


Read it carefully. It is like a honey trap to get you to share it but it spreads more propaganda at the end.

> This included claims that Covid was not airborne, there was “no need for masks”, children did not spread the disease and that “herd immunity” could be reached.


Yes, more specifically you are an apple cake. 😋


But then why do you need 2of3 when you can easily recover it all? Why not 2of2 or 3of3?


Yes.


How much did she say it cost?


FYI, the signing thing is because I use Amber as a remote signer.

https://video.nostr.build/4871319be71c3cfdf2a04b1f1adbb2975948fab01b67c188333f6db87b86f30f.mp4


Behind every great man, is a woman who has already thought of everything you are working on.


Stupid list of lies at the end, what about lies that affect us. Lies like: seed oils are healthy, 2% inflation is good, etc.


Its as if it should be backed up like lightning static channel backups! 🤪


Why would you get tips?


I don't know enough about the secure enclave situation, or more specifically, the secure element in many modern smartphones.

1. Is it in many or just a few like the Google pixel?
2. Does software like BlueWallet use it?
3. How does it really keep data secure from malware? Does it limit access to the specific apps that created the data? Is there reliable anti-spoofing?


I continue to work on my hedgehog protocol and I've figured out how to add some cool features to it. I wrote a "bridge server" which helps "translate" hedgehog payments into lightning payments, and it works right now, which means a hedgehog wallet can pay regular lightning invoices. I also added support for something I call "unilateral channels."

What that means is, someone can be fully offline, not even talking to you, not even aware of you, and if you have their pubkey you can send them $100 in bitcoin (for example) in such a way that they "receive" it in a new hedgehog channel. You just use their pubkey to create a multisig and fund it with the $100, then send them a string of text containing signatures for the "force closure" transactions that they need in case they have to unilaterally exit from the multisig. Then, whenever they next get online, they can paste that string into their wallet and instantly start using the money in their (already confirmed!) new hedgehog channel to make hedgehog payments and lightning payments.

You you could also use the unilateral channel feature to "make up" a bunch of keypairs, get some business cards, print out channel opening/closing information on the business cards (using the pubkeys from each of the keypairs you made up to create the multisigs), fund the multisigs yourself, and then "gift" them to people by just handing them the business card. Each recipient gets a new, prefunded hedgehog wallet with full support for sending and receiving lightning payments, with two simple steps: (1) visit a webpage (or download an app) that runs hedgehog wallet software and (2) scan the qr code to import the channel data.

All of these features have some interesting side effects. For example, since you can receive money into a new hedgehog channel without being online, you can keep your private keys fully offline in an airgapped hardware wallet, and whenever you want to send money over hedgehog or lightning, you can just prepare the transaction in your software wallet, encode it as a series of several psbts, pass those to your hardware wallet for signing, and let your software wallet send the newly signed transactions to the bridge server.

You could also *receive* money over lightning into a separate hot wallet, and regularly withdraw it to a cold hedgehog wallet by using your hardware wallet to individually sign the various transactions that are involved in receiving lightning payments and revoking old state (but this requires implementing support for receiving lightning payments on hedgehog, which I haven't done yet -- see below).

I am currently working on a feature that I call "virtual channels" which allow you to make a unilateral channel without going on chain. This lets you cheaply give people hedgehog channels that "fully" work, with the tradeoff that you (the sender) have a copy of this virtual channel's private keys, so you have custody of the recipient's funds. But the channel works just like a regular hedgehog channel, with the same interface, its own balance, full support for sending and receiving hedgehog payments, and sending lightning payments. So it's sort of like you're hosting an lnbits wallet for someone, only with hedgehog's ability to effectively emulate asynchronous payments. Which means you don't need a server to host this software, a regular phone or even a web browser should work fine, because you don't need to be online all the time, only the bridge server does.

Once virtual channels are ready I want to add support for "receiving" lightning payments into a hedgehog channel. I wrote up a specification for it here (https://github.com/supertestnet/hedgehog-advanced) but I haven't implemented it yet. Once that is done I think hedgehog will be ready to implement in a "real" wallet. It will have so many cool features:

- keep your keys airgapped and still (a) send hedgehog payments (b) receive hedgehog payments (c) send lightning payments (d) regularly withdraw lightning payments from a "hot" wallet into .your airgapped hedgehog wallet without needing to do any base layer transactions

- if exchanges like kraken or swan add support for hedgehog, any user who has monthly or weekly autobuy enabled could receive these regular purchases of bitcoin directly into a hedgehog wallet -- hot or cold -- and be able to spend the money on lightning or hedgehog as soon as it confirms, without needing to come online til they want to actually spend the money

- if you are sending someone money and your recipient is *on*line, you can use a hedgehog wallet as a regular lightning wallet

- if your recipient is *not* online, you can pay them by making a unilateral channel for them on the base layer, and to do that you just need to be willing to pay a base layer tx fee and know one of their pubkeys (technically that part is optional, as you can just make up a keypair for them -- though I personally wouldn't trust a keypair that some rando made up for me and I would sweep all funds from such a channel whenever I next got online)

- if your recipient is not online and you don't want to incur a base layer fee, you can make a "virtual" (i.e. custodial) unilateral channel for them and deposit whatever amount you want to pay them into that. You can then send them its details and go offline, and they can sweep it whenever they next get online, without any further help from you (i.e. you don't need to be online when they sweep the funds! They just need the bridge server to be online)

- this emulates asynchronous lightning payments pretty effectively, without the need for the sender to run a server or rely on a third party custodian. But there is a "first party" custodian -- the sender retains custody of the funds in a virtual channel until the recipient sweeps them. And there is a third party bridge server, who can censor payments, though if that happens, the sender can just retry with a different bridge server and stop using the old one

- it also emulates "pull" payments, which are useful for subscriptions. If you want to subscribe to twelve months of bitflix, you can send bitflix twelve virtual channels where each one has a timelock on the virtual channel opening transaction. This effectively means that the first virtual channel cannot be used til 1 month goes by, the second one cannot be used til 2 months go by, etc. As each timelock expires once per month, a single virtual channel becomes usable each month. This allows bitflix to sweep funds from one channel per month, thus "pulling" pre-authorized funds from your wallet according to a predetermined schedule

- if you ever want to cancel such a subscription, just make a new transaction with the bridge server overwriting all the remaining virtual channels you gave to bitflix. The bridge server will then stop treating the virtual channels as valid, because they can no longer redeem the money in them even if it comes to their side of the virtual channel, so bitflix can't use them anymore either, and thus your subscription is effectively canceled

- all of this can work just fine today without waiting for bitcoin *or* lightning to upgrade -- which I think is just amazing!


You put a lightning address on it?


Yes it is as good as a hot wallet by a reputable company (also regulated company).

The one thing it gives you is that you have physical control over when it signs. It can't do things unless you prompt it to do so. It can't do it because a hacker told it to, it can't do it because it is malicious, but yes, it isn't nearly as secure as one with a display.


Would you trust an accountant to perform your heart surgery?

😶


I think we still need more follower controls that become cultural features (i.e. not just everyone makes odd and even lists).

Marty's point about hate following is an important point. I often will follow memers, but I would never consider than within my own WoT.


So... Did Adobe do a 180 regarding their latest terms and agreements yet?

All this backlash, even my friend who is neither technical, a digital creative, or into privacy tech heard about it, so I can't imagine they would carry on even so far as not letting people get their data out without agreeing to the terms.


Is it possible for someone to create an ecash that LOOKS like it is hash-locked when in reality the mint doesn't support this feature?


Think of their node like a relay. If someone is online, then the data might be p2p but Keet acts as a blind storage peer too.

I don't think they worked it out but I think they wanted to figure out an incentive model so others will do this too for payment. Like a cloud storage sort of thing but fully encrypted and no accounts.

If they figure that out then you get a pretty reliable solution without keet being the altruistic backbone. Not there yet afaik.


I have one of those paper boat loads of money to throw around. 🤪


No takebacks. So fucking bullshit. 🥰


WTF nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev???


This has to be fake. Or at best it is malice. I have never heard anyone think this was true.


Tried the stock on grapheneos, floris beta, heiboard, and unexpected keyboard

This one has Swype and autocorrect and voice typing all local and open source.


Why have you done this?

https://image.nostr.build/eaf2fd1e807e25252c3440406df77a082ae03c469d82c39aab68a08bfceb2b49.gif


Sucks that it's often the easy or default option though.


FUTO Keyboard


I don't believe keet requires one user to be online at all times.

I think nodes can optionally choose to host encrypted data which I think keet does so I can send a message from one client, close it, and still see it from another client.


Glue


Yes. Not sure what you use to run a node, but if DIY, here's a guide you can read and hopefully figure out how to apply it to your own setup:

https://microbolt.guide/en-US/bitcoin/electrum-server


That. Is. A. Great. Question. 😮🤯

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Sounds like it needed a lot of effort to get that unfortunately. But yes, well done all 👏 you gotta like to see it.


FYI nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z thank you, the draft deletion bug is fixed and now that the tagging you bug is fixed too, I can post this.
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What was the expected answer? What is this from 😮?


I think he said that to make a point. It was actually a great way to illustrate the nuances of changes. But I don't think he said he'd be against segwit or other efficiency changes.

I think we all know that Bitcoin needs to scale to be most effective and that means efficiency changes. Net positive because reaching a max capacity would stifle its adoption and its valuation growth.


I don't mind the change, but I would suggest 2 things:

1. Move the button back to the right.
2. There is a bug, when opening an image, the buttons are lower down but then suddenly reappear further up. I like to click on an image and then click to download immediately and the button runs away from me. If they must move, make them invisible until they are in their final position.


Yes. And thank you.


Stablenut.umint.cash and stablenut.umint.cash should not be separate mints.

Internet domain names are case insensitive so they are technically identical.


I mean, it's interesting to learn that some people can't store fat and will starve if they don't eat where most of us would just be hungry, but what does it have to do with bitcoin?


Yes.

I think Saylor has learned that speaking about specifics puts you in a world of hurt, but speaking in analogies, you can't lose an argument.

Probably corporate culture and politics also hurts your ability to criticise things directly because HR will call you mean as if you were targeting an individual directly even if you never mentioned the person at all, just their ideas/products.

Anyway, I think this is why I struggle so much to understand him or why so many people think he is so informative. Maybe it's like taro readers, people hear what they want to hear and applaud while I'm genuinely trying to figure out his point other than the fact that he appears to know a lot about things I don't.

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GFY

https://lifehacker.com/tech/photoshops-terms-of-service-demands-the-right-to-your-content


This is why nostr is so powerful.

It allows us to create our own content hosted on our own servers and plug into a common network that is interopable with many clients that people might be using.

You can have your cake and eat it too!

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But then you also need to run the applications in different profiles too.

I use work more for work stuff already.

But I want to be able to use a private Tailscale for cloud to my personal servers while running Mulvad for everything else. Also, personal browsing and personal activities like taking photos are hard to keep on separate profiles.

What I learned is that Mulvad is really intrusive (even on PC) due to trying to avoid any sort of leaks including DNS leaks.


Okay, let me get this straight.

So this image is from a blossom server, but it is linked to directly from a webserver (cdn.satellite.com)

So for this to automagically heal, you have to configure known blossom servers on your client so that it will identify missing images from a blossom server and redirect to other blossom servers in order to find the image?


Not seeing the update on zap.store.


Maybe open source software is about to get some real love 🫶


Reminds me of... Something.


Inkscape, gimp, not sure of others.


I too would love to know, it appears tobe impossible


Careful what you wish for. There is no private data collection, everything is out in the open, so if a user decides to do this, they need to be aware of all the risks.


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If you're in the west, I think you'll be okay, you always have WiFi and breaking the internet is not a bitcoin specifically targeted attack, many people won't be able to use things. Maybe even card machines will stop working too.

Always good to think adversarially and consider what your use case and threat scenario is so you can think of solutions, just don't get stuck in a loop thinking too abstractly. Think about real use cases you can imagine yourself in and consider how likely it is before getting yourself too concerned.


Gotcha, but they can't rug hodlers, they can only disrupt their ability to spend and receive at best. They will never be able to take your funds if they never get your keys.

There are many ways to interact with bitcoin though, from SMS technology being used in Africa (machankura) to Blockstream satellites to long range radios being explored as a medium.

If you need to do something, you'll find a way, but if it's about convenience, sure they can rug your convenience.


If you use #Amethyst, get the latest version and you can browse some DVMs that will give you a curated list of notes as if you were using an algorithm to browse notes.


@ me, also @ me when I can use gitlab because I wanted to post this one: https://gitlab.futo.org/alex/latinime

Just discovered it today but it has swipe, the voice type works really well, and it's open source. I might be in love 🥰.


How can they? Who relies on their phone number for the security of their bitcoin?


Yes... But you made it so.....


Is this... Are you bringing back Tor support to BlueWallet? 🫶


I'm down but I can't sing so...
https://video.nostr.build/9f74077557a87c455a08fc48016edf64c3d80d39b0a85c89891fadff2b044d11.mp4


What do you use Adobe for?


Does it currently only support github?


I'm not sure what is on your roadmap, but I think being able to sign a hash of a download alongside a list of things you are endorsing would be really useful.

If I can help in any way, let me know, I am in the UK and can code when time permits.

The idea allows me to sign off things like "I run this" or "I didn't like this" and more advanced users can sign off with "I have vetted the source code" and "I have verified the build".

This app is so clean and beautiful already. Well done. 👏


I don't think so, sometimes you just want to repost it at a different time of the day. Just don't spam by doing it multiple times in a short period of time.


WHO IS DOING ALL THIS CONSOLIDATION?!


It's all a mess, and mess is fun 🥰


Who’s Ken.. how do I edit this text 🤔🫶


nostr:npub10r8xl2njyepcw2zwv3a6dyufj4e4ajx86hz6v4ehu4gnpupxxp7stjt2p8 how can I add an app to the store?

Also, do you vet all the versions of the apps on the store before they become available to install?


I think "account" should become a dirty word.


I use that combo. Works for me. Send me a zap, I'll show proof.


They're


I find it funny that they have this amazing idea that has been floating about and they demand it as if it was the obvious and only solution.

That same idea that nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m wanted twitter to be from the beginning, but still not the ONLY or even the most obvious solution.

The most obvious would be "no algorithms" (which makes no sense)

My point is, no one has an original idea, to demand the next up coming big thing sounds silly to me.


If you don't know or can't provide a reasonable estimate (ask an accountant), then the cost basis is 0 and profit is 100%.

Ask an accountant for help.


I can tell it's fake because Martin Lawrence is not fat.


We are all GM.


Bitcoin node
Pi hole
Arcade machine
Portable vpn router


I watched it from the tubes. It was so eye opening and yet so hopeful too.  WAGMI.


nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev I would love to hear your feedback on my piece. I post random thoughts on Nostr from time to time and usually just after talking to someone and struggling to explain something.

This one I acknowledge that people think banks are a proxy to cash, and try to make a (easy) case against it before giving a 101 of what Bitcoin is from that position.

https://habla.news/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqrvhh6h9vl7we8r9wncudmmpym4fd82fjtp3nrj3crav2tzjwjs5qqxnzde3xcer2v3jxgursvfnljtn30

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You wouldn't like him when he is angry.

Don't fuck with his friends.

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Share links through: https://njump.me/ (e.g. https://njump.me/nevent1qqstu3trgapp5jc582hqqd576a9swsj52us6s0delvra6xleqmxhvucpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchsygqe9rhr2k84fcckfkqaymp4uy3uy496uy5r2ntkzltlmp3dwrv69vpsgqqqqqqsvepvq7)

And people can then choose to view the content in better clients and learn about how much optionality nostr has.

Problem is, people don't really like optionality. 🤷🏻


Ok, so p2wpkh is the one I think I care about. 👍


Is segwit P2WSH? I forget.


My point is that ChatGPT might be going off bad data.


I mean, isn't that just because people are dumb and Telegram has been playing a confidence game?

Telegram has e2e encrypted messaging but not by default. Telegram has a reputation for defending it's data against authorities, but that isn't nearly as good as e2e encryption by default.

I don't doubt, however, that people have been mistakenly assuming that Telegram is a privacy product. The biggest selling point I heard about it was that it was not owned by Facebook. It's a confidence game.


Not yet...
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Miami man at his finest.


🤔 Linux is broken. I'm here to fix it 🕺

Narrator: There is now one more distribution of Linux to choose from.


Not yet, but it is in the roadmap. Timing unknown.


Well, you don't trust nuts, thet are trustless. You trust mints.


I think they need information about stories, businesses, etc. from any and everywhere around the world. Anywhwere within the EU is best, but from anywhere is still good.

They are fighting to prevent the EU from making backward policies, not just Norway.

Otherwise, the other thing you can do is spread the word. Maybe someone else who can help will hear from you or downstream from you.


If you are developing a stable wallet, why do you not have the equivalent amount in sats next to the stable amount like bitcoin wallets do?

https://c.tenor.com/p9Fp0w0whBEAAAAC/dewit-do-it.gif


Nes.


I mean I can't seem to find the latest version of Amethyst on FDroid.


Why not on fdroid. Do you not recommend that source? Is it unofficial?


I always get bullish after a Bitcoin meetup. Not on price, but on humanity.


Cypherpunks be like:

https://i.nostr.build/Ge5rA.jpg

...and then we did.

#cybersecgirl


Why? Activists want to reach people. They need to go where the people are, their job is to reach people and tell them uncomfortable truths.

Silo'ing yourself can allow you to say whatever you like, but so can messengers with groups. Preaching to the choir is not as useful as reaching the uninformed.

But hey, if they can convince others to come to them, then they will make it somewhere they love.


Sounds like a pipe dream.


That seems backwards. 1 input, 50 outputs?

Shouldn't it be the opposite?


Why?


That's because you never bring in the Matt Corrallos and the people who tell it like it is. Bitcoin is doomed, but also it is doomed over my dead body.


Stay humble, stack sats 🫡

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If you kill -9 and your computer can't handle it, that's on you. Fuck you.


Not dead, IT'S ALIVE 🥸


Followed. 😁


People don't want to do anything unless the internet tells them to do it.

The only thing stopping me from installing the next shiny thing has always been disgust for mainstream.

Facebook, no. Until someone made me do it.
Instagram, no. Until someone told me that they were posting there and I had to join to connect.

Twitter, I did it because of Bitcoin, got off asap.

Reddit. Lurked forever before joining.

Others, they like the shiny stuff and want to feel like they are popular. They follow the crowd, but they don't follow real people, real people are boring.

"Don't make me install an app just for the sake of it, use the thing everyone else is using."

Thats how I see it.


Bro. Where's the pay button?
 https://image.nostr.build/f95c91612963ee797638a3f80b592a2586fce471cc5a5e6c8f33636975514afe.jpg


Why are the sources so different?

Look at nvidia: -9.96 % in 5 years in sats.
But in dollars:
- BTC was up 300%
- NVIDIA was up 3,358%

Is this a difference between market cap vs share price? Because then it is the share price that really matters here.


I was having a similar conversation with a friend a week ago and got egg on my face.

Comparing bitcoin to NVIDIA, AMAZON, META, pretty much any tech company, outperformed bitcoin in the last 4 years and the last 5.

So would you outperform Warren Buffet? Probably not. Did we outperform the market, I think so.


Subjective.


But there's gotta be a formula that considers things like... do you have a family?


Can you elaborate or explain the concern more succinctly?

If you are simply referring to someone (not the mint) being able to double spend ecash tokens while there is some internet outage, then yes this is possible. However this does not inflate the supply, because when the internet is restored, the token needs to be refreshed and it is first connected, first serve. The rest will stop trusting this customer.

Of course you can choose only to receive offline ecash from people you trust, and keep in mind that no other custodial solution is able to offer offline payments, but if they did, they would have similar issues.


Is that garbage truck... a money transmitter?


Good. Ecash is a custodial system. It is exactly like having a Wallet of Satoshi, but with a massive difference... they don't hold accounts for their users, they only track issued ecash notes and spent ecash notes.

This means that every time you spend, they have no idea who is spending, just that they received some ecash and need to perform a service.

It's a step in the right direction, but mints need to prove themselves like a company like Wallet of Satoshi has done by building a reputation for themselves as reliable.


Correct.


Spend it over lightning. If it got sent, it was backed. Of course it doesn't prove anything about the remaining sats.


Speeeaaak!


Doesn't feel lite to me.


Wow.

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The chainalysis stuff was done at the coordinator level. It depends on what coordinator you use going forward, if the coordinator you choose wants to do something similar and if they want to be public about it or just do it in silence.


Ah, yeah, I don't have the google play services installed. 👍


I like this intro. 🔥

> We live in an Orwellian surveillance society where your information is being used to typecast and manipulate you. Bitcoin projects are being pressured to collect more and more data, if possible.
> This is why Ginger Wallet is programmed to be a zero-knowledge software. Developers can't collect any sensitive information about you. What you do with your bitcoin is your business.

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Ecash isn't cash, they are signed certificates. Unlike bearer assets, they can be copied and so there can be multiple bearers.

A certificate can be voided, can even expire, but they can also be copied. It is not intuitively expected that a certificate is unique or that it is the certification itself.


Market research.


Rebuttal: the word emegency comes from greek mythology and it was originally born from the belief that Satin himself was to emerge from the depths below.

It makes me highly emotional to hear people suggest that this is still the case. So I hope people will refrain from using such terms as "Climate Emergency" in the future.


Hot take on Bitcoin: One of the lesser mentioned properties of gold and even fiat currency is its simplicity. Bitcoin doesn't have this.

It's all well and good to suggest that BECAUSE bitcoin is the best hard money, that we should learn it in all of its glory in order to properly secure and use it, but Bitcoin is a moving target and there are many levels of "owning bitcoin" from holding keys, to running a node and actively participating online, and then using Bitcoin will likely involve LSPs or running even more software.

Curious on people's thoughts about this property of Bitcoin today.


But then these people are not anonymous, so the mint can still be taken down by government. I don't get it.


But users can be gaslight. The questions is how gaslight resistant Bitcoin is.


Somebody has a crush 😍


That shouldn't be allowed, but people do whatever they can get away with.

Unless they are in first class or something. 🤷♂


Looked intentional to me, he even looked at the man as he slapped him.


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

I'll give you the back story...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So where am I going with all this?

Amazingly, it's about empty blocks.

What does that have to do with anything?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Because Antminers suck.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

__________________

So imagine this -

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

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

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

Empty blocks kept happening, people kept blaming pools.

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

Insane.

This goes further than empty blocks.

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

A super lucrative transaction shows up in your mempool?

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

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

Again, insane.

_________________

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

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


This one was amazing. Loved the stories about debanking, really putting concrete to why we Bitcoin.

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Dice.


Pay attention to your daughter! Fuck the instagram influencer 😁.


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I was listening to you on OnceBitten by nostr:npub1hghnjjpnvkz8t6gkszuf37d7puwc2qtxc65rnklqsngzv6kkug9qhhfyz2 podcast (May 2024), and I have a take and I'm curious about your thought on it.

I've been to BitDevs where Gloria gives a perspective from the "keep the cost of running Bitcoin Core low". I think she also spoke about it on What Bitcoin Did.

The idea is that they want the mempool to match miners blocks as closely as possible, not because they want to avoid workarounds by miners, but because discovering unexpected transactions in a block is expensive for low powered nodes.

The reason a small node can handle blocks and relaying transactions and managing connections, is because they pre-validate transactions so they don't need to validate much when new blocks come in with mostly expected transactions.

I don't think you spoke about that consideration on the pod.


nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 in the background with that knowing nod. Yeeah buddy, I feel that too.

But it doesn't matter if you got in at the first pump, the second, or right at the peak, that first dump to a bear market hurts every time.

🤙


I completely forgot to go last time I was in NewYork, honestly, I thought it was somewhere else. Not sure when I'll be there next, but it will be one of the first places I go to (in the evening of course).


I like the idea of reporting bad or malicious content without revealing yourself. Of course you can use anonymous accounts (and maybe clients can make this a feature) but this doesn't help towards building a WoT.

I'm starting to think that we need protocols that allow us to gossip about a person or their content to others without allowing it to be revealed to that person. While also considering sybil situations too.

🤔


That panel was great, it revealed so much about the way these systems are run and managed. You pushed back against the nonsensical narratives very well.

These nuanced, not so polarising but factual takes are what allows the message to spread.

But also, I especially liked when Rebecca said that the data they collect stays private and secure in their own data warehouses and are mostly unused. Made me chuckle.


GM

The nuanced take, the middle ground that can be a talking point with the uninformed about KYC/AML cannot be that "KYC/AML is the illicit activity".

Here's the diluted version for the uninitiated:

The departments and proponents of KYC and AML give a one sided view of their systems, but as with all things, there are naturally pros and cons to all systems.

These systems allow highly sensitive information to enter the hands of criminals and dictators and they are not immune to corruption.

There is no transparency around decision making policies or data sharing, and there is no accountability or systems in place to identify and rectify injustices, and any mention of the idea will lead to you being called a criminal or a friend to the criminals.

Human rights activists and whistleblowers are among the many who are negatively affected by these systems, but the majority affected are the individuals who go from legal citizen to silent victims without any hope for due course or any way to speak out.

So before we introduce more agressive KYC and AML laws, let's have a real, multifaceted discussion about the benefits and the consequences of these systems, let's talk about its current effectiveness and the cost to benefit ratio, because researchers have already revealed the effectiveness to be abysmal and the costs to be exorbitant.

These systems have lead to murders, kidnapping, and unlawful deportation and prosecutions of people, even in western democratised countries. These systems are clearly not as simple as they sound, and for those who see the negative impacts and the abuses of these policies, alongside the lack of any accountability or any way to serve justice, **KYC and AML is the illicit activity**.

In the real world, there are natural places to expect a certain level of privacy, from toilets, places of worship, and our own homes, to public parks, hotel rooms and pubs and bars. If you want to have a private conversation or make small non-interesting trades, there is hardly a lack of places to do so freely; obviously, don't gossip about your boss at work, and don't start giving away products to people within someone else's shop.

Today, most payments are digital, our identities are online, and just our financial data alone can reveal more information than the police department could wish for, and it can be used to exclude us from society and revealed to those who wish to harm us.

Criminals don't care, they are resourceful and their actions are not limited by moral restraints. They also tend not to be as big of a target for dictators and powerful people as those who criticise immoral behaviours.

So when we see people, who merely want to circumvent these broken systems, to provide the same level of basic human rights for privacy for online finance, get thrown in jail, accused of designing software directly for the use of money laundering and sex trafficking, and criminalised, while the real criminals and sex traffickers use the same systems to victimise people with no accountability, please pardon us when we have a different outlook on the value of privacy and the legitimacy of those without accountability.


nostr:npub1musqetp57matzsjcwd2y7tvxe59h85v74pqasnqxk7fhpwazzjpseyv5kr let's get in touch, as a UK business, I would love to host you at a london Bitcoin meetup!


One thing... there is no copying here... you transfer... since you've deducted your balance.


Still good to see ideas and innovations ❤


Each time you copy a ecash, it deducts from your balance. It's super cool, but also not as much as a foot gun as it is a foot bazuka 😬


My axiety rose.

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I think it would be better the other way around. Put a "ℹ Change required" label. It shouldn't be an error or warning because it will be quite common.

Another idea, the icon could show a crossed out a mint icon to indicate no need to contact the mint. Maybe with the label "private" or "direct".


Any mint, or mints have to do special setup apart from having the latest mint software?


Would love to see login flow and/or restore process.

I think we should heavily consider how likely we will see collisions in the wild, especially as people are likely to copy each other even if subconciously.

There are a lot of emojis, but most people use/care for only a handful of them.


Join us in London for our next #Bitcoin meetup!
June 5th at 7:30pm in Holborn.

Details at https://www.meetup.com/bitcoinology/events/301203636

https://secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/8/9/a/e/600_521255246.webp?w=750


Context? I see it on youtube right now 🤷♂.


Wat??!


Oh yeah, haven't heard from musquet for a while ❤


It's just you. No one else uses it. 🤷♂


Mistakes are forever in nostr. Deal with it. 😎


In Bitcoin, Explained 93, @provoost and I explain the Great Consensus Cleanup Revival. (And Sjors also gives an update on the Tornado Cash and Samourai Wallet arrests.)

👂👇

https://bitcoinexplainedpodcast.com/@nado/episodes/episode-93-the-great-consensus-cleanup-revival-and-an-update-on-the-tornado-cash-and-samourai-wallet-arrests-5bbxi


Hmm, I didn't get a notification, well, not until I opened minibits.

Happy to help test again by donating sats 😁


People are too bullish on BTC here for stupid ETF reasons. I want the signal and nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft's bullshitness only.


Demo!


Listening to Tony from nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg on #whatbitcoindid with nostr:npub1u8lnhlw5usp3t9vmpz60ejpyt649z33hu82wc2hpv6m5xdqmuxhs46turz and Peter Mcormack, I think "cheque" is a better description of e-cash than a bearer asset.

A cheque can naturally be double spent, and to say: you take a cheque and redeem it for a new unspent cheque that you can now send.

If you can back it up with 12/24 words like you can with cashu, then the cheque can even be lost and recovered.


I don't get it. Why do you slap someone when your finger becomes wet? What do they think happened?


The reference to SeedXOR is just an example, if you prefer to use multisig, or if you'd rather just give a single private key and know of a secure enough way to do it, then do that.

Trust is important in relationships, and it can simplify a lot, we should trust our friends and family more and trust our institutions less.


We still have this IMO, like sometimes I see arbitrary kinds when my signer asks me to sign something.

Fortunately, the most popular kinds are now recognised and labelled but it doesn't change that there are still arbitrary kinds.


https://umint.cash/

I don't endorse this, but here's their page.


Peoples'


Zap.stream


I'll take it, for now, time is precious, whatever gets the job done sooner is better.


A guy who dared to run a marketplace (like ebay) where people and their purchases were private and payments were made with bitcoin.

There were illegal things happening there, including drugs that today are legal, to hitmen which is not of course.

When the US can't find the real criminals, which is most of the time, they go after the platform and they gave ross multiple life sentences for making a website.


Oooooooooooooooooofffffffffff


Consequences.


This is fake news.

Vitalik is not South Korean, not a professor, and doesn't look like that at all. https://m.primal.net/INiJ.jpg


Oh the propose an edit feature is a different one.


Or I thought it was.


Oh that's crazzzy


Fork is that you can offer a revision for other people's notes and they can choose to accept or reject it.


But if P. Diddy funded via OpenSats which importantly puts little to no strings onto their donations, I would take that money.


👆👆 links. 🍻


Why should it be special? It is a technology, I think you probably mean, what is BOLT 12?

https://bolt12.org/
https://lightningdevkit.org/blog/bolt12-has-arrived/


Wait wait wait... he says "don't fund random shit that might destablise the network", implying that it is WHO THEY FUND that is the problem, then immediately flips it and says "do you want the people who fund crypto to fund Bitcoin development?" as if to imply it is WHO IS FUNDING that is the problem... which is it?


He has it backwards. Bitcoin enables trust between peers and merchants. It allows us to choose who we trust.

Banking takes that trust away, and makes us focus all of our trust in them. We don't trust our merchant, we let the bank vet them and we trust the bank, if things go wrong, we expect the bank to fix it for us, so we don't need to trust one another.

Bitcoin removes the need to trust a tool, it is a tool not a service, and it allows us to practice trust.


Some of your notes may be gone forever, or they may be on an "archival" relay forever. Archival relay would be one that is dedicated to keeping all data in order to run a sort of wayback machine type of service.

Storing data is expensive and running a relay doesn't make money (except for paid relays).

The best way to **guarantee** that you have all of your historical notes would be to run your own relay.

Maybe someone else will give you a more practical answer, I feel like the way back machine for nostr exists, I just don't know of it.


Yes. Same here. Although it has to be Lawnchair 2. I can't live without the cover mode folders.

What is your keyboard of choice? I don't think I've found a good open source one. They all lack something. Right now I'm using FlorisBoard but I miss the auto correction.


24 bacon. No more, no less.

> bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon bacon

'nuff said.


Clearly a skewed metric if we're including all governments. Most people aren't thinking holistically, they care about themselves and their own government.


The idea that the bank could be a money is not ever considered since the bank is "obviously" a proxy to cash, but is it really? Or is it a money that has properties like permitting online payments but not as well as bitcoin?

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There are many, right now, centralisation of mining is a big one, the scalability of it to remain empowering and not just another rehypothecated thing.


Oh, I see, it's just fluff. Why are we giving this any attention?

I thought maybe it would be about leaving the "conservative" folk in the dirt while capital flows away from them. They even suggested it was, but then went on to describe Bitcoin as a pump and dump which means there is nothing for a non-bitcoin/crypto investor to worry about then. 🤷♂

Useless information to the nocoiners, useless to the investors, just useless all over.


> ... Sam Bankman-Fried who, following the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is now reported to be on a new venture: trading grains of rice with his fellow inmates at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center.

Gotta give props for that one 😁


Haven't read the article yet, but I can guess it is talking about the impact that new innovation will have on the status quo.

I would have loved to see this article as loans came about and made its way into retail. Do you think they did one?

Loans give people an edge, an unfair advantage to others above the rest of us and steal from everyone to do it. Obviously the house ultimately wins, but the unfair part comes from how loans are not available to all, despite the impact being felt by all.


SeedXOR is not a project per say, its just a formal guidance on how you can apply the XOR mathematical operator to securely turn multiple mnemonics into 1.

It has some neat properties:

1. Every mnemonic is a valid wallet
2. As long as each mnemonic is random, learning 1 mnemonic does not reveal anything about the others, nor about your combined result.

Do you have any specific questions about it?


So you're the one that broke it?


Happy belated pizza day. https://image.nostr.build/c76bab3cbb9a368bdf2982ddb036415dc4f039fdf2ef89b9fa0d159af3730642.jpg


Ugh! DESIGN THINGS WITH THE EXPECTATION THAT EXTERNAL SERVICES CAN BREAK AND GO DOWN!


Is orange pilling the act of turning "I like the crypto" into "I like the Bitcoin"?


Arch ftw


Rome wasn't ever built because it wasn't going to take a day, but there were so many other things we could be accomplishing and celebrating that did take a day so... We never got it done?


It is already too late, people can't wake up fast enough to fix it.


Then you'll always be taking the temporary wins and waiting for someone to deliver you freedom tech. 😢


Always has been .gif


All news is good news.


Ah shit... I'm on a list now?! 😅😬


So... you're saying sell all my bitcoin and ape into dorsey stock?


Why not? Pubkey can.


That's it.. that's the answer.


But how does this improve privacy? Because it uses tor? Is that it? Why can't Bitcoin Core do that too?


If they say sorry, only USDC, we say, sorry, I only have BTC and DonkeyCoin.

Somehow I bet they'll want to learn more about this donkeycoin. 😅


But also wait for it all to be made first.


Did somebody say... chuckle?
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Near-zero cost... interesting 🤔


Whaagwan?


I wanted to contribute, but everyone has said what had to be said. 🤷


New ROBBIE P just dropped!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrcN-zmCZMI&t=2


Even if they shitcoin and trade still?


This event will be deleted!


Quick, who invented the language? We need to arrest the guy!


I've heard about dandelion, not of the stempool stuff though. 🙏


This is making me feel OCD.

LOOK AT ALL THE COINS YOU'RE MISSING!!!!!! JUUUMMMP!


Productive to whom? I'm sure they hated it.


Awesome! Next movie to watch then after the new King Kong v Godzilla!

I dunno why, but I love terrible movies.