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2024-09-19 13:34:14

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#nevent1q…6fpz

2024-09-16 11:10:10

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You confirm @nprofile…wfd6 was a fake?

2024-09-04 15:26:59

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I've been wondering for a while how to design a social network that would help you find your "real world" community, rather than help connecting to a bunch of virtual communities.
At some point we gotta cross the screens if we want to build local communities.

2024-08-20 14:24:07

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It was 3D everything, 3D remake of movies, Nintendo 3DS, even freaking board game started marketing "3D" on their box whenever they had non-flat plastic pieces

2024-08-12 16:03:10

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We make fun of eth-heads having their entire financial privacy doxxed because of their NFT profile or dot-eth name, let's not have that kind of privacy absurdity on nostr.
Lightning and ecash are fine since you can't query someone's funds, silent payments would be good too, but please don't use npub as a naive wallet address...

2024-08-06 15:42:47

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It's related to fedimint

2024-08-05 14:31:51

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Thanks for pushing lightning wallets to new frontiers, you gave us a glimpse of what could be possible, I hope the community will maintain it

2024-08-05 11:13:50

Buying bitcoin on Relai is always a bit of a gamble given they don't execute your trade immediately, but it's a sweet surprise when you wake up in the morning and see bitcoin got even lower before execution

2024-08-01 16:15:16

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Couple it with homomorphic encryption and you get a trustless computation market, the future is cyberpunk af

2024-07-25 19:02:18

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If miners ever collude to censor a transaction, the fee market create a strong incentive to break the collusion. Meanwhile the federation has no incentive, they hold the real bitcoins, the rug is done.
Not to mention mining monero is permissionless, so you can "fight back", joining the liquid federation is not.

2024-07-20 14:44:08

We need an equivalent of HFSP for #nostr
Have Fun Staying Centralized?
Have Fun Staying in Walled Gardens?
Have Fun Staying Blinded by the Algo?
Have Fun Giving Your Data?
So many options...

2024-07-18 17:09:59

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Speaking about "real capitalism", can't help but leave this here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2DIEzdJLaA

2024-07-18 12:43:24

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My first sentence was a clue that what was following was a bit cynical, I'm not communist (i'm probably too anti-state) but the metaphor was too easy to dismiss by someone who would be, because most communist are motivated as a reaction to how capitalism has grown into.
The ideal world where fit hunters enjoys the fruit of their labor isn't the one we live to them, so the comparison doesn't resonate.

2024-07-18 11:54:47

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Meh, metaphors are too easy to twist in whatever someone's want it.
Capitalism is when fit hunters don't own any buffalo-hunting projectile weapons, nor the meat they've captured, instead they're owned by shareholders that don't move their ass and take a cut of the hard work of these hunters, always redistributing the minimum they can get away with.

2024-07-01 20:51:56

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You got stuck at the beginning of the movie where the journalists self-describe themselves as being truth seekers against the censorship of the press by the government. But the rest unravel pretty quickly against them and expose their hypocrisy.
The film portrays senseless journalists that hardly care about what they are witnessing (come on, take a picture of the two hanging men ! oh what a beautiful shot of someone dying !) and mostly care about "the shot" or "the interview", exploiting the pain of the world in a very self-centric way to raise themselves to fame, competing against one another (the competitive at the beginning, the talks they have with other teams at Washington, etc).
Never in the movie they care about peace or even the truth, instead they're sad because they're afraid to not make it in time to have a "legendary last interview" before the death of the President.
Did not sound pro-journalist at all to me, quite the opposite, displaying the hypocrisy of reporting the war under a author name.
Pretty much everyone reveals itself to be an asshole at the end, and that's a good summary of any war...

2024-06-26 22:24:40

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Sounds possible with BIP-32. Generate a seed private key and give its xpub to a miner. The miner can computes as many public key as it wants by bruteforcing non-hardened derivation paths, and once it finds one that matches your criteria, it replies with the derivation path. Only you can compute the private key with the seed private key and the derivation path.
Throw away the seed once you're done, don't reuse, otherwise the miner might correlate your npubs.

2024-06-23 09:04:45

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I'm not sure what you mean by "there is no proof". Proving you own the private key that can spend a UTXO without revealing that private key (asymetric cryptography) is also complex math, but pretty much everyone is trusting this math and has likely never tried to do it by hand. That's also a mathematical proof, although the assumption being made that it cannot be faked are vastly different.
Maybe I should have mentioned, "bulletproof" is a proving scheme that comes from academic cryptographers, just like SHA256, ECDSA and Schnorr signatures used by Bitcoin, it's not a Monero-specific protocol, although it's likely its biggest user. It follows the same scrutiny from bright and smart people.
At best we could argue zero knowledge proofs are younger than the other cryptographic primitives I mentioned, and we might want to wait to see if new schemes can offer different speed or proof size. But I believe the fear against them is largely unfounded now.
Anyway, as I said, I'm not a zero-knowledge maximalist, they are a means to an end, and the end is large anonymity sets, make multiple users indistinguishable from one another. Maybe we could manage to reach that end differently. But in our search for solutions, it would be a shame to not take into consideration the track record that some of them already have.

2024-06-22 23:52:27

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Monero supply is auditable. Every time you make a transaction, you have to mathematically prove you have the amount you spent. All you have to do is verify every proofs.
Sure, the maths involved is more complex than a simple summation, but it's still maths at the end of the day. The robustness of bulletproof (the proving scheme used) has been proven mathematically, the likelyhood of crafting fake proofs is metaphorically the same as being able to mine bitcoin blocks without having to do proof of work.
(the metaphor is somewhat accurate, bulletproof literally relies on the robustness of hash functions to be safe)
With that knowledge, let's imagine how an inflation bug would look like. A bug means there's something wrong in the verification process. On bitcoin, the code would not detect an invalid transaction (because it's buggy) but anyone who knows how to sum numbers will spot that something wrong is going on.
On monero, the code would not detect it, but anyone who knows how to verify proofs will spot something wrong is going on. It's pretty much the same.
It's a bit scary because we all know how to sum stuffs (but really there isn't as many people who know how to write code that sums all UTXO), while we don't necessarily know how to verify these proofs, but there are multiple implementation of verifiers, audited and well tested.
If you're not scared of maths, I highly encourrage reading Zero To Monero, it's not that hard and really demystifies the protocol. It's not a magic black box, it's just good old maths.
And finally, I believe there's still plenty of stuffs to improve bitcoin privacy without having to go as far as obfuscating transaction amounts. If we manage to improve anonymity sets, amounts will be obfuscated by being distributed into multiple uncorrelable UTXOs (the uncorrelable is the hard part).

2024-06-17 09:43:07

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Clients might get delisted from app stores for not implementing a back door. I don't think relays are going to be really affected, they're not supposed to implement anything afaik (other than moderate what they host, but that's already expected like any website).
Anyway the law is unenforceable in the open source world. It bares companies to distribute software with good E2E encryption, but good luck running behind every free fork that floats around.

2024-06-16 11:58:12

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I prefer an Internet of small communities than one with a global community. Bring back the bulletin board era, those days where peak social web.

2024-06-07 15:21:41

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If you use the toggles on mempool you can see it's actually consolidations, inscriptions would be in "data"

2024-06-05 15:42:11

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While I'm sure it's in their mind, it doesn't exactly add up. If that's the plan why did he left the company? Why did they fire the entire safety department? They should have been promoted to lobbyist rather than fired.
Someone at OpenAI doesn't want too much regulations too fast it seems

2024-06-03 14:38:21

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The golden cage is a well known metaphor, but the harder part of the discussion is convincing peoples that they're headed into a cage to begin with.
If they never got a wire transfer refused, and have access to savings systems that let them fight inflation, it's harder to see it.

2024-06-03 14:24:20

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I have no relationship with this project other than following it from afar because it mentions nostr, but some communities do build on nostr:
https://github.com/keep-starknet-strange/joyboy

2024-02-21 12:35:25

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"LQWD-Breez"
Well that's not a country like the others, seems they specifically target breez wallet with that one...

2024-02-18 00:45:25

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This. Adblock is a for-profit company that sign deals to not block non-intrusive ads, fuck them.

2024-02-16 00:02:29

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If it was really the EU at fault here Android would do the same and, spoilers, they didn't... It's just classic Apple BS.

2024-02-02 10:31:23

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we no longer have enough fiat to FOMO on bitcoin, we can now FOMO on relay invites

2024-01-20 12:52:37

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Should we have waited for lightning to gain PMF before activating SegWit and fix the malleability issue? But then would lightning had any traction given it wouldn't work?
Or do you consider the high fees of 2017 bullrun enough of a "proof" that SegWit was worth taking risks, even if PMF wasn't yet reached?

2024-01-10 14:36:44

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Is this projection legit? Their launch is so weird, no code, just a vague white paper that doesn't actually explain how zk proofs are verified on L1, if it wasn't testnet I would assume it as a scam...

2024-01-07 23:53:50

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"Five years ago, of all the hate speech that Facebook removed from the platform, about 20 to 25 percent was taken down preemptively by AI systems before anybody saw it. Last year, it was 95 percent."
That's the real threat of AI, global sanitization of speech by a black box algorithm controlled by a handful of individuals...

2024-01-05 13:00:03

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Honestly it's a good strategy to fight against their renaming games. EU legislatiors don't call them self-custodial wallets, but "unhosted" wallets, a slight of hand to prevent them to say that they want to ban self custody, which would reveal too much the invasiveness and authoritarian nature of such law. A word they invented, that no one used before, to shape the thoughts of people. Orwell was a visionary.

2023-12-31 11:03:20

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A zk-rollup where all L2 funds are held in a UTXO encumbered by a covenant that only allow two kind of outputs, either to move all L2 funds to a new state of the rollup with a proof, or to withdraw to an address considered valid thanks to the last state proof and an ownership proof.
Completely trustless, as long as bitcoin L1 doesn't suffer from a 50% attack, at which point the L2 could be frozen by miners censoring new state proofs. But no fund theft possible.
This is what ethereum rollups are trying to achieve (expect they don't have to manipulate UTXOs) but they all keep an admin multi-sig to upgrade their protocol, which is essentially a huge backdoor.
Anyway I'm just dreaming, but would be a Holly Grail. I can only hope we will have something like this in a decade or two, once shitcoins will have explored enough ZK schemes, so we can pick the best one.

2023-12-28 20:59:30

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List some ideas then, sounds like it could be useful for the entire community. For now I can only think paid, patreon-style support and ads to be really sustainable.
I guess we could try a discord-style subscription where you would get some aesthetic difference and premium-locked features, but given nostr is decentralized and open source, these features aren't really locked at all, and the visual "premium" appearance won't show on other clients. It doesn't really work.
The other option would be like the early years of YouTube, a big sugar daddy profitable company that doesn't mind subsidizing nostr. That's arguably what Jack has done in a way, and it won't last.
What else are you thinking?

2023-12-26 17:36:37

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Well it does sound like a lack of programmability expressiveness...
When I make a payment on lightning, I pay a fee, including to relays that don't know the full route or who I am, but they can't claim that fee without fulfilling the service they've been asked for. The HTLCs make the service atomic.
Bitcoin is expressive enough for that contract, but I'm aware it might not be for more complex use cases.
I'm assuming that in order to receive their OXEN, relays have to prove they are providing the service they've been asked - either to the user, or to the network at large. If the verification of that proof could be run on a bitcoin smart contract (which, granted, might not be possible with the current expressiveness of bitcoin scripts) then their is no need for that custom token, the smart contract is the trustless arbitrator of the network.
I think this framing is worth mentioning to bitcoin maxis. Tokens do become useless with enough expressiveness, but we're not there yet.

2023-12-26 17:08:32

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As soon as I read that note, I knew you were talking about HN comments about Flare launch. Didn't found the energy to read more than 5 of them, it was going to ruin my day.

2023-12-26 08:21:33

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And what prevents darkweb relays to be paid in bitcoin rather than a custom token? Lack of programmability?

2023-12-25 14:02:38

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The withdrawal process is so long, I don't see how miners wouldn't see what is going for 6 months while they'd be immediately twitter drama if an invalid withdrawal was being voted on...

2023-12-25 10:06:27

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Cool toy but can I compliment how clean af your grass is? Do you live on a golf course or something?

2023-12-19 15:27:11

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And when they do want privacy, they're still likely to take the path of least resistance, with the least to learn, least risk of fuckups.

2023-12-17 09:09:33

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https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox 👀

2023-12-13 19:12:39

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No, the people are broke and scared, and therefore easily manipulated by media and politicians.
Let's believe in them, show them the truth, make them hope for a brighter future.

2023-12-09 16:04:41

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Yeah, it should be each bitcoiner voting what they believe is spam by configuring their node!
Oh wait, that's what Luke allowed us by patching -datacarrierlimit...

2023-11-30 09:35:42

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It's an opinionated fork of bitcoin core, some additional features included, like the possibility to not relay some transactions (notably ordinals) (I should add that bitcoin core already block some transactions that could theorically be mined btw, so it's really just an extension of the filter).
As an individual, it's your freedom to not relay them, but as a pool, you're possibility missing out juicy fees to your members. To maximize profit, mining pools should accept any transaction, even if they break mempool policy, if the fee is attractive.
Anyway, they said block templates should be proposed by miners at some point, at which point it will be less problematic hopefully.

2023-11-29 17:11:56

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They will implement batching:
"In 2024, we will incorporate a marketplace where miners can sell their unrewarded proof of work (PoW) directly to buyers over Lightning for immediately spendable bitcoins. This saves money for the miner in the form of onchain fees (so much so that they may sell at a discount) and permits third-parties to buy bitcoins in exchange for aggregating the unrewarded PoW into fewer UTXOs."

2023-11-16 16:26:10

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2023-11-03 10:03:27

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How does it justify faking screenshots to manufacture outrage?

2023-10-29 15:40:07

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I've heard this too, but honestly I tried ZEUS and realized Phoenix fees are alright actually... I just wish they had more features like nostr integration.