econoalchemist

#FREESAMOURAI https://p2prights.org/donate.html

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Co-founder @256FOUNDATION

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npub10m6lrv2kaf08a8um0plhj5dj6yqlw7qxzeag6393z352zrs0e5nsr2tff3

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econoalchemist@minibits.cash

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2025-05-30 13:42:47

The Samourai Wallet defense team has filed a motion to dismiss in court. Essentially arguing that SW is not a financial institution by definition and all of their conduct was lawful under the relevant statutes. Read the full text here:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.615997/gov.uscourts.nysd.615997.95.0.pdf

2025-05-29 14:51:09

Day 400 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested.
Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare.
Details: https://freesamourai.com
Support: https://p2prights.org/donate.html

2025-05-10 13:24:12

Day 381 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested.
Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare.
Details: https://freesamourai.com
Support: https://p2prights.org/donate.html

2025-05-09 14:31:07

This better be the last time I post this, SDNY has until noon today to respond to the defense team's Brady Letter. Anything less than "charges dropped" is unacceptable.
Day 380 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested.
Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare.
Details: https://freesamourai.com
Support: https://p2prights.org/donate.html

2025-05-09 14:29:32

🎯
#nevent1q…5ark

2025-05-08 13:13:34

Day 379 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested.
Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare.
Details: https://freesamourai.com
Support: https://p2prights.org/donate.html

2025-05-07 11:02:09

The SDNY prosecutors have been ordered to respond to Samourai Wallet's Brady letter by noon on Friday.

2025-05-07 10:59:13

Day 378 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested.
Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare.
Details: https://freesamourai.com
Support: https://p2prights.org/donate.html

2025-05-06 01:57:38

SDNY prosecutors asked FinCEN if Samourai Wallet needed a Money Transmitter license and FinCEN explicitly said no. Six months later, the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted.
https://image.nostr.build/4757d3b271664bf7ba5900f5e85c818388f06aa72d67909600406590c572dbf1.jpg

2025-05-05 10:38:27

Day 376 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested.
Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare.
Details: https://freesamourai.com
Support: https://p2prights.org/donate.html

2025-05-01 00:25:00

Ember One official release with full schematic review 👀
#nevent1q…f0c7

2025-04-29 11:52:26

Prosecutors consider dropping charges in Samourai Wallet case:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/samourai-wallet-feds-ask-for-time-consider-dropping-crypto-mixer-case

2025-04-26 14:11:31

Day 367 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested.
Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare.
Details: https://freesamourai.com
Support: https://p2prights.org/donate.html

2025-04-25 11:32:03

Day 366 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested.
Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare.
Details: https://freesamourai.com
Support: https://p2prights.org/donate.html

2025-04-24 11:32:02

Day 365 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested.
Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare.
Details: https://freesamourai.com
Support: https://p2prights.org/donate.html

2025-04-15 22:45:25

https://image.nostr.build/9c56dd46ca8e7ff99278a5cfaf9ffb04bf6aee7a4271c33365d2dd604fa136f1.jpg
https://www.defieducationfund.org/_files/ugd/84ba66_4278778963f14119be0ef1c7976bc3b2.pdf

2025-04-13 12:16:01

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Yes but that doesn't make the charges go away. The defense teams still need to be prepared to take this all the way.

2025-04-13 12:14:11

Day 354 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested.
Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare.
Details: https://freesamourai.com
Support: https://p2prights.org/donate.html

2025-04-12 14:32:38

Day 353 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested.
Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare.
Details: https://freesamourai.com
Support: https://p2prights.org/donate.html

2025-04-09 14:10:21

Day 350 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested.
Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare.
Details: https://freesamourai.com
Support: https://p2prights.org/donate.html

2025-04-08 12:59:26

"As part of the Monday memo, Blanche directed DOJ employees to focus on 'prosecuting individuals who victimize digital asset investors' and not pursue cases against crypto exchanges, mixers like Tornado Cash, and 'offline wallets'."
This is directionally a good sign for on-going cases like Samourai Wallet & Tornado Cash but at current, all charges still stand and defense teams need to remain vigilant and prepared to fight until the end.
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/04/08/doj-ncet-disbands-memo-todd-blanche-trump/

2025-04-07 14:29:04

Enter for your chance to win:
#nevent1q…a43t

2025-04-06 18:38:48

256 Foundation projects going live, trailblazing free and open Bitcoin mining solutions.
#nevent1q…vsc5

2025-04-06 15:36:34

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It was on Twitter when the EU started putting sanctions on Russians: https://x.com/SamouraiWallet/status/1542533704635015168

2025-04-06 14:59:48

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You're repeating something that is false and asking me to agree with you about it.

2025-04-06 14:25:49

Day 347 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested.
Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare.
Details: https://freesamourai.com
Support: https://p2prights.org/donate.html

2025-04-05 16:34:09

You still have a chance to enter the reffle and win a MAKE SAMOURAI FREE AGAIN hat. Entries are 100% passed through to the Samourai Wallet defense fund.
#nevent1q…nxxj

2025-04-05 15:00:58

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Where did Samourai Wallet "promote North Korea using their service"? I'm pretty sure you are making that up.

2025-04-05 14:34:14

Day 346 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested.
Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare.
Details: https://freesamourai.com
Support: https://p2prights.org/donate.html

2025-04-05 03:57:34

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The short answer: total bullshit.
The long answer: One for conspiracy to launder money and one for conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transmission business.

2025-04-05 03:53:43

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False. None of those fields are required, if you read the donation page it says to just use "NA" if you want.

2025-04-04 12:22:42

Day 345 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested.
Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare.
Details: https://freesamourai.com
Support: https://p2prights.org/donate.html

2025-04-03 13:22:55

Day 344 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested.
Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare.
Details: https://freesamourai.com
Support: https://p2prights.org/donate.html

2025-04-03 03:25:23

Enter for your chance to win one of these Make Samurai Free Again hats. It's only 5k sats per entry and 100% passed through to the Samurai Wallet defense fund.
#nevent1q…nxxj

2025-04-01 13:09:39

Day 342 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested.
Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare.
Details: https://freesamourai.com
Support: https://p2prights.org/donate.html

2025-04-01 02:12:29

I still have 5 of these hats left. 100% of the bitcoin gets passed through to the Samourai Wallet defense fund.
#nevent1q…eyjz

2025-03-31 13:59:49

Day 341 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested.
Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare.
Details: https://freesamourai.com
Support: https://p2prights.org/donate.html

2025-03-30 13:15:43

Day 340 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested.
Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare.
Details: https://freesamourai.com
Support: https://p2prights.org/donate.html

2025-03-29 14:02:52

Day 339 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested.
Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare.
Details: https://freesamourai.com
Support: https://p2prights.org/donate.html

2025-03-28 12:06:49

Day 338 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested.
Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare.
Details: https://freesamourai.com
Support: https://p2prights.org/donate.html

2025-03-27 02:55:44

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Eventually, but probably not this year. Our primary focus for the next 6 months is the Ember One complete mining system.

2025-03-26 12:55:31

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Odd, zaps seem to be working from others. I did just update my Lightning address a couple days ago, it should be econoalchemist@minibits.cash

2025-03-26 00:12:11

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Correct, the BOS binaries are available along with instructions on how to put all the pieces together but BOS itself is not open-source.

2025-03-26 00:09:54

Excellent article on rejected shares and how vardiff works:
https://plebsource.com/blogs/plebsource-blog/understanding-vardiff-why-your-bitaxe-s-rejected-shares-are-normal-and-how-it-s-helping-you-mine-smarter

2025-03-25 21:21:40

Braiins has officially open-sourced their control board, making the Github repos public and changing the license for the software portions to GPL3 and CERN-OHL-S for the hardware portion. This is a great leap forward for making Bitcoin mining free and open.
https://x.com/BraiinsMining/status/1904601547855573458

2025-03-25 03:54:50

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I suppose this is the criteria OCEAN uses to define "valid"?
https://image.nostr.build/45d0ddc4bf89745caf88b3319e6956529ba3c29317d04103446a3680a80b4c77.jpg

2025-03-24 23:25:23

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That's the most retarded conclusion you could have drawn from this dialog. You have sucessfully made up an entire narative in your own head unrelated to my points. Thank you for making it painfully clear you're a complete douche bag incapable of abstract thought beyond a 4th grade level.

2025-03-24 23:21:13

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The point is if you refused to do so then OCEAN wouldn't be doing as Mich for decentralization as you portrayed. I'm glad to hear from you directly that you would not refuse a valid block find if your pool fee was excluded.

2025-03-24 23:17:33

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How about if you don't want to be precived as acting coy you try answering direct questions with direct answers.
Large pools are directly connected to each other with WireGuard tunnels globally, that's where the term Super Node comes from. They do this so that when they find a block the other super nodes know about it nearly instantly so that they can minimize the risk of having a block orphaned.
An average home user doesn't have that kind of connectivity and there is a higher risk of their blocks being orphaned because of it. That's all I'm saying so don't spin like I think pools have to be the broadcaster.
It was not a weird celebration that we pointed out our Apollo block find wasn't orphaned, it is a note worthy accomplishment and a testament to the way John has engineered his product.

2025-03-24 23:06:35

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If enough miners exclude OCEAN from the payout you would go bankrupt. Incentives matter, why shouldn't miners on your pool keep 100% of the reward?

2025-03-24 09:49:38

Conflating hate with seeking the truth. Typical deflection tactic. He still won't give me a direct answer but I'm the asshole 🤷 #nevent1q…c83v

2025-03-24 09:46:02

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You're not giving me a direct yes or no answer so I'll assume that you are trying to avoid admitting OCEAN would not accept a valid block find from one of their miners that excludes the pool fee.
Yes, I understand that the miner broadcasts their block find. What you are acting coy about is the fact that unless OCEAN is broadcasting the valid block find as well then there is a higher risk of that block being orphaned. The average miner doesn't have well connected direct node connections globally like a large mining pool does.
For you to tell me that OCEAN depends on their users' home networking connections to propagate blocks across the network is asinine.

2025-03-23 23:24:18

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What's relevant here is if OCEAN would broadcast that block find or not. Yes or no, if a miner submits a valid block find to OCEAN but they built the template in such a way that it excluded the pool fee and 100% of the reward goes to the miner would OCEAN accept it?

2025-03-23 20:47:52

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Someone just earned over 3 BTC with their Umbrel and probably a Bitaxe. I'm celebrating no matter what you say.
So OCEAN wouldn't refuse a template that excluded the pool fee?

2025-03-23 20:39:12

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That's great. None of them got to keep the entire block reward like this one did though.

2025-03-23 20:38:27

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Conflate? The miner was self-hosting Public Pool. It doesn't get any more solo than that.

2025-03-23 02:07:10

I don't mean to alarm anybody but another solo block was just found, #888989. This one is very special though as it is the first block mined on Public Pool! The miner was self hosting a Public Pool instance on their Umbrel. This is the second solo block this week after the recent self-hosted Futurebit Apollo block find at height 888737.
https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000000a517d87e63ea04c7ec3dd51d20926e82cca5466dccaf

2025-03-20 23:53:46

The POD256 social media accounts have been re-branded to @256FOUNDATION.
Follow that account to stay up to date with news, content, & more from The 256 Foundation.

2025-03-20 20:20:12

Hats for sale. 100% passed through to the Samourai Wallet defense fund. I donated the material cost, @knowbitcoin discounted the production costs. Shipping to lower US 48 or local pickup options.
MAKE SAMOURAI FREE AGAIN
https://image.nostr.build/383f654c630e5e02b909bd48ea0619518919f4b14edefa6193124f3d18abc809.png
https://plebeian.market/products/30018:7ef5f1b156ea5e7e9f9b787f7951b2d101f77806167a8d44b11468a10e0fcd27:make-samourai-free-dugk5n7eq7

2025-03-16 17:22:27

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What's the context?

2025-02-21 01:31:33

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🤔

2025-01-16 20:55:02

Check out the January newsletter from The 256 Foundation for open-source mining news & developments, network stats, and learn how to solo mine to your own full node & self-hosted Stratum server.
https://www.yakihonne.com/article/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzqlh47xc4d6j7060ek7rl09gm95gp7auqv9n634ztz9rg5y8qlnf8qq24yvmh8905xcfdtgknq4tg2fn9qd23geg977jn8gs

2024-12-11 08:09:32

Ashigaru Dev breaks his silence, hear him out:
#nevent1q…q8zj

2024-12-09 13:57:17

Gridless Compute is mining bitcoin with stranded energy at a bio-mass site where they burn dead sisal plants to heat water, creating the steam needed to run a turbine generator. https://image.nostr.build/0c0defb21a2181a1331734f58d8fc1db620f1b9a6ddec7ee9a5e36eb32fb1d16.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/fd40e2c60d892fc193b1239827c6fbf0d9a6b6d559a1dd50b0d59d941f2b7fae.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/e5c72efc2aef0bb8a8a73e4b1a7bdc8656d6c18693710ac6f52979ae88131b93.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/bdf62e625fced779e6f9295e01d29d3e9b6a5890a6a1e190ca280ec281159ace.jpg

2024-11-27 03:24:12

You can support the Samourai Wallet defense fund with your hashrate. Pick any OCEAN mining url and use the address Zack shared as the worker name:
https://x.com/zackbshapiro/status/1861595333836349863

2024-11-16 02:57:45

A hero has pledged to double any bitcoin donation to the Samourai Wallet defense fund. Who's going to ape in?
Source: https://x.com/BitcoinBRS/status/1857351155535265828
Navigate to: https://p2prights.org/donate.html
Enter #BWEST in any field on the form.
Allocate 100% to Samourai Wallet legal defense.

2024-11-12 00:56:10

Thank you to all the veterans out there.

2024-11-11 22:51:01

This was recorded last week at Bitcoin Park during the monthly Mining Monday Meetup. There are a couple exciting announcements:
1) The 256 Foundation has a new supporter, Heatbit. Check out their Bitcoin mining heaters at https://heatbit.com/
2) The 256 Foundation officially launched the first grant project, an open source ~100W hashboard led by the one & only, @nprofile…aysd
#nevent1q…7932

2024-11-07 01:06:51

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Setting.

2024-11-07 00:46:49

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Hoes don't like responsibility.

2024-11-06 07:09:18

Ross Ulbricht is going home! https://image.nostr.build/f4e6098a80abecb8d873259027b1d0b7999e6cad37930516768d749fa60608a3.jpg

2024-11-03 23:11:27

Ben's recent Asgigaru tutorial is un-searchable on YouTube.
Here is the link to the video someone doesn't want you to see: https://youtu.be/ULZoPMCYPfk
#nevent1q…ryuz

2024-11-03 00:42:38

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Not on my watch, Jarolrod.

2024-11-03 00:41:20

I'm saddened it had to be Peanut but I am glad people are waking up to the State's monopoly on violence.

2024-11-03 00:40:07

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Because stealing a plane would be just as cheap but get him there a lot faster 🤷

2024-11-03 00:37:26

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Start walking

2024-11-02 23:57:57

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You mean Chewsday, M8?!

2024-11-02 09:10:53

TIL:
https://image.nostr.build/147f60e2eaaeaccb9bcf84451cb9142d56171485ec2f8d577846658fdf70e2ce.jpg

2024-10-31 02:46:36

Great overview of Samourai Wallet, Tornado Cash, & other legal proceedings insights.
https://youtu.be/8RSPKd9PwNk

2024-10-30 02:07:08

The biggest CoinJoin contains address reuse.
https://image.nostr.build/58699b1300718d4cf753b2faeb5d60c1b8be54f6e014f56ac1cf594473e29ca8.jpg
#nevent1q…3n2p

2024-10-29 02:21:48

Someone mined a block today using a Futurebit Apollo, their own full node, and their own stratum solo server.
https://mempool.space/block/0000000000000000000182972ccbfabb41ec5c385540dcab2f48c75cf73a695f

2024-10-26 03:12:45

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3MXhX4d6Jg0

2024-10-17 19:26:41

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Because it makes miners go brrrrrr

2024-10-17 19:25:36

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Keeping the power off while drilling this time 🤣
https://image.nostr.build/38d462fc347ae62c313810dcdbb533375a3bc0f0356a11586ab7c6c70cc7f866.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/b09ce8672bb8181163592d957fdd18268b4614fa61cceb58abadea637b8a0d4e.jpg

2024-10-17 17:50:42

Electrical is my passion. https://image.nostr.build/7fb3ae88be0f26a6e215c55aba6b31daba85960f7daefc25b2ad1cf3d4dcfaf4.jpg

2024-10-13 17:57:46

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Technically, you did send it to me but I sent it back... minus the 21 sats I think you intended to send me 😅

2024-10-09 15:53:24

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Yeah, sincerely. I drink almost an entire pot everyday.

2024-10-07 12:52:58

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8 - 10 cups, black, before noon.

2024-10-04 23:07:04

Had a great time at HRF's Global Bitcoin Summit this week. Looking forward to making Bitcoin mining free & open with these two legends @nprofile…aysd @nprofile…sv6z https://image.nostr.build/5bb3017f293f1b201912c4648457fad1eb0cf25978546cd4ca9d59c503d8c218.jpg

2024-10-01 04:27:20

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1) Ashigaru is released under GNU GPL v3; what's is this "non fully free non fully Foss" nonsense?
2) Can only speak for myself: because it takes time to understand the issue and articulate a response.
3) "Omitting this fact" is a strange way to frame it considering you had prior knowledge no one else seems to have known; with the exception of maybe the devs themselves. Up until a few days ago, I had never heard of bitcoinj-core so don't act like I made a deliberate decision not to mention it in my OP. What "hiding & censoring"? That's a ridiculous claim.

2024-09-30 00:37:23

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So instead of helping manually rebuild the missing library codebase your move is to prance around Nostr laughing? The archive missed the library's repo & the servers were seized; not an ideal situation for anyone. Yet, some devs have put their own lives at risk to work with what they have & rebuild this project, and this is what you have to contribute?

2024-09-27 04:26:35

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Going on 2-years of reply-guying my Samourai Wallet related posts and you still can't get the technical details right.

2024-09-27 03:38:52

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Mainly that SW is currently not being maintained and the Whirlpool requests have no where to go since the servers were all seized. Ashigaru is being actively maintained and the Whirlpool functions have been taken out of the wallet for the time being. Ashigaru pairs with RoninDojo the same way SW does.

2024-09-26 04:19:42

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Sounds like unlicensed money transmission 🤣

2024-09-26 03:08:16

What's with the fed valuing US government gold at the statutory rate of $42.22 per Troy ounce, why not market value?

2024-09-26 00:50:54

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Since you can't name any specifically I'll assume you're referring to whiny complaints that were hurled at the devs on Twitter from people who didn't even use the wallet.
Jam Wallet: "International transfers such as SWIFT & SEPA". Sound like a real promising contender in the fight for privacy 🙃

2024-09-26 00:42:05

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From what I understand, archives people had made up to and including SW's last release before the arrests, 0.99.98ii; since the SW servers including their Gitlab were seized. Laurant has been working to compare Ashigaru to SW v 0.99.98ii, which I think explains a lot but there is still more work to do.
https://gist.github.com/LaurentMT/891bc518bc94cc549e6af25647d66a4d

2024-09-24 16:12:18

Fun fact: cannibalism is legal in more US states than raw milk.
Have a nice day 🤗

2024-09-22 22:04:39

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There's a tool in Keybase you can use or for Openkeychain I had to save the key and import as an .asc file.
https://image.nostr.build/5941c6ecf5b310aaff8439f025941acad9ad4906368838d9fc0c151ffa4733ae.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/f5726f0487301c2522a6e845b62064af3a41cfc99e03b4395fdfe4139d2c8c64.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/9cfc8bb6bc7c97f82a8408bf4854c4668776beeff41f7e473f2430090423920d.jpg

2024-09-22 15:25:22

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For the time being, Whirlpool has been removed.