Yeah it's crazy. It's gradually going down over the next few years. The most perverse part of this tax is that it's regressive: industrial users pay almost nothing.

A number of energy companies offer "dynamic" contracts. They announce the price for each hour the day before, which is based on some European auction system. Most people however still prefer a fixed price contract. Right now those go for €0.23 - €0.34 per kWh including tax, depending on how long you want the price fixed (e.g. one month, one year, three years).

Those contracts used to be the norm so the government tax wasn't as obviously weird. Now suddenly you have to PAY taxes to consume negatively priced electricity.


I often look at the price of electricity instead of the weather forecast. Low price often means lots of sun. But it can also mean lots wind (and rain), oops.

Prices in the chart below include a €0.13 / kWh tax and about €0.02 / kWh margin for the power company. Otherwise it would be zero or negative. https://image.nostr.build/b511aa7be6867a85b98cce7b620316d2be8cb061632d4ed597aed6c19d33f26a.jpg


I don't see anything that directly impacts p2p either, just the on and off ramps. There does seem to be a requirement of surveillance of what coins do before and after which can have a chilling effect. That's not new, just worse because it's the law rather than 'voluntary' (arguably illegal, because GDPR) behavior by exchanges.

31b is new in the same sense: some companies already demanded address verification but this is illegal under GDPR because you can't collect data without a legal basis. Bitonic was forced to do this by the Dutch central bank. They went to court and won. Other companies are to cowardly to do the same and the privacy regulators don't have time to fine them for knowingly violating GDPR. The difference is that this new law provides the missing legal basis.

Anyway that's my understanding so far which could be wrong.


Argh, I meant to day "does NOT make it less dangerous"


Is er ook een privacy vriendelijke donatie optie? Cash of Bitcoin via het lightning netwerk. Of heeft de EU dat al verboden?


I made a quick first reading pass through the latest satanic EU thing. It's a wide ranging 324 page document, covering things like trusts, football clubs, dubious / tax optimized jurisdictions, the distinction between in house lawyers and law firms, beneficial ownership, reporting requirements, etc, etc.

https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-6220-2024-REV-1/en/pdf

I tried to collect the bits that might impact Bitcoin. A minuscule fraction of the paper surface area. It's not like Bitcoin or even 'virtual assets' has its own chapter: in classic design-by-commission it just pops up in random articles.

Notably I'm ignoring cash: someone else will have to save that. But beware that 'cash' is defined much more broadly than the word suggests. It doesn't explicitly cover bitcoin, but I would expect that to happen eventually.

The first 100 pages (items numbered up to 103) seem more like an introduction than actual proposed law. Some of it seems to oversell the actual legal text.

One observation is that 'virtual asset service provider' (VASP, or what Americans would roughly call custodians and exchanges) is now considered a Financial Institution(tm).

My impression now is that only _custodians_ are not allowed to:
1. Have anonymous customers (i.e. anonymous accounts): they explicitly mandate KYC rugging existing accounts, albeit with a 3+ year heads up
2. Operating a mixer

They also need to verify ownership of destination address (wallet verification), which is bad, but far from a ban on self-custody.

The 'intro' text mentions mixers along with anonymous coins in a way that suggests banning transactions with them. But the word 'through' makes it really unclear what they mean. In the law text they define 'anonymity-enhancing coins' in a way that obviously implies Monero and Zcash in that order. Article 58 uses the vague term 'through' again. Does it mean they can't let you withdraw to it? Or just that they're not allowed to offer a pseudo-mixing service that *uses* these coins.

Anyway I'll have to re-read this a few times to grok. Keeping in mind that the politicians who wrote this don't have the brain cells to process anything more sophisticated than "monero bad, make law with fancy words!" and then the bureaucrats who write the law have no idea what anything means either. No tech literate person was involved in this process, that's very obvious from the language. But that does make it less dangerous.

The next step for me is more deeply understand what the proposal actually says, if there's any potential direct impact on myself (which might give me legal standing - now or in five years or so when stuff has really taken effect and local judges can intervene) or if it's merely bad in general (in which case perhaps all I can do is write an angry letter). https://image.nostr.build/2f4954acf81007795d876785d84d7b324c3002a403c8b43d80d3257a8b8a9969.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d486843264d37689bdca035612ef4d887a1883667e0814aa17479d52e79549bf.jpg https://image.nostr.build/f0fe25ec2f45464b6aa21ad862ebc2e2d3f9cabf33b3f5c5f68d908b71d1ad77.jpg https://image.nostr.build/669999cbc976b6e93a5f39a991e012bf9cc1008361c25e8b4472e55a76a264be.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ee3c7345f990359a73deebb6d24e1352f2ee491db4716194e94bd3ea817af5cd.jpg https://image.nostr.build/fdce7f1ff9d1d67aa67a63d909f28a65f9ceffdc826f4a6cdb0e34759c5d0d30.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3e11cc215890f69cb0f03dd2b9c1216dc757fa129c172f6ae423824fb0ea885b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/537da483e53bc78e3527e5f8a4c465aacbda6c21e92cdbe8b61a4957eb7f70e6.jpg https://image.nostr.build/06fdb4c62dabf27938572f857c82a389d035650db25a13cfd7301c8e7d75b55c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/46810c8ae5d0df1935039023bb1df2742722e674862e0ade7f604677314dd0f8.jpg https://image.nostr.build/dfb5b10e3a64d00c0e740f74005e24587edd3dfbd61fea1d2ef84898b069e8c7.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2f4954acf81007795d876785d84d7b324c3002a403c8b43d80d3257a8b8a9969.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d3955f28f52ed8506de00812cf1cbdbbc6c7aa2095f96c093212054d3fa83918.jpg https://image.nostr.build/f68f426791d6ca626e22dd80fbca68c8bf76dc50bc22034918725730e5eb6daa.jpg https://image.nostr.build/8a0a6e89a6959b18bc9d56bc1ab87a1fba9753652e098012e9f891358d9d8051.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ac22adcf586b6fe936c002f65756a3b5d6d562b93009266c2aaf0ddd533e8ffd.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a0c7636b5750048c20711340029dec0fd5b710b7d3052bffd599b454fade48ef.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ec102ade9939cfe1067671fd73c9fb390524fccb1e919708a782ad2fac2f2796.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3160edda3472a4b86ed03be0ede32d60e5219d7cffee2f35ea52eef9412ed2eb.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e94c13ead3f0cd90db598f1f5e224db35c45d00ad4a7d1a46cedafa919a9a4c9.jpg


Reference implementation of Stratum v2 is ready for use! https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/stratum-reference-implementation-launches-sri-1-0-0-to-enhance-bitcoin-mining


There are many draconial provisions in the upcoming #EU #AML Regulation both for cash and to p2p #bitcoin transactions (self-hosted wallets and use of mixers).

Some examples:

(33b) The introduction of a Union-wide limit to large cash payment mitigates the risks associated with the use of large cash payments. However, obliged entities that carry out transactions in cash below this amount remain vulnerable to risks of money laundering and terrorist financing as they provide a point of entry into the Union’s financial system. Therefore, it is necessary to require the application of customer due diligence measures to mitigate the risks of misuse of cash. To ensure that the measures are proportionate with the risks posed by transactions of a value lower than EUR 10 000, such measures should be limited to the identification and verification of the customer and the beneficial owner when carrying out occasional transactions in cash of at least EUR 3 000. This provision does not relieve the obliged entity from conducting all customer due diligence measures whenever there is a suspicion of money laundering or terrorist financing, or from reporting suspicious transactions to the FIU.

(93) The anonymity of crypto-assets exposes them to risks of misuse for criminal purposes. Anonymous crypto-asset ▌accounts as well as other anonymising instruments, do not allow the traceability of crypto-asset transfers, whilst also making it difficult to identify linked transactions that may raise suspicion or to apply to adequate level of customer due diligence. In order to ensure effective application of AML/CFT requirements to crypto-assets, it is necessary to prohibit the provision and the custody of anonymous crypto-asset ▌accounts or accounts allowing for the anonymisation or the increased obfuscation of transactions by crypto-asset service providers, including through anonymity-enhancing coins. The prohibition does not apply to providers of hardware and software or providers of self-hosted wallets insofar as they do not possess access to or control over those crypto-assets wallets.

As we were said by the EU Commission, “the ban on crypto-asset payments not intermediated by a crypto-asset service provider has not been retained given the absence of technical means of enforcing such a requirement at present”. But that exactly shows the direction of the regulatory approach.

This is a huge deterioration of financial and privacy rights after EU Commission and Council put pressure on the EU Parliament and removed all provisions in favor for individual rights, privacy and financial inclusion.

We need your support guys, before it is too late. Final vote on April 22nd.

Full text you can find here:
https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-6220-2024-REV-1/en/pdf


The "crypto" lobby is much bigger, but they happily throw Bitcoin under the bus in exchange for friendly casino regulation like MiCaR.


My impression is also that the political pro-Bitcoin lobby in the EU is tiny compared to the USA. Possibly fewer than ten people. nostr:note17pgav4u5s0cf0kwwrvv49y2q77um5lmdfhrgrn9rcgw9d50vdkusguek6c


EU Committee approves:

🚫 Prohibition of cash payments over €10,000

🆔 Prohibition of anonymous cash payments over €3,000

₿ Prohibition of anonymous crypto payments to hosted wallets without any threshold

This means war on cash and gradual erosion of our financial freedom!

More: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-cash-cap-and-ban-on-anonymous-crypto-payments-results-in-financial-paternalism/

https://digitalcourage.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/134/689/413/697/102/original/84cbd9c69c6e9fcb.jpg


Well she's probably a bit more sophisticated than a regular mule, buying London real estate and such requires larger mounts. Though not billions, that's Razzlekhan level shit.


* a bit UNclear


The article is a bit clear but it seems that she was a money mule, not a whale. I'm guessing the houses she bought were for her clients, while she herself merely got a nice salary.


Afaik only transactions between custodians / exchanges (virtual asset service providers), assuming this is about the travel rule.

It's conceivable that this impacts mining pools, depending on how they distribute funds - and various legal nuance that I'm not an expert on.


Link to Bos's "Practical Privacy" thesis from 1992:
https://pure.tue.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/1792904/369616.pdf
(I haven't read it)


The Genesis Book review by former DigiCash employee Jurjen Bos.

https://medium.com/@jnebos/i-thought-i-understood-bitcoin-until-now-07e064c4ba7a


You’ve probably seen GreenpeaceUSA's Bitcoin report by now, and my response (if you haven't been blocked).

Here’s six things that every environmentalist, Bitcoin advocate, regulator, policymaker and media representative should know about GreenpeaceUSA.

I've had this information for over a year, but have held back on going public with it until now because there were initially signs that GreenpeaceUSA would be open to engaging with environmentalists within the Bitcoin community.

With them now blocking me from commenting on their tweets, all hope of that has now ended. So here's what I can tell you about GreenpeaceUSA, and their campaign that have not been aired publicly until now, and which may surprise you.

Firstly, some context: I’m a former volunteer environmental campaigner with Greenpeace. I once risked arrest to stand up for causes I believed in, including an anti-GMO campaign against McDonalds which was successful within 6 weeks, and hailed as an example of how creative direct action can yield fast results. One of the differences: we talked to McDonalds (something no one at GreenpeaceUSA is currently doing with the Bitcoin community).

I know a number of people in the environmental movement, and I would like to thank them for their honesty in whistleblowing on a thoroughly misguided campaign from GreenpeaceUSA from start to finish.

1. GreenpeaceUSA’s campaign does NOT have the backing of Greenpeace International. In fact, other branches have asked questions of GreenpeaceUSA’s tactics, and even said that their campaign is damaging the Greenpeace brand, and has resulted in the loss of subscriptions.

2. Within GreenpeaceUSA, there are a growing number of voices of discontent. There is a growing division between some of the younger crypto-neutral or crypto-friendly millennial in their base, and the directorship of GreenpeaceUSA

3. As we know, GreenpeaceUSA did receive a $5Million donation from Ripple’s chair Chris Larsen to run an anti-Bitcoin campaign. What you probably do not know is that within Greenpeace, several staff have questioned whether this is ethical, or in the spirit of an organization that says it relies only on grassroots funding in its sign-up pledge.

4. Some members of EWG and SierraClub, particularly younger members, were not enamoured with their organization’s collusion with GreenpeaceUSA’s “Change the Code” campaign. EWG has not engaged in anti-Bitcoin rhetoric since 6 April ‘23.

5. The head of GreenpeaceUSA’s “Change the Code” campaign has stepped down and is no longer any part of GreenpeaceUSA. At the time of his stepping down he was reported by a source within GreenpeaceUSA to be questioning the wisdom of the campaign.

6. Within GreenpeaceUSA, we know from multiple inside sources that the Change the Code campaign has been widely acknowledged to have been “not particularly successful”. GreenpeaceUSA’s campaign got off on the wrong foot right from the start, by antagonising environmentalists within the Bitcoin community, such as me. Here’s its half-time report (TL;DR, the worst performing environmental campaign I’ve ever witnessed). https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/greenpeace-environment-attacks-help-bitcoin… Now, the campaign is in more disarray than ever, resorting to tenuous ad hominem attacks against Satoshi Action, based on the discover that one of their supporters is a climate denier. True. Well, guess what: one of their supporters is also a plant-based, tree-hugging, climate-activist & meditation teacher: me. That’s the beauty of Bitcoin: it pulls people in from across the political spectrum: we are as diverse as society itself, and that’s what makes us strong. As I wrote recently, “when the ship you’re standing on is sinking: it doesn’t matter if you’re on the left of right side of it.”

I hoped GreenpeaceUSA would end their anti-Bitcoin campaign before their credibility and relevance to the new generation of millennials they are currently disenfranchising is completely severed.

But it seems at the moment they are more intent on doubling down on misinformation. Their leadership must change for them to ever have hope of becoming a true voice for the environment again.


The most interesting part of this article is about the Ethereum Foundation's warrant canary. That approach hasn't been battle tested in courts much afaik.


Also I would suggest that people use a pool with higher bug bounties :-)


I guess for next time it might have been better to first email them and ask if it's ok to demonstrate the issue. If they then don't respond, it's still defendable to demonstrate the issue anyway: since it's likely that a malicious actor would figure it out sooner or later and do far more damage.

This does rest on the assumption that your demonstration itself wouldn't draw lots of attention. Which it might have if they had found a very old stale block. So your other suggestion, to use the most recent block, would have been safer. In hindsight anyway. But also more difficult to pull off IIUC.


In January, while investigating a misbehaving client on the Bitcoin P2P network, I found a vulnerability in ViaBTC's SPV mining code that allowed a remote attacker to waste their 60 EH/s hashrate by sending a single, crafted Bitcoin P2P message.

https://b10c.me/blog/012-viabtc-spv-vulnerability-disclosure/


(I guess you've already used the name "nut kicker" for some other feature than this random forwarding idea...?)


And you don't even have to throw the nuts *at* the podcaster. If they're pubkey locked anyway you can just toss them anywhere. Eventually they'll get to the host. Either because their wallet crawls the web or their friend finds it on nostr and forwards it.

You could add a "has this been claimed yet" API call to mints so when software encounters a nut somewhere they can decide to either ignore or kick it down the road somewhere.


To expand on that a bit: in practice you need a (semi)custodial lightning wallet as a listener anyway, because otherwise you're going to run out of battery on your podcast walk. Who then know what you're listening to and when.

As a podcaster you can self host, but - especially with splits - you'll miss out on some of the payments due to routing issues.

If instead you can post (pubkey locked) e-cash tokens somewhere, that's probably easy enough for a podcast client to support and hardly requires bandwidth.


Podcasting 2.0 could definitely use nuts.
cc nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg nostr:npub13ql75nq8rldygpkjke47y893akh5tglqtqzs6cspancaxktthsusvfqcg7


nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx I think your node is down, I can't post my pun! https://image.nostr.build/9ced987de2691697c9a43a47d72ed00ce3b1ce01f86928dcbcde298a4129cb45.jpg


Cool! Basically tether on e-cash. My guess is that exchanges will rug mints of their dollar balance, but that will have to be seen.

Can a DLC be sustained indefinitely? Presumably the mint would need collateral.

I would not be surprised if Tether ends up running a mint. Good way for them to acquire sats.


Don't upload your ... mnemomic nostr:note1x80craa3mq7mecd4602uvec7tz6h4qtwjvyar7sd06tn6lausqeqpfc2xv


For my one year old hot take on the segwit discount, see:
https://bitcoinexplainedpodcast.com/@nado/episodes/bitcoin-explained-79-the-witness-discount


I could see future soft forks that enable functionality which is both useful for the three things you mention (e.g. vaults, new layer two techniques) AND enable stuff that NFT degens like. That way you get more people to contribute, review and test code. As long as these new things don't degrade the core functionality of course.

(I also don't agree that the current "degradation" is important. The main effect is higher fees, but in the future fees probably need to be even higher to offset the lower subsidy. Any use case that depends on low fees has always been on borrowed time.)


Did you ever stop and *really* think about what it means to "do a Satoshi Nakamoto"?

Context for my weird question: I have met many, many bitcoiners over the years. Many of them take a stab at keeping privacy by doing some combo of: not revealing name, not revealing location, not revealing face. Etc. So often, if I happen to meet them in person, they end up revealing the things that they were hiding online. Quite literally a mask came off (pre covid!) once we started drinking - a simple, funny anecdotal example of what I mean. Many complain about photos being taken, many focus on always using a pseudonym. I'm sure most people reading recognize these patterns of behaviour.

I can see the purpose, up to a point, so this is not criticism. It's a little like me doing coinjoin "here and there" - you don't expect to defend yourself against a hyper powerful aggressor, only against a casual criminal looking for an easy score.

But if you do want *real* defence against *strong* attackers, you have a huge problem. These half-measures will be useless, perhaps worse than that, if you get overconfident, because the determined investigator only needs *one* strand to pull on, and the measures I describe above, which are almost always rules only half-stuck to anyway, don't cut it, at all.

Which brings me to my point: is it even possible to "go all the way"? Clearly it is; Satoshi Nakamoto is not the only person who's ever done it, but it's pretty damn rare at the very least.

Imagine what it would mean. If you are engaged in a serious project, that takes let's say at least a year's worth of full time work, then you are going to do that for no reward. Not just, no money, people do that quite often when it comes to things they genuinely enjoy, but no recognition, no social context, not even "oh I won't bother you because I know you're busy with that project". Nobody will say that because nobody will know. Imagine doing a full, intense 8 hour day of work (more likely, split over many days) and knowing that there will *never* be a direct reward of any form, for that. And then doing it again, and again.

What's more, you don't just "not get a reward". You have to do almost double the work, to ensure that at every step, every pushed commit or technical discussion, does not expose anything at the network trace level, or the language, vocabulary etc. Managing tricky pseudonym accounts, handling the headaches of Tor etc. I'm not trying to say it needs super-genius level tech skills, I'm trying to say it's a massive amount of effort.

Could you do that? I daren't even ask the question of myself, because I'm almost sure it's a no. But to *imagine* where that kind of motivation would come from, that's what fascinates me.


It may not be wise of Nigeria to hold a former US law enforcement agent hostage...

> Gambarayan has an interesting history in crypto. He is a former US special agent with the US Internal Revenue Service who helped crack the Silk Road darknet market. He used to go after crypto crooks. Now he’s head of Binance investigations.

Then again, when you work for Binance you know what you're doing.

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2024/03/16/everybody-hates-binance-two-staff-held-in-nigeria-finding-the-cash-for-4-3b-in-us-fines/


Went on a little walk from Canary Wharf to the 02 dome, via the Greenwich foot tunnel, on the last day. https://image.nostr.build/5a4ccfd271744b63588eb73e4d92f2f68d89847c272a4bea1ab5dbb2991ad119.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d5f45e2646aa53854eb811d86aae7df38bb5dae0c6d448a06479743aefdfdc4e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/24fb6b65f148d62305587edbd65a328f6f907470b753c355d6a4b00d3c81377a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1b8a3c4c35ae900fd7003d0e566ef161fa2ae392da274b9ae4cedf4745e71929.jpg


Power to the sheeple. https://image.nostr.build/72965c7f1d77996a2d60de0f379ea993dec4b85afb48db30c417b7b3e444ba69.jpg


WEEEEEEEEEE

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


Bridges were crossed, rooftops were walked up to. https://image.nostr.build/8a0a551ac37048725885492b32bd99ffaaa68558424a254094ce5d566ca66bfc.jpg https://image.nostr.build/55cbf157470b16933e53f7f64202b276d78b5ef83a34319e11d8fac698cb4d8e.jpg


We won the identity trial against Craig Wright.

Official transcript of the judge's bench ruling:

MR JUSTICE MELLOR:  Thank you.
        Well, I thank all the parties for their written
    closing and oral arguments, and they've been very
    helpful indeed.  They will require me to prepare
    a fairly lengthy written judgment, which will be handed
    down in due course.  And for all those who have already
    been hassling my clerk as to when the judgment will be
    ready, the short answer is as follows: it will be ready
    when it's ready and not before.
        However, having considered all the evidence and
    submissions presented to me in this trial, I've reached
    the conclusion that the evidence is overwhelming.
    Therefore, for the reasons which will be explained in
    that written judgment in due course, I will make certain
    declarations which I am satisfied are useful and are
    necessary to do justice between the parties.
        First, that Dr Wright is not the author of
    the Bitcoin White Paper.
        Second, Dr Wright is not the person who adopted or
    operated under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto in
    the period 2008 to 2011.
        Third, Dr Wright is not the person who created
    the Bitcoin System.
        And, fourth, he is not the author of the initial
    versions of the Bitcoin software.
        Any further relief will be dealt with in my written
    judgment.  I will extend time for filing any appellant's
    notice until 21 days after the form of order hearing,
    which will be appointed following the hand down of my
    written judgment and I ask the parties to seek to agree
    an order giving effect to what I have just stated.
        So I'm afraid, for any further information, you'll
    to wait for the written judgment.


From: nostr:npub1vxpwwydpmmc4usmxf2zkr8shdjq888g532ydyls3nadxxd9wyx5ssjq5nd


In London for #AdvancingBitcoin https://image.nostr.build/94bb54bad7427f4b1bbfda88e71d2958fa92797d4c6726f7102317fd17d2fa50.jpg


Roman Sterlingov Found Guilty on Four Counts, Court Finds Chainalysis 'Reliable'

"Jurors found Sterlingov guilty on all of the four counts, which included conspiring to money launder, money laundering, and two charges tied to failing to register a money transmitting service," reported Bloomberg. The defense is going to appeal the verdict.

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/roman-sterlingov-found-guilty-on-four-counts/


Patoshi will. It's not certain that Patoshi is a single entity, nor that it's Satoshi.

All we know is that it's not CSW :-)


Interesting illustration of how cluster ammunition compares to a single explosive, given the same weight: https://youtu.be/bb8Lw-1zs9g


I believe the default is based on the minimum system requirements.

It would be nice to have the default be based on RAM instead. Luke mentioned having a (older) PR for that.


Little glitch on the site: Friday is the 19th https://image.nostr.build/92cc9a49d24e5bd7ac68cda2244206f9a9b85c3ebeaea81583b5bec9d90f4bca.jpg


Are you also counting blocks to the most awaited event of 2024?

🎞 OVER 15 MOVIES EXPECTED🎞

Warsaw, Poland
📅 April 19-21

#BitcoinFilmFest
#EuropeanHalvingParty

https://void.cat/d/9Vx9ihDUzqkuPphku717nK.webp


(b) could easily be tested by showing random strangers the manipulated image and then ask them to pick the victim from amongst 50 normal photos

(a) can be achieved by showing the manipulated image to 50 strangers and asking them if it's real or manipulated

Sure, you might traumatize the witnesses.


How does this only have 21K views after three months? (even if a bit one-sided, it's informative and has excellent footage) nostr:note1zps648q5kur49xmmra48uw8cxatm2x070usxdejxsqzxw6walsns7wrj9w


Well for the wallet at day 1. Bucketing peers was introduced a few years later I think to deal with eclipse attacks. With the removal of openssl a few years ago a more clear distinction was made between cryptographically secure vs fast random data.

Here's some current stuff: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/random.h


IIRC for DoS stuff it uses a not cryptographically secure (but fast) RNG.


And frequent home raids encourage you to regularly switch locks and label all your belongings!


Incentives...
https://protos.com/justin-suns-28-million-trip-to-nowhere/


Utrecht


Drink tea https://image.nostr.build/0b29e539c544e67e787a312d7221d2a0b3115befc2df0114e77553d4ca1f43fa.jpg


This definition of "custodian" is your professional political opinion, not your professional legal opinion I hope? :-)


Just memorize the sha256 hash of the Arch. Oh but what operating system would you check the hash on? :-)


nostr:npub13ajk3hhvqys2ev4y68jwxywgs8fsdsuk4y5gkzs874jdyrccvf5qak2yd9 at the least the US has a supreme court that's significantly quicker than the European Court of Justice to shoot down unconstitutional stuff. Which this hopefully is...


It's conceivable that this somewhat works. Even if half the pictures are the wrong random white guy.

The more interesting question is what they do with the information. Does it add that much to the records they already have from your cellphone and KYC wifi use? Maybe, if you were seen talking to someone.

But I also suspect much of this is theatre. The guy at customs probably enjoys showing off his fancy tools. And the CCP likes you to see them, so that on your next visit you behave.

Anyway, may we live in interesting times...


Maybe don't bring it across the border but just buy it in Shenzhen and destroy it on the way out :-)

If you're worried about malware: it's not like your importer is going to remove that.


It was his own idea (to make money from selling certificates, according to a Dutch article on him).

The result (nothing) is unsurprising to me. It's not that different from having kids that go to day care, in terms of how often his immune system needed to deal with a signal.

If something bad was going to happen, it would have happened after the first or second shot. And then there would have been no article :-)


Should you ever develop a battery obsession, please also investigate: nostr:note18n0k25wa9ahjnn85fks0wzmm49kjtfz0c22afhdwalhd3uenewaspxgalx


Rechargeable? If so what percentage did you keep them charged at?

If not, any particularly extreme temperature or humidity?

Otherwise: wait, corporations lie???


Classic Carlos Matos BitConnect remix with What Is Love. So good, Youtube took it down :-) nostr:note14r6v0tyful8ejsajgleuupnrksc67vhj7rxrdgy477uyjuj863hqhl58vf


YES! nostr:note14r6v0tyful8ejsajgleuupnrksc67vhj7rxrdgy477uyjuj863hqhl58vf


Here's the URL but the video is private now: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=--HGt-BO4XQ


Looks like Youtube took down the original Bitconnect What Is Love remix (Haddaway). There's a few other attempts online now, but they're not as good. Did anyone archive it?


Replace your locks because these images should be plenty to copy them :-)


Now what do I do? 🤷♂ https://image.nostr.build/8944891fc8a1acb303ae629d94b7def0f99d6172dc44190d7e44fa0af77012c0.jpg


By "shipping issue" you mean there's a pilr of your book at the bottom of the Atlantic?


Colour me shocked, politician supports anything that will get them votes and funding! How many podcasters were shilling this guy, oh man he gets it, hard money lol

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


WEF shills anything and anyone who pays them.


I'm also going to guess Apple's lawyers haf some back and forth with EU officials to make sure that sticking to webkit for homescreen apps is fine (for now).

I think that from a competition point of view it's much more important that the full browser can be swapped, with all its buttons and fancy features, than to worry about what engine renders a web app. Though in the long run there could be concerns there too.


Glad to see apple isn't going full retard nostr:note1dfh2f925thz25j8z93p3q99xjxdjhrzz396hknew7ay0frchhzzqf5nuxn


Also of note is that this ATM company obtained a (very expensive and hard to obtain) permit from the Dutch Central Bank, which includes all sorts of ongoing AML requirements. And the bastards at ABN *still* wanted to kick them out.

This bank is still for a large part state owned after their last bailout.


Dutch bank ABN-AMRO tried to de-risk (one of?) the last surviving Bitcoin ATM provider in the country. A judge put a stop to that.

The basic rule is that terms in a contract can't be enforced if they lead to unacceptable outcomes, which the judge believes to be the case here. Note that banks are required to serve the interests of their clients (and the public IIUC), not just their own. Losing this bank account would have made it impossible for the company to safely/legally get rid of its cash within the country. This puts a high burden on the bank to be able to terminate the agreement.

The bank had two arguments for termination, both were dismissed, but the second one is the most interesting. The ATM company does not, and refuses to, monitor transactions for non-custodial wallets. The current EU AML law doesn't require that, neither does the (far more strict) Dutch implementation of it. The comparison was made to the fact that this bank does not follow cash that comes out of its own ATM either.

The judge also pointed out that AML law does not have the (stated??) goal of removing risky business from the financial rails.

(the bank could still appeal this, but so far so good)

https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=ECLI:NL:RBAMS:2024:1081


The day after Reddit locks my account for the second time, they send me an email offering me IPO shares for being an OG user. Talk about mixed signals!


This was a lot of fun last year! nostr:note1y3vaudlnha47h0ufjy5y4pmaf6vqczn9ezpuv26cqx9uuejxvwqsfdz32u


It sounds like a superficial populist move. And if there's one thing that makes money printers go brrrr it's populism.


If the current president can pass a law, the next one can revoke it "for national security".


If you're going to put $20K at risk*, at least spend $100 on a hardware wallet or an old clean laptop. This is absolutely terrifying to read.

(the address has a checksum, that's the only thing he's worried about that's reasonably safe)

* = his idea was to buy an NFT, go to a party and then sell it again https://image.nostr.build/daee68e65d3d4c6d94c3e5295570ca94278953be8cdf2788b8e0066da21d0a37.jpg https://image.nostr.build/769347de3c889784688006053c4203d944e0e356d4c1ddb7889bb157f5709453.jpg


Also don't forget to listen to that episode 90!


It's nice, but it should reset if you mark an episode as played.


(this is about the longer term, e.g. beyond one or two week effects, once you've slept off the cold turkey withdrawal - the benefit is going to a much lower dose is much more clear cut imo)


If you define "baseline" as how you feel on caffeine the answer might be never. I haven't read any good studies on this, so just guessing. But it would not surprise me if caffeine simply increases motivation and improves mood above baseline.

In that case your choice is between living with slightly worse mood and less motivation than you're used to, or finding the optimal caffeine dose and having guardrails to ensure you don't keep increasing the dose.


Ziek geworden?


"(Though parts may be hard to source)" suggests a country under sanctions, probably Russia. Which means he'll never be caught unless he was stupid enough to travel (which happens). Bit of a weird social media campaign...
https://protos.com/lockbit-countdown-disappoints-viewers-with-vague-hints-and-a-cartoon-cat/


The only argument I here from people who use it, is that people are nicer. But that's expected on a smaller platform with more like minded people.


From: nostr:npub1vxpwwydpmmc4usmxf2zkr8shdjq888g532ydyls3nadxxd9wyx5ssjq5nd


Say you're new to Bitcoin without saying you're new to Bitcoin... https://image.nostr.build/4128e5be31f8a295d7773e0a401c8544d0e40b56078ed6e78de55220fac94446.jpg


It wasn't a law, but some lawyers self-organization ("deken") that made that rule. But again I'm not sure if it's still an issue.


* it's tricky


It's try because the use of cryptocurrency in funding could be used against them, given the nature of the case.

Dutch lawyers are not allowed to take Bitcoin donations, at least that was the case a few years ago. I'm not sure if and how Pertsev's case is currently crowdfunded. Last time I checked his trial is in March.


Phoenix Wallet v2.2.0: Swaproot & Quiescence

"Using Taproot, MuSig2 and bitcoin descriptors, we designed and implemented a new swap-in protocol: swap-in transactions are now cheaper, harder to track on-chain, and Phoenix will generate a new swap-in address every time you receive a transaction."

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/phoenix-wallet-v2-2-0/


Meanwhile in fiat land: https://cointelegraph.com/news/gofundme-tornado-cash-defense-crowdfunding


My email correspondence with Satoshi in 2009-2011: https://mmalmi.github.io/satoshi/


In Bitcoin, Explained 90, nostr:npub1s6z7hmmx2vud66f3utxd70qem8cwtggx0jgc7gh8pqwz2k8cltuqrdwk4c,
nostr:npub18hwpk5qep3ptnmzatq22ptwr9mth7ccrku56rdntwpxjxlkfyr2qrav8du and I explain asynchronous Lightning payments.

👂👇

https://bitcoinexplainedpodcast.com/@nado/episodes/episode-90-asynchronous-lightning-payments-31owp


Note that this article is from two years ago. Not sure what the most recent development is here. It's very frustrating how the EU often sneaks in a bunch of fascist nonsense into otherwise good ideas.


Actually, it was one of the most dramatic and darkest day in the history of #Kazakhstan: the regime not only killed bitcoin mining but gave the order to shoot peaceful protesters without warning. Over 10 000 peaceful protesters in more than 80 cities were arbitrarily arrested. We identified over 200 people were shot, including 5 y.o. children…

Together with our network of 10 k human rights volunteers we were documenting mass shootings and torture after president Tokayev employed Russian troops in Kazakhstan.

Some of our activists were arrested because of weaponization of banking data: regime precisely knew who was getting our support or donated us to in support of victims of political repression.

It takes 3-5 min for Kazakhstani special services to block your bank accounts if you fundraising or donating to opposition or human rights defenders to support victims of oppression.

We asked #FATF and U.S. State Departament, European Commission and legislators if they are aware about the scale of repression and financial exclusion as a consequence of abuse AML/CFT laws? No one actually was aware about it.

So we testified that those activists who used #bitcoin p2p transactions are safe till now. But this is a reason why Kazakhstan at the front to fight against p2p transactions right now. And this is a reason why we don’t want to allow democracies to label bitcoin with illicit activities in the regulations.

When regime kills freedoms, it means they kill real people. https://video.nostr.build/a03d320f7b84fa9db1e67438bc0c3814b3a0ed5503a89ca3402a918a17f0b993.mp4


Better price per m2 than Manhattan it seems? I like how light it is. But otherwise it give me simultaneous claustrophobia and vertigo. My desk is 80cm deep so it would fit but I would have to sit on it since there's no room for a chair. Though maybe in a corner.


They should rename cargo to baggage.


Brink is fortunate to have received a $3.6m donation from Coinbase to our Bitcoin developer funding efforts.

100% of the no-strings-attached funds will go towards Brink engineers and their open source development work on #Bitcoin

Thank you to Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, John Hering and Fred Ehrsam for their support in making this happen!

🚀


You heard it here first: SPI
Single Payment Identifier
That's how you market Silent Payment (sp...) addresses to government types. It just *feels* compliant. A single address!

(Random idea during Bitdevs Amsterdam Socratic Seminar)


Excellenr cringe factor: https://youtu.be/wwpYWTOj2aA


I'm going to wait for "could" and "might" to change to: here's multiple HD photos taken by different unrelated people from different angles, verified not to be photoshopped.

As others have observed: camera's keep getting exponentially better and more abundant, but UFO sightings consistently remain right at the edge of visibility.


I'm not making any predictions, I'm not a guru :-)


Anything interesting under "Try another way"?


In addition: there's been YEARS for people to setup their own mailinglist infrastructure and offer it to the dev list. Nobody did. Nostr isn't ready to take over. Act less entitled please. nostr:note1fhphq56zwj6ez0am92wysu04c4yvl0w5qwjfe7kta0dj7vnckx3qwx0a6g


You can sign up to a Google Groups mailinglist without a Google account. The old fashioned way, by sending an email and then replying to the confirmation mail.


Half as close as 20,000 blocks was. And this keeps halving more and more quickly!


Three days later ... iPhone randomly says "hey, would you like to pair these headphones?"

We'll see how long this lasts.


~69 days until the #Bitcoin halving

What's the date in 69 days?

4/20
https://image.nostr.build/d9b729d688e1524562937ca2f85062ba1055386740d404af770d55637a9a4b77.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1920x1080&blurhash=iNEf4w9Ft7D%25M%7BIUIUozV%40VsxuR%2Bs%3Aj%3FWBWCR*WB%7EWMyNyRPS1n%24kCn%25ozROxuR%2BoLWBj%40WXWVoK%5E*R*M%7CWBWAbHoMbbs%3A&x=e5f909c6151cb2e940f700843e41a73a19659d1dfbf05762cbf08dc46be6e4c5


The audacity of an ad surveillance company and abusive monopolist teaching its users about morality...


25x zoom on a phone, crazy times...

Dom church in Utrecht from ~800 meters away. https://image.nostr.build/69a404b10b18b0fca5900b39f10d3c7faa59aafdd99cbe4f313ba41b6544a67f.jpg


A journalist is someone who looks for truth by means of investigation. They're more closely related to cops than to politicians.

I think he's mostly a political pundit. Even just asking hard questions doesn't necessarily make you a journalist. It can be a form of grandstanding, just like politicians do all the time during expert hearings. The point of a question should be that you're genuinely interested in the answer. A journalist would typically ask a question after they've done a bunch of research, as a way for the subject of their article to provide a response to these findings.

Most podcasters are not journalists, because typically their only source is what the subject tells them, or maybe the book the subject wrote. From your description it sounds like he was acting mostly as a podcaster. But I suspect his motive for the interview was political grandstanding.


In other words, if in the next few months Tucker falls out of a high window, finds himself in a suspicious plane crash or loses his hair, I'll go an watch the video podcast he did.


I don't consider Tucker a journalist. But of course he's free to talk to Putin.

I also agree that people should make up their own minds.

I suggest however that they start by reading work from people who were assassinated by Putin, rather than people who Putin believes are so gullible he'll accept an interview request from them.


Heading back home to Norway after 3 days in London.

I’m really happy I made the trip and got to see the terrible person that tried so hard to destroy my life be expertly picked apart and confronted with lies and forgeries on an industrial scale.

To sit there and be healthy and happy, with good bitcoin friends, while he descended ever deeper into his dark web of lies in his ridiculous and pompous suits. He saw me, and I think it bothered him.

More humiliation and serious consequences await him.

I’ll be watching it unfold, and will be happy to see karma served. And I will see both of my cases against him through in whichever way is needed.

But my focus will be on family, friends, bitcoin and all the other positive stuff in life! 🧡❤💜


But if someone bothers to make a video like this, it's probably a fairly common failure mode.


The bluetooth component can be replaced, though it's fairly expensive and tedious (three different screw types, because Apple...). And I don't know for sure that's the broken part, what caused it to break and if the root cause will just keep killing off components.
https://youtu.be/Eno8lfJj_1Y


https://youtu.be/ePGy3j-jfks

A few weeks ago I learned that you clean the headband contacts. Mine were dirty but not corroded like in the video here. Given that I now get full stereo with a wired connection, the headband is probably not the issue. https://image.nostr.build/7821e8241f5c9724066d12ca1c3ade9bfc13ddd4904e7fbc7ba23f5731431de4.jpg


Meanwhile my AirPods Max have decided bluetooth is overrated and they only work with a wired connection. Noise cancelling works fine. The white pairing light blinks but no device can see it.

Some folks on Reddit have noted the device sometimes comes back to live after depleting the battery, so we'll see. Others got desperate enough to put it in the freezer, but I'd rather not risk also breaking the wired mode.

They've been showing other signs of aging over the last half a year or so. I had constantly reset them. That got a little better once I learned you can clean the headband contacts with isopropanol.

I guess it's the long term of effect of rain seeping in, but with all their talk about fancy under water watches you'd think headphones would be easy to waterproof?

Unfortunately Apple is not the kind of company that says: we care about durability because we stand for quality and we're against waste, so return a broken product to us anytime with or without warranty and we'll fix it!

2.5 years product lifetime is insultingly bad.


You can already do that with a regular laptop and a Japanese toilet.


The natural light is not going to do you any good when you put on a helmet that blacks all light. The actual light on your eyes is like having giant monitors all around you. You don't get any UV indoors either because of the glass. On a beach you'll get sand in it and the device and batteries probably get too hot. I find AirPods Max uncomfortably hot in summer, and they only cover my ears.

Standing desks with treadmills already exist and my understanding is that they make keyboard and mouse control more difficult. But even something like code review while walking sounds difficult.

So: do sitting work, go for a walk, do more sitting work, go for a walk,etc


IIRC they were mostly mere millionaires who just want to tax actual billionaires.


I prefer to have a fixed supply of batteries that I occasionally recharge over having to buy new ones and safely dispose of the old ones. It's cheaper too over the long run. But not if they last 50x shorter.


One hypothesis I'm still testing is that the devices incorrectly estimate the battery is almost empty while in fact it's fine. Especially if the charger says it's done with those after less than half an hour.


I ended up getting this boutique charger shipped from Australia (which took more than a month because Australia Post still uses camels): https://www.tindie.com/products/rezwan/ml2032-coin-cell-battery-charger/

I'm still measuring how it performs, but so far it seems to only add a few weeks of fuel to the Voltcraft batteries - perhaps they're not compatible.

And only a few DAYS to the Maxwell ones. Could be an issue with those batteries, something with the charger or something about the devices I use them with. Still experimenting.

I've never had any such issues with AA and AAA rechargeable batteries which I've used since walkmans were still hip (not the same ones of course, but I seem to lose them faster than they die on me).


Voltcraft has this charger: https://www.conrad.com/en/p/voltcraft-button-cell-charger-li-ion-rechargeable-button-cell-200520.html

And these batteries:
https://www.conrad.com/en/p/voltcraft-button-cell-rechargeable-ml-2032-lithium-65-mah-3-v-1-pc-s-2542815.html

Same brand, must work, right?

Guess what? Doesn't work! As many of the reviewers pointed out over the years.


Does anyone know rechargeable button cells that don't suck and a charger that actually works? Particularly the equivalent of CR2032.


It blurs if you don’t follow them 😅 a bit more reliable than hoping the user tags things correctly. Usually people won’t if they are posting shock images maliciously.


Lol, Damus blurred this image, but not yours. https://image.nostr.build/892da45d5a99062a4fb33c851dd3c173b7b6f0409b192ba0a1ade033b1a2c107.jpg


Begging


I'm so happy to see Reddit self destruct, creating an opportunity for Nostr.


Nitter Is Shutting Down Following Changes to X Guest Accounts

"Although some Nitter instances are currently still operational, it is anticipated they will cease functioning shortly as they expire. Nitter was a privacy-oriented alternative front-end for X/Twitter."

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/nitter-is-shutting-down-following-x-changes-to-guest-accounts/


My lawyers have just confirmed that Craig Wright has had his final appeal denied by the Supreme Court.

It is over, I won, welcome to law Motherfucker!


I get that, but the extra context here is that they also require KYC for customers buying a €10 pizza - at least in The Netherlands. So now they presumably want my node id too (not happening, I'll find a downstream node to open a channel to).


Ffs BitPay... https://image.nostr.build/06faa1c436d06dbe72fbceb92461ae1fe3509e6012623b940d9a1ce1360044a8.jpg


It's a surprising pain in the ass indeed. At least my DNS seeds both crawl and can be reached via IPv6.


I'm getting these ads a lot now on the bird site. Can't tell if it's a phishing operation or some hare-brained Ethereum Foundation scheme. But X is taking their money. https://image.nostr.build/00fae7489e769007bdf2e7473992c5da98de970aab0c19d921cf71d7b18ed66e.jpg


Reminder that space does imply privacy. nostr:note19sge7qclx55fx5ewf8amr795rmuw00u73k6vesnhkaz3c94ha38swwsh35


Bitcoin miner space heaters seem to be taking off... but why have i not seen a fireplace bitcoin miner, those things use like 2kW++

https://void.cat/d/MfUCzXiTNUCv28Z7hXvZWA.webp


(Hypocritically reposting since I do still hang out at the bird site) nostr:note1fk6lq9dtdpsy7y0tgmneg4uhka3ffk6q5948ghhnvlt2rvw3dfdq9tj4s5


Excellent nostr:npub1r8l06leee9kjlam0slmky7h8j9zme9ca32erypgqtyu6t2gnhshs3jx5dk episode describing how the EU's various attacks on Bitcoin impact human rights activists, not just in far away dictatorships but right here.

They agree that Bitcoin will win anyway in the long run, but there's shorter term concerns too.
https://youtu.be/ttmsQQrr4Mk?si=SC7UXXtNQVAO421s


Etsy, depending on merchant settings. Apparently the platform also removed the ability to manually settle a payment, so you can't use Bitcoin even if the merchant wants to.


From: nostr:npub1vxpwwydpmmc4usmxf2zkr8shdjq888g532ydyls3nadxxd9wyx5ssjq5nd


US cities are pretty bad when it comes to public transit, noise and homelessness. Try it for a few months. Then try Amsterdam (or Utrecht if you're feeling more adventurous). Then for more contrast, try Hong Kong.


Sadly some shops only accept PayPal. I closed my account years ago and have no plan to open another one. There is a Guest Payment feature but they do everything to hide it. This time I had to switch the language from Dutch to English to see the "pay with creditcard" option.

PayPal is to fiat what plastic is to glass. It's bad enough not to accept Bitcoin, but ffs at the very least don't force customers to use PayPal.


Your president says you should buy a shotgun :-)
https://youtu.be/F-mztxHgYQo


I don't think the SEC hack counts in this analysis. Not enabling 2FA is criminal negligence. You could blame Twitter for not mandating it, but that seems unrelated to the issue of paid accounts and/or bot fighting.


Assuming you have wifi and it doesn't fail. You could implement a remote deadman switch to market-buy puts?


And "all hotels in Bedford" is just nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx's basement?


I saw this recently, very nice. Haven't had time to review though. Maybe nostr:npub18d4r6wanxkyrdfjdrjqzj2ukua5cas669ew2g5w7lf4a8te7awzqey6lt3 has some folks who can help?


I heard on a space today that the best way to get a PR merged in core is to campaign for it, so this is me starting a campaign for a listmempooltransactions RPC

my rationale for this is that it’ll let you more easily scan the mempool for new transactions that have arrived (since the last time you scanned it)

this is a massive improvement imo for usability of mempool data for apps that want to know about newly arrived txs to their node

there currently is no RPC for quickly fetching out new outputs created in the mempool or inputs spent.

to do this currently you’d have to call getrawmempool, which returns a list of all txids currently in the mempool and then call getrawtransaction on every returned entry. this is painful and unnecessary

I also implemented a feature into a branch CLN using it that would let you scan for interesting unconfirmed txs, to demonstrate its immediate usefulness. more details in the open PR!

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29016


It indeed remains to be seen. Perhaps one day someone figures it out.

I do think the incentive now is too much such that the silent majority can't stop nonsense (in their eyes) from spreading. Unless you speak up, the default is for the spreader to receive likes, sats and reposts from the subset who agrees.

To some extend that happens in a bar too in that people will avoid confrontation. But there's a bit more signal in the form of blank stares. Maybe fact checking isn't the right way to address this though.


As I said "nobody is in charge", by which I also mean that nobody gets to decide what is correct.

But you could opt-in to have other people hold you to a high standard of intellectual honesty. That could include not spreading information that you knew at the time was unreliable, but would get lots of zaps.

It's still up to yourself or your group of peers to figure out what standards to hold and how to enforce them. The latter is a really hard problem if your goal is to avoid group-think.


Feast for thought

Feast for thought


Interesting observation about social media in a book I'm reading. It was a dead end with for-profit platforms, but Nostr could be different?

How can we introduce expensive signals? Maybe allow people to put up a bond in sats for x years that gets burned if it turns out they spread incorrect information? Since nobody is in charge, users could appoint a number of npubs that can make the slash happen? https://image.nostr.build/740a849a2fd784c3234970bd8fede877e1e34c7e618da978b210f4292589b6ea.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ff96688e57630b11f14fb57bb0cade4b5657c49083a3a9a721176dc91b426c99.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b88cf540dde303205c4ae10e78a6cb945cd898a4c6c2317f5cb13c5c54295b0b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ff00401c267ec1dcdd9cbb0861e3354d19f81377965dd5b7934ec3f18b95d4b6.jpg https://image.nostr.build/033555efa291d2617b22476b6fdedb286be9958e3e4e38137aecbcb9569cfc79.jpg


Amazon is quite small here, but still, good job! nostr:note1fuhea87u0ul2g2eplp66qm6f5qsn2ydje8k33uadwzru4aly7kfq3jxr65


A history tour with nostr:npub1art8cs66ffvnqns5zs5qa9fwlctmusj5lj38j94lv0ulw0j54wjqhpm0w5...
https://bitcoinexplainedpodcast.com/@nado/episodes/episode-88-hashcash-and-bit-gold-a5cjn


Interesting analysis on the potential impact on open source developers of the latest poorly thought out EU Act.

TL&DR: it looks like they duct-taped some amendments to protect open source developers ... a bit.
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-what-does-it-mean-for-open-source/


TIL:
* if you see a small pond on the dry side of a dyke and it winds around it, that's where a breach happened
* the New York Stock exchange is still paid 2.5% annually on an eternal bearer bond, issued after a major flood in 1624. It's on display there.
* I'm paying for that (it's my water management tax district)
* there was a major flood on New Years Day of 1624 (from a river close to Utrecht)
* always insist on inflation adjustment: they only get €15 now

Video (in Dutch): https://youtu.be/QJXzWlplCgg


Clearly it was Tyler Durden :-) nostr:note1l7vey094tzpahz9yf70qkr64dx0w43etmp2kwhazzcfs2pcrdvhq6d4ecw


nostr:npub1au23c73cpaq2whtazjf6cdrmvam6nkd4lg928nwmgl78374kn29sq9t53j well then I'll shamelessly promote this episode about said witness discount.
https://bitcoinexplainedpodcast.com/@nado/episodes/bitcoin-explained-79-the-witness-discount


Indeed there may not be. If (CPFP) packages are incentive compatible, then not supporting them in the p2p protocol creates and incentive to submit them out of band.
But having the p2p support also makes more obvious that out of band payment might be cheaper than sending the whole package.


That seems like a more clear articulation of what you're arguing for.


Last time I (briefly) looked at the relevant Bitcoin Core PR's the sequencing was:

1. Package relay for n=2 (1 parent, 1 child)
2. V3 transactions (including ephemeral anchors)
3. Cluster mempool
4. n>2 package relay

This sequence is not set in stone:

(3) and (4) don't require (2)
(3) does not require (1) and (2)

But n=2 packages is special in that it's less complex and is sufficient for v3 transactions.

In other words: if you want to argue against package relay, soon is a good time.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/27463


How much worse do you think ephemeral anchors are (incentive wise) than the current dust-anchors? At first glance I would think the 546 sat difference is insignificant in a >200 sat/vbyte environment.

Meanwhile 0-value outputs reduce complexity and afaik are essential for ln-symmetry.

One final point: regarding recommendation 3, I don't think anyone would want to move forward with v3 without ephemeral anchors.


https://petertodd.org/2023/v3-transactions-review

My last post of the year: V3 Transactions review.

tl;dr: Replace -By-Fee is half the cost, and ephemeral anchor outputs pose a significant mining decentralization risk.

Happy New Year! 🎊


Trying to answer my own question... in v3 the parent pays 0 while the child pays the price of two slots. The opportunity cost for the miner to replace slot 10 with the 0-fee parent is simply the fee of the transaction that would otherwise be in slot 10.

So as you point out, they could charge out of bound anything between about 50% and 100% of the child fee. Slightly less because of the slope in fee rate, that effect is tiny. https://image.nostr.build/85680b3e3f47790185b393b787e64d011b9fd3e3eb9e129f17a5b21ff269d70c.jpg


I'm also not sure if I follow the out-of-band economic logic.

Let's imagine blocks fit exactly 10 transactions and they're all equal size. Alice needs to get their closing transaction in on time and has two options:

1. Use CPFP by paying a fee rate based on what the mempool shows, such that the combined child and parent make it into slot 9 and 10.

2. Pay the miner out of band to get the parent in slot 10, without a child transaction.

A miner would only do this if they can earn more than the fees in slot 11.

So it depends on the slope in fees. In a high fee environment I would expect this slope to be fairly low at the 4 VMB edge. But haven't run the numbers.


Can you elaborate a bit on the Phoenix example? Is it actually holding on chain funds in reserve in case it needs to CPFP? It probably should, but how is that worse than with other nodes?


From: nostr:npub1vxpwwydpmmc4usmxf2zkr8shdjq888g532ydyls3nadxxd9wyx5ssjq5nd


You can run it at 750W and sit next to it. Use a Temp Switch to remotely control it based on ambient temps.

https://miningwholesale.eu/s9-heater-guide-build-your-s9-space-heater/

https://image.nostr.build/a5f8efab394ea955c123bc26780dbdee854b918d23534a894db5b9ca4cb87ebd.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/fb722b3e047ab0b8fd95c0ec7b6fbcb0820560703f0610311f1a704bb29339f8.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/cd0b4d401d388b5a3dc852a15b1df2c4bd9282701eec1dfac2c16543c5454162.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/06aceaa547cd7267ba02569afab59f86322f6b4df4fd94c946412fc77045a98b.jpg


Although I agree that some models are a bit too woke, this seems excessive. nostr:note1z38ugmwjz7jffmeyepykcfescptwcyza6stdwx9xw72f7v79gd8sha5peq


A 2A fuse that blows at 10A, nice! Makes for a good gift if you don't like someone.
https://youtu.be/B90_SNNbcoU


Will you do assume utxo as well? I have a draft PR with a mainnet snapshot.


Interesting move. Curious to see what miners pick. And how things will go with Stratum v2 (fee depends on how many inscriptions are in the miner declared template???) nostr:note1qtvvv8ph3v4p9gsmcltll39defjd4fjqfefn3t6txg82fhcmj9jsv9asmr


En alweer zoekt de overheid een (senior) beleidsadviseur waarbij kennis van de sector alleen een pre is. Dit is echt alles wat men vraagt: "Je hebt een academische opleiding, bij *voorkeur* met kennis van en affiniteit met (cyber)security onderwerpen.". Vraag eens om echte expertise, want mensen met relevante kennis willen dat er ook gevraagd wordt om die kennis. En niet alleen als "pre" & dat men wel 5 keer in diverse variaties zegt hoe goed je moet zijn met "Den Haag". https://www.werkenvoornederland.nl/vacatures/senior-beleidsadviseur-energie-cyber-security-EZ-2023-0511


Everything you always wanted to know about BIP 30 and 34...
https://bitcoinexplainedpodcast.com/@nado/episodes/episode-87-the-block-1-983-702-problem-s7s3j


One Gigasat! nostr:note17gfm0k0ssw4qctpge32dp3nulu975mjpdl9nqmrs78msp622d90qvdral4


Also the spec is still a bit in flux, so even some miners that support sv2 need to fall back to sv1 and then use a translator back to sv2.

But people should try it.


Please my family, fix the feed duplication... nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s

Also it turns you can upload the same photo multiple times :-) https://image.nostr.build/d811728ec1bb9c9fb79f517fcf4d4f30933402303c850123bf08d295f44ba9b7.jpg https://image.nostr.build/cf0cbbd1141fdd3479c8a7e5ac10e51c7ccb2b6b5397bbfe544052d9d58cb565.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d811728ec1bb9c9fb79f517fcf4d4f30933402303c850123bf08d295f44ba9b7.jpg https://image.nostr.build/cf0cbbd1141fdd3479c8a7e5ac10e51c7ccb2b6b5397bbfe544052d9d58cb565.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d811728ec1bb9c9fb79f517fcf4d4f30933402303c850123bf08d295f44ba9b7.jpg https://image.nostr.build/cf0cbbd1141fdd3479c8a7e5ac10e51c7ccb2b6b5397bbfe544052d9d58cb565.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d811728ec1bb9c9fb79f517fcf4d4f30933402303c850123bf08d295f44ba9b7.jpg https://image.nostr.build/cf0cbbd1141fdd3479c8a7e5ac10e51c7ccb2b6b5397bbfe544052d9d58cb565.jpg


Same in Europe.


nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s can you add a fix-case filter? :-)


Indeed, in the podcast episode we introduce the idea of Ocean 2 for better comparison. But right now there is no Ocean 2, though we did not get into arguments about market efficiency :-)
https://bitcoinexplainedpodcast.com/@nado/episodes/episode-86-ocean-tides-hktbg


The other benefit of Ocean is that it's much easier to verify how much fee revenue you're actually getting. Though miners can also just A/B test their hash power to figure out which pools pays better.

But they're also missing out on out-of-bound payments by not having an accelerator.


Today nostr:npub1art8cs66ffvnqns5zs5qa9fwlctmusj5lj38j94lv0ulw0j54wjqhpm0w5 and I explain the new nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze mining pool and its tides system. We also welcome our new sponsor Coinkite!
https://bitcoinexplainedpodcast.com/@nado/episodes/episode-86-ocean-tides-hktbg

Addendum: it looks like they added additional filtering related to inscriptions, beyond the op_return stuff we mention (which inscriptions don't use)


Respect to the man in the ice cream van!


😁🤙
https://video.nostr.build/587cdbb7da5f2ebb54fd2406930fd18fb335c67471a26155f82ad4555c0622fd.mp4
#Bitcoin #Nostr #Plebs


You heard it here first, nostr:npub1art8cs66ffvnqns5zs5qa9fwlctmusj5lj38j94lv0ulw0j54wjqhpm0w5  and I just dropped episode 85! It covers Bitcoin Core v26 as well as the recent OFAC situation.
https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/fgiPyBKpXEb


Back in 2021 MARA announced that they were going to do this, and even put an OP_RETURN statement in their Coinbase transaction to that effect. But afaik they never actually did. After* our podcast on the topic they backed out and even replaced their CEO:
https://podcast.sprovoost.nl/@nado/episodes/mara-pool-and-mining-censorship-nado-37

* = correlation, causation, etc


* Wang
https://twitter.com/satofishi/status/1727220109780136287


Excellent analysis by nostr:npub1kyxqqqq8n2pu7f5pthr48zqcmr2k52vrud6wxzjpg0jsqcyhs3tshfc6vv. It was subsequently confirmed by Wan Chun of F2Pool, but they've decided to stop filtering transactions for now.
https://b10c.me/observations/08-missing-sanctioned-transactions/


Clearly you should do the high time preference thing :-)


OpenSats is proud to welcome our newest LTS grantee, Will Clark. Will is receiving long-term support for his contributions to Bitcoin Core.

https://opensats.org/blog/will-clark-receives-lts-grant-for-bitcoin-core


I'm going to wait and see how many people get thrown out of helicopters before going there :-)


Nietsche? ChatGBT?


why speculate when we can just ask chatgpt

https://i.nostr.build/0qLv.png

https://i.nostr.build/2Md5.png


Not a good time for Sam *man these days?


My Twitter account was nuked for that "reason" for about three months before spontaneously being unnuked. I still have no idea what triggered it. Good luck!


Hey guys, I gave a talk at Nostrasia 2023 about the Mostr bridge! In this talk I discuss the bridge between ActivityPub and Nostr, Elon Musk and Donald Trump, the very long usernames, and of course, "I'm vegan btw". Watch the full talk here!

https://poast.tv/w/jUknj6g3BbkESsidKbDRzr


Because Utrecht canals have these low level terraces that are ideal when you want to jump over a bridge.


Indeed!


Fun fact about #Utrecht: shops, bars and restaurants around the canals are supplied by (mostly electric) boat. Garbage is also collected that way. It's necessary because the 14th century cellars below the street can't handle the load of trucks. It also means less traffic and engine noises in the pedestrian shopping area. https://image.nostr.build/c4359bd45675882a062a171021a6fb07eb2b0ee75541055f8ef09aff7bdaf94a.jpg


This is both good and worrying news. The EU is pushing Apple to prematurely adopt RCS, which (if I understand correctly) does not support end-2-end encryption.

It would be a step back if people switch from WhatsApp to this, which some anti-privacy elements in the EU would be happy about. Worst case the EU lobbies against strong encryption in the RCS standard.

At the same time Apple says they'll work on improving the standard, so IF they succeed then that would be good. No more need to use a Zuck product to talk to boomers and non-technical people.
https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/16/apple-rcs-coming-to-iphone


Mexico: that'll be $25 ?


All that said this looks pretty serious: https://www.unciphered.com/blog/randstorm-you-cant-patch-a-house-of-cards


Uhh, whatever you do, don't put your public key and personal details into a random website form. https://image.nostr.build/61864fcf8d73fcdb4d9693ac5537100b753d3cb1477631bf14382e4254ee4b50.jpg


Rejected because we “don’t have an EULA”. This is of course false 🙄. Welcome to another edition of appstore review https://i.nostr.build/amrL.jpg https://i.nostr.build/xeM3.png  nostr:note1c6q5f3980yms4zj3eg52df4l90zx30t8s7dkwp5sgp0p8annhwmq078e0g


Appreciating bitcoin. https://www.herecomesbitcoin.org/assets/bitcoin-hugs.gif


Announcing the January 3 #Lightning Hackday Vancouver! RSVP here on Flockstr:
https://www.flockstr.com/event/naddr1qqyr2e3hxg6ryvpkqgsgqjpwvqtcct8fjmdx6e6h0at29vky0n93epxgru4hjcrr0jm3k7qrqsqqql9ntlc9ka


Maybe instead track when the user last saw it, rather than when it was posted. And then also at least 24 hours. But I'm still not convinced that I want to be "reminded" of something I've seen before, just because one of my friends was two days late to the repost party.


And that cost is pretty high while the BRC madness happens, so that's nice.


Verbatim, just now:

Wife: How are you doing Mr. Scrolly Mc Scroll Pants?

T: I’m going to log out of Twitter soon

Wife: Is it an anger factory full of angry people?

A: Yes!  😂


Trying to decide how much RAM to put it my next Macbook...


How it started: a sophisticated actor could attack by ...
How it's going: nostr:note1t35d9pvl2zm88l9r2jl6enjjk7mrf733hfgjv80jvgpdptf5g6ssqtmntr


De truc is om de app te force quitten. Dan heb je een minuut om bij je instellingen te komen. Archief downloaden kan sowieso alleen via de site voor zover ik kan vinden.


Betalen om je gegevens terug te krijgen heet geloof ik ransomware.


Wat ik ook mis hier is de mogelijkheid Mijn gegevens te downloaden en de account te sluiten. Ik moet eerst één van de twee kiezen. Als ik de gratis optie kies, gaat mijn data dan rechtstreeks naar de databroker voordat ik de account kan sluiten? https://image.nostr.build/64dee9d2ea6ac24b4120b4d1bf5af13be356742c1c05f762d54a35b5e0a80f5f.jpg


Don't want to read that Markdown file on Gitbub? Try mdcat: https://github.com/swsnr/mdcat


This was in 2017... don't remember which station. https://image.nostr.build/912a025a95542ffbda3074669c83f00d15b770f0e04d97929b666b15cff4e26e.jpg


Or Kiev.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almaty_Metro


Many places accept contactless payments. When they do take cash, sometimes they don't have change. At the same time the toilets are cash only. Not sure about metro and bus cards (I paid cash and used a complicated Russian-only terminal to top it up with cash). And since Yandex can't use foreign creditcards you need cash for the taxi too (and they may or may not have change).


Also the first time an ATM begged me not to use it. https://image.nostr.build/4077f91b63d96dcfd79acfca762f8178c0bed41e462d78f8d6f0310e9717ca1e.jpg


I didn't get to see any mines unfortunately.


Oops, meant to upload the timelapse: https://video.nostr.build/4ba606bcf0742303a68c94775b480ff5e3f01177173e3f44d2d808b9f617aad7.mp4


Quick visit to #Almaty in #Kazachstan on my way back to Europe. The metro is only ten years old, so it's retro-soviet architecture. #cityscapes

And yes it has plenty of Starbuckses. https://image.nostr.build/d95a2eb939fdc9e49a7dba285c8c61448da33e3d97bf3cd8096727ae93bf9427.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a4b0162b6b8b375a3add6c97d2ecfa2c11ffb77f79fa0d9505b8a38e89fb61fa.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ab9d9163e348c07ae06833989b112ac918530ae62470fc1cefd613de82655e4d.jpg https://image.nostr.build/db5fd06c622cd599f0282be3ad730ac2f9dc82b1069d82cdd07260a1cfeb0495.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3ef2bc8d720083c7b7e83c45d5a0155bddd6c4a77a8c7b9806ebcb74156ca00d.jpg https://video.nostr.build/2eda575a56506b54bec5e3fc1ae1b239084007ea8f4d506169667a8541164413.mp4 https://image.nostr.build/67653d3d45e2c15757adfd2f34bc7fe0208d8bc4047e225bb2d34553423e2c33.jpg https://image.nostr.build/5c0d6cbe5964e5e7ca7f0ed24fb466b524d1bba0e4309f733e7025a6d8ed8a53.jpg https://image.nostr.build/0af9d1637f60ccd5cb58d7efef9fff9773ebfc1861ac6b7eda4f0fbb699fc8e9.jpg https://image.nostr.build/0e9210341539cff7fcf818140d2f19dbe02e6d2a0a13ee440bec9d19ce3b7bd8.jpg https://image.nostr.build/557624793b5369a69930add2581d3cff3bca13e6aaa71fbae2a3308407a16c3e.jpg


nostr:npub1qex7yjtuucs6ac49kjujdgytrjsphn5a4pdscu2w3qlprym4zsxqfz82qk told you so!


So inclusive!


Fairly sure Ryanofsky knows.


According to nostr:npub1ltwg5grjyz2xallh6qyxl9mxcsnucfzej04xe75xmn25had5z65qvfsala there are more cafes and cafe culture in Seoul than in Tokyo. There's also at least one speakeasy :-) https://image.nostr.build/7a99a7ad6b662f3dbe038b26dd5746a733f1081bde5acb8ecc6808b0f093953e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/c75294a58a3a2ee0ee66f651113f552f1f7200567c6d79c25244bbec07eb8b7f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ab14610e40207e983d30eb07b7a25da406d16bfd7e4441371ad10ed34d7c7a68.jpg https://image.nostr.build/de894e72ea155a2c2697f192ee5d45588c7e7884be8e42444a1428e0bae6840d.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d86b2796d02fa0626dd78f59983e548b926383137dd2b32b8b5de1b154afb686.jpg


* cool
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254854378


I'm not a huge fan of Apple's podcast app latest fool feature than randomly (?) marks episodes as played and deletes the download.

It seems to happen only to Sean Carroll's (Patreon) RSS feed.


Japanese bartenders are next level https://v.nostr.build/BQYA.mp4 https://v.nostr.build/oGzk.mp4 https://i.nostr.build/zYKZ.jpg


Additional nice views... #cityscapes https://image.nostr.build/9191ca232672248dbae746719b7364066fe4de3322270aa51a6bbc939cf16a99.jpg


Waiting for the train... (to improve photo composition, not to go anywhere). #Cityscapes #Tokyo https://image.nostr.build/777b6a5815c5365ac1117f6f6922551444422d47beb931d453c5c6112dabf1df.jpg


Some nostr:npub1j8y6tcdfw3q3f3h794s6un0gyc5742s0k5h5s2yqj0r70cpklqeqjavrvg recursion. https://image.nostr.build/fba178e33537827eb325d591798144edafd753faa32c15e05c2ca88d104b5ba2.jpg


Finally reports for seeing how much you zap you earned!

In your next major release soon.

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


Nice view from the #BTCPayDay venue... https://image.nostr.build/569318148b2b33b9e282a5f01fffcb47c1c19e6003d22729b3374dab6b594eba.jpg https://image.nostr.build/636add1a007a63f5b174b5b19d45d21008786b331f203ca521e1be00814ba575.jpg


Can people show up a bit early? Asking for a friend.


If the block timestamps are correct (which they don't have to be) it implies slow block propagation. That's not necessarily a good thing.


Another race between two blocks at the same height. Would be cool if you could bet on the winner.
https://forkmonitor.info/stale/815202
( nostr:npub16sna270wzvrhjqv2lje7sek2h9wunjr4jdp35nv5dn7ssjvy4hssdgk5pz) https://image.nostr.build/793727351b1faff5965c2a17e2985b73b5f419b84a425e5dd00f5bfcb9305174.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1b2883db523f6066f0e71a271669a9be0b7071486ccb5852325c75fadedc1070.jpg


Thanks for sharing! nostr:note1jj0fs27vry8j68rf6tlueunsru4gqhm9q8um0cwpjyds8rs3ww6q6ukh26


I'm pleased to announce that Mastering Bitcoin (3rd edition), co-authored by @aantonop and myself, has been sent to the printer.  Ebooks should be available around Nov 15th.  Print books should be available by early December.

https://dtrt.org/posts/mb3e-announcement/

New chapters and sections of the book cover schnorr signatures, scriptless multisignatures, MAST, P2C, taproot, tapscript, bech32(m), fee management, scriptless threshold signatures, compact block filters, compact blocks, and more.

Updates in the third edition include the evolution of Bitcoin scripting, terminology updates, RGB and taproot assets, much more backup and recovery info, and complete witness transaction serialization.

Compared to my initial draft, the book has been much improved thanks to comprehensive technical reviews from npub1j5mp526z5fkz9wkrk6mt5nzu43xndyrwkr8mnqngdqwytgcpc5vqcnsd5c Olaoluwa Osuntokun and René Pickhardt.  I can't fully express how much gratitude I have for them.

All of my royalties from Mastering Bitcoin (3rd ed.) will be donated to @bitcoinbrink to support Bitcoin developers.  It's impossible to write about Bitcoin technology without wanting to support the people who build it and then give it to the world for free.

This updated book wouldn't have happened without my editors at O'Reilly: Angela Rufino, Michelle Smith, Kristen Brown, and Clare Laylock.  Their commitment to giving readers the best possible book shines in every one of the over 500 emails we exchanged during the past 10 months.

I also owe a huge thanks to the inimitable Adam Jonas, who did the scariest thing possible to an educational author: introduced me to teachers such as Femi Longe and Dulce Villarreal who will be depending on the book for their classes.  Femi, Dulce: I hope it meets expectations!

Finally, I have to confess that updating the book took more out of me than I expected.  I don't think I could've finished if it hadn't been for the unreserved support and encouragement of my incredible partner.  Thank you, Amanda.  I love you.


Good times... #Nostrasia https://image.nostr.build/1a471c1c5ba9e5862f61a2f022abe2e4b04cef4c98a6c842076ae3415fbaff21.jpg


Feature request: a "Follow Me" QR code which contains a token that causes me to automatically follow back.


From sanity?


Ffs could the EU go without a mass surveillance proposal for a week? nostr:note1kxaywmgy7k9csdnc4uh06l6jkcn7sfafv90jcltw6a8fxccgnrssfy80pw


Room is quite and listening 🤯

#nostrasia #nostr #plebchain

⚡

https://image.nostr.build/c6893ebb614e9b6a64f45cf6ff6eeb441db93a13b5e585cc0e3f7f0ced654c50.jpg


From: nostr:npub13azv2cf3kd3xdzcwqxlgcudjg7r9nzak37usnn7h374lkpvd6rcq4k8m54


"One thing that's holding ActivityPub back is the blocking culture" - nostr:npub108pv4cg5ag52nq082kd5leu9ffrn2gdg6g4xdwatn73y36uzplmq9uyev6 https://image.nostr.build/18744ae6036f62725e7e54d2dfaecc45c34287fceee1b4aeb5f71b51b3fde0ae.jpg


They also cut it open in some ritual manner, and we all got to eat little bits.


Reference: https://youtu.be/cbB3iGRHtqA


How much is the fish? #Nostrasia https://video.nostr.build/97d73eba02757043a19fb3d0a749bfeb63179faa9adc039cad1b6ade1c494c56.mp4


#nostrasia welcome party 🐟 https://v.nostr.build/8LLG.mp4


#Nostrasia https://image.nostr.build/28be58bd3a605b4a442324ce218db7f4a54e590c33801bcb6262a0fad73cc442.jpg


It increases the number of potential issues to sue over and the number of (potentially well funded) plaintiffs.


Nobody is going to run the malware that CSW wants either. Didn't stop him from dragging a dozen developers into a multi million dollar lawsuit.


From: nostr:npub1xn7rrmxnrexe70e00gx7lcvxytrf28d0mcgw92faj4gxexkmrghs4dqwm3


Presumably both. Lobby miners to vote no, or lobby devs to blacklist the withdrawal transaction. The latter presumably fails, but can still be a massive distraction and involve (legal) harassment.


Lightning visit to Hong Kong on my way from nostr:npub1ftw5mdhk9c2zcsc7fzs0vxydxtdqs8jfj2va5egz05hemsm50saqgr8wjt to nostr:npub1nstrcu63lzpjkz94djajuz2evrgu2psd66cwgc0gz0c0qazezx0q9urg5l in Tokyo... https://image.nostr.build/78d41836e1a59dec1c65aff8313eda20f147a0264f8298455df500af295db97a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ba1ea4b84b7fb3daaf559dc40cdaa8e3ee11cab46669e132234bb91833caaf49.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ea35d56bb08c044736bc077f93bcc5b3107d2d900cf108d7c30872dee636a6fc.jpg https://image.nostr.build/5d704bc7682afe553494115fae262cef437f01517002d0b6618b2ffd209a9c4c.jpg


Nou nog RSS.


For additional info on the topic, there's a Bitcoin, Explained episode for that: https://podcast.sprovoost.nl/@nado/episodes/drivechain-nado-23


Interesting writeup by nostr:npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm about various drive-chain risks. Selfishly I'm mostly worried about disgruntled token holders lobbying core devs to blacklist a specific "bad" peg out transaction hash.
https://petertodd.org/2023/drivechains


This lines up this mailinglist post too:
> I think I've got the peer networking broadcast mechanism covered.

It goes into a bunch of detail that suggests he indeed wrote that code.

> I believe I've worked through all those little details over the
last year and a half while coding it

So he started writing code in spring 2017.
https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-November/014863.html


Interesting little detail in these Mike Hearn emails: probufs were publicly released on July 8th, 2008. So the peer-to-peer serialization code is older than that. And that's probably not the first thing I'd write.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_Buffers https://image.nostr.build/f77cfa8d3cb767d7f2dbec06c0e8b1e4bb24a80cf4ef9bca2bc58398e797cf5f.jpg


The Netherlands just has a generic article (8) for unsafe driving, in addition to specific bans like holding a phone in your hand and alcohol thresholds.


Soon nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp will dominate the entire "X is not satoshi" Google rankings:
https://blog.lopp.net/hal-finney-was-not-satoshi-nakamoto/


OpenSats is proud to welcome our newest LTS grantee, Furszy. Furszy is receiving long-term support for his contributions to Bitcoin Core.

"Being part of Bitcoin is especially significant to me, because, as an Argentinian, I have witnessed and suffered a country in dire need of a decentralized monetary system."

https://opensats.org/blog/furszy-receives-lts-grant-for-bitcoin-core


Also I needed a purple t-shirt.


That just means people need to ask permission.


. nostr:npub1s6z7hmmx2vud66f3utxd70qem8cwtggx0jgc7gh8pqwz2k8cltuqrdwk4c  is a damus maxi now. converting bitcoin core devs one tshirt at a time. https://i.nostr.build/37oW.jpg


"A black mirror episode was made about me meditating" - nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m https://image.nostr.build/d50f8b5ed2e87bc87cddae6338caa2d3f680e4e48b5514eeb45658a39114e038.jpg


🇬🇧 Amazing news from the European Parliament: 💥 Parliament negotiators have agreed to stop #chatcontrol and guarantee secure encryption! Let’s not relent now...

Read more: https://t.co/TRUJx8v9RD https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/historic-agreement-on-child-sexual-abuse-proposal-csar-european-parliament-wants-to-remove-chat-control-and-safeguard-secure-encryption/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

https://digitalcourage.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/301/651/447/683/160/original/7d7d0eab9b87f8f1.jpeg


Great start to the conference with a traditional Balinese Ogoh-ogoh! Bitcoin vs Fiat https://image.nostr.build/c4acfca0c451122f3f4d9e6c45afd723c4f0437d17dc77ba9eb7ee7a57dbbae4.jpg


Preparing to run my own full bitcoin node.
I've still got a lot to learn but this podcast is full of gems. So I just need to share it ♥

Thanks nostr:npub1art8cs66ffvnqns5zs5qa9fwlctmusj5lj38j94lv0ulw0j54wjqhpm0w5 & nostr:npub1s6z7hmmx2vud66f3utxd70qem8cwtggx0jgc7gh8pqwz2k8cltuqrdwk4c for this great source of infomation 🙏

Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin
https://podcast.sprovoost.nl/@nado/episodes

RSS address: https://anchor.fm/s/cee0ac6c/podcast/rss

#Bitcoin
#BitcoinExplained
#Podcast
#StudyBitcoin
#BTC


Thanks!


Can't call Richard Branson to give you a quicker ride with Virgin Galactic?


Pronunciation hint from someone else with my name... https://image.nostr.build/7390007aa6015496cfd5c72b51d5fadfff6c5cc6895e6116f7356500821a6d54.jpg


My comment wasn't serious, but it referred to the fact that if there are zero children then there won't be any abuse and therefore no excuse for politicians to make stupid laws to "protect" them.


Please join us in welcoming our newest LTS grantee, Gleb Naumenko. Gleb has been active in the Bitcoin Core repository since 2018 and is now receiving long-term support from OpenSats.
 https://opensats.org/blog/gleb-naumenko-receives-lts-grant


Mastodon cross posts, try wss://relay.mostr.pub


nostr:npub1ay8e28pth38wlcakt04rz694mxr3ctlvkhtld5m3mgwewlalttmq8z67vh Er zijn nieuwe moties ingediend namens D66, Volt, SP, PvdD, PvdA, PVV, DENK, Van Haga (twee keer), FvD, D66 en Omtzigt, en daar is geen woord Spaans bij: geen EU client side scanners, echt niet! https://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/moties/detail?id=2023Z17670&did=2023D42873

https://mastodon.nl/system/media_attachments/files/111/255/591/916/577/539/original/899274b60b26016d.png

https://mastodon.nl/system/media_attachments/files/111/255/600/690/853/897/original/82ab9baa82a9f300.png


It's funny how actually investigating a theft is a ruse these days.


Incriminating yourself is the least of your problems when you do something this stupid. nostr:note18lpzjgr2c9dmm5t2m8jnl4a69l5hfxy7vsueap4scx6jx9pkr93qdm69je


Sometimes a new mining site in Africa has some surprising visitors!

🦓 🦒 https://video.nostr.build/476508d35995fc6c4728ec5e344b6afb8575a9e8b85353bf6d853ad2dbbbcc4b.mov


It might, if they take maximum advantage of the financial surveillance offered by KYC creditcards. Expect X to block prepaid creditcards (credit goes to nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx if this prediction comes true). nostr:note1hvn7u02xrfrzuwzupegkx4weje2774lgeg5wn6glhems3kgzfe7qguzghf


Vs Nostr :-)

Agree that a big goal should be to avoid vertical integration / control where there's a single entity that owns the protocol, the user data and the applications that access it. Twitter started in an open way, but closed in the course of many years.


Lack of contraception use :-)


Just a reminder that the Chinese wall didn't really work :-)


Sounds like the censorship (or software issue) happened at the player level, rather than the hosting, since I got all the episodes in Fountain which presumably pulls them from Anchor / Spotify.

I use Castopod as the backup, which can pull the latest episodes in with one click.


Do they tell you that they censored it? Are you using them for hosting (formerly AnchorFM)?


This is why you need to put the episode number in your podcast title. nostr:note1suacyjt0fhpnpfj3r8s94ec6ylpj2wnezjy0khrtr8q3vuefl84sjsnmag


Meanwhile on X... https://nitter.net/DannyMekic/status/1714173826953592886


Python is non-critical. nostr:note1rv7d3nr209lua8aqprfe6j26x7dwnv9zc83e7zq7ww78eevgkp6sktwln2


It's not away, just a bit slow this autumn.


"Er is veel te weinig kabelinterceptie" - minister de Jonge.


BREAKING: OPENSATS FUNDING ADDITIONAL CORE DEV 🫡

https://opensats.org/blog/vasil-dimov-receives-lts-grant


Here's a little 'fire side' chat with nostr:npub1art8cs66ffvnqns5zs5qa9fwlctmusj5lj38j94lv0ulw0j54wjqhpm0w5 and me at #BitcoinAmsterdam. It's mostly about his new book, but we also cover some more recent stuff. It's in Dutch, but you could try computer generated English subtitles...
https://youtu.be/gjhA4iFU6LI


Meanwhile on the bird site Big Sister seems to admit that it's perfectly normal for the EU to use targeted propaganda to get new legislation passed.
https://twitter.com/YlvaJohansson/status/1712840885870698945

https://image.nostr.build/b07794ed46ce81a1fbacd1c37a961f7164b87ab9f5a7316324082dbecec8206d.jpg


I could have probably put the sim back in and then doomscroll nostr via a wireguard connection. That usually produces enough heat.


Doomscrolling Nostr to get my old phone battery down to 50℅ for long term storage... STOP IMPROVING EFFICIENCY


S9 space heater, very quiet https://image.nostr.build/5378fa8b10ab146c2eafdf6d62bc93e0c6b365ad3844fe8a113f8cf557eb8f2a.jpg


#ChatControlGate: After the first failure of #ChatControl in the Council, the EU Commission manipulated public opinion in critical countries lobbyist-style using prohibited microtargeting, a manipulated poll and exceeding its competences.
🧵 https://dannymekic.com/202310/undermining-democracy-the-european-commissions-controversial-push-for-digital-surveillance?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

https://digitalcourage.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/226/957/806/474/526/original/979641127108a984.jpeg


GM from Starbucks at Amsterdam Central station, on my way to #BitcoinAmsterdam https://image.nostr.build/a2223b817a7fbefb922a2ac0d4c22715377a40b7c258a7cf9fcb681339ee2728.jpg


#2-21 sold out!

#1 still available for auction.

nostr:nevent1qqs0s56tuvsqr89u6tgjll7plaqzpgtl03qzp3j0p85fz26k9ytd03gpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyr5dvlzrtf99jvzwzs2zsr549mlp00jz2n72y7gkha3lnae72j46gqcyqqqqqqgf8fpjk


On my way...

https://image.nostr.build/ea02e037cc490e905e127b2a2c1328738c43b93da741809380a468d32e887dab.jpg


Congrats!

"When your nuts sales aren't doing too good, who's the Dr they told you to go see?"


Some people might have already picked this up. I have become chairman of the United Bitcoin Companies the Netherlands. This group of companies has recently won its second lawsuit against the Dutch central bank and is working together with multiple institutions to improve the bitcoin landscape in the Netherlands.
It is for instance hard to get a bank account if you start a bitcoin company. We’re currently in the process of finalizing a sector document in cooperation with the Dutch banks, so there’s clear guidance and possibilities  instead of standard rejection of bank account requests. We want to make sure that the Netherlands is not pushing every company abroad. In this podcast in Dutch we warn the Dutch regulator for overregulation and excessive cost which might send all companies abroad under micar. The upcoming year will be interesting to say the least. Thanks everyone for your support! nostr:note1cp2g2jj5c2ygfl6w79k80vuz7suzsvtf8ruqssr9jyr5cafuf23sf03qef


Gefeliciteerd nostr:npub1jqs0u7zhh53e94gyhm4eu458wm6sw7z0kk66jjhhkhh346tcq2ysfgr247! Houdoe en bedankt nostr:npub14mge80nm5r0zj0gncxvpunlr28jyku95547q0m82ec475x3yy92skvjgm5! https://www.bnr.nl/podcast/cryptocast/10527675/293-b-nederlandse-cryptosector-maakt-zich-op-voor-micar-en-vbnl-heeft-een-nieuwe-voorzitter


Instathyst

nostr:nevent1qqstkv92vh5v349eev9t5x89wfnja73hsrj8yksgcdl7s7jvg5shdpqpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet5qgsqf6jehatkh8zp4kxjzd798r20fxt30wea79845gxefzwuc3thwngrqsqqqqqp6kuq4q


There's two with that tag from me. It seems to cover a big chunk of Utrecht which is nice.


GM

https://image.nostr.build/55fe43687e35018e7eae010e8b7d63b4a438e435713bc9342b2d7f4781d2deba.jpg


After Lindy :-)


All clients automute those :-)


There are some half baked ideas out there to distribute the snapshots via p2p in the future(tm).


nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8BR053: the upcoming v26 release only supports assumeutxo on testnet and signet.
v27 might support mainnet. The code contains a hash, but you have to bring your own snapshot (I'll probably publish a torrent).


Socratic seminar is happening this Wednesday afternoon in Amsterdam: https://meetu.ps/e/My45b/16xGp/i


TFW Bitcoin Core code reviews are unexpectedly fun and carefree!

Pieter Wuille busting out some super-nerd Bitcoiner `git` humor here.

https://m.primal.net/HMzd.jpg
---
Translation for non-nerds: `git rebase` is an oft-used command to sync your branch (copy) of the code to catch up with any recent changes your branch is missing.


One Way Journey

https://image.nostr.build/a0ed8a4d756a322f5673c365a72a6edb71b2635790594e85d3a3a5f8dd51bfba.jpg


We'll find out, as you reminded me to share my blog post over there: https://sprovoost.nl/2023/08/24/tornado-cash-ofac-arrests/


Before and after, but if that had anything to do with it, why unban me long before the actual trials?


And even when unbanning you they maintain the arrogant attitude of "it was your fault".


Still no idea why my account over there was suspended.

https://image.nostr.build/d7b39fd53b8eae2fc041dae78761718757daac85b4234126934ad8d1624ffbc4.jpg


Another day another mastodon admin rugging their users (apparently, I saw a message of someone looking for their lost followers from a new instance).

Nostr fixes this*.

* = may involve trade-offs :-)


That said, I find his recent podcasts covering the case quite interesting, maybe because it's mostly his producer doing the work :-)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/against-the-rules-with-michael-lewis-the-trial/id1455379351


I haven't watched the 60' nor read the book, but this seems concerning: https://youtu.be/B2z8ikGLRh8


Lmao what tf is Elon doing??

https://media.gleasonator.com/1e7ef057b42628e3b7592cf9c7c0302553a07a8d0929251ad4b0c4456c16ffef.png


Some updates on the Bitcoin, Explained podcast in episode 84. We also discuss the recent invalid block and some fun Bitcoin Core merges.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2x6yx1T218D57FDMPy4uBs


Yeah I feel a bit more productive too since Musk randomly suspended my X account.


🇬🇧 In the plenary of the EU Parliament, the #MediaFreedomAct was voted on today. Here you can see which groups supported “exceptional” use of spyware against journalists: https://t.co/FLWAS5DnxA

https://digitalcourage.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/172/137/821/520/313/original/c8057e92a2f4808d.jpeg


Book explaining assume utxo (and other things): https://www.btcwip.com


Podcast explaining p2p encryption: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2LFUCwH22KMYx6LEoVeZbI


BIP324 (p2p encryption) and AssumeUTXO (for testnet and signet) were both merged this morning! They'll be ready for testing in the upcoming v26 release.

Both features are opt-in.


De Omtzigt Goldilocks zone: niet te oud, want dan heb je teveel lijken in de kast. Niet te jong, want dan heb je te zorgeloos social media gedrag vertoond.
https://www.ad.nl/politiek/omtzigts-partijvoorzitter-stapt-alweer-op-conflict-uit-ver-verleden-over-porno-op-pc~a076e2bb/


nostr:npub1sq7wpfegr2fzphtld8cutp83fnfpfl3q2yx08z080dzysxnkl84qvrtp6x ha Herbert, weet je al wat je Nostr npub is?


And maybe a bot that you can DM for a zip file archive?


That's pretty much my response for the umpteenth time US politicians play chicken with predictable outcomes. Wake me up when shit hits the fan.

Except it's too cold here for the beach and I don't like heat anyway.


Mad props to the Hong Kong Bitcoin Association for this advertising campaign from 2020 on trams and tram stops in Hong Kong. https://image.nostr.build/ab0f17d2402a1b0258bd27250e8db6259d2184f5b0128dd7dfb34ff266bad7dd.jpg


From: nostr:npub1jggj3tdr33rrakqn0n7l0xyhnuuuhg2qwaeyl90xf8znex0wwldsx9qlx9


I don't remember who gave it to me...


I travel with a single (Minaal) backpack with a smaller daypack inside of it. It typically weighs 12kg:
* bags themselves: 2.1kg
* laptop, ipad, kindle, keyboard, mouse, Roost stand: 3.6kg
* cloths: 3-4kg (depends on the weather)
* misc. stuff (hard shell for glasses, wallet, keys, electric toothbrush, toothpaste, notebook, cash in various currencies, flip flops, small umbrella, various cables, etc, etc): 2.5kg

The electronics might get a bit lighter in the future, but then I might just end up buying more screen real estate.


If true then this is the worst thing New Zealand ever did to the world :-)
Nothing is more annoying than having to check in luggage. It adds at least an hour to a trip, and yet another queue to waste time in. Bags also get delayed and lost constantly.
https://www.quora.com/Is-is-true-that-many-airlines-in-Asia-e-g-Singapore-Airlines-have-much-lower-weight-limits-e-g-7-kg-regarding-carry-onbaggage-than-airlines-elsewhere-If-so-why-Are-Asians-unable-to-lift-heavy-bags-to-the-overhead
https://image.nostr.build/b4f3e09c8e51aa4bac302a093fc9d1f4674b4deb5bf9abe34f45f245584a26ee.png


Which is a long detour that helped me procrastinate on reviewing a small refactoring commit: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28331/commits/2f9d577dbe38263d6040f3c3aaa5d32bb42d38bc


Why do I care? Well, IIUC the railway semaphore signals were named after this...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_semaphore_signal

https://image.nostr.build/159ab799cc1d7cd34bcc468e299aa54e434817a08fb2361747199cd36130c168.jpg

And those in turn (as Sipa told me) were inspiration for Dijkstra's concept, where V meant "vrijgeven" ("releasing" the railway section for the next train) or "verhogen" (increase). And for P "tentatieve passering" (trying to pass), he invented the word "prolagen" ("probeer verlagen": try to decrease). And passing the signal implies marking it as unsafe.
https://image.nostr.build/26864ee5bb463ff611808e19f8bfab9cd404f29905cfd9f75c58f86aeb72e40b.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_(programming)


End-to-end encryption, 18th century style: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappe_telegraph


Fasting does seem to help with jetlag (and turbulence), but if the food is actually good I've decided to just ... eat it.


Hanging Out with friends at Bar Fabelhaft in Berlin Kreuzberg.
Kreuzberg.
We have been paying our drinks with Bitcoin here for  more than 10 years now while all you people out there keep talking about some mass adoption thingy.

https://image.nostr.build/751a2950f49cdf2307250fc415b77277b9b4a816a70bb232eefc76eec274548e.jpg


This one: https://tenonedesign.com/mountieplus.php


Ok, dit is gewoon objectief ecofascisme. In Engelse parken wordt dit juist opgelost een nieuw pad aan te leggen langs routes die mensen blijkbaar willen: https://www.duic.nl/algemeen/partij-voor-de-dieren-is-tegen-olifantenpaadjes-en-wil-dat-de-gemeente-utrecht-optreedt/


In the Cryptocast podcast for the Dutch mainstream Business radio station, BNR Nieuwsradio, I talked about the past 8 months of #Nostr developments and how things are going within the Lightning Network!

Listen to it here (🇳🇱 only): https://www.bnr.nl/podcast/cryptocast/10526372/291-b-bouwen-doe-je-in-een-bear-market-ook-bij-nostr-en-lightning

https://void.cat/d/NS5Gva1fx8hed1jGXWHnes.webp


But you have to spend more on therapy because you don't have the latest gadgets :-)

Also these old phones are trivial for a government or other armed group to hack? (At least much cheaper)


Aesthetics? I have no idea...


Even though it's quite old, Visual Studio Code can use SSH to edit files that live on my faster machines, where stuff gets compiled. Its 5K monitor is still excellent.


On the bright side: I can do backwards compatibility testing on my 2017 iMac, now that macOS Sonoma doesn't support it...


Next time you want throw away money, donate to OpenSats please :-) That was the equivalent of at least one full time dev for a year.

Alternatively, I would have happily looked at that code for half an hour for $10K and tell you not to run it :-)


I'm all for testing on production. Especially when you can try it on testnet or signet first without losing funds. And it even looks like they did, yesterday.
https://twitter.com/MarathonDH/status/1707067548661928108


Apparently MARA Pool took a template from Bitcoin Core and then sorted it by ascending fees. There's a reason Bitcoin Core doesn't do that... transaction *order* is critical. Hopefully they'll write a good post-mortem.
https://twitter.com/mononautical/status/1707075749755134163


My guess is that they tried to "accelerate" the second transaction (with custom software) and this messed up the sequence. IIRC it's fee was much too low for such an early place in the block.