NEW: HRF gifts ~19 BTC ($505,000) via its Bitcoin Development Fund to support 15 projects worldwide 🌍

Targeting:

🎁 Global education
🎁 Bitcoin Core
🎁 DLCs on lightning
🎁 E-cash
🎁 Scholarships

You can learn more in this exclusive from Bitcoin Magazine: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/human-rights-foundation-donates-over-500000-to-15-global-bitcoin-projects

Grant #1: $50,000 to Furszy for his work on Bitcoin Core, where he is a top 10 contributor.

Funding will support his essential contributions to enhancing Bitcoin Core’s software stability, performance and security by reviewing PRs, and fixing bugs 🚀

https://github.com/furszy

Grant #2: $50,000 to summer of bitcoin to support their incredible summer fellowship program
The 2023 program featured more than 10,000 applicants from more than 70 countries

Grant #3: $50,000 to Jarol for his work on Bitcoin Core
Jarol will use funding to review PRs and fix bugs in Bitcoin Core; expand developer education; improve the Bitcoin Core App; and help bring full nodes to mobile phones

Grant #4: $50,000 to Vinteum for their work on expanding open source Bitcoin work in Latin America and Brazil.

Funding will support Bitcoin Core developers, foster Bitcoin communities, and build a Bitcoin Core developer pipeline education program in Latin America.

Grant #5: $50,000 to Gee Deer for his work on lightning native stablecoins and Bitcoin Core.
Gee’s proposed stablecoin will use Discreet Log Contracts to reduce counterparty risk and maximize decentralization ⚡
https://github.com/D33r-Gee

 Grant #6: $50,000 to the Kawaakibi Foundation to build a MENA Bitcoin Hub.

The MENA Bitcoin HUB will educate activists, journalists, and nonprofits on using Bitcoin to transact freely and receive international donations and hold their money securely and privately.

Grant #7: $50,000 to Justin Moeller for his work on Fedimint
Justin will focus on implementing a database migration mechanism to allow guardians to upgrade their Fedimint servers seamlessly.

Grant #8: $25,000 to D++ for her international educational initiatives and work on FOSS projects.

D++ will use funds to do international education, running a free Bitcoin bootcamp, and maintenance of Bitcoin Core and FOSS Projects.

Grant #9: $25,000 to Bitcoin Ekasi for their efforts to build a circular Bitcoin economy in South Africa.

Funds will support the onboarding of new local businesses to Bitcoin and the operation of a center to teach practical skills and Bitcoin knowledge to the local community 🇿🇦

Grant #10: $25,000 to Amiti for her work on Bitcoin mentorship, ADDRMAN, and Bitcoin Bytes.
Funds will support Amiti as she mentors Bitcoin Core contributors, improves ADDRMAN to increase the security and privacy of Bitcoin nodes, and builds Bitcoin Bytes.

Grant #11: $25,000 to Ben Perrin for international Bitcoin education.

Funding will allow Ben to create educational materials and conduct in-person and virtual workshops to teach dissidents and NGOs how to use Bitcoin safely and securely 🔏

Grant #12: $25,000 to La Librería de Satoshi to make technical education accessible to as many Spanish-speakers as possible.

Funding will be used to create Bitcoin and lightning courses, enabling Spanish developers to become Bitcoin Core Contributors.

Grant #13: $10,000 in travel grants to TabConf, a technical Bitcoin conference that took place in Atlanta, Georgia on September 6-9.

Grant #14: $10,000 in travel grants to Satsconf, the largest Bitcoin conference in Brazil taking place in Sao Paulo, Brazil from November 2-5 🇧🇷

Grant #15: $10,000 in travel grants to btc plus plus, a Bitcoin developer conference focused on Nix and software reproducibility taking place in Berlin, Germany from October 6-7 🇩🇪

HRF is proud to support a diverse range of projects to make Bitcoin a better global tool for human rights.
Since early 2020 we’ve supported more than 95 projects globally with more than $3.2M in USD and BTC gifts.

Submit proposals at dev dot fund @ hrf dot org
Donate and learn more at https://hrf.org/devfund


MaraPool mined an invalid block at 809478 on mainnet. I observed the block on 9 out of 9 nodes.

ERROR: ConnectTip: ConnectBlock 000000000000000000006840568a01091022093a176d12a1e8e5e261e4f11853 failed, bad-txns-inputs-missingorspent, CheckTxInputs: inputs missing/spent

https://void.cat/d/3XxZTGnzrUdNhxHkCJ5ENg.webp


They have more tools.


Bonus pictures.
https://image.nostr.build/9ff183b1f25bbd24d43110759df500d729b38c3c2fdb12abcc574575a92158be.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/72d7a1acad4baca36e2de6a3ae4ab5377fdfec55e1bffbfb4761aca7962074eb.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/2035d152442196a9c4aba5606da5192f1336b8f85261d9ba3edbfeba7d894598.jpg


It's not clear how these are related, but it would make sense if they are.
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> “Once the EU Survivors taskforce is established and we are clear on the mobilised survivors, we will establish a list pairing responsible survivors with MEPs – we will ‘divide and conquer’ the MEPs by deploying in priority survivors from MEPs’ countries of origin,” its advocacy strategy reads

Abusing children to manipulate decision makers. Text book pedophrasty.
https://medium.com/incerto/pedophrasty-bigoteering-and-other-modern-scams-c84bd70a29e8


Direct link to the #ChatControl corruption article: https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the-eus-fight-over-scanning-for-child-sex-content/


🇬🇧Shocking investigative research: Behind the "NGO" child protection campaign pro #ChatControl is actually an influential network with
🕷law enforcement
🕷USA and UK
🕷Lobby firm
🕷PR agencies and PR strategy
🕷Millions of foreign money
Read this and act! https://twitter.com/mer__edith/status/1706258069414350882?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon


My guess is they're theocrats, using whatever tools they have to undermine democracy.


They're behind these ads?


It could very well be a foreign country that likes to have this feature to surveil their own population, but there are plenty of evil people in the US alone more than happy to do this. Important to name and shame them.


Enemies of democracy.

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TIL Hal Finney's RPOW system relied on remote attestation. Clients could check that the central server was running the right software (of course we now know this doesn't work).
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/finney/rpow/security.html


Some pics of Terceira island, Azores.

https://image.nostr.build/08c61e9046290ee578d5dfd7b4544bf3e7f2f0e7bfe80424a4d754a66c9b5493.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/d6eb1c3985409a0abffb1a9691ea65f17d965d859633bf3e7a1c80490b2bd200.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/ebdc19b26c6d63ad58f37161aa19a5e6d5f998804be5685b798f6ca4e4f4387d.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/200da69beb0a0350271daf6828eb914e105d73d72e076fd60bd3b2048a98a0ce.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/c95df5e83b3af7acca639f935f27fbac362efe14bd121ef2c8557fae407b114e.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/37cf4311909f4b9df95997b83b52c139c20e5f628e3a821ecfcaacf362d59671.jpg


Direct link to the verdict (in Dutch): https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/#!/details?id=ECLI:NL:RBAMS:2023:5425


Interesting Dutch court case:
* customer of custodian wallet lost coins due to their own email getting hacked
* custodian had reminded customer to turn on 2FA, but he/she didn't
* judge decides that custodian has to refund 90% (only allocating 10% to the customers fault)

The main argument here is that the situation is similar to fiat banking, where a bank is expected to protect its customers to a very large extend, and generally has to pony up the money if things go wrong. In this case the custodian should have made 2FA mandatory, and knowingly took the risk of not doing so.

This sets a huge precedent for custodians that should dramatically increase their costs. Which makes self-custody more attractive. Which is good for Bitcoin.
https://bitcoinmagazine.nl/nieuws/bitcoin-meester-moet-3800-euro-terugbetalen-nadat-account-van-klant-is-gehackt


Always a good idea to update your devices before you go to a conference.

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Does it have direct flights to the Azores though? :-)


Very nice landing view too!
https://image.nostr.build/484aa6edfbf7885925fc14c39b07469fe4dd215a508052606c3d563fc75a1f7f.jpg


* without taxes


If you only listen to Bitcoin influencers, you'd think Canada is a green socialist paradise, but it's not :-) E.g. the airport train runs on diesel, companies get away with quoting prices with taxes and other unavoidable fees and train stations don't have lockers, leading some AirBnB like madness where you need an app, creditcard (==KYC) and Google Maps for the most basic stuff.

But otherwise is pretty cool. Some nice brutalist alternated with modern stuff.
https://image.nostr.build/8c53f3a2badd2d38215f3c2e32bb516ef033a1a3a86f98950e58f46a5c3e030d.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/bef954c9070abab8b5f379faadbc7e9cbfe38cfb9313c1c8a462a7cc00c6b040.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/331f5c5d010df24ce54b95db55d9d4b26ab3e1f9277e13b69187c9a525aa88aa.jpg

Obey!

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https://image.nostr.build/761eeea6609e845618e049d39079b33cf7d0ea1d14a99de7787573645ea0b687.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/a78447dd82782a5ab2eae5219dad33aa09dc027bd7ce9b160ca03248e5ddf649.jpg


So it was Paxos, not PayPal:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/paxos-confirms-responsible-for-500k-mistaken-bitcoin-transaction


From: nostr:npub1vxpwwydpmmc4usmxf2zkr8shdjq888g532ydyls3nadxxd9wyx5ssjq5nd


When Nostr Latex rendering?

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Just use ssh and scp?


Disappearing replies is always sad. I'm still a bit confused about the R_{...} notation.

So one important element here is that Alice never reveal an individual (secret) nonce, i.e. never reals k_{A1} or k_{A2}, but only some linear combination of both?


I also ended up adding a hex encode nsec though it immediately disappeared after submitting the form. But at least I seem to be able to zap myself and see it.


I'm thrilled to announce that I've joined the Human Rights Foundation as the Director of Financial Freedom.

I feel incredibly honored to have the chance to advance financial freedom globally by supporting open source Bitcoin development. 🌍

A huge thank you to HRF Leadership for entrusting me with this role. I'm humbled to contribute to HRF's noble mission. 🙏

I'm excited to collaborate closely with Alex Gladstein, Arsh Molu, and Alex Li. Be sure to follow them as we strive to create a significant impact through Bitcoin.

Now, it's time to roll up our sleeves and get to work! 💪


Zapping me from web should work now too...


The solution for me was to enter a bunch of relays. I tried that before, but it didn't save them. This time it did.


Looks like I fixed zap confirmations the BTCPay side.

That leaves the CORS error that web based zappers are gettinf.


Thanks for your thoughts!

By commitment I indeed meant the point, not the hash of a point. Since that commits to a secret. But in the context of how musig1 worked, that's probably not the best term.

I'm a bit confused by what R_{...}  means in this notation: R_{A1}+R_{B1})

Did you mean to add an extra closing curly bracket here: b * (R_{A2 + R_{B2})
So: b * (R_{A2 + R_{B2}})

Or did you mean: b * (R_{A2 + B2})

What I was wondering about is what happens if B1 = -A1 and B2 = -A2, and then Alice goes ahead and produces a partial signature.  In the case of b * (R_{A2 + R_{B2})  the aggregate nonce would be zero, but in the case of b * (R_{A2 + R_{B2}) the aggregate nonce can't be zero.

IIUC if Alice were to provide a partial signature with an aggregate nonce of 0 she'd reveal her private key? But if the aggregate can't be zero then that's not a concern. Or if the partial signature doesn't use the aggregate key, I guess it's also not a concern.


Sam Bak met Friet, die kende ik nog niet :-)
https://www.bnr.nl/podcast/cryptocast/10525097/crypto-update-dader-miljardenfraude-krijgt-20-jaar-cel


Doing my fair share now...


Didn’t someone recently release a relay that you can easily run locally for testing? What was it called again?


How is an apartment without an indivual fiber connection even legal?


Yeah, I didn't mean to say my specific straws contained PFAS.


it was PayPal lmfao

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/paypal-reportedly-overpaid-510750-in-the-largest-usd-bitcoin-transaction-fee-ever-


Pretty happy with my mobile setup so far.
https://image.nostr.build/ade4716409127aa54aed8e92ba7ed98adcee0fe021c6cb56a38791d1354f0e15.jpg

The laptop sits on a Roost, and will not fall over to the right without a significant push.

The iPad is clipped onto my Macbook with a Mountie. Connected via USB using Apple's sidecar feature. Since I carry an iPad anyway for reading and videos, not much weight and volume is added to my backpack (I do carry-on luggage only).

Now I just need something to put the the keyboard, mouse, roost, mounty and cable(s) in, so I don't forget one of them when going to a work space.


I've only seen paper ones so far, some of which contained PFAS. I did once get a straw made of pasta which was great.

https://image.nostr.build/5a37a4497ff90ec37aedbe94a19702e5b92d1923529fc3706beda803e7ce8dc9.jpg


This app requires and account and I doubt they take Bitcoin. So a better slogan might be: "KYC or Cash"
(this particular bus line is quite usefull, Starbucks, Bitcoin Park and even an Apple store). Though this area is very walkable too.

https://image.nostr.build/e5b38ba41fa69bfa8f4fbdfcff46521beb8d02d25f503d1d3e9dea7b1cdeb81f.jpg


Would it be illegal to smuggle some of these glorious plastic straws into the EU?
https://image.nostr.build/1cd94be5bbcda44dede8356e122dba7208c64eb34fadbd303b3a11ca34640220.jpg

In other news: on my way to #BitcoinPark!


Airlines are so bad :-)


Wie zonder genante tweets is, worde de eerste woordvoerder van Omtzigt.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2490201-omtzigt-ontslaat-binnen-paar-uur-nieuwe-woordvoerder-vanwege-taalgebruik


Zoals de maffia je kind even van school komt halen, zo worden hier ouders onder druk gezet om vooral niet nog een keer te demonstreren. Goed bezig als je doel is mensen te radicaliseren tegen de overheid!
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I'm purposely not posting this on Twitter.(please don't share there)

We are going to have our 6th conference sometime in Q4 of next year. TABConf 6 tickets are on sale for the next ~36 hours for $69.42.

- Support us early by getting a ticket for yourself.
- Become a hero and buy one for a pleb in need.
- Be a Rockstar and plan to participate next year and help with GitHub curation.

Let's build builders, let's build on Bitcoin, let's learn, let's educate, no pleb left behind, and everyone has the ability to contribute in some way.

https://checkout.opennode.com/p/d247c351-959f-4758-b8cb-da45c628a1a9


Ylva, leave them kids alone! Evidence shows that 80% of EU’s teenagers wouldn’t feel comfortable being politically active or exploring their sexuality under authoritarian #ChatControl. To keep children safe online, we first need to listen to them.
@GreensEFA https://t.co/We7s6JLfEM

https://digitalcourage.social/system/media_attachments/files/111/046/965/052/390/357/original/fe96f242130cab30.jpeg


Nice short hike too.

https://image.nostr.build/db5d1d52fdb77211f3f7d33d7591dadbc27d294020ad1185eda40b91e57d950c.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/c8e2e24f067e0eec0cf3ffb7da99784b8478ed4805d5b66e633a4683264d448b.jpg

With slighty Karen warning signs (the valley floor part about floods makes sense, but the normal route is less than 100m down).

https://image.nostr.build/2854cc914cfb7e92440004db99299e10dbe0812b3b1d4090849d7966c59745d1.jpg


Just the water going through that overflow should be enough to power my vintage S9, no?

https://image.nostr.build/19e1a89664ca0149a34860a9dad3098179502aaf6e6bdcf817b1dba2b98e8d07.jpg


Someone paid 8,182,079 sats/vbyte feerate, oooops...
https://mempool.space/tx/d5392d474b4c436e1c9d1f4ff4be5f5f9bb0eb2e26b61d2781751474b7e870fd


That was fun! Our team almost won the trivia quiz, but unfornatuly by the time of the tie-breaker session we had lost a few of our brains, and the brain of yours truly was slightly impaired by alcohol :-)

https://image.nostr.build/4a3eefdc1fb57e0328b60476d1a8ba58363596ce497eb1b7758d2c61c230beee.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/e5db382ac8fc459f4a8795389e4262a6254294b5872c4893c8b083a8fd761d2a.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/70c201448883111109bf872368e20be256441add875d6913db0342393696ff59.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/ed8cd80163971c55c5e605e2a525489a943d6d8aba0bcf44713bdc7ce16fa658.jpg


My guess is that the bad stuff is in Chrome not in Chromium. But haven't  checked, and you never know...


I only use Chrome for Google services and occasionally some web debugging. Google removed their Don't Be Evil motto many many years ago. This move is unsurprising. I wouldn't trust their Pixel hardware either ideally, but that's needed for GrapheneOS.

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Waarom is de burgermeester van Den Haag zoveel belastinggeld aan het verspillen? Regel gewoon een omleiding.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2489897-2400-demonstranten-onder-wie-tientallen-minderjarigen-opgepakt-bij-blokkade-a12


This really is the worst. Instagram started the trend with their hideous "log in or else" flow. Then Twitter and reddit went to insanely privacy-hostile API changes instead of simply requiring a proof of work or anon payment. Even some major nostr relays seem to be doing Tor blocking now (damus? Not sure, but I get a ton of errors connecting to certain relays via Tor.)

Platforms have become so fearful of bots/spam/scraping (or rather pretend to be fearful, so as to justify blatantly commercial and anti-social decision-making) that they've totally destroyed the open access model that a functioning freenet depends on.

This is the main reason I want to see "unowned" protocols succeed. Jack has it right: we're at a turning point.

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Question for nostr:npub1vadcfln4ugt2h9ruwsuwu5vu5am4xaka7pw6m7axy79aqyhp6u5q9knuu7 perhaps: what happens if in Musig2 Bob picks the negative of Alice's public nonce commitments and Alice doesn't detect this and goes ahead with producing a partial signature?  Does that give Bob her private key?


New month, new LTS grantee! nostr:npub1s6z7hmmx2vud66f3utxd70qem8cwtggx0jgc7gh8pqwz2k8cltuqrdwk4c is the latest bitcoin core developer receiving long-term support from OpenSats. Welcome, Sjors!
 https://opensats.org/blog/sjors-provoost-receives-opensats-lts-grant


Weird, I can't see it from Amethyst.


So that seems to be a (different) CORS issue when trying to zap from a web based client.
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Also just zapped myself, not seeing it yet.


Just updated BTC Pay and the Nostr pluging. Can someone zap me 1 sat and tell me if you see it reflected?


IIUC the fact that I redirect to (my own) nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg should mean that setting CORS headers is it's responsibility.  So maybe this is a bug on their end? https://image.nostr.build/354e5be203b7e675f558b3d02779a1400c1e6652fe8763da7966ee0ba5025ee7.png


(where "intention" is a bar perhaps as low as "disregard for the risk of")


And it's worse. IIUC the money laundering charge is *conspiracy*. So they needed to have the intention of someone using the UI to launder money, and take one concrete step towards it (like writing the code). If such a charge survives, even if a license wasn't needed, that's a problem.

The Netherlands doesn't even have a license system for this, so it's really just about the question whether or not this was (actual, not conspiracy to) money laundering.


That said, the DAO didn't control the core contract. So to the extend that the core contract was used *without* any of the ancillary tools (website, DAO controlled smart contracts) then you COULD still maintain you had no control over that activity.

Unfortunately the DoJ probably just needs to prove *one* money launderer using the UI (based on CloudFlare records or something) for the money laundering charge to hold.

So then the defense in the US would have to fall back on the non-custodial side of things. At minimum they didn't need a license.


While I'm sharing a wish list: a way to render a full thread. I'll manually paste in the note ids if needed.


Ik heb zelf een dynamisch tarief voor stroom, maar veel mensen willen voorspelbare energiekosten. Feitelijk kopen ze daar een complex financieel product voor. Energieleveranciers zijn eigenlijk gewoon een soort hedgefondsen / verzekeraars. Misschien zouden ze zich meer zo moeten profileren. VanDeBron doet nu alsof zij de lasten van de netbeheerder op hun schouders hebben.


Big shout out to #[0] for what is to me unquestionably the best public discussion yet about the (potential, and .. actual) evils of chain analysis:

https://www.podpage.com/citadeldispatch/cd100-the-disturbing-chainalysis-led-prosecution-of-roman-sterlingov-with-mike-hassard-and-tor-ekeland/

Seriously, get past the bad audio and listen to the whole thing. This bitcoinfog case is incredible. If you didn't previously understand the mechanics, and how seriously bitcoin surveillance software is being misused in the legal system, this will educate you.

Btw #[1] I know you've done a lot of investigative work in this area, would love to hear your thoughts on it.

An important nuance on the technicals: remember there is a difference between efficacy for *investigation* and the ability to prove something. Bitcoin's basic privacy is shitty specifically in that it can allow the former .. but not the latter.


Context for non-US people?


How many commits for a business class return flight and 5 star hotel though? :-)