Why does the EU use cloud software at all? To be in a permanent state of data breach? nostr:note10d49wvc7t8xu96xmq776th306p9dpj4gsqjkwh5avfv66dyprl9qq30dkg


nostr:npub1yakm7yssey6y2jxulr7gy62ca9704pclnqjwzxmqetqyqa4t97uq9vr5aj Phoenix doesn't recognize the recurring version as valid. It would be more elegant if it at least said "recurring bolt12 coming soon(tm)"
https://bitcoindevlist.com


provoost

Physicist turned bitcoin developer aka "shadowy super-coder", author of Bitcoin: A Work In Progress


Ah well, it's easy to replace tattoos, the guy said...


Definitely not in the old one, that part of the spec wasn't ready afaik. The above Github PR links to an issue describing the previous broken bolt12.


My bolt12 is so OG that it's invalid! Made a new one... https://github.com/dennisreimann/bitcoindevlist.com/pull/160


Happy Independence from the FATF Day!?


ZEUS v0.9 will have BOLT 12 support for remotely connected Core Lightning nodes using the c-lightning-REST and CLNRest interfaces.

We will also be providing BOLT 12 Lightning addresses in app, for free, courtesy our friends at https://twelve.cash/

More info on BOLT 12 here: https://bolt12.org/


Waiting for phoenixd + btcpay support to use it for some stuff...


What happens to Cursor Bitcoin when it starts blinking?


We’ve got more herecomesbitcoin.org stickers, this time featuring  nostr:npub17xvf49kht23cddxgw92rvfktkd3vqvjgkgsdexh9847wl0927tqsrhc9as,  nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m,  nostr:npub1j8y6tcdfw3q3f3h794s6un0gyc5742s0k5h5s2yqj0r70cpklqeqjavrvg,  nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle,  nostr:npub1jfujw6llhq7wuvu5detycdsq5v5yqf56sgrdq8wlgrryx2a2p09svwm0gx,  nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f,  nostr:npub1z3suvdpeazw72l23t498qa3mz5az5ezzpnp5hdfsj9u7pfpfl7sqnttq8s, and Brink.

Plus Black Ops Bitcoin, Girls Night Out 2, Ride the Lightning Bitcoin, and Old Charlie “Can O’ Beans” Bitcoin.

Will your brand 100% go under unless it gets its own anthropomorphic Bitcoin mascot? Weird problem, but relatable. https://m.primal.net/JGwO.jpg DMs are always open.


Is anyone working on a bolt12 standard? I already self-host a JSON file for LNURL so it's very little effort for me to add a bolt12 (using cln to receive).


New major release! Phoenix Android/iOS/Server now supports BOLT12:

- reusable, non-expiring payment requests
- contact list (Android for now, iOS soon)
- attach messages to payments

You can now receive payments to a static bolt-12 offer via Phoenix and keep a list of offers in your contact list! https://image.nostr.build/4e472eb1a795bcf9c5e0cf588c90864ce74cb952e900b209465751e4ca1882e8.jpg

See also bolt12.org


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


Final touches. Probably going for a 3-point wall mounted system that places the work a small distance from any vertical surface. https://image.nostr.build/e12079fe45df8e8c9c5ccf695e7cb811d43bd6404ce5d5e747d4b1b4acbdd043.jpg


In case you're wondering... I was hardcoding the php version in nginx config and forgot to update it when Ubuntu bumped it from 8.2 to 8.3.

Finally learned this one great trick to fix that once and for all: /run/php/php-fpm.sock

https://serverfault.com/questions/1155870/php-sock-linked-to-update-alternatives-choice


The QR code links in my book were broken for some time, but they work again!
https://www.btcwip.com


I guess with Cashu you would roast the nuts with lightning.


I currently use romanz/electrs for Mempool, BTCPay and as my own private electrum server.

It would be nice if mempool could also use it for whatever it needs -txindex for.

Is the romanz/electrs index not suitable for some reason?


The documentation says it does, but maybe that's incorrect?


Does the self hosted nostr:npub18d4r6wanxkyrdfjdrjqzj2ukua5cas669ew2g5w7lf4a8te7awzqey6lt3 really need -txindex when Electrs is configured? https://github.com/mempool/mempool/tree/master/backend


Now that my wallet connect actually works I need to reconsider my kilosat default :-)


* plus a similar alternative for US folks (or a favorable court ruling so Phoenix feels comfortable coming back there)


Paralelní Polis in Prague runs BTCPay and they have some tipping functionality, though I no idea where that actually goes.

I'm hoping:
a) phoenixd takes off and they add a plugin.
b) nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg releases this mysterious app they announced last fall

The combination should be a acceptably self-custodial KYC-free easy to use portable lighting accepting thing. And from there merchants can continue down the rabbit hole.


Omg my zap using nostr wallet connect to nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg actually worked!

Oh and congrats!


You mean on the receiving side?


Looks like it did initiate a swap though, let's see what happens.


One of the UTXO inputs for this swap was still confirming, so maybe that's related?


Yolo... cc nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg https://image.nostr.build/0120c09b50b58985b1d83224ffb61e87be73ebf703ccd353056411fa7647e7d6.jpg


You can donate to Assange via nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg here! https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3sEmBheBrxi3NCzSwguMeSVJtZ5y/pos

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/06/25/julian-assanges-family-is-raising-funds-for-him-with-bitcoin/


Of course he deserves to just chill out for the next half century. Other people can carry the torch. But some people can't sit still. We'll find out.
nostr:note1h2hj8qlmfeh3vmsr7vzysy9t7zld9pdg6s56z37ly46ggyera8lqk6hz2m


So when is Assange coming to Nostr? Family, fresh air and touching grass can wait!


I’m so happy I picked up my phone before bed and came to Nostr instead of Twitter and saw the Assange news


The amount of bed my millennial salary can afford without taking on 17% credit car debt

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


Not to be confused with bro-llups?


Ah it says "illicit" only in the small print. This map has so many problems:-)


Well maybe not as many states, because this measures a bit of a weird metric: usage relative to the average, so some states have to be low the below the average.


This map should be colored black, with the possible exception of Utah, and the legend should say: alcohol.


More long-term support. More utility. More privacy. More freedom tech. We're proud to support  nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg for the long term.
https://opensats.org/blog/cashu-calle-receives-lts-grant


Or schedule these things in advance :-)

Nothing wrong with outsourcing tasks, but it's also good to be able to do them yourself. Especially if you already know which specific maintenance is required.


Belgium seems to think they can treat other EU countries like shit. Because they can I guess.... nostr:note1znz5p4c8j6y65tee2sraupwgmqk2uxll6zd4ray67utwyle8k2rqpp3a5v


You're arguing in bad faith, so I'm going to stop engaging.


* the mod-RNA would


(I tried to find a paper measuring the half-life of mRNA vs. pseudouridine based modRNA it, but can't find one - other than vague statements that it's "longer". This would be a useful datapoint. Though again, the mRNA would have to cause damage for this to matter, because it transcribes to the exact same spike protein as the virus.)


There are plenty of studies that find virus in the heart, among many other organs. You seem very skeptical of that, but not applying the same skepticism when it comes to the vaccine.

modRNA is only one molecule different from normal mRNA, why would this change durability by many order of magnitude? You seem to be confused about half life: it's to be expected that a few detectable molecules remain after a long time. This happens with mRNA too, that's why PCR tests give false positives long after someone is no longer infectious.

Adding bribes and a coverup as a necessary ingredient of your hypothesis just makes it orders of magnitude less plausible to me.


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

I attended BTC Prague 2024 as a contributor to Stratum Reference Implementation (SRI)

I helped the SRI community deliver a hands-on workshop during HRF dev/hack/day. We had very positive engagement from Hashlabs Mining.

We also spoke with some relevant industry players, including:
- Demand, which is trailblazing SV2 adoption with the Job Declaration protocol. I'm very bullish on how they are decentralizing mining by allowing their hashers to select transactions.
- Braiins, which gave us a sample of their new BMM100 (SV2 enabled Home Miner). It will allow us to test SV2 interoperability between SRI and BOS firmware.
- Marathon, which gave us a sample of their new UCB2100 (Antminer Control Board).
- Ocean, whose community of hashers could benefit from an off-the-shelf FOSS SV1 Proxy solution and reduce the incidence of empty blocks being mined on their pool.

My key takeaways with regards to SV2 adoption:
- Demand is writing some awesome libs based on SRI. I'm excited to record some live coding screencasts with @Fi3 and share that knowledge with the community.
- The Bitcoin mining industry has fragmented SV1 standards
- players are eager for SV2 enabled firmware but also working new standards for encryption and binary encoding on SV1
- FOSS SV2 firmware has great potential to boost adoption (e.g.: github.com/plebhash/cgminer-sv2 🙏)
- Industry players will adopt SV2 when they are ready, and this will be a gradual transition.
- Bitcoin is at its healthiest when hashpower flows easily across different pools
- INTEROPERABILITY INTEROPERABILITY INTEROPERABILITY

⛏ plebs be hashin ⚡


Good Morning, it's been almost 2 months since the Samourai Wallet
 arrests and there is still no sign of TDev in the justice system.

I want to know why there is no public case filed against TDev (cross-referencing United States v. Ver whom the US is also seeking to extradite), so I sent the SDNY and PJ some more questions.

https://m.primal.net/IoBN.png
https://m.primal.net/IoBO.png
https://m.primal.net/IoBP.jpg
https://m.primal.net/IoBQ.jpg


You would indeed need to find a hypothesis along those lines. And then provide evidence for it.

Two problems I find with your specific suggestion:

1. Covid infections do reach the heart

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9318581/

" The postmortem study conclusively establishes the presence of the virus in the heart"

So it can't just be about spike proteins reaching the heart. Those proteins are the same whether produced by the vaccine or the virus, and the latter produces orders of magnitude more because of replication.

2. mRNA lifetime is measured in minutes

Perhaps the modifications to the vaccine mRNA extend that, but in order to explain a delayed severe side-effect, this would have to be measured in months or even years.

Remember I was looking for a scenario where the vaccine is worse than the virus, in a way that trials couldn't catch, not merely for bad side-effects.


Packing items from our webshop is always fun. This special bitcoin Brabant edition of nostr:npub1s6z7hmmx2vud66f3utxd70qem8cwtggx0jgc7gh8pqwz2k8cltuqrdwk4c “bitcoin a work in progress” is accompanied with a Proof of Work pin by nostr:npub1yp7wfa7msdpusf4vupzttttu2mx3cns7whx5cgkt4yr9pkpvujus2mzys7 and 5 seal bags. Proper cypherpunk order. Additional stickers deserved nostr:npub1q2sz9496kfdr2t2tpqgy6ecvrjgxcuhwfzcr898w7a5gw4ryt2ksg07zym dirty coin nostr:npub1uv2tr83c5y7k82af6zdzlqs8m0klcmndd8u5vmlg2eyrskld6uzsv4rmr8 rear sticker.
nostr:npub1ql2zzp3g6yndgz05js7wdc4qkr88wkyne5nw2cc7csrtzqs0yeesgwrxya Bitaxe Supras with the enclosure beautifully printed by nostr:npub1l5pxvjzhw77h86tu0sml2gxg8jpwxch7fsj6d05n7vuqpq75v34syk4q0n are also being ordered. https://image.nostr.build/d245b773dc1a02e5cc485f723a62cf78543c0cb204ada91ea0f806eb58555bda.jpg https://image.nostr.build/5fb8d4c6d10ad2dfa1c86c3b1078f0c4c4e924e866b0eb5fcd2b745869391407.jpg


Fascinating: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/146/


By the way I agree the tech was experimental, but it's also the closest we've ever gotten to nature's delivery mechanism - with which I had some familiarity. There's very few moving parts that could explain a dramatically bad outcome, especially a delayed one where the trial shows success ... and ten years later we're all dead.


I took several courses in cell biology back in uni, so at least I know the basics of (m)RNA and virus replication. I also followed TWiV for several years during the pandemic, and for a while even a German language podcast with Christian Drosten.

I also kept fairly close track of Dutch statistics (and had at least some knowledge of their strengths and short comings). Read various policy documents and followed technical briefings to parliament.

I participated in an early mRNA vaccine trial. I got the placebo, with side-effects! I also listened to the first FDA approval hearing to see if anyone there raised serious concerns. I read some of the stuff Pfizer submitted back then as well.

Nothing there set off any alarm bells. But it's like reviewing assembly code: I don't think I'd spot a well crafted exploit. But it surely didn't look like rushed junk science. It was fast in large part because serious money was thrown at the problem, where vaccines before were generally not that interesting to big pharma.

But note that my bar was pretty low: I was looking for evidence to contradict my prior that the vaccine is less dangerous than an infection. It's what I needed to know in order to stop avoiding people.

Perhaps if they had found statistically insignificant efficacy combined with severe side effects, I would have been more worried. Because I agree with you that there was some degree of mass hysteria that *could* have pushed a very dangerous vaccine through.

So I consider myself much better informed than e.g. someone listening to Joe Rogan and Bret Weinstein, but obviously less informed than a virologist, immunologist, epidemiologist, economist, etc (none of these experts have a full picture either - which they sometimes forgot).

So I feel somewhat confident stating that, without further information, an mRNA vaccine should be orders of magnitude less harmful than a real virus. And that when conflicting information comes in about bad side effects, the first thing I would recommend is to reconsider how harmful you think the virus is. If that leads to an absurd conclusion (100% mortality) then I would assume there's something wrong with the study of side effects.

In general I don't think one should "do your own research". Only if you're willing to put serious time into it, and have some skill in navigating scientific literature. Even TWiV is ultimately pop science and can only help you so far. It's especially unwise to follow contrarian research unless you really know how to evaluate it. Mainstream science* has issues, but most people who contradict it are wrong. There's no cheat code there. Sometimes simply ignoring an area of science can be fine. But with a pandemic you're kind of forced to take action one way or another. That's one reason why I did "do my own research"

* = hard sciences anyway


Treatment is orthogonal. Vaccines reduce the odds of getting sick in the first place.

Once you're sick, you can consider treatments. A little chicken broth does wonders if you're merely dehydrated from fever, but you may need something more potent. Treatments require their own randomized control trials, some educated guess work pending their results. One those results are in, it's important to drop any obsession with said treatment - because that's where optimism turns into quackery.


Campbell was far from "inside the tent" during the pandemic, except perhaps the first year. To me he seems like text book example of audience capture, similar to Bret Weinstein.

This is different from intentional grift. Millions of views, and the money that brings, does weird things to people. My guess is that what happens is that critical feedback gets swamped out by all the adoration. And perhaps because you get no feedback while talking in the mic, you mistake that for being right.

There's a similar phenomenon, I forgot the term for it, where academics who leave academia often become conspiracy theorists because they're no longer grounded by relentless peer review and instead only get feedback from their non-academic fanbase.

Imo by far the best channel on the topic is TWiV. They grew during the pandemic, but are still only at 128K subscribers. Sadly on Youtube it seems like a good heuristic to ignore anyone with more than a million subscribers.

As for whether not getting the vaccine early on, when there are many uncertainties, is a good decision is tricky. The safest thing might be to wait and avoid people in the mean time. But if you're 100% sure you'll get infected, then you should compare only two things:

1. Infection without vaccination
2. Infection after vaccination

There was no randomized controlled trial for the virus itself (the UK did this later at very small scale). That would be the ideal way to compare the risk of vaccines with the risk of the virus itself. When looking at more recent allegations of mRNA vaccine keep that in mind: the baseline for comparison should be infection.

It seems incredibly implausible to me that a non-replicating tiny fragment of virus mRNA (the vaccine) can do more harm than a replicating complete virus. The latter leaves much more RNA all over your body.

Biology is extremely complex, so it's certainly possible we'll get a nasty surprise, but anyone claiming that is making an extraordinary claim, requiring extraordinary evidence - that's reviewed by competent people rather than conveniently delivered straight to popular Youtubers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Campbell_(YouTuber)


Back after four years of renovation! #Utrecht https://image.nostr.build/2390cedfa9aae58481e91fa4bb930a0ab2d4fe7d23d924675f547ccf7f40c7dd.jpg


Unfortunately my airline scammed me by letting everyone board on schedule and then revealing that we have to wait 20 minutes for departure.


Always remember at the end of a conference: walk past all the gates for an impromptu afterparty with other attendees.


Wait, he went upstairs during a panel about ossification? :-)


Drinks were had, hangovers are had. Also walked around a bit today. https://image.nostr.build/0633a1ac64c76af3dc87b17bdcc6780db3b7ca4832cd1436f3a721fc50bcbd10.jpg https://image.nostr.build/81b0a58d6202b9196c656802f335dd67f954c2edc59a9448a08da1bb4634a498.jpg https://image.nostr.build/f33883436f1ce9be0c088d960c5432341db7e6d499a85a7b67f7de3aec3f3da3.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ea27483ac5c6a973ee920a4ffe790ef1be338e3c2014b354eca30ab2890b1836.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9cc5e59ce2410951bc37e0dc58ec5bb06ad7397b0a9dcc4d5e5d5e689ab6e37c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/af6903124e7f4a3d2ab55404fd132978bbf168beee20ff7ead535276eab3367c.jpg


Poetic in a way... https://image.nostr.build/01deb86a54409d7d0bb6a4ee75c2673629c1c2b1a26993fac1bb3d2474f4e2e3.jpg


Touch grass, and rebase a PR.


My panel with nostr:npub13ajk3hhvqys2ev4y68jwxywgs8fsdsuk4y5gkzs874jdyrccvf5qak2yd9 and others now has a thumbnail! https://youtu.be/XPVYOVo_cXM


Couldn't make it all the way to the old town on my 30 minute ticket, so "had to" walk a bit. #Prague https://image.nostr.build/af3692bc663e889fdc6d8781d9e17763f06bdcb60a44c5b6344c705eb339b4a8.jpg


Call me skeptical... https://image.nostr.build/80e47aee9bc13f68ffe1afca015db7e3aa73a50dfa2b165fa114aa50bae330f2.jpg


This is pretty cool. https://image.nostr.build/d068c9e001ebe3e5cd5ecb4c9a4bf6e304ead11ed98f3b09ee9cf96b28d0ab5b.jpg


German pirates did not make into the EU parliament, and Germany is the only country with enough inhabitants where a super niche topic like privacy can even get you a seat. Sad.

Transnational voting fixes this. Or more than 0.7% of the population caring about privacy, but the former is easier to achieve. nostr:note1mmy4p5d3vnel8fp843cg3g74dr8nxsfjx8paklftkz9qyfuydwkqx63n39


Alright, they're fixing at least one major shortcoming later this year... https://image.nostr.build/518b4b07ba7f6e385dd59ae54b6b1ad0e4855de486c200631ac4727fc95ee4ab.jpg


They might still lobby for this of course, insanity is not always an objection :-)


Banks will get a trillion dollar fine each for running a mint. Unless they drop the blind signatures, turning it into Chaumian Ecash with Chinese Characteristics.


ELON CENSORS INDIAN ACTIVISTS TO GET ACCESS TO THE LARGEST UNTAPPED TESLA AND STARLINK MARKET IN THE WORLD.

NOSTR WILL FIX THIS.

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


India’s number of content takedown demands on Twitter/X has soared in recent years, and they are being complied with more than they used to.

Opposition parties often get their bank accounts frozen too.

Nostr and Bitcoin, especially as a combo, can help route around that sort of social and monetary censorship. https://image.nostr.build/b6178a6035ff3e37c9e16672e8c7d0db4d2733a6aa6cccda5f684d603751e4ff.jpg


Next block fees are 30 sat/vbyte not 30000?? https://image.nostr.build/5852cdd5a8c8ae0bedacfba3906e8a6029043374dafe03eba17368ff1e30ad4c.jpg


Now that, at the request of regulators, coordinators are no longer by trusted companies, it'll be an interesting cat and mouse game in which apps become more vigilant on behalf of their users. nostr:note1qqq8e37huxjz7et4mx65xceh6u50hexj7wc56xxn4dp98h44fgsqqk0ynm


People don’t see what we’re dealing with behind the scenes.
As a chairman of the United Bitcoin companies the Netherlands (VBNL) a lot is happening. In the last few months we had serious issues with the bank that facilitates most on/off ramping for exchanges in the Netherlands.
In January a large part of the bitcoin exchanges received a cost increase from €499,- to €4999,- per month for their bank account. In April they received a letter that the companies had until 10th of June to move their funds and operation to another bank. The bank accounts were going to be closed down.
The issue is that many exchanges have built extensive API’s for smooth on/off ramping with this bank. So this was a move that caused a lot of stress for many people. Communication with the bank was impossible. So every individual company took them to court. Only one case was actually brought into the court room and the company won. The other companies received a message they could hold their bank account.
The insane cost increase is still there and creeping further through the list of bitcoin companies.
We’re now looking at a way to reduce the cost, because for small companies it means bankruptcy.
This we do as companies together. And VBNL has been doing this for over a decade now.
For now it’s a bank, and on 10th of September we’re facing an even larger cost issue. The Dutch central bank. We won the court case with 11 exchanges but off course they appealed and now we’ll be standing at the Supreme Court. The central bank has burdened the exchanges with millions of regulatory oversight cost that were not lawful. A win during this court case would not only drop the cost for the exchanges between 2020-2024 but most likely also impact future cost under MICAR and the Authority of financial Markets. We’re currently looking at a €5.6 million cost from just AFM for the ongoing regulatory oversight for MICAR in 2025. Wish us luck.

nostr:note1q3nrt6tst8qhnel3ykcnd8pc3ymqkdy4rcs8c5vrerult7q98pqs8h6gpq


Unfortunately there's still some stubborn group chats on Telegram that I need, but also looking forward to the day I can nuke my account there.


You didn't even get a mention :-)


They will find any way they can to discredit what we're building - because it's a threat.


Is this linking Gitian sigs to nostr keys? If so, do I need to add something to my nip5 json file?


"nostr is just a twitter clone"

nostr:
https://video.nostr.build/57b19c36e10f0049ff431119c204b983ec51f45ab103cbbbe4203e85b388ad55.mp4


Reach out to Luda if you’re in Norway and want positive regulation for Bitcoin mining. She needs local support. nostr:note1ftrl7z44rv0dns0lzqku4a2rphuayultrxq0f9dyld8drv6j9a6sn85699


It's not too bad on this side... https://image.nostr.build/2d98271efa64b39446b4e12b68263d686cf5036d3baf401237a97a1f76940a88.jpg


Everyone looks at China, but check out Nigeria... https://image.nostr.build/2c0c840b66435359701275aed84c64cc498fc67d053d1bf6a7adc06da2d33b1a.jpg


The map of financial surveillance and control doom...
https://cbdctracker.hrf.org/home https://image.nostr.build/3fc592a6fe2702788f50e6b0a45e3fee302819d728ecff0bd15a6d9ee0cc6ccd.jpg


Ouch, cc nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg

Also is there a Nostr wallet connect feature somewhere? https://image.nostr.build/567a392162bea41d7e5addb3d0caf814723f673314ca41cc12ccc916f65234bc.jpg


I like the subtle color choice for the Financial Freedom track... and that have climb many steps to such freedom. https://image.nostr.build/466cf7ac57e961557aac51c37da1a2557165c3d44135c88251f4f4dea6150745.jpg


Watch the Oslo Freedom Forum financial freedom track livestream to see our stellar lineup of 25 sessions representing 20+ countries! https://www.youtube.com/embed/LMeNe1tBsr4


Fireside chat between nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m  and nostr:npub1vxk5drxw4y553l8y3q3nhyc2sym6ghnq3dvvpxmn82vrymyr2uwq4cyv6z at #OsloFreedomForum https://image.nostr.build/4c6b7440c6297fe550a7b1519118258e944359bff1eecb4ed3044e619c2c56da.jpg


It's Santa Claus, why are you laughing? #Oslo https://image.nostr.build/10ae12b122f1c35595a460016e064ed5c925ef66c9ad4319f86a037fee182197.jpg


anyhow, giving nostr a try


Endlessly grateful to the ‘Adopting #Bitcoin ’ event in #Arnhem for the opportunity to have an open dialogue with regulators, legislators, advocates and bitcoiners. Key messages from our discussion on AML/CFT regulation, which I recommend you watch:

Rebecca van #Essen, #FIU #Netherlands: ‘We monitor bank transactions to investigate crimes. The police don't have a lot of resources to investigate crimes.’

Me: ‘It is unnecessary and extremely dangerous to delegate police functions to financial institutions. It is a violation of basic human rights with no right of appeal and implementing the standards of authoritarian countries like #China. The police and intelligence services of democratic countries have more than enough tools to solve crimes: tracking through surveillance cameras in all public places, access to the data of internet and mobile phone providers, access to the reservation databases of hotels, any real estate, all vehicles, including rented ones, and so on.
The presumption of innocence applies until proven otherwise. Preventive mass surveillance leads to abuses of power.’

Dorien #Rookmaker, Member of the European Parliament: ‘As a former head of compliance in a bank, I can say that there are no mechanisms to protect against the abuse of compliance data through bank employees. Even during my time at the bank, we fired people for snooping, for using data of their neighbours. Financial data protection remains a key issue.’

Starts at 3:01:00: https://www.youtube.com/live/T0vJ4uEsCwc


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

👂👇

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


dev/hack/day by HRF

'Cypherpunk and Privacy Socratic Discussion' led by  nostr:npub1klkk3vrzme455yh9rl2jshq7rc8dpegj3ndf82c3ks2sk40dxt7qulx3vt,  nostr:npub1s6z7hmmx2vud66f3utxd70qem8cwtggx0jgc7gh8pqwz2k8cltuqrdwk4c &  nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg will dive deep— through a thoughtful, open-ended dialogue — into the principles and challenges of maintaining privacy and freedom in the digital age.

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


The Wasabi Wallet source code repository has been transferred to github.com/WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi

Wasabi has now left the nest of zkSNACKs


I would change now to "not": get Ross in exchange for no more self custody, seems more realistic. Never try to bargain with campaigning politicians.


Thanks! Panel (introduction) starts at 3:01:50
https://www.youtube.com/live/T0vJ4uEsCwc?si=2BNE2OJP713xuDFF nostr:note1sdeycvcjxu8a74vl2k940eghyukpsjw3sy9d6znhuaukxcvpwxts8m8k35


Nearby :-) https://image.nostr.build/a717d27a23d5b9814d420896ea43f9ab53e674fd13bae3750e69a35b3fba1e7a.jpg


Or:
Offline, keep the change?


Offline fee?


Ignoring expert consensus, feeling no shame following exposés showing tech lobbyists shaping these EU surveillance proposals, EU politicians are at it again

So, we'll reiterate: Signal would rather leave the EU market than subject our users to mass gov surveillance. FULL STOP

https://netzpolitik.org/2024/internes-protokoll-belgien-will-nutzer-verpflichten-chatkontrolle-zuzustimmen/

https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/112/495/921/158/967/226/original/8b0d0983f03a5849.png


Reverse Ransomware


Bluesky announced DMs today. Yikes. https://i.nostr.build/6G2YW.jpg


How do I make / find a chart like this for the Dutch parliamentarians? I was unable to find these voting records in the EU labyrinth.


I find it contains more wishful thinking though, where Norway seems to be taking more concrete steps. Though neither side is directly negotiating between Hamas and Israel. Without involving those two parties directly I don't think rockets will stop firing or hostages start getting released. https://image.nostr.build/6a1e831d05eea172b9a4b16b11622f63f73f7834091d9a95730e37424d116e0b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/804113e26d16a5712137b907bfd6edd71d784db03a5bb52191e0c1320a125f74.jpg


🇬🇧 🚨Alert: The #ChatControl proposal which has been stalling could be adopted by EU governments after all. The "compromise": Either you agree to have your chats scanned or you can no longer share pictures/videos! Read all about it: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/let-yourself-be-monitored-eu-governments-to-agree-on-chat-control-with-user-consent/


(Uhh, there's no PLA, it's not the PLO either, but the Palestinian Authority - this place is confusing)


The Norwegian press release on their recognition of Palestine is more nuanced than you might expect will all the noise out there. The devil is always in the details with diplomacy, but e.g. they recognize the PLA, not Hamas, and they refer to the Prime Minister rather than the (afaik far more authoritarian) President.
https://www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/norway-recognises-palestine-as-a-state/id3040194/


BTC Prague dev/hack/day – this could be its own 2-day conference with fewer parallel tracks.

🔥

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


Even if he changed his mind (he does that several times a minute, depending on where the money is) he will only support NGU technology.

Financial privacy is not a hill he's going to drive a golf cart onto, let alone die on. Not that I have any confidence in Biden on this topic.


GM!

Tomorrow I’ll go to nostr:npub1uv2tr83c5y7k82af6zdzlqs8m0klcmndd8u5vmlg2eyrskld6uzsv4rmr8 🇳🇱 With many side events before the main event on Saturday 👌🏻 Drop me a message if you would like to meetup!
https://image.nostr.build/cd5de8c8184a9d0c1764bb56f86bb0c4a5633473cd9cf02490580704f439dfab.jpg


Excellent court illustration by @Spiral https://image.nostr.build/3cdc852eacc35e440d11039673e195f83acbcacd0d0dd58c126eec3e496e1d3b.jpg


230 pages... and that does not include the appendix which goes through all of the of the forgeries rather than just the highlights.

One take-away from reading (a large chunk) of this is that it really matters when a judge is tech literate. Rather than solely relying on expert witness statements, they can draw their own conclusions. https://image.nostr.build/f4155c59e14cc6382ccac627400fc60de31acfe65f36eb2d66315bcf32aa0331.jpg


Are they that different in terms of UX that it would be confusing to support both mint types? They seem pretty similar to me at first glance; as a user you just add a mint URL, then you can buy tokens, pay with them directly or fund a lightning payment with then.

Or is there some architectural difference that's problematic? I haven't drilled very deeply.


A legal defense fund for non-custodial tools. Very cool:
https://p2prights.org/


I would just peruse Booking . com, and for each hotel you like check Google Maps for how long the metro ride is to the venue.

Keep in mind that many Prague hotels don't have airco and June can be hot (it was fine this weekend).

Advanced mode: get a hotel in the center for the first few nights, then switch to Duo.


nostr:npub1mutnyacc9uc4t5mmxvpprwsauj5p2qxq95v4a9j0jxl8wnkfvuyque23vg wen Cashu?


More like a 24 lane freeway probably? :-) nostr:note1h0ds6jyzgg5546pcfrjzx7p5azxer7763jm6tylpn9nfjkw6ycvs3jrljj


(We briefly had voting machines. Thanks to heroic efforts from hackers they were proven embarrassingly insecure and kicked out of the country like Napoleon was before them.)


Finally some optimistic news!

The Netherlands also uses paper ballots and hand written tallies that are published online (in hours to days). Last fall I downloaded and timestamped them all (inspired by Guatemala). Will do the same for the upcoming EU election (for Dutch votes).

Probably won't have time to organize a gamefied recount, but there's no rush: once the anchor of truth is deployed you can take your time. nostr:note1ynqz0qf9a02au22ausaum2zashf3ysdyp8n2u76jqdqfhajus6dqgq82ty


Okay Nostr peeps we need to talk. I know Ive been on here for like 5 minutes and Im already complaining but hear me out.

Id really like to publish my newsletter directly on Nostr. You dont need to worry about clicking an extra link, I dont need to worry about writing a stupid summary, everyone is happy.

But here‘s the problem. Iris shows link previews and organizes pics where they are placed in the text. Primal does the same, but doesnt show link previews. Damus shows link previews, but organizes pics in a carousel. If I post both pics and link previews, the content repeats and gets unnecessarily long. If I dont, everything is all over the place.

Can you guys like get together and have a standard for this or something? Because that would be pretty helpful. Thanks!


Hotel Duo is fine for Bitcoin Prague, but it's in a boring outskirt of the city. For other trips there are much nicer options closer to the center.


Walking distance from the venue or close to a tram line that goes there. But this year there was some festival / event / concert causing the nearby options to be unusually expensive.


#GrapheneOS uncovers leaked documentation for smartphone exploits by Cellebrite.

XRY and Cellebrite say they can do consent-based full filesystem extraction with iOS, Android and #GrapheneOS. It means they can extract data from the device once the user provides the lock method, which should always be expected. They unlock, enable developer options and use ADB.

Cellebrite's list of capabilities provided to customers in April 2024 shows they can successfully exploit every non-GrapheneOS Android device brand both BFU and AFU, but not GrapheneOS if patch level is past late 2022. It shows only Pixels stop brute force via the secure element.

 https://image.nostr.build/8e893edfdc5699a979ca586def3e2b20e0179013da3e4cc5b57522870e2982c6.jpg

 https://image.nostr.build/3ef47e97cddad7dc02cdbf6778e484aac415be896ee86053aa7452db791d2934.jpg

Cellebrite has similar capabilities for iOS devices. This is also from April 2024. We can get the same information from newer months. In the future, we'll avoid sharing screenshots and will simply communicate it via text since to prevent easily tracking down the ongoing leaks.

 https://image.nostr.build/17f7e488f9093601c0dff65bdb1274509a91d26362669decc0b006b39e132e58.jpg

 https://image.nostr.build/0ef4e9dcfc1063fbb35c516e134c56df8348195810446128a4ffc6219bdd44e8.jpg
Pixel 6 and later or the latest iPhones are the only devices where a random 6 digit PIN can't be brute forced in practice due to the secure element. Use a strong passphrase such as 6-8 diceware words for a user profile with data you need secured forever regardless of exploits.

Pixels are doing a bit better on the secure element front and iPhones are doing a bit better against OS exploitation, but not by much.

As always, this shows the importance of our auto-reboot feature which gets the data back at rest after a timer since the device was locked.

Our focus in this area is defending against exploitation long enough for auto-reboot to work. It's set to 18 hours since the device was locked by default, but users can set it as low as 10 minutes. Since around January, we massively improved security against these attacks.

By default, our recently added USB-C port control feature disallows new USB connections in AFU mode after the device is locked and fully disables USB data at a hardware level once there aren't active USB connections. Users can set it to also do this in BFU or even when unlocked.

Users with a high threat model can fully disable USB including USB-PD/charging while the OS is booted to only allow charging while powered off or booted into the fastboot/fastbootd/recovery/charging modes.

GrapheneOS on 8th gen Pixels is ideal due to hardware memory tagging.

Consent-based data extraction (FFS) is not in the scope of what we're trying to defend against beyond shipping our secure duress PIN/password implementation to replace insecure approaches via apps. Data users can backup is inherently obtainable with consent, which is nearly all.

Within the past 24 hours, there has been an attack on GrapheneOS across social media platforms misrepresenting consent-based data extraction as GrapheneOS being compromised/penetrated. The person doing it is pretending to be multiple people and falsely claiming we covered it up.

GrapheneOS is the only OS having success defending against these attacks. We could do more with a successful hardware partnership such as having encrypted memory with a per-boot key instead of relying on our kernel memory zeroing combined with auto-reboot and fastbootd zeroing.

New versions of iOS and Pixel OS often invalidate their existing exploits, but devices in AFU are stuck in AFU mode waiting for new exploits.

Random 6 digit PIN is only secure on a Pixel/iPhone and only due to secure element throttling. Use a strong passphrase to avoid this.

If you wonder why duress PIN/password is taking so long, it's because we aren't doing it for show like existing implementations. It needs to work properly and guarantee data will be unrecoverable with no way to interrupt it. Slowly rebooting to recovery to wipe isn't acceptable.

See https://x.com/GrapheneOS/status/1775305179581018286 for our thread covering the firmware improvements we helped get implemented in the April 2024 release for Pixels. It doesn't currently really help the stock Pixel OS because they haven't blocked the OS exploits that are being used yet but it helps us.

Our hope is that our upcoming 2-factor fingerprint unlock feature combined with a UI for random passphrase and PIN generation will encourage most users to use a 6-8 diceware word passphrase for primary unlock and fingerprint + random 6-digit PIN for convenient secondary unlock.

Cellebrite documentation and has stated they'll upload future versions of it if you want to look at the rest of it:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/12848-claims-made-by-forensics-companies-their-capabilities-and-how-grapheneos-fares/4

We have info on XRY, Graykey and others but not the same level of reliable details as this.


Good morning, its been over 3 weeks since the Samourai Wallet indictment and there still seems to be no sign of TDev
 in the justice system. I don't like it, so I sent the Feds some questions.

(also can someone help me fix my zaps, they still seem to be borked)

https://image.nostr.build/4bb60befe9bcba370dc04e47c89ea7b8b7d1c284f8855cf249db542271c8ed1d.png
https://image.nostr.build/51fe005b5ce3669a9722af181fe5abcd8eb552cfa0f2b548893723b4816ecd52.png
https://image.nostr.build/e15bbad0b1d09ece2bc2b932a474a9129b118238a72af03f3c2779e4b453d5b7.png


There's also LAN to wifi things, so you could use a wifi hotspot. But USB-LAN hotspot on a cheap android / grapheneos phone seems easier.


The bit illustrated on the whiteboard makes sense to me yes.


> The court’s reasoning on co-perpetration seems flawed to me. It suggests that Tornado Cash, let’s call it a digital platform or system, independently enacted the acts of hiding and concealing cryptocurrency with a criminal origin. This implies that a system can engage in criminal behaviour on its own—an unusual and potentially problematic interpretation, as it shifts the criminal conduct itself from individuals to systems.

> This could have significant implications for software developers if tools are perceived as independently capable of criminal actions, making the developers responsible for the tool’s ‘actions’.

https://hertoghsadvocaten.nl/kennisbank/tornado-cash-the-developer-as-co-perpetrator-of-money-laundering/


Here's nostr:npub1yxp7j36cfqws7yj0hkfu2mx25308u4zua6ud22zglxp98ayhh96s8c399s explaining #Hedgehog to me... https://image.nostr.build/6a76666784f9a633ee51ff2982d9c37e945fe665ba760092653b6e099c821df4.jpg


All of Nostr is, but the Mastodon UI is still misleading people into thinking it's only specific profile. Someone should make a pull request to fix that. Overzealous moderation is one thing, lack of transparency is worse - and in this case probably unintentional, so it's easy to fix. nostr:note14ufxvf0l6rzsqq342mgccqnwr07gxmjarnam76d34qzvwwdkxp3qmghj70


Timezone can be determined from when you're interacting. You can build in delays, but without a time machine you can't fully randomize timing.

The LLM thing is cool, assuming you run the thing locally.


But I did mean opportunity much more broadly than financial.


Well without compensation you have to either already be rich, get a fiat job - given you less time to work on Bitcoin - or live very cheaply. Those are all legitimate options, but they come with trade-offs.


True, online privacy was significantly easier to achieve in 2008-2011 than it is now. This is even pre Snowden revelations.


Normally I would ask: how do you make money? How do find gigs, jobs. But I want to respect your privacy. Being "famous" has often given me opportunities. But the potential downside is clear.

By the way I'm not arguing that anon devs should dox themselves. Everyone has to make their own cost-benefit analysis, and/or just follow their preference.


It's wonderful founding myth, but what worked for him doesn't necessarily work for everyone. He also had the advantage of being in charge of the project, things at his pace, but we wouldn't do that now.
nostr:note185497gmzgm0qtu4azz5f7p27h943r96a7xjhcnn2wg4vpda8te9svz3pez


It comes with serious downside. Harder to get grants, can't promote your work at conferences and podcasts, nag other devs in person to review your work. And it reduces your chances of getting arrested by 0%.

There's gradations of anonymity, but they have a real cost. If you're super introverted and hate conferences, then sure, use a fake name and photo - that's low opportunity cost.


He's either dead, worked for a spy agency or avoided arrest by some other non-standard means. I don't believe it was just good opsec.


Sorry that watching a zealous judge throw a fellow developer in prison without the slightest hesitation or empathy makes me a bit impatient and cranky :-)


I keep hearing people say Bitcoin devs should be anonymous, as if that's actually a good idea. It doesn't work. We need better ideas.


It takes a single mistake. And in order to get anything done in open source you need to communicate a lot and with many people. So now you're leaving hints about your timezone(s), cultural background, language use. Or maybe you went to that one conference where you talked to five people, one of them describes you to the cops, mentions your accent or the hotel you probably stayed at. Then of course there's the usual DNS leaks, logging in with the pseudonym over the wrong connection. One single mistake.


* unsolicited -> unsophisticated
(albeit both)


Obligatory picture of ominous clouds, classical buildings and kinda cool Soviet monstrosity. #Prague https://image.nostr.build/e87d6a36f4fd3b84882cd7ee0af85f5c59ef2f25d3f75f46dcd4d4c609132337.jpg


Probably only mate.


Not to mention e-bikes.


Getting ready for #PizzaDay in #Prague... https://image.nostr.build/a68917d855812d06597b79e7bab88c63164a56c75da8624e0a949d60f661c95c.jpg


I'm not aware of a single pseudonymous open source developer that the government has tried, but failed, to arrest. Except Satoshi.

To be fair they've only arrested two so far, that I know of.


Seriously you could have been arrested at any conference. Pseudonyms help against unsolicited attackers, not against state actors.


🇬🇧 The verdict against Tornado Cash programmer Pertsev criminalizes legitimate anonymity and all programmers who make it possible. We Pirates fight for digital freedom because freedom is the foundation of our society!

More: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/conviction-of-tornado-cash-programmer-privacy-is-not-a-crime/

https://digitalcourage.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/449/616/181/385/936/original/b0363c595266d720.jpg


Full verdict: https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=ECLI:NL:RBOBR:2024:2069


They made an English summary of the verdict. The full Dutch version should be online shortly.

#TornadoCash is not a legitimate tool https://image.nostr.build/84589525c1bb5ac82e54e7f9239cd71304a22882a8711043a2d9f746b30f5ce5.jpg https://image.nostr.build/c054413351370f2d3a78190313e8fb769914593e3c3961f12761b870df0e988d.jpg


Tl&dr: judge declared war on financial privacy.


(The episode is in English, despite the Dutch title)


As well as from nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu.


He's a bit of princess, but of course you should... https://youtu.be/s9Sq8h38JGg


Wired article about the Tornado Cash trial with some quotes by yours truly.
https://www.wired.com/story/tornado-cash-money-laundering-case-crypto-privacy/


Don't SAAS Me Bro! nostr:note1spm77mzyztdwgrrmcfa5r295c2kx5cmh0u00mg2tc4nrzvnyuyvq2v78vk


These next few years are as existential for bitcoin as the Blocksize Wars.

Back then it was about who got to decide what bitcoin was, now it’s about what bitcoin is.

https://bluematt.bitcoin.ninja/2024/05/11/bitcoins-precarious-position/


1 gigabit (up and down) for €60 / month. Aka a scam.

We have supermarkets for alcohol though :-)


So even if an account is public, they still have to follow the bridge in order for this to work? Is there a technical reason for that, or are you being nice? :-)


Nostr users can now follow Bluesky accounts thanks to a combination of the Mostr Bridge and  nostr:npub1pqr3g2gk3vsnrqk9kwfqqcxc6d5cwjr0hyc0nlzz9py5nf92vd9sn02sck! Learn how to follow Bluesky users from #Nostr:

https://soapbox.pub/blog/follow-bluesky/


Something that would improve the mobile Zap experience is if wallet apps can jump back to whichever nostr app initiated the zap. In theory that just requires passing a return URI along with the invoice.


Now you just need it to broadcast the zap confirmation, or however that works.


Zapped 69 sats


This was excellent last year, better attend! nostr:note1h5k3n57q66ynwc2h6v9pgvk7kpw47z3ll3rqlzv3kuc3tqt8zlvq920hzw


Welcome back!


I impromptu interviewed a social engineering hacker. https://m.soundcloud.com/junsethsworld/interview-with-a-social-engineering


Maybe, or you can develop a standard for opt-in messages that are end-to-end encrypted to the list of people you want able to read them. Or something that scales a bit less terribly.


BuT hE hAs MuLtiPlE wAllEts!


A bit inactive recently...


Oh he'll go to jail for that, he's totally reckless. But nobody goes to jail for using these wallets.


Yeah later on it seems they mostly use it for sweeping, but does use Ledger / Trezor. Sorry NVK.


The worst part is that these hackers / social engineers use Exodus and Trust wallet themselves. nostr:note1wkajnxem3j84hg60zmahsyn0jwq0uymyxmk5dwvv6g0rcxdn0zcqed4vn4


It's very cool. This is from a few years ago.
#AggressiveConstruction https://image.nostr.build/6b50b98ac2fc491cc6642da3123ae7e9813fb24903225d8b201e06bceb95be7f.jpg


I have one of these based on nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp s post, running OPNsense. It works great, e.g. I can watch HD Youtube anywhere in the world with Wireguard going home first. It helps to have gigabit fiber of course.

Problem is that it doesn't cap the log size by default, so those quietly grew to 99 GB.
https://eu.protectli.com https://image.nostr.build/5ef6d0d83caf45696e75defc0e165eb7cf8596e7b3349c9f46b053975f634fae.jpg


true

true


One excellent way to waste an enormous amount of time is to allow your router to run out of disk space, but _just_ not fail entirely.

Why is my ESP32 not connecting to wifi? It must be broken. Mmm, let me just delete this inactive dhcp lease.

Why does one computer browse the internet fine while the other one doesn't? Oh hey, DNS is down, that's funny.


What's been going on with testnet recently?

I explain my shenanigans in today's post.

https://blog.lopp.net/griefing-bitcoin-testnet/


Source: https://youtu.be/8KULmxz97mM


Unsurprisingly, the attack site joinmarket DOT net is succeeding in stealing people's funds (at least one person reported having their wallet swept).

Reported it to Google literally years ago (me and one or two others at least).

Nothing happened. Any ideas or actions welcome.


Onward. https://opensats.org/blog/opensats-receives-additional-funding-of-dollar21m-from-startsmall


Glad to hear!


I just received word that Craig Wright has discontinued all parts of his UK libel proceedings against me.

Meaning it's OVER. I just got my life back.

I'm so extremely happy right now! Thank you to everyone who has supported me!

🧡


Had a few too many beers, and went full McAfee in a speaker application.
 https://image.nostr.build/7668f012d2a0b1873e487bd30b062bf1a5fb052a7c0317cc1fea8183ea511fe6.jpg


Worked for Gandhi. The Brits didn't get him for tax evasion, sex with a minor, etc.


Let's not use the a-word though, rather: npub, identity, etc


Making it more difficult to find "something else" helps. Even in Russia, definitely in the US.

Also there are few things governments are good at, collecting taxes is one of those things. A few hundred thousand dollars worth of effort probably gets them a nice 8 figure settlement. Sure they could nail him on jaywalking, but that's not the same ROI.


Very nice and original back to basics explanation. nostr:note187cr4x4f6j0je4fn5s9zzc609flvympkjz7h4a0jgymcvm4qyx5qsempfx


I'm not sure how much that helps given the USA's history of assassinating people abroad, especially in Latin America. Not to mention coups.

Well at least it's a slightly higher bar than an extradition request.


There is a common phrase: “he/she woke up today and chose violence”.

I like it. It is funny. But it is imperfect.

“Violence” is now a verbal defensive phrase that means too much. To “wake up and choose violence” in the modern parlance of people who know zero struggle means to choose public verbal opposition. Okay, sure. But not really.

I woke up today and chose rhetoric. Not violence.

I spent years doing mixed martial arts competitively. I know violence. I am trained in a dozen ways to choke someone out, and have been choked out in’s dozen ways. I have had a 200 pound male fireman try to beat me unconscious and fail to do so. Even that wasn’t really violence, since it was controlled. Assholes on my trailer park bus stop in my teenage years were violent.

Verbosity isn’t violence. It is rhetoric.

I woke up today and chose rhetoric. I woke up today and chose to defend noncustodial privacy tools with language and resources. Coordinating messages between entities shouldn’t be a crime per se.

Bitcoin is anti-fragile and will continue to be so, thanks to all the people who work hard for it. But it is not without a fight.

Privacy is necessary in a free society in the digital age. A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto made this clear three decades ago and is still true.


Norway, June 3-5! 🇳🇴

Here are some speakers, but it’s just the tip of the iceberg

There are ~100 super high signal Bitcoiners and privacy/freedom tech builders joining

All inside of a wider 1,000+ person conference based on human freedom

An event within an event

Creates a very cool experience 🤙

https://oslofreedomforum.com/event/oslo-freedom-forum-oslo-2024/financial-freedom-track/ https://image.nostr.build/d28e114986bc3c066b1afd66d59e4c9057f96f78ac48347f4df70216358830c5.jpg


Yeah, I do hope they stop before employe ~10 or so...


Had to send the funds from my Phoenix wallet somewhere and SNI is a resource I frequently use.  Can't wait to see the redesign! https://image.nostr.build/3afd2538b3564897fe6bff7136fad114846862ec1930a7949164ae5aa87d45bd.jpg


No, just intimidate the majority into compliance and then deal with - or ignore - the few remaining holdouts.


That's a pretty standard trick to claim jurisdiction afaik.


I think they understand it quite well and have gotten better at their attack.


It seems the DoJ and CoinCenter disagree on what the guidance means AND the DoJ argues that the guidance may not apply to Tornado Cash AND even if it did, it's just guidance.


This CoinCenter article offers a nice summary of what the main legal argument about.

Their confidence gives some hope, but keep in mind that the DoJ response to their earlier amicus brief is the whole reason everyone is very not-optimistic.
https://www.coincenter.org/dojs-new-stance-on-crypto-wallets-is-a-threat-to-liberty-and-the-rule-of-law/


Stress is bad for my memory:-)


It's time for Lightning⚡ and it's time for BOLT12🔩
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As of today, OCEAN miners can attach a BOLT12 offer to their #Bitcoin address and get paid out over Lightning!

BOLT12 offers allow us to request multiple invoices for any amount while only requiring the miner to set things up once.

Miners simply sign a message containing the offer using the private key associated with their Bitcoin address.

Using BOLT12 also allows us to prove to the world that a payment was made, the size of the payment, the node to which it was paid, and that it was paid by us.

This means we can continue to offer fully transparent and verifiable pooled mining while no longer being restricted by the base layer!

Using the Bitcoin stack to its fullest is how we eliminate the need for trust and bring sovereignty to mining.

https://ocean.xyz/docs/lightning

https://newsdirect.com/news/ocean-innovates-bitcoin-miners-offered-first-ever-lightning-payouts-using-bolt12-946331135


> First you deny that they are moved by any solid principle

Correct, their true motive is just to stop all the privacy. But that's not their current legal argument. The latter is what courts deal with.

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with their lawyers. I responded to the post above which makes a legal extrapolation which the prosecutor more or less explicitly deals with. It doesn't hurt if lawyers try it anyway, but if we just post something like that and move on to work on other things, then two years later the case is lost and we're all surprised.


(But very unlike maintainers, our job is not make their lives easy)


And one way you do that is by studying what prosecutors are saying. They have a 99% success rate, and an incentive to keep it that way. With all due to respect to criminal defense lawyers, their success rate is much lower and they'll get new clients even if they lose.


You're taking the analogy too far. My point is that we need to come up with quality legal arguments rather than cool sounding quips that get retweets but don't survive two seconds in a courtroom.


Are you reorging 3 years deep or just making the chain even longer?


There are few lawyers out there with the skill and inclination to defend self custody and financial privacy. Most of those will get hire by Joe Lubin to protect the shitcoin casino against the SEC instead.

We need to treat them as a scarce resource and give them useful information. They may be very creative but probably need our help to find entirely novel lines of attack. The collaboration between COPA and the Bitcoin devs against CSW was a good demonstration of that.

In that light, one should read the DoJ document as if they were a grumpy maintainer closing your Github issue because you didn't search for existing issues, didn't say which commit you ran on, etc.

That's also why I took dozens of pages of notes at the Dutch trial, mostly from the prosecutor argument. Thankfully in America you can just read transcripts online.


The document has a section on fair warning, mentioning Ross Ulbricht as an example. They don't believe they needed to.

I don't believe marketing matters that much. The DoJ mentions it because it works well for them with media and jury.

But Tornado Cash had very pro compliance marketing. Then they just went and looked for internal chats to find something to make them look like they don't care. If you're super careful about your chats, they'll send an undercover to a conference, get you drunk and then make you say something self-incriminating.

I think the only real metric is usage.


Keep reading the DoJ document, it explains why. We need to level up here.


* but -> which


I read the guidance a few times and understood it as meaning non-custodial mixers are not covered. I had not read the statute itself.

I also read through the DoJ argument here, but at minimum does not seem ridiculous. We'll have to see what a judge makes of it (or I guess a jury?).

Also best to improve the law to make it unambiguously privacy friendly ... good luck with that, then we wouldn't need cryptocurrency in the first place.


In the US case the profit motive seems quite important, so I wonder if a non-profit could run a mixer without fees.


I don't think there's any role for COPA here, they are about patents (pronounced with Australian accent) and copyright stuff.

But "others" would be good yes.


No, they seem to prioritize by volume, with special preference for things sanctioned countries use. Lightning is still in its 'bunch of nerds' phase. Even LSPs are, which will be a target long before your basement routing node is.

That said: best to not cede an inch of territory here! Push them right back to custodians or even further. That may take a Supreme Court or Congress though, neither particularly easy to influence.


It goes on and on for pages arguing that being non-custodial is completely irrelevant and FinCen guidance shouldn't be read that way. https://image.nostr.build/4521480f35d6383385c2e0d05860321c4553cc9a43551e9113f952910a4b4fc4.jpg


Let alone if you ask a DoJ lawyer...
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.604938/gov.uscourts.nysd.604938.53.0.pdf https://image.nostr.build/bc6813cbe0c8d8d50e96d7ef7104b8e46c8810e4acded1f923cc76980d50d8e3.jpg


The wallet project may have flopped, but this ten year old trailer has not lost relevance: https://youtu.be/Ouo7Q6Cf_yc


zksnacks is now prohibiting US citizens from using its coinjoin coordinator.

https://blog.wasabiwallet.io/zksnacks-now-blocking-u-s-residents-and-citizens/


* said


Unfortunately the EU is also attacking privacy, so there's something to be set for prioritizing the local frontline.


Entitlement is a sneaky thing, you might not even recognize it in yourself. At the same time, I suspect the silent majority already knows that it's up to them. And us Europeans will of course help where we can. nostr:note1dvh8qaxfaawnau68qle3thxvz3vx5jsyttuzxnd4279an7ykk3vqxhv4ph


Fkn love this  nostr:npub1nw5vdz8sj89y3h3tp7dunx8rhsm2qzfpf8ujq9m8mfvjsjth0uwqs9n2gn guy.

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


True, but there could still have been some bug that causes funds to end up in limbo when the coordinator disappears in the middle of complex task. But so far it sounds like there was no problem.


Note that the FBI took down the hosted Gitlab of Samurai.


Pfew that had me worried for a second: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/gitlab-backups-for-bitcoin-core-repository/624


That's an ongoing research topic, with some work in progress stuff. Google "delving bitcoin github" (I think the forum is down though...)


In theory yes, but the backend probably runs a slightly modified eclair with more bells and whistles.


* deterministic / reproducible builds


There are no privacy benefits to signature aggregation. The public keys are still visible on the chain.

It allows you to put slightly more transactions in a block, which may or may not actually make a difference for fees.

And thanks for listening!


Well, if it helps people write down their mnemonic and actually care about deterministic code, I suppose the FBI did us a favor i  those paragraphs.


Not long ago it was the Tornado Cash case but that was on Ethereum and largely brushed off by many Bitcoiners. Then it was the Bitcoin Fog case but that was custodial and again largely brushed off by many Bitcoiners.

To some, the trajectory has been clear for several years. Often times those warning of real and present dangers are met with skepticism and dismissed as FUDsters.

Yesterday it was Samourai Wallet, a non-custodial Bitcoin wallet with the ability to coordinate CoinJoins. If you brushed off Tornado Cash & Bitcoin Fog, don't make the same mistake this time.

The language used by the FBI is so broad and generalized in their PSA and their recent actions have been so over-reaching that it should now be crystal clear to any Bitcoiner that any Bitcoin wallet project not implementing KYC measures runs the risk of having the developers arrested for operating an unlicensed Money Services Business. Node projects and miners are not far behind.

The entire pretext to this narrative is false because Bitcoin is software, software is code, code is speech, and freedom of speech is a God-given right. Ask yourself, where do you draw the line? What rights are you willing to defend? And if push came to shove, how far are you willing to go to defend those rights?

"Give me liberty or give me death" are not hollow words because a life without liberty is not a life worth living. Many have already made the ultimate sacrifices and many more will follow in their foot steps. Every dialogue consists of a call and a response and right now the FBI is having a one-sided conversation. Make a stand and respond loudly and clearly that the erosion ends now.

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Anonymity against a dedicated state actor is hard. And getting features built and merged without the benefit of in person meetings and conferences is a huge handicap. It's possible but there's a price.

Bitcoin development is already slow, might slow down 10 - 100x  if the current crop of devs is killed (or fakes disappearance somehow) and new nyms have to take over.


You fail to understand the difference between something being and illegal and getting arrested. You are following the news?


Hope so, but my impression so far is that it's lots and lots of complexity, plus interactivity (with a coordinator?) for not that much savings.


Again, who coordinates this? Or do you have a protocol for decentralized coinjoin coordination for a full block? Not even JoinMarket can do that.


"should be able" leaves out the important question: who makes that possible for you and what risk are they taking. You can do it yourself, compile code yourself, etc.

You can also hope, but not demand, that someone else does that for you. But people offering such services have to make their own risk calculation. And that calculation changed a lot yesterday.


You don't have to convince me. You need to convince the US government. They have a habit of arresting people who offer such a service.


That last thing would be a one way ticket to jail. I'd prefer Craig outside of jail and productive. There's only so much developers can do to protect your human rights, others will have to do the rest (like suing the hell out of the US government).


Long shot, but if anyone has more information about William Hill AKA TDevD / @SamouraiDev (in particular, name/contact info of his lawyer if he has one), please let me know?

aaton@bitcoinmagazine.com
AaronvanW.71 on Signal


HRF’s Bitcoin Development Fund has made several grants to JoinMarket projects and contributors

Now would be a *great* time to apply for funding to do this kind of work!

Feel free to DM me if you need the link to apply


It should be legal to make money offering privacy. That alone is worth helping their defense. But you're right that governments don't like this, and will attack.


#Bitcoin privacy is under attack, but you guys are freaking out over jpgs.


Sooner than I expected, given that this is also a non-custodial service and the Tornado Cash trial still needs to determine what's "allowed". nostr:note1d9d9lwnxqmlj42kne9sqsh33s7e0dgtsuek3nwhzlyq3yqf8wdeslhag5c


There's still people getting paid in fiat?


Or just test and review mine: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28358


CALL ON  EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TO VOTE AGAINST EU AMLR PROPOSAL NOW!

Tomorrow the European Parliament is going to vote on its latest #EU #AMLR proposal.
Unfortunately, the Trilogue procedure led to the removal of all civil society recommendations, weakening the position of the only directly democratically-elected EU institution—the European Parliament.

This has resulted in:
🔻 a considerable reduction of financial freedoms & increased financial exclusion;
🔻heightened risks of abuse of the AMRL, including the exposure of EU citizens and residents to the potential misuse of their financial data by authoritarian regimes.

Additionally, as the EU sets global financial regulatory standards, the negative language in the AMLR about privacy payment tools, such as self-hosted wallets & mixers, could lead to restrictions on financial freedoms in third countries and increase the potential for financial repression by illiberal regimes.

See our Submission for more details: https://en.odfoundation.eu/a/725781,building-true-change-btc-coalition-submission-on-the-eu-proposal-for-a-regulation-on-the-prevention-of-money-laundering-or-terrorist-financing/


Running macOS 11 Big Sur in VirtualBox on a 2019 MacBook Pro so you don't have to. It's glacial. https://image.nostr.build/9155cfee6ac2e9628ee9a5791de27decd846fa69260f5457ae67257795a1f029.jpg


It's communist?


Oh, how low reddit has fallen. https://image.nostr.build/622df7890f8ef479e121d4a67102ac6ccfa014e3ec31564a59f077f203d71691.jpg


Oopsies 😇
Poor degens!
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🇬🇧 To enable #ChatControl mass surveillance, 32 European police chiefs call for halting end-to-end encryption #E2EE. This is an attack on our security and digital privacy in violation of fundamental rights!

More: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/police-chiefs-want-to-halt-secure-end-to-end-encryption-to-enable-chat-control-bulk-scanning-of-all-private-messages/

https://digitalcourage.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/315/651/402/641/437/original/dbadc7b93c44fbb1.jpg


Copied here because social media preview didn't work for me. https://image.nostr.build/c6fb2e9ed1f2957b37a18679e080c23f26476f95cf7fa114d396ad170b888168.jpg


Laser eyed tortoise! https://www.erisian.com.au/wordpress/2024/04/20/team-slow-and-steady


Looks like a nice canal to me...


This was really good: https://www.deathathletic.com


Live premiere of nostr:npub12qz56plzehejkyp4waaannmnny4y4c30j8q55a3wlk49haslga2snypdx8's "buy Bitcoin" song at nostr:npub1rjtrs7xqdvj3588r9njrexh2n750j7jdwx9qs543nutmdsj6ljaqpfmp8a :-)
https://youtu.be/Tk9KcsTJVGE


nostr:npub1kyxqqqq8n2pu7f5pthr48zqcmr2k52vrud6wxzjpg0jsqcyhs3tshfc6vv did anyone even try based on the stratum jobs?


$2.4M in fees up for grabs and nobody even tried to reorg? Lame...
https://mempool.space/block/0000000000000000000320283a032748cef8227873ff4872689bf23f1cda83a5


This block clock is still a bit inaccurate... but getting close #Warsaw https://image.nostr.build/cfd72d7fd46674cefddb07639e3463b354acaa591ca1706505f0c1216a77d4b8.jpg


Meatologia burger: APPROVED https://image.nostr.build/4d36ec7d2d300d57bcd5cb8381b02a7a0e79545ad3ebc60c9ff5a6ddd9cb0b1f.jpg


Already done!


The future of finance isn’t a seven hundred page securities contract prepared by a stadium’s worth of lawyers but a cartoon interpretation of digital currency that walks into a bandsaw every four years as dictated by an open-source protocol. https://m.primal.net/Hwnl.png


Stalin Gothic architecture: there's no second best! :-)

Really cool venue for nostr:npub1rjtrs7xqdvj3588r9njrexh2n750j7jdwx9qs543nutmdsj6ljaqpfmp8a and halving party. https://image.nostr.build/75ba7943f54f0a8b08456bad6414405004bbf080525ccc648c0e3fbbb92cc6a8.jpg


Of course the question is: what is a reset, really? Most likely Bitcoin Core gets a fresh -testnet4 and then drops support for the current testnet (3) in a later release.

That doesn't stop anyone from continuing to mine and degen on it, but they'll have to maintain their own fork of Bitcoin Core just like any other altcoin.


Testnet hasn't been reset in over a decade. People forgot. Time for another reset...
https://protos.com/halving-excitement-pumps-worthless-bitcoin-testnet/


True, though that's despite money printing, otherwise it would have been even more impressive.


Burger and fries (eating out) were a pretty good guess. European cars are way cheaper, though electric cars get close. Vacation is much cheaper, but it depends on your lifestyle and the number of travelers. Driving, eating out and tourism massively increased. Median salaries also went up, though nog enough to offset inflation. Minimum wage stayed behind, though that was intentional.


Nice! Wen beta? Wise charges about 0.5% and is nearly instant. They used to be cheaper.

SEPA automatic debits would be extremely useful. People use them for ~everything.


The last picture is what the new stadium looked like last fall: nostr:note129pj3vcyahquf4r97j2g5xed99ej5gs2qt5xayyp8fl58h4vhj7qwt03c2


Imo these roads should go underground rather than forcing pedestrians to hike down and up stairs through a tunnel, but that's a #HongKong thing. Very cool rectangular boring machine though: https://youtu.be/pwhUKp1esSQ?si=kijd3Jf6j0Vfa8il


Looking at the merkle branches that mining pools send to miners as part of stratum jobs, it's clear that the BTCcom pool, Binance pool, Poolin, EMCD, Rawpool, and possibly Braiins* have exactly the same template and custom transaction prioritization as AntPool.

 https://image.nostr.build/33d5ac0f59082e8fbb5d02ccd9a50dccea43327ae97e10db06effaede7f7c064.jpg

Stratum v1 jobs include (parts of) the coinbase transaction and the merkle branches a miner needs to compute the merkle root. If all branches are equal across pools, the block template is exactly the same.

This is a smaller merkle-tree with the stratum job branches highlighted.

 https://image.nostr.build/dab683037cc63f0e4805ae16561800dd342dd53dbb646c91e6c066044a51b2d6.jpg

Here, branch0 is the txid of the first transaction in the block after the coinbase.

In the AntPool/Binance/BTCcom/.. template, it's a manually prioritized transaction paying 9.03 sat/vbyte https://mempool.space/tx/c938e8027a7fba782a092695a53d37654021bf20df71ca91b4a6daa9198b0c73

Many of the other pools didn't prioritize a transaction and included the highest feerate transaction https://mempool.space/tx/96608dc747677d6dfbc3a2b37f8a0146abae132799b13c130066bd3716fdf91a paying 301 sat/vbyte. ViaBTC prioritized another transaction and has a vastly different template.

This indicates that F2Pool currently is not using the AntPool templates, even if they share the the same custody provider. We know from multiple occasions that F2Pool has been building their own templates (https://b10c.me/o11, https://b10c.me/o9, https://b10c.me/o8)

Note that SigmaPool and SecPool both seem to share the same template (distinct from AntPools template). Two names, but probably one pool.

Some overlap in the first branches of distinct pools is expected as these branches consist of few (usually high feerate) transactions. For example, Ocean's "default" and "core" templates overlap up to branch3. At least the first 15 tx (2⁴ - 1) in the template are equal.

* similar to EMCD in the picture, Braiins sometimes differs from AntPool in the later branches of the template. This could indicate they're only helping with AntPools transaction accelerator and directly syncing with AntPools mempool, causing occasional differences in templates.

I've heard speculation about this all being liked to an FPPS partnership with AntPool/Bitmain.

Bitmain insures against bad pool luck but you have to use Bitmains templates/transaction prioritization and pay the mining reward to the insurer for later distribution.

Essentially a pool of pools and a lot of mining centralization.


Looks more "offline" to me, but I like how the they use a gold Bitcoin logo. #poland https://image.nostr.build/08c18e22c968c4ea6efdcbb47fd98b8a48305d69d0f8c52b69a92201472f1afc.jpg


The "size" of the political statement is not my concern. More that it could have been a keylogger instead.


If it's indeed just an algorithm accident, that's one thing. But if an engineer did it as a protest, and it got through code review, that's a bit more concerning. Fortunately everything Apple does is open source and we can just check...


Any idea why it doesn't fetch my profile picture?


Aha! I guess you make the URL configurable.


There's already a share item, but that seems to try to open another app, rather than just give me a URL to paste. https://image.nostr.build/556fe955048fc77b81707cb78271680f46875447dac5e593e3ad08d692755445.jpg


Well in this case I meant getting a link to a note, and making sure that gets a nice preview if you share it on Twitter (or here).


Exactly.


Ouch https://image.nostr.build/99c76b5058cb70825766f4fa23d0d7777364c6e749a89bc1dde8f5206ec49b14.jpg


Craig Wright has discontinued his claims against Bitcoin developers (incl me) in the TTL case (where he was asking for a fork of bitcoin that seized random coins and gave him free money)!

https://www.reddit.com/r/bsv/comments/1c5mdv2/notice_of_discontinuance/


Oh wait, that wasn't for me :-)


I have a purple account and use testflight.


Great conversation.

Re social media: I like the arena vs. town square analogy.

Re productivity: Throttling the number of in-progress tasks, to reduce context switching, is tricky. I do occasionally prune my project list (in Omnifocus, #GTD), by either dropping things or setting a start date in the future.

https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/363-knowledge-work


What's the best Nostr event preview site and when can it be added to nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955? Found myself struggling today to quickly drop a link on X to an earlier post here.


The soul is priced at $12.23 these days? So much for inflation :-)


Say it ain't so...

> Because Ethereum developers realize the expansive and permanent power of AUTH instructions to the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), they have decided to limit the EOAs to which users may delegate their assets. Specifically, they have proposed limiting EOAs to a whitelist maintained by pre-approved wallet providers like MetaMask.

https://protos.com/ethereums-eip-3074-upgrade-could-let-wallet-makers-steal-your-money/


🚨New #leak on #ChatControl: EU interior ministers want to exempt themselves, police staff etc. from error-prone scanning, while searching our messages indiscriminately - outrageous! Read on:
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/leak-eu-interior-ministers-want-to-exempt-themselves-from-chat-control-bulk-scanning-of-private-messages/
#Pirates

https://digitalcourage.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/275/645/729/534/351/original/fdd5f160becde7b2.jpg


Which reminds me nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s, can you add "impersonation" as a category? Ideally with a guess of who is being impersonated. I'd also like to block them from the same screen. https://image.nostr.build/4acd088eb0346594e0f95da2a3670d6aad0e5317d6fe2fadf2142680c715a1e7.jpg


Impersonation


I have many issues with these laws, but my point here is that this behavior had nothing to do with the law. It was discrimination and extortion with no legal basis.


Die hebben hun aanval niet twee weken van tevoren via de pers en met tig diplomatieke telefoontjes aangekondigd. En deze keer was niet het halve leger met verlof omdat ze blind vertrouwden op automatische verdediging (en te druk waren met de west oever).


Works!


It's only a few minutes old, maybe that's related?


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Arguably it was carefully calculated and negotiated to avoid escalation: impressive enough to make Iran look strong, soft enough that the Iron Dome (with some help) could stop it. Spending $1.1B to prevent a war that costs trillions is a good deal. World peace would be nice of course, saves us all a bunch of money - and lives.


Another might be for relayers to offer a paid CloudFlareless option.


I should probably go through my relay list and remove the ones that use CloudFlare - and probably pay for ones that don't.

I totally understand its utility - and I get that info on relays is public anyway - but it's as close to just having the NSA run a relayer as one can get. Especially if you let them handle SSL encryption.


Dutch podcast interviews a few victims of obvious discrimination by ING. They sent a small payment to someone whose first name is the Arab equivalent of "John", and were hit with KYC questions. Both initially refused, but when ING threatened to close their bank account they relented.

They also interview a compliance supervisor at the bank who basically gave the "I'm just following orders" excuse, and is sorry that the victims "feel" discriminated.

The "explanation" given, though ING doesn't confirm it, is that there is some random terrorist out there with the same first name, so they ask everyone who mentions that name for full details. ING then pretends that the law requires this, because there's a "risk". This is utter nonsense in my opinion, and it would never happen if a terrorist had a common Dutch or English first name.

Banks are playing a cynical game here. They know they get a fine if they don't do sufficient anti-terrorism screening. They can probably use these nonsense investigations as a legal defense, using their customers as human shields. Meanwhile they know they'll never be prosecuted for discrimination, or extortion for that matter.

Bitcoin fixes this, but personally I'd like to see these Gestapo compliance officers, and their bosses, behind bars.
https://www.nporadio1.nl/podcasts/argos/106152/discriminatie-of-terrorismebestrijding


Interesting perspective on the latest thing. 300 projectiles is apparently more than Russia ever managed to fire at Ukraine in a single strike. And, more worrying, not a single European country could have defended itself against this.

Where does one buy an Iron Dome? :-) https://image.nostr.build/a754cd43d77939875f2bffc3a4d0cd54b78a21cd77184652ea083f576713e780.jpg


Interesting. Which clearnet relays do this onions map to?


Perhaps someone can do a writeup on the main source(s) of pain when it comes to Tor relay support. Fixing that (all over the place) might be a good grant topic? nostr:note1mwrm0hffg7pswdtuhmcjk9qeuf7m67j3jvj6chufcvhxzmfr2mpsefxl54


I'm looking forward. Lightning channels not* affected.

I plan to make an AssumeUTXO snapshot at whichever block eventually wins (and maybe one for the losing block to see if that's handled correctly).

* = unless there's some really poor reorg handling bug


I went on a nice three hour pleb walk today: https://www.meetup.com/nl-NL/bitcoin-lab-berlin/events/300026924/


"Please click on the entity that has NO fur"
- Deutsche Bahn captcha https://image.nostr.build/63882397c32ae405c4184f2fbe48ebb3cef861fc8241a0c942b369bc1745f345.png


Those work fine, but you're not running Bitcoin Core v0.5


Who you think taught you to render these?


Some caffeine #ClubMate #Berlin https://image.nostr.build/1f5a8c4ea4f00e4a13f86c78c7d008961ae754840bcf8b3d8f16353cd9359569.jpg


Just tell them to install a 10 year old version of Bitcoin Core and keep their life savings in a hot wallet? If they refuse, you won the argument. If they don't refuse, they lose their stash and their opinion no longer matters :-)


If you're not too busy with ossification, consider checking if your node is accepting incoming connections. This sometimes works automatically via NAT-PMP, but may require manually forwarding port 8333.


Do they want to ossify these bugs too? https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/great-consensus-cleanup-revival/710


nostr:npub1r8l06leee9kjlam0slmky7h8j9zme9ca32erypgqtyu6t2gnhshs3jx5dk trying break the nostr news on X has to explain why Jack name is Dan 😂
https://i.nostr.build/xE4wV.png


In Bitcoin, Explained 92, nostr:npub1s6z7hmmx2vud66f3utxd70qem8cwtggx0jgc7gh8pqwz2k8cltuqrdwk4c and I explain what's new in the upcoming Bitcoin Core 27.0 release.

👂👇

https://bitcoinexplainedpodcast.com/@nado/episodes/episode-92-bitcoin-core-27-0-c4wla/embed/light


Chip manufacturing is quite fascinating...
https://youtu.be/hyZlQY2xmWQ


Eclipse, earthquake, orthodox easter, the halving... rapture time? :-) nostr:note194ejarv64xxw5cxj2j9psvz6alfsskltv24dm6c58d2h7d9vyceqt89g7x


Well, *everything* was excluded :-)


Are people aware that dogs are a domesticated species that co-evolved with us to do pretty much whatever we want? That includes tolerating a pedicure, rather than biting our head off for it.


It's been almost two weeks since phoenixd was announced. Wen nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg integration?
https://phoenix.acinq.co/server


CITADEL DISPATCH 123: PHOENIX WALLET AND SERVER WITH CEO PIERRE

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


Blij dat ik:
1) geen TV heb
2) een eigen modem heb

Hoe ver het ook is, de spyware is altijd dichtbij.


HRF is excited to announce the CISA Research Fellowship 🎉

Cross-Input Signature Aggregation (CISA) is a proposed upgrade to Bitcoin that could potentially enhance privacy and provide cost-savings for transactions

HRF is sponsoring a four-month research fellowship to help analyze the state and future of CISA

The product of the fellowship will be an industry paper that seeks to answer the following questions:

1) How could CISA improve Bitcoin privacy?
2) Exactly how much cost-savings could CISA provide across different types of transactions? This will include a comparison of full versus half aggregate implementations.
3) How meaningful might these cost savings be to different industry participants? Given historical precedent, could these cost savings make Taproot the default script type, as Native Segwit is today?
4) Could CISA, if adopted widely, reduce the effectiveness of chain analysis?
5) Could CISA pave the way for cheaper transactions in a high-fee environment?
6) Could CISA lower the minimum economically spendable account at a given fee rate?
7) Could CISA help exchanges by, for example, saving them money while they consolidate small UTXOs?
8) How does CISA compare to other aggregation strategies?
9) Are there any ways in which CISA could help upgrade or complement the Lightning Network, eCash, or existing CoinJoin mechanisms?
10) How might CISA protect the social and legal choice of Bitcoin users and businesses to CoinJoin, and the likelihood of more CoinJoin behavior, if users could state (if asked) that their decision was based on saving money, not simply seeking more privacy?
11) How would Bitcoin Core need to change to integrate CISA? Are there any known current improvement proposals?
12) How would SegWit need to change to integrate CISA?
13) Could CISA be packaged with (and might it be mutually beneficial with) any existing softfork convent proposals?
14) Would CISA have any impact on output destruction versus creation? How would implementation relate to the witness discount?
15) How problematic would the interactive nature of full aggregate CISA be? What strategies might be adopted to ameliorate this?
16) What would be the main downsides and risks of bringing CISA to Bitcoin?
17) How would a CISA-powered for-profit service that could help people save money on fees, if they are willing to enter an interactive pool, work?
18) What other kinds of CISA-powered apps can be envisioned?

The fellowship is being created with the acknowledgement that CISA may not be a helpful or appropriate addition to Bitcoin, but with the open mind that it might be

The fellow will receive 50 million sats to support their efforts during the research and writing period

The research is expected to be on par with the standards established by bitcoinrollups.org, a previous HRF research fellowship paper reviewing rollup technology

To apply, please email cisafellowship@hrf.org before May 15, 2024

Please include relevant information about your industry or academic background, a research plan in terms of who you will speak to, and your current sense of the impact CISA could have for Bitcoin 🙏


All you ever wanted to know about splicing... nostr:npub18hwpk5qep3ptnmzatq22ptwr9mth7ccrku56rdntwpxjxlkfyr2qrav8du joined nostr:npub1art8cs66ffvnqns5zs5qa9fwlctmusj5lj38j94lv0ulw0j54wjqhpm0w5 and me again this week to explain all about it.

I also provide a brief update on the Tornado Cash trial (ep. 69) and provide a hot take on the recent op_return block gravity by MARA (how it might relate to ep. 84).
https://bitcoinexplainedpodcast.com/@nado/episodes/episode-91-splicing-qh8g9


My understanding was that cyclists and other drivers are significantly less happy? Though it's not like human drivers in SF are amazing.
https://art19.com/shows/the-urbanist-agenda/episodes/9e713263-e5e3-4db2-b290-ed85b0b7e959


Don't tell their manager... two years of infiltration wasted, not good for promotion opportunities.
(Or staying alive, if this was North Korea)


As a reminder: https://slowmist.medium.com/slowmist-analysis-of-the-targeted-supply-chain-attack-on-bitpays-copay-757296853dd4


Guix would have prevented that last ingredient - any exploit would have to be in the publicly auditable build code. But that doesn't mean we can just chill now.
https://bitcoinexplainedpodcast.com/@nado/episodes/why-open-source-matters-for-bitcoin-nado-21


This attack reminds me of the Copay backdoor in an NPM sub-sub-sub-dependency. But this is next level. The partially lived in the code, added by "just some tests" commits - that didn't contain executable code.

They were then activated by something the rogue maintainer snuck into the release binaries. nostr:note159ur4n6p7nm88h6xes29klhtftg0wfkeljy3lf3nnzu2r9qaerhs3xugec


The github comments on the first commit say that this was a rogue maintainer who had behaved well for two years.


Which if true could mean that updating your system now might actually pull in the exploit, if this isn't shipped for the particular distro.


Impressive how this was caught within three weeks of the first malicious commit.


Looks like someone managed to get a backdoor into ssh in Fedora and Debian testing. Patch systems ASAP.
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4


Poetic analogies aside, it's interesting how - for legal reasons beyond my understanding, presumably to avoid having to wait too long for a response - COPA was tasked here not only to make their own claim, but also to do their best to steel-man possible counter arguments from CSW "full and frank disclosure" and address them.


"In my judgment it is no answer for a defendant to come to the
court to say that his horse may have bolted before the gate is shut and
then to put that forward as a reason for not shutting the gate.
...
However, if the court is satisfied about those matters in favour of the claimant,
there is no reason why the court should not shut the gate, however late
the application, in the hope, if not the expectation, that some horses
may still be in the field or, at the worst, a miniature pony."

Even a freezing order requires 14 pages of prose in the UK, but anyway...
https://bitcoindefense.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/COPA-v-Wright-WFO-Approved-Judgment-28.03.2024.pdf


An important and often overlooked part of car reviews!
https://youtu.be/VLV-4HMrAz0


Maybe also add a link to the new article at the top of the old one, plus something like your own quote: "I have no reason to believe that the [LionLink Networks] AS is involved with LinkingLion entity other being the common factor in announcing the IP addresses used by the LinkingLion entity."

Seems like a good gesture and may help please the SEO gods.


Update on LinkingLion: Reduced activity and a statement by LionLink Networks
https://b10c.me/blog/013-one-year-update-on-linkinglion/


Play stupid games...
https://protos.com/telegram-trading-bots-force-crypto-traders-to-sacrifice-self-custody-for-ux/


I don't get why nostr:npub18d4r6wanxkyrdfjdrjqzj2ukua5cas669ew2g5w7lf4a8te7awzqey6lt3 assigns 100% health to the block
https://mempool.space/block/0000000000000000000341cc26cda4af82cd25f7063c448772228cbf2836915b

It's completely filled with op_return stuff.

But it seems that they measure 'health' only by intentional exclusion.

The audit view is clear though: https://image.nostr.build/d384575d028deb45c8bea3e7f2efe8ddd95ef86612563b7875b59d8d4b599348.jpg


About the invalid block, which put transactions in the wrong order: https://bitcoinexplainedpodcast.com/@nado/episodes/episode-84-marathon-pool-s-invalid-block-and-some-updates-about-the-show-azfmk


Aha, so that's probably what Marathon was trying to do last fall when they mined the invalid block (because who needs testnet): https://protos.com/you-can-now-mine-rather-than-inscribe-a-square-bitcoin-block-image/


Useful ethical framework for piracy: https://youtu.be/7yo8av6w4sc


Coffee on me ☕

Coffee on me ☕


The phenomenon that banks crawl social media in order to de-risk (potential) customers is quite concerning. I believe nostr:npub13ajk3hhvqys2ev4y68jwxywgs8fsdsuk4y5gkzs874jdyrccvf5qak2yd9 recently pointed out in nostr:npub1r8l06leee9kjlam0slmky7h8j9zme9ca32erypgqtyu6t2gnhshs3jx5dk's podcast how thug-states use this to unbank their political opponents abroad: just create a bunch of fake news on junk news aggregators in random languages and a bank algo will pick it up.


Interesting read about defamation suits and what might motivate them: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2024/03/26/tether-shareholder-christopher-harbornes-suit-against-the-wall-street-journal-and-threats-to-blogs/


Meta thread: https://twitter.com/provoost/status/1773269987672609037


Will at some point probably post here, but see my threads on X @provoost about the Pertsev trial that I attended today and yesterday.


I'm fairly sure I never did a podcast with Udi?


You mean the ECB is working on hiring a project manager for a proposal for a tender for a meta study... take your time :-)


I'm guessing the original owner reported them stolen and gave the police the estimated value. But then when they raid a place, they might not know for sure if they found (all) the missing machines.


I've had that happen to a glass Club Mate bottle once. Fortunately it did not explode, which somewhat surprised me give that ice needs more space than water.


The lame part is that £3 billion refers to todays price. This #heistflation needs to stop. It's merely 61.000 BTC which at the time in 2018 was worth around £0.5 billion give or take.


'Zhimin Qian dreamt that the Dalai Lama would anoint her a reincarnated goddess and that she go on to become the Queen of Liberland, an unrecognised micronation on the Danube, where she would build the biggest Buddhist temple in Europe.'

(if you hit a paywall it may help to google the title and then follow the link there) nostr:note1lceskm8qq7885jqd84dfaen0dr8tygjsaujxd7z8dnn6483g2d2s86h6aa


Strong dejavu. We've had the Kidnap List (Ultimate Beneficial Ownership - UBO) in Europe for several years already. Initially they wanted to make it publicly searchable. In any case it's guaranteed to end up on the darknet.

Jellen is old. Better to sue individual FATF members, who are ultimately behind this crap - and are attacking bitcoin too.


Mmm, second time in 48 hours that a reply I posted with Damus for iPad vanished. It seems to have fewer relays than iOs too.


Strong sense of dejavu since Europe has been doing this ultimate beneficial ownership database (UBO) thing for many years now. Initially they wanted it publicly searchable. It was often named the Kidnap List, because that's it's main use case. It also includes charities which rich people often put in the name of their children.

Safe bet this will all be on the darknet. The moral: if you want privacy, stop being an entrepreneur, don't ever create jobs!


This goes into more detail: https://protos.com/takeaway-worker-guilty-of-laundering-billions-with-bitcoin/


2022 was een lage uitzondering vanwege de oorlog. 2023 is ongeveer de inflatiecorrectie voor 2021 :-)

Maar vanaf 2024 is het number go down!


Leuker kunnen we het niet maken, wel makkelijker: https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/bldcontentnl/belastingdienst/zakelijk/overige_belastingen/belastingen_op_milieugrondslag/tarieven_milieubelastingen/tabellen_tarieven_milieubelastingen


blah_at_blah.social@mostr.pub in that example


nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s feature request of the day: if I search for something that's obviously a mastodon user @blah@blah.social AND I use the Mostr relay, try to find the user there.


The Sterlingov case Daubert ruling makes for an interesting read. We'll see what happens in the appeal. Its goal IIUC is to determine if evidence is admissible, not that it's conclusive. So the bar is a bit lower.

My initial impression after reading is that the defense tried to bite off more than it could chew, by trying to dismiss Chainalysis for all the things, rather than focus on the specific transactions that (allegedly) link him to the admin role.

It seems reasonable to expect that they can roughly trace flows between individual darknets and mixers.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.232431/gov.uscourts.dcd.232431.259.0.pdf https://image.nostr.build/fa9d12758fb8cc39cf70caeab5ddac32aeaffa4af608ec33035011e739715005.jpg


Set up a wireguard between them, as per your own blog :-)


Youtube comments can be 'censored' by the uploader and they're sorted by popularity rather than (and attempt at) assessed quality, so they're not good enough for the job of separating wheat from chaff.


Youtube should add something like community notes where people can point out factual errors or misleading, if any. Ditto for any censorship resistant alternative.


That looks wrong. It was around €0.15 / kWh last year. But there's also a fixed deduction independent of use, so perhaps this is the net tax?


Depends on your goals. Is it only to protect yourself or do you want to take stand? In the latter case one might buy coins at twenty exchanges, send it to a mixer and sue any that ask questions about it, because they were evidently spied on with no legal basis. No idea what the odds of winning. But the impact of winning could be similar to the Austrian guy who got Facebook to send him his data. Alternatively you end on a no fly list, who knows :-)


If by "we" you mean bitcoiners, then perhaps yes. But if you mean the Dutch then you should realize that this proposal could have been vetoed by the Dutch government. Instead they probably lobbied FOR it.


Trying Iris for a bit, but I would like the ability to filter notifications to show replies only. Otherwise it's hard to find stuff with all the likes and zaps! #humblebrag


You're still assuming presumption of innocence exists. It doesn't for AML/KYC. You're presumed guilty if they can't fully trace your coins.


They wouldn't be. But let's say you buy Bitcoin and then open a channel. You might get annoying compliance question, because they can't surveil you anymore. They might close your account. This can lead to self-censorship.

In that sense lightning has similar properties "anonimity-enhanced" coins. Which is good! (plus politically speaking, it's hard for them to argue against "I use it because it's cheaper and faster, it just happens to also be more private")


Love it!

Love it!


Zaaaaapppp ⚡

Zaaaaapppp ⚡


In other words: the duty to do compliance stuff is not retroactive. But the compliance people can look as far back in history as they see fit.


Laws are generally not retroactive. But here's the thing: if you mix your coins now and send them to an exchange in 5 years, they might freeze them and ask annoying questions - because that's what that law forces them to do. That's already a risk today.


Don't count on that. 99% of the population does not give a fuck about privacy. Probably 80% doesn't truly care about democracy, they merely have a preference for it. Freedom has always been a minority obsession and fight.


I know, I gave up and went to sleep...


Wonderful. Though I like* to alternate and only do morning caffeine one or two days per week.

* = which often fails, especially if I'm stocked up on Club Mate nostr:note1zqvz8a449qlpfw9vlws538thl76qk0lcen4zdddcd8h4p3lxfzpq56c224


* haven't had to use


"unfortunately" this winter has been so mild and my house is so well insulated that I only got to run it three times in January.  Since then I've had to use *any* heating.


I use Home Assistant and this: https://github.com/Schnitzel/hass-miner


The fun part is that you can program an S9 to act as a space heater at the cheapest hours. Especially if your home is well insulated and it doesn't matter at what time of day you do the heating.