Jeff

There are nor rules anymore. Only decisions made by rulers.
By this logic Linus Torvalds is a criminal for not integrating spyware into Linux.
And Bill Gates is a saint.

2024-05-08 19:23:01 UTC

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"Money transmission industry moves to ban self-custodial payment software."
#nevent1q…sw42

2024-05-07 11:07:26 UTC

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Still the best programming course I ever watched.

2024-05-06 14:47:33 UTC

Why do we use the doublespeak terms for bitcoin?
There is no "self custody" or "custodial/non custodial" Bitcoin. Either you own bitcoin or you dont't. It is that simple.
If you do not control the keys you have an IOU:
ETFs: you own a promise
Coinbase/Binance: you own a promise
Some other regulated institution/agency: you own a promise
"Custodial wallet/service": you own a promise
There is no such thing as owning bitcoin on an exchange or an ETF.

2024-05-04 13:34:37 UTC

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Yeah, ln address didn't work. Thanks for the info

2024-05-03 19:36:39 UTC

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https://docs.corelightning.org/reference/lightning-multifundchannel

2024-05-03 14:18:39 UTC

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It seems to me that because of the big liquidity requirement Ark nodes will be even more centralized than the big lightning nodes currently.

2024-05-03 10:02:55 UTC

Tacitus: 'The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.'

2024-05-02 20:01:47 UTC

Do not forget: Bitcoin is anti-fragile and grows the most after it has been attacked
For example: After years of no real progress in L2 work (apart from lnd) there was a boom of new proposals(fedimint, cashu, Ark, mercury layer) and discussions for improvements (covenants, payment pools). This boom came only after there was real felt pain when the fees were high and the mempool did not clear anymore, because of the "NFT on bitcoin" shenanigans.
Now imagine what technologies will sprout after the shut down of the centralized coinjoin coordinators.
Usable joinmarket, more payjoin adoption? Maybe Tor only Lightning nodes and chaumian ecash mints? Or something completely new.

2024-05-01 19:41:02 UTC

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Yes I noticed that there are many bots now on nostr. These bots are commenting with insults and racist comments. It seems like a big attack on the network to be honest. Interesting to see how these attacks can be mitigated.

2024-05-01 19:04:07 UTC

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Because we are slaves, Neo.

2024-04-27 09:16:32 UTC

If you don't hold your own keys you don't hold bitcoin.
This is a simple and obvious fact, but I see that many people still do not understand this.

2024-04-25 11:48:50 UTC

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This
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2024-04-23 13:14:33 UTC

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Technically thats true. In my mind if I have to trust a software to not send the seed to someone I see it as custodial.

2024-04-23 13:07:02 UTC

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I agree, but if a wallet is not open source it cannot be non-custodial.

2024-04-23 13:05:56 UTC

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You are right. MIT License. Doesn't get more open source than that.

2024-04-23 13:04:10 UTC

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It seems that it IS open source (and therefore also non custodial).
#nevent1q…fdc4

2024-04-23 12:07:37 UTC

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Yes, and bitcoin IS the timechain. And also in the timechain :)

2024-04-23 09:41:16 UTC

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"But it is non custodial" 🤡

2024-04-22 17:04:25 UTC

The bitcoin is in the timechain.

2024-04-21 09:15:53 UTC

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This could not happen outside China or the EU.

2024-04-20 15:15:36 UTC

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SeedSigner and Specter DIY are hands down the best hardware wallets currently available.
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2024-04-20 10:31:44 UTC

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#nevent1q…vxvs

2024-04-20 10:27:14 UTC

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They have infinite fiat supply, but not infinite btc supply.

2024-04-20 10:01:08 UTC

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Why is this bad? It is like a donation to all the people that hold bitcoin. So your bitcoin are worth more. The "attacking" miners are subsidizing the honest miners this way. Also dust amounts are easily filtered in the UTXO set. The only downside is a temporary spike in fees. If this is an attack, it is a badly thought out attack.

2024-04-18 10:57:09 UTC

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This is good enough for me.
I think the use case of mixing a third party wallet without first transferring to a new Wasabi wallet is a big one. Especially when fees are high and there are many small UTXOs. Transferring would correlate the UTXOs which will greatly reduce backwards privacy before mixing.
Thank you for working on bitcoin fungibility. Wasabi is an amazing wallet.

2024-04-18 06:52:29 UTC

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Thanks for the info. I did not know that this is possible.
Is there a way to combine multiple Wasabi Wallets for Coinjoining or add a seed to an existing wallet? This way one could mix a bad bank wallet with a greater anonymity set. For example adding a Samourai Wallet to an existing (already mixed) wallet and using "red coin isolation".

2024-04-18 06:21:22 UTC

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Import a Samourai Wallet with only doxxing changes left so that the UTXOs can be safely coinjoined without loosing too much privacy.

2024-04-17 18:20:31 UTC

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"Great news for people at home. Prices are going up!"

2024-04-13 11:44:35 UTC

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#nevent1q…t2s8

2024-04-13 11:41:53 UTC

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Ist ja logisch, denn dann halbiert sich ja auch der Preis. ;)

2024-04-07 10:36:19 UTC

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This is very true. How do big social shifts happen? One person at a time!
#nevent1q…mk0c

2024-04-02 09:54:54 UTC

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Isn't that what mastodon tried to do?

2024-04-01 15:31:20 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/9f90d3fb48701f18e6a79601aeb3645d79f03f43e4c8412a1f45eb4b5104e89f.gif

2024-03-17 23:17:47 UTC

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"Bitcoin Causes Inflation: Bitcoiners are selfish for hoarding currency and not participating in our great national monetary system. All licensed monetary experts agree that this fact leads to a higher inflation. "

2024-03-17 19:35:29 UTC

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I thought everybody here is a bitcoiner...

2024-03-02 09:03:56 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/3ee0652f696f424c31d7f6b60de515fb0081fce61933eb04ef897f3e7afb716d.jpg

2024-02-22 21:00:20 UTC

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Seems like we are already in the "and the they fight you" stage

2024-02-14 18:21:00 UTC

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A book predicting the next 10 years.

2024-02-12 21:36:11 UTC

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Ich verstehe wirklich nicht was sich in den Köpfen von so genannten Experten abspielt.
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2023-12-02 23:07:24 UTC

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I can also recommend the Specter Hardware wallet: https://specter.solutions/hardware
The DIY variant is also very good if you don't want to trust companies to keep your address data secure after a purchase (just like the SeedSigner).

2023-09-19 19:39:30 UTC

How to travel securely with an Graphene OS device:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV6lqQrzqEE

2023-09-03 08:34:13 UTC

Privacy recommendations:
Desktop - QubesOS
Phone - GrapheneOS
Node - nix-bitcoin (NixOS)