David Bowie Let’s Dance. Gotta be my fave of his despite such a discography. It just sounds bigger than life
1. Recruiting officers won’t tell you that you’ll fight for your benefits when you come back maimed from combat in service to your country.
2. A career in law enforcement isn’t about helping people. It’s about cleaning up the mess and making a report after it has happened, and acting as the muscle for corrupt authorities. Cops are not your friends. Don’t speak to them about anything, or invite them onto your property. Don’t consent to searches of your person or your property.
3. Banks and credit card companies have one goal. To get you in just enough debt in cooperation with overtaxation of your wages by government that you’ll forever be making payments and never pay off your balance.
4. Everything of real value that you will learn and unlearn happens after you escape public school and socialist captured centres of higher education. Read and travel.
5. The government does not have your best interests at heart.
6. Do everything you can when you’re young to cultivate skills that you can sell for cash or trade. Employment is a hamster wheel designed to keep you at zero.
7. The money you contribute involuntarily every month in the form of government pension deductions, if invested instead at a modest 10% rate of return over the course of your working life, would be worth MILLIONS. Not a measly $800-$1200 cheque every month. If you even end up receiving it. Try to turn something you love into a means of earning income, and buy assets not liabilities.
8. Your ability to create consequences in your life grows faster than your ability to consider consequences ahead of time. Think about the consequences of what you are considering doing before you act.
9. Commitments made through marriage are not just emotional. They involve optionality that you may or may not have later in life, ranging from where you choose to live to whether or not you really want to take a stand or be a martyr against tyranny.
10. Learn everything you can about what money is and how it is currently being used as a tool of enslavement through taxation and inflation. Learn what it is, how it came into being, and how it has been utterly corrupted to enrich the few.
11. Take control of your food security, water security and your ability to defend yourself and your family. Be able to survive if the bank machines and the grocery stores suddenly stop working forever. Buy land and build an off grid capable place to call home instead of buying a fiat house in the burbs.
12. The majority opinion is usually wrong. Don’t be afraid to not fit in.
The same way they FUD’ed fools into handing over their gold in 1933.
Bull Bitcoin becomes the first mobile Bitcoin wallet that allows users to send and receive asynchronous Payjoin transactions without needing to run their own server, using BIP77!
I am very excited about this new and bleeding-edge feature, because it has been a long-standing ambition of Bull Bitcoin to become the first Bitcoin exchange to process Bitcoin withdrawals via Payjoin (Pay-to-Endpoint) transactions.
However, it was hard to justify Bull Bitcoin investing time into building this feature since there were no commercially available end-user Bitcoin wallets that were able to receive Payjoin payments.
Indeed, in order to receive Payjoin payments (BIP78), a Bitcoin wallet needed to be connected to a full node server and be online at the moment the payment is made. This means in practice that only merchants, professional service providers and advanced full node users had the capacity to receive Payjoin payments. This is, we believe, one of the major reasons why Payjoin had failed to gain significant traction among Bitcoin users.
For this reason, the Payjoin V2 protocol (BIP77) was conceived and developed by Dan Gould, as part of the Payjoin Dev Kit project, to outsource the receiver's requirement to run his own server to an untrusted third-party server called the Payjoin Directory. In order to prevent the server from spying on users, the information is encrypted and relayed to the Payjoin Directory via an Oblivious HTTP server.
Bull Bitcoin’s Payjoin ambitions had been put on hold since 2020, until there was more adoption of Payjoin receiving capabilities among end-user Bitcoin wallets…
But it turns out that in the meanwhile, Bull Bitcoin developed its own mobile Bitcoin wallet. And it also turns out that the open-source Bitcoin development firm Let There Be Lightning, which we had collaborated with in the past, had itself collaborated with Dan to build a software library for Payjoin that was compatible with and relatively straightforward to integrate into our own wallet software. All that was missing was to put the pieces together into a finished product.
Thanks to the collaborative open source effort of the Payjoin Dev Kit team, Let There Be Lightning team and the Bull Bitcoin team, the Bull Bitcoin wallet has now become the first commercially available end-user mobile wallet on the Google Play store to implement the BIP 77 Payjoin V2 protocol.
Moreover, the Bull Bitcoin wallet has also implemented asynchronous Payjoin payments, which means that a Payjoin transaction can be “paused” until the receiver or the sender come back online. This way, the receiver's mobile phone can be “turned off” when the sender makes the payment. As soon as the recipient’s phone is turned back on, the Payjoin session will resume and the recipient will receive the payment. This is a major breakthrough in the mobile Payjoin user experience.
We would like to thank the Human Rights Foundation for allocating a generous bounty for the development of a Serverless Payjoin protocol and its implementation in a mobile Bitcoin wallet, as well as OpenSats and Spiral for supporting the work of Payjoin Dev Kit, which made this all possible.
Why does this matter?
Payjoin, also known as Pay-to-endpoint, is a protocol which allows the Bitcoin wallet of a payments receiver and the Bitcoin wallet a payments sender to communicate with each other for the purpose of collaborating on creating a Bitcoin transaction.
I first heard about Payjoin (then called Pay-to-endpoint) in 2018 and it completely blew my mind. What I liked most about it was that it was not a protocol change to Bitcoin, but rather it was an application-layer protocol that allows wallets to communicate in order to create smarter and more efficient Bitcoin transactions.
Whereas in a normal Bitcoin payment the transaction is created by the sender, and all the inputs of that transaction belong to the sender, in a Payjoin payment both the sender and the receiver contribute coins as inputs.
In the Bitcoin whitepaper, Satoshi wrote:
"some linking is still unavoidable with multi-input transactions, which necessarily reveal that their inputs were owned by the same owner"
With Payjoin, this assumption is no longer true. With Payjoin, we have fixed one of Bitcoin’s most fundamental privacy problems... without changing the Bitcoin protocol!
In a Payjoin transaction, the output amounts visible on the blockchain does not necessarily reflect the value of the payment that was actually exchanged. In other words, you can’t easily tell how much money one wallet sent to the other. This is great for users that are concerned a malicious third party may be attempting to obtain sensitive information about their finances without their consent. This does not however pose an accounting problem for the Bitcoin wallets involved in that transaction: since both wallets are aware of which coins they used as inputs and outputs, they are independently able to calculate the "actual" value of the payment that was sent even if the payment on the blockchain appears to be a of a different amount.
Payjoin breaks the common input ownership heuristic, an assumption used by hackers and fraudsters to track ownership of addresses on the blockchain. The neat thing about this property of Payjoin is that it benefits everyone on the network, not just the Payjoin users themselves.
It allows the receiver of a payment to opportunistically consolidate his utxos when he is receiving funds, in a way which does not necessarily appear to be a consolidation transaction on the blockchain. Depending on the configuration of a payment transaction, it can also make a regular payment look like a consolidation.
In addition to these benefits, the introduction of collaborative peer-to-peer transaction protocols opens up exciting opportunities for the creation of Lightning Network channels, as well as efficiencies for transaction batching.
How to use Payjoin in the Bull Bitcoin wallet:
It’s so seamless, you may not even realize you are using it!
To receive via Payjoin, simply navigate to the “Receive tab” using the network “Bitcoin” and you will see a Payjoin invoice. When you want to get paid, send this invoice to the payer, or show them the QR code. If the sender’s wallet is compatible with Payjoin, it will be up to the sender to decide whether or not they want to use Payjoin.
To send via Payjoin, simply paste the receiver's Payjoin invoice, or scan the associated QR code, in the Bull Bitcoin wallet. If you decide that you don’t want to pay with Payjoin, simply turn off the Payjoin toggle.
Original post: https://www.bullbitcoin.com/blog/bull-bitcoin-wallet-payjoin
Download the wallet: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bullbitcoin.mobile&hl=en-IN
This is amazing. Can you explain all of the implications of this and the possibilities for protecting ourselves from snooping third parties? I’m trying to get my head around the possibilities. Thanks.
It’d be cool to illustrate the grid stabilization gains that arise as well
Maps well with the growth of socialism and despotism.
A- fuckin -men. All I want to do is smoke/cook some chicken breasts on this Traeger my buddy is storing at my place and this has been whirling on the display for half an hour. Since when does a grill have to be less than X feet away from your router to work? Overpriced fiat garbage. Time to pull out the briquettes and the habachi smoker lol. 
It’s pretty cool that it ends up looking like a Lotus flower after 7.5 Earth years or 12 Venusian years.
So if I leverage my time at work by 50% because I know how to use AI tools (and technology in general) to do things more efficiently, does that mean that I get to work half days for the same salary?
Another reason to be your own business.
Employees will never be the benefactors of technology, even if it’s the employees that have the knowledge and wake their employers up to the possibilities. It’s only going to ensure that the number of tasks the employee is expected to cram into a ten hour shift will increase at the same rate.
Imagine trying to purple or orange pill family members that are still asking for you to burn CD’s for them lol
Wow your boy is really growing. I remember when you posted about his birth.
It’s hilarious. They bought it in Mexico. For thanksgiving they got us a drink shaker shaped like a giant phallus. Might be swingers.
My new in-laws to be through my daughter’s longtime boyfriend are real gems. Here’s one of the gifts they got us, plus a 40 of Bumbu rum and a bunch of other stuff. I’m not sure I can use this pipe with cameras present. 
Nice kit for hanging and halving for Christmas. These gambrels that have the extra 90 on the ends are so great. Once you lift one half of the animal off, the other won’t fall off the end. Should weld up some more just like it. 