rfkill

bitcoiner, privacy enthusiast, nix user

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2024-08-02 14:50:42

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This comment about a week before Russia was cut off from SWIFT, and yet here we are 2.5 years later.

2024-08-02 14:43:55

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Not a fan of lightning addresses. Waiting for bolt12 offers to become more universal. On-chain Bitcoin is getting reusable addresses now too which is awesome.

2024-08-01 08:59:29

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I like to think of ecash/liquid as stablecoins pegged to bitcoin rather than custodians. They succeed/fail on the same basis, but with the huge advantage that issuers can fully settle with eachother in the backend over the lightning or base layer network, and can have shared custody of reserves accross jurisdictions.

2024-07-31 12:06:39

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The statist school system being heavily Christian influenced also probably pushed people towards satanic symbolism as a protest against it.

2024-07-29 14:42:46

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The blinded signatures protect you from this issue:
* Alice gets a coin from the mint and gives it to Bob
* Bob redeems it
* The mint now knows that the coin Bob redeemed is the same one that was given to Alice.
With blinded signatures, the mint only knows that the coin was minted and given to someone, but not to whom. Coins are fixed sizes, so your anonymity set is the number of people who have coins of the same size.
Of course there are probably tons of heuristics you could use to guess who sent coins to whom, which get harder the more users are using the mint.

2024-07-28 21:15:38

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Are you sure it able to connect to the network? Is it ethernet or wifi? Static config or DHCP?

2024-07-28 15:44:32

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Anyone been paying attention to Bryan Lunduke's recent reporting on tech journalism? There seems to be some real funding issues there causing almost all publications to avoid the same topics. Could it be hitting Bitcoin Magazine as well?

2024-07-28 10:55:05

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What are we going to buy with bitcoin when there's no manufacturing infrastructure anymore?

2024-07-28 10:07:42

Calls for popular Mastadon instances to block federation with "linuxrocks.online" are just another example of why the Mastadon architecture is not conducive to freedom or free speech. Nostr accounts are not tied to any specific instance, or subject to the whims of the instance moderators. Nostr nodes are free to refuse to host any content they dislike, without blocking their users access to content they are looking for.

2024-07-27 19:10:06

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Really wondering how many of them read your book.

2024-07-27 00:15:11

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It's an ongoing area of research called remote attestation.

2024-07-26 08:13:21

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There's really nothing that had all the characteristics to be a cryptocurreney from before bitcoin. Ecash is a payment system rather than a currency.

2024-07-24 19:55:17

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What about when he gives the right impression in his speeches, but the 6000 page bill gets negotiated in the house for a year, with a neverending assortment of concessions and unrelated ammendments added?

2024-07-24 09:16:32

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You could send the number to https://twitch.tv/kitboga

2024-07-22 09:39:02

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Bitcoin is a tool for giant investors and corporations to get rich at the expense of regular people, that's why we're banning regular people from holding bitcoin and only allowing it to be held by giant investors and corporations.

2024-07-20 18:30:41

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lnbits is a nice way to support a bunch of backends, or you can use it to emulate lndconnect

2024-07-19 22:07:39

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Why can't we just focus on keeping these things cross compatible? Especially if they are key-based, there's no reason you have to lock yourself into one or the other.

2024-07-16 20:02:13

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Of all the currencies not backed by anything and you think that of bitcoin? Bitcoin IS the one that backs.

2024-07-15 23:23:08

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Did Trump read your book?

2024-07-14 19:53:38

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Any RSS feed?

2024-07-14 18:23:22

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Still 35GB remaining on my 1TB bitcoind/electrs node

2024-07-14 09:01:43

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I can imagine in future lightning implemeltations whnch have a cashu node built in, for the purpose of minting ecash tokens and sending them out as donations, to be redeemed later by the recipient.

2024-07-13 21:09:09

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Can we apply WoT to relays?

2024-07-13 12:10:17

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LN is interoperable with ecash. In fact ecash would be a lot less useful without LN. If you still want LN you can still set that up and sent and recieve from ecash users:

2024-07-13 12:07:56

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Biggest issue we have with ecash now is that there are two competing standards with incompatible formats. I prefer fedimint because I want the money federated across mulitple juristictions, but I guess cashu is easier to intergrate.

2024-07-12 20:23:21

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Like to see all wallets enable this. Accept everything, instantly convert to whatever you wanted.

2024-07-12 11:58:21

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Was more this for me. https://image.nostr.build/68c1fa915b4ddb46c7f6aeb1c46f73848d22756ccc5c906262441235ca8a38ac.jpg

2024-07-12 11:49:54

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He's not wrong. Notice the "terms" he reffers to are all crypto terms related to other coins like ethereum. Much of bitcoin culture visible to outsiders mirrors what is happening there. To find the "real" signal beneath it all takes effort.

2024-07-12 11:16:21

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"Trust this npub as if it was me" seems like an extention to web-of-trust level itself. A step above "I have a close relationship with the person behind this npub" etc.

2024-07-10 17:41:19

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Why would they need bitcoin when they can just buy anything they need with printed euros?

2024-07-10 14:00:30

Trying to post to nostr on coracle.social inside Tor Browser, logged in with #amber, but seems like the request goesn't make it from coracle to to the app.

2024-07-02 21:15:19

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That's ignoring the Cantillon effect. Businesses in closer proximity to the new money will benefit in terms of purchasng power at the expense of everyone else.

2024-07-02 14:31:31

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"In other words, the first sectors to receive the newly created money
enjoy higher profits as their pay increases, but general costs are still
low. On the other hand, the last sectors in which prices rise (where
there is more economic friction) face higher costs while still producing
at lower prices."
https://fee.org/articles/the-cantillon-effect-because-of-inflation-we-re-financing-the-financiers/

2024-07-02 14:09:10

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And then the dead man's switch linked via nostr to a nuclear bomb.

2024-07-02 14:09:08

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And then the dead man's switch linked via nostr to a nuclear bomb.

2024-07-01 09:37:58

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All that Adware bloat needs RAM

2024-06-30 13:52:03

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Don't forget not to consolidate your mixed coins together into the same denomination that you started with

2024-06-29 21:31:54

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Lyn Alden taught me that the Bretton Woods system which was ended in 1971 was doomed to failure in it very inception, since it allowed for domestic depegging of the dollar from gold, while still promising to settle in gold internationally.

2024-06-27 20:22:21

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*Drops Mettbrotchen*

2024-06-27 18:13:39

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I feel ecash could take over this role. If you want to be sovereign your wallet can immediatedy redeem any ecash you recieve for lightning. The advantage being fast onboarding for new users, improved privacy, ability to send payments via any secure messaging channel, half offline payments. Fedi tokens are also redeemable onchain if needed. Most actual transfers would still take place over lightning in the backend anyway.

2024-06-27 17:10:07

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ok so nostrudel is the next thing I have to get packaged for nixos

2024-06-27 15:28:09

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Does it only work for apps on the same device, or could you use a web client on a desktop and sign notes with the phone?

2024-06-27 09:17:56

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I heard they want to ban this from schools in Florida. Shocking.

2024-06-27 09:14:01

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Would be great if they could use ecash mints for initial onboarding, rather than fully custodial lightning services as was done in El Salvador.

2024-06-26 13:11:43

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Do you want to run that node?

2024-06-26 12:16:32

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can we just use tor hidden services instead of DNS?

2024-06-23 16:06:29

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Zaps are a perfect usecase for ecash. You can recieve offline, and then exchange them for LN bitcoin immediately on logging in, if you don't trust the mint.

2024-06-23 15:39:41

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Hopefully not a nix pill

2024-06-23 00:02:57

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Has anyone exteral to the holepunch/Pear team analysed the protocol for viability? What are the tradeoffs, potential weaknesses, privacy or scalability issues?

2024-06-20 23:47:08

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The issue with community relays is that if one gets censored, the community now has a coordination problem in moving to a new one. It's less of an issue if they are spread accross several relays.

2024-06-20 18:40:38

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Can this be implemented for zaps? Also what about just sending ecash directly if the payer has it?

2024-06-20 13:06:27

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so an LNWRLW is effectively a non-blinded ecash token.

2024-06-20 08:40:28

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Anyone working on a standard format for serializing encrypted ecash tokens, to allow sending them via nostr / signal / email etc?

2024-06-20 07:55:55

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Waiting for NIP for sending zaps by just sending an DM containing ecash tokens.

2024-06-18 14:56:21

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at least you can print ecash tokens and put those in birthday cards

2024-06-17 18:27:39

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the irony https://image.nostr.build/c42b143dcdd23a8bf91161e98ac1813d5942fdeac696f1c99989a4051af29c4a.jpg

2024-06-16 09:42:13

Now we have ecash actually working, can we start using them for zaps? I would rather recieve and fedi token, and claim it when I come online, than have to outsource to alby or walletofsatoshi.

2024-06-15 17:38:15

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I'm sure plenty of backend devs have dabbled a bit in react or vue or something, but it requires a completely different mindset to create appealing user interfaces than it does to create functional backends. Specialisation can be a good thing.

2024-06-14 19:34:57

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Government are good at one thing: remaining in power.

2024-06-13 20:46:45

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Where's the bitcoin suit merch?

2024-06-12 22:52:51

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Ligitimate ways to view trump:
* A dangerous fascist who will accelerate us towards 1984
* A crusader for freedom protecting us from those who would accederate us towards 1984
* A useful idiot who sometimes helps crusaders of freedom
* A useful idiot who sometimes helps corporate/socialist fascists
* Basically just as bad as all the other politicians
* Mainly an issue because he gives false hope in democracy to people who know better

2024-06-12 14:20:24

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It seems like the political parties representing this group is much further right than the median actual member of that group. But no other parties will represent them at all.

2024-06-11 19:26:45

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Now all we need is a lightning address scheme that doesn't rely on DNS/TLS. Bolt12 or LNURL over Nostr, don't really mind.

2024-06-05 11:54:07

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Lightning lowers the barrier to entry in becoming a bank. Now other banks do not have to trust you in order to join the banking network. In the long run, it doesn't itself eliminate the need for banks.

2024-06-05 09:19:58

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In fact, forget the internet

2024-06-03 21:18:32

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wait till double rachet encryption comes to Nostr DMs

2024-06-03 06:55:00

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For some reason eating beets seems to help me

2024-06-03 06:30:33

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Uncle Jim's unite

2024-06-02 17:49:10

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Bitcoin needs some kind of way to scale non-custodially. Lightning is a partial but not full solution. CTV opens some options that aren't currently possible.

2024-06-02 15:29:00

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But did you read Bitcoin is Venice?

2024-06-02 06:32:57

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Bitcoin can work for individuals while under full state attack. But we can also imagine that the incentive structure of bitcoin actually drives states to prefer a more liberal approach towards it.

2024-06-01 19:15:43

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQCV0QgIbuk&t=1
Great thing about nix shells is you start to use newer tools that other devs are less likely to have installed. Just is a great alternative to make for running common operations on your source repository.

2024-06-01 11:57:38

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dns is still used for connecting to the nostr relay. but at least you dont need your own domain to host your lnurl any more

2024-05-31 08:54:07

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Ecash isn't a scaling solution for bitcoin. Bitcoin is an interoperability layer for ecash.

2024-05-29 08:24:00

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The tinfoil hat that actually works.

2024-05-26 11:09:58

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If there was even a semi viable libertarian candidate anymore that would be nice.

2024-05-25 14:14:53

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Trademarks make SOME sense in terms of, if I put the hitachi logo on something not made py hitachi, it is fraud. Patents and copyright are bleh.

2024-05-25 10:32:58

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And the remake will never happen because they won't give up the rights

2024-05-25 08:23:15

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Well, these types of CAPCHAs have been obsolete for a number of years

2024-05-23 09:23:37

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Are we going to move towards a universal payment request which will allow the client itself to figure out which methods are supported and what the best option to use is?

2024-05-22 18:41:37

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Will opensats pay for my trip to the center of the Congolese Jungle?

2024-05-21 18:47:36

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Nobody to inherit the wealth?

2024-05-21 07:24:47

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I didn't know Copernicus watched youtube videos.

2024-05-20 18:24:19

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Number of people you follow who follow them.

2024-05-19 14:22:30

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There needs to be a why before anyone will even think about the how.

2024-05-15 23:21:43

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The true EVs

2024-05-15 21:57:50

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The best thing about tor is its ability to punch through NAT like butter. Setting up a hidden service is so much easier than setting up a regular service.

2024-05-15 11:21:19

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And then it "crashes" to $800k and half the people say it's dead, half the people say "it's only 20% this is nothing for bitcoin, I honestly thought it was going to fall more" then a month later it falls to $200k.

2024-05-15 10:22:01

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With lnbits you could have a payment terminal that works offline, but depends on the phone connecting to an online server somewhere. So where could someone like her have an lnbits instance running that doesn't also go down during the load shedding?

2024-05-15 10:14:09

Whats the best nostr client that I can self host on my local homelab?

2024-05-15 07:34:36

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https://github.com/ojroques/nvim-osc52

2024-05-14 19:15:46

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I'll let the original participants in this conversation continue it. My comment was based on the assumption that criticisms already brought up were true, so it will rest on the conclusion of taat discussion.

2024-05-14 13:55:55

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There are various other risks with Monero, such as the continual hard forks, potential for node centralization etc. The comparison is more, can we have a fedimint where the overal trustworthiness of the federation similar to that of the Monero system of incentives. You could also make the same comparison to bitcoin, but overall trust in the base system is much higher than Monero.

2024-05-14 08:45:23

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You could also set up the lightning protocol to allow external funding. E.g:
* Perform initial setup with channel partner
* Setup transaction depends on an input that doesn't exist yet
* Once everything is ready, send a taproot address to someone who was about to pay me anyway
* that UTXO now becomes the input to the channel, and therefore it is open
Not an op-code expert so can't say for sure if it's possible, might require sighash noinput.

2024-05-14 07:40:00

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So what we should be really comparing monero to isn't bitcoin, but fedimint. Fediment can definitely offer greater privacy if you use a mint with a large enough anonymity set. Question is whether we can have fedimints that are more robust vs state attacks than Monero.

2024-05-12 18:53:21

Is there a reason zaps are based on LNURL, and not some nostr based protocol? Being able to request the invoice over nostr would avoid the need to have a public facing doman name.

2024-05-12 17:41:24

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How does one find a mint that fits the criteria?
* Small enough to fly under the KYC enforcement radar
* Large enough to provide a reasonable anonymity set
* Trustworthy enough that you'd be willing to leave funds there

2024-05-10 10:31:23

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I'm honestly leaning more towards accepting the more pejorative definition of capitalism, which libertarians would usually refer to with terms like merchantilism, crony capitalism or corporatism. To me it just seems to be the more popular definition and has a greater connection to the historical period in which the ideas were formed. Switching to a new term to describe what we are aiming for could help differentiate it from simply defendind the status quo.

2024-05-09 15:34:55

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Since twitter is called X now, the words "tweet" and "retweet" should be fair game to be used on any other platform.

2024-05-08 13:29:57

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