I think I needed to hear  that


I like this line of thought… my gut instantly says you are  absolutely correct; though my brain will take a while to wonder about it


Yuk! Hate it


Are you serious??? Ever hear of trusts, LLCs, friends, relatives, DBAs, Foreign entities, or simply not filing???? Please God!!! What has happened to people's brains. There are 10,000 ways to avoid or ignore filing. They only win if you play their game. Stop fucking playing it.


There is definitely a space for *alternative* trust models. This excites me about fedimint - it opens it up for groups the majority of whom don’t understand the bulk of what bitcoin is/does/how it works, and aren’t interested, but need a practical solution. Bitcoin banks could also cater to the masses in this way with a slightly different trust model. Yes it’s more risk, but the tech can’t police all bad actors out of existence - just leave the surface area for deception smaller, and ultimately provide a choice, to keep the various actors honest. I feel (abused) monopolies are a very large part of what is wrong with a lot of stuff right now


That’d be me


Healthy place to be if you ask me


Would love that. When?


'If you don't trust the people, you make them untrustworthy'

Can somebody write this in 10ft letters and put it somewhere government can't help but see it every day?!

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Not enough care and attention goes into TCP/IP-less comms.


This could be the death of centralised marketplaces…. Every eBay listing for example: here is a permissionless mechanism outside of eBay’s control for direct communication between buyer and seller. The only thing they have in common is a shared interest in the listed item… interesting game theory there


Yes please. Soon. Please!


Ideally you would run multiple bitcoin core nodes of differing versions and your wallet would connect to all and report discrepancies. Update to the latest release AND run tried and tested versions.

Who is building this?


That's me. I fix stuff. Would love to meet you at some point. I was inspired by your last pod with nostr:nprofile1qqs0sxxdz722j74u5kvzym4chlualjx0jef32llvdveg98jpqs0tmlgppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0lk790h... So much resonated


Can anybody envisage a non-state-led solution to Putin/Ukraine?


Oh yes


As well as replacing impossible captchas and passwords, there is no better solution for our post-real Internet and things like video deep fakes, than just signing with public key crypto.
The world will soon become very familiar with key pairs. It solves all the problems.


The new tech makes new ways of trusting each other possible  (and actually old ways that the state and big tech, by accident or design, have strongly discouraged, or even eliminated). I think new protocols, even those seemingly  in competition with each other, need to become ubiquitous enough to change behaviour en masse. That's where we win. The protocols themselves are simultaneously so important, yet not important at all. The behaviour change is what I look forward to - which is dependant on the underlying tech being there, but also doesn't respect it at all.


I absolutely agree. I remember the shapes… this sort of person respected that sort of person, you could go and find out about/ask about things in places and be respected even though you didn’t know, that sort of thing. But without the specifics. Now the world works differently, I hate it and the memories seem disjointed and pointless as they are no longer reflected. I wish I knew how to bring those shapes of healthy discourse and respect back into reality, even in a small way, but they rely on an assumption of good faith - which is becoming almost unheard of between strangers. Very sad


I already *loathe* all my apple devices, but I’m locked in as everyone I know uses them and my business is built on them (when they were a bit less loathsome). This doesn’t inspire me much. It’ll no doubt make an order of magnitude more wrong assumptions about what it thinks I’m trying to do, what it presumes I actually meant to say/type, the sort of person I am, what my goals are… it’s exhausting with 8-yr-old hardware I refuse to upgrade. I don’t know how to resist, other than by exit. Which leaves me without any tech advantage. And a feeling of hopelessness.


Heads up: Trezor phishing/spam emails about


Hmm, I can’t seem to see anything Twitter this morning. Frustrating


“Break out of the matrix

Price everything in #Bitcoin”

- @tip_nz https://image.nostr.build/6107c903336bb1146d8183c7484cc19676a387cf186933bc891dcd0acc7d6c04.jpg


Everything actionable you need to know about what this indictment means for you as a Samourai Wallet (SW) or Whirlpool user 👇

As a Samourai Wallet user (no Dojo)

Unfortunately, the architecture of SW meant that your xpub (a master public key, allowing anyone holding it to derive all your past/present/future Bitcoin addresses) was at some point in time held by Samourai, and could now possible in the hands of the DOJ.

Though it's a worst-case scenario, you should assume that your xpub was compromised, and thus all previous mixes you have done have been unwound and are now traceable. You should also assume that the gov can now derive all past/present/future addresses of yours and track movement of funds if so desired.

In addition, Samourai's coordinator and backend sync server was seized, and so SW will no longer sync, show received funds, or allow sending funds out. As such, you have to migrate funds to another wallet like @SparrowWallet following the docs here:

https://docs.samourai.io/wallet/restore-recovery#export-to-external-wallet

In addition, I would recommend migrating funds to a new seed phrase to prevent anyone holding the xpub from seeing all future received/spent funds.

You should also disable automatic updates in the Play Store (if used) to ensure no malicious updates are pushed.

As a Samourai Wallet user (using your own Dojo)

Thankfully, you avoided having your xpub potentially compromised. The worst case scenario for you is that your previous mixes may not have the full anon set you expected if non-Dojo users xpubs were compromised.

You will still be able to sync/send/receive from your Samourai Wallet app, but should also migrate funds eventually as no further updates will come out for Samourai Wallet. If you want to migrate, use the docs below:

https://docs.samourai.io/wallet/restore-recovery#export-to-external-wallet

You should, however, disable automatic updates in the Play Store (if used) to ensure no malicious updates are pushed.

As a Sparrow Wallet user

Thankfully, you avoided having your xpub potentially compromised as well. The worst case scenario for you is that your previous mixes may not have the full anon set you expected if non-Dojo/Sparrow users xpubs were compromised.

There is no real need to rotate to a new wallet etc, and Sparrow is still an excellent option. Unfortunately you will no longer be able to mix in Sparrow as the Samourai coordinator was seized.

Next steps for privacy

If you (like me) relied on Samourai Wallet for privacy on Bitcoin, it's time to look elsewhere sadly. As of today I have two recommendations:

Use Monero for spending, keep using Bitcoin for savings

Yes, this isn't Bitcoin, but its by far the most used and most practical privacy coin out there with strong (and growing) ways to swap in/out of it without a centralized, KYC exchange. My recommendation is buying enough to cover your normal spending of Bitcoin for a month at least, and spend out of that lump sum as needed.

Learn more:

getmonero.org

Where to get Monero:

bisq.network
Trocador.app
In Cake Wallet's exchange feature

Wallets:

Feather Wallet
Cake Wallet
Monerujo Wallet

Merchants that accept Monero:

monerica.com

cryptwerk.com/pay-with/xmr/

Use JoinMarket

JoinMarket is a decentralized Coinjoin protocol that brings together peers to mix funds together, gaining strong privacy without relying on a central coordinator, without giving fees to a central entity, etc.

The best way to get started today is using the new UI built around JoinMarket, @jamapporg:

jamapp.org

Have any more questions? Drop them below and I'll do my best to answer them.


Looks like I was able to get this working again, sort of. It says I'm connected to 9-11 relays, but only shows that I have 100 followers (and even Jack only about 40, so it has to be a data gap), and very few notes on timelines (with obvious gaps even for hugely active accounts). Relay.damus.io never seems to pass me any data (0kb both up and down) to me, which j assume is due to my connection coming via Tor, but honestly I don't know. I'm connecting using Amethyst, if anybody sees this and has any ideas—what's the best, biggest relay for Tor users right now?

Secondly, and most importantly for anyone who sees this note, please make some noise to try and stop the passage of RISAA (the FISA 702 reauthorization) that's about to hit law as soon as this Friday. Please read about it and push it out on all of your socials, if you agree it's a problem. It's going to be hard to stop this thing, even with all hands.

Whoever sees this, thank you for hearing me. https://image.nostr.build/b5731965f417b631e9ea74c27ce4d5f9bb91f9e2a96fefb1547146266ab89fb5.jpg


That is, and isn’t, what I mean. However, it’d make life easier! Thank you.


nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev I am intermittent, so forgive me if this is the wrong place or the idea is already out there: I would LOVE a type of Keet relay (or maybe simplex? Keet seems closer) so I have one point of contact to the outside world that I can respond to via any given device handy, without having 6 versions of me show up in the chat. A kind of bridge; that all my devices speak to that then has a unified voice outside. Could be hosted on nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll or umbrel. Could this be a thing? Or am I missing something?


Battle of ideas, one they think they can win. But getting a lot of people to believe something doesn’t make it true…


Thank you, look forward to this. Keep them coming


Absolutely. Shifts the Overton window in the process; all we have to do is make stuff work so folk can use it when they want to try it for themselves


I learned this through experience before I read it here. I deeply know it to be true


Haven’t found any yet; I keep expecting to. My theory is we need people already familiar with Nostr (probably Bitcoiners) with a shared interest in something unrelated to Bitcoin to have proper conversations here


Exactly this. Man after my own heart. nostr:note1zaltt7ka9x3h3akdgspqhuspv35ure7m43llpy802md9ak38n8psnk5v8g


I second this


I haven’t figured it out entirely… but I found you and your message from your pub key. Not familiar with plebstr though


Hello npub1xdjcvcwjxtnmeekag3ld0kqvr7pur52gl64am8aljyd85mp55sfsg3ntln

Welcome… I’ve been fumbling about here for a while