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corndalorian

Gm ☕️☀️

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Nyoro~n 1y ago

GM 🥳

Non-stop laughing all the way to the gulag

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jack

yes we need more governments creating social media platforms

Nyoro~n 1y ago

typical blue check nonsense 🤭

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HODL

Krugman be like “mUh DeMoCraCy”

Once a retard always a retard.

Nyoro~n 1y ago

I wonder if he faxed this anywhere🤔

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Lyn Alden

Today I was listening to one of my favorite macro podcasts talk about the Fed's meeting from yesterday. One of the best interviewers in the space, and one of his top interviewees.

And I couldn't finish it. So boring.

They were literally noting the tiniest details. The Fed's prepared statement didn't mention a rate cut in September. And then Fed chairman Powell's prepared press talk also didn't mention it. However, when asked about a September rate cut, he flipped to a page where he had a prepared statement indicating that yeah they're kind of leaning toward a September rate cut, and read it.

So they were like, "Huh! I wonder what the significance of that is. He had a prepared written statement about September, but only when asked!"

People literally judge the Fed chair's body language, facial movements, details like whether he has a prepared statement for a given question, etc. Omg.

For my work I need to note the basics of what the Fed said and all that, like the 3-minute summary of all that stuff. But the sheer excitement that these people had when discussing details like that for an hour was so banal. It seemed like satire.

Zoom out.

Nyoro~n 1y ago

...like waiting for white smoke at the vatican

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kidwarp

Remember bitcoiners we could already have MimbleWimble.

But we don’t.

Why is that?

Think about it. Really think about it.

Why haven’t any devs done this?

Nyoro~n 1y ago

🤷 doesn't feel that long ago. It's not on Bitcoin because it cant be done through a soft fork. The chains that use it either issue a separate token or use "extension blocks" (parallel chain) -- far removed from Bitcoin

First thing that comes to mind:

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Saberhagen The Nameless

First you say the advantages of Bitcoin are because it's so simple to understand the math for users...

Now you're wanting me to go in circles with you explaining the intricacies of ed22519 VS secp256k1 as if most users would understand the cryptography underlying Bitcoin and not just trust the few people who understand it to tell them it's ok.

LOL

Choose an argument bro

I was talking about general protocols when referring to 70s-90s not specific curves or hash functions.

It's fair and factually true to say that Moneros chosen curve and hash function is newer and not as battle-tested.

They both have their pros and cons. i.e. SHA-2 security is less "future proof" and more likely to be compromised before SHA-3, less versatile, less efficient, etc

Red flags like Bitcoins chosen curve and hash function having heavy involvement from the NSA? 🚩🚩🚩

But that would be stupid of me to say that automatically means anything by itself. The same way the age of a curve or hash function doesn't automatically mean anything by itself.

What is your response to the node runner issues I brought up? Being able to do something, but never doing it, is functionally the same as not being able to do it.

Payjoin is obfuscation. Obfuscation is weaker privacy than encryption. You seem too intelligent to accidentally leave that out.

I never contested that Bitcoin isn't ticking along. Monero is ticking along too. Why is that relevant?

RandomX has different advantages over ASICs and vice versa. Accessibility, ubiquity, plausible deniability (i.e. energy draw, noise, heat, everyone knows what you're doing/going to do with that ASIC miner you bought, etc)

PS: True, fair enough 👍

Again, Bitcoins advantages DO NOT extend into white markets. If you're going to ask permission to transact and follow the rules (thats what i means to operate on white markets) you might as well use fiat for that. Bitcoin is just a slower, less accepted, expensive (in tx fees and tax liabilities), less private version of fiat in that scenario. Worse in every way.

Normies will always outnumber ideological anything by definition...

Nyoro~n 1y ago

I'm not making an argument when asking you to compare signature schemes (you brought up something irrelevant and I clarified for you that it would go nowhere, you're welcome). I was being helpful to help you get your terminology straight.

People who don't run nodes cant be 100% sure the Bitcoin they hold is real or have the unencumbered ability to broadcast transactions to the rest of the network. People who don't run nodes aren't actually using Bitcoin to its fullest extent, even if they hold their own keys. It's not ideology, it's just the way things are, a necessity. No permission necessary. It's a learning process everyone goes through, and not going anywhere.

Payjoin is not privacy by obfuscation, obfuscation would be sending Bitcoin in random amounts over and over again to yourself as privacy measure (this doesn't work because of input heuristics). Payjoin is a protocol to construct bitcoin transactions.

Payjoin allows users to break input heuristics by allowing users to coordinate how to use inputs from multiple parties in transactions, securely. (I brought it up because it uses the similar ECDH signature schemes "from the 70s-90s" you listed). Does it solve "privacy"? of course not (theres other heuristics), but it's an incremental improvement addressing a need; another option to construct transactions which wasn't available before.

Privacy means a lot of things. What I think you possibly are trying to get at is the transparency of all transction that happen on Bitcoin being out in the open makes for bad privacy. That's just the nature of the design and has little to do with signature schemes or hashing algorithms. Privacy isn't a feature of the base layer (utxos), and the idea is to build privacy tools in protocols using the existing utxo set instead of going out and build a whole new token. Amounts of all utxos are out in the open in order for anyone to independently validate that supply and issuance schedule are being followed and not being changed without anyone knowing.

Personally "Use this token if you want privacy" doesn't make sense to me. Cryptonote tokens don't have the same assurances.

Speaking of obfuscation, perhaps that applies to RandomX alongside countless other memory intensive PoW schemes. The claims you made that those PoW schemes have advantages in accessibility, ubiquity, plausible deniability (strange selection btw) and declaring those schemes as means to control energy draw, noise, or heat is nonsense. Those schemes exist to obfuscate energy use -- adding unnecessary complexity to a transparent process.

PoW is about energy placing a physical constraint on changing something in the digital space. Being able to channel as much energy as efficiently as possible is exactly how people came to iterating ASICs, and if you are at all worried that the developments in that space could "break" Bitcoin, its already been solved for you with the difficulty adjustment. (the only thing as scarce as block space on this planet, is wafer space)

Almost any device can be used to construct SHA256 hashes (you can even do it with pen and paper), ubiquitous and accessible which is why hashing can be performed anywhere by anyone -- starting with a humble single CPU. It's an even playing field. There's really nothing stopping you from buying top-of-the-line chips on your own and assembling your own device to fit your power envelope or trying your luck on your laptop. Someone recently found a block solo-mining with a BitAxe using like 5 BM1366 chips (~80 Watts of mining power) -- for reference an S21pro has 432 chips (3500 Watts).

I suppose there's not much point comparing Bitcoin and what remains of cryptonote tokens. I will admit I don't have the mental bandwidth to keep track of anything outside of Bitcoin. It may seem like your token is still ticking along, but it doesn't to me.

Happy to be proven wrong, don't let me stop you from holding more tokens

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tanel

gm

Nyoro~n 1y ago

Oh no, who is eating the steak 🫣

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Saberhagen The Nameless

There's nothing "over the top" about Moneros tech. It's based on cryptography from 70s-90s (Diffie–Hellman key exchanges and commitment schemes)

The venn diagram of "mathematicians and privacy advocates" AKA cryptographers

There's at least tens of millions of Bitcoin users. ~20,000-50,000 Bitcoin nodes. A fraction of that previous fraction are more than simpler node runners who actually pay attention to whats going on. Vast majority is obviously not capable and/or interested in understanding/verifying for themselves even with Bitcoins "simple" math.

Ability to fork is the whole point of FOSS. You can't control what software individuals choose to run. That includes Bitcoin software.

As normie Bitcoiners continue to dilute ideological Bitcoiners theres no guarantee the economic majority will stay on BTC in the future. It's easy to imagine governments having a "regulatory friendly" fork using carrots and sticks (i.e. tax breaks, credits, heavy taxation or even criminalization of BTC use, etc) to incentivize normies into taking their NGU and hashpower with them to that fork. Without that what is left of BTC? Bitcoins advantages dont extend into permissioned white markets where most of BTC price, transactions, and liquidity comes from today (CEXs, ETFs, corpo mining, etc)

Nyoro~n 1y ago

Case in point, you have no idea whats going on. Or if you do, go ahead and go around in circles explaining the merits of ed22519 over secp256k1. Meanwhile there's payjoin to play with both curves.

In the context of over the top math: Keccak-256 was established in 2015 (AFTER your token launched, crazy, no?), not the 70s. It's use for the last decade has mainly been for token projects. (nicknamed SHA-3). You pass around a bunch of coins represented in hashes that only a classroom of people knew how to produce a short decade ago. Coupled with the inability to validate the circulating supply due to lack of transparency...(i.e. your cryptonote predecessors) no red flags go off? You don't think you're acting a bit insane when Bitcoin continues to tick along?

Going along with this, users are under the impression that the ASIC resistance of the CPU-mined token comes from RandomX/CryptoNight/whatever-its-called. Memory hard or not, NOTHING is ASIC resistant; Taiwanese are very clever🥳 . Your token's ASIC resistence comes from lack of market interest and constant top-down hard forks. ASICs are a good thing -- real demand from supporters and/or attackers

PS: if we're being pedantic, the Venn diagram would be cypherpunk-aligned cryptographers (again, tiny). Cryptographers aren't always privacy advocates 🥹

Bitcoin is money, it'll work in all markets (black, white, and everything in between). There's only a finite amount of Bitcoin and more ideological Bitcoiners each day.... it doesn't go backwards What will be left? Them.

Replying to ede3d957...

If you maintain your own bitcoind software the mathematical assumptions in Monero won't be over your top. Yoy just need some reading.

Nyoro~n 1y ago

The mathematics/cryptography behind monero is way over the top which is even more reason for me to stay away from it. Not all mathematics has to leave the blackboard.

The Venn diagram of post-doc mathematicians and privacy advocates also leads me to believe that theres really not many users who actually know what's going on. Bitcoin on the other hand, I truly think almost anyone can understand.

Piling on top of that, monero as it stands today is smaller in BTC terms than its cryptonote predecessors (i.e. it wasn't unheard of for those tokens to fetch many million of sats each) and hasn't offered much other than ever growing excuses to hardfork. As it stands, it appears to be designed to hardfork in perpetuity, relying on pinky promises masquerading as math

I've done plenty of reading over the years, perhaps the conclusion is that everyone wants to be..... thankful for today 😉

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我都用上谷歌输入法了，为什么还是打不出中华民国的国旗。

Nyoro~n 1y ago

🇹🇼 送你🥳

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Alex

What are some good things to add there?

Nyoro~n 1y ago

Lightning torch, El Salvador( Bitcoin Beach Wallet, Chivo).

Blockstream offered stickers over lightning at the start when people were figuring it out

Going through the implementations and the teams behind them could be fun. (Eclair, LND, CLN) Or the lesser known implementations (electrum, immortan) and further on with LDK

Establishment of standards (BOLT11/12, LNURL/Lightning Address, dual-funded channels) 🤔

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猫神

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Nyoro~n 1y ago

原來有這招呀 😨

Replying to

Hanshan

basically a rounding error that effects almost nobody.

you audit the gettxsetoutinfo code yourself?

or do you TRUST the comminity to do it for you?

and why would you then refuse to trust other code (that you probably haven't audited either) that guarantees supply on monero?

Nyoro~n 1y ago

yea I do, I build Core on my own all the time😅 (namely I manually apply the datacarrier patch to the new versions and I dig around a lot because I do my own translations). You should too as you get more familiar with Bitcoin, eventually. Building Bitcoin on your own is a useful skill to have that will benefit you in the future as Bitcoin keeps running, unlike projects that have constant hard forks. It's educational and empowering 🤓

off the top of my head for the circulating supply, the gettxoutsetinfo RPC command is pretty straightforward, it takes all the UTXOs from coinstats and adds them up.

Oh, and gettxoutsetinfo also provides you the information on how much space the utxos takes up on your disk. (very useful for those on pruned nodes)

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Hanshan

liquid doesn't hide the sender or receiver.

also the monero supply is audited with every block. you just can't sum uo the amounts yourself.

not that anyone actually ever does this on bitcoin anyway.

also this method of achieving privacy is NOT recommended as it is very vulnerable to *timing attacks.*

every year some hacker or dnm admin gets popped becasue they thought they could just flip into xmr and back out and nobody would knowsl.

it is far far better to just keep a stack of xmr you use for transacting and periodically top it up.

Nyoro~n 1y ago

"how many bitcoins are left in this difficulty/epoch?" -- plenty of people keep track of the Bitcoin supply with questions like this.

the command to sum up all the utxos to get the circulating supply is gettxoutsetinfo, it's useful information because one cant ever know when miners may choose to not collect the full block reward as it has happened multiple times (and may happen in the future).

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Lucid

I think it's a tread carefully situation. There's no way to validate the number of monero, I think it's a shitcoin, but I understand that people do move in to and out of monero using Bitcoin as a 1:1 conversion. Ex. I exchange 1btc into same value of monero, and then operate privately then hop back out after transactions and the btc balance will reflect. Similar concept to liquid imo. What do you think?

Nyoro~n 1y ago

Every single L-BTC issued by the liquid network is attached to a Bitcoin UTXO pegged into the Federation Multisig wallet. Anyone can verify the total amount of L-BTC issued using their node and perform pegins on their own with Blockstream's Elements software, this isn't possible with the shitcoin in question. The ability to verify issuance independently is important to mitigate hidden inflation.

The similarities between the two come from "Confidential Transaction" where zero knowledge proofs allow for senders and receivers to not reveal amounts.

Swapping in and out of Bitcoin with shitcoins in the name of privacy isn't new, it works in the short term provided the anonymity set is wide enough, but at best it's a tired party trick and shouldn't be taken seriously.

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