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Instead of yelling at our users to be better, we again did something radical: We made our wallet better instead
Login on a DeSo app like , and you will see "Login with Google"
This still uses a seed phrase, but backs it up securely to your Google Drive
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Wasabi Wallet is a coal torpedo in the armoury of a Bitcoiner.
It's done more damage to the value proposition of Bitcoin than any other wallet.
It remains an unmitigated disaster.
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If you haven't tried buying and selling BTC for cash directly in person yet, you should.
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A statist core dev with an affinity for blacklists, sees transactions he doesn't like as "spam", gatekept BIPs, begs for donations whilst sitting on a stack, spews fundamentalist vitriol, has attacked BTC privacy and UX improvements then gets rekt and some of you are sympathetic?
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On this timeline, I could see myself being forced to use dark net markets to purchase vacuum sealed organic rib-eyes in the not too distant future.
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@gegelsmr4
@JoeNakamoto
Was she an ex wife before or after the Venezuelan lady incident?
Can’t believe even his cutlery was taken. Seems egregious. A man gotta eat.
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2021 has seen some incredible development in the desktop Bitcoin wallet space. Nothing comes close to
@SparrowWallet
.
No trusted “sidechain” nonsense, a focus on entropy in transaction construction, built on open source standards with a clean, informative user interface.
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Bitcoin is a software program. It is fallible.
It isn’t a chemical element or a mathematical axiom.
This is a highly misleading viewpoint to espouse.
#Bitcoin
was discovered, not created.
When you understand this, your view of the multi-verse changes completely
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Bless
@Jimmysong
who a while ago was very grateful that a PDF he wanted in the Blockchain could be stored there (and was looking at ways to do this with other PDFs!) but now thinks you are attacking Bitcoin if you do the same.
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Just got the below sent to me by my girlfriend in all it's uncropped glory.
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If you market BTC as “ngu tech”, tell them “it’s still early” and “there’s not enough to go round for everyone”, of course they’ll anxiously put it in a yield platform as they’re literally FOMOing.
If you describe BTC as freedom tech, users won’t want to encumber w/ 3rd parties.
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If money moves like email, it’ll be surveilled, censored and you’ll be dependent on a third party for your identity.
For me, still, one of the most magic things about BTC is that it’s possible to receive and send value using public key cryptography that requires no permission.
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Don’t let anyone shame you from making a Bitcoin transaction.
If your transaction is worth you paying the mining fee, it’s not spam.
A “push” tx on a blockchain is fundamentally different to going through channels and comes with significant privacy and censorship trade offs.
Doing anything but
#lightningnetwork
payments to transfer
#Bitcoin
in consumer facing payment applications is on the long term a disservice to the consumer AND the
#Bitcoin
network.
Why would one spam the
#Bitcoin
blockchain with small size payments for day to day activities?
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@mohamedmansour
@troyhunt
@coinbase
@haveibeenpwned
@brian_armstrong
Stop asking permission to use Bitcoin. Just set up an actual wallet rather than a bank account that is Bitcoin denominated.
Sparrow Wallet would enable someone to receive donations without address re-use too and no need to run a server.
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@TokenHash
@NickSzabo4
“there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours”
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I don't even know why BIP119 is even a thing being discussed for soft forking into BTC.
Implementing common input signature aggregation and confidential transactions should be less controversial, more conservative and aligned to the purpose of BTC - a censorship resistant ecash.
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Some Bitcoin projects have compromised in the last two years and just gone for custodial money grabs.
There aren't many that have gone via the difficult (but correct) route and stayed close to their principles.
Our interest has never been blind maximalisim. Our interest is identifying & solving problems for bitcoin users who want to interact privately on the public blockchain with tools that work TODAY.
We believe Haveno-DEX has the potential to solve problems for Bitcoin users.
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Easy to blame Binance for this but you have to expect it in meatspace when you’re dealing with exchanges on fiat rails. Wasabi address re-use makes for easy identification and tracking. It is not fit for use in an adversarial environment. Listen to the shilling at your peril.
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BTC/XMR atomic swaps being built into excellent and innovative wallets are where the real changes are happening.
The innovation in applications built for users _using_ Bitcoin is where the real dissent happens. It’s not the protocol anymore. Direct your attention accordingly.
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I wonder when Tor will be usable again. Can't remember a time I've tried to use it and not forgotten what I was originally trying to do by the time I got any kind of a result from it.
FML.
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Thought provoking sentiment from
@craigraw
.
Well worth listening to. Respectful, articulate and reasonable challenges to the current status quo.
At what cost to Bitcoin are the current pursuits towards shared UTXO ownership, custody and federated models?
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@Excellion
@Liquid_BTC
We shouldn’t oppose “CBDCs” but we should try to get a country to adopt good ones before the bad ones arrive.
A Bank of America coin on Liquid is long overdue.
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@dergigi
Address should be invoice, UTXO should be paid invoices, coins shouldn't be mentioned, wallets should be keychains, mining should be validation, recording, etching or appending. Transactions should be called contracts.
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This site is garbage. Avoid Yeti.
Avoid interacting with
@JWWeatherman_
and
@RobertSpigler
Apex larp.
The 1.0 of is finally out!
Thanks to
@bjdweck
@zachherbert
@GaryLeland
@thibm_
@martindale
@SomsenRuben
@sanket1729
@TheCryptoconomy
@AaronvanW
for providing their reviews and to my 14 year old daughter for doing all of the design and coding.
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Earned BTC for the first time today. Thanks for the support
@privacyhalt
, the inspiration
@Ragnarly
, the website advice
@TotalBuzzKit
and for the tools
@SamouraiWallet
and
@SamouraiDev
.
Big thanks to
@_copperj
- looking forward to taking this further. Will do a soft launch soon!
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If your reaction to AOPP is to vilify message signing generally for Bitcoin addresses, you’ve completely lost the plot.
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BTC/XMR ⚛️🔄 with 🌀 are a game changer
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Ruining bitcoin
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If you give them a hand they’ll take an arm.
Incorporate a blacklist? They’ll soon require a whitelist.
Why even have this as a smart contract on a “decentralised” chain if you implement human decision making to this degree?
Tornado Cash uses
@chainalysis
oracle contract to block OFAC sanctioned addresses from accessing the dapp.
Maintaining financial privacy is essential to preserving our freedom, however, it should not come at the cost of non-compliance.
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@jimmysong
You don’t know what Monero is nor what Chaumian e-cash is.
Embarrassing
1/ I have thoroughly been enjoying WBD lately, but the
#Monero
mentions here are absolutely not based in reality.
That is on
@jimmysong
and not on
@PeterMcCormack
, Jimmy misuses his authority in the space and is either intentionally misleading or woefully lacking technicals.
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I did a couple of
#Stowaway
transactions today with
@btcblackcab
using the new
#Cahoots
UI in Samourai. Screenshots of QR codes were sent over Telegram. The payjoins were created, coordinated and broadcast in under 5 minutes with someone halfway round the world.
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Seamless purchase with
@Azteco_
today. Very pleased to see this in action after
@Beautyon_
gave me a sneak peak back in 2016. Feature request: please recommend
@SamouraiWallet
for your android users in the receipt! Thank you!
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Closed source heuristics used to imprison Sterlingov:
“There is no evidence anywhere that Mr. Sterlingov operated Bitcoin Fog,” including no eyewitness accounts or server logs, his defense lawyer,
@TorEkelandPLLC
, told jurors during closing statements.”
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Bitcoin isn’t KYC’d. Users are.
Buying P2P can be private but is almost impossible to do “anonymously”. This does not make it pointless.
Anyone that confuses “KYC” with privacy and anonymity is not just misinformed - they’re larping.
Reject this dishonest framing.
Furthermore, most Bitcoin is already KYC’d at some point. Even freshly mined coins. There are so many ways to leak your privacy that even skilled Bitcoin users will make mistakes on. You don’t need to be buying 100% non-KYC corn
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You can also be self sovereign if you control a Monero TXO.
That aspect isn’t even entertained in the maxi mindset.
So far, blockchains have scaled horizontally, not vertically.
I’ve also yet to see an L2 worth using vs an alternative L1.
For a year I have been asking the smartest people I can find “if you don’t control a UTXO can you be self-sovereign?”
I haven’t yet found a solid answer.
If the answer is no, you can’t, then fine, admit that. Admit that the goal is 21m and we have the UTXO elites and the…
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If you enter discourse with this woman, you are making yourself dumber.
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TDev has the essence here of what I spoke to Gabriel about.
Second half of the podcast is a response to some of the narratives that are starting to take root and need to be nipped in the bud.
Some thoughts:
Core vs real users (Core doesn't use bitcoin day-to-day so why listen to them. Incel, what about those half-ass sigs ?), Covenants/CTV ("scaling" is a red herring), atomic-swaps (nice route around, more please), mempool fee rates (think satoshis, not USD).
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I’m actually fine just using my secure messengers as they are and simply sharing a PayNym or Monero stealth address.
Wild, I know.
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A couple of things that strike me about this Binance delisting of XMR
1) XMR users stating they “always wanted this” or “have been waiting years”.
lol, no you weren’t. The Samourai team and users wanted this for BTC and only after you were schooled, you adopted this 🤣
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I first bought Bitcoin in 2015. I wasn’t interested in recreational pharmaceuticals, I didn’t gamble and trading it seemed pointless as I didn’t have an asymmetric advantage. My first “spend” therefore ended up being a small donation to a charity.
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Whatever the price, you can be sure you'll find some camaraderie, support, humour and zero tolerance for self pity or entitlement in the
@SamouraiWallet
and
@SparrowWallet
Telegram chats.
Staffed by the most highly qualified admins who've not read a manual but made it work 💪
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@SamouraiWallet
Should go without saying but there’s a lot of folk I know that would have given up on BTC (myself included) if it wasn’t for the foundational privacy and sovereignty work you’ve put in at the application level. Thanks so much to the team. 🍻
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@udiWertheimer
I genuinely think he’s the worst of all the influencer types. Insufferable, huge ego and his following have been a cultural rot in the space.
I was blocked by him years ago for simply liking a tweet of him in a Karbonbased meme. So fragile lmao
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Braindead take. Ultimately, someone has to use the tools.
An attack on developers building the best software in the space is not “good for Bitcoin”.
Peer to peer coinjoins and atomic swaps are still possible using the apps. It was not entirely centralised by a long shot.
@TheVladCostea
Incorrect. This was always obvious and inevitable. They *will* come for any system that has a trusted third party as a potential attack vector.
This is good for Bitcoin privacy. The sooner centralized privacy solutions get flushed out, the better.
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"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online
payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution"
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@DanielJHannan
Actually the US DoD invented the internet. A brit invented the World Wide Web.
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Zerolink or bust.
Joinmarket lol
All the nonsense out in force today.
If you’ve been in this space long enough, you should have enough post mix to keep going until options become available again.
Centralized mixers are likely doomed to be attacked by nation states.
But there's always
@joinmarket
!
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Interesting to see the number of so called bitcoiners taking pleasure at the plight of an individual who maintained an open source project critical to those who require transactional privacy...
*who's not even been convicted of a crime*
NgU obsessives and statist scum.
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“ESG mandates currently prevent some institutions from embracing bitcoin, and uncertainty in the matter blocks others—individuals and institutions alike—from entry”
Feature, not a bug.
@jfnewbery
@hasufl
@thetrocro
Thanks, John. If you’re curious for details,
@hasufl
, check out our whitepaper here:
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@ODELL
1. Coldcard was forked from Trezor
2. Foundation was forked from Coldcard
3. Coldcard license changed afterwards as a reaction to being forked and Coinkite staff still try to create ambiguity around what software can be classified as open source vs source available to this day.
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Unashamedly love the design on these cheap Japanese lighters at the convenience store
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Got blocked for this 🤠
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Good advice although I’d highlight from my own experience:
Selling a portion of your own stack to own a physical asset like a property, land or invest in a business is definitely worth it. It’s especially worth doing if Bitcoin is a large percentage of your net worth.
For all those "planning" on selling a significant portion of your stack at the top of this
#bitcoin
cycle to buy back lower in the subsequent bear market, here's some things to bear in mind:
1. Your technical analysis is unreliable
If there's one thing bitcoin is consistent…
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While most of Bitcoin Twitter is interested in some spot trades by some corporates and virtue signalling with emojis on an incremental protocol upgrade, the most fundamental test of Bitcoin is about to occur.
This’ll be a turning point for the way BTC is treated by authorities.
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Calling people spooks on Bitcoin Twitter achieves nothing. It doesn't help your argument. For many onlookers, you'll just look paranoid.
Just criticise the argument itself. If someone is a statist then their language, ethical and moral reasoning reveals them quickly enough.
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Transactional privacy will be increasingly vital for protecting yourself from theft from those that envy your wealth.
This old news getting regurgitated again by academia
Are the English elite hiding their
#wealth
?
Analysing historical big data from a hundred years of probate records, Prof Neil Cummins from
@LSEEcHist
tracks the wealth of dynasties in
#England
, revealing discrepancies between their predicted and actual wealth.
#research
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😑
So this is the USA's "then they fight you" stage? Shutter a few banks, send the SEC into a multi year court battle with Coinbase?
Pretty weak so far. Where are the attempted bans on self custody or 6102-style executive orders? Might not be possible in such a divided government.
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Interesting that all the folk that are complaining about Ordinals still won’t bring up the possibility of doing a hard fork with Confidential Transactions
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I get called a hater sometimes but, in Bitcoin nowadays, in order I generally…
… dislike
Influencers and thots
“Economists”
Protocol devs
Tinkerers
… like
Dissidents
Application devs such as wallet, DEX builders
Merchants and traders
Hackers
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If core devs had focused on building in enhancements like confidential transactions rather than scripting, the protocol would have been more “cash like” than “financial instrument” like.
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I love retweeting the unpopular stuff that gets hardly any engagement
If you're the type that needs daily inspiration to feel better about life you're NGMI
You don't have to panic about the below post but keep it in the back of your mind.
Your threat model can change quickly.
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JoinMarket shilling and Wasabi excuses off the charts today.
Why? It’s PR to distract from today’s news of atomic swaps with Monero on mainnet and a strong indication that Chain analysis companies have made inroads against coinjoins that aren’t 100% entropy.
Take note of them.
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I’ve been critical of some of the ways that liquid has been advertised but this use case has a lot of potential. With BTC volatility the way it is, I could see money changers selling Tether for cash and then people switching from Tether into BTC as and when they are ready.
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Unfortunate statement. A coinjoin is not a “political act” any more than a Bitcoin batch transaction is.
The only thing political is anyone trying to convince you that it’s somehow odd to _not_ want to have all your transactions on a public ledger deterministically linked.
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Only in Bitcoin have I seen such an obsession with the price of an asset yet a complete misunderstanding of how the prices are made that signal the very price people are referencing.
Like it or loathe it, the order books on exchanges are the primary price discovery mechanism.
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The last 18 months have completely validated the opinion I had before that this is a complete waste of time.
Votes and political donations are for statists.
Build, test, teach the use of software tools that give you freedom. Offer ethical services and pay for them.
Opt out.
8/ It IS still possible to influence the course of events by lobbying and pressuring politicians and making them aware there is a political cost to attempting to attack
#Bitcoin
. Tell them they will lose your vote, your political donations and your support. They will hear that.
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Peter with another statist take lmao
It is quite misleading to describe Android as a central point of failure.
The nature of the Android Open Source Project has from the beginning revolved around a flagship phone that the OS (before Google Play Services are added) runs on
Android is becoming a central point of failure for mobile wallets.
Apple does not provide any realistic way of installing apps other than the app store. Android currently does. But they can take that away too.
The only realistic solution here is legislation.
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This kind of messaging is disingenuous and most unfair.
It’s been possible to support Ordinals on Bitcoin and therefore any wallet with coin control.
Terrence works for an exchange adjacent KYC outfit that relies on marketing to push the “brand”.
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Seeing a lot of over confident amusement at the first moves of an ESG movement against Bitcoin.
This is often from folk that appear to have not been through UASF / S2X yet are very confident about Bitcoin's resilience based largely on second hand storytelling.
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Incredible to see a very complex process distilled into a stable, intuitive UI on mobile. Direct apk download from a Gitlab on
@GrapheneOS
.
#RunningMobileWhirlpool
Mixing w̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶b̶e̶ is mobile. It's happening.
#SamouraiWallet
#Whirlpool
on Android: MainNet mixing now open.🌀📱
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Goodness gracious me.
It seems some folk are going to learn some painful lessons.
Bitcoin[.]org has been a hostile site for some time but it’s pretty clear now that whoever is maintaining this has complete contempt for on chain privacy.
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BitTorrent fixes this.
'Gone With the Wind,' the Civil War epic considered a classic of American cinema, has been pulled from HBO Max
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@orionwl
@_k3tan
@_jonasschnelli_
It is not my place to ask you to continue to do this job as I don't contribute but if you decided to leave the role as maintainer due to a fuss about very little such as this, it would encourage those who want to attack it to do more of the same behaviour.
Thanks for your work.
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Swapping one set of privacy issues for another, different set of privacy issues that a user won’t comprehend.
This wallet is an absolute liability since introducing Lightning.
Worried about toxic change? Electrum 4.5 can send the change of your transaction to your lightning channels, through a submarine swap
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For me it is:
PayPal 2.0 (BCH and LN enthusiasts)
Gold 2.0 (NgU, "Savings tech", Custody apologists)
Financial Instrument 2.0 (Want covenants, BTC DeFi, tokenisation)
eCash 2.0 (Concern over fungibility, privacy, censorship resistance)
I think it's more reasonable to characterise roughly four competing cultures on bitcoin:
1. Ossificationists: Literally want to end all protocol development outside of critical maintenance.
2. Conservatives: Monetary maximalists that prioritise protocol integrity and network…
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@econoar
My bitcoin transactions remain immutable and censorship resistant no matter what people say on social media. The same cannot be said of Ethereum.
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Swiss banking capitulated under US Gov pressure. The reality is that if you want e2e encrypted communication you, and the person you are communicating with, need to manage your own keys. Like Bitcoin, there is no reason to think this will achieve mass adoption in the near future.
ProtonMail is Swiss. There is no way they will capitulate to US/UK and their apps can spread to as many people as WhatsApp did, if they would stop taking polls about the name of their app. They're funded by the EU also to the tune of 2 million Euros.
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Bitcoin privacy is rightly criticised but Ethereum account model chains and DeFi activity is absolutely appalling.
Balance sheets, cash flows and liquidation prices effectively exposed for all to see.
Traditional Hedge fund analysts would normally have to dig for this info.
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It's 2022 and there are Bitcoiners that think you can run a "community bank" without doing KYC and/or knowing where the deposits come from and the spends go to.
How did they get this removed from the reality of transacting? When did L2 mean you could abandon all L1 principles?
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Very weird how there are congratulations in order from some Bitcoin users for software libraries and / or proposals being “awarded” a BIP number.
This process was never intended to be any form of “blessing” or indicative of any “status”.
This behaviour is subtle yet corrupt.
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If you look at pretty much every article posted about the Taproot upgrade, it promised
- increased transaction privacy
- lower fees
- multisig adoption
- network scalability
The complete opposite occurred on the blockchain since
🙃
Taproot has been active for two years and four months.
• 23.2% of all UTXOs are P2TR
• 30% of last week’s outputs were P2TR
• 38.5% of last week’s txs had at least one P2TR input
• 0.3% of all bitcoins are held in P2TR outputs
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I will continue to call a coinjoin a collaborative transaction. Why? Because it is.
The whole point of a coinjoin is to undermine the common input ownership heuristic.
It’s a crucial part of adding ambiguity to transactions on chain.
Can we please stop calling using "collaborative
#bitcoin
transaction" as a synonym for a CoinJoin?
It's incomplete & sounds lame.
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A lot to think about with this article.
BTC adoption grows organically. Top down almost never works.
If you want Bitcoin to propagate, think less about how much you need to procure and more about what services you can offer for it. Demand will follow.
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Imagine larping about a carnivore diet whilst being morbidly obese
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@akkaufman
No address re-use in mix, supports zero link coinjoins with change isolated in a different account, peer to peer coinjoins and PayNyms.
Use Samourai and Sparrow.
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I had my first pull request merged today for . Starting small! Added some detail for derivation paths for
@CoinomiWallet
. Appreciate the efforts of
@nvk
and
@J9Roem
to pull together some useful information that has been in a lot of disparate places.
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@stephanlivera
@SamouraiDev
The saddest irony in Bitcoin privacy ever is that there’ll be a folk using coinjoin fees to directly fund chain analysis companies which have caused so much harm in the space
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