I don't really like Trump, but some libertarians are crazy retarded losers that I like far less than him.

✅ Libertarian principles & non-aggression

❌ a lot of people who call themselves libertarian

Brainwashed fucking sheep. Libertardians.

#FreeRoss #VoteTrump2024

What’s the best thing you purchased using Lightning this month?

Gm ☀️ ☕️

Hard to believe the scam of the century is being institutionalized.

If the only solution for Bitcoiners to have private payments is custodians (be it e-cash, Fedimints, etc. as is all the rage) then Bitcoin will simply be dead for me. Feels like the ultimate cop-out.

Custody is the line in the sand that cannot be crossed. Custody not only opens up immense risk for loss of funds, it also makes these tools far less resilient to adversarial environments.

Can "they" stop every Bitcoiner from keeping 12 words safe? No.

Can "they" stop a few popular mints from operating? Absolutely.

It should also be possible to use bitcoin without paying fees

Does ecash solve this? I feel like it might

Send 500k sats in phoenix 2000 sats, in Liquid 128 sats.

A great success yes.

The other day I wanted to gift someone some sats (not much, about 100,000)

How would you do it if you wanted them to have the bitcoin in a few years' time?

Unpopular opinion

I am a user of Lightning, Bitcoin onchain and Liquid.

The routing fees on Ligtning are in some cases becoming horrible, especially on certain LSPs.

Lightning is fine to pay 100 sats, but to pay 100000 sats it already becomes much cheaper Liquid in many cases.

Fuck and it's so easy to use Liquid, no worries about channels, no worries about channel backups, no worries about incoming liquidity. Yes, it is federated and fedimint too, you have to accept certain tradeoffs.

I love Liquid network, I think it is tremendously undervalued.

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States can remain tyrannical longer than you can remain free.

Unless…

NIP-104 is the new NIP I'm proposing to do the OTR like double ratchet.

Yes. But there are varying levels of encryption and metadata protection.

NIP-04 encrypts the content in a fairly naive way and does nothing to hide metadata.

NIP-44 encrypts the content in a much more robust way but does nothing to hide metadata.

NIP-59 is about "gift-wrapping" events, which uses nip-44 encryption but also hides metadata by nesting the real events in other events.

NIP-17 combines NIP-44 and NIP-59 to get encrypted DMs that hide most metadata but don't give you any forward or post-compromise secrecy (meaning, if you lose your keys, the attacker can decrypt all your past and future messages).

NIP-104 (double ratchet) Uses a format very similar to NIP-17 but a completely different encryption scheme that uses two independent key derivation functions (ratchets) to generate encryption keys and give forward and post-compromise secrecy.

TBH, you can use any of them based on your use case. I think we've been building towards double ratchet for a while though. You also hear the double-ratchet scheme referred to as E2EE (end-to-end encrypted).

We won’t condemn the ACINQ/Phoenix folks for leaving the US market. Yes, it’s disappointing, but we understand the position. We as US citizens need to fight the regulatory battle on our own grounds.

What we will condemn them for is building a closed garden product akin to something that will come out of Silicon Valley, with no ability to switch LSPs in app or open your own channels.

We’re building something with the complete opposite dynamics over at ZEUS, and we welcome all the exiled Phoenix users from the US with open arms.

Welcome. Things are different here.

turns out bitcoiners are super sensitive and reactive

Just paid the nanny from my CLN node and she received euros.

Pretty wild