It's incredible how weak and selfish Trump actually is.

There's zero reason to negotiate anything with Iran. Israel has overwhelming firepower superiority over Iran – all Iran can do is hit Israeli civilian targets at random. Bomb them until they are forced to unconditionally surrender, or there just isn't a government left to surrender in the first place.

I think what's really going on is Trump is pissed off that Israel was getting all the credit for a brilliant, overwhelming, military success. So he forced a ceasefire and negotiations to give himself a role. There's a high chance this leads to the death of millions of Israeli's through Iran successfully rebuilding their nuclear program. But Trump will probably be dead by then.

Finally, give Israel the $6 billion in frozen funds to pay for rebuilding Israeli property destroyed by Iranian missiles. Zero reason to give Iran a penny. Heck, Israel hasn't even destroyed their oil and gas industry: they've still got plenty of revenue. Why do they need yet more billions?

Ukraine would be a much better use of aid money.

Yesterday we were playing around with ideas at nostr:npub1s0veng2gvfwr62acrxhnqexq76sj6ldg3a5t935jy8e6w3shr5vsnwrmq5 , we needed something to preserve anonymity for blossom users that communicate with DVMs.

📢 Introducing Onion-routing for event publishing

This introduces insane privacy guarantees, someone can publish an event and not even the relay they are publishing from can now it's them, nor their IP address.

Technically this works very similar to Lightning, the sender constructs a route of pubkeys and can bounce around the message through pubkeys willing to route for them.

The sender can include small ecash tokens inside each onion layer to pay for the routing.

No hop in the route until the last one knows what they are routing, who its coming from and the sender very explicitly defines through which relays it should hop.

(for the sake of debugging, I built a traceroute-like view, so the sender can see the event being bounced around the different relays; in real conditions a sender wouldn't use that to preserve privacy)

Think of this like tor, just faster.

In the real world it's stupid to do nothing while your neighbor – who has said they are going to murder you for decades, repeatedly funds violence against you, and recently launched the biggest missile attack in human history against you – enriches uranium to as high as 80% in an obvious attempt to build nuclear weapons to murder you with.

Libertarians are dumb enough about geopolitics and war to be practically suicidal.

Wow! Read this. This fatwa on Bitcoin is legit

They acknowledge that Bitcoin is separate from the rest of crypto, and more importantly, they mention the problem of interest in fiat money, and how Bitcoin seeks to address that problem.

This is a huge win!