rfkill

bitcoiner, privacy enthusiast, nix user.

Not setting zaps until there is non-DNS based way to do it.

Public Key

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nprofile1qqsv2feswh0q9g47akk52rlkpux503nl9z3zn8acq3s360h9yxwltaq0hs2gs

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2024-10-16 20:48:00

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that's malinformation

2024-10-02 08:30:40

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can't you do something like musig with schnorr quite easily?

2024-08-12 18:53:05

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passphrase

2024-08-02 12:50:42

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This comment about a week before Russia was cut off from SWIFT, and yet here we are 2.5 years later.

2024-08-02 12:43:55

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Not a fan of lightning addresses. Waiting for bolt12 offers to become more universal. On-chain Bitcoin is getting reusable addresses now too which is awesome.

2024-07-26 22:15:11

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It's an ongoing area of research called remote attestation.

2024-07-24 17:55:17

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What about when he gives the right impression in his speeches, but the 6000 page bill gets negotiated in the house for a year, with a neverending assortment of concessions and unrelated ammendments added?

2024-07-16 18:02:13

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Of all the currencies not backed by anything and you think that of bitcoin? Bitcoin IS the one that backs.

2024-07-14 16:23:22

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Still 35GB remaining on my 1TB bitcoind/electrs node

2024-07-14 07:01:43

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I can imagine in future lightning implemeltations whnch have a cashu node built in, for the purpose of minting ecash tokens and sending them out as donations, to be redeemed later by the recipient.

2024-07-13 10:10:17

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LN is interoperable with ecash. In fact ecash would be a lot less useful without LN. If you still want LN you can still set that up and sent and recieve from ecash users:

2024-07-13 10:07:56

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Biggest issue we have with ecash now is that there are two competing standards with incompatible formats. I prefer fedimint because I want the money federated across mulitple juristictions, but I guess cashu is easier to intergrate.

2024-07-12 18:23:21

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Like to see all wallets enable this. Accept everything, instantly convert to whatever you wanted.

2024-07-12 09:58:21

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Was more this for me. https://image.nostr.build/68c1fa915b4ddb46c7f6aeb1c46f73848d22756ccc5c906262441235ca8a38ac.jpg

2024-07-12 09:49:54

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He's not wrong. Notice the "terms" he reffers to are all crypto terms related to other coins like ethereum. Much of bitcoin culture visible to outsiders mirrors what is happening there. To find the "real" signal beneath it all takes effort.

2024-07-12 09:16:21

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"Trust this npub as if it was me" seems like an extention to web-of-trust level itself. A step above "I have a close relationship with the person behind this npub" etc.

2024-07-10 15:41:19

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Why would they need bitcoin when they can just buy anything they need with printed euros?

2024-07-10 12:00:30

Trying to post to nostr on coracle.social inside Tor Browser, logged in with #amber, but seems like the request goesn't make it from coracle to to the app.

2024-07-02 19:15:19

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That's ignoring the Cantillon effect. Businesses in closer proximity to the new money will benefit in terms of purchasng power at the expense of everyone else.

2024-07-02 12:31:31

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"In other words, the first sectors to receive the newly created money
enjoy higher profits as their pay increases, but general costs are still
low. On the other hand, the last sectors in which prices rise (where
there is more economic friction) face higher costs while still producing
at lower prices."
https://fee.org/articles/the-cantillon-effect-because-of-inflation-we-re-financing-the-financiers/

2024-07-02 12:09:10

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And then the dead man's switch linked via nostr to a nuclear bomb.

2024-07-02 12:09:08

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And then the dead man's switch linked via nostr to a nuclear bomb.

2024-07-01 07:37:58

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All that Adware bloat needs RAM

2024-06-30 11:52:03

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Don't forget not to consolidate your mixed coins together into the same denomination that you started with

2024-06-29 19:31:54

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Lyn Alden taught me that the Bretton Woods system which was ended in 1971 was doomed to failure in it very inception, since it allowed for domestic depegging of the dollar from gold, while still promising to settle in gold internationally.

2024-06-27 16:13:39

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I feel ecash could take over this role. If you want to be sovereign your wallet can immediatedy redeem any ecash you recieve for lightning. The advantage being fast onboarding for new users, improved privacy, ability to send payments via any secure messaging channel, half offline payments. Fedi tokens are also redeemable onchain if needed. Most actual transfers would still take place over lightning in the backend anyway.

2024-06-27 13:28:09

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Does it only work for apps on the same device, or could you use a web client on a desktop and sign notes with the phone?

2024-06-27 07:17:56

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I heard they want to ban this from schools in Florida. Shocking.

2024-06-27 07:14:01

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Would be great if they could use ecash mints for initial onboarding, rather than fully custodial lightning services as was done in El Salvador.

2024-06-26 11:11:43

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Do you want to run that node?

2024-06-26 10:16:32

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can we just use tor hidden services instead of DNS?

2024-06-23 13:39:41

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Hopefully not a nix pill

2024-06-22 22:02:57

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Has anyone exteral to the holepunch/Pear team analysed the protocol for viability? What are the tradeoffs, potential weaknesses, privacy or scalability issues?

2024-06-20 21:47:08

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The issue with community relays is that if one gets censored, the community now has a coordination problem in moving to a new one. It's less of an issue if they are spread accross several relays.

2024-06-20 16:40:38

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Can this be implemented for zaps? Also what about just sending ecash directly if the payer has it?

2024-06-20 06:40:28

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Anyone working on a standard format for serializing encrypted ecash tokens, to allow sending them via nostr / signal / email etc?

2024-06-20 05:55:55

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Waiting for NIP for sending zaps by just sending an DM containing ecash tokens.

2024-06-17 16:27:39

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the irony https://image.nostr.build/c42b143dcdd23a8bf91161e98ac1813d5942fdeac696f1c99989a4051af29c4a.jpg

2024-06-16 07:42:13

Now we have ecash actually working, can we start using them for zaps? I would rather recieve and fedi token, and claim it when I come online, than have to outsource to alby or walletofsatoshi.

2024-06-13 18:46:45

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Where's the bitcoin suit merch?

2024-06-12 20:52:51

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Ligitimate ways to view trump:
* A dangerous fascist who will accelerate us towards 1984
* A crusader for freedom protecting us from those who would accederate us towards 1984
* A useful idiot who sometimes helps crusaders of freedom
* A useful idiot who sometimes helps corporate/socialist fascists
* Basically just as bad as all the other politicians
* Mainly an issue because he gives false hope in democracy to people who know better

2024-06-12 12:20:24

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It seems like the political parties representing this group is much further right than the median actual member of that group. But no other parties will represent them at all.

2024-06-05 07:19:58

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In fact, forget the internet

2024-06-03 04:55:00

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For some reason eating beets seems to help me

2024-06-02 15:49:10

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Bitcoin needs some kind of way to scale non-custodially. Lightning is a partial but not full solution. CTV opens some options that aren't currently possible.

2024-06-02 13:29:00

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But did you read Bitcoin is Venice?

2024-06-02 04:32:57

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Bitcoin can work for individuals while under full state attack. But we can also imagine that the incentive structure of bitcoin actually drives states to prefer a more liberal approach towards it.

2024-06-01 17:15:43

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQCV0QgIbuk&t=1
Great thing about nix shells is you start to use newer tools that other devs are less likely to have installed. Just is a great alternative to make for running common operations on your source repository.

2024-06-01 09:57:38

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dns is still used for connecting to the nostr relay. but at least you dont need your own domain to host your lnurl any more

2024-05-25 12:14:53

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Trademarks make SOME sense in terms of, if I put the hitachi logo on something not made py hitachi, it is fraud. Patents and copyright are bleh.

2024-05-25 08:32:58

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And the remake will never happen because they won't give up the rights

2024-05-23 07:23:37

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Are we going to move towards a universal payment request which will allow the client itself to figure out which methods are supported and what the best option to use is?

2024-05-21 16:47:36

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Nobody to inherit the wealth?

2024-05-20 16:24:19

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Number of people you follow who follow them.

2024-05-15 21:21:43

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The true EVs

2024-05-15 05:34:36

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https://github.com/ojroques/nvim-osc52

2024-05-14 17:15:46

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I'll let the original participants in this conversation continue it. My comment was based on the assumption that criticisms already brought up were true, so it will rest on the conclusion of taat discussion.

2024-05-14 11:55:55

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There are various other risks with Monero, such as the continual hard forks, potential for node centralization etc. The comparison is more, can we have a fedimint where the overal trustworthiness of the federation similar to that of the Monero system of incentives. You could also make the same comparison to bitcoin, but overall trust in the base system is much higher than Monero.

2024-05-14 06:45:23

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You could also set up the lightning protocol to allow external funding. E.g:
* Perform initial setup with channel partner
* Setup transaction depends on an input that doesn't exist yet
* Once everything is ready, send a taproot address to someone who was about to pay me anyway
* that UTXO now becomes the input to the channel, and therefore it is open
Not an op-code expert so can't say for sure if it's possible, might require sighash noinput.

2024-05-14 05:40:00

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So what we should be really comparing monero to isn't bitcoin, but fedimint. Fediment can definitely offer greater privacy if you use a mint with a large enough anonymity set. Question is whether we can have fedimints that are more robust vs state attacks than Monero.

2024-05-12 16:53:21

Is there a reason zaps are based on LNURL, and not some nostr based protocol? Being able to request the invoice over nostr would avoid the need to have a public facing doman name.

2024-05-12 15:41:24

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How does one find a mint that fits the criteria?
* Small enough to fly under the KYC enforcement radar
* Large enough to provide a reasonable anonymity set
* Trustworthy enough that you'd be willing to leave funds there

2024-05-10 08:31:23

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I'm honestly leaning more towards accepting the more pejorative definition of capitalism, which libertarians would usually refer to with terms like merchantilism, crony capitalism or corporatism. To me it just seems to be the more popular definition and has a greater connection to the historical period in which the ideas were formed. Switching to a new term to describe what we are aiming for could help differentiate it from simply defendind the status quo.

2024-05-08 11:29:57

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RelayedIn

2024-05-08 11:29:00

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Can't figure out from the reporting whether the side effect was truly the cause of the withdrawal. The admission of the side effect apparently happened months ago, and AstraZenica are claiming that it is simply superceeded by newer products. However it's authorization was also withdrawn in in the EU.

2024-05-05 14:58:32

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Barrier to entry is very high for a single transaction. If every second customer was coming in asking the same thing maybe he'd look into it some more.

2024-05-02 20:55:25

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I think it's built to solve the same problem, by creating a single server which holds the keys and signs of behalf of your various apps. I'm thinking you just publish a note saying "from now on trust messages signed with xxxx as if they were signed by my master key", and have peers do the verification.

2024-05-02 19:16:01

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Need to be able to have a different set of keys for each client, all linked to a single account. You could just sign a nostr message granting that key to act as your key for a limited time or with limited priviledges.

2024-04-30 15:09:04

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What's the downside of immediately withdrawing, to a mind I DO trust?

2024-04-28 18:43:02

backdrop https://image.nostr.build/abbff2efdb16747e679af8674b1301891add65ceae807cf905740396acc207b3.jpg

2024-04-28 18:40:39

New avatar https://image.nostr.build/777291236fd10c22559d6db612086ab5add6a9146b3600e23b003fc69f3f1faa.jpg

2024-04-28 07:44:22

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Perhaps given the context you are using, you could replace the word "ownership" in the original post with poesession. The state can grant legal ownership over some bitcoin, but proving that you don't posess coins which the state claims you no longer own and must forfeit would still be impossible.

2024-04-27 16:41:26

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Why should anyone believe their "official" credit score actually influences banks descisions to offer you a loan? It seems more like a guide to you on whether banks might want to loan to you or not, but it's certain each lender has their own internal propriatary scoring method that includes all sorts of data you don't even know they have on you.

2024-04-26 07:35:50

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The issue here is that eventually most npubs that aren't connected to you in some way will be automatically filtered due to spam.

2024-04-25 17:43:15

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Would be an interesting excersize sans cameras and some balaclavas added:

2024-04-25 17:33:06

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The great firewall of Europe just keeps on growing. https://image.nostr.build/86a766d6ea8d769b149319a2d7736565a5ec57d758dfc90e2c777159def6e6ca.jpg

2024-04-24 21:19:41

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The goal of mixing is to restore a level of privacy equivalent to what you would normally get with cash. In reality, it doesn't even get very close to that. Calling it "money laundering" is a joke. Try running the proceeds of your meth empire through a mixing service and then reporting the income td the IRS, and you will see the difference.

2024-04-20 07:38:11

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if only there was a futures market on block space

2024-04-15 18:49:23

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All of their 1 users affected.

2024-04-15 03:01:13

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Quaalcom are known for publishing extremely minimal documentation of their chips so that customers are required to partner with their engineers to get any software running on them.

2024-04-12 11:59:31

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Is this an argument against the state, or just for replacing one that failed to achieve a monopoly on violence with one that succeeded?

2023-08-12 08:09:21

Does the holy grail exist?
* 7b llama2 + LORA for gode generation
* running on GPU
* neovim plugin to emulate copilot

2023-06-23 19:39:57

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I like reddit because the focus is more on content than on personalities. It's normal to read a post and an entire series of comments and not even look at the names of the people posting.

2023-05-30 08:02:58

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I always imagined "source of truth" in a decentralized git solution would mean something like "top commit signed by known key". So you could pull from any repo that had that latest commit.