Planning to run LND since I’m comfortable with Go and hope to contribute in the near future.
Time to move up the stack and start running my own lightning node. I’ve only ever kept “coffee” money in my hot wallet and accepted the default UX from Phoenix and Mutiny but alas those days are behind us. It was a good run.
“The computer - a new form of life dedicated to pure thought… [people] will minister to its bodily needs with electricity and spare parts… We are the reproductive organs of the computer.”
- Robert Jastrow, 1981
Is it possible to replicate the features of opendime strictly with software?
Specifically: can you hand off a UTXO to someone, without going on chain, and provably transfer ownership so that it’s not possible for the previous owner to spend it?
I’m sure it would require some non-standard address, signing mechanism, or maybe even a soft fork?
This would give us many of the benefits of #ecash (privacy and avoiding transaction fees) while maintaining the security of layer one.
#askNostr #bitcoin #BTC
COLDCARD is excellent; thank you for your dedication to security.
Question: when someone buys a hardware wallet they provide a shipping address that can later be leaked. Ledger famously leaked customer emails and physical addresses for example. Any tips on mitigating that? Use an alias and ship to your employer’s address?
“There is no anti-memetics division” is a short read and interesting idea.
The writing isn’t great, but if you can get past that it’s fun to think about.
It’s set in a world where there are “ideas” and creatures that are impossible to remember after encountering them. Some of them wipe your memory while others destroy you and everyone else’s memory of you.
If you’re a big AI shop pushing open-weight models but not sharing the training data then you can easily introduce targeted blind spots.
What happens when nation state-backed labs push out state of the art open weight models so that people embed them in their applications with intentional weaknesses?
Reminder: if the service (or model) is free then you’re the “product”. Or in this case you’re the target.
#ai #LLM #cybersecurity
I wonder if we’ll see more wallet providers and LSPs choose the Fedimint model to reduce their risk. Spread the federation guardians across many jurisdictions.
If your jurisdiction labels you an unlicensed money transmitter you simply quit and your users won’t notice a difference. Funds still move.
If one guardian wants to retire then the mint can still function and lightning payments can still be routed.
Seems to be a more stable solution albeit you now have a custodian.
With all the lightning wallets shutting down it’s becoming more apparent we need decentralized lightning service providers.
I’ve spent most of my time on the base chain, but now it’s time to learn more about running a LN node and how routing works.
Important update: Mutiny Wallet will be winding down operations by the end of the year.
We're exploring new directions as a company. For full details on the shutdown and our future plans, please read our latest blog post: https://blog.mutinywallet.com/mutiny-wallet-is-shutting-down/
You provided a great service to the community and we were lucky to have your services. Good luck with your future endeavors!
Today’s AI is already capable of learning animal language [1]. This implies we can create a universal translation system between not just various human languages but also bridge the gap between humans and animals.
We’re also developing more sophisticated brain-computer-interfaces [2] and trialing them in both animals and humans. It’s not only possible, but likely we’ll have high fidelity real time communication between humans and their pets in the coming decade or two. What a time to be alive.
Sources:
1. https://news.mit.edu/2024/csail-ceti-explores-sperm-whale-alphabet-0507
The big AI shops have access to a lot of the internet’s content from the era before LLM proliferation. This is one motivating factor for why they release models publicly: more AI generated content on the internet creates a moat around their data.
By training and releasing these open source models they create a sort of fog of war for people that come after them since training on AI generated content distorts the output distribution of your model. They’re effectively polluting the digital environment or at least enabling others to do it because it benefits their business model.
Webs of trust are going to become even more important for us as they’ll reduce some of the noise. We need more solutions to this problem though.
#ai #llm
An interesting paper presented at Neurips ‘21 with code about cellular automata whose transition rules are learned:
https://github.com/danielegrattarola/GNCA
This could probably be used to simulate all sorts of things including an economy. Might also be useful in producing self-healing structures.
On black hole singularities. This is a long one!
My background is in applied math and computer science not physics! I’m certain I’m missing something here. This is just for fun.
During neutron star core collapse, the quark gluon plasma must be, as far as we know, locally constrained by the Uncertainty principle. As the core collapses the position of other particles is further constrained while being accelerated and therefore have higher uncertainty in momentum.
However, the uncertainty in momentum is bounded above by some finite multiple of c. Momentum can’t grow unbounded because that implies infinite energy. Acceleration is limited by the energy available locally which is that of itself, neighboring particles, and local vacuum energy: all finite.
How then can the quark gluon plasma degenerate into a singularity of infinitesimal size? Maybe they “fuse” and become a single “particle” (in quotes because particles are fuzzy objects to begin with) of nonzero “volume”? Maybe this is what the holographic principle is saying but I can’t make any sense of AdS-CFT correspondence 😩.
Once you have a single particle there’s no gravitational attraction to continue the collapse. Of course from afar other massive objects continue to feel gravitational attraction but locally you have a single particle.
Some might say “the uncertainty principle breaks down at these extremes. Our model isn’t valid in this regime” and fair enough! However, I would argue that that’s an artifact of the model (the commutator of specific linear operators on a Hilbert space). Maybe spacetime isn’t a complete vector space but at our observable scale it approximates one.
The uncertainty principle is just an approximation of what happens in reality. I’m not aware of any experiments proving it breaks down at the Planck scale. I argue that whatever quirk of nature that causes the uncertainty principle is the very thing that prevents black hole singularities from forming.
#physics #blackHoles #gravity
Block hashes are a good form of entropy that we can all use to sync random number generators.
For example when doing experiments or training AI models. Maybe we can finally fix the reproducibility issue.
GRR Martin finishes all of the remaining GoT books
Sometimes in the heat of the moment it’s ok to sudo a remote script blindly