If your Bitcoin price target isn't $♾, you don't understand Bitcoin.


Awesome! :)


Life do be like that sometimes


i'm just saying man some of us can aim pretty far. we don't need to stand directly below the blade.


What if you have long range


>memecoins
>cash out to fiat

Nothing has been learned. XD


This is the part when you realize you don't have enough Bitcoin.


All of them


Eggceptional!

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BASED pointers  nostr:npub1qdjn8j4gwgmkj3k5un775nq6q3q7mguv5tvajstmkdsqdja2havq03fqm7

https://x.com/luciascarlet/status/1854946503745585510


So far I haven't found a better example of how to caricaturize the infantile politics of the Germans.

#Germany #Germany #eu #energycrisis #GreenNewDeal #ampel https://files.sovbit.host/media/863f2c555276e9ed738933b0efee6b021042f16e1529dd755704885b87fee183/5317e66db01107d3f715461110fad0ac2c9360d3116394d5a71fdd442bd723bf.webp


Wtf wall-e IRL?


Sharp PoSo or Sharp Gs?


Reminder that ElSalvador is slowly eradicating systematic poverty the more bitcoin goes up in dollar terms.

Bukele will be regarded as a legendary head of state, even though adopting Bitcoin was merely the obvious choice.


The bigger the screen, the better. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise


Honestly didn't expect this from him. But I guess it's his second term and he will be going all out.


Why do you bring your phone in sauna? XD


xD


Using this for a trusted setup!
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#bullishNuts v0.2.49 adds ecash redemption to the scan QR code flow. Here it is in action with a cashuB token. 🫡

https://www.bullishnuts.cash
https://m.primal.net/LwPe.mov


Where are you surfing?


LaGrange proved the four square theorem in 1770.

We use that now in zero-knowledge range proofs.


The difference is now the state(s) are bending the knee to Bitcoin not vice versa.


Impressionante!


So many people building on cashu!
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Wow. Satoshi is an ecash enjoyer?


We've come a long way.


You're with the cool kids now


You cannot overperform the ballot printer that goes "brrrrr"


Free Ross!


Ross is going to be free :)


Wow :)


That's wild.


What is insecure about it? Also I have started looking at your Noscrypt. Sick work. Wish more people used it.

(Tempted to make python bindings)


Lmao


Why again did they kill this man's pet? I get we are at peak clown world but I don't understand/haven't followed.


... then they fight you.


#bullishNuts v0.2.18 adds QR codes to the transaction details. Tap to copy the invoice/token to the clipboard. 🫡

https://www.bullishnuts.cash
https://m.primal.net/Lqab.mov


nutshell 0.16.1 is out

#cashu #nutshell


Ahah nice


You can't stop it.


Software and consensus is the solution to psychopaths seeking more power.


Spooky halloween

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


The linux foundation is captured.
Really sad to see this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aeFekbm3Nc


People also almost always confuse nation with government.


People also almost confuse nation with government.


Freedom is one generation away from extinction. https://video.nostr.build/74375473a5655cea5cdebd906d7be9a7cbc68d0c090ab52c598a95aa92cdc312.mp4


Absolute perfect timing!
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Perfect timing lol


I was into tech even as a small kid so I remember VHS, CDs, DVD (I remember me and my father would go rent movies together)


>Le thinkpad

I still have a thinkpad that now is becoming ancient but I still use it sometimes.

I love plugging the Ethernet in it.


When we go to 100k and the masses swarm in on Nostr too I'm gonna take a break in a chalet in the woods.


I love Lugano.


Also I was the first ever to actually GET PAID in ecash. XD


I use it as a lightning wallet with the hope that one day we will be able to pay with ecash as well.

I've paid pizzas with minibits, phone numbers to receive SMS for various registrations.

I've topped up my sim card balance with it.
Also I think I bought groceries with a pre-paid card that I paid for with cashu/minibitd as well.


I use cashu on the weekly to pay for some small thing.


How to use cloud AI privately.

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Yuge


Const cast


ah yes. the famous boating accident.


Normalize creating a new Amazon account for every purchase:
* Sms4Sats to verify the phone
* Opt to pay with cash at a teller
* Receive to Amazon locker


It's 58%


Unfortunately I'm more inclined to think that the first one will happen before the second one.


GM :)


42% just like Italy.


I'm sure everyone is running a well connected lightning node with well funded channels.


Someone should make drugstr.


I'm sure that coffee is gonna taste wonderful after you've waited for a 20 min block to confirm.

GM :)


No


Someone in my DMs proposed javacards. They would supposedly be able to do some offline coinselection.


https://smilemoji.cash remember the demo i showed you?


Lol


Soon. Meanwhile you can play with it at smilemoji.cash


https://smilemoji.cash to test this out. You'll need a regular NFC card or tag with at least 4Kb of storage.

Please DO NOT use smilemoji.cash as a real wallet because i will take it down once the PR is merged!

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I can't read


Law is a tool to administer violence.
Although ultimately any man made law can be twisted, changed and misinterpreted.


People in the global south use stablecoins because they denominate everything in dollars and are not comfortable with Bitcoin yet. Now if you use a stablechannel that runs on bitcoin rails that's better because they will be on boarded to Bitcoin regardless. It's a temporary measure until everyone values everything in SATs.


Thanks Oscar Wilde for calling me an exquisite person!


Today Italy news is no surprise. Attacks are coming. Focus on resilience: privacy, decentralisation, censorship resistance.

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Is anybody surprised about this?


Amazing event :)


I swear I always thought this is what it was always supposed to be like. No point in making it land if you can just grab it instead. It's easier.


True!


BTC++ was my first ever bitcoin event and I absolutely loved it.
I have met the most incredible people.


Make Bitcoin conferences weird again https://files.sovbit.host/media/50d94fc2d8580c682b071a542f8b1e31a200b0508bab95a33bef0855df281d63/a26055ce321865430656a8aaf847d6bc77a36d74d6822ad27e834d24242c25ca.webp


Beautiful


First crypto-related sticker I have found in Berlin. https://nostrcheck.me/media/e3fc673fc5f99cc554d0ff47756795647d25cb6e6658f912d114ae6429d35d35/0dbd18568d1fd80db8c5fdd669c32af379f18cde6d6cbc5c2eecc2c4a2792155.webp


There are currently **five** Wasabi coordinators:

```bash
echo '["REQ", "coordinators", {"kinds":[15750]} ]' \
    | websocat -n wss://relay.primal.net \
    | jq 'select(.[2].tags[] | .[0] == "network" and .[1] == "mainnet") | {content: .[2].content, endpoint: (.[2].tags[] | select(.[0] == "endpoint") | .[1])}'
```

https://image.nostr.build/365fdc5a7db36548c071ea100017a77661ab8d40c1ea4ec02b376bebf4d84653.jpg


Hurricane Milton nothingburger?


Be safe.


I guess when ln nodes running cashu mints start to get a serious amount of users they'll offer pretty good anonymity guarantees.
Would be pretty hard to trace someone through it.


High chance*


Yea I have seen it. Basically they poison the the set with fake outputs so the ring you choose then has a high change of being poisoned as well. Hilarious.

Nobody is gonna run their own node. Better stick to coinjoins.


Hope so.


Looks like a day in front of the fireplace 🪵🔥

https://image.nostr.build/89a175390106cebc9738adbd36615f020e6db05bf7df9a343c9bba1a90df772b.jpg


Coming!


My god she has aged.


I've been increasingly considering moving to el Salvador in order to survive a more and more plausible nuclear war.

It embodies the perfect combination of a Bitcoin country and a place no nuclear warhead would be interested in targeting.


Long live the Unix epoch.
But exactly how long?
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They can't shop their time back.


Now the ln  payment worked but it took quite a while.


OK nevermind got it back!


I tried small amounts it didn't work either.


Nevermind i just got rugged. Updated the minibits wallet and it lost all the ecash


Just gotta get the money out of minibits first lol.


I will. Also I think I'll use mine lol.


Am I the only unlucky one who's experiencing issues with minibits mint paying invoices? I think there is something up with their ln node.


On left is cdk wallet creating a bolt12 mint quote from a cdk mint running with core lighting as the funding source. On the right that bolt12 offer is paid by a cashu melt quote from a cdk mint running with phoenixd as the funding source.

https://m.primal.net/LLrE.webm


https://smilemoji.cash
To read and flash ecash to your NFC cards.


They also have the lever on interest rates.


is that a solar panel?


GM ☀


adorable :)


as of now 1 coin should be 120 bytes. But not all wallets do optimal splits. In any case, 8Kb should be enough I believe.


So I have also written a tool specifically for merchants that need to request a payment of a certain amount of sats. Basically what it does is:
* Read the card
* Receive the token -> generates fresh coins
* Split the fresh coins in amount to keep and change
* Try and flash the change to the card
  - if that fails, print a qr code with the change to the screen instead.


well the cards i am using here are 1Kb.  It works if the number of coins is small. So if you flash, for example, 128 sats (1 coin) works fine. But if you flash 127 sats (7 coins) it will fail.


make sure to get big cards! (4KB or more)


I know. Was just trying to make a joke lol.


Aren't those synonymous?


Less friction, more fiction!
https://m.primal.net/LKvi.mp4


maintenance is often overlooked in most things. it's not typically fun or glamorous, but proper maintenance is crucial in all systems.
it's one of those things that no one pays attention to until it's not working.


Looks amazing!


Apart from tech for the war effort and digital panopticall tech, everything else is built to make our livings standards better.


Absolutely visionary :)


Milei is just another WEF plant.


I know, it sucks. We've had these since this year and absolutely nobody asked for it.


What comes after is a world riddled in disease, destruction and without technology (emp blasts from nukes)


If a nuclear war is coming, I don't know if I want to survive it to experience the world afterwards.


Terrifying. I have studied these things and I know they are just glorified text-autocomplete but I can't help feeling bad.

Uhm there is a terrifying game called Soma that is based around these concepts.


Implanted nuts?


Where did you take this? I'll add it to my "to visit" list


Connections are hard but ultimately worthwhile.


That's beautiful.


Imagine if having your credit card cloned would mean you only lose the money you have in it at that time. You don't have do freeze it, you don't have to get a new one. None of that hassle.

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MORE: the merchant is configured to accept direct ecash only if mint is recognized as trusted (there are trusted mints settings).

If not, the merchant attempts to fetch an invoice from one of its trusted mints and pay it with the ecash provided in the card.


Cashu NFC card merchant small demo:
1) Type in the requested amount.
2) Tap card to pay.

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


Nice dude.

Although please wipe your screen


I guess it's pure coincidence the price is starting to shoot up since black rock raised concerns about Coinbase selling paper bitcoin.


Do bodyweight exercises


This is ridicolous


There is still time until they start talking about pros and cons of different signature algorithms. Then it's over.


If we don’t normalize Proof of Reserves, we’re going to get paper bitcoin.

Ask your exchange where their reserves page is. Here is ours 👉 river.com/reserves
https://m.primal.net/LCnn.png


No? Western countries are below the replacement rate. Basically ageing out of existence. But you think there is no problem.


On the contrary, this will fix the population issue. Birth rates are going down.


You missed half of the story .. nato expansion,  overthrow nazi gov that was killing donbass people since 2014 .. this is a play between US and Russia and puppet Europe gov .. they are dragging us to ww3.. keep bitcoin far away from this shit ..


Every once in a while I go back to the fabel of the dragon tyrant and I wonder how many dragon apologists there would ne today. I think many.

https://youtu.be/cZYNADOHhVY


a reminder about the bitcoin merge notification bots; these bots automatically post when there is a commit to the associated repository:

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(looks like the original announcement post was a broken event, so making a new one, also using nprofile instead of npubs to make it work across relays)


Get paid in bitcoin!


I don't know what you define progress as, but much of the "progress" we are having now is just perfecting and carrying over breakthrough discoveries in research that have happened in the previous century. Real progress is always slow. What I am saying is: if people didn't have to worry about time and money, a lot more would be doing meaningful things.

By the way the main reason why I am so passionate about Bitcoin is it gives back time to people, because if their savings are not stolen from they don't to worry about money AS MUCH.


Lol I knew it.


Congrats


Atrophy happens when you don't use something.


Why?


Always felt we live too little time for what a human mind is capable of doing.

Imagine if you had 2000 years to live. Wouldn't have to rush anything.


NGU tech is Never Give Up tech.


Freedom of the press!


Gn nostr <3


Interesting!


I love Range-Based Set Reconciliation.
All my homies do Range-Based Set Reconciliation.


Haven't yet, no.


I love C.
Libasan and static analysis tools (btw which fo you use) to catch all of the bugs.


C++ also has templates (one definition multiple types) and concepts (constrain the accepted types to have particular properties) which are all resolved at compile time.


Smart pointers are extremely useful and make writing C++ a lot safer.

One of the most common bugs C has is leaking resources and double free-ing.

A smart pointer makes sure your resources are deallocated when they go out of scope. A shared smart pointer is one that when it gets copied, it points to the same resource but increases the ownership count, decreses the ownership count when it goes out of scope. So for shared smart pointers their resources only get release when  the ownership count drops to 0.


Hey what's so bad about C++? I find it beautiful.


But with a fancy term to it.


GM


gm. missing the mountains.


lol. the final evil laughter is the cherry on top.


Good luck


Mine!


yes.


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

Don't mind me. Just topping up my cashu debit card.


I totally missed it. What happened?


Listed for $900k?


Not complaining about it. Before the limit of trades was 2 BTC, and there still was plenty of liquidity (especially xmr-btc). Just pointing out that it's not that it is illiquid it's just not allowed.


Larger amounts are not allowed. Max is 0.2 BTC.


We have a really nice tool for dealing with spam called Proof of Work :)

Crank it up! Want to spam? OK then run a mining rig for 0 profit.


No but filtering out NIP-05 impersonators would certainly help a lot.


Leaving your funds on Coinbase is certainly a mistake long-term.
But be careful and practice with small amounts first, when dealing with hardware wallets. Always be sure to backup your seed phrase.


#SimpleX banned in Russia. Still works via VPN. "Simpler solution" may be coming next week.

https://i.nostr.build/guNTDnb0hTUOAGjb.jpg

#opensource #privacy


Better than having your credit card stolen, though.


Yes but they work differently. A cashu card would hold the money, while normal cards do not.


Just bought a NFC card reader I want to try make this work.
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Try paying an invoice. It gets stuck for me. Seems like their node is having some trouble paying.


Can't swap either. token creation doesn't work. Trying to understand if it's a wallet issue. Got a recent update recently.


ah ok I missed the `/Bitcoin/` path.


I can't pay and when I tried: https://mint.minibits.cash/v1/info I get a 404


is minibits mint down?


if (btc_price > 58e3)
{
    short_btc()
}
else
{
    long_btc()
}

There I just made you rich.


You managed to kill an entire horde of zombies!


down


Down


Nice stream


tragic

Shadowy super coder.
E-cash and Nostr enjoyer.
Sometimes I get good ideas.
Matrix: @lollerfirst:matrix.org


The idea of an ecash credit card that you can just swipe and pay with is very tantalizing.

The only real problem? A savvy merchant could record all your unspent secrets and spend them later if you forget to swap them back.

Not anything a grocery store or anyone that wants to maintain their reputation would do.


I think we are very close to having fully functional discreet log contracts on mints.

Just need to write some tests for the payouts.


Happy birthday Cashu 🥜🥜🎂


I can't sleep. Can only sneed.


Fixed for the mining plebs. https://image.nostr.build/e684d92b01ff87de0b05a571b36687975027739c40f4f5439e490803f9c6dc45.jpg


Wow cool


Oh wow


I do my best with the parks in my city but I dream of having a crib in the mountains with satellite connection.


Smart move forcing the customers to sign their receiving addresses ;)


Tell me you are Australian without telling me you are Australian


Do you have a license to buy groceries? It's part of the implied social contract that you must submit this information to protect against criminals who dare buy groceries without permission. I mean... what can you possibly do with those groceries, jeez. You never know what kind of chaos someone could cause with an unauthorized carton of eggs or a loaf of bread. Honestly, I'm just relieved the grocery police are cracking down on these lawless food buyers. I sleep better at night knowing that all grocery purchases are verified, tracked, and kept safe in a database somewhere. /s


Shopstr + Cashu = magic?


How much do you lift?


If you live in the EU you know how annoying and nonsensical the new bottlecaps are.

If anybody knows some gadget that can quickly cut the bottlecap from the base let me know. I'd gladly buy one.


Unsurprisingly.


My mint (Smiley Cash) is now publishing every mint and burn event on nostr using kind 4919 (still unreserved).

It uses the public key exposed on the /v1/info endpoint as nostr identity. So if you want to find the notes you need to filter by pubkey and kind 4919.


True and based. I am especially guilty.


If this ever happens we'd see a hard fork attempt to try and recover the funds which will most likely result in another bitcoin cash situation where they lose value immediately against the real BTC.
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Lnmarkets. It connects to my account with their API and uses deposits, withdrawals which are ln payments. It's very neat because you can run a USD mint without having to KYC.


It's the backend the mint is running on. Experimental. I have a PR open on nutshell.


Melts with less than 1000 are not allowed be cause lnmarkets does not allow withdrawals of less than 1000sat :(


Try with minibits or enuts


You're using cashu.me and I don't know if it's up to date with fees.


Uhm very strange... I'll send you another token


Giving away free ecash from my mint:

cashuBpGFkclNlbnQgZnJvbSBNaW5pYml0c2FteBtodHRwczovL3NtaWxlbW9qaS5jYXNoOjMzMzhhdIGiYWlIABGD9zXIPZ9hcIOjYWEYQGFjWCECkjcUbwWcdFAuYe_Kxi1lYfJUWaQ2XFPlVWLHayQf731hc3hAZTdhN2U3NTcyNjVmMDY0YzA5ODgyYzE4YTFiMmM3NTFjODBmNGNjZGIwYzg4ZWVjODVmOTliNTMyMTRmMTljZKNhYRggYWNYIQJWBfYoPUQABVtsz3v8ZNDf-6QhgxEiKeHD6eYDTB6z42FzeEA0MDA1MTI4ZjkyNDQwMTQ4Njg5NWUwMGU0N2NkODljZjljNGJlMWEzZDEwMmI4Y2RjZDM4YjNkZmZlZDBmNDZio2FhBGFjWCEChODQTm_070UHQJG2zVN53jktbO6a7Hi6a-1aceO2bWthc3hAZWE5YmE3ODBmODE2ZmVjMzQ2N2ZlYjZiNDM3ZTc4OWJjNDMxZDkyNjhmMjYzZDNmZTcxZTc3ZjljZjQ3MGM2NGF1Y3NhdA

Comment if you want some


Sorry didn't"t read the question properly. No haven't yet thought of that.


As for your other points:

Even if there is a central authority there would be some interest in having a digital system as opposed to very slow, error prone and privacy compromising legacy system.

If you ever worked as a scrutineer you'd know what I talk about.

Also, the benefit of this is you can cast your vote publicly and everybody can verify it. The authority only assures that you can't cast twice.


No you are mistaken. The central authority does not issue your key. You issue your keys and tell the authority and the world your public one


NY post article about how Nostr is wasteful and alt-right in 3... 2... 1...


Idk what it could look like with nostr. initially I thought the authority could be the municipality or the district where you go to vote, which would verify your identity before signing your blinded ballot.

The benefit of this is mainly the assurance that your vote is anonymous and that each vote that is cast is surely signed by someone within the public keys set (for example a foreigner cannot vote)


Yes initially I thought the authority could be the municipality or the district where you go to vote, which would verify your identity before signing your blinded ballot.

The benefit of this is mainly the assurance that your vote is anonymous and that each vote that is cast is surely signed by someone within the public keys set (for example a foreigner cannot vote)


I am wondering if a digital voting scheme would be possible by combining ring signatures, blind signatures and nostr.

With ring signatures a voter can sign their vote anonymously, and anybody can verify that "someone" that is registered as a voter has cast a valid vote.

The problem with this is that a voter can cast multiple valid votes, while we'd want to constrain that to one.

If everybody votes the cheating can be spotted, because the votes would surpass the number of voters. But even then, it would not possible to distinguish which votes are duplicate.

If we introduce and authority figure, then we can use blind signatures.

A voter creates their vote, turns it into a number, blinds that number and then communicates it to the authority.
The authority only signs that blinded vote if it can confirm the identity of the voter and that it hasn't already cast a vote.

The voter can then unblind the vote (only they can do that) and create a ring signature of the vote with the public keys of other plausible voters.

Now I am thinking: could we split that authority amongst nostr relays and have it collaboratively blindly sign something?


Stop using Apple as well?


make many babies


best advice


lol


Well it could be worse, it could be raining!
nostr:nevent1qqsycygwcgux5fsazdjevdkvkmh6yvf3588qhccp0grctvwx7v9350sppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgsywt6ypu57lxtwj2scdwxnyrl3sry9typcstje65x7rw9a2e5nq8srqsqqqqqprsjyj0


420 was neat as well thank you!


Can I get 3 more followers so that my follower count is 404?


Because people don't understand cryptography. They never will.


I want a cabin in the woods...


This is just a reminder to all that Bluesky DMs are not private. https://i.nostr.build/ct9kgJEltFWo0A6t.jpg


You'd be amazed to what length they are willing to go to.


Oy, do you have a loiscense for that relay of yours?


Unlicensed relay operator


Unlicensed node operator


I am literally Mr. Robot.


I don't sleep on the floor but my mattress is so thin that it feels like I do.


gm


Yep that's my fear. It would also explain why the price has remained so stagnant while the inflows are so high.


I think it's best ask  nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a on this.


Lol


I am curious to know how Bitcoin ETFs are proven backed 1:1.

Do they:

* Dox the addresses with the funds?
* Use some sort of zk non interactive proof?
* Don't even bother publishing proof of reserves?


https://github.com/cashubtc/nuts/pull/155/commits

Feel free to chime in on this.
This is to let cashu mints publish on nostr what they are doing. It would bring a lot of significant perks amongst which:
* ecash receipt confirmation (without privacy leak)
* wallet restoration (same privacy benefit)
* a standard way of complying with PoL requirements.

This is the associated NIP: https://github.com/lollerfirst/nips/blob/cashu-data/XX.md

I tried to keep the NIP as simple as possible: it's basically only reserving 3 event kinds for cashu use.

Lmkwyt.


I WILL pirate this book


You love to see it.


Guys you have to copy paste the link to your cashu wallet for adding it.


I'm seeing a lot of people clicking the link, and not actually copy pasting it to their cashu wallets xD


You can try my new USD cashu mint, which uses a LNMarkets synthetic USD backend.

https://smilemoji.cash:3338

Please be mindful. Only small amounts.


It's bitcoin with tits


Brazilian folks try and pitch Nostr to your friends when you hear them complaining about this.
nostr:nevent1qqsftvtv0zf0p69psz6xe66ydg985h6f2xa6l8nwjwg9d4m4j20e65gppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgs0ulmtcmmn8zmkh0uqmdqz4hn9j5lzpvhj8enw3xpqfd3ucsjnngcrqsqqqqqps5am6n


You need a beefy GPU  to run them and even then the tokens per second are a bit slow.


I really wish AI didn't happen because it's gonna be impossible to decentralize that one


80 SATs to transfer 20 dollars of cashu balance to Voltz. Wtf was that.


oy mate you got a loicense for posting this?


Gm walking pepe


Do americans ever drink water?


Yes but one has promised to free Ross.


Mercury fumes are said to be highly poisonous


Wait i was wrong lmao. Apparently strxfrm is.


I don't know welsh but these sure aren't stdlib functions


This is very dumb.


WTC-7. People forget that building even existed. No amount of mental gymnastic is sufficient to explain why it went down as well.


Lol


I do not agree.
Dismissing this problem as one that will fix itself is kinda naive to me.

Bitcoin nodes basically only do one thing: validate blocks. That's why anybody can run them. That's why the decentralization works. They require low processing power, low space. People don't need an incentive to run them (hell I ran one on a 13 year old PC with a Pentium and some additional HDD slapped on)

Nostr relays don't have a set limit to their applications (literally "AND OTHER STUFF"). Basically, they could be doing anything at one point. Especially with the pace at which things are developing.

Right now people run relays because they like to and they might even be relatively cheap (I don't know), but at some point it might become so burdensome that they would need a revenue model. And few people will use paid relays.

You could end up with a situation like Tor, where 2/3 of the network is in the hands of three letter agencies that don't mind doing all kinds of nasty shit.

Anyway, just my opinion. I hope I am proven wrong.


Cashu mints are different. You can actually crank up the fees and make them break even or profitable.

You try and run a paid relay nobody is going to use it.


So the defamation has already begun.


https://c3-lang.org/

This feels like what C was always supposed to be.


Don't worry CIA always willing to run them, just like they do for tor.


Seriously though who tf is buying this crap?


Lmao


Hello :)


Always have been


The dollars are represented through derivatives.


Oy mate you got a loisence for that math?


Particulate*


Tbh it's an open secret. It's aluminium particolare that dims the sunlight. It's total madness and just another bullshit idea our governments throw printed money at.


But we aren't lone individuals. We were made unique in God's image: unified in our ends but granted freedom to pursue them.

Identifying with a subordinate racial or cultural group introduces competition, but there is no competition in the group of the children of God.

We are born into a family with unbreakable bonds; God willing, we die surrounded by the new family we create. These bonds allow us to become who we are meant to be.


More like they don't want people having public discourse about the problems that really matter and/or organizing protests.

If it were up to the state, you could only talk about sports, food, celebrities and other cattle-minded topics.


I have proposed a new NUT that should curb a privacy issue that many cashu wallets have when sending tokens.

https://github.com/cashubtc/nuts/pull/155


Problem with that is if any one of the followers leaks the key, all past notes are leaked.

Here's what I thought (surely there are caveats but it's a start).

Alice wants to protect their notes, so she generates a key `k` and shares it privately with their followers Bob, Carol.

Now Dave sends a follow request to Alice, asking permission to read her notes.

If Alice accepts, the new encryption key `k'` will be calculated as the hash of the previous one `k' = H(k)`. Thus Dave, a new follower, will only be able to leak forward notes. Bob and Carol just need to know that Alice has accepted a follow request to update their keys as well.


I would add without fear of repercussions


If only you could slip some money in the header of a HTTP request, that would solve micro-payments.

Oh wait you actually can...


What they long for the most is the ability to shut down groups and channels they don't like. Telegram especially was used to organize and coordinate protests in various western countries.


Lightning is plasma


Can you please fry Back a bit about him only posting on Twitter?


CEO of nostr is next


Yes it's ironic he fled Russia because he denied Putin the same thing and then he gets arrested in France for the same thing.


Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, has been arrested in France for failing to apply EU censorship standards.


Still don't understand what they banned you for?


Yep I've understood the (ecash) part.


Have a meme https://video.nostr.build/0529e76a72453f8786a61e8d9d1a08ba0b213e58bcce9a17080eb34222895c66.mp4


Thank you nostr:nprofile1qqsfc93uwdgl3qetpz6kewewp9vkp5w9qcxadv8yv85p8u8sw3v3r8spr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8xetdd9ek7mpwv3jhvtcprdmhxue69uhkummnw3ezummjv9hxwetsd9kxctnyv4mz7qgewaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3exjcmp9e3k7mf0zeg2qy for this incredible conference. Nostr sparked a movement I was searching for well over a decade. It really does feel like we're taking back the Internet, one app at a time.

Stack sats, seed torrents, run relays, zap nuts, open PRs. Here is my humble contribution to this amazing event. The image says "wicked". 🫡
 https://image.nostr.build/40657caea0c979a521b0de3b46bebac969f7f421c379da48fb1c6ef0c14c7ffc.jpg

🎥👇

https://youtu.be/OHqxp-Hrx9k


🤷♂
https://m.primal.net/KGpB.jpg


kind 1: short text note


They lost at the end


I really liked that github thing with nostr.


Bitcoin dominance has been steadily going up on everything else.


(I know not sauna but thermal bath or something)


Romans did it all the time. Right after sauna


I love that scene lmao.


Where can one watch Nostriga talks live tomorrow?


It's the last part of the key derivation path. Specifies how many key rotations the mint has performed and which one we are in right now.


Every 5 seconds a background worker scoops up accumulated proofs or blinded signatuees and posts a note.


It's the base64 encoded cbor serialization of a data structure made like this:
```
{
    "epoch": <int>,
    "event": "BURN"|"MINT",
    "contents": Array<str>
}
```
Where contents contains either the hex encoded signature C or the hex encoded blind signature B_


Used a textnote event for simplicity. Just for now.


Base64 decode and then cbor load ;)


Well hello there beauty.
nostr:nevent1qqswwdzpjkvld9t8sxk6xf9avanma7yxq8vq6976vj294rxmljukzucpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchsyg9zzx95y8ntglcx26uhhdlwafpugyyk4k7q6rj3rlmsme7efk7ejqpsgqqqqqqsfrfq2a


Quantized? Quantized models are much smaller and perform just as well.


lol


Someone needs to harass them until they put up their mint or at least give the option to pay with ecash


There is no need to: competition will naturally arise.
Hopefully one day everyone accepts Bitcoin payments.


I wish bitrefill would add the option to pay with Ecash... Then I can say I was the first to buy pizzas with cashu.


Good analogy


I have already tried that. https://github.com/lollerfirst/nutshell/tree/sliding-bloom-filter

The mint could still link sender and receiver with high probabilityy.


"Private E-Cash Receipts with Nostr"?

nostr:note1qync806vlhhuy0tyuz6pmkryh2t6pw69frktvg5z7xgtz2hrvhzsjmz0a5


same. I'll follow online.


Cute


High grade uranium refinery reactors. They have nuclear weapons.


> What do you think about events for each operation

In theory it wouldn't benefit the PoL scheme but in practice maybe it could make it more feasible to execute, if that's what you were referring to.


We could write a NUT. I assume some we can use some already established event kind (was thinking kind 30078, application-specific data) so as to avoid having to write a NIP as well.


With cashu there's always been a dilemma when sending ecash to someone: did they claim the payment?

Sure a wallet can ask the mint if a certain set of tokens were spent, but that creates a link between the sending and receiving  wallet. It's a leak of information that loses you privacy.

A first solution, although maybe impractical, would be to let the mint stream the information about all the spent tokens to clients that request them (through apposite WebSocket endpoints).
So If I am a wallet and I have just sent some e-cash to someone, I can connect to the mint and "listen" until I am satisfied (until I know the e-cash was claimed).

This could put some pressure on the mint and it's not clear to me if it could be used to perform some DoS attack.

A better approach could leverage Nostr!
A mint with that advertises its associated `npub` on the `/v1/info` API endpoint could then regularly publish notes with all the information about freshly spent e-cash.

Clients would just have to query for notes with a `p` tag referencing the `npub` of the mint and look for the e-cash they just sent. Easy.


The idea we can cut any sort of government spending through voting is laughable. In fact, the idea you can change anything by voting also is laughable.


link?


Super tux kart https://image.nostr.build/acfd8682ec16ee0e3866b7a7fc35935a01e88eea83b4516a10d769772ccbcdd0.gif


Can't even take care of myself. Wouldn't want to know how I would fare with having kids.


Have never touched an Apple product in my life not even with a stick so I wouldn't know


I am not that sophisticated


(for free)


Omg so fucking true!


BBQ and beers with friends :)


Lmao


To test this create some new credentials in the API settings of your LNMarkets account.

Copy the API Access Key, API Passphrase and API Secret and paste them in the respective variables inside your `.env` file:

```
# Use with LNMarketsWallet for USD
# you can also specify paths from which `ACCESS_KEY`, `SECRET` and `PASSPHRASE` will be read
MINT_LNMARKETS_REST_URL="https://api.lnmarkets.com"
MINT_LNMARKETS_REST_ACCESS_KEY="<YOUR_API_ACCESS_KEY>"
MINT_LNMARKETS_REST_SECRET="<YOUR_API_SECRET>"
MINT_LNMARKETS_REST_PASSPHRASE="<YOUR_API_PASSPHRASE>"
```

Also don't forget to change:
```
MINT_BACKEND_BOLT11_USD=LNMarketsWallet
```


Does anybody want to test this out?

https://github.com/lollerfirst/nutshell/tree/lnmarkets

With this feature, you can mint USD-pegged ecash with your LNMarkets account as a back-end. When a user decides to mint ecash, they will be required to pay a Lightning Network invoice equivalent to the US dollar amount in satoshis.

As for redemption, the user provides a Lightning Network invoice, and the minting system fetches the current exchange rate from LNMarkets' futures ticker. It then calculates the corresponding US dollar ecash value for the payment quote.

Error messages are a bit all over the place. The documentation itself is not very clear about them, either. I will work to improve them.


What was the issue?


You don't really need to understand Radios to use them, unlike bitcoin.


Lol


So basically the dollar sign disappears?


I haven't read the article nor I intend to, but the premise is already wrong.


how do these things work if the price goes further than 100k?


New  nostr:npub1dllf8wmj6jk83r7chck6madmfgh3fges65ctpe5t6ueujazvvcvsh20tz5 V2 release

Very interesting addition of #LightningNetwork ⚡
And a few more additions including bug fixes and a few improvements.

More info in the release notes:

https://github.com/bisq-network/bisq2/releases/tag/v2.1.0

https://image.nostr.build/3be600d595497cc29c163a94d0582e0a3cc272a78b3a053183df66631aee487b.png


When the boys start a new protocol to take down centralized power structures https://i.nostr.build/9v1pAnKnkzT7vUhI.jpg


Not been feeling too well, lately.


Lol!


I investigated this and it seemed to be an error in the client. Like you said it treated the USD amount as if it were SATs. I have published a PR on cashu.me repo that should take care of the issue, but there is not much I can do about minibits.


Please shill me all projects that you know of that combine Nostr and Cashu.

No matter how big or small. Making a list for my talk at Nostriga. 🙏


And they laugh.


Have you cloned my branch? Last I tried with the entire amount it worked just fine!

Can you DM me with further details?


Nostr can offer a use case of storing ecash somewhere safe where it's much difficult to lose it. This whould make all the wallet recovery shenanigans obsolete.


Imho this is much better use of nostr + ecash than nutsack is.
I've read he specs and it seems to me that nutzaps make the transactions  effectively always linkable. I understand that maybe you don't care about privacy with nutzaps but then in that case why use ecash in the first place.


You can pay any lightning invoice, so yes you can redeem usd e-cash to pay a lightning invoice of a sats mint.


Agree. What about #nsat


I mean isn't it already happening in the UK? You get jailed for expressing your opinion.


When you present tokens for an amount of 5$, the mint pays you the equivalent amount in sats at the current exchange rate: right now that would be 8217 sats.


Just wild. I successfully used a relay in China to make a Lightning payment. https://image.nostr.build/214f611aec3aee133d0bcf8473869dac589721ccf15b9e606adec5b62c10d427.jpg


-1000 credit score!


Lol


I am testing it with my own real sats, lol.


A teaser https://image.nostr.build/b1c0b15fa3e5ec7fd4e73da04a6b88e0b52f7d3ec5984b2efc722b91f52b8e39.jpg


Nope cashu is single custodian.
But if people are gonna be hooked on stablecoins for convenience and price "safety", then they might as well get hooked on USD e-cash, instead of Tether.

You get more privacy, basically free transactions and when you redeem, you get an equivalent amount of sats.


With Cashu we'll soon have USD e-cash  backed by perpetual futures short BTC (on platforms like LNMarkets), instead of treasury notes or real cash.

Would you or your people be interested in using this instead of tether?

Not to mention this would also spread bitcoin adoption because these tokens can only be redeemed for an equivalent amount in sats, over lightning.


Is there something like this already?


You what would be cool? VPS service provider where you register with your npub.


I think so.


One can also use sms4sats. Not an e-sim but it's cheap and it can help with registrartion on sites that want your phone number.


Holy shit. Ruthless!


In case you missed the news, #ChatControl is back on the agenda of the EU governments: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/take-action-to-stop-chat-control-now/

We wrote before that strong e2e encryption is the only way to protect children online: https://simplex.chat/blog/20240601-protecting-children-safety-requires-e2e-encryption.html

Write to the MPs you voted for – every single letter can change the outcome.

And huge thanks to Patrick Breyer for fighting this insanity.


Just switched to Amethyst and I gotta say it's just on a whole other level


Imagine you could run a USD ecash mint without needing to go through any KYC. Now that would be something... ;)


Governments love Nostr and continue to advertise for the use of the protocol.
nostr:nevent1qqszt53yvjxmle358fnz72l75sn9gnd2ekgcs2nz7w69zzxl8atpjhqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3q7f66kd7kfa47qdu6sh89wdsxpctykym2prrlreudaf3n4wkcf0lqxpqqqqqqz89uynm


He is a cute little froggy


No way!


Haha! This one is at least gamified:

https://bitcoin-explorama.com


I love it!


enjoy your vacation :)


It lacks the absolutely fixed bottom screen subway surfers gameplay -- not reading it!


I've been working on this series for the last few weeks, which I call the PoopPixel. Each piece consists of 575 little turds. 💩

6 artworks will be available soon on nostr:npub1rujwkh9c3jnq70g3v62rrm6m7pxqsz25675narm74q9emcwqltjswe00fg

Right click save excluded - physical art only!

https://kanuto.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/PoopPixel-07.jpg

https://kanuto.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/PoopPixel-02.jpg

https://kanuto.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/PoopPixel-06.jpg

https://kanuto.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/PoopPixel-05.jpg

https://kanuto.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/PoopPixel-04.jpg

https://kanuto.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/PoopPixel-03.jpg

https://kanuto.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/PoopPixel-01.jpg

https://kanuto.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/PoopPixel-13.jpg

https://kanuto.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/PoopPixel-08.jpg

https://kanuto.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/PoopPixel-09.jpg

https://kanuto.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/PoopPixel-17-1.jpg

https://kanuto.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/PoopPixel-19.jpg

https://kanuto.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/PoopPixel-15.jpg


Did you find the stolen artwork?


or maybe... you know... it will just be taken down xD


nice take


Yes you can always throw people in jail, unfortunately. But here's the thing: you can't jail hundreds of thousands.

The jail thing is mostly a threat meant to scare people into compliance.


Personally, can't control feelings. I can manage them and not display them.


looks like uncle sam found someone to export his toxic sludge to


There is a lot of censorship going on in the UK right now. Social Media companies are being forced to delete posts, deplatform accounts which are deemed to be spreading "misinformation" and "hate speech".

Of course the UK government is the self appointed Ministry of Truth.

If you are an Englishman, please advise your fellow citizens to join Nostr.
We should be using this platform to return people their voices, other than shitposting/cringeposting and being nerds.

Personally, I am in of the opinion that western governments have become too big and wield way too much influence for the level of competence they display. We need to get it through people's head that Bitcoin is how you defund these parasites with dictatorial aspirations.


Yes that's usually how it works.


PSA: npub.cash just had a small change in its public API!

While /claim used to return a token containing all pending proofs, it now returns a token containing max. 100 proofs! Additionally there are two new keys in the payload:

- count: how many proofs are included
- total pending: how many proofs are pending in total for the user

This change makes sure that the token does not get too long for handling it and lets API users now if there are more proofs pending.

I am not perfectly happy with this yet and I will continue looking into other ways to handle these edge cases. 🫡💜


Real OGs now that jar jar is darth plagueis


some people I know are attending. I hope they are OK. This is part of why I don't really love large gatherings


Everybody makes mistakes.
In open source software, those mistakes are quickly caught by the multitude of people that oversee the code.
In proprietary software, they are usually caught only after some catastrophe occurs.


Privacy matters. Put ecash on top of custodial lightning and you've got yourself cheap, private, convenient payments


/v1/{ruote} instead of /{ruote}


😍

nostr:note1ndvdc89zvpy7hyczx2sn7wj57qyy0d3mr7ulk3mwwstukmn6zcwqy3rr69


The Nutmix reckless era has started!

Now available on Mainnet!
Nutmix is an implementation of a Cashu Mint using Go.

Check it out at:
https://mint.nutmix.cash
https://image.nostr.build/90090d8e4c59ef649d310bb9a1ee47824fa928105efb9645ac86b2b38a955b45.png


Awesome work. Although I can't add it to my eNuts. It throws some persing error. Probably something wrong with eNuts rather than your mint.


i LIKE your notes!


they become incredibly adverse when it comes to purchasing bitcoin. they don't like their clients escaping.


Banks will just blacklist your IBAN at some point.


#Bitcoin dumpster guy found his Bitcoin. #BTC https://image.nostr.build/3aae2e16bfe48acba21c99209e59f5cc63d215f442f71a76db0b9b14662aafd7.jpg


lol, lmao even.


to spread the light lol. dude you know what a joke is right?


pay me


Awesome. How long will it be free, though? I've heard LLMs are super power hungry


I don't think you read the blogpost. They are not shutting down because of regulatory heat.


That's amazing.


Bringing NUT-12 to cashu-ts crypto kit :)


"uhm excuse me I'm part african..."


The mint will never know nostr:nprofile1qqsxn2q9vlnek6umcu5z44v42yklpwqy0prpd0kmvg7pytadgg9zvdgpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchsxfhr2x nostr:nprofile1qqs9pk20ctv9srrg9vr354p03v0rrgsqkpggh2u45va77zz4mu5p6ccpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9thwden5te0dehhxarj9ehhsarj9ejx2a30qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap09krt7g

https://image.nostr.build/4280d9e0d1e671685cd328265152469125a542a67e7aafe5459004ad8aa250ab.jpg


lol


takes me a whole lot for my brain to release that


that's an insult to gay people! xD


(fed joke implied)


won't be long for that.


wtf I like Cathie Wood now?


I think Cashu android/iOS  wallets would benefit tremendously -in terms of UX- from integrating NFC payments.

Normal people don't want to copy and paste a string of text. The best they can do is scan a QR code on the device of the merchant, but that's not how it works with ecash because the merchant needs to scan the customer device in order to get the money.

Right now you can either pay through nostr or you have to explicitly input the amount on your device and show the QR to the merchant.
Other than being inconvenient for the majority of people, you also have the potential for errors if they input the wrong amount etc...

With NFC, a merchant could simply create a request for payment, the customer wallet would simply ask for user confirmation and then communicate the ecash to the merchant's wallet. Less room for errors, easier payment.


Whoopsie. didn't mean to post this.


Most people who I know that think the CIA invented bitcoin, are not very familiar with the pre-history of Bitcoin including work by Back, Szabo, Finney, etc.

I'm not saying that certainly no intelligence agency created Bitcoin, but rather, I'm very skeptical of the certainty that many people have around that topic.

Because, when you are somewhat familiar with that pre-history and look at it from an engineering perspective, you can clearly see the pieces gradually falling into place. In the1980s there was work by Chaum about how to build a database run by mutually suspicious entities. In the 1990s there was work by Back for proof-of-work. As things moved into the 2000s, there was Szabo's Bit Gold, which is very similar to what Bitcoin ended up being, and Finney's Reusable Proof of Work "RPOW" tokens. Finney hadn't solved the centralization issue, and Szabo hadn't solved the issue of better computation causing supply inflation over time, but they were collectively within shooting range of the solution. Others as well. Meanwhile global bandwidth was getting better, encryption in general was getting better (and there we've got an actual intelligence agency contribution), etc.

And then Satoshi added to that work, including the difficulty adjustment in particular and many other details, with a full implementation.

Basically, if someone thinks that Bitcoin just kind of magically came out of nowhere, then it's pretty easy to see how they'd be inclined toward a conspiratorial assumption.

However, if one sees that, just like any other industry, there was a series of engineers building on each others' work until someone finally got it over the line, then it looks a lot more organic.


reading tea leaves as usual?


I heard el Zonte has some nice waves


Cryptography feels like a miracle even when you understand it.

nostr:note1qmnkyp7wg4f4p8vnuxwf5d02svcqc06epjlt7sg448f9w594epysqvqpx4


Yea i've seen this a while ago on discord. I always lose it at "this nigga knows PYTHON"


Don't own a car.

Your car's engine thanks you in the form of not existing and not costing you money in endless maintenance.


adding it to my playlist


government != nation


I actually shilled minibits to my brother. He draws on commission. Said he liked it.


https://m.primal.net/JkbL.png
Minibits rules!


That was fast! nostr:nprofile1qqstxwlea9ah3u6kjjszu6a7lrnhqkfh8eptp2z6v0e9558tlkkl2rgpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpremhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet59u4kl3vp is the first mobile wallet that supports the new smaller Cashu token format.

nostr:nevent1qqsxqv6kzfdwmh7dv2knnrytyz3hnu39w9ygqruumklmnxek5077h6qpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchsygql7xtpcplpf9xsa4rzvsmxq9przjus0qn2wqf3vvrkqmjtnllzrspsgqqqqqqs9dzds2


Well you can improve your appearence


A new menace on the horizon...
BTW the bill he is talking about would also outlaw synthetic USD cashu mints.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lne1XYlwqww


Nice work 😍


UPGRADING DEEZ NUTS 🥜 https://image.nostr.build/ab2e570f75ab2caa20a38482693db7ef1778686e3c4f6d993c67451eefea2acd.jpg  nostr:note1k7452k6d76ghdmxhyck07caev8umwm6e935dl6k8jw0vn5g73rfsstqqp7


BREAKING –  nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg now renders Cashu ecash in DMs!

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


glad somebody got that lol


Really exciting!


she has the fight


If you have an android phone and haven't de-Googled it yet, then what are you even doing?


Sometimes I run into a tech guy on Twitter, who talks about how cypherpunk he is.

I’m just a financial analyst and investor, so that’s cool to hear. The more cypherpunks, the better. I like to fund cypherpunks.

But then I look around, and he’s not active on Nostr for over a year. He’s only active on centralized social media.

So then I am confused at how supposedly cypherpunk he is. Is he really that reliant on centralized media? Often, it turns out yes. If not, what other cryptographic proof does he have for his work?

As Nostr increasingly gains network adoption, it becomes weirder when I analyze why someone who is techie is highly active on Twitter but not at all on Nostr.


you watch mental outlaw?


Are they bringing the Edmunds-Karp algorithm to the lightning network?
Got no time to read it.
Anyway really interesting things you work on :)


✨ Merged: LND gRPC support in Nutshell – thank you for your awesome work  nostr:npub1u07xw079lxwv24xslarh2eu4v37jtjmwvev0jyk3zjhxg2wnt56seyez97!

https://github.com/cashubtc/nutshell/pull/595


I should also add that the more proofs you send in a token, the more space you save compared to a vanilla non-DLEQ token.


Some weeks ago I came up with a crypto hack that would let cashu wallets sum up unblinded signatures and the mint would still be able to verify them (https://github.com/cashubtc/nuts/issues/140).
So the wallet can just strip the unblinded signatures from the single proofs and just specify a "cumulative" blinded signature.

Today I managed to make it work in my branch: https://github.com/lollerfirst/nutshell/tree/aggregate_proofs .

You can send compressed tokens with `cashu send <amount> --aggregate-proofs` or `cashu send <amount> -g`

Generally, I found aggregate proofs to be ~30% shorter than vanilla non-DLEQ tokens.

This scheme modification has not been verified so proceed with caution, please <3


did you test with CLN ad well?


Where are the stats for this? Interesting if real


cannot see who you are replying to


Waiting for the old donnie to say #FreeRoss


BITCOIN 👏 CONFERENCES 👏 DO 👏 NOT 👏 REPRESENT 👏 BITCOIN

IF A CONFERENCE SHAKES YOUR CONFIDENCE IN BITCOIN, YOU'RE IN IT FOR THE WRONG REASONS


lol


It's the attention. You want more people involved, then politicians are great for that because they reach a LOT of people!


XD


he's on stage rn


He promised.
#FreeRoss


Am I dreaming or did you just reply to me? XD


Has everyone suddenly forgotten about "the race to avoid the war"?


lol. "please refrain from illegal speech" XD


GOOD doggo!


We all need to be very aware that what  nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 is describing here is not some distant dystopian future. It's our dystopian reality.

In May, Elliptic, together with researchers from MIT and IBM, developed a dataset to identify "the shape of money laundering" on the blockchain.

This dataset attempts to predict money laundering activity that has "not yet been labeled" by distinguishing between what the dataset defines as "anomalous signatures" and Bitcoin transfers between "licit services".

Falling out of these clusters deemed normal by intelligence financed corporations already leaves you penalized. Avoid KYC services? Flagged. Can't tie your transactions to a bank account? Flagged. Frequent user of coinjoins? Flagged.

You are already being debanked because a computer program has decided that you are a money launderer – not because you did something illegal, but because your transactions are deemed abnormal – and you have no legal recourse as suspicious activity reports swear financial institutions to absolute secrecy.

It's the full on criminalization of privacy in finance. The future is here, and it's Orwellian.

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


Thank you! :)


If you want your funds in your custody at all times: good ol' coinjoin.


Now I'm wondering if using a Bloom filter would help nutshell with its DB performance bottleneck.

Don't want to be mistaken but, If we set parameters for a very low probability of false positives, couldn't we just remove the DB entirely and replace it with the filter?
We only ever need the DB to check for double spends.
This would not only benefit performance but also privacy as there is basically no useful information stored.

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


You don't need on/off ramps when you have a circular economy.


CLN multi mint payments are now working. Soon to be merged on main, hopefully.


Why we need a circular economy: the note.


Nostr truly has a lot of brilliant and creative people. I am very impressed.

You're all paving the roads for many more to come.


Big one: Nutshell 0.16.0 released with a ton of new features!

Feature overview:

- New binary token format starting with cashuB, saves ~40% space
- Improved offline capabilities and coin selection for wallet
- Ecash fees for mints to protect against abuse and cover operational costs (NUT-02)
- Wallets can stream live updates with websocket subscriptions (NUT-17)
- Multinut payments: pay Lightning invoices from multiple mints (NUT-15)
- Supprt for EUR (currently via Strike only)
- Support for Core Lightning via clnrest.py

https://github.com/cashubtc/nutshell/releases/tag/0.16.0


The risk was 0. Of course you couldn't have predicted the unlawful arrest of DEVELOPERS.


This is prime BBQ season baby


lol.


No but what they can do is make things worse!


Exactly. I don't get all of the excitement around this, either.


congratulations


You can't expect this level of competence from a politician.


We have plenty of retards on nostr as well. We're not missing out


Exactly. Trump is a fiat billionaire, but he will onboard A LOT of people. We only have to gain from this. Bitcoin has already proved  time and time again that it cannot be captured, so there is nothing to fear -- all to gain.

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I am firmly convinced it will go to 1.


Good montage. Truly makes me want to attend the next one.
Is BTC Amsterdam gonna be similar?


maybe the whole debacle will convince more people to switch to Linux?


Fortunately never even had a Twitter account.


I think this is true. A lot of contrasts, which -at the end of the day- only make the protocol more resilient.

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lol. I didn't know about this.


We need to find a way to audit mints before fractional reserving becomes a problem.


two words. No overloading.


except there will be no bailouts when the mints who do fractional reserving inevitably blow up.


I can't stop laughing... help

https://craigwright.net/


first preliminary tests for swapping for DLC locked ecash seem to work fine :)


Late nights in the middle of Juuuneee


ecash zaps?

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awesome work


It's a GN for me but well said


a hike on the mountains to breathe some fresh air and recollect your thoughts is always a good idea


Half of Twitter right now is like:

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


lol


easy to monetize with e-cash you say?


Average Tesla owner

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


Sorry but how is this different from Tor?
Relay operators will become like Tor nodes operators and the increased traffic will clog up the network just like it's clogging up Tor.

Then who would want to run a relay for free? Only three letter agencies -- like on Tor.
I think nostr should stick to its original purpose.


Thank god I learnt to never give a shit about sheeple group think at a early stage of my life


It's far better to do that on the grass while holding hands with someone you love


Far Too many projects rely on github.

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Github cannot be trusted with releases.

We're slowly fixing this, making good progress with the developer signing tool.

To which I'm adding an option to upload to a Blossom server to completely bypass the dependency on Github.

Will be sharing a preview next week.

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This is why we privacy.

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Happy 4th of July to US folks!


Soon we will also have Discrete Log Contracts on cashu as well!


Algorithms maximize engagement. One way to do that is make you mad.


You don't want to be annoying.
Leverage people's emotions: for example when people complain about twitter censoring something, propose Nostr (in a gentle way)


I think maybe we could just start with the mints being npubs instead of urls. Not relying on URLs is much better.


RFC: Cashu zaps NIP

https://wikifreedia.xyz/cashu-zap-nip/f7z.io

Proposal to make cashu zaps where the payment itself is the zap (instead of waiting for a zap receipt from the zapper)

The sender locks a zap to the recipient's pubkey, optionally sending to a mint the user has recommended before (kind:38000).

Cashu is a bearer token so the receipt IS the money and the money IS the receipt.

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So I just purchased a train ticket with cashu.
I first purchased a giftcard on bitrefill.
It works like magic:
- no need to enter all your personal info
- takes 2 seconds
Why would anyone willingly choose credit cards over this, I don't really know.


made my first contribution to cashu nutshell!


I guarantee you 95% people won't understand this meme


too hot tonight. can't sleep!


Frunks amirite #carstr https://i.nostr.build/ro5A0.jpg


Have the same problem but with modular equations


Majority of the population numbs themselves with whatever they can find.


People are waking up


I want to do something like this one day.
Of course having 16k followers helps ;)

Anyway, really awesome seeing this community grow so genuinely.


I can totally see this coming. More and more people are getting fed up with Twitter (yes I will always call it Twitter) for one reason or another.


Thank you! <3


Claimed the first ever cashu bounty!
Maybe the first real cashu email tx.
 Big thanks to nostr:npub1n0devk3h2l3rx6vmt24a3lz4hsxp7j8rn3x44jkx6daj7j8jzc0q2u02cy for sponsoring the bounties and nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg for being awesome :)

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


you're wild xD


mood


or get a boyfriend instead


Some men do not want to be free.


What do you expect from FIAT politicians?


I've just listened to nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m's talk about Tech and Freedom and instantly thought about another use case for cashu: imagine using a open source LLM hosted by someone with the computational resources and paying as you go with Cashu, much like nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg's idea of a Netflix which you pay as you go, totally offline.


Julian Assange is free

Now let’s #FreeRoss

#SleepyDesigns https://i.nostr.build/XVLOZ.png


Julian Assange is FREE!


thinkpad chad


👀
https://image.nostr.build/81bd76e3647adb7afd26cd7985f9ebc5d8a8cf4419236fd59bff4c745639bdce.jpg


I do agree with you that Nostr far too nerd oriented. If we want to see more adoption we need common people to be able to feel like they belong.

Please have patience with us.


a hashing function takes in a variable length amount of data (could be documents, pictures, anything) and spits out a fixed-length sequence of bytes. This output can be used to identify said data and verify its integrity since if you change even only 1 bit of the original data and recalculate the output, it will be completely different.


smoke signals wen?


the proofs are points on the secp256k1.
Maybe one could try and factor the x and y coordinates up to some smoothness bound so they won't take up as much space. Also it could help factoring out common factors on multiple different proofs if there happen to be any.


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


congratulations


Holy shit that was quick


it really depends. I don't think they have a fixed size. Rather it depends on how many proofs (coins) you are sending.


More often that not the user will be online because of splitting the amounts in the right denominations


yes https://i.nostr.build/En0RP.jpg


I would replace Signal with Simplex.


gm


Yes and imagine if Damus or Primal had that wallet integrated. One app. You don't even need a lightning address you can just send and receive with your NIP-05 address


cashu-ts is a typescript library for building cashu wallets. very easy to use.

I don't really see the need for such a complicated setup nostr:npub1q6mcr8tlr3l4gus3sfnw6772s7zae6hqncmw5wj27ejud5wcxf7q0nx7d5


I think it would be far easier have the Nostr client integrate a cashu wallet and then scan the DMs for e-cash tokens.


👀
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It's nice to get your hands dirty from time to time.


Cashu + Nostr = Magic


Just got my NIP-05 :)


We won (for now)

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What open source advocates don't tell you is that when you try to contribute to a project you care about, maintainers usually just ignore you.

So you put in the hours (for free) to fix an issue or create a new feature and then your PR will just sit there for weeks or months and nobody will even care to review it.


use cashu


bitcoiners: "It's over globalists, we have the high ground!"
globalists: "You underestimate my POWER!"


https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/upload-moderation.pdf https://image.nostr.build/7738fa5b64262cfe23ee65c6043f163b270a0a33e7219720ec414ea4477a673f.jpg


Productive devs: Bitcoin needs every single developer it can get.
Toxic plebs: bitcOin dOeSN't NEeD yOU!1!!

🤔
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#BitcoinTwitter
https://bitcointwitter.web.app/images/v3/338.png


If confirmed it CAN be used to steal funds from the mint


Hey dude I may have found a bug in the invoice payout of the nutshell mint server...