What’s a Bitcoin project you’ve funded (or would love to fund) that deserves more attention?

Shout them out 👇

When does a shitcoin stop being a shitcoin?

After it survives 2 bear markets and still has users?

When it stays in the top 20 for longer than 10 years?

When it does what it says it does, delivers exciting new features and is different enough from Bitcoin?

When it gets its own annual conference and people actually buy tickets to see it?

Because I'm not retarded

Lots of privacy black pills flying about. Please share some privacy white pills for balance👇

I honestly have no idea which wallets have support for it

I'm not familiar with silent payments and which wallets can be used.

The newly-elected Romanian government is currently considering to ban cash payments 😂

“in order to eliminate tax evasion”

But in reality, these motherfuckers are owned by the banks & hate everyone’s freedom.

Wouldn’t be surprised if they launch a CBDC in a couple of years!

I noted down over a dozen topics that I wanted to write articles about. Then I realized this would result in anecdotal ranting unless I compiled data to prove my points.

So I'll just slowly dump a summary of these "hot takes" on Nostr instead:

Very few people can go from "I have no idea how to do this" to shipping it out.

Picture you saying: I want to buy a Nuclear reactor. You know nothing about building it, but you can go learn, fundraise, hire a bunch of people, go through all kinds of regulations and red tape and deliver one. It will take forever. But people (very very few) do this all the time. It requires a very specific mind to even consider building unknown things like that. But it can be done.

I noted down over a dozen topics that I wanted to write articles about. Then I realized this would result in anecdotal ranting unless I compiled data to prove my points.

So I'll just slowly dump a summary of these "hot takes" on Nostr instead:

People are often more worried about how it affects demographics; if e.g. half the population is above 60 or whatever.

I noted down over a dozen topics that I wanted to write articles about. Then I realized this would result in anecdotal ranting unless I compiled data to prove my points.

So I'll just slowly dump a summary of these "hot takes" on Nostr instead:

Truths about coinjoins:

- Wabisabi has a superior architecture to Whirpool.

- Including change in the coinjoin as in Wasabi 1.0 is in any case an advantage, not a disadvantage. If you don't understand this, it's simply because you don't understand the math.

- There is no such thing as isolated change in Whirpool; changes are traceable.

- With Wabisabi, you can forget about change problems and Postmix tools.

- Wabisabi is not free as they sell it to you; the coordinator continues to make money from decomposition.

- Wabisabi does manage Tor circuits well; I checked the code myself (Nothingmuch says no, and I have to trust him because he knows much more than I do).

- Whirpool does not manage Tor circuits well, and the coordinator can find out who is on each side of the mix (I have not reviewed the Ashigaru code that they say has mitigated this, proving me right, which I was denied at the time).

- Whirpool and Wabisabi are vulnerable to tagging attacks.

- In Whirpool and Wasabi, you have to trust the coordinator; you don't know if they are really executing the published code.

- Joinmarket is complex for someone who doesn't know what they are doing, but it can mitigate the problems described above.

- Joinstr, in my opinion, is the most promising; it mitigates most of the problems described in centralized coordinators and is easy to use.

I think the community should throw its weight behind supporting #Joinstr

Daily reminder that you can only live three days without water. You should stockpile enough water to last you (and your family) a whole month, atleast. #prepping

What would happen if any, even a tiny amount of Sats, of Satoshi’s 100 million #bitcoin got moved to another address? Would that address/individual ever be able to remain anonymous?