Amidst what's going on lately, I thought it might be a good time to remind everyone that nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg supports both PayJoin and CoinJoin.

So if you're running a BTCPay instance, you can:

1. Withdraw Bitcoin from exchanges with PayJoin, obscuring the amount to outside observers.

2. Auto-initiate CoinJoin when certain conditions are met (desired Bitcoin amount and fee market).

Bonus: You can easily run your own coordinator, mixing your Bitcoin without using mainstream services and coordinators.

This could be a great asset for local communities with regular Bitcoin flows (e.g., DCA of members) to boost privacy collectively.

The best part? It takes about 20 minutes to set up. I'm considering creating a video guide - would you watch it if I did?

https://tftc.io/travel-rule-compliance-is-the-first-step-to-blocking-the-exits/

https://tftc.io/beginning-of-cyber-pandemic/

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Well, I haven’t done an #introduction since joining Nostr, and nostr:npub1r0rs5q2gk0e3dk3nlc7gnu378ec6cnlenqp8a3cjhyzu6f8k5sgs4sq9ac said it was like confession, which tickled my Catholic heart, so here it is.

I’m a software engineer/jack-of-all-trades who specializes in industrial controls and automation software. 3D visualizations, motion control, network and IPC communication, serializing large datasets, stuff like that. It’s incredibly boring work that does really cool things.

I started coding when I was 12, and was working full time by age 14. Interesting story there for another time. I was provoked to learn how to code when my friends all got Tamogatchi’s (those digital demons) and my parents could not afford to get me one. Determined to not be left out, I endeavored to write one for myself. I started on MS-DOS 6.22, with QBasic. About two months later, I had an ASCII art creature that I could feed, and it shit all over my screen. Close enough.

With child like enthusiasm, and with an old computer, I decided to jump straight from that to programming my own version of Windows in QBasic. I’m sure I don’t need to explain why that didn’t work, but I did succeed in making a multi-modal user interface toolkit for terminals (yep, still ASCII… I learned about Turbo Vision much later). A family friend introduced me to the VP of Research and Development at a small controls company, and he hired me on the spot. My first commercial project drew 2D visualizations of data in Borland BGI - I made $500.

I was a Star Trek kid, and believed in creating technology that changed people’s lives. I’m a firm believer in the “Oooh” effect - the feeling that one gets when they hold technology in their hands and instinctively know its right and will change their lives. My first “Oooh” moment was holding an iPhone for the first time. I wanted to be a part of bringing those moments to life.

About that age I also got heavily involved in politics and church. I ran live audio for a major church in my area throughout my teens and interned in a studio owned by one of the adult volunteers. He mentored me through some rough times as I began showing signs of bipolar syndrome, which would end up shaping some of my later years. I also took classical piano through these years, which helped a great deal with depression.

Politically, I met two senators through the years and wrote a great deal of letters. I was an activist during the net neutrality era (“STOP SOPA!”) and engaged in other black-and-white thinking like nearly every young person. I was a rabid conservative youth and had a good (ill informed) argument for any adult I came across who looked like a good victim.

In adulthood, I continued my career in tech, and also interned in a photography studio for a while. I can’t say I learned a whole lot there, but I learned to love photography and to recognize good work. I enjoy pointing cameras at exasperated family members to this day.

I went through a brief but very passionate .NET and data aggregation phase, where I worked in education. We built everything ourselves due to minimal budget. The most fun was designing a scan-tron system from scratch to use a cannon copier/scanner to grade jpgs of the bubble sheets, and log scores for students in a searchable database. There were libraries out there, but we chose to do it from the ground up to learn how it worked. The entire GUI was in WPF - a gui toolkit that I still think was before its time and underrated.

Politically I’ve changed into something of a cynical constitutionalist who’s on the border of black pilled. I still work in automation, and still work in C++ (and I still miss C#). I was on the edge of giving up on social media when Edward Snowden mentioned Nostr right about the time I was planning to delete my Twitter account.

Nostr is the first time I’ve been involved in something that made me go “Oooh” in a long time. I have high hopes of contributing in some meaningful way to it’s growth. It feels right, in a sort of unquantifiable way that excites me. I’ve learned a lot of new things (server admin, stuff like that) and met some people who have challenged my comfort after 20 something years in tech - and provoked me to improve again. It’s fun and it feels like coming to life again.

Well this is long enough. There is a little about me. I hope to get to know you all more over time. Thanks for being here, and for being authentically you.

#introductions

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Current capacity: 7.54 #BTC

Terminal Web score: #623

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Grant #2: $50,000 to summer of bitcoin to support their incredible summer fellowship program

The 2023 program featured more than 10,000 applicants from more than 70 countries

Grant #3: $50,000 to Jarol for his work on Bitcoin Core

Jarol will use funding to review PRs and fix bugs in Bitcoin Core; expand developer education; improve the Bitcoin Core App; and help bring full nodes to mobile phones

Grant #4: $50,000 to Vinteum for their work on expanding open source Bitcoin work in Latin America and Brazil.

Funding will support Bitcoin Core developers, foster Bitcoin communities, and build a Bitcoin Core developer pipeline education program in Latin America.

Grant #5: $50,000 to Gee Deer for his work on lightning native stablecoins and Bitcoin Core.

Gee’s proposed stablecoin will use Discreet Log Contracts to reduce counterparty risk and maximize decentralization ⚡

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Grant #6: $50,000 to the Kawaakibi Foundation to build a MENA Bitcoin Hub.

The MENA Bitcoin HUB will educate activists, journalists, and nonprofits on using Bitcoin to transact freely and receive international donations and hold their money securely and privately.

Grant #7: $50,000 to Justin Moeller for his work on Fedimint

Justin will focus on implementing a database migration mechanism to allow guardians to upgrade their Fedimint servers seamlessly.

Grant #8: $25,000 to D++ for her international educational initiatives and work on FOSS projects.

D++ will use funds to do international education, running a free Bitcoin bootcamp, and maintenance of Bitcoin Core and FOSS Projects.

Grant #9: $25,000 to Bitcoin Ekasi for their efforts to build a circular Bitcoin economy in South Africa.

Funds will support the onboarding of new local businesses to Bitcoin and the operation of a center to teach practical skills and Bitcoin knowledge to the local community 🇿🇦

Grant #10: $25,000 to Amiti for her work on Bitcoin mentorship, ADDRMAN, and Bitcoin Bytes.

Funds will support Amiti as she mentors Bitcoin Core contributors, improves ADDRMAN to increase the security and privacy of Bitcoin nodes, and builds Bitcoin Bytes.

Grant #11: $25,000 to Ben Perrin for international Bitcoin education.

Funding will allow Ben to create educational materials and conduct in-person and virtual workshops to teach dissidents and NGOs how to use Bitcoin safely and securely 🔏

Grant #12: $25,000 to La Librería de Satoshi to make technical education accessible to as many Spanish-speakers as possible.

Funding will be used to create Bitcoin and lightning courses, enabling Spanish developers to become Bitcoin Core Contributors.

Grant #13: $10,000 in travel grants to TabConf, a technical Bitcoin conference that took place in Atlanta, Georgia on September 6-9.

Grant #14: $10,000 in travel grants to Satsconf, the largest Bitcoin conference in Brazil taking place in Sao Paulo, Brazil from November 2-5 🇧🇷

Grant #15: $10,000 in travel grants to btc plus plus, a Bitcoin developer conference focused on Nix and software reproducibility taking place in Berlin, Germany from October 6-7 🇩🇪

HRF is proud to support a diverse range of projects to make Bitcoin a better global tool for human rights.

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Give them a warm welcome as they navigate our growing protocol 💜

All Nostriches that are coming to PacificBitcoin - join nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s and me at Swan dome 1:50 PM PT for Nostr Vox Populi session!

We will talk about explosion of Nostr in 2023 and what's ahead.

Also, we'll onboard those that are not on Nostr, so you here better be ready to welcome our little baby Nostriches.

Full schedule on: https://www.pacificbitcoin.com/pages/schedule

This will be a precursor for nostr:npub1nstrcu63lzpjkz94djajuz2evrgu2psd66cwgc0gz0c0qazezx0q9urg5l, let's see how many of you we can take with us to Tokyo to listen to great talks on significance of freedom tech by luminaries such as nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m, nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9, nostr:npub16vrkgd28wq6n0h77lqgu8h4fdu0eapxgyj0zqq6ngfvjf2vs3nuq5mp2va and others!