Unbreakable strong encryption is hard...

Yeah, we have a shit load of work to do, that's why I didn't leave Wasabi yet, it seems to be the best shot.

Pro Tip, you can add multiple coins to one single transaction in Blue Wallet, thereby making it look like a coin-join from different parties.

Next tip: you can send this one merged transaction to multiple on-chain addresses so as to credit different custodial and non-custodial wallet at the same time.

However: Not all wallets will be able to deal with this kind of deposits just yet:

Phoenix ✅

Muun ✅

Blixt ❌

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🍁🍁End of maple season 2023 update:

Sap collected: ~ 20 gal across 2 trees

Syrup made: ~ 56oz

Pic shows early vs late season color difference.

We had tapped a 3rd tree but got no sap out of it. My neighbor was driving by when I was pulling the taps and hopped out of his car to show me where to tap next time. Neighbors are awesome.

Overall, pretty happy with the first run! Season was a little weird this year, hopefully next year is a little more consistent

I really hope we have achieved "strong encryption for utxos" with Wabisabi...

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So I think I just got my own lightning address going direct to a Voltage node I own. Did a test zap and it appeared to work. NICE.

What do you think - is a video tutorial in order?

A lot (if not almost all) emphasis on financial privacy in the bitcoin community is focused on privacy-from-government as the core concern. For good reason. Particularly those using bitcoin to avoid political repression. It's life and death. I know some of these people personally.

This completely ignores the more proximate concerns of the need for financial privacy that emerge from the private sphere. If we don't have privacy, it puts a target on our back from bad, private actors. Fraudsters, thieves, or worse.

Privacy is fundamentally important within our personal lives, even if you take the government out of it the picture. State abuse of power is surely a critical concern. But so is private abuses of power -- such as in the phenomenon of "surveillance capitalism". The full-throated defense of privacy does not start and end with concerns about the state.

If you're running a node with LNDHub installed and the kid has a phone with BlueWallet you can send them sats in a way they can see and interact with but are ultimately secured by you

What's the next thing coming out for Bitcoin privacy?

The Old Man and the Sea

Thanks, Max. And good to find you here, Dan. Followed. 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼

Payjoins are cool. I proposed some UX improvements- not sure if anyone took note.