Max Hillebrand

There are secure enclaves that can proof to outside observers which code is running in a machine.
Pretty mind blowing!
Still relies on some trust in the hardware producer at the factory time.

2025-01-15 07:51:48 GMT

Uninstalled obtainium.
@nprofile…tdq0 is better.

2025-01-14 18:25:49 GMT

@nprofile…ckyu pays out ~30% more than FFPS pools.
That's absolutely incredible!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne-UvFMzVrE

2025-01-14 17:57:29 GMT

Applications to @nprofile…3ra5 #SEC04 are open!!
https://sovereignengineering.io/

2025-01-05 06:35:22 GMT

Aliens are cypherpunk as fuck

2025-01-02 17:53:36 GMT

Two great features here:
Fingerprint + 2FA PIN
80% charge limit
#nevent1q…ywsh

2024-12-29 09:39:51 GMT

A Lodging of Wayfaring Men will not be forgotten.
Bullish

2024-12-27 13:53:48 GMT

So...
Who's gonna build a nostr & blossom plugin for nextcloud?

2024-12-24 20:17:53 GMT

Open source hardware security module by nitrokey
https://www.nitrokey.com/products/nethsm

2024-12-24 17:59:38 GMT

I was thinking to build wireless earbuds with a studio-grade high quality microphone. There should be an additional clip-on mic that uses the same bluetooth connection and charges in the case. I want to record podcasts while walking with superb audio quality.
Turns out, will cost roughly 5 bitcoin in research and development.
I guess I'll do it if you zap this note hard.

2024-12-24 15:01:05 GMT

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Checkout the website and some of Matthew's podcasts, base money is a fascinating rabbit hole!

2024-12-23 13:56:04 GMT

Join the next @nprofile…3ra5 cohort and find out
#nevent1q…v695

2024-12-23 13:55:07 GMT

Maybe the biggest crime against humanity of the european union, is that they make it illegal to sell bananas from Madeira because they're too small.
You have no idea what you're missing.

2024-12-15 17:15:54 GMT

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Why?

2024-12-15 08:09:45 GMT

Is there a NIP for a job board yet?

2024-12-13 20:52:40 GMT

If you could buy whatever you need on nostr marketplaces, would you use it?

2024-12-13 16:38:39 GMT

Is there a FOSS app that takes microphone speech input, transcribes it, and then edits it for readability and coherence?

2024-12-11 22:30:38 GMT

If you want to stack sats while helping onboard people to FOSS, let me know.

2024-12-10 20:24:08 GMT

We gotta reclaim "crypto"

2024-12-09 12:27:33 GMT

Purple pills are working.
Big things are coming.

2024-12-05 22:44:27 GMT

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Most likely yes, but I guess there are a lot or localized urls.
Its common to change it to "ae" though

2024-12-05 22:36:48 GMT

@nprofile…pyug it seems Amethyst doesnt render urls with special characters, like ä in https://souveräneindividuum.de

2024-12-05 17:44:00 GMT

The first ever German translation of The Sovereign Individual is now available for sale!
I shill Nostr and freedom tech in the forward.
souveräneindividuum.de

2024-12-03 22:03:44 GMT

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A two way peg is a second layer transaction system, where new tokens are created when bitcoin is locked up on the base layer, and those bitcoin can only be spend, if those second layer tokens are destroyed.
That's the original vision of Blockstreams early side chain research, and it took 10+ years to finally have a trustless way to get Bitcoin from the side chain to the baselayer.
What enables this magic is succinct zero knowledge proofs which are verified on the base layer in order to unlock the Bitcoin. With BitVM the zk proofs can be emulated on bitcoin today.

2024-12-03 19:51:30 GMT

https://image.nostr.build/241ab3da85adbb325e921a0c22cdc7b4412edc3a2b1ab22f3c286267316150df.jpg

2024-11-29 17:56:47 GMT

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Who's gonna build the crawler app?
Seems like a zapworthy venture

2024-11-29 17:47:53 GMT

My dream nostr experience of the phone is a local relay, a crawler that downloads all relevant events from other relays through tor, and a bunch of client apps without network connection that look up from that local relay.
How far away are from this on android?
@nprofile…pyug @nprofile…fpck

2024-11-26 07:30:23 GMT

When did you last rotate your passwords?
Today is a good day to improve your opsec.

2024-11-24 12:47:53 GMT

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I love the concept of zap forwarding to the devs for feature request notes!
They only get a notification if people really like the idea.
Nostr is so damn cool!!

2024-11-23 10:47:30 GMT

Please read A Lodging of Wayfaring Men.
https://freemansperspective.com/audiobook-a-lodging-of-wayfaring-men/

2024-11-21 14:48:45 GMT

I should do more nostr shilling...
For each 100k SATs this note gets zapped, I'll do one more podcast guest appearance.
There is no marketing budget for nostr, so let's see if we can crowdfund it.

2024-11-21 14:13:47 GMT

What's something you buy frequently, but the merchant doesn't accept bitcoin?

2024-11-21 07:21:41 GMT

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Thanks.
And direct RSS is not supported?

2024-11-20 14:05:26 GMT

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But slavery too!

2024-11-20 08:39:20 GMT

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How to add podcasts to grayjay?

2024-11-19 22:17:36 GMT

Lightning, nostr, cashu, fedimint, blossom, ...
My friends made these tools.
My friends aren't special people, they're just dudes, but look at how powerful they are.

2024-11-19 21:23:32 GMT

You can simply walk away from the modern systems of slavery.
Why don't you?

2024-11-19 20:36:40 GMT

Is there a podcasting app that automatically skips add reads?

2024-11-14 10:24:12 GMT

The man, the myth, the legend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I_vLL-mA5o

2024-11-14 08:30:44 GMT

The most cypherpunk as fuck podcast.
https://taz0.org/bitstream/
I highly recommend listening through it from the beginning. Smuggler and @nprofile…2xcy are two legendary builders, strategists, and philosophers. Their mindset and articulation is inspiring.

2024-11-13 15:43:12 GMT

Beautiful talk by @nprofile…eh46
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFasLWSk-rI

2024-11-13 14:56:08 GMT

https://image.nostr.build/98bf1cfcd3c24269305d4aa0bc7f09f7fbe68b07f942370b0fa0f4604df71533.jpg

2024-11-13 09:32:58 GMT

The most radical thing you can do, is to live free and unashamed.

2024-11-12 14:23:05 GMT

All talks of the 11th and final hackers congress have just been uploaded!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_88YKXiY1KDqbS38DVnCqg

2024-11-11 16:30:42 GMT

Oh wow, we're at 869866 already, ngu much!

2024-11-01 00:28:51 GMT

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Did I just steal anything from you by right click copy paste?

2024-11-01 00:28:32 GMT

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Going to give this a read.
I’m an artist. If I come up with some original characters, are you saying that I shouldn’t have the right to protect my creations? Shouldn’t be able to prevent others from trying to steal my art and then make money from it?

2024-11-01 00:08:13 GMT

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tl;dr, property rights are a solution to the problem of requirement to allocate scarce resources.
Ideas are non-scarce, and if property rights are applied, then it's not protective, but in fact violates the property in actually scarce resources of peaceful people.
https://mises.org/library/book/against-intellectual-property

2024-10-31 03:35:12 GMT

Trademarks are theft.

2024-10-30 03:53:31 GMT

How can we get Oliver Anthony on nostr and @nprofile…nrls?
He seems so primed for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dvu4BiHxSs

2024-10-29 08:47:12 GMT

Is there a way to get an amethyst notification when a specific npub posts?

2024-10-29 03:40:54 GMT

I'm juggling a dozen world changing cypherpunk products in my mind.
We need moar devs to build them.
If you're bored and need ideas to build, let me know.

2024-10-28 08:12:08 GMT

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Nice.

2024-10-24 00:42:31 GMT

Shill a nostr client most people don't know about: 👇

2024-10-23 14:09:48 GMT

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No https? 🤔

2024-10-23 09:19:34 GMT

Can DVM feeds please get the same UX treatment as the main feed in @nprofile…s8dt?
I'd like to switch between the DVM feed and notifications and back easily.

2024-10-23 04:26:09 GMT

In the early days of ecash a common narrative was that it provides "theoretically perfect anonymity", but there's more nuance to this.
It's correct that when the client presents an unblinded signed message, the mint cannot link this to any specific blinded cyphertext that it signed previously.
However, there is still three pieces of critical metadata that the client does reveal:
1. The number of inputs and outputs of the ecash transaction. Transactions with many inputs reveal that the same user got paid many times in the past. Transactions with many outputs reveal that one user is making many payments.
2. The value of each input and output. The mint uses a different key for each denomination value of the tokens. Thus a token worth 5 units is easily differentiated from a token worth 10 units. The anonymity set of a token depends on the number of tokens generated, so if a user is the only one with that specific denomination he has no privacy.
3. The IP address that connects to the mint to send the transaction api request. If the same IP address makes multiple payments, it's likely the same user, and his geolocation is also revealed.
Problems 1 and 2 can be mitigated on client side, but this adds substantial complexity in utxo management and transaction structure. If these mitigation are not specified and different clients have slightly different solutions, this opens up additional client fingerprinting attacks.
WabiSabi is designed to solve problems 1 and 2 on a protocol level. A WabiSabi transaction is required to have exactly two inputs and two outputs, and homomorphic value commitments hide the amounts of each input and output. The tradeoff is that the mint has to issue 0 value credentials, a user needs to make more transactions to prepare his desired amounts, and the proof size and creation time is larger.
Problem 3 is addressed by a client side networking anonymity layer. A VPN at least hides the actual users IP address, but if only one client uses this VPN to talk to this mint, it's still one IP per user. Tor is incredibly useful here, as it allows the creation of anonymous onion routes through the network with different exit IP addresses. A client can get a new IP for each api request! This does however increase bandwidth and latency cost.
We should assume "everyone knows what the mint knows", and so we need to be hardcore about privacy protections best baked into the protocol. If the protocol doesn't ensure the security of the user, client devs have to do an exponentially larger amount of research and development to fix the issues client side.

2024-10-22 11:31:08 GMT

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There is a rust implementation here https://github.com/openmls/openmls

2024-10-22 05:30:30 GMT

Why does MLS scale to larger groups than signal?
Because of merkle trees, obviously...
https://nostpic.com/media/b7ed68b062de6b4a12e51fd5285c1e1e0ed0e5128cda93ab11b4150b55ed32fc/c52ad6c04020080558c82d0b717757fb16317075949173f02f38a6fce7458ded.webp

2024-10-22 02:59:05 GMT

MLS improves on the signal protocol by making every group member deterministically viewable by each member. There is no chance of a hidden additional user that reads all the messages. Likewise it's not possible for someone to send messages to only a subset of group members. A very powerful protocol.

2024-10-19 08:02:49 GMT

Do what you love, and you'll get good at it.

2024-10-17 15:44:46 GMT

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Bullish.

2024-10-17 06:27:18 GMT

Tools for creating a shared nsec nostr microblog.
Cypherpunk future is now.
https://github.com/jooray/anonmicroblog

2024-10-17 02:01:57 GMT

So, how are we gonna deal with inheritance of nostr keys?

2024-10-17 01:23:47 GMT

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Woah, that comparison of BSD and GNU to voluntary slavery is great!
There has been a gigantic debate between Block & Rothbard about this, way longer than BSD VS GNU.

2024-10-14 15:47:14 GMT

I'm seriously surprised how great @nprofile…s8dt works with all Tor settings enabled, everything loads quick enough.

2024-10-14 15:07:32 GMT

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Damn, that's cool!

2024-10-14 15:04:16 GMT

Is there any ecash mint offering gold denominated tokens?

2024-10-14 15:03:19 GMT

If you're building freedom tech and need help, let me know.

2024-10-14 14:57:06 GMT

ecash is so cool

2024-10-14 10:15:12 GMT

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yup
#nevent1q…5rjr

2024-10-14 10:10:35 GMT

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And with DLC ecash the spending condition of the ecash depends on the result signature of an oblivious oracle.

2024-10-14 10:09:00 GMT

New prediction market with lightning settlement.
But I'd guess it's custodial...
https://www.bitcoinprediction.market/

2024-10-14 07:57:43 GMT

Imagine if we could trust our computers.

2024-10-14 05:56:21 GMT

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https://freemansperspective.com/audiobook
https://podcastindex.org/podcast/531078

2024-10-13 16:35:10 GMT

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I enjoyed our conversation!

2024-10-13 11:05:26 GMT

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Correct, but that's solved when the merchant does a coinjoin first and includes private inputs in the payjoin transaction.

2024-10-13 09:32:40 GMT

no|where
now|here

2024-10-13 08:26:13 GMT

The Property and Freedom Society gathering is filled with excellent ideas.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPsGN9FqHc8ERRqMyTQCwt-cbQCYplsLI

2024-10-12 09:44:54 GMT

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Thanks a lot for this kind review!
It's the first time I experiment with voice characters, and it lacks consistency across time, but it was fun.
I'm happy you enjoyed the book as much as I do!

2024-10-11 16:55:28 GMT

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Glad you enjoyed the conversation

2024-10-10 08:31:00 GMT

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Thanks!

2024-10-10 08:27:38 GMT

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Really enjoyed hanging out in person, the new show is great!

2024-10-10 08:26:36 GMT

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Glad that you enjoyed the book and recording!

2024-10-08 06:37:16 GMT

If Bitcoin is embraced by the state, is it still Bitcoin?

2024-10-06 08:38:45 GMT

Did Assange tease nostr here?
Time stamped link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5c6Gka8WQo&t=2382

2024-10-05 08:17:55 GMT

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https://image.nostr.build/35bc710dfc31cf718f70f1e95fcc2d01181ff46699f2359b6818634064e574e2.jpg

2024-10-05 08:15:32 GMT

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That's really cool!

2024-10-04 05:26:36 GMT

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Woah, this sounds very useful!

2024-10-04 05:20:50 GMT

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I really enjoyed that pod, thanks for the highlight!

2024-10-02 10:54:38 GMT

What's the nip for storing HTML code in relays?

2024-10-01 18:04:11 GMT

Satoshi made possible what Hayek thought impossible:
"It is probably impossible for pieces of paper or other tokens of a material itself of no significant market value to come to be gradually accepted and held as money unless they represent a claim on some valuable object."

2024-09-29 18:35:05 GMT

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Congrats on the release!
Thanks

2024-09-29 16:24:28 GMT

Well this escalated quickly...
https://image.nostr.build/177726138e5dfaf302cdc06ff6df6861416002a9a502b656838f0d3a2e0f02e8.jpg
https://www.bitcoinlayers.org/

2024-09-27 22:12:01 GMT

Reading this paper gets mad giddy.
Incredible how all the pieces are slowly coming together.
#nevent1q…ym5n