payjoin, silent payments, and orchard

I don't know what fork off means so go fuck yourself and your stupidity.

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Explain how it's a conspiracy..

Who are you working with and what illegal activities are you doing?

If not, then how the hell is it a conspiracy?

The core spammers have lost their minds.

But you can cope harder.

“You’ve lost your mind unfortunately”

It’s the first noise you’ve made for more than 12 months so curious timing.

Again you don’t provide any argument. The moral argument that Matthew sets out is clear and obvious. Take a shot at it.

Haha firstly I don’t have a goatee..

Secondly you obviously feel strongly about it to come out of hibernation after so long specifically to comment on this. But your comment - it’s just a personal attack, with no argument or logic attached. Interesting… 🧐

Obviously a sandbagger account.

You haven’t posted for more than a year and now you come on here specifically to make these comments. Interesting, why did you feel the need to do it?

Cats should be skinned many ways.

Different approaches are better or worse for different contexts. Also, surprising net-new discoveries are made beyond the frontier when you re-solve a problem with a new stack. Sometimes some property of the stack, in connection with the "already solved problem", reveals novel new territory. (Look at "the microblog UX" getting "re-solved" by Nostr)

Same reason you need Nostr when "twitter already exists"

errrrr....

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No Bullshit Daily is coming, expect the launch sometime this week.

Silent Payments are clever: you create a shared secret (ecdh) from a utxo and a public silent payment address. Then you simply add (tweak) this shared secret into this silent address.

The receiver then scans the entire utxo set, looking for any payments to this silent payment address tweaked with the shared secret from all taproot/pubkey inputs.

For onchain zaps, you can skip the scanning process and just send a giftwrap with the txid and the receiver can verify that you sent it and control the utxo just by knowledge of this shared secret.

To generate the shared secret from the sender side, you need the inputs private key multiplied by the silent address pubkey.

On the receiver side, you multiply the silent address secret key by the input’s pubkey.

This gives you the same shared secret which you can use on both sender and receiver side to validate the onchain zap.

The nice thing about leveraging silent payments is that the receiver doesn’t have to use nostr, they could just be using a silent payments wallet to receive the zap.

On the nostr side, all you would need is a silent payment address in your profile. Heck you could even use the users pubkey itself as a key as a less secure silent address fallback if they don’t have one in their profile.

I was asked a while back whether I would be richer if I wasn't Christian. The main implication being that there are so many immoral ways to make money that Christian values prevent. And while I agree that there are ways to make money that are closed off to me, there are also ways to lose money that were closed off, too.

There are a lot of monetary pit traps in the world today. There's all kinds of addictions that can destroy your balance sheet, drugs, sugar, power, games, etc. Christians exercise self-denial muscles through God's grace. So in that sense, I think I've been saved from the many ways in which I could have lost my stack.

To hold is hard. And it requires a lot of self-denial. If you want to hold, Christianity is a sort of super-power.

Been managing mints more on my ecash apps lately. At first, I assumed it wouldn't be so common, but the more I hop between apps and mints the more I see how key it is. Thinking about suggesting designs that put mint lists and swaps in a more prominent moving forward.

Nostr already has a gravitational field around it.

It’s insane since it’s so early, but it is already happening.

I wish nostr relays were Cashu mints as well and would use it as a way to monetize. Deposit sats and treat it as a donation to the relay, use the ecash to transact on nostr, withdraw with a high fee from the mint and the fees go to the relay.

So Bluesky has launched its "federation" today.

proof of work is not useful for anything except bitcoin

anyone wanna give me a counterargument?