remyers

New major release! Phoenix Android/iOS/Server now supports BOLT12:
- reusable, non-expiring payment requests
- contact list (Android for now, iOS soon)
- attach messages to payments
You can now receive payments to a static bolt-12 offer via Phoenix and keep a list of offers in your contact list! https://image.nostr.build/4e472eb1a795bcf9c5e0cf588c90864ce74cb952e900b209465751e4ca1882e8.jpg
See also bolt12.org

2024-06-07 16:18:47

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Thanks for getting to the bottom of this @npub1m0n…d0un
https://image.nostr.build/39c732b827349e72962617708319e54e0caf5221700a3340d1511cd961dbabad.jpg
"OKX started a major consolidation operation about 4 hours ago, at a more sensible ~53 sats/vb.
but since then they've been gradually bidding against themselves, until now they're trying to pay 350+ s/vb"
"It's not the first time this has happened"
https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000004cac9261f0304ecbe1bf19606e8d4668903356b5e2ef8

2024-06-07 15:11:16

Can anymore explain why these txs are doing? Seems like they are consolidating 2 of 3 multisig outputs at a crazy high feerate. It makes no sense!
🤪
https://mempool.space/tx/86ce0d00cf25c3f92d79a3a1349e71b681733d78cacceeee36948d22ced3ff3f#flow=&vout=0

2024-05-27 21:42:11

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How about international?

2024-05-21 08:14:40

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this blog post also asks that you add as the purpose:
"U.S. v. Rodriguez & Hill (Samourai Wallet)"
https://blog.ronindojo.io/samourai-defense-fund/

2024-05-21 07:46:21

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Marvel has been on a downward spiral for awhile now. Check out the "Invincible" cartoon series to cleanse your super hero pallet.

2024-05-14 21:14:40

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Note also that this is typical ninja KYC after they've got their exchange fee and your btc.

2024-05-02 22:22:38

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Don't write off APO. It's a simple but powerful way to improve Lightning while also enabling covenants without additional soft fork changes.

2024-05-01 10:47:47

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RE: privacy, "Let a thousand nodes bloom." Bitcoin and Lightning were *designed* for this fight, centralized implementations have been an efficient way to popularize and bootstrap the network, but expect something like the transition from Napster to Bittorrent going forward.

2024-04-27 15:26:11

Bitcoin has forced the banking system to make same day bank-to-bank transfers possible. Would this have even happened if Bitcoin had not shown this was possible in practice for large transfers? Would the banking system have felt compelled to make it possible? I honestly don't think so. Think about that when someone natters on about how governments will somehow stomp out Bitcoin. It's too late.

2024-04-26 22:17:46

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It is not reasonable to expect a small group of individuals developing critical Lightning technology to put themselves at risk of criminal charges from the global hedgemon. Better to avoid conflict for now and continue the mission to develop the technology. Once the LSP model has matured I can imagine an end game where a thousand small LSPs bloom. That's how we fight back. "Let us proceed together apace."

2024-04-26 17:25:55

"On May 3rd, 2024,
@PhoenixWallet
will be removed from US app stores.
Users from the US should empty their wallet:
- Settings > Close channels (Android)
- Settings > Drain wallet (iOS)
We highly recommend *not force-closing* channels, as on-chain fees could be significant."
https://image.nostr.build/63b559a1c8bb433cb1aa512a196c11cc640c16428dee9ccc5823ee6ab9f7695c.jpg

2024-04-25 07:44:33

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Aren't dual funded channels / splices essentially payjoin for Lightning?

2024-04-24 21:05:55

Reposting from bird site post by Laurent MT. "Here we go again"
"...the defendants, developed, marketed, and operated a cryptocurrency mixing
service known as Samourai Wallet (““Samourai”), an unlicensed money transmitting business from
which they earned millions of dollars in fees. Samourai unlawfully combined multiple unique
features to execute anonymous financial transactions valued at over $2 billion in cryptocurrency
for its customers. While offering Samourai as a “privacy” service, the defendants knew that it was
a haven for criminals to engage in large-scale money laundering and sanctions evasion. Indeed,
as the defendants intended and well knew, a substantial portion of the funds that Samourai
processed were criminal proceeds passed through Samourai for purposes of concealment. Indeed,
during the relevant period, Samourai laundered over $100 million dollars of crime proceeds
originating from, among other criminal sources: illegal darkweb markets, such as Silk Road and
Hydra Market; various wire fraud and computer fraud schemes, including a web-server intrusion,
a spear phishing scheme, and schemes to defraud multiple decentralized finance protocols; and
other illegal activities."
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68467223/4/united-states-v-rodriguez/

2024-04-20 10:40:18

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😬 is layer one "ru(i)ned"?

2024-04-18 21:21:30

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Name the Libertarian paradise with these policies:
- privatized 1st class mail delivery
- voucher system for private grade schools
.
.
.
🇸🇪

2024-04-17 12:46:02

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Exciting to see Bitcore 27.0 includes Topologically Restricted Until Confirmation (TRUC) Transactions policy (aka v3 transaction policy) for test networks!
When TRUC gets adopted on mainnet this will increase the safety of Lightning and other L2s that have to worry about txs getting pinned.

2024-04-14 11:41:15

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Agree. Really look into Phoenix - it's a cross platform Kotlin multiplatform library battle tested by ACINQ.
By the time you get it integrated they should have bolt-12 working with dns pay names. I assume you could even connect to their LSP if you don't want to run your own, since it's all protocol based.

2024-04-13 10:46:32

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#lazyweb
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/former-at-t-tower-in-downtown-st-louis-sold-to-boston-firm/article_ca5e836e-f5c7-11ee-bfd8-27b295db4025.html
TLDR sound like it needs ~$300M to convert to modern useful commercial space, but also that commercial RE is having a meltdown post COVID due to WFH etc.

2024-04-10 17:12:17

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@npub1r8l…x5dk interview with Saylor in December gets into his belief that Bitcoin should not become a transactional currency that threatens states. Related?
"You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain"
https://stephanlivera.com/episode/536/

2024-04-09 19:42:11

Interesting project from Moxy Marlinspike to create a user friendly way to recover key material:
https://www.juicebox.xyz/blog
I wonder if this could be used to simplify #nostr apps?

2024-04-04 08:04:02

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It's kinda cute how people think Bitcoin is complicated.

2024-04-03 11:13:17

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a future phoenixd with splicing + liquidity ads + bolt-12 static invoices + human readable payment addresses is NOT priced in to nostr zapping. ⚡

2024-03-24 00:08:38

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Yes bolt-12 is under very active development and they have been active in spec development.
Blnded paths will also be a big win for privacy when using an LSP like ACINQ.

2024-03-22 19:11:25

Exciting news from ACINQ team just dropped on bird site, see below:
All the goodness of @PhoenixWallet, available to developers!
- self-custodial, no signup
- lightweight, native binaries
- NO configuration
- fully automated liquidity
- easy http api
https://phoenix.acinq.co/server
#Bitcoin #LightningNetwork
FULLY automated liquidity
Get "infinite inbound" from the largest and most liquid node in the network. No headaches for merchants or other receive-heavy use cases.
Effective receive fee is as low as ~1%
➡️ All details here: https://phoenix.acinq.co/server/auto-liquidity
Absolutely NO configuration
no channel management
no peer management
no liquidity management
no firewall configuration
➡️ Get started in seconds: https://phoenix.acinq.co/server/get-started
Lightweight & native
phoenixd is compiled to native binaries for linux, mac (x86 & arm) and windows (wsl).
Phoenix was already fast on mobile, but on server it flies!

2024-03-19 09:32:30

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Before Bitcoin existed, I worked on a project that tried to create decentralized multiplayer games with SIM cards using similar techniques.
I love seeing this technology now being adopted for self custodial Bitcoin!

2024-03-17 11:13:59

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I've been wanting to start a campaign with my kids for similar reasons. But do you use just paper/pencil or do you use character sheet aids on a tablet/phone?
It sort of defeats the purpose, but also might make it easier for my kids to get into it.
I'm also curious to hear from any parents who have tried to get their kids into table top RPGs. It has not been as easy as I had hoped.

2024-03-05 20:09:51

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My daughter's class is talking about economics this week and in particular inflation. I told her to ask what causes inflation, and if they don't mention government printing new money to ask her teacher about it.
Teenagers don't like to do that kind of thing, so I glibbly offered her $10 if she asked.
That changed her mind, but the joke is on her - $10 ain't worth what it used to be.

2024-03-04 08:03:04

A normy friend, who isn't in to Bitcoin, independently sent me this @npub1a2c…w83a interview to watch today and was listening to the audiobook of Broken Money without me suggesting it.
<it's happening meme>
https://youtu.be/nrIcy_vgl1I

2024-03-02 11:49:50

"Sorted Wallet" is a fully custodial shitcoin app that runs natively on KaiOS feature phones. They had 50,000 installs in their first 6 month last year (2023). Africa in particular has a large base of feature phone users and there does not seem to be any barriers to deploying "crypto wallets" on their app stores.
Current apps seem to be built with js but the KaiOS roadmap is to support WebAssembly, which would unlock the possiblity of building efficient Rust apps with the full Bitcoin-Rust stack.
Is there anyone developing a non-custodial Bitcoin only app for KaiOS? Rust can target asm.js which should run on most KaiOS phones, so development with the Bitcoin-Rust stack is possible - even if it might not be as secure or efficient as Wasm.
https://sortedwallet.com/
https://kaios.dev/2023/11/guest-post-building-a-crypto-wallet-on-kaios/
#KaiOS #Rust #Africa

2024-03-01 22:24:58

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Hejsan 👋

2024-03-01 22:17:30

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https://image.nostr.build/af72ec47f645cbde4c66493b8a0f0dab1bf8f7af5c62dd9db94a3ce69d052a1b.jpg

2024-03-01 17:41:05

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Murch's new coingrinder is a big improvement when fees are high. It will be interesting to see how having it out there changes the utxo set.

2024-02-26 16:12:21

What are your thoughts on the SC agreeing to take the social media moderation cases? Will their decision impact nostr relays? users?
https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/02/social-media-content-moderation-laws-come-before-supreme-court/
I find myself in the awkward position of agreeing with the NYT and opposing any laws that categorize social media companies like FB and Twitter as some sort of common carriers.. I want them to burn in a 🔥, not because they are biased and censor alt views, but because they suck. I think they should also not have any more legal protection than publishers do when they publish slander, promote illegal investment schemes or post copyrighted cat videos. You can't have the right to censorship without also taking the responsibility that comes with it. My only concern is how such a ruling would impact Nostr relays. Perhaps we'll need to add some mechanism to make it impossible for relays to censor so that they are not in the same category as publishers.

2024-02-21 09:10:34

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Summer house has one, and it works great. Some once a season maintenance required but otherwise a good option if you have electricity but no sewage hookup. Don't run out of the paper liners though...

2024-02-17 22:54:05

"Everyone is talking about Covenants as the next important upgrade to Bitcoin. But what happened to Schorr Cross Signature Input Aggregation (CISA)"
An excellent question, answered by @n1ckler here:
https://github.com/BlockstreamResearch/cross-input-aggregation
https://image.nostr.build/fffac4bbedcb3562563ffe7b98271a35e6fe85cd40d36799e3b3832e25f9cca5.jpg

2024-02-17 09:32:21

Great article from @npub1k7t…8edl on the possible legal challenges to the EIAs absurd request for information from US Bitcoin miners.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/resisting-the-eia-one-possible-playbook

2024-02-15 10:14:50

What is the development budget for TCPIP? Ethernet? it's not zero. Companies around the world pay employees to participate in maintaining the code that implements these protocols. They also pay people to participate in standards committees to make changes around the edges of these protocols, though not to change their fundamental behavior. If these Internet protocols were more complex the development budget would have to be correspondingly larger and might not be enough to rapidly adapt the protocol to new situations. Current internet protocols initially beat out more centralized, complex and (arguably) featureful protocols partially because of their simplicity. I'm happy to see industries supporting Bitcoin development and there is a huge unmet need for more full time support, but keeping the code and protocol simple is a way to prevent reliance on these funding sources and from centralized funding sources controlling the protocol.

2024-02-03 23:15:40

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Chaumian mint based ecash requires connecting to the mint to transfer ownership of tokens. You could pass them around offline, but not trustlessly.

2024-02-03 08:25:18

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I am only aware of hardware solutions for true offline transactions - coinkites opendime, etc.
You could do it with payment channels (eg. Lightning ) but you would need to go online at some point to confirm the channel wasn't closed and potentially publish a revocation tx.

2024-02-02 21:10:19

https://image.nostr.build/7564efb08b38b749da505230ff13b5b0c4c4849154a2f6ca08b7ba55a5831935.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1152x896&blurhash=%23QC%3Fr%5Eayt7t7%7Eqxu%25Mj%5B%3Fb-%3BayM%7Bj%5B%25Mj%5BRjfRayazayj%5BofofWBj%5Bt7ayRjayt7ayRjj%5Bj%5Bofj%5BRjj%5BogWBayfQWBofofj%5BayayofofWBRjoft7WBayofj%5BWBofj%5BWBof&x=9ad5eb361f159281653456decb6e156282b98b55789876c7d058342928b820e0
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people’s savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.
-- Ayn Rand, 1962

2024-01-24 20:19:28

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I would expect multi-party channels that include end user nodes to update less frequently than multi-party channels between routing nodes. But a 2 of 2 channel that settles to a multi-party channel could update whenever both parties are online - even when the other multi-party signers are offline.
If updating the multi-party channel isn't possible, then you have to go onchain.
How do you splice out a particular channel party that isn't responding in a fair/safe/fee efficient way? That's what seems to be where more work is needed.
Is this a solved problem with other covenant schemes? I think they all could use more detailed investigation.

2024-01-24 16:45:43

In recent discussions around proposed soft-forks I am most attracted to the goal of creating a way to share ownership of a UTXO. This was one of the things that APO would enable via multiparty channels (aka channel factories), but with caveats. Multiparty channels are rarely discussed as the primary feature of APO because there are tremendous technical hurdles that need to be solved to scale up multiparty channels. Instead APO work has focused on the more near term advantage of simplifed and safer lightning channels. Any proposal that claims to enable shared UTXO ownership among large groups has significant details to discuss and problems to solve. I hope this current wave of soft-fork discussions will lead to a technical consensus around a proposal that can enable shared UTXO ownership. We're not there yet though.

2024-01-17 22:28:55

I like to see more LN Symmetry talk.
Lack of cheer leading around APO should not be taken as a lack of enthusiasm around this very powerful BIP proposal.
It's frustrating when people dismiss APO without having clearly shown their alternative is superior for the LN-symmetry use case - something people have been excited about for a long time.
#nevent1q…26uc

2024-01-12 23:08:26

"@Isabel_Schnabel: The ECB is very unlikely to ever buy Bitcoin. #AskECB"
https://twitter.com/ecb/status/1745093297230520498#m
https://image.nostr.build/69d34d7b9ce675de92246e6d6523dfb97ad2294d7fce102cc4de3d0e33f2c1b9.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=736x455&blurhash=rWIqcM-nxsx%5BxsWBNH%251xae-WBsnM%7CjZR%2Bofayay.TM%7Da%23agNGofs%3ARkRkt6t6WXoJf%2Bt6fkbHs%3AjFo0NGjsR*jFWBs.ayt7kCWWfkj%5Bj%5BWCj%5BWW&x=560497c111983f74968fff265ff0c614b78e8271fe4193596431638893375fe4

2024-01-09 08:00:06

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MCC had some of the best conference swag. Unfortunately the handles on my MCC tote printed with "BAG OF ALTCOINS / (all of them) / Super Heavy" broke. Metaphor?

2024-01-08 16:47:06

@instagibbs posting pure signal about his LN-Symetry (aka eltoo) work. His in-depth implementation has yielded useful details about this long talked about Lightning channel design and added support for the research on pinning prevention via V3 transactions. This is how you build consensus for a soft-fork. Measure twice, cut once.
https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/ln-symmetry-project-recap/359/1

2024-01-02 17:02:27

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I'm talking about Phoenix, but actually it's not RBF but alternative fee rates that I was thinking of:
https://github.com/ACINQ/lightning-kmp/pull/553
No one uses the old mobile Eclair.

2024-01-02 10:14:51

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Phoenix exchanges signatures at different fee rates with Eclair so RBF can be used. As the channel initiator, the Acinq LSP pays the onchain fees for an uncooperative close.

2023-12-30 11:13:13

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However you feel about this issue, you have to give the NYT credit for crafting a masterful piece of propaganda. This article should be disected in journalism classes. Students learning the fine art of propaganda could learn much here.

2023-12-25 16:57:15

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An often overlooked aspect of APO is it can do covenants, but just less efficiently than CTV. But CTV can not be used to implement LN Symmetry (aka Eltoo), without an additional soft fork like OP_CAT.

2023-12-16 07:34:04

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I'm ready to stack me some sats during the next halving now! This is the real way we figure out the time value of Bitcoin.
https://image.nostr.build/7099488c6ed765e11dd41d5ec45cbed1e1eb74a2f91af0040890e151464c43ba.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=980x1920&blurhash=%5D03%5B%40%5BkB00WA.lEGoew6WAKI00xu%3FcWBMxRQRkbuxu%2538%7BMxx%5Bxur%5EZkxuP4Riv-z%7Baxg%7Cj%5BQo-WRiyCWBDj.Rx%5DR6RjSv&x=f27f852eb74b395777e0248f12dac547157172d8dd84bf7cdcbab85169f034b0

2023-12-15 05:03:37

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Have you tried to get in touch with Doug Casey? He's someone who can comment about his experience as a sound money proponent investing and living in Argentina for many years.
https://t.me/dougcasey
Best of luck with the conference, it looks fantastic.

2023-12-14 05:42:03

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The "bitcoin-inquisition" signet from ajtowns should also implement David's idea for temporary or upgradable soft forks:
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-September/020921.html

2023-12-09 07:53:40

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You don't have to love your enemies, but Bitcoin lets you trade with them.
"Bitcoin: The currency of enemies"

2023-12-09 07:46:46

Fiat payment rails are such a shitshow.🤬
I tried for an hour to buy an xmas gift on Sony's PlayStation Store and they wouldn't take my dirty fiat via credit cards or even using traitorous Paypal.
I had to eventually break down and buy a gift card from @npub18tc…2nxx with some precious sats. Using ⚡ took only 5 min to buy/redeem/purchase my gift game. 😎
Nostr delivery of the gift card was a nice touch also.

2023-11-20 16:07:11

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Great choice! Will is a hard working and passionate contributer to Bitcoin.

2023-11-09 07:16:37

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I recently ran across an old "Objectivist" newsletter I helped publish in college. So I guess that puts me in the "before" camp.

2023-11-06 09:13:40

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I would like to read this from a more established source, or perhaps from a publication in Taiwan. Any thoughts @npub1kzn…7zc4 ?

2023-11-02 07:58:10

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This is good supporting material for the technical determinism/inevitability argument for Bitcoin made by @npub1a2c…w83a in "Broken Money".
The cautionary part of this argument is to consider how lucky it was that Bitcoin's founder disappeared and wasn't a premine scammer or some other flavor of asshole like we saw in later projects. An honest founder/team was far from assured.

2023-10-28 20:08:02

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Danny Kaye nailed this phenomenon in 1958 with his song, "Mommy, gimme a drinka water"

2023-10-26 20:37:43

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What's the significance of 2016-20 as the start of their data dump? did they not keep records before then?

2023-10-26 20:34:03

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Einstein was really ahead of his time. 😉

2023-10-25 14:20:51

The Swedish central bank (the Riksbank) must ask parliment for funding if their balance sheet goes more than 40B kronor negative. They are currently 18B kronor in the hole. This recent Swedish law related to funding the Riksbank was alledgedly passed to ensure the central bank's independence...
https://www.thelocal.se/20231025/swedish-central-bank-seeks-billions-to-restore-capital-base
In the US the Fed is allowed to count their negative balance as an *asset* because they can use it to offset profits they would theoretically be required to pay the US Treasury in the future. ht @npub1a2c…w83a
https://www.lynalden.com/broke-federal-reserve/
In March the tax payers in Sweden will get a request for the equivalent of $7B to fund the Riksbank. This may be a a hard sell when inflation is running hot, interest rates are high, home prices are down and the economy is generally faultering. Keep in mind also that the government will need to issue bonds to pay to recapitalize the Riksbank at a time when the Swedish Krona is at an all time low. Coincidentally, a few weeks ago the Riksbank pledge to spend up to $8B USD in reserves to prop up the Krona by March.
https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/markets/the-gold-and-foreign-currency-reserve/currency-hedging--sales-of-dollars-and-euros/
These two programs taken together do not install a feeling of bank independence to my mind. Has anyone seen this discussed elsewhere? I would love to read more analysis about how these moves by the Riksbank will interact. Any thoughts on this @npub1sv4…srw4 ?

2023-10-25 09:02:24

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"My *deflation* target is the rate of technological progress: 2% minimum"

2023-10-25 08:58:34

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What she is describing is something like the mobile phone based BankID system in Sweden (and other equivalents in the nordics). It's called 'BankID' because you initially used it to log into your bank acccount, but now also every other government institution and many online shopping sites too. You need to KYC at a bank to get it and without it you're basically unpersonned.
There are alternate ways to access services and buisnesses, but they are cumbersome and not well supported. BankID is very convienent and ubiquitous, but there are down sides. I've read stories of old people being tricked into approving a login over the phone and having their bank accounts drained with no recourse due to the agreements you sign to get a BankID. It's also a good first step towards turn key totalitarianism and panopticon surveilance.
I like how LNURL logins are a decentralized version of the BankID system. It gives you a similar convience, but you control your own keys. You also do not tie your online grocery store id and video rental id with your government tax id.

2023-10-21 09:45:44

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Exchanges in the US are already co-opted and their over eager KYC allows the USG to track coins that originate domestically and a weapon against self custodial uses of coins from exchanges.
I think this is also is a way to bully offshore banks to not work with local Bitcoin exchanges. The complexity of if a tx does or does not fall afoul of these proposed rules will not be worth the risk of losing access to the US banking system.
I still don't think most government regulators realize the peril the state (and their job) is in. These regulations are just the start of them waking up.

2023-10-17 14:06:12

I also like their ChatBTC bot. I had a question about nonces related to the new simple taproot channels BLIP and how it might intereact with splicing. I think the answer was good and the fact that it also gives you references to verify the summary is fantastic.
https://chat.bitcoinsearch.xyz/?author=holocat&question=why%2520can%27t%2520you%2520reuse%2520a%2520nonce%2520with%2520musig2

2023-10-17 13:57:49

from Jonas:
"Introducing TLDR; summarized posts from the bitcoin-dev and lightning-dev mailing lists.
TDLR exists to make it easier to engage with high signal technical bitcoin and lightning discussions."
https://tldr.bitcoinsearch.xyz/

2023-10-11 16:35:09

Some big news for taprooty PSBTs!
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-October/021988.html
Hi All,
I've written up a BIP draft for MuSig2 PSBT fields. It can be viewed at
https://github.com/achow101/bips/blob/musig2-psbt/bip-musig2-psbt.mediawiki.
This is based on this gist from Sanket:
https://gist.github.com/sanket1729/4b525c6049f4d9e034d27368c49f28a6.
There are a few notable differences:
- The participant pubkeys field is keyed by only the aggregate xonly key
- Participant pubkeys are compressed pubkeys rather than xonly.
Andrew

2023-10-07 21:26:25

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I have been weening my self from Twitter, rarely look but make a point to always block every ad poster. I guess I gotta go guillotine next.

2023-10-01 08:45:58

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I have heard people mention the possibility of combining splices and conjoins. With taproot you could increase your channel privacy onchain if some of the inputs and outputs to the splice were not controlled by your wallet or LSP.
If those coinjoin inputs paid some of the common tx fees for the splice it would even be economically beneficial for the channel parties to facilitate it.
Do you think there could be some useful mashup between LSPs and joinmarkets via splices?

2023-09-30 15:56:40

Splices are back on the menu! upgrade now to take advantage of low tx fees to consolidate your channels. #phoenixwallet
https://image.nostr.build/2b8f1b6eee36ed8a232719abe37a9611baa424f8ed05706a369997a97e566e48.jpg

2023-09-29 16:51:50

#nevent1q…3hjc
Plancks principle: "Science progresses one funeral at a time" but for politics.

2023-09-28 09:21:35

Excited to see Carl Dong's development of a new kind of VPN: https://obscuravpn.io

2023-09-24 09:38:25

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Current president elect is the son of the last democraticly elected government before the CIA led coup in 1954. Interesting history and makes you wonder about the naming of the DC airport:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

2023-09-16 15:37:35

Illuminati is a classic board game from Steve Jackson Games, highly recommend.
https://image.nostr.build/d33e5d4ccf69bd5d1c2772a14929d49bd3cafd4110fbb2e22997e40a5ff556fd.jpg

2023-09-12 14:50:53

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The hope is that real estate will become demonetized in a future where Bitcoin is seen as a better way to protect long term savings.
Removing the monetary premium from real estate should reduce prices down to more reasonable historical multiples.

2023-09-10 18:12:25

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My dad, a self proclaimed "child of the depression", always kept a folded $100 bill tucked inside his wallet, behind the credit card slots. Just in case of an emergency. Today he would need to up that to at least $200.

2023-09-07 09:04:49

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I wonder now how much of the low-fat push in the 80s was a form of shrinkflation during an inflationary period. My whole life we drank skimmed but recently I started buying 3% and 6% plain yogurt.
I can't even find whole milk where I'm at, though cooking cream is a reasonable substitute for some recipes.

2023-09-06 19:13:58

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I think you're right, they thought they could explain the Spotify income as legit earnings from their gangster rap, but not the Bitcoin.
Financial privacy doesn't exist at banks so you need to have a good story about what you earn.

2023-09-06 11:37:03

"Describing the process, he said the gangs would convert their dirty cash to bitcoin, then used the cryptocurrency to pay people who sold fake streams on Spotify, which is a Swedish company."
https://www.thelocal.se/20230906/how-swedish-criminal-gangs-allegedly-launder-money-through-spotify
I want to know more about how these gangs converted their dirty cash to bitcoin in Sweden, and why the Spotify step was needed at all. Seems like a cumbersome mechanism.

2023-09-02 19:00:08

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You'll be disappointed...

2023-08-22 07:40:38

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You were also paying 1% to add inbound liquidity - this is strictly better as inbound only costs fixed on chain fees now.
Their fee structure mirrors the actual cost structure better now.

2023-08-22 07:23:28

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Key for Acinq to deliver better privacy is more people running trampoline nodes. That way Acinq loses visibility on the payment destination.
Right now their focus is the user experience, but there is a path to privacy. Blinded paths is also an important part of privacy for all LSPs.

2023-08-16 15:32:37

Splice on Phoenix out of beta!
https://cdn.nostr.build/i/159d93ba3601078ea1813b655d25ae0f4367b283648a2ae783a69e5940a72c33.jpg

2023-08-16 09:18:59

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Missed opportunity to write "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?"

2023-08-14 22:20:53

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Doug Casey lives in Argentina and talked briefly about Milei in his recent talk with Saifedean. The tldr is he likes him but isn't involved in his campaign. I highly recommend the episode:
The Bitcoin Standard Podcast: 180. Applied Anarcho-Capitalism with Doug Casey
Episode webpage: https://saifedean.com/podcast/
Media file: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1849151/13368003-180-applied-anarcho-capitalism-with-doug-casey.mp3

2023-08-14 10:24:56

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Someone else to watch is Carlos Maslatón who sounds like the guy advising Milei about Bitcoin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Maslat%C3%B3n

2023-08-14 10:21:15

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This was an interesting English language podcast about Milei from 2021:
Explaining Brazil: Argentina's far-right lion
Episode webpage: https://brazilian.report
Media file: https://pdcn.co/e/www.buzzsprout.com/299876/9564200-argentina-s-far-right-lion.mp3

2023-08-10 07:47:04

https://cdn.nostr.build/i/3c30c87c82c808d4b77c6b838c4e135d2569c755327f1a6e2d5c80efd8f957c4.jpg

2023-07-25 11:04:11

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So did they pick the name because of their technical architecture of one-way relays (simplex instead of duplex)? or the viral nature of the said named socially transmitted virus as an analogy for how people share their links to the app?

2023-07-13 17:18:20

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What are the pros and cons of @npub1exv…d828 compared to Matrix/Elements for secure chat?

2023-07-11 17:05:00

Exciting news from ACINQ!
"Introducing the new Phoenix, a 3rd generation self-custodial Lightning wallet.
Splicing changes the game: single dynamic channel, no more 1% fee on inbound liquidity, better predictability and control, trustless swaps."
https://acinq.co/blog/phoenix-splicing-update
#Bitcoin #LightningNetwork

2023-07-08 00:11:01

Manhattan Beach Pier bake sale, proceeds to benefit a couple of industrious young kids. 😎
Lightning accepted ⚡
https://nostr.build/i/01ff923bc70d07aca6fd3db579455800669e695d0d1372ba28441ac25a195022.jpg

2023-07-06 06:49:26

"Bitcoin just shows you how much demand for money laundering there is in the world," Fink, the head of the largest asset management firm in the world, said at an Institute of International Finance meeting. "That's all it is." - OCT 13 2017
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/13/blackrock-ceo-larry-fink-calls-bitcoin-an-index-of-money-laundering.html
#nevent1q…s9dz

2023-06-30 22:34:29

I got my sticker, but was disappointed that it only cost them 12 cents to mail it. 🤣
https://nostr.build/i/2eb59c0bf26c5deee4f99b47758d2ba1f835a8be448192b13a1742fc7dd01f9b.jpg

2023-06-19 03:28:31

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Maybe instead: Retract
Not so much delete, but disavow what you previously pay published..

2023-06-18 14:29:50

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A bit of a catch-22 with using this (beta!) web app is you can't withdraw reward sats (yet). But you also can't set an email/password to access your account to withdraw via the mobile app.
But 🧡 this direction - hope you can add LNURL logins to the mobile app soon. ⚡

2023-06-14 09:12:49

"TL;DR: ACINQ is one of the main developers and operators of the Lightning Network, an open payment network built on top of Bitcoin. Because private keys need to be “hot” (always online), operating a Lightning Network node poses serious security challenges.
After years of R&D on how to secure our Lightning node, we have settled on a combination of AWS Nitro Enclaves (an Isolated Compute Environment) and Ledger Nano (a signing device with a trusted display). This setup offers what we believe is the best trade-off between security, flexibility, performance, and operational complexity for running a professional Lightning node."
https://acinq.co/blog/securing-a-100M-lightning-node