econoalchemist

https://econoalchemist.com

Follow me for tips on being ungovernable. Co-host @pod256.

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npub10m6lrv2kaf08a8um0plhj5dj6yqlw7qxzeag6393z352zrs0e5nsr2tff3

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econoalchemist@fountain.fm

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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

2025-03-23 20:38:27

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

2025-03-20 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

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.

2024-09-22 15:23:39

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Decentralized Whirlpool was nearly ready to activate before the SW devs were arrested. The vision is still there.

2024-09-22 04:02:03

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https://image.nostr.build/58699b1300718d4cf753b2faeb5d60c1b8be54f6e014f56ac1cf594473e29ca8.jpg

2024-09-22 03:39:15

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The .onion site is working fine in Tor browser for me too 🤷

2024-09-22 03:37:41

My new PayNym in Ashigaru is outrageoushuman41 🤣
https://paynym.rs/+outrageoushuman41

2024-09-22 03:30:23

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It's working for me.

2024-09-22 02:57:31

Samourai Wallet has been forked. Some brave souls have picked up where Samourai Wallet left off and the fight for privacy lives on.
Excellent work in reigniting this flame in the darkest hour. Running your own Dojo now required.
https://ashigaru.rs/
http://ashigaruprvm4u263aoj6wxnipc4jrhb2avjll4nnk255jkdmj2obqqd.onion/

2024-09-20 14:20:38

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That's the neat part about open-source, will be both.

2024-09-20 11:35:18

GM miners are going to have free & open-source hash boards, control boards, & firmware; complete and fully customizable mining systems that out-perform Bitmain products.

2024-09-20 02:37:34

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It's the 5G towers

2024-09-19 04:55:11

Big announcement this week, HRF has thrown their support behind The 256 Foundation's mission to make Bitcoin mining free & open.
Hear all about it and more with our special guest Skot9000 on our first episode recorded in front of a live audience.
#nevent1q…552k

2024-09-16 22:29:02

First @nprofile…rq7s being recorded in front of a live audience happening soon.
https://image.nostr.build/a55f5e5e0d88fc74bec6b7b5abdc0dd2a3fa871ba18e6b5382746ba8b4f30990.jpg

2024-09-16 19:39:47

Tomorrow marks the beginning of the end for the DOJ's campaign against privacy & open-source devs.
All the best to the Samourai Wallet team. Kick the tires and light the fires, guys 👊
Support their legal defense fund: https://p2prights.org/donate.html

2024-09-16 19:27:23

Monday Mining Meetup #1 tonight, 9/16 doors open at 16:30, runs until 19:00. @nprofile…rq7s episode #56 will be recorded in front of a live audience with special guest @nprofile…aysd
Join us for special 256 Foundation announcements, Socratic style QnA, food/drinks, & more.
https://www.meetup.com/bitcoinpark/events/302996672/?eventOrigin=group_events_list

2024-09-16 01:46:32

I hate to be that guy but Ryan Routh seems a little rude.

2024-09-15 20:13:00

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You could also compare apples to oranges but you would still look like a fool.

2024-09-15 19:37:19

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First of all, you have failed to demonstrate any Samourai Wallet "address reuse bugs" that can be equivalently compared to the systemic & symmetric address re-use vulnerabilities in Wasabi although you claimed them to be equivalent on Vlad's podcast. Second, I do not claim to be "aware of all", I have merely responded to your shitty and misleading examples.
Doxxic change in Samourai Wallet is not part of the CoinJoin tx, it comes from the setup tx (tx0) and is separated afterwards, never entering a CoinJoin round.
As for Ergo's tweet, when he says "unmixed" change, he's talking about change that comes out of a Wasabi CoinJoin tx, change that doesn't match the mixed like-amount outputs. These change outputs are far from untraceable and have been the downfall of many users. Take for example, this video where Samourai Wallet demonstrates how easy it is to unwind a Wasabi CoinJoin transaction featuring a systemic case of address re-use. Take special note of the keywords "unmixed change" in the video's caption, which sates: "The 25 BTC unmixed change went to the same address as a 0.401 BTC mixed output. User didn't do this address reuse, the client did."
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=alcLdBsoDDg

2024-09-15 19:14:54

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Says the guy publishing podcasts about an inactive CoinJoin implementation 🙃

2024-09-15 18:12:58

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If you could then you would have but you can't because you're out of your depth. None of your examples are the result of address re-use in the CoinJoin. Unlike Wasabi's systemic & symmetric address re-use vulnerabilities which both occur in the CoinJoin transaction.
To clarify further: in your first example above, the coordinator fee is provided during the tx0 transaction while the wallet is setting up for and prior to the CoinJoin transaction. Tx0 transactions have obvious on-chain fingerprints and I fail to see how identifying the address used by the coordinator to collect the fee has any bearing on the anonymity of the user.
In your second example, the re-used address was also re-used in a Wasabi CoinJoin tx so that doesn't help your case but more importantly, when it was re-used by Samourai, it was in the tx0 - not the CoinJoin transaction. Additionally, based on the comments in that thread, the wallet was imported to Samourai and admittedly wasn't fully synced.
Finally in your third example and like the others, this was not a case of address re-use in the CoinJoin transaction (unlike Wasabi) but rather limited occurrences of address re-use in post-mix spending tools like Stowaway, Stonewall, & Stonewallx2. As explained in Samourai Wallet's write up of their investigation into the reported issue: not nearly as many addresses were effected as originally claimed and for good measure Samourai Wallet introduced Strict Mode after this report to mitigate unintentional address re-use by the users when transacting with post-mix spending tools.
Despite your efforts to equate Wasabi's address re-use vulnerabilities to Samourai Wallet, you have come up short yet again.

2024-09-15 13:05:43

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As I mentioned, there is a non-zero chance Wasabi's systemic address re-use vulnerability will send a mixed output to a previously used change address, that's one reason choosing Wasabi would have been a poor choice. Another is that there is also a non-zero chance that Wasabi's symmetric address reuse vulnerability will include the same address on both the input & output sides of the mix. Additionally, fees paid to Wasabi helped support chain analysis companies; utxos are ground to dust if left to CoinJoin for too long; and now that ZKsnacks' coordinator liquidity has been broken up among several new coordinators, users can enjoy dancing with themselves in shallow liquidity pools that offer no practical anonymity benefits.
Further more, the existence of doxxic change makes no difference when a user is intentionally sending all their outputs to their pre-mix wallet (of all places) and then consolidating them. To even achieve what you've demonstrated the user would have to put in considerable effort to make such a mess of things.
Your example is one of intentionally destructive user behavior and this entire exercise has demonstrated that you are purposefully attempting to misguide people and/or you have little to no grasp on the subject. Despite your inability to identify that example as a blatantly obvious and intentional maneuver to consolidate outputs, you chose to confidently use it as an example to equate the vulnerabilities in one wallet with the deliberate choices made by the user in another wallet. The fact that you have been engaging in tactics such as this for years is disturbing and the fact that you continue to do so after the Samourai Wallet coordinator has been shut down is deranged.

2024-09-15 00:59:36

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Sender & receiver generate addressess derived from their unique cryptographic connection, so they can see those addresses but not the addresses between the receiver and a different sender.
Give this @nprofile…cycq article a read to learn more:
https://bitcoiner.guide/paynym/

2024-09-15 00:49:19

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Yes, he's been off Twitter for years. Since 2021 if I recall correctly. Maybe made it a little ways into 2022.

2024-09-15 00:42:45

I like to think 6102 would have enjoyed Nostr & I wish he were here to see it.
https://image.nostr.build/dbd7b2fdefd754b669fc47043ed3bc5d3c8c7eb31fe5f4ddd48165afda510d10.jpg

2024-09-15 00:39:46

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False equivalence, asinine assessment. The user could have just spent from their post-mix wallet but instead re-used addresses from their pre-mix wallet and consolidated. The user had to deliberately choose to do this by fetching pre-mix wallet addresses and manually paste them to the post-mix wallet.
Comparing intentional and deliberately retarded user behavior to Wasabi which has symmetric address re-use (same address on the input & output sides of the mix) as well as systemic address re-use (mix outputs sent to previously used change addresses) without any unexpected user behavior triggering the failure demonstrates your continued efforts to misguide and confuse people. You're deplorable and I encourage you to do the world a favor and delete your podcast.

2024-09-14 02:39:10

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LFG 🔥
https://image.nostr.build/1845c79b437a7e7fb7c1df1a3e9a00666137b03738b1184f3c4b09a60d3d887e.jpg

2024-09-14 02:35:45

https://image.nostr.build/efdc182a800b250c80b340529f315ebf2488740eb0bb9cb679176b5805c0de2a.gif
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/endgame-interest-us-debt-surpasses-1-trillion-first-time-ever-exploding-august-budget

2024-09-13 18:54:10

Find POD256 in your favorite podcasting app:
#nevent1q…mp9x

2024-09-13 18:34:49

New POD256 video just dropped
#nevent1q…delz

2024-09-12 02:24:25

Fuck this dystopia.
#nevent1q…yqgu

2024-09-12 02:12:46

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She has a point about the chips, the majority of Bitcoin mining infrastructure is proprietary and closed source; which is exactly why @nprofile…sv6z & I co-found The 256 Foundation with the goal of making Bitcoin mining free & open.
As far as Bitcoin becoming a thing that's just held and not peer to peer electronic cash, yeah what she describes seems reasonably within reach of a psychotic power-hungry cartel IF that's what they're trying to accomplish. I don't know if Bitcoin is really the tool they've been waiting for to execute such a nefarious scheme though. Seems to me like they have complete control over the existing financial system and they could accomplish a similar outcome without Bitcoin 🤷
I will say however, that the NgU narrative has arguably been the most dangerous meme in the Bitcoin ecosystem and fuck faces like Saylor have been a net-negative. I've said it before and continue to believe that Bitcoin is just software, a tool that can be used for freedom or a tool wielded for tyranny. The ideas that Bitcoin has already won or that the Trojan horse hypothesis will just magically make the State's monopoly on violence go poof are intellectually lazy and will prove to be the catalyst for making Bitcoin the greatest revolution that never happened.

2024-09-12 01:50:46

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That's heavy duty and all but I could definitely bring more than 3oz of peanut butter on a plane before 9/11, that is different for sure.

2024-09-11 17:03:10

23 years ago today, the CIA orchestrated 9/11 under the guise of a large-scale coordinated terrorist attack. This false-flag event was then used as justification to expand domestic government overreach resulting in:
• widespread invasive surveillance of all communication platforms
• heightened restrictions on access to and use of financial services
• and among many other abuses of power, expanded federal authority over many things like what songs could be played on the radio to how many ounces of peanut butter one is allowed to carry on an airplane.
Not to mention the international implications from the resulting Global War on Terrorism but I digress.
If you're old enough to remember the way life was prior to 9/11 then I think you will agree that the world you were born into no longer exists. The systematic erosion of basic human rights has radically changed the way humans think, act, & communicate.
On this day, I think it is important to remember what life was like in a world before invasive government surveillance, crippling financial restrictions, & hypnotizing fear campaigns. I think it is important to highlight tools like Bitcoin, e2ee comms, & Nostr. They are especially fascinating to me specifically because they are anchored to the free world I came from where my financial transactions were my business and no one else's, where my communications were private, and where I could express my ideas without looming consequences.
If you're reading this then you are already clearly on the path and I encourage you to continue pushing forward and fighting for your freedoms, it is worth all the effort.

2024-09-10 15:37:20

Block 860749 was solved today by a miner on SoloCKpool with roughly 90Ph.
https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000002bbf819cea419c9e3bb0d3f912fe32d655a1d2439a985

2024-09-10 14:33:40

6 more days until the first Mining Monday Meetup at Bitcoin Park. Stop by if you're in Nashville and interested in Bitcoin mining.
https://www.meetup.com/bitcoinpark/events/302996672/?recSource=group_search&recId=b4d9a5cf-e514-43b1-9001-1085348fbaec&searchId=a79c7803-2566-4cd9-8d3a-28fd26675249&eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events

2024-09-10 14:11:29

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https://image.nostr.build/3335e802bf00e237211c5b2a56aede1783b5beab07c282de6310d9dcb33e3f8f.gif

2024-09-09 21:23:12

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Make an American Ten31 hat 🤷

2024-09-09 19:23:40

New Pod256 with our good fren Rob Warren. #note1z35…hqhs

2024-09-07 15:55:38

https://freesamourai.com/
https://image.nostr.build/b3e7d1a1802d8403e33c163d8b152ad2394e940091f7e9feb1467f2fb41ed16a.jpg

2024-09-07 14:25:24

Nostr gets better everyday. Twitter gets worse everyday.

2024-09-06 05:33:24

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The date was changed to September 17th for their next hearing.

2024-09-05 17:28:03

Join @BitKite & I at Bitcoin Park in Nashville on September 16th for the first Mining Monday Meetup.
https://yakihonne.com/smart-widget-checker?naddr=naddr1qvzqqqr4fupzqlh47xc4d6j7060ek7rl09gm95gp7auqv9n634ztz9rg5y8qlnf8qq2ny3ecwe04jsnw2en8shmsg3r4qee42ymxz383vnf

2024-09-04 13:34:17

Sounds like the next court appearance has been moved to September 17th for both devs. Keep showing your support any way you can 👊
https://p2prights.org/donate.html #note1sqk…4klp

2024-09-04 01:45:56

Wishing Samourai Wallet all the best in the days ahead with appearances in court again tomorrow & Tdev's next appearance on September 10th.
They can use all the help they can get, chip in on their legal defense fund: https://p2prights.org/donate.html

2024-09-02 14:04:50

GM
https://image.nostr.build/b7d4dc96481803ed9d4d4ff24047f2c3b17f0a9eb6c95cdb406e90278b3b56d4.jpg

2024-09-01 22:50:45

POD256 #53 video: #note1f5l…xajm

2024-09-01 17:48:40

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Disgusting. — This is a comment on: https://yakihonne.com/flash-news/

2024-09-01 12:45:17

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I like Amethyst. Was one of the first clients I tried and I've stuck with it.

2024-09-01 12:39:37

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You can download it from Fdroid or with Obtainium using their GitHub releases page: https://github.com/greenart7c3/Amber/releases

2024-09-01 03:52:38

How do you log into Primal with Amber? I'm not seeing the option.

2024-08-31 12:08:59

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🤝

2024-08-31 04:28:21

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iiuc, Alice & Bob can send the bearer tokens amongst eachother intra mint with no Lightning tx but to send inter mint; the token has to be redeemed by the Alice's mint, sats sent via Lightning tx to Bob's mint, and there new bearer tokens are issued to Bob.

2024-08-31 04:00:31

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If Alice has tokens issued from Minibits and sends them to Bob who uses enuts, can he redeem the tokens from Alice? He would be trying to cash in tokens that enuts did not issue.

2024-08-31 03:40:20

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Ah, thanks, that was my confusion; I thought the ecash was the token being stored on the device. Didn't realize ecash was an IOU held by the mint operator. The way it's presented on the website is: "Ecash is a digital barer token that is stored on a user's device, very similar to physical cash."
https://docs.cashu.space/#

2024-08-31 02:30:33

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Check out this guide, it's incredibly helpful. relay.tools makes it easy to spin up and customize a relay. You have to install the Kiwi browser and then add the Nosx2 extension to it to sign into relay.tools with your Nostr profile. But once you do that, it's a12k sats/mo invoice and you're on the downhill run.
https://highlighter.com/a/naddr1qq9hyetvv9uj6um9w36hqq3qgcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqxpqqqp65wjvcq4q

2024-08-31 02:25:04

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I'm still figuring it out myself but from what I understood the differences were that the Zeus Lightning address has a time limitation if the user is offline for more than 24-hours then the payment is returned to the sender. Where as the Minibits Lightning address doesn't. Also, the Minibits wallet can handle ecash along with sats seamlessly, which might be a plus if the user is into ecash. What I'm not so sure about is what happens if the mint operator's server goes down; the ecash is stored on the user's device and any user can run a mint themselves to connect with their client so I think it's easy enough to recover in the event a mint operator gets taken down. I went through the recovery process for good measure by funding the mint, uninstalling/reinstalling the app, and I am in fact in control of my keys/sats so I don't think it's custodial. I suppose a better test would be to restore in a different app altogether.

2024-08-30 20:46:29

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Unfollow everybody and tell me the experience doesn't go to shite.

2024-08-30 20:19:11

I started using Nostr about a year and a half ago. NGL I struggled with it, I wanted it to be that Twitter replacement I was searching for but there were several roadblocks:
• getting content to load
• self-custodial Lightning is a pita
• little to no interaction
• getting a mix of content beyond just Bitcoin
Therefore, I found myself stuck choosing between battling an algorithm or a miserable UX for social media. But that changed when I saw this dude's posts about making a few simple adjustments and that was exactly the unlock I was looking for.
In the last 24-hours I went from totally frustrated with Nostr to operating my own public relay, running a local private relay on mobile, & getting content to load quickly on my 3 favorite clients - first bullet point ✅.
I continued following his suggestions and funded Zeus to manage some inbound/outbound channels which is made easy with their new LSP. With that setup, I installed Minibits to create a mint and get a Lightning address. I topped off the mint from Zeus, then I configured the NWC secrets for my 3 clients and removed the friction to zaps in a self-custodial way - second bullet point ✅.
But then I figured out being an introverted lurker on Nostr doesn't bode well here. I started following more accounts, boosting, posting, liking, commenting... The more I use it, the better it gets - third bullet point ✅.
Finally, YakiHonne was the key to curating the content I was seeing. There are options to choose a number of topics beyond just Bitcoin-related stories and I recommend checking it out - fourth bullet point ✅.
All in all, Twitter is a dumpster fire as you probably know since you're here reading this and if you have hit some friction switching to Nostr hopefully some of this info helps.
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2024-08-30 19:01:14

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Incredibly helpful, thank you 👊

2024-08-30 13:18:01

GM! New POD256
https://image.nostr.build/c2d9d7ed44697a763c28726d54fbddfc4bb65efedede9b2815b09d66320f5468.jpg #note1u0z…cpj5

2024-08-30 13:10:35

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GM!

2024-08-29 22:42:00

Full video of the Samourai Wallet panel discussion at Bitcoin24 with Diverter, Tor, & Zack. Moderated by yours truly:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mqZstqEGUMM

2024-08-29 22:21:26

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According to Primal, you have 18 🤔

2024-08-29 22:15:02

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🤣