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I'm learning about Steganography: the practice of concealing information within another message. More specifically, I'm learning about Least Significant Bit Steganography, which changes the color of a pixel in a parent image (in this case a meme) by an indistinguishable amount to communicate the information that is hidden.

Like an an invisible watermark.

Within this meme is a secret QR code that holds 10,000 sats worth of e-cash. The money is in the meme.

E-cash, secret messages, signatures, or even private keys (though I wouldn't recommend it) could be hidden in plain sight within an image.

So instead of sending long text strings like "cashuBo2Ftdmh0dHBzOi8..." you can just pay people in memes, which I think is pretty cool.
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anonymous 1y ago 💬 1

It's also nice for storing information you don't want to unintentionally access, e.g. suspicious file. Yeah, a zip-file works if processes and scanners aren't too nosy, but this is reliable and predictable.

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anonymous 1y ago

18 years ago, I stored a bunch of computer viruses of the time in BMPs. (To clarify because apparently some paranoid, cynical assholes are threatening me again.)