Silent Payments are clever: you create a shared secret (ecdh) from a utxo and a public silent payment address. Then you simply add (tweak) this shared secret into this silent address.

The receiver then scans the entire utxo set, looking for any payments to this silent payment address tweaked with the shared secret from all taproot/pubkey inputs.

For onchain zaps, you can skip the scanning process and just send a giftwrap with the txid and the receiver can verify that you sent it and control the utxo just by knowledge of this shared secret.

To generate the shared secret from the sender side, you need the inputs private key multiplied by the silent address pubkey.

On the receiver side, you multiply the silent address secret key by the input’s pubkey.

This gives you the same shared secret which you can use on both sender and receiver side to validate the onchain zap.

The nice thing about leveraging silent payments is that the receiver doesn’t have to use nostr, they could just be using a silent payments wallet to receive the zap.

On the nostr side, all you would need is a silent payment address in your profile. Heck you could even use the users pubkey itself as a key as a less secure silent address fallback if they don’t have one in their profile.

I recently had a big shift in my life that has me feel like I am back from the dead. A second chance as what I had been building for a decade, and then proceeded to fuck-up because I was too stupid to see and value what I had been working on. I was sloppy and thoughtless about much of my approach to life and let that suck me into my own self-aggrandizing bullshit. In short, I was pretty childish about what I was doing as I thought I had made it.

A year and a half later, someway somehow, I got the smallest of shots to fix it. It was a massive risk that I had to stake really everything I had built on. But in that moment when I had to make a move, to do or die; I took a deep breath and took everything in that moment. I knew what it was, what risk I needed to take, and what the cost would be if I had miscalculated. But I knew, as knew more than anything in my soul that I would make it—but only with that risk being taken. It honestly felt like one of the most badass moment of my life because I really showed up for myself with no doubts, lack, or hesitation.

I crave moments like that in my life. They define the peaks and troughs of life, and are the most intense character building moments of my life. It is to choose to be the man in the arena, marred with the blood, sweat, and tear that only those who step into the arena will ever know. It is vastly more rewarding and fulfilling than any life with the cold and timid soul who choose a safe life where nothing is ever at risk.

Who will play table tennis with me?

Welp, time to find a new suite of services.

What’s your theory? Idk anything about the situation

What do you believe Bitcoin will do for you #nostr fam?

I am and not to dox myself but we can say I know vaccine scientists very closely and was aware of the data coming in as it came in

Can you give examples of "third parties"?

Good morning #nostr fam 💪

Those are valid concerns, but BCH doesn't solve these problems any better than BTC. They only reason why BCH is not KYCed so much and doesn't have big transaction fees is that nobody cares about it. If for some reason BCH became popular it would end up in the same place as BTC.

You have very good points here..

.. thing is we should all leave those places where they want you to put in a gulag.

We need to create our places, citadels, communities and fight back.

It looks to me that a lot of #Bitcoin money is moving to #Monero 👀

It looks to me that a lot of #Bitcoin money is moving to #Monero 👀

Can Nostr sway a Raging Hypocrite?

Jake Peterson of LifeHacker wrote an article

"Google Is an Even Bigger Privacy Nightmare Than You Think"

In which he describes the usual abuse cases like leaking corporate data or abusing children’s data without consent. But he ends the article with, "There's no getting away from it: Google is now everywhere, and we can only hope they are being as responsive and thorough as they claim in safeguarding our data."

No man, that's where you're wrong. LifeHacker chooses to have Google analytics on it's site.

From a DNS lookup, I can see, LifeHacker chooses to route emails to Gmail, which means you got your direct by-line contact jpeterson@lifehacker.com going to Gmail.

As a “Senior Technology Editor”, you make it seem like we have no choice. But there are, here’s just a few to scratch the surface:

Android → Graphene/Calyx

Chrome → LibreWolf

Gmail → Mailu

Google Docs → Cryptpad

Google Authenticator → KeePass XC

Google Play Store → F-Droid

I say, you have more power than you think. There’s an entire world out there of options and choices. And we do not have to sit by and take it.

And if you want Jake Peterson to get the message, I want you to tell him right here in the comments what technology alternative he should be writing about that ain’t on my list. Because if we make enough noise, he just might listen.