McCoy

https://mccoy2016.me/

Bitcoin
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relay.damus.io

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2026-08-26 23:29:17 UTC

On the _everyone is scammer_ front:
Somehow I feel its better to earn (_scam_?) fiat from normies, than bicoin from the bitcoiners
Work it fiat, save in bitcoin

2026-08-25 23:52:46 UTC

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+ with NGU a medium fat 5-10 million sat channel today will be able buy a lot of stuff..

2026-08-25 02:28:44 UTC

If Bessent keeps "doing stuff" even talking about it, we could easily tap $90k or even $100k _soon_ .... hang on

2026-08-24 00:08:04 UTC

Wen do the bond markets open?
r u ready?

2026-08-22 18:03:25 UTC

Purpose 45
Multi-party P2SH multisig wallets (m-of-n)
m / 45′ / cosigner_index / change / address_index
Multiple independent users each have their own master key. They share only their hardened purpose public key so any cosigner can derive the full set of pubkeys for a shared multisig address without talking to the others.

2026-08-21 11:38:56 UTC

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i know, but shit happens

2026-08-21 00:32:12 UTC

@nprofile…fjwm absolute fire....
Whats my derv path? didnt save it...
F-ed
Imported seed for hot wallet to sweep a modest stack, when you type in custom paths it scans realtime for UTXOs + highlights button. Only took me 3-4 iterations to find UTXO - amazing

2026-08-20 20:46:58 UTC

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UTXO bloat: Pre-segwit flat-fee structure inadvertently penalized transactions with many inputs. That gave wallets an incentive to minimize inputs and create more outputs, which bloated the UTXO set. The SegWit discount (counting witness bytes at 1 weight unit instead of 4) corrects this by making it cheaper to consume UTXOs, thereby encouraging consolidation and reducing UTXO-set growth.
So while SegWit had other major goals—fixing transaction malleability and increasing block capacity via a soft fork—the specific pricing of witness data at a discount was indeed motivated by this UTXO incentive imbalance.

2026-08-20 16:46:40 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/1c5eb7d23d732cd28f5fcf658a983a6a7efba3f354c01d4b97c657dfea325c03.jpg

2026-08-20 15:56:53 UTC

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Cats outta the bag.... normies now worried

2026-08-19 01:44:00 UTC

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SUPA

2026-08-18 23:09:10 UTC

MTPLF at $1.47
mNAV 1.06
Hold 40,177 BTC
Now with a legit revenue stream: just bought SLE, which does immersive ads - for Roblox (=Gen alpha/Z massive gaming platform) + minecraft + fortnight....
Never sold, stacking since 2024

2026-08-16 23:32:24 UTC

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IDK - im a near boomer, host my own lightning node, have bought 20-30 items, zero fails, one forced close, easily spun-up anothet channel; long term SOV in self and collabrotive custody; even rolled dice per Odell's recs... do you even use bitcoin?

2026-08-16 23:26:11 UTC

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R u selling your stack?

2026-08-14 22:27:08 UTC

DA-POW
"The network never says “this block must be exactly 600 seconds after the last one.” The 10-minute target is enforced retrosively:
Every 2,016 blocks (~2 weeks), Bitcoin looks at the timestamps of the first and last block in that period.
It measures how much wall time appeared to elapse based on those miner-chosen timestamps.
It then recalculates the proof-of-work target so that the next 2,016 blocks should take about two weeks again."

2026-08-13 22:10:17 UTC

Buying tokens with Lightning on Maple AI
🔥🔥🔥🔥

2026-08-13 21:02:41 UTC

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Seedsigner

2026-08-13 20:57:54 UTC

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In fact working outside of bitcoin, ignoring almost everything, stacking with self/collab-custody is zen-like

2026-08-13 17:31:57 UTC

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Two of the best Gigi PODs ever: BCB064 and BCB065. Listen if you haven't; relisten if you have

2026-08-13 13:59:50 UTC

No @nprofile…9vwr f-n sucks. Best hang. Best signal. What's a freak suppose to do? Hate-watch The All-in pod? - horrible. Bugle-Boys ? Too cynical..... I'm goin to relisten to all the NODED episodes + Giga with the Blue-Collar Bitcoin dudes

2026-08-12 20:20:40 UTC

Multisig tries to make theft harder; vaults (convenants) try to make theft slower.

2026-08-12 20:05:18 UTC

OP_SUCESSx
Summary
Before Taproot: Adding new script features meant squeezing read-only logic into OP_NOP slots, which couldn’t modify the stack or do complex work.
After Taproot: OP_SUCCESSx provides a large set of “always pass” hooks. Future upgrades can tighten these into real, stack-modifying opcodes via soft forks, while old nodes remain compatible because they already treat those scripts as valid.
In short, Tapscript traded a handful of limited upgrade hooks for a broad, flexible toolkit—making Bitcoin’s scripting layer far easier to extend without network-disrupting hard forks.
What This Enables
OP_SUCCESSx gives developers roughly 70+ blank opcode slots to introduce new scripting features without needing another contentious overhaul like Taproot itself. Potential future uses include:
Covenants (restricting where coins can be spent next)
New signature algorithms (post-quantum or threshold signatures)
Multi-byte opcodes (extending the instruction set beyond single-byte limits)
Cross-input logic (operations that look at multiple inputs in a transaction)

2026-08-12 15:19:11 UTC

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Legend. Paul Newman would have definitely been based bitcoiner

2026-08-12 14:23:05 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/ec42b9ea57ed5d9d94a6998865fecb659caf04c0f301daa85d46f5517ac481e7.jpg

2026-08-12 13:53:11 UTC

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"For a pre-derived xpub imported into a watch-only wallet for monitoring only, the derivation path label does not change address generation."
That is true. But as soon as you move from watching to signing or importing seeds, the path becomes critical again.

2026-08-11 11:10:58 UTC

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key difference: needs to be a consensus of users not just a few

2026-08-10 19:07:44 UTC

✅Stay humble, stack sats.
✅Work to avoid force selling.
✅Practice and preach personal responsibilty

2026-08-10 17:22:17 UTC

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Could it be the last one? Wouldn't rule that out....

2026-08-09 18:24:07 UTC

https://youtu.be/kJqj9YQZRp0?

2026-08-09 16:15:16 UTC

https://youtu.be/HFsRsdLvLCU?

2026-08-09 02:53:21 UTC

Running core 29.3
Holding my own keys
Working to avoid force selling
Hoarding without permission
Will spend my corn later for my future self, again without permission

2026-08-09 02:48:04 UTC

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send me your scam coins

2026-08-09 02:44:42 UTC

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https://youtube.com/shorts/v7FByHD972k?is=3e2hCzz1W_3IC70n

2026-08-09 00:28:20 UTC

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Fuck off bro. You think because I listen to RHR - I'm like a empty conduit waiting for someone to tell me what to do. I'm getting the sense that you rarelt operate in real world competitive environments: playgrounds, competitive sports, hospital ORs..... Have you ever been in a physcial fight? Doesn't seem like it. Outside the arena. Safe. Weak.

2026-08-09 00:19:04 UTC

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Bro - relax
Personal responsibility is a thing. Each person has to take stock in their own decisions. If Odell is responsible for anything, its just that message: every person needs to take responsibility for themselves

2026-08-08 23:09:26 UTC

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proud fedcoiner here

2026-08-08 22:32:13 UTC

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when there's economic node consensus, the miners will follow

2026-08-08 18:11:51 UTC

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HFSP

2026-08-08 18:09:49 UTC

Every pubkey has a unique prvkey that must be protected AND FOUND/SAVED
Seed + HD wallets makes this _easy_ but hides the complexity
Seems obvious now
Study Bitcoin

2026-08-08 17:48:50 UTC

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---> people betting on bip-110 winning
Lay your bets: sell your spam stack now, buy hash, point it to bip-110 blks only, lfg... put some skin in the game

2026-08-08 17:39:07 UTC

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Blue Wallet uses BIP-48, which relies on BIP-32 math + BIP-43 purpose

2026-08-08 17:35:17 UTC

BIP-32 vs 44,48 ......
BlueWallet multisig does not use m/1' as the derivation path. For a P2SH-wrapped SegWit multisig vault (which displays addresses starting with 3…), BlueWallet uses BIP-48:
m/48'/0'/0'/1'
They just leave out most of it in the export text:
m/1'
🤦‍♂️

2026-08-08 16:49:05 UTC

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About a year with 5% of hash

2026-08-08 16:47:38 UTC

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exactly!!!

2026-08-08 16:46:06 UTC

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hedge

2026-08-08 16:40:15 UTC

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Trump will just pay Iran 100s of billions, declare that he won and move on. This is his playbook from the 1980s realestate deals... he mostly lost money

2026-08-08 16:36:56 UTC

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Bubble wrapped in a ponzi waiting for the bailout

2026-08-08 16:25:54 UTC

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coma, wake up, all is good

2026-08-08 16:21:11 UTC

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---> DA might be a bit rough
Yea, like 12 months til next DA at 5% hash which is likely a lot lower
---> flood a bored apes
Really, who exactly is flooding us? Mempool has been empty for years now...
https://blossom.primal.net/3734467d97d84c85d96d900df53cb61aca62b8bea87354ff2c3a74dc3d338706.jpg

2026-08-08 15:51:56 UTC

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"Trusting a camera-generated seed is really a chain of three:
Verify the process. Read the code and establish what it does with the bytes. That is what these two documents are: the chain composition, the release history, and measurements of what the code actually feeds into SHA-256.
Verify you are running that code. Source review says nothing about the binary on your microSD card. Release images have been reproducible since v0.7.0, by the project's own statement, and the build procedure is documented separately, so the strong form is to build from source and confirm you get the image the project published, byte for byte. The weaker form is to check the published manifest hash and its PGP signature. That matters more than it sounds: the project's own README states that release images are prepared and signed by one individual, who is the sole holder of the signing keys. Reproducible builds exist precisely so that trust does not have to end there. Skipping this step makes step 1 decorative.
Choose the scene and watch the capture. The last control in the chain is performed by a person, and after section 4 its scope is clear: watching confirms the camera is alive, and choosing a lit scene is what actually provisions the entropy. Verified code, verified to be the code that is running, still cannot make that choice for you."

2026-08-08 15:37:23 UTC

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Massive waste of time/energy/mind-share. This is why the 110er influencers deserve to be trolled as they fork themselves off.
Imagine if we would have been focusing on the real issues for the plebs: better understanding of entropy, secure elements, FOSS code, AI review of code, personal responsibilty, verifying downloads, covents.... long list.

2026-08-08 15:19:13 UTC

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Price (purchasing power) is the only thing that actually matters long term. Can I protect it? Can I spend it without permission? Both relavant, but ONLY if PP goes up.

2026-08-08 15:14:23 UTC

41 trillion incoming. Ignore the noise. One money wins.
"When Does the Debt Ceiling Need to Be Renewed?
According to projections from the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) and the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB), the U.S. is expected to officially hit this $41.1 trillion limit sometime between late winter and mid-summer of 2027.
However, the exact timeline unfolds in two distinct phases:
Phase 1: Reaching the Limit (Early-to-Mid 2027): Once the $41.1 trillion cap is breached, the Treasury Department will no longer be allowed to issue new net debt. To keep paying the nation's bills, the Treasury will deploy accounting maneuvers known as "extraordinary measures" while drawing down its cash reserves.
Phase 2: The "X-Date" Deadline (Late 2027): These extraordinary cash-management tools are expected to buy Congress an additional six to nine months. Once those reserves are entirely exhausted, the U.S. will hit its hard "X-Date"—the absolute deadline by which Congress must pass legislation to raise or suspend the cap to prevent an unprecedented federal default.
Because the stopgap spending bill passed by the Senate only funds government operations through December 11, 2026, lawmakers will face a massive budget showdown at the end of 2026. However, they will still have a multi-month cushion into 2027 before the separate debt ceiling mechanism forces a high-stakes legislative renewal.

2026-08-07 15:02:46 UTC

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In single-sig, the PSBT is essentially a signing request from your software wallet to your hardware wallet. The hardware wallet uses the fingerprint + derivation path to look up the right private key, verifies the transaction on its screen, signs once, and hands it back.

2026-08-07 11:23:24 UTC

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beebee gun

2026-08-07 02:19:17 UTC

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Stephen Wolfram: "Entropy is subjective"

2026-08-06 21:49:41 UTC

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Post 7/30/26 - used my CCQ to sign and send without upgrade. Now not sure if safer to: not ugrade, upgrade, never use again

2026-08-06 20:32:57 UTC

Private keys:
✅Yes, use sufficient entropy when creating them
✅Yes, minimize trust when protecting them
✅But, also protect them when you're signing to spend
Offline, analog as much as possible

2026-08-06 17:54:01 UTC

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PBKDF2 is a form of hash function that is designed to be slow (by hashing the data multiple times before producing the result).
This has the benefit of making it more difficult for anyone to brute-force mnemonic sentences to try and get seeds that people have actually used.
In addition, PBKDF2 also allows you to provide a second input called a salt ("passphrase", "seed extension") along with the data you want to hash, which allows you to produce completely different seeds from the same mnemonic sentence.
- learnmeabitcoin.com

2026-08-05 10:52:53 UTC

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Just work more, avoid loans

2026-08-04 23:24:57 UTC

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wtf:
"**From Rabbit Hole Recap (Week of March 29, 2021):**
> "Not a hack, but they had a vulnerability that was self-discovered. So they have a new firmware version, 4.0.1, or is it 0.01? 4.0.1. Yeah. You messed up... **And you're only vulnerable if you had already upgraded to 4.0.0, which was their big upgrade. If it's not, then you're not vulnerable. I have no idea what this vulnerability is. NVK wouldn't tell me what it was for the sake of the users because he's afraid I was going to steal all your Bitcoin.** But yeah, upgrade."

2026-08-04 21:22:54 UTC

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Not a statistian, per Maple AI:
**What you need**
- A die and a tally sheet.
- About 5 000 rolls for a solid estimate.
**What to do**
1. **Roll and tally**
Roll the die N times. Count how many times each face lands on top.
Call these counts **f₁, f₂, …, f₆** (for faces 1 through 6).
2. **Find the probabilities**
For each face:
$$p_i = \frac{f_i}{N}$$
3. **Plug into the entropy formula**
$$H = -\sum_{i=1}^{6} p_i \log_2(p_i)$$
- If any $p_i = 0$, that whole term counts as **0**.
- The answer is in **bits**.
4. **Check your precision**
The standard error drops roughly as **$1/\sqrt{N}$** (not $1/N$).
With 5 000 rolls you are often within about **±0.01 bits**, though very biased dice can be a little worse.
That’s it. Roll, count, divide, and plug in.

2026-08-03 22:12:22 UTC

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Thanks.
What I'm thinking about is: the more time that passes the higher chance you are OK? Could this be true for dice = self entropy, becuase if you f-it up money gone immediately; but as 7/30/26 brutally showed us definetly not true for CC devices: the 2021-2026 safety window was fake; we werent safe, and in fact led to more complacency.

2026-08-03 19:45:28 UTC

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Ok , chill dude. Bitcoin fails if the path to self custody isnt _easy enough_ and _safe enough_ for highly motivated, but ultimately just regular people willing to do it. We're a long ways from that right now.

2026-08-03 19:20:07 UTC

Not sure is this logic holds but, hit me back if I'm way off:
- rolled my own entropy + pass phrase; 2-4 years later key not swept, likely means I'm good _forever_? as if the entropy was bad, then the money would have been gone long ago
vs
- use hardware _X_ to generate key; 2-4 years later, still not safe as AI+wizard humans could still hack/uncover weak spot in the hardware down the road (=AGI future)

2026-08-03 12:59:50 UTC

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Appreciate your knowledge/take.
Honest ?s: so the number generated from the "badly weighted dice" are biased to one numer (1-6), so the hacker then scans a smaller subset of possble PVT keys with "too many" 1s or 2s....etc.... Is this how it works?
And yes at some point u trust someone to generate the 1s0s or u do the math yourself, i get that. So will the future standard be: roll high grade verified (how?) casino dice + do the math yourself? Who checks my math? Gets kind-of crazy...

2026-08-03 12:13:18 UTC

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No way.... how exactly does some f-up dice rolls?

2026-08-03 12:11:50 UTC

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100% You literately have to roll dice and enter a number:1-6. Both Coldcard and Seedsigner walk you through it. Could not have been easier. Self custody is the full expression of personal responsibility. It is exactly that: each person is responsible for themselves.

2026-08-02 17:21:05 UTC

Consider dusting swept wallets with 10000-20000 sats and watching them.
Did this with any single sig CCQ with weakish pass phrase, no dice

2026-08-02 07:28:14 UTC

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---> the first part of how they did the coldcard attack was inside the coldcard dev team, and the marketing team. and not just them directly involved, other people were recruited to sell it. the bad RNG was just the lever and the force was human.
not just dev/tech incompetence?

2026-08-02 01:57:46 UTC

Dont forget the USD is the real shitshow. Stealing from everyone forever.

2026-08-02 01:19:53 UTC

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What percent of self custody maxis do you think lost their stack?

2026-08-02 00:47:54 UTC

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Reasonable. Only needs to be a relatively small slice that takes the self-custody route. Important that the path exists and isnt fraught with complexity or uncertainty. To keep the custodians honest, we always have to have the option of taking the asset, and holding it. We now have more time. This setback will reverberate for years..... stay the course. Stay humble. Stack. Take personal responsibilty

2026-08-01 23:32:20 UTC

Long 48 hours of redoing some private key generation, dice rolls, remembering set ups, triple checking, testing back ups. Silver lining: was mostly ready. Sparrow fire. Good practice doing this.
Also, wife, fully engaged, asking tons of questions.

2026-07-31 20:23:05 UTC

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agree with both, actually bullish....
also a sign that those who self custody are actually not that many: the few ride-or-dies are panickin appropriately, while the suit-coiners/ETFer are just meh

2026-07-31 18:02:11 UTC

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what about >100 with "regular" board game dice?

2026-07-31 12:25:39 UTC

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What was actually brute-forced?
"The $38M sweep targeted ~500 wallets dormant since 2021. The Mk4 was not released until 2022, so those drained wallets were Mk3 only.
The attacker brute-forced ~40 bits (about 1 trillion candidates), not 72. That is why they could sweep so many wallets so fast — they pre-computed the Mk3 seed space offline."

2026-07-31 12:16:34 UTC

Per Maple AI:
"Could the 32-bit reseed be brute-forced?
Yes. If an attacker knows or narrows down the UID and timer state (via USB serial number, purchase records, or boot timing), the remaining work for Mk4 collapses to brute-forcing 2³² = 4.3 billion reseed values. That is very feasible for a well-resourced attacker.
But brute-forcing the full ~72-bit space (without knowing the UID/timer) is not practical today. That is why Block said the attack is "ongoing" and warned that targeted Mk4/Q wallets — especially those with weak passphrases — could be next, rather than being hit in the initial mass sweep."

2026-07-30 12:02:26 UTC

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$40 trillion deficit incoming

2026-07-27 21:18:56 UTC

Maple AI:
A server exposes an RPC (Remote Procedure Call) interface so other programs can talk to it programmatically. Think of it as the server’s control panel: instead of a human clicking buttons, another piece of software sends a command and gets a response.
Here is why that is necessary, especially for something like a Bitcoin node.
1. The Daemon Is Headless
Servers like bitcoind run in the background with no window, menu, or buttons. RPC is the only way to ask it questions or give it orders while it is running. Without RPC, the process would just sit there peer-to-peer syncing blocks, and you would have no way to query balances, send transactions, or check sync status.
2. Separation of Concerns
The node’s main job is to validate blocks and stay in sync with the P2P network. Wallet logic, user interfaces, and business applications are built on top of the node, not inside it. RPC lets those external tools live in separate processes—or even on separate machines—while still commanding the node.
Examples of what uses RPC:
bitcoin-cli (the built-in command-line tool is just an RPC client)
Wallets (Sparrow, Specter, BlueWallet, Electrum servers)
Lightning nodes (LND, Core Lightning need to query on-chain state and broadcast transactions)
Payment processors (BTCPay Server asks the node to verify payments)
Scripts and bots (automated sweeping, balance checks, alerts)
3. The Two Ports Do Different Things
Bitcoin Core listens on two separate networks:
Port 8333 (P2P): Speaks the Bitcoin peer protocol. This is node-to-node traffic—gossiping blocks and transactions across the internet.
Port 8332 (RPC): Speaks JSON-RPC. This is client-to-node traffic—your applications asking your node for private data or actions.
If you only had the P2P port, you could relay blocks, but you could never ask your own node “what is my wallet balance?” or “send this transaction.” RPC is the query and control layer.
4. Service Integration
In a stack like Start9, the Bitcoin node is one container and the other services (indexers, Lightning, explorers) are separate containers. They communicate via RPC. The indexer does not need to know how to validate blocks; it just asks Bitcoin Core via RPC for block data and transaction details.
Why RPC Is Locked Down
Because RPC is so powerful—it can move funds, dump private keys (in legacy wallet setups), and shut down the node—it is localhost-only by default and requires a username/password or cookie file. Opening RPC to the internet without a proxy, VPN, or Tor tunnel is dangerous, which is why setups like Start9 wrap it behind reverse proxies and authentication layers.
In short: RPC turns a silent background process into a programmable server. Without it, the node could talk to the Bitcoin network, but nothing else could talk to the node.

2026-07-27 21:11:26 UTC

2019–2024 — BIP 324 and Opportunistic Encryption
The breakthrough came with BIP 324 (originally drafted by Schnelli in 2019, later revived and expanded by Dhruv Mehta, Tim Ruffing, and Pieter Wuille).
What it does: It introduces a “v2” transport protocol that uses unauthenticated, opportunistic encryption over clearnet.
Why it matters: It uses ElligatorSwift encoding to make the entire byte stream—including the handshake—indistinguishable from random noise. Passive surveillance can no longer identify Bitcoin traffic just by looking at packet headers.
Timeline: Merged into Bitcoin Core in 2023 (v26.0) and enabled by default in v27.0 (2024). For the first time in Bitcoin’s history, the majority of clearnet P2P traffic is encrypted.

2026-07-26 20:29:37 UTC

Bitcoin would be _easy_ to spend if I aquired the coin at say $100. Sure spend 0.001 now and then.
Purchased at $105k, not so much.

2026-07-26 13:08:20 UTC

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this works in part as spending from lightning is private, correct?

2026-07-26 02:38:03 UTC

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class of 2021 the real OGs
https://blossom.primal.net/d3e264b5605ae33d3b2d44f5f0ad36b7423a6ec98930adc62f9bf0aaae4ce987.jpg

2026-07-26 02:20:33 UTC

Maple AI + McCoy plan: earn, save, spend free
✅Non-KYC coins now
✅JoinMarket now
✅Private LN channels
✅BTC does a 10x (=gov panic/financial lock down)
✅Ecash-LN-BTC-Swap to cold storage
Maple AI summary:
**Phase 1: Build the Rails (Now, ~$60k BTC)**
- **Stack:** Acquire non-KYC sats via P2P (RoboSats/Bisq). No name-to-UTXO link.
- **Vault:** Lock 80–90% in offline multisig cold storage. This never touches Lightning or eCash.
- **Channels:** Open 10–20 small **private** LN channels now (500k–1M sats each; ~$300–$600 today, $3k–$6k post-10x). Pay the on-chain fee once while it’s cheap. Size them for 1–2 months of expenses, not your life savings.
- **Node:** Run behind Tor. No clearnet IP.
**Phase 2: Live Free (Post-10x, $600k BTC)**
- **Earn:** Salary pays a **Cashu/Fedimint eCash mint** invoice, not your node. Employer sees a generic Lightning invoice from a mint—never your pubkey, never your channels.
- **Wash:** Hold blinded tokens. Redeem to your LN node in randomized chunks over days/weeks, or chain through a 2nd mint. Even the mint cannot link the deposit to your withdrawal.
- **Spend:** Live entirely off Lightning. Spending creates inbound space, which lets you receive again. Stay off-chain. No blockchain footprint.
- **Save:** When channels get fat with surplus, **submarine-swap the excess to cold storage**—the *only* time you touch on-chain is to **vault savings**, never to "rebalance" spending money.
**Why the Government Can’t Capture/Monitor/Block You**
- **No KYC anchor:** There is no exchange database linking your identity to your coins.
- **No on-chain graph:** You rarely touch the blockchain. Chainalysis has almost nothing to cluster or trace.
- **Blinded income:** eCash breaks the link between payer and payee. Your employer cannot probe your channels or reveal your node ID under coercion.
- **Distributed:** 10–20 private peers = no single point to seize or subpoena. No gossip-record of your node for easy targeting.
- **Unblockable:** LN + Tor + eCash runs over generic internet packets. There is no corporate API or custodial account to freeze. If one mint is shut down, you rotate to another in minutes.
**The 3-Layer Stack**
1. **eCash:** Blinded proxy inbox (employer pays here; breaks the surveillance chain).
2. **Lightning:** Hot spending layer (1–2 months of cash flow, pseudonymous, peer-distributed).
3. **Bitcoin (on-chain):** Deep vault (multisig, untouched for years, only fed by excess LN earnings).

2026-07-25 20:23:03 UTC

For anyone who buys the NYC is _dead for the common man FUD_, send them here:
✅ Rockaway Ferry at sunset
✅ Friday night Dyckman bball
✅ Sat/Sun summer day BBQ on Randalls Island
✅ New Gottesman Rink outdoor ice skate
✅ John Jay morning lap swim

2026-07-25 15:23:56 UTC

LN Swaps to rebalance channels: just paid Boltz 9000 sats amd the miners only 330 sats..... - overpaid by x2 🤣🤣
Plenty of cheap blockspace

2026-07-24 21:21:24 UTC

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booked

2026-07-24 21:04:34 UTC

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With **5%** of the hash rate:
- Average block time ≈ **200 minutes** (10 ÷ 0.05)
- 100 blocks × 200 minutes = **20,000 minutes**
- That’s about **333 hours**, or roughly **13.9 days** (almost **2 weeks**)
So at 5% hash rate, you’d be waiting almost **two weeks** just to reach the 100-block coinbase maturity. And under standard Bitcoin difficulty rules, the first difficulty adjustment at 2,016 blocks would take nearly **9 months** to reach.

2026-07-24 21:02:11 UTC

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Exchanges are not going to list both coins in a contentious softfork - risky for them and too much work. They will either say nothing or may announce support of one coin.

2026-07-24 20:36:04 UTC

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then what?
are you sure your 110 coin is as valuable as the one u just irreversibly cashed out?
One way path - HFSP

2026-07-24 13:17:06 UTC

F-n yellow rock.... can it really keep up in the AI/everything-digital times?
https://blossom.primal.net/6f9ade4fa1ebf0325cc03651bcecd92c30f2f0d7c5fccb20de7dbbea248a956a.jpg

2026-07-24 13:13:20 UTC

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Blunted. Brutal. NGU dictates vibes
#nevent1q…vsuz

2026-07-24 01:36:36 UTC

@npub1key…lt3h
@nprofile…y3h5
@nprofile…8sj7
@nprofile…856z
@nprofile…xl2j
From a pure lets have fun vibes.....U all killed it tonight at pubkey. Final WBD show with edits will not likely capture the random joy and good will - especially when the conversation went south.
But u missed a chance to address the _malaise_ in bitcoin.
Fellas: its not about culture or philosophy or the state or capture...., it's all about number go up. That's the only reason why people save in freedom money - is to have their wealth preserved.
The 4-5 year window from 2021-2022 till now (2026) has been totally brutal. Essentially flat if you DCA'ed. This is why vibes are at alltime lows. This is the problem. Search no further.
OGs (im almost there having bought coins at $16k) dont get it because they can fall back on some coins having a x5. Even if most coins are flat to negative.
Just a bit of acknowledgment to the real_OGs - class of 2021
would have gone a long ways.
https://blossom.primal.net/dfaf111d00a60f306555073795c68743f0771c83d49d2098c9946bb8eee640f5.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/d3e264b5605ae33d3b2d44f5f0ad36b7423a6ec98930adc62f9bf0aaae4ce987.jpg

2026-07-23 21:49:07 UTC

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Best money has to win in normie-land. Bitcoin is the only digital sound money that has a shot. Its USD vs Gold vs Bitcoin. 100s of millions of smart productive humans will not give a shit about the alts. Best money wins. Winner take all.

2026-07-23 21:47:29 UTC

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2026-07-23 21:45:44 UTC

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2026-07-23 21:42:09 UTC

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Hard to change, by design

2026-07-23 14:35:29 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/51196dae111cee501a0db53998a8d2776b0344ef61598b376b5331ded074264d.jpg

2026-07-23 14:22:59 UTC

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Best way in future will be to work and earn/paid in sats (cash, bitcoin is the best cash). Just like getting cash for mowing lawns in my youth. No one knew I had it except the payee.