A block clock that is actually open-source and not overpriced is quite the change to what coinkite offers. I am not ready to pay that kind of money for basically a closed source IoT device that wants to connect to either my Bitcoin node or the www.


Never understood usenet. Seems like Vetter content than on torrents but you need at least one subscription and newshosters too seldom accept Bitcoin considering their business.


Ich glaube der Bullenmarkt ist da.


Currently running about half a dozen docker projects, that in some way use SQLite to store data. I don't have high traffic, but would it make sense to instead configure one central postgres  server and create different users and DBs on it so that all Docker containers use that one database server? 🤔
Any advantages or opinions?


Is anyone here using either Matrix or XMPP for daily conversations? 🤔 If so, why do you use these over centralized platforms or Signal, SimpleX, Session?
Also which one did you choose: Matrix or XMPP?
Thinking about whether I should run a server..


After using Apple Music for a few months I think it is the most private music streaming service out there as they have still not managed to give me any relevant suggested tracks. I rigorously skip songs I don't enjoy and they don't seem to learn anything from my usage data :D


Einen Server in einem professionellem Rechenzentrum an zu mieten macht es bestimmt deutlich einfacher nen Mailserver zu betreiben. Bessere Uptime, feste IPv4 selbstverständlich, IP Adresse kann einfach gewechselt werden, sollte die blacklisted sein und reverse DNS Einträge sind schnell angelegt.

Mir geht es beim Self-hosting aber darum maximale Kontrolle über meine Daten zu haben. Und da ist die physische Kontrolle über die Hardware für mich schon ein Vorteil.
Zudem habe ich sowieso den Server im Keller stehen und einen Internet Vertrag mit fester IPv4.
Somit spare ich mir die Kosten für den VPS.

Hätte ich das nicht, wäre ein VPS wahrscheinlich die bessere Wahl. Wobei Mailcow im speziellen mit 6GB RAM schon recht hohe Anforderungen stellt.
Wenn Fremde (zB Hetzner) auf den Server Zugriff hätten, dann wäre man aber vielleicht auch mit einem Datenschutz respektierenden E-Mail Provider wie ProtonMail oder Posteo günstiger unterwegs.

Da lernt man dann natürlich nichts über den Betriebe eines Mailservers. Ist ja schon ein Hobby 😉


E-Mails von meinem selbst gehosteten Mailserver zuhause zu schicken fühlt sich richtig schön und "wertiger" an, als wenn man eine Mail von einem Spam-infestierten FreeMail Account verschickt.
Ein Teil des Reizes von den selbst gehosteten E-Mails kommt sicher auch daher, dass man nicht immer weiß, ob die Mail auch richtig ankommt, oder im Junk Ordner landet 🤭

#selfhosting #homelab #email


Great video! Would love more of these shorts explaining topics related to economic workings and bitcoin so I can send them to friends and family to orangepill them.


Wieso ich versehentlich einfach mal so meine gesamten SimpleX Chats gelöscht habe? Eine kleine Erklärung/Rechtfertigung 😆:

- müde
- Arbeit
- in dem Menu steht beim unteren "Löschen Button" bei Files explizit "for all chat profiles" und bei dem oberen für die Chat Datenbank nicht. Deshalb habe ich gedacht, dass bezieht sich nur auf das aktuelle Profil.

Design hin oder her, ein Backup hätte ich vorher definitiv machen müssen 🫤

https://files.sovbit.host/media/030f8466e1613e833f3ce28e5befda16b023494096be0dc2245e946c3a23244a/8f1a04d93cb278c0bcbbe29f4c6b0f22212d92ad76dc1b0da47fc4b58f8ce178.webp

nostr:nevent1qqsfktmgh6clrh28er8rjs894d60ghr74gtn5gj0rnvwmy75auemm2qppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgsqxruyvmskz05r8u7w9rjmaldpdvprf9qfd0sdcgj9a9rv8g3jgjsrqsqqqqqps9r8wx


Gestern Nacht habe ich aus reiner Dummheit meine gesamte #SimpleX Chat Datenbank gelöscht. Wollte ein altes Simplex Profil löschen, aber habe die ganze App gewiped.
Falls ihr mich sur SimpleX geadded hattet, bitte fügt mich erneut hinzu über diese statische Adresse:

https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=2-7&smp=smp%3A%2F%2FSkIkI6EPd2D63F4xFKfHk7I1UGZVNn6k1QWZ5rcyr6w%3D%40smp9.simplex.im%2FzXclvqxP8A_Bm7W27BEKA3q5unBt3bUt%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-3%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAo4fgWEhVSARJRv1oTsFOxjtq8isqfQlt-3uC1E37ezc%253D%26srv%3Djssqzccmrcws6bhmn77vgmhfjmhwlyr3u7puw4erkyoosywgl67slqqd.onion


Bitcoin is the separation of money and state, nostr is freedom of speech.

https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=2-7&smp=smp%3A%2F%2FSkIkI6EPd2D63F4xFKfHk7I1UGZVNn6k1QWZ5rcyr6w%3D%40smp9.simplex.im%2FzXclvqxP8A_Bm7W27BEKA3q5unBt3bUt%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-3%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAo4fgWEhVSARJRv1oTsFOxjtq8isqfQlt-3uC1E37ezc%253D%26srv%3Djssqzccmrcws6bhmn77vgmhfjmhwlyr3u7puw4erkyoosywgl67slqqd.onion


I heard this «multi vendor multi-sig» is supposed to be good...

https://files.sovbit.host/media/030f8466e1613e833f3ce28e5befda16b023494096be0dc2245e946c3a23244a/32548f452dd685ec88e592d8e8f225c93d2e43365a800ece0777311d7c222239.webp


Heute ist ein sehr spannender Tag gewesen!


Too few github projects feature a Lightning address for donations. I am extremely thankful for headscale's existence right now and would love to drop some sats.
I am wary of entering my personal data credit card data into ko-fi or other platforms. Some projects feature a legacy on-chain address which is a good start I guess, but I am not trying to drop generational wealth just yet :D


Ich habe #Tailscale viel zu lange ignoriert musste ich an diesem Wochenende feststellen:

Bisher war ich sehr zufrieden mit meinem Setup bei dem ein Wireguard Server direkt auf meinem Router lief und ich somit jederzeit von außerhalb eine verschlüsselte Verbindung aufbauen und Dienste im Heimnetzwerk erreichen konnte.
Ein Software Update auf meinem Router hat mir aber kürzlich diese Wireguard Konfiguration zerschossen und jetzt musste ich das erneut aufbauen. Bei der Gelegenheit habe ich mir dann Tailscale und andere Overlay Networks wie Zerotier und Twingate angeschaut.

Schließlich habe ich mich für Tailscale entschlossen, weil die Clients open source sind und es auch eine Option gibt den Koordinierungsserver selbst zu hosten mit #Headscale.

Für Privatnutzer übernimmt Tailscale gerne die Koordinierung gratis, aber das passt mir nicht, wenn ein fremder Server entscheidet, wer eine Verbindung in mein Heimnetz aufbauen darf.

Im Vergleich zum normalen Wireguard VPN Netzwerk überzeugt mich das einfache Setup und die filigrane Einstellung der Zugriffsberechtigungen. Mit dem Exit Node Feature von Tailscale kann ich ein beliebiges Gerät in meinem Netz als Exit Node setzen und jeden Traffic darüber routen.
Das erlaubt es mir jetzt endlich auch mit nur einer VPN Verbindung auf dem Handy von unterwegs all meine Dienste im Heimnetz zu erreichen und den anderen Traffic über eine VM zuhause ins Mullvad Netz zu leiten und somit anonym zu surfen.
Leichte Einbußen bei der Netzwerk performance muss man natürlich hinnehmen. Am besten einen günstigen VPS mit guter Anbindung mieten, der nur das macht.

Werde mich jetzt noch ein bisschen in die optimale Konfiguration von Tailscale mit Benutzerrechten und ACLs rein fuchsen und dann bin ich sehr optimistisch, dass ich damit lange gut fahren werde.

Open Source for the win!

#selfhosting #homelab


https://vpn.sovereign.engineering/account?is_hidden=dummyyes

Is a good work around. They sell Mullvad vouchers for Lightning⚡


Dieser Artikel hat mich zum ersten Mal realisieren lassen, dass das Internet Archiv ein wichtiges Werkzeug in der Politik sein kann.
Damit können wir im Nachhinein uns die Berichterstattung der Medien/öffentlichen Stellen zur Corona Pandemie und etwaigen Impfungen anschauen, wie sie damals veröffentlicht wurden.

Einiges wurde im Laufe der Zeit umgeschrieben und jetzt wird einem erzählt: "Die Impfung sollte doch nur die Intensivstationen entlasten. Niemand hat gesagt, dass sie 98% effektiv gegen Ansteckung und Übertragung sind..."

Auch bei anderen gesellschaftlichen und politischen Themen ist hilfreich, sich die damaligen Aussagen nochmal vorzunehmen.

Leider kein V4V Tag dabei. Würde so gerne den Artikel schnell und datensparend unterstützen...
https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/they-are-scrubbing-the-internet-right


What would you feel more comfortable with?

1 BTC as Lightning balance on an Umbrel node

1 BTC locked as collateral for a Firefish loan


Self hosting your own email is more forgiving than you might think: if your server is down or misconfigured for a while, a mail server trying to send mail to you will typically retry every four hours for the next five days before giving up.
So a short downtime for updates, reboots or due to a power outage will likely not lead to you missing out on important mails.
You can also define fallback mail servers in your DNS records that mail will be sent to, if your self hosted server at home does not work. ProtonMail seems like a solid fallback.

#selfhosting #email #privacy


Not without a calculator.


Würde sagen das kommt etwa aufs gleiche hinaus. Beides basiert auf Docker und bringt eine Full-Suite mit allen nötigen Tools mit. Mailu hatte ich vorher nicht auf dem Schirm.
iRedMail und mail-in-a-box sind weitere Optionen ohne Docker.


Nachdem ich letztes Jahr von meinem vorherigen, langjährigen E-Mail Provider zu #ProtonMail gewechselt bin, habe ich im zweiten Halbjahr diesen Jahres das Thema #E-Mail #selfhosting nochmal angegriffen und bin jetzt mit dem #mailcow Stack zufrieden.
Noch cooler als die Mails verschlüsselt bei ProtonMail in der Schweiz liegen zu haben, ist seinen eigenen Mailserver im Haus daheim zu haben.
Mailcow bietet in einer VM alles, was man sich zum Thema E-Mail wünschen kann und ich bin sehr zufrieden. Bisher kommen alle Mails von mir auch am Ziel an, dank statischer IPv4 und dem Thema DMARC,DKIM,SPF. Diese drei Begriffe haben mich einiges an Nerven gekostet und sind der Hauptgrund, warum es so lange gedauert hat für mich. Aber einmal gut eingerichtet freue ich mich jetzt all meinen Mail Traffic lokal zu hosten.

Ein wenig gruselig ist es aber schon, weil mein Heimserver nun immer wichtigere Aufgaben hat und ein Ausfall im Urlaub fatale Konsequenzen haben könnte (Boarding Pass für Rückflug kommt per Mail nicht an). Aber mit dem Druck kann ich leben und muss bis zum nächsten Urlaub dafür sorgen, dass der Server so ausfallsicher wie möglich läuft und mir ein paar Notfallpläne und remote management überlegen ;-)

Hostet hier noch jemand seinen Mailserver selbst und hat Erfahrungsberichte? Auf Reddit habe ich oft gelesen, dass es ein Albtraum sein soll, aber ich bin soweit sehr optimistisch.


Once you adopt the «not your keys not your cheese» reality from nostr and bitcoin and then look at the backbone of today's internet which is DNS, you cannot unsee how insecure it all is.
So ready for cryptography to secure global addressing and routing.


Earning sats is a totally different experience to earning fiat and converting to sats. Liking it a lot!


Syncthing Android App Discontinued
https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-android/23002

syncthing-fork will still be released (and is already better)
https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android-fdroid

https://f-droid.org/app/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingandroid


So what do you propose? Targeted ads like we so today, micropayments via PayPal? Lightning is the best solution we have today for that use case. I can put a KYCed UTXO into a ecash mint and the state does not know what payments I make using that ecash.
Pretty much the same is true for a self custodial lightning channel. Sure, I at one point owned that amount of sats, but no one knows what I paid for. I can also receive payments in the meantime and use that lightning channel to facilitate payments for friends in amounts exceeding what was once the KYCed UTXO size.


2 months of amateur trading and only 13% loss? He's better than most 😆


I am not sure what I am looking at here, but it seems hella cool! 🔥


That looks promising, thanks a lot! 🤙


Any easy ways do request ecash from a #fedimint using a HTTP API? 🤔
#Python


Thats why I said Lightning or ecash. No UTXOs there.


If you use lightning and/or ecash it's not really a problem. KYC data is not linked to what you pay for.


Wenn wir annehmen, dass die Inflation und Zins sich dein Leben lang nicht ändern UND dein Gehalt auch jährlich um 4%+ steigt, dann sollte das okay sein.


Holding Monero or Bitcoin in the context of capital gains does not make a difference. Except for higher gains due to holding bitcoin of course..
Non-KYC purchases and a circular economy are the means to avoid those taxes.


I've built a thing: The Cashu mint Round Robin auditor

An app that perpetually monitors a list of mints by randomly sending Lightning payments between them. Forever. The sats go in a circle until all is lost to fees or rugs. If a mint fails to pay an invoice, it is marked with a scary red label.

You can donate Ecash from any mint to add it to the list of audited mints!

https://audit.8333.space
 https://image.nostr.build/1681a4dce2de71daa02c14046412f05ecdabff3fbe4df2f46aa389a3424fb975.jpg


The whole annual awards are a perpetual PR campaign to wash his name clean and  have his legacy be associated with something other than blowing up people.


Nostr: hat keinen Algorithmus um neuen Content zu finden.
nostr:nprofile1qqspfyzftuxs55wr0vdqd3snjtaazxgrsjmc4wp3n6k7gktcfe08k0cpg4mhxue69uhhvct0wvmkxarzxeekxvn3ws68xdnpw4sngmnfv3nxxunnv9kxuet5wdkhjurjw9crydtjd3mxcdm9d4kn2vnnda5kgtn0de5k7m30u85y97 :  nostr:nprofile1qqsv2kx8e35mhk3uyutc9dekh27xftxjmgjck98n2mdu49nvkzmm38spyemhxue69uhkvars9e5xzmrfveshstnjwa6xsttpv93ksetw9ejx2tmwdaehguspzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtcpypmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuetfde6kuer6wasku7nfvuh8xurpvdjj7r7gm4u ist mein content aggregator.


Wenn man "Depot" durch "Tresor" ersetzt 😉


Da gebe ich dir Recht! Verstehe nicht,warum so viele VPN Anbieter Bitcoin nur on-chain akzeptieren.
Du kannst auch bei einer Drittpartei Mullvad Gutscheine mit Lightning kaufen. Leider nicht einzelne Monate meist.  https://vpn.sovereign.engineering


So ist meine Einschätzung. Mullvad würde ich als gleich sicher einschätzen, aber halt anderes Pricing Model.


In absteigender Reihenfolge der Sicherheit:
1. IVPN (günstig, wenn du nur 2 Geräte brauchst)
2. Mullvad (Super All Round)
3. ProtonVPN (evtl günstig, wenn man auch andere Proton Dienste abonniert und viele Geräte absichern möchte.
4. OVPN.com
5. AirVPN (Sehr günstig bei 3 Jahre Vorauszahlung)


So dann wenden wir uns Mal verstärkt Nostr zu .. welche App für Android ist eure 1. Wahl .. ich nutze Amethyst und weiß noch nicht so Recht ob ich damit soooo zufrieden bin 😄


Twitter gelöscht. Jetzt mehr #Nostr.


Willkommen! Endlich kein Algorithmus mehr, der bestimmt was du siehst und was nicht :)


Seems rather easy to outrun the police if you are a somewhat athletic adult..


Even though I love it having been the 262th picture ever uploaded to nostr.build , today I changed my profile picture to a new downsized one and host it on github. Because of this you will now use 3x less bandwidth when loading my profile and the picture is served 5x faster.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/systemling32/profile/main/profile.jpg


Lightning ⚡ wen?


Hello Nostr!

This npub will now be a primary outlet for Bisq news and announcements.

New posts will be published here and then cross-posted to the bisq_network X handle.

Decommissioning X will be considered when this npub has more followers.

https://image.nostr.build/d22f07d646197146e2366f581046c3578d6cb90a9524212d076a2571840d91cc.jpg


Saw the same documentary as you this morning! Amazing that around 20 thousand tons (IIRC) of potassium are carried by the winds from Africa to the Amazon rain forrest and act as a fertilizer there.
I guess Africa is exploited for its natural resources without payment once more. This time by nature..


Recently had to send my passport number and home address via AirBnB DM without ever meeting the host. Weird shit.


Starlink would be my hope to live unbothered by these draconian laws.
Set up a starlink terminal on your western Australian farm land, use a VPN and shit post away!
I hope Starlink never bows to the laws of the countries down on earth.


Have you checked out the signal client called Molly? I think that allows being added as a secondary device like on a desktop. You would be shown a QR code for linking to an existing account. Will be tough to scan that QR code from the same device, but perhaps you can figure something out with screenshots or a secondary device.
Hope that helps!


https://image.nostr.build/e1166d6f8c1641d6098a06989381362e2646b519ab072746382db92bb355cde4.jpg

Just give me steel backups and I am fine.


Welcome to Nostr! Any way I can read your book in epub format and paid in sats? Zap for download link DM? :)


No, that really sucks.. I want FIDO2 security and no proprietary software on my GrapheneOS phone. Fuck Google play services.
Thank you so much for your first hand experience! 🙏


Awe that sucks. 😬
Does the yubikey authenticator work for getting TOTP codes over NFC or is the entire yubikey NFC unusable without them?
Do you have any Info's whether there is a fix for this on the way?


Anyone using a yubikey or other security token on a  #GrapheneOS phone without any Google Play Services? 🤔


No, you are right. Android also seems to only support one connection at a time, but I was wondering if anyone found a hack to have two 😬


Anyone managed to get two simultaneous wireguard tunnels running on #GrapheneOS ? I would like to have one tunnel to my home server for all my home subnet and everything else routed over a commercial VPN like Mullvad.


Is this going to be a daily thing? 😄
Different country each time.


I never thought this day might come, but I now regularly run out of Micro USB cables.
They used to be more ubiquitous than spam mails but now I have heaps of USB c cables but need to charge some older devices...


Here is how I would start from scratch to have the best private nostr device and experience. Time to level up npub!

Buy an unlocked pixel 7 or higher with cash
Flash with #Graphene OS

Download Tor browser
Download Obtainium
Add Orbot
Add Amber
Add Citrine
Add Amethyst
Add Minibits
Add Zeus
Add Oxchat
Add SimpleX
Add Robosats
Add NewPipe

Select all the apps to run through Orbot

Now set up your nostr profile

nostr:nevent1qqst3quznpsjvh5crsp90z5el4d7vuqv4ectlf8mr2qgxy9thqsd9gspz3mhxw309akx7cmpd35x7um58g6rsd3e9upzpmd5wqn399avtfslyalne52du4xx066ue5sw7rva72d7rp59hvqyqvzqqqqqqyz9jxw2

Turn on Citrine and add it to the outbox relay settings in Amethyst. Add trusted relays as they see everything you do.

nostr:naddr1qq9hyetvv9uj6um9w36hqq3qgcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqxpqqqp65wjvcq4q

To add a zapping wallet open Minibits and get a free LN Address and add a mint. Now paste your LN address into Amethyst in your nostr profile.

Once you have 100k sats open a self custodial LN channel with Zeus Wallet using their LSP.

You now have an anonymous device, running over Tor,  with a nostr signing device on the phone, nostr running thru orbot vpn, with a nostr relay on the phone, with a privacy preserving wallet with no personal info attatched.

For private encrypted DM log into Oxchat using Amber.

You can host your own onion nostr relay and a SimpleX server using a DIY Start9 home setup.

For purchasing No KYC sats use Robosats.

For watching and downloading videos use NewPipe.

Use Freedom Tech to stay private & sovereign!


Die 3. Folge des Socratic Seminar findet jetzt online live statt. Schaltet euch zu https://meet.jit.si/moderated/8258683a311677c4d07e7cc16ad5c2d817a285137af52fc0b447177b1faeae6b

Oder lauscht dem live Podcast:
https://serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/bitcoin-socratic-seminar/3


One after the other..


In kurz und knapp auch für den/die FAZ-Leser*in zusammengefasst: "gesichert rechtsextrem" 😉


DU trägst die Verantwortung für deine Finanzen, nicht dein Bankberater.

DU trägst die Verantwortung für deine Gesundheit, nicht dein Arzt.

DU trägst die Verantwortung für deine Sicherheit, nicht die Polizei.

... denn du trägst auch die Konsequenzen. Sei kein #NPC.

Habe ich was vergessen?


It could be in theory. People need the address for your relay, it must be reachable from outside (either via Tor or forwarded port) and they need to actively add your relay in their client of choice. Then they will also be querying your relay for posts and pushing their notes to your relay.


Ironically Solingen prides itself for traditional high quality blade manufacturing. That's basically their slogan as a city.


I know so many people that rely on TG for everyday communications and it would be devastating if suddenly their chat client were deleted from their phones. No doubt Apple is capable of doing that, but I think they are aware of how bad the feedback would be with many people losing contact to family and friends since they don't really have an alternative means of communication when living overseas.


Since a recent update you can enable private message routing which means you never connect to any servers but your own. Your incoming SimpleX server will then forward your outgoing message to the incoming message server designated by your communications partner.

On the other hand if you can enable a Tor proxy in SimpleX I don't really see any harm in connecting to the other persons SimpleX server directly. The server will only see your Tor IP address (often times not even that when your connect via its hidden service, which most offer).

I would even argue that connecting directly over  Tor is more private in the situation where you host a small personal SimpleX server. As a evil SimpleX server:  If I see your SimpleX servers' IP connecting I can expect it's you delivering a message. If I see a random Tor exit IP, the anonymity set is much larger.


There are no limits to post length on nostr so feel free to make one long informative post as opposed to the eyesore of a thread.


iPhone at Microscope 🔬 https://video.nostr.build/a68b3f02b1977a79b10c844cf91ebf427d5942333bad0e5cf2e4871defc1bd51.mp4


What about longevity of these shoes? Do they last longer than Nike fiat sneakers before they break apart?


Not politically corrupted


time to come clean about zee bugs
https://video.nostr.build/c0a00cb883b6b1d9f2b506dfe529830cda2a57378d2a6a919e1513a6dc80bf22.mp4


This guy is putting his life on the line for some dope education around inflation and real food. I appreciate that and am eagerly waiting for the next vids


The + addressing works with more email hosts than just gmail. I have had the issue of not being able to reply from that specific alias and some sites not processing my support tickets for security reasons if they don't come from the exact email address with the plus


Best tool I discovered in a long time: email aliasing services like addy.io or simplelogin.io
Give out a unique email alias to every single site you sign up and if their data gets breaches you always know which one leaked because only they knew of that specific alias.
Also when you get spam mails you can just switch of that one alias and still keep your main inbox.


A VPN or Tor would probably also work. As would using a decentralized Messenger like nostr:nprofile1qqsth7fr42fyvpjl3rzqclvm7cwves8l8l8lqedgevhlfnamvgyg78spz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqj9swg4 or SimpleX Chat.


Simplex Chat is very popular in the Nostr community; whenever someone posts a note asking which chat app is secure, many people recommend Simplex Chat. We also think Simplex Chat is a great app.

So, many people ask what is the difference between Keychat and Simplex Chat? Is Keychat's security as good as Simplex Chat's? Is it really possible to create a chat app as secure as Simplex Chat on Nostr? Why not just use Simplex Chat? Why reinvent the wheel?

A common misconception in the Nostr community is that Nostr is not suitable for private things.

"Nothing about any of the protocols we’ve developed requires centralization; it’s entirely possible to build a federated Signal Protocol-based messenger, but I no longer believe that it is possible to build a competitive federated messenger at all." — Signal Founder Moxie https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving%C2%A0

This is because the encryption process is completed on the client side, and relays only pass the encrypted messages.

Keychat and Simplex Chat both use the Signal protocol to encrypt messages, so both meet the following security requirements 1-4:

Anti-Forgery
Anti-Forgery ensures that the sender of a message is verifiable and the message has not been tampered with.

End-to-End Encryption
End-to-end encryption ensures that only the sender and receiver can decrypt and read the message content, protecting it from unauthorized access by servers or other network devices.

Forward Secrecy
Forward secrecy ensures that even if the current key is compromised, historical messages cannot be decrypted, since each message uses a new encryption key, which is deleted after use.

Break-in Recovery
Break-in Recovery ensures that if the current key is compromised, future messages cannot be decrypted, and the system can recover from the attack. This feature is also known as backward secrecy.

Metadata Privacy
Protecting the privacy of communication involves more than just protecting the content of messages; it also includes protecting the identities of the communication parties and other data.

Regarding the fifth point, metadata privacy. The designs of Keychat and Simplex Chat are different.

Simplex’s metadata privacy protection scheme

"Simplex chat is the first messenger without user IDs."

“To deliver messages, instead of user IDs used by all other platforms, SimpleX uses temporary anonymous pairwise identifiers of message queues, separate for each of your connections — there are no long term identifiers.”

“Temporary anonymous pairwise identifiers

SimpleX uses temporary anonymous pairwise addresses and credentials for each user contact or group member.

It allows to deliver messages without user profile identifiers, providing better meta-data privacy than alternatives.”

We can understand this mechanism as, if a Simplex Chat user has 10 friends, they have 10 IDs, using different IDs with different friends?

Keychat’s metadata privacy protection scheme

Current chat applications and email have forgotten that an address is not the same as an ID, treating the ID as the address. Emails and current chat applications send messages as [from: Alice's ID to: Bob's ID]. Regardless of how your geographical address changes, when Alice sends an email to Bob, it’s always [from: Alice's ID to: Bob's ID]. This compromises metadata privacy.

However, letters work differently; they are [from: Alice's current geographical address to: Bob's current geographical address].

Keychat separates the receiving address and sending addresses from the ID, and the receiving address and sending addresses are also different. Keychat messages are [from: Alice's one-time sending address to: Bob's almost one-time receiving address]. This makes it difficult for outsiders and relay administrators to determine who is sending messages to whom.

Which scheme do you think is easier to understand and better protects metadata privacy?

Finally, Keychat also uses ecash sat as a stamp for messages, with relays funded by stamp revenue to sustain operations.


I'm completely the opposite: not having a bathroom with a shower to myself stresses me out AF! 😁


You need to follow waaaay more plebs and you'll get a more diversified feed. Some people are on nostr but mostly post to twitter.


I read and tried to understand that letter but all I get is vague threats that the EU might do something if Elon does not do something they might want.
No real content in there as to what they ask him to do or what he did wrong.
Classic politician bullshit.


How would nostr:nprofile1qqsvnx99ww0sfall7gpv2jtz4ftc9v6wevgdd7g4hh7awkpfvwlezugpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9u29qz2y react if the #ChatControll in its' strictest form were implemented tomorrow.
Would you remove the App/Play Store downloads for EU users?
Would the app still be available to them from GitHub or your website?
Would your smp servers block EU IP ranges from connecting to them?


Let's say for every day browsing, nostr stuff and messaging.


Wow, you really don't seem to care for latency 😉
Or maybe it's just a fake server location.. Windscribe does that to offer servers in Antarctica.


Nostriches: which is your preferred VPN exit country?
Your home country? Some other specific location, and why?

#vpn #asknostr #privacy


Nostr relays can also work over TLS encrypted connections. In fact most do.
If the relay address starts with wss:// it is encrypted (web socket secure) and ws:// is unencrypted websocket connection.


Acai is the best meal on a hot summer day! ☀
Enjoy!


Kaum auf der Welt, direkt Neuwagen fahren! 😅
Aber nein, herzlichen Glückwunsch euch!


Artist Roman Boteen crafts impressive coins with refined details and sophisticated mechanism hiding secret switches and levers, brilliantly animating scenes and characters. https://video.nostr.build/76e2a16a86fbc12146145e1432d3c17f7b5f12e79eb765425d92298dd4205b81.mp4


Dies anyone know of a privacy preserving alternative to AWS/Azure that is prepaid with Sats, does not require KYC and offers services like Lambda and EC2? 🤔


How come cdn.satellite.earth pictures do not automatically load inline on Amethyst but only show as clickable links? Anyone else with this problem or a solution? 🤔


The Docker instructions at https://github.com/fedimint/fedimint/tree/master/docker
Still mostly refer to mutinynet setup and are not updated for the latest stable release. Hoping that will follow in the next days. Really appreciate your work!


Could one not consider Satoshi's coins to also be 'Lost coins' as he is unlikely to ever return and move them?


Massive respect to Obi and Fedi for launching such a giant project out of beta!
I am not certain that matrix really is the best freedom technology for messaging.
If Fedi already relies on nostr identities, it would probably be easiest to message over Nostr like with nostr:nprofile1qqsth7fr42fyvpjl3rzqclvm7cwves8l8l8lqedgevhlfnamvgyg78spz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqj9swg4 or 0xChat.
And get a readable identifier using NIP5. It would be indistinguishable from the enduser perspective, you could get fault tolerance if every guardian runs a relay so no single matrix server can go down and users could even keep their identity if they leave a federation and move to a new one (just point a new NIP5 to an existing npub)


In case you didn't listen to the podcast I mentioned above: Global Village does not make any decisions on operations of SimpleX or the other projects they fund. They just throw money at small projects that look somewhat promising and hope that in a few years that paid of.
No one is stopping you from running an instance yourself, in fact I run one myself DM me for connection string.


You will be woke and you will be happy!


Ist dein Nachname Rach und deine Profession Restauranttester? 😜


Probably because SimpleX presented a good business model. They said they are woeking on offering dedicated messaging infrastructure for corporate clients. Global Village saw a potential that this business model might work and put some VC money in. Nothing out of the ordinary. Evgeny talks about this in a podcast episode with Seth for Privacy ( https://optoutpod.com/episodes/s3e02-simplexchat/ )


That's the way! A secluded cabin by a lake with no phones to distract you always sounds great to me. Just reading and chilling. Heavy rain at dusk makes it extra cozy.


I think a non-KYC LN node provides similar anonymity when paying as monero does.


Yes, perhaps they should have gone to court over it but I doubt the court would have ruled in their favor. All of this proves that their encryption works and they actually do not have a way to bypass it themselves. However it also proves that many people don't think about linking a supposedly anonymous email account with their real name recovery email.

If you don't do that there is no known threat against your data at protonmail.


As I only ever heard that the recovery address is passed on to law enforcement by Proton, I am fine with trusting ProtonMail. Don't set a recovery mail/phone number, use a VPN/Tor and you should be fine.
Unless you can provide an instance where actual mails were handed over to law enforcement.


So we need to buy more sats?!


Some examples:
Tamper-proof bags (25€ for 100pcs)
https://my-litfax.de/Organisationsmittel-Sicherheitstaschen_Safebags-wg.htm

Letter stamps (24€)
https://amzn.eu/d/isc35V6

Washers (16€ for 60pcs)
https://www.hellweg.de/a/suki-karosseriescheibe-8-4-x-24-x-2-00-mm-50-stueck-888850

It's actually cheaper than I stated above, you can even buy a set of 100 washers for your fellow plebs and split the costs.


That's hella expensive if you ask me. Cost for the tamper evident bags and backup  cards is no more than 2€ in production.
I feel similarly about other products: Just buy the punch letters on amazon for 30€ and the washers for like 10€ at a hardware store.
Another backup only costs you the extra washers and you can go for two backup locations on some good V4 stainless steel.


Will there be setup instructions for semi tech savvy plebs on how to build a federation themselves and how to deploy guardian nodes, lightning swaps etc? The docs right now don't explain that nearly enough.
A good federation shouldn't be limited by the reputable guardians not being coders or having a day job 😉


Awesome sunset!


This little blue butterfly was magically attracted  by our #weedstr scent. He flew around for the duration of the entire joint!

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https://cdn.satellite.earth/60bdd45aedf8d1ff5ff1692414e9e22c452dc3df32dc831aa2146d8d5bab539d.jpg

#plebchain


Could also optimistically be interpreted as Joachim Nagel not concerning himself too much with the digital euro because he does not believe it will ever be rolled out widespread.


Had my finger on the trigger, but Trump kept me from degenerate trading. Thank you Don! 🙏
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Okay, daddy Trump, I am ready to have my bags pumped now! 🥹🟧


I hope this leads them to investigate lightning ⚡ so I can finally pay on the cheap and more privately.
Protonmail address as a lightning address would also be nice.


Da gehört ein Nostrich hin 😉


"emergency"


This is big 🤯

Nostr is not for social media.  It's the ENTIRE web 🌐

As the old web drowns in waves of AI generated spam, only Nostr will survive. A web without centralized choke points. A web with authenticity where every note is signed. A web that's machine payable by default.

Buckle up amigos. We're sailing to the new world much faster than I realized. Feeling lucky to be alive to witness and be part of this! 𓅦 🚀 ⚡⛵

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Finally, we are confident enough to invite interested users to test Keychat.

Keychat code: https://github.com/keychat-io

Keychat Android apk: https://github.com/keychat-io/keychat-app/releases

This version inevitably still has many bugs, which we will continuously fix. We will also modify any designs that are not reasonable. Thank you for helping to test this early-stage application.

For now, do not store too many sat(<200 sat, about 13 cents) in Keychat.
If you need some ecash sat to test the postage feature, please add 👇.


I appreciate the good reputation that Mullvad, IVPN and ProtonVPN enjoy in the community.  I also suspect that AirVPN.dev and OVPN.com live up to similar ethics and quality standards. How do we vet these services to also comfortably recommend them or find out, that they are in fact inferior? 🤔

#VPN


What drone and what camera is this shot on? Looks dope!


Do you expect the fix/workaround to be shipped to the official TeamNewpiped repo any time soon?
Would save some time transferring settings and subs.


Geiz ist geil!
Nein, aber mal im Ernst: Das Auszahlprogramm von Spotify ist dermaßen fucked. 10€ ist es mir aber nicht wert, da ich sehr selten Musik höre. Sollte eine V4V Funktion haben wie bei meinen Podcast Playern.


Gerade mal wieder ein halbes Jahr Spotify Premium für unter 14€ aktiviert. Einmal per VPN mein Spotify nach Indien umgezogen und jetzt bei www.eneba.com nen indischen Spotify Gutschein gekauft. Ging früher auch mal über bitrefill.com aber die haben jetzt immer Lieferschwierigkeiten bei den Karten.


Wenn absehbar ist, dass man so extreme Verspätung einfährt, dann sollte man auf den Schaffner verzichten und einfach mal drauf vertrauen, dass die Leute schon ein Ticket haben. 😄


Gerade nochmal getestet: ich kann mit NewPipe Videos schauen.


Some sites move away from classic captchas as AI begins to crack them and instead use POW. Hetzner for example does that.


There's certainly an audible group of bitcoiners who think both bags are full of garbage. Crunchy water and fructose..
#Carnivore


Das ist jetzt bereits der heißeste und trockenste Sommer in Deutschland seit 690.000 Jahren!!!1
Wann wacht ihr endlich auf?!!!!1 🥵


A high rate of gun ownership among the population might deter an invader or at least drive up the cost significantly if you know that on every street behind every window could be a granny with a rifle.


Yeah, same here. I can't even see it on the client  I posted it from 😄


Unser Putzi ist einer der ersten Roomba Generation. Vor einigen Jahren gebraucht gekauft und verrichtet weiterhin brav seinen Dienst. Hat kein WLAN oder Schmutzsensoren, aber bin trotzdem froh, ihn zu haben, auch wenn die neueren bestimmt mehr Dreck erwischen.


All modern phones boast with some level of waterproofing, but I would never dare to deliberately take my phone diving for photos 😄
For me that waterproofing is just an insurance in case I should accidentally drop my phone in a puddle or a pool.


Sehr hübsch! Mehr #uhrengame content auf Nostr! Wie lange lief die jetzt durch vor dem Service?


Wer jetzt noch Fiat hat ist nicht bei Sinnen, wohl eher 😉


☀🤗🍺
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Well magnet links to torrents would probably be most efficient. Nostr is not made for media storage.


Very happy to hear Julian Assange is a free man now! No matter the deal he had to sign, he's an innocent man to me and an important journalist!


That's Telegram putting up "targeted" advertisement in their app. Group admins have no way of disabling this or choosing what ads are shown. You could subscribe to telegram premium to have the ads gone I think.


Morgen gehts weiter in unserer losen #Privacy Serie über das Thema #Joinmarket

Wir haben uns zwei erfahrene Gäste zu dem Thema eingeladen und die Grundkonzepte und Unterschiede besprochen.

Ab morgen 07:21 überall wo es Podcast gibt. #V4V
Hosts:  nostr:npub1zjgyjhcdpfgux7c6qmrp8yhm6yvs8p9h32urr84du3vhsnj70vlsre4e8l und  nostr:npub1qqqqqrctxmea7ct0zr6m3uaedqydpdevm3hv0w4kkhcen8skd98snft0d0

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


Nice! Do you still have another device for banking apps etc? Those seem to not vibe with GrapheneOS.


SimpleX over Tor seems to me like top notch security. With a self hosted SimpleX server that is For only, you of course require your communications partner to also use Tor


SimpleX recently got the private routing feature which sends out messages over your trusted inbound SMP server. That way you won't ever connect to any servers except the one inbound relay your can set to a trusted one.

If you assume with XMPP that both users are using Tor, than I would say if both users on a SimpleX chat are using Tor with random SMP servers, it's just as secure.
No information can be gained by the SMP servers except that there are messages going out from one queue and that's it.
SMP Servers only ever get to see one side of the communication, never the reply. Add to this the absence of user accounts, you cannot build a social graph and tracking by IP does not work if both sides use Tor.

Interested in your thoughts, but SimpleX over Tor is a much lower barrier to entry than both sender and receiver having to anonymously host a XMPP server behind Tor.
They also would have to run a new XMPP Server per person they contact so as to not link identities by using the same .onion for more than one conversion.


Other way around I would suppose. You can deposit into the mint using an on-chain TX.


Sowohl auf Amazon.de , Thalia.de und Buecher.de keinen Erfolg gehabt. Entweder gibt es das Buch auf Deutsch, dann aber nur als physisches- oder Hörbuch, oder als englisches Ebook.


Hat jemand das Buch «Fountainhead» (dt. Der ewige Quell) von Ayn Rand als deutsches ebook gefunden?
Habe das auf Englisch, aber tue mich bei Ayn Rand Büchern schwer alles auf englisch zu verstehen.
Gerne DM, ich finde das nirgendwo zu laden oder zu kaufen.


Dear EU: please ban #Bitcoin self-custody and require Hardware wallet manufacturers to KYC users, so that one day I can tell my kids tales about how some plebs and I smuggled a bunch of BitBox HWW across the Swiss-German border and distributed them on the black market for sats 🙏


The drawback of "harder to access in an emergency" quickly turns into a feature if the emergency is duress.
Sure you can do a honeypot wallet with another 25th word, but that does not work as soon as the attacker knows one address of yours and becomes suspicious why it does not show up on the wallet you unlocked for him.
With MultiSig it is evident you need to gather several keys and might have to travel places dkr that ...


Gebe ich dir Recht, dass ist ein Problem, dass ich auch schon oft hatte und immer noch habe mit neuen Kontakten.
Vielleicht hilft aber bald das Argument: Die EU hat das verboten, lass uns das geschickt umgehen 😉


Ich glaube SimpleX.chat ist eine gute Lösung. Einfach in der Handhabe als Instant Messenger und man kann Server selber hosten, oder auf Community Server zurückgreifen für den Fall, dass SimpleX als Firma gezwungen wird, alle Server für EU Nutzer zu sperren. App als .APK runterladen, dann kann man auf seinen Servern auch weiter schreiben, wenn SimpleX die App aus dem Play Store nehmen muss.

Ähnlich optimistisch bin ich bei XMPP oder Matrix: Ist die App einmal installiert und ein eigener Server ausgewählt, kann weder die EU noch der App-Entwickler einen davon abhalten sicher zu chatten.
SimpleX ist nur am einfachsten einzurichten und verbirgt Metadaten am besten.

Zentrale Messenger wie Threema, Signal und WhatsApp können einfacher dazu gezwungen werden EU Nutzer auszusperren, wenn keine Hintertür implementiert wird.


Sehr optimistisch aber am Tag des Events mit der Deutsche Bahn quer durchs Land anzureisen. Der Kenner empfiehlt vorher einen mehrtägigen Aufenthalt in Düsseldorf als Puffer😁


Okay, AI is ridiculously good at writing elaborate professional letters/emails from just a short prompt.
Shout out Venice.ai


Keep us posted with some pictures along the way of what stuff you got on there 🤙


You are not answering the question. If you argue that Google has a backdoor to all mobile phones than no messenger is safe to use.

SimpleX Ltd clearly state that they do not store IP addresses. Don't trust them? Use Tor, a VPN or both. By the way you can enable private routing which routes your outgoing messages over your inbound relay which you can self host and trust. That way your device NEVER CONNECTS TO A SERVER YOU DONT CONTROLL.

I don't know why you shill Threema so much they are in no aspect better than SimpleX.

Your adversity to "Big money" is purely ideological and not based in fact. Threema receives money from government actors (that pay for a good messenger). Does that corrupt them?

Don't just refer to some messenger tier list, do your own research.


With Simplex are always routed through relays.
What metadata does the recipient relay server get then?


For most messengers I would agree but Simplex is designed in a different way.
Don't trust a relay you don't run yourself? Don't connect to it. You can chat using Simplex without ever connecting to a Server not run by you.
And if you do want to connect to your recipient's relay, just use Tor and there is no evidence of where the message came from.


I don't find the funding of VillageGlobal for Simplex concerning. The founder clearly said that VG does not make any operational decisions and they are just an investor. Simplex has had plans on how to monetize corporate clients from the early days and that's what VG is interested in. Returns from that business model.

Besides that: Simplex is open source and you can host your own servers, that way nobody at simplex even knows you use their app and can't get any data from you.


Bitcoin:                           ✅😍👍

WBTC on Ethereum:    ❌😱🖕

LBTC on Liquid:            ✅😍👍


How goldbugs think we self-custody:
https://image.nostr.build/6b9193d54a21472d85bf3114ba0d72529613ed05ba338641d68bf5024636329a.jpg


Bitcoin:               ✅😍👍

Bitcoin cash:     ❌😱🖕

Bitcoin ecash:   ✅😍👍


Hey anon, do you have a plan in case all your personal electronic devices get lost, stolen or seized?
Could you still get access to your important documents, sign-in to all your accounts and access your nostr/bitcoin private keys?
Better to check your backup plan at times...


Did you get opportunities to pay with sats in Madeira? It is often made out as the next El Salvador, but I wonder if there is really a high acceptance.


I agree, however it would be of no added complexity for their visitors, if Watchman self-hosts his email server, had a contact form on his website and also offered a Simplex address with the advice, that Simplex is easy to install and probably the most secure way of contacting him.

As for self-hosting the website and not using Google Fonts or cloudflare that's even more of a no-brainer as his visitors would not even notice that but still benefit from them not being tracked on his websites.

So I do agree with nostr:npub14slk4lshtylkrqg9z0dvng09gn58h88frvnax7uga3v0h25szj4qzjt5d6's points.


Watchman Privacy interviewed SimpleX, But yet

If you hit the contact on his website, only Telegram and Protonmail are listed.  And Google analytics, Google fonts, Google forms, Gmail, and Cloudflare are used.

First of all, Telegram leaks metadata (who/when is talking), and that's why people use SimpleX.  You'd know this if you listened to your own interview.

Second, even if we ignore that Proton's board of directors has a World Economic Forum member, which is the organization pushing for forced digital IDs.  Protonmail is not really end-to-end, if they force you to have your private key in their web app, that's cloud-to-cloud.  As I've went over previously, they even ban PGP signatures from external apps.  Even Mikkel Thorup, the guy who SELLS Watchman Privacy event tickets, said on his podcast "Protonmail isn't as private as people think".

So surely they self-host right?  No, Gabe Custodiet’s "Privacy Summit" with Expat Money used Google forms and Gmail to collect the info of those seeking to flee the US for privacy.  Thorup’s ExpatMoney.com and io are both on Cloudflare with Google emails, and these coordinated all Watchman events of political asylum seekers and 2nd citizenship applications.

Do you really want Cloudflare and Google knowing you're fleeing the US for financial privacy?  Now, I know Thorup would respond to this by saying "well your data goes to the countries you apply to citizenship for, so it's not private anyway".  But this is misleading, because many countries may only need a fixed investment or time spent in the country.  While as applicants to these exclusive Privacy Summits, often feel pressure to exaggerate their assets, to get accepted as clients.

Then on Watchman's site, he sells “Bitcoin privacy” through Gumroad, which is on Cloudflare, Google analytics, and Facebook analytics.  But the worst part is Gumroad blocks new account sign-ups unless you enable Google.  Watchman can’t even figure out how to not have Google fonts API on his WordPress.  And then he only sells his book for Amazon CIA contractor fiat, only uses spyware Twitter/Youtube and no alternatives, and lists the following: "CONSULTING: Few humans have the experience and knowledge I do with private and freedom living."

Few humans have your knowledge?  Give me a break bro, maybe in scamming people.  Here at Simplified Privacy, our message is the opposite,

I am not claiming to be anything special.  I'm just a regular dude without even an undergrad computer science degree.  All I got is a dream to spread freedom.  And if I can learn this open source technology later in life, so can you.

So if you want to see Watchman come on Nostr or SimpleX, make some noise. Smash that repost.  Because the only way he's going to adopt freedom tech is when its undeniable that he's being left behind.


If you do not want to spend on hardware to host your own LLM, there is unleashed.chat and venice.ai for you. Both use open-source models.


I get one every couple of weeks on the Signal client Molly on Android (also behind VPN).


Do you have any opinions about kagi.com search engine? I find a paid search experience a fair deal, however I do not like that it requires a login (to track the subscription status).


Also diese Punkte, die in dem Papier genannt werden, schockieren einen schon echt. So heftige Einschnitte in die Privatsphäre gibt es (offiziell) nicht mal im China und die EU traut sich sowas zu fordern.

Auch so weltfremd zu glauben, dass damit organisierte Verbrecher erwischt werden und der unbescholtene Bürger davon nicht betroffen ist. Das organisiere Verbrechen wird sooo viele Alternativen zur sicheren Kommunikation haben, während sie dem normalen Bürger den Signal Messenger weg nehmen.


Geht dein Sohn auch auf die Friedrich August von Hayek Grundschule? 😜


Macht es eigentlich einen Unterschied, ob man bei einer Wahl (EU, Bundestag, Kommunal..) ungültig wählt, oder gar nicht erscheint? 🤔


I see, your friend K seems to be in the money transmission business...🕵


Any of you guys have experience with cutting lunch out of your daily meal schedule? It often feels like a hassle to interrupt a productive day to source food or get something expensive while on the go.
#lunchdisrespector


Newsflash: the SEC doesn't understand Bitcoin & CrYpTo


Finde ich aber super, dass du dich da auf die Suche machst! Sobald du Erfolg hast, bitte lasse es uns Wissen, da sind bestimmt einige interessiert.


It offers the option of on-chain or lightning after you enter n/a in all of the fields and click the button. 👍

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Nostr unterstützt nur Text. Aber alle Clients laden automatisch Links zu Foto/Video Files.
Deshalb lade das Video auf nostr.build , flare.pub oder YouTube hoch und pack den Link in eine Note.


What an awkward conversation to have with your friend who sold you that iPad.
Sure,  making them aware of such a privacy fiasco is important, but you could have also just deleted the pics and never talked of it ...


I wish Bitcoin wasn't so unfairly superior to gold in every sense. Then I could justify stacking some pretty rock and looking at it..


75 Jahre  #Grundgesetz wie feiert ihr? 🤗🎉


Yes, you do not gain any privacy from the sender but only from third parties trying to identify payments between you two. This is very valuable for donations to NGOs for example. If they posted a static permanent address on their website, a evil government could look up that address and see how much was donated to that party/NGO and where the funds came from i.e. who donated.

If you want to read some more about it:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/bitcoin-silent-payments-secret-keys


No, I think silent payments are to have a permanent receive address for new coins, where third party observers (like the state) cannot see how much you received on that address, from whom and where you sent it after receiving.


Broo! Why don't these delusional Fiat men approach me with these incredible bets?! That's a money printer right there.


Alright that's a fair reason. Was worried there was something wrong with nextcloud. I am enjoying it so far and also use the cloud storage.


How come? What are you using instead?


Thanks! 🙂 I wouldn't worry about the script being taken down, it's so small I could probably just post it as a (badly formatted) reply in this thread.
And of course it can be used to mirror itself 🤪.


In light of the recent takedown of the #samouraiwallet project I published a little tool to locally archive git repos of #freedomtech projects in case they get taken down in the future.
It can do versioned archives using borgbackup and also saves the releases (compiled binaries) and the release page as html (for hashes, changelogs etc.)
This is my first code project out in the public so please don't take my shitty scripting as a personal insult!

Happy to hear feedback and improvements!

https://github.com/systemling32/gitsnap


Bitcoin als Staatsqualle #BTCZitadelle
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Treppchen! 🥳😁  #BTCZitadelle

 https://image.nostr.build/d7d13d5aaab3ad3a3f1961f847eb4286dffda02984b7f00767c7002c462f2da8.jpg


But if I have my own xmpp server and you also host your own and then there is a connection from my xmpp server to yours on the xmpp port. What does that look like to a network observer?


Junseth had a crypto social engineering scammer call him up and he ended up interviewing him. This is wild.

https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1816746807


Only good if you and your communications partner use Tor. Otherwise my ISP/your hoster knows we are communicating whenever my IP connects to the SimpleX/XMPP ports of your server's IP.
If I connect to Signal servers there are so many potential users I might be texting it is harder to track from the outside.


Wo du mich findest und wie du mich erreichst.


Okay, soweit verstanden. Also nutzt du bewusst weniger sichere Orte für die HWWs, weil die ja nochmal PIN geschützt sind, damit du nicht für jede TX die Reise zu den schwer zugänglichen Seed Verstecken auf dich nehmen musst?


nostr:npub1n0devk3h2l3rx6vmt24a3lz4hsxp7j8rn3x44jkx6daj7j8jzc0q2u02cy nostr:npub1r8343wqpra05l3jnc4jud4xz7vlnyeslf7gfsty7ahpf92rhfmpsmqwym8 nostr:npub17vm2z6d5pp3p9n9zhhee0yyxsjfrhpgn0dx0lvlgwzqywqeadh0se3k6u2 in eurer aktuellen Folge zum Thema MultiSig sagt ihr, dass man bei einem 2von3 MultiSig schon sechs sichere Verwahrorte braucht. Weshalb muss ich meinen Seed1 an einem anderen Ort wie Hardware-Wallet1 lagern?
Ich habe ja keinen Einfluss darauf, welchen der sechs Verwahrorte der Einbrecher jetzt durch Zufall findet. Wenn er einen Ort mit Seed in Stahl findet, ist es ja kein Problem, wenn am gleichen Ort auch das Hardware Wallet liegt, auf dem dieser Seed gespeichert ist.
Oder wie machen das Leute, die einen SeedSigner für MultiSig nutzen? Die haben ja gar keine HWWs zu verstecken, sondern nur Seeds.

Beim SingleSig verstehe ich den Grund das Stahl Backup an einem anderen Ort wie die HWW aufzubewahren, für den Fall,  dass eine Location abbrennt. Aber diese Redundanz habe ich bei MultiSig ja automatisch gebucht.

Kurzer Austausch dazu würde mich sehr freuen. Super Folge ansonsten! ✌


PV 💜


Are AI image editing or generation tools on the road map?


Anybody know of a Midjourney AI alternative based on sats where I can have existing images from my camera edited? I love ppq.ai and unleashed.chat but sadly I cannot upload existing pictures for editing there.


#bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/80fb7fe87bc12ca48c0df904579fb5bf0b88aa50d5e083c2453f7576b7defeb9.jpg


Let's inscribe the creation of the npub onto the blockchain! 🤡 /s


Was zum Fick?! Jetzt noch ein zwei Statische IPv4 Adressen und du kannst dir im Abstellraum ein richtiges Rechenzentrum einrichten! 🤨👌


Ich freue mich auf den Sommer und gutes Wetter, aber die Abwesenheit von Mücken und Wespen ist schon ein Pluspunkt für den Winter..


500g irish ribeye
 https://image.nostr.build/b14c183ef70a754451438515660f04e985c09f419c1d18ca09365ff2e647c15f.jpg

#proofofsteak


For anonymizing larger amounts, where Lightning might not be the best fit, I think swapping into XMR and then swapping back into BTC on-chain in multiple time-delayed TXs to different addresses might be another way.
Should we split XMR>BTC swaps into common UTXO sizes like those used by Whirlpool? That would help make it harder for the swap provider to pick out an individual and their resulting UTXOs.


So in the light of the recent #samouraiwallet takedown: do any of you have a good tool to backup FOSS projects?
Basically I would want a complete copy of the git as well as the releases, webpage, READMEs and perhaps issues and PRs.
All that packaged so that I can periodically update that screenshot and if the project is taken down I can access that snapshot without any references to the live site.


This looks really useful! Swap fees to liquid have gone down substantially and this allows newbs to use lightning without having to worry about channels and liquidity.
It's just not competitive for the sub 1$ TXs.


Helm Wallet: Liquid Web Wallet Using Boltz Swaps for Lightning

"I believe there’s a huge gap between the ease of use of Wallet of Satoshi and the self-custody of Phoenix. To minimize this gap, I created a new web app, a wallet that has the self-custody of Phoenix and is easy to use as Wallet of Satoshi."

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/helm-wallet/


I did save them, yes. The samouraiwallet.com site was seized much later than the samurai.io domain.

The signature and PGP Keys you can even still get using the wayback machine of the internet archive

Signature:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230927172228/https://samouraiwallet.com/download/wallet/sig
PGP key:
https://web.archive.org/web/20231227015102/https://samouraiwallet.com/pgp

#samouraiwallet #codeisspeech


https://samouraiwallet.com is still up. I just checked after reading your comment. Verify yourself.


Did you click the link it still works. Samurai.io has been taken down.


Can you get a working download of the apk from there? I can't seem to find any. It seems like it only archived the HTML pages and not the actual files in the repo. Also the releases are not downloadable.


You can still and probably should go to https://samouraiwallet.com and save the recent apk signatures and pgp keys. That way if someone has a copy saved somewhere, you can install that and trust its authenticity.

If you do have a recent copy of #samouraiwallet please share a torrent below or other link. We'll make sure it stays available!


Anyone have a recent apk or git repo saved locally? We can share it as a torrent over Nostr.


Wo hast du dieses Glück gefunden? 😀


Muun is not really a lightning wallet but an on-chain wallet which swaps all incoming lightning txs into on-chain txs and when you pay using lightning, you send on-chain to swap into lightning and have the invoice paid for you.
No more efficient than paying on-chain for everything.


Halving confessions: I set an alarm for 40mins before the estimated time of block 840.000 to get some sleep as I had to work early in the morning.
Miners did a lil sprint and I woke up 6mins late 😑.
Missed it but still saw the nice halving block animations on my own mempool instance.
This is not the first halving I slept through, Bitcoin will do fine without me and maybe I'll be there next time 😆


Diese eBay Kleinanzeigen Troll-Konversationen vor Minecraft Gameplay sind genau mein Ding! 😆
Aber an den Stuhl kommt keiner dran!


Gibts nen Wecker, den man auf Blockzeit stellen kann? 🤔 würde gerne 5 Blöcke vorher geweckt werden..


On nostr 100% of the money you made is value you provide to fellow plebs.
On twitter your earnings come from you driving engagement to a centralized platform and making plebs see ads.
Do you want your audience to be the buyers of your content or do you want them to be the product that big advertising companies pay for?


I set it up as a limited time experiment from the start. I found Carnivore to be quite complex to integrate in everyday life, especially in a work day, so I tried it in a 15day window where I was off work and had more time preparing food.
Back on omnivore because of above mentioned complexity especially if you eat socially.


Never had less poop related issues than during my brief #carnivore experiment.


Alright then, will try it your way tomorrow🫡


Do you put milk or cream in your scrambled eggs? 🤔


Brief an das Finanzamt enden mit:

"des weiteren wünsche ich Ihnen eine lohnende und erfüllende Anstellung in der freien Wirtschaft bei einem Dienstleister, der seine Kunden nicht unter Androhung von Gewalt akquiriert."

Ist das noch höflich, oder schon justiziabel? 🤔
#Steuern


Same here. I immediately noticed a positive effect on well being from not constantly having my school mates cool parties and awesome moments shoved down my feed.
If you are laying on the sofa on a lazy Sunday, seeing these curated awesome moments in someone else's live made me feel like I was missing out or living a boring life, when that was not the case. Social media is always biased to show you only the positive moments of other people's lives.


The problem I see with instant messengers like Signal is the network effect: If Signal were to charge a monthly/per usage fee, I would be willing to pay that, but many people would not. With the walled garden ecosystem that are most messengers nowadays, paid messengers will have a much harder time gaining users and suffer the network effect.
If more open protocols like matrix were common, perhaps I could use a paid server that in exchange does not log my metadata. However I would be chatting mainly with people using free servers and these servers could be logging a lot of the metadata (basically everything except for my connection details such as client used and IP).


I am happily paying money for email hosting so that my emails are not farmed for advertising. Have been with privacy respecting paid providers since 2015

I will happily pay money for instant messaging if the app respects my privacy and does not log metadata. I paid for Threema licenses, although I don't use the messenger on a daily basis.

I will happily pay money for ad-free privacy-respecting search results. I was using DuckDuckGo for years now, but just found out about kagi.com and am testing them now. Paying a small amount of money (over lightning) for unbiased well-indexed search results sounds well worth it!

All of these services cost a lot of money to host for the providers, and you know the saying: either you are paying for the product or you are the product.


Probably from timestamping the requests you make to load posts from your timeline.
Time between request to load post A and post B is time spent on post A.
Could be avoided by loading posts in aggregate. Like 10 or more at a time. Then you just know that this time was spent looking at the 10 but not which specifically.
Also it could be, that the user switched apps in between.


nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 When Google Authenticator functionality on Coldcard?


Aber 107€ und zwei Passfotos trennen dich davon wieder alle Vorteile der deutschen Staatsbürgerschaft zu genießen. Du bist ja trotzdem Staatsbürger,  auch wenn die Dokumente mal kaputt gehen.
Das ist schon ein Unterschied zu jemandem, der Staatenlos ist oder sich die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft wünscht.


Nettes Bild, aber kannst genau so gut 107€ und zwei biometrische Fotos in den Mixer werfen.


TL;DR?


👍 Lebanon would be a good test lab for something like that. Cash economy with a sizeable informal sector and basically no banking.


Get your grandma on PGP encrypted email holding her own keys on a yubikey! 🤡


Could always be rugged by the mint operator or the operator could get thrown in US prison for operating an unlicensed money laundering service with US dollars or serving sanctioned entities.

Fiat ecash is an okay idea if it weren't for the state 😆.
More bullish on some sort of stable sat. You would find plenty of places to redeem for physical fiat and be unruggable if you hold it in self-custody.


Nothing beats first hand experience I guess..


Bees do not spend time explaining to flys that honey is better than shit.


Not directly. You can use a swap service such as Boltz. Wallets like Phoenix also let you swap between on-chain and lightning for a small fee all without you having to manuallz swap. Just scan an on-chain Bitcoin address and your lightning wallet will send the desires amount.


Depending on usecase i might go for some Liquid Bitcoin (LBTC) 😉


Really happy for you, that you get such joy out of stardew! I heard it's good, but I am not a gamer myself.
Enjoy! 🫂


Public data shows that there are around 1.8 Mio BTC on exchanges and another 880.000 in the ETFs. Where are you getting your 90% of custodied coins from? Other way around is more accurate.


If you can easily convert BTC to local fiat cash in a p2p way it is permissionless.
I can do exactly that at my local meetup (not that I would be selling).


True! 10 Million Dollars in your bank account are not worth as much as one bitcoin in self-custody if you have to fear that your bank account gets frozen at any time because your spoke out against your local regime.


Aber wenn wir keine #Steuern zahlen, wer stellt dann die "Tempo 30 - Straßenschäden"-Schilder auf? 🤔


Pirate the content, then zap the creator generously on Nostr! 💜
No middlemen, direct payments.


What is that now?! Why did the hobo steal my groceries and how is Wasabi going to fix this?


That is a costly endeavor 😄


Can I change my DCA from going to my hardware wallet to now going to my Relai lightning wallet, or do I manually have to swap into lightning?


If people insist on paying on-chain then give them an address to a boltz swap or swap-in to liquid and add the fee. I wouldn't accept a 27k sat UTXO and pretend like it's not going to cost me more.
With a swap in you get the sats on your lightning/liquid wallet.


I love that site as they also allow you to download their entire database as a zipped CSV. That way you can be your own historical price API within minutes.


.su

Soviet Union


Minibits cashu wallet sadly does not yet let you start with a user defined recovery seed.
If they did, you could derive a new seed for your daily ecash wallet using BIP85 and have the master seed backed up in steel in a vault somewhere.
I'm a big fan of BIP85 because you can backup every key with no additional cost.


Vor über zwei Jahren (14.11.2021) wurde Taproot auf Bitcoin aktiviert und es gibt immer noch keine guten MultiSig Protokolle, mit denen man die angepriesenen Privatsphäre- und Kostenvorteile als Endnutzer erfahren kann.

Verstehe nicht ganz, warum das so gepusht wurde, und würde mir wünschen, dass bei zukünftigen Softforks wie CTV die Software im vorhinein entwickelt wurden und am Tag der Aktivierung bereit stehen.

Softforks bringen immer ein Risiko mit sich und wenn wir nach über zwei Jahren keinen praktischen Nutzen für Taproot haben, hätte man lieber mit der Aktivierung warten können und in der Zeit weiteres Peer Review betreiben.

Und ja, ich habe von Simple Taproot Channels gehört, aber die werden noch relativ wenig genutzt und haben auch knapp zwei Jahre gebraucht.


Just send ecash to your mates.


Anyone know of a FOSS podcast player, that supports streaming sats from a user defined LNbits instance? Or even better: uses a LNURLw as funding source?


Warum stehen im Park Schilder "Füttern schadet den Enten" oder sogar "Enten füttern verboten!", aber im Restaurant kann ich Enten futtern so viel ich will?
Was schadet der Ente jetzt mehr? 🤔🦆


Ukraine

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I really would love the option to store my nostr private key with the help of a BIP39 mnemonic.
The real game changer is BIP85 which let's you derive infinite 12/24 seed words for different use cases. You only need the backup the master seed by stamping it into steel for example and can note that the first derived seed is your cold storage, the second your lightning node, the third your nostr identity etc.


Sufficiently secure workaround is to take the sha256sum of the 12 word entropy.
I think that's how it's done in BIP39.


Selling a set of 100 'Study Bitcoin' stickers.
Size: 98x98 mm.
They are made for the outdoors and very resistant to the elements. Sliced back allows for swift peeling off and placement.

Shipping can be arranged internationally if buyer pays for postage (set weighs 252g) or pickup at a local meetup in NRW Germany (details via DM).

https://image.nostr.build/a13a202240277050beb874824965a49f83e9ad4b40f68b659922b3cb89b94d9b.png

https://image.nostr.build/ea27bb4bce87af0e581b336f6b8eded570bf29d85716b3d2609abaa97e204c94.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/75027d15417f0bd4f17711d5ab1b36c759d4d67ffcdb0750af70794cec9c8c24.jpg


Finally! They mention they used "a third-party service" for their E-Mail before, which is a nice way to avoid saying "we trusted Google Mail with all the E-Mails you sent to us."

It is still beyond me, why they made such a decision when their entire selling point is about data privacy and evil big data..

PGP does not solve the meta data being open for Google to see.


Using an ass fuck ton of energy is incredibly based and I’m sick of pretending it’s not.

We goin Kardashev type 1 up in this bitch and if you’re not down for that kindly shut the fuck up.


Just to store all my sats on as cold storage and possibly to derive some child keys for family or my lightning wallet using BIP85.


12 or 24 words? What would you create your Wallet with? 🤔


What's the most promising general purpose #meshnetwork out there, that works completely without ISPs? 🤔


It is missing an important route of privacy leaks: automated media loading.
As it is right now clients connect to arbitrary web hosts to load embedded media in posts or DMs. The owner of that server can again see your IP address but unlike with relays you do not control which servers you connect to when loading media.

There has recently been a campaign nostr:npub1wq6n8skpdtrhw8hmr00kp2za7a8y97zqngq8jq85q2aydp8ejxzq8p7d9k to link pubkeys to IP addresses by sending a DM with a customized tracking link which clients automatically open because it disguises as an embedded  picture.


There is a NIP already to introduce PoW for spam mitigation. If that's implemented at some point, relay operators would not need to exclude Tor/VPN users, they could either demand payment in sats or proof of work for peers, that only want to connect to that relay occasionally.


Automatic cross-posting exists between Nostr and Mastodon and it's not great. Technically it works just fine but if you only check the comments and discussions on one platform than it does not create the same experience on the other.
And even if you were to check comments under both posts you'd be getting the same questions/remarks/jokes twice and a after a while you'd lose interest.


Wie angekündigt, den ersten #Techboost für das Jahr 2024. Wir kümmern uns RoboSats, SparrowWallet, SamouraiWallet und weitere Software Updates, geben euch ein Update zu den Hacks der letzen Monate und ihr könnt ein Ticket für das ₿ Privacy Event by nostr:npub1q3y7u8crtels6ew4muephe20ae07zw80emtmvlm8zf4mg9rl63wqd5gxtn gewinnen.

Um an dem Gewinnspiel teilzunehmen, müsst ihr nur diesen Betrag liken und reposten. Wir ziehen dann nächste Wochen per Los. Viel Erfolg und Spaß bei der Folge. Weitere Infos zum Event und Gewinnspiel in den Shownotes oder im Blogbeitrag.

https://nodesignal.space/2024/01/27/nodesignal-techboost-e161-updates-q4-2023/

Zu guter letzt ist auch diese Folge mit freundlicher Unterstützung von #Value4Value produziert worden. Unser Dank geht an die tolle Community für die andauernden Unterstützung🧡
Weitere Infos, wir ihr uns unterstützen könnt, findet ihr auf unserer Website.


Check out AquaWallet by Jan3 (https://aquawallet.io/) then. It allows you to both send and receive Lightning payments without actually using lightning. It does that by holding your daily spending on the Liquid side chain and swaps liquid to pay the lightning invoice you need to pay. Similarly you can create an lightning invoice for people who want to pay you but you'll receive in liquid BTC. That way you'll never have to open or manage any lightning channels but can still use lightning non-custodially with way lower fees than if you were to swap from bitcoin main chain to lightning like Muun used to do.


Just checking your motives and your price...


nostr:npub1wq6n8skpdtrhw8hmr00kp2za7a8y97zqngq8jq85q2aydp8ejxzq8p7d9k what does a pleb have to zap for you to request deletion of a specific #NostrExposedIPs note and/or have a specific npub excluded from future publications? 🤔


Seid auf der Hut, eure IP Adressen sind öffentlich!
Jedem sollte bewusst sein, dass der Relay Betreiber schon immer sehen konnte, von welcher IP Adressen ihr euch verbindet. Aber jetzt werden diese Infos (von einem vermutlichen Relay Betreiber) veröffentlicht.

Auch wenn man damit rechnen muss, dass manche Relay Betreiber eure IPs seit jeher in einer Datenbank loggen, ist das öffentliche Posten nochmal was anderes: Der Künstler macht mit diesem Werk aufmerksam auf die Privatsphäre Einbußen, während er diese in schmerzhafter Weise der Zensurresistenz gegenüber stellt.
Da niemand Posts löschen kann, sind diese IP Adressen mit dem ungefähren Datum für immer öffentlich einsehbar und an meine Nostr Identität geknüpft.

Was haltet ihr von diesem Projekt?
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I am very happy with GrapheneOS and so thankful for your work.
Just one comment on the PDF Viewer: Swipe to flip pages please! 🙏


Ich stelle mir das so vor, dass ich bitcoin nach XMR swappe und direkt wieder zurück nach Bitcoin (in anderen Stückelungen).
Dann habe ich die Geschichte des ursprünglichen bitcoin abgegeben und einen völlig neuen Coin erhalten.
Wenn man nachweisen kann, dass dieser Coin aus einem Swap kommt, dann kann einem die Geschichte des neuen Coins auch nicht negativ ausgelegt werden, weil man damit ja offensichtlich nichts am Hut hat.

Mit den Coinjoins auf Liquid meine ich nicht, dass Liquid anonym ist. Aber wenn man aktuell eine Whirlpool oder Wabisabi Coinjoin Transaktion auf der Bitcoin Mainchain macht, dann sollte dies doch genau so anonym, nur eben günstiger, auf Liquid funktionieren.


Mega spannend! Sind damit Coinjoins auf Bitcoin nicht eigentlich überflüssig? Man kann ja einfach nach Monero swappen und in anderen Tranchen zurück.
Genau so habe ich schon überlegt, warum coinjoins nicht heute schon auf liquid laufen. Da ist der Blockspace ja deutlich günstiger.


That gets me thinking: I would be open to setting up an access point at my home for the public that shares my bandwidth and charges in sats⚡ per GB used.
I'd simply route all traffic from that AP over a VPN connection to avoid DMCA notices etc.
Even if it does not create a profit, it's still a nice pitch for Bitcoin lightning payments!
Someone please create a router firmware to easily setup these public APs! 😀


Did you install that app called "Safari"?
It acts like a web browser..


I would be interested in your mobile stack on your travels: are you experiencing issues with the great firewall?
Are you using a VPN? If so which provider and protocol?
Any other fishy things? Did they search your phone on arrival?


Das Video hat mir gerade unheimlich geholfen! Ich dachte schon, ich könnte keinen Pocket Sparplan auf den SeedSigner einrichten🙏


The city looks like a dystopian hell hole, but the landscape with the mountains behind it is stunning!


Suchst du eine Herausforderung zur Selbstoptimierung oder einfach als Vorsatz fürs neue Jahr? Begleite mich bei #21Hard

Jeden Tag:
- 21 Seiten lesen
- 21 Minuten schreiben/programmieren
- 21 Minuten Sport machen
- 21 Minuten meditieren

Dabei
- Pflanzliche Fette meiden
- Keine Drogen konsumieren
- Keine Pornos konsumieren
- Kein Social Media konsumieren
- Nicht den Bitcoin Preis checken

ich würde mich sehr freuen eure Erfahrungen unter dem #21Hard zu lesen! ✊


If the source code is available as a torrent and shared in nostr it's game over for Rockstar. Good luck taking that down!


#SimplexChat war für mich auch ein Durchbruch im Bereich sichere Kommunikation. Es funktioniert wunderbar!
Ansonsten hat mich persönlich #GrapheneOS sehr begeistert und abgeholt.


Die BitBox02 unterstützt meines Wissens nach kein Liquid, du kannst also keine LBTC Schlüssel mit der Bitbox verwalten. Es gibt zwei Hardware Wallets, die das können: zum einem die Ledger Reihe und zum anderen die Blockstream Jade. Letztere ist von den Entwicklern von Liquid, weshalb ich die empfehlen würde (und weil Ledger eine Chaos-Firma ist).
Wenn du dir keine HWW extra für Liquid kaufen willst, kannst du auch hervorragend die Green Wallet von Blockstream auf dem Handy als Hot Wallet nutzen und immer wenn du dort größere Beträge angesammelt hast, wo der Verlust dir sehr zusetzen würde, kannst du mit einem Swap auf zB
https://sideswap.io/peg-in-out/
Die ganzen Liquid-BTC in normale On-Chain BTC konvertieren lassen und normal an deine Bitbox senden lassen.


It is also true that you probably go out of the mix with more and smaller utxos than you came in with.
Why? Because the output size has to be smaller than input and if you consolidate utxos from different sources in the premix you already lose privacy by signaling common utxo ownership.
I like whirlpool, but I would always have to mix coins from different sources separately as to not link them as mine. In that aspect I prefer Wasabi 2.0 where you can input several utxos into a single mix and get a combined output while also getting plausible deniability that these two inputs both belong to the same entity.


2 sat Gebühr für ein 450.000 sat Zitadellen Ticket - Alter, ich liebe Lightning⚡!
Bei den on-chain Gebühren aktuell freut man sich echt in der Vergangenheit Lightning Kanäle eröffnet zu haben. Die machen sich jetzt bezahlt.


I'm getting Vin Dieseld. Like wer's kennt.


Hopefully me, but gimme a few minutes to confirm! ;)


Ich nutze Amethyst sehr gerne, aber wenn dir Primal gefällt und das bedeutet, dass man im Zukunft mehr von dir auf Nostr lesen kann, dann begrüße ich das sehr! 😊


Könnte theoretisch schon: es könnte ein Reorg auf eine Chain mit zB nur 600.000 Blöcken stattfinden, sofern diese mehr PoW hat. Wie ginge das? In dem bei dieser Chain die difficulty nicht bei jedem adjustment um etwa 5% angehoben word, sondern um Faktor 10.
Aber wie bei allen Reorgs über viele Blöcke ist dies extrem unwahrscheinlich, weil ein Miner unbemerkt so viel Energie und Computing Power aufbringen müsste.


Is there an easy to follow guide somewhere about how to run a liquid node using docker? Including all settings.


It's never too early to read Ayn Rand to your kids. 📖

https://image.nostr.build/8b4b0a48f911fde338d7cfadad47baf08d11e046bdaca804eda8450e2a3b8970.jpg


Generate a drawing of a cute koala as a airline pilot. He should look a bit sleepy.


Generate a book cover for a childrens book version of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. It should prominently display the book titel on the cover and feature some child-friendly graphics.


Frühen Dritten Advent! Soeinen Gutschein könnte ich gebrauchen. Wollte mir eine Jade zulegen um mit Liquid weiter zu experimentieren. 😉


⚡100K Sats Bounty for #DrainTheExchange Memes - 🔁 Repost for Zaps⚡

- 75K Sats to the winner
- 15k Sats to runner up
- 10k Sats to third place

- 1-999 Sats for every repost (decided by random.org)

(Open til December 21, 2023)

nostr:npub1znvyq8yk3e9m4gn67y5ndh5tnne3apnqzue56w4panamkzlgd8mqq6hk2l had a great idea to get people coordinated to withdraw Sats from exchanges to cold storage; let’s see Exchanges unable to locate spot #Bitcoin!

We need memes to push the message to #Bitcoiners and #normies alike. Reinforcing the idea of “not your keys not your coins”, and ensuring people don’t get rugged by Exchanges.

Reply with your memes to enter, repost to get zapped, help meme #DrainTheExchange into existence

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🌻 Seed Oil Documentary OUT NOW🛢

The Oils You Eat Are Slowly Killing You:
https://youtu.be/zBoWmIYN4vw https://v.nostr.build/vakk.mp4


Cashu ist auch super um kleine Beträge auf Geräten mitzuführen, denen man nicht so sehr vertraut
Hat man einmal die Zugangsdaten zu seiner Lightning Node oder LNbits Wallet eingegeben, vergisst man in Zukunft vielleicht, dass diese Daten mal auf dem unsicheren Gerät waren und hält unangenehm hohe Beträge auf seiner Node.

Mit Cashu weiß ich immer genau wie viel ich mit mir rumtrage und habe keine Zugangsdaten zu einem potentiellen zukünftigen Vermögen zu beschützen. Ich kann jederzeit von einem sicheren Gerät aus Sats nachladen.


Don't follow the trend. I enjoy carrying all kinds of stuff in my big pockets.


How about

strike linked bank account ->
eNuts mint ln invoice ->
boltz/robosats swap ->
cold storage

This should be significantly cheaper and still break linkability. Looking forward to your feedback.


Bei nostr:npub1zv7d9l5ac0zdzeh5mzfyaegcdgcwn8m2uaxdpsj93hgp4nqjmd0s6k82ke kann man jetzt auch auf die eigene Lightning Node stacken😻
Funktioniert wie immer sau einfach und ohne Probleme🔥🔥🔥
Ein Interview mit Pocket kommt auch die Tage bei nostr:npub1qv02xpsc3lhxxx5x7xswf88w3u7kykft9ea7t78tz7ywxf7mxs9qrxujnc
da kommen dann noch paar coole Infos😎

https://image.nostr.build/6af70da132d8313baab37037d0647366151c167f5485c68adda730f9adc7b50c.jpg


Hat hier jemand schon den SimpleX Desktop Client mit seinem Android gekoppelt bekommen, wenn diese nicht im gleichen Netzwerk sind? 🤔


Stacking sats now is the easy part. Staying humble a few years from now is going to be the real test, I think.


How are other external users going to connect to your LNbits then for resolving the Lightning address etc?


What services are you self-hosting that you find most useful? For me it's definitely nextcloud


I did try that out at least like five years ago. It's not actively developed anymore, but the premise was E2EE messaging like email but with cryptographic identities similar to nostr.
Messages were broadcasted among peers similar to bitcoin in hopes that your recipient was connected to those peers across a few hops.
When I used it, messages were delivered 90% of the time but it was an interesting project far before nostr came along or messaging apps tried to mitigate metadata leakage and become decentralized.


https://image.nostr.build/99e02cb44319a555f091d3b44a4c455128316f9bfff524df8ac28ccdaddffdf6.jpg

#meme #memestr #nostrmemes #memes 818,585 🤙💜


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Hi there!


Mullvad, IVPN or another provider? give me your experiences and recommendations.


Privacy is a fundamental human right.

https://docs.zeusln.app/for-users/embedded-node/privacy/ https://image.nostr.build/ae1f31cebc081f7f4e740ce14a16887c563c604807d7bda886006364efff7a0c.jpg


Das der Betreff nicht verschlüsselt wird ist nachvollziehbar, da der SMTP Standard keine Ende zu Ende Verschlüsselung vorsieht. Wenn man selber PGP nutzt, ist das genau so.
Ich nutze ProtonMail aber nur, damit meine Daten auf den Servern sicher sind. Das die E-Mails die ich an externe verschicke unverschlüsselt sind, ist mir klar.

Dass die Nutzerdaten raus gegeben haben ist richtig, aber keine der verschlüsselten Daten, sondern "nur" Rechnungsdaten und IP, die ja unverschlüsselt vorliegen.
Würde mich aber wundern, wenn zB Tutanota bei vorliegen eines gerichtlichen Beschlusses diese Daten nicht auch rausgeben würde.


How useful is a personal relay that is only reachable behind Tor? I am thinking about setting one up myself, but if no other users can connect to it, it is of little use.


If you're still on Twitter I feel bad for you son. I got 99 problems but doomscrolling ain't one.


Better give them the 🤙


Entweder jetzt eine kleine Orange Pille schlucken, oder in ein paar Jahren ein dickes oranges Zäpfchen benötigen.

Sinngemäß übersetzt von Robert Breedlove im Interview im What Bitcoin did Podcast


Dear landlord, I won't be able to make rent this month...because of reasons. #bitcoin
https://video.nostr.build/d0145dea5f8661d0c415271769e2a3427dcd9b277207b4770d48e03c53d08523.mp4


A detailed drawing of a cute koala working at a pharmacy handling a box of "Midazolam"


Does anyone know of a FOSS office suite for Android? Ideally compatible with Libre Office formats


Bisq plus Lightning wäre super! Löst aber nicht das Problem, dass man im vorhinein genug Liquidität für seine zukünftigen Käufe/Verkäufe bereitstellen muss.
Im high-fee Markt einen Lightning Kanal zu eröffnen kann sich lohnen, eventuell gehen die fees aber auch schnell wieder zurück und der Kanal wird wich lange nicht rentieren.
Bei Liquid muss ich keine Kanäle erstellen und mir deshalb vorher keine Gedanken darüber machen, wann ich wie viel empfangen möchte.


Im high-fee market wie gestern würde ich liebend gerne auf die Liquid sidechain zurück greifen.
P2P Käufe und Verkäufe könnte man dort kostengünstig abwickeln mit einem Hauch mehr Privatspähre, da auf Liquid die Beträge nicht öffentlich sind.
Lightning ist King, aber wenn man sich im vorhinein nicht um ausreichend Liquidität gekümmert hat, wäre ich sofort bereit bis zu einer bestimmten Summe (zB 10M sats) auf Liquid zu empfangen und halten, um dann in einer gesammelten Transaktion alles auf meine mainchain Hardware Wallet zu swappen.


Interessant! Ich habe das Produkt Orthomol immun pro mal mit AG1 verglichen. Die Inhaltsstoffe sind fast identisch, nur deren Dosierungen sind mal im einen, mal im anderen höher.
Kostenpunkt vom Orthomol ist dabei fast die Hälfte.


Hat jemand Erfahrungen/Meinungen zu Athletic Greens oder anderen Breitband-Supplements?


For me Nextcloud is extremely useful and I use it every day to store personal documents, synchronize calendaras and shopping lists across devices or just share files with friends and family.

If you are already using a password manager have a look at vaultwarden. It let's you synchronize your bitwarden data without relying on anyone else.


Vor dem Bitcoin sind alle Menschen gleich.


Selbst genutzte Immobilie ist nochmal was anderes als wenn man eine vermietete Rendite Immobilie besitzt. Aber in beiden Fällen Hut ab!


a thread on keeping it simple 🧶

your #bitcoin is important, you got this far and now you don’t want to fuck it up

so keep it simple and run FOSS

never in the history of bitcoin has there been better or more accessible off the shelf tools

1) get your hands on some dirty cash and go buy an unlocked pixel 6 or above

2) use cash to buy a refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad from a repair shop and flash it with Linux Debian, just ask and they might do it for you

3) install Tor

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt install tor torbrowser-launcher

4) install Sparrow Wallet & verify

www.sparrowwallet.com

5) use your Thinkpad to flash Graphene OS onto your Pixel Phone

https://blog.ronindojo.io/grapheneos/

6) install Samourai Wallet on phone

https://samouraiwallet.com/download

7) buy a plug n play RoninDojo Tanto full node

www.ronindojo.io

8) open Samourai Wallet, connect to Tor, pair to your own node, create a new wallet with a passphrase and wallet pin

9) write down your seed words in order, write down your passphrase and pin

10) confirm your seed words and passphrase in the wallet

11) write down your paynym

12) secure erase wallet and then restore from backups you just made to confirm

13) confirm paynym is the same

14) punch seed words and passphrase onto separate steel plates and store in a safe hidden place

15) save an encrypted copy of your wallet onto a sd card via wallet and store in a separate safe hidden place

16) exit wallet and reopen to double check your pin, that Samourai Wallet is connected to Tor and your node

17) open tor browser on laptop and pair Sparrow Wallet to full node

18) open Sparrow Wallet and add the Samourai Wallet seed and passhrase to confirm paynym is the same

19) write down the fingerprint of the wallet as another means of confirming the wallet has the correct passphrase

20) close and reopen Sparrow Wallet to confirm you can access wallet with correct passphrase, that the fingerprint and paynym match, that your node is connected and tor is running

21) Now write a very simple plan for your family to find and restore your seeds and passphrase in the event of your death

You now have:
an anonymous phone
an anonymous laptop
an anonymous mobile wallet
an anonymous bitcoin full node
an anonymous desktop wallet
an anonymous set of backups

Don’t over complicate it or use too many programs

Don’t create multi sigs or cold storage until you understand the trade offs

Most bitcoin is lost because YOU lose your seeds, not because of scams of hacks

Keep it simple!


Wenn du "zufällig" Probleme mit Haarausfall oder anhaltender Müdigkeit hast, kann man es von der Krankenkasse zahlen lassen. Dein Hausarzt muss natürlich auch etwas cool sein..


Do I as a user have any say in how bug my mix outputs are? So far I often get lots of small UTXOs out. Would be cool to set a minimum size and only coinjoin if anonymous outputs of that size or larger can be created.


WTF did they want? Did they ask to enter your house?


GM 💜


Krass! Freue mich schon. Wo ist das gelegen?


Any way to watch Death Athletic without a credit card? I would gladly pay with Bitcoin.


Ich verstehe nicht, wie Normies absolut nichts daran finden, dass ihre privaten Chatverläufe mit Familie&Freunden unverschlüsselt auf den Servern ihre Messenger (Telegram) liegen. Es gibt so viele Wege, wie diese privaten Gedanken in die Hände von mehr Leuten geraten, als man denkt.
Die Alternativen sind doch da und gratis nutzbar (Signal, SimpleX)


Nö, ich poste mal englisch mal deutsch 😁


Vielleicht magst du der Server URL noch eine Onion Adresse hinzufügen. Man kann dann in einem QR Code sowohl clearnet als auch Tor Adresse haben und jeder Client sucht sich aus, worüber er verbinden will. Die offiziellen Server haben alle diese Dual Adresse. Weitere Infos dazu in dem Anouncement Video des Desktop Clients.
Vielen Dank schon mal fürs hosten!


I do currently, but I am eyeing self-custodial solutions like nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 and Phoenix for their ease of use and abstracting away the liquidity problems.


Great if you are self-hosting services on  different subdomains. You can encrypt DNS requests, you can encrypt the HTTP, but as of now you would still be leaking which service you are accessing. Can't wait to have this as a standard!


Way too many websites require you to manually send an email to them and wait for a reply if you want to delete your account with them. I've got over 300 logins saved in my password manager. Ain't no way I'll type a customized email to all these sites.
There should be an automated way to delete your account with the press of a button everywhere.


Seit Mitte 2016 ist in $172 TKG geregelt, dass der Anbieter von Prepaid SIM Karten die Person hinter dem Anschluss vollumfänglich identifiziert und diese Daten für Behörden zur Verfügung stellt.
Der Grund dafür: Terroristen und organisierte Kriminelle sollen keine anonymen Rufnummern haben, mit denen sie Ihre Taten planen. Gut. Terrorismus und Kriminalität finde ich sowieso doof.

Was aber, wenn dieses Gesetz komplett das Ziel verfehlt? In den Nachbarländern Tschechien und den Niederlanden kann man nach wie vor anonyme Prepaid SIMs erwerben und diese dank EU Roaming zu gleichen Konditionen in Deutschland nutzen.
Ich behaupte, es stellt für organisierte Kriminelle keine Hürde dar, gelegentlich über die Grenze zu fahren und einen Batzen SIM Karten mitzubringen.

Entweder sind die Politiker, die für dieses Gesetz gestimmt haben, nicht auf die Idee gekommen, dass man ausländische SIM Karten auch in Deutschland nutzen kann, oder die zu überwachende Zielgruppe waren nicht die Terroristen und Kriminellen, sondern 83 Millionen unbescholtene Bürger.
Aber dann wären wir ja belogen worden...


Open to sharing your smp creds so other people may use the server?


Awesome! Looking forward to it then.


Being able to read and reply to keysend messages.


Ich habe inzwischen OpenBoard entdeckt und kann es sehr empfehlen. Autokorrektur ist bei weitem nicht so gut wie bei Google oder Apple, aber deutlich besser als ohne.

https://github.com/openboard-team/openboard

nostr:nevent1qqsxxda6x2jk5wmv8m2dlc6wqch2dc5ex55sj5jx60tjdgd8xr3vqfspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyqpslprxu9snaqel8n3gukl0mgttqg6fgztturwzy30fgmp6yvjy5qcyqqqqqqg2a6pxl


Considering how useful and critical it is, I'll gladly pay money for E-Mail and instant messaging.


All lightning wallets should be nostr NIP-05 aware. When I type in what seems like a Lightning address, but does not resolve to a lightning wallet, it should check whether the adress is a valid NIP-05 identifier and query if there is a valid LN address or LNURL in that nostr profile.

That way I could share my nostr address for both social and payment purposes and tip friends at anytime just by entering their NIP-05.

nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 nostr:npub1t0nyg64g5vwprva52wlcmt7fkdr07v5dr7s35raq9g0xgc0k4xcsedjgqv


Bei jeder Was Bitcoin Bringt Folge mit Peter Kotauczek frage ich mich, wie er so viel über Bitcoin verstanden hat, aber dann wieder so einen Unsinn verbreitet.
Er beharrt darauf, mit seiner Bullybursti Cardwallrt das Paper Wallet neu erfunden zu haben. In der sechsten Folge behauptet er, dass das Auswendiglernen von 12 Wörtern für den Normalo nicht praktikabel ist und hält daran fest, dass sich die Card Wallets mit VORGENERIERTEM PRIVATE KEY und einer einzigen Legacy Adresse drauf durchsetzen werden.

Die Cardwallets bieten keine Backup Möglichkeit, nutzen kein Segwit, die Bitcoin Adresse kann mit der Lieferadresse verknüpft werden, sind deutlich teurer als die Satscard von CoinKite und ich muss der Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei meinen private key anvertrauen.

Als wäre das nicht lächerlich genug, erzählt Herr Kotauczek als nächstes, dass die Zentralbanken die dormant Bitcoin konfiszieren werden. Ich glaube bevor die Staaten die Schlüssel zu Satoshis verlorenen Schätzen knacken wird sich jemand bei der Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei an die Excel Liste der gelieferten private keys erinnern.

Ich hätte mich gefreut, wenn nostr:npub1st4elxz4dphx2qxpuaklvs855zetnkglu8dvszdxamgqn5q3pk5svflv5p da etwas kritischer gewesen wären.


Okay, das ist ein denkbarer Weg.. echt schade, dass es bisher keine gute FLOSS Alternative gibt.


Hat jemand eine Empfehlung für eine open-source Tastatur mit deutscher Autokorrektur auf Android?
#GrapheneOS


When it comes to privacy and anonymity:

Public SimpleX servers over Tor > privately hosted simplex server

Or am I missing something? nostr:npub1exv22uulqnmlluszc4yk92jhs2e5ajcs6mu3t00a6avzjcalj9csm7d828


Just switched my personal email over to Proton Mail. My old provider increased prices so now I get much better privacy while paying just a little more. I do enjoy the Proton ecosystem and am looking forward to a black friday sale to get a long term subscription with a discount 😉
Any personal experiences with Proton Mail? Anything to look out for?


JoinStr: Decentralized CoinJoin Implementation Using Nostr

- JoinStr operates by creating a CoinJoin transaction with the coordination of the Nostr protocol.
- Joinstr also integrates seamlessly with the Electrum wallet, providing a user-friendly way to access CoinJoin functionality.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/joinstr-decentralized-coinjoin-implementation-using-nostr/


Don't rely on that feature actually working. There are many ways to bypass the restriction on screenshots.


If you are not self-hosting the simplelogin stack than you have to trust them just like with every email provider. It’s a downside of e-mail as a protocol, that it is not easy to self host and the provider gets your plain text mails.

If you can trust simplelogin than you gain a lot of advantages because you never have to give out your real email address.
If a burner address gets leaked you can simply disable it and know which site leaked it because you use a different address for every site.
Also you cannot be tracked across sites by your email address as a unique identifier.


Wow, what a spike! Any clues as to why? I don’t suppose that’s caused by more people running their Lightning ⚡ node behind Tor 😉


Based!


Awesome! Now finally lightning transactions can take up more chain space than regular on-chain tx. /s


Nevermind it seems paysafecards have a limit of 50€ per payment and ask VPN users to provide identification.

https://mrdatenschutz.de/paysafecard-anonym-im-internet-bezahlen/


Any way to purchase them for cash in Germany or Europe in general?

On G2A you can buy them online and they accept paysafecard. Has someone tried purchasing the paysafecard for cash, registering an anonymous g2a account and then purchasing the Azteco voucher?
I am not sure if it works but that would be one way to aquire BTC for cash and paysafecards are available at pretty much every gas station in Germany.


How generous of the government to give away $10M to incentivize mining!
I’ll be paying and zapping people over lightning all the while :)


I already had qrencode installed, but didn’t even know it supported displaying in terminal. I always wrote to an image file 🤦.
Well now I added
alias qr='qrencode -tutf8'
to my bashrc and got the comfort of just typing qr followed by the text to be encoded or piping to qr straight from the terminal. Thanks for the idea guys :)


Paper Wallets haben Ihre Berechtigung!


False.
Lightning payments being to complex I don’t see what your point is here? Too many failed payments or too technical for the user to understand? The latter is not an argument since the end user doesn’t have to understand Lightning payments or Monero bulletproofs.

Lightning’s scaling limits are mostly about how many channels you can open on the Bitcoin blockchain in a given time. If every human being wanted to open a channel that would be quite difficult, yes.
Lightning does not however have a limit on how many tx are possible per second. A lightning tx is not broadcasted to the network and only known by the two channel partners.
Look at value4value streaming of sats over the lightning network.


If you are exchanging goods before the tx is sufficiently settled on the blockchain then you give up on exactly that transaction finality that cash advocates love.
30 seconds is still longer than I would like to wait at a busy cash register at a supermarket.
Lightning ⚡ is about 10 times faster and also brings great sender confidentiality.