Not sure what my FB friends will feel about my most recent post?
With rumours of the UK general election being called in March I thought I'd invest (waste🤣) a few hours that I'll never get back! I braved listening in on Labour's Business Conference. 🧐 I couldn't shake a vision of a Crony Capitalist Managed Economy sold on pretence of the "Society for Inclusive Capitalism" driven forward with false narratives along the lines of the business "Equalisation of Opportunity Act" and "Anti Dog eat Dog Act". 🤦 Sounds great until you think/analyse where it could take you!
Anyway, basically found myself drifting off to Galt's Gulch again but I'm not silent quitting just yet.😂🤣😂
If you've got a smart tv load up the pluto.tv app and look up Atlas Shrugged if you don't have time to read the books.
Here's the PC links:
Atlas Shrugged: Part 1
https://pluto.tv/.../movies/5c7f35ac70714868f0f25f42...
Atlas Shrugged: Part 2
https://pluto.tv/.../movies/5c7f3a4e4bf0186b96a63a9e...
Atlas Shrugged: Who is John Galt?
https://pluto.tv/.../movies/5c7f36b44798ee6153407679...
Sorry no easy way to explain this post without going your own research.
I can't see anybody to vote for - only the least bad😞
Let companies compete to produce the best products you like, knowing (for most products - except luxury goods with subjective value) the price will trend/fall towards the cheapest marginal cost of production. Trust the process of "Creative Destruction". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction
#MilkerBill #Cronyism #JohnGalt #bitcoin
👀 That looks interesting. How do I get a federation invite code? 🙏
When operating within a "Complex System" it's imperative to build in extra "System Redundancy" as failing to plan is planning to fail, right!
If you're following what's happening in Texas with the National Guard and the support Governor Greg Abbott has received from 25 other States, the situation is bubbling!
With Bidens threats, these US States certainly need to build in some extra "System Redundancy"!
I would love to see Greg Abbott announce the State is adding #Bitcoin to their reserves to build in some protection against the weaponization of the Federal Reserve System fiat dollars system.
They should launch USDTexas - Overcollateralized by #bitcoin. USDTexas would be far superior to Federal fiat USDs which have nothing backing their value!
Some people are just insane! Keep up the great work.
Me 😟 I can't justify the cost as still stacking sats. Expect it to be the best conf ever though so will certainly be listening to the stream and look forward to seeing what's been built at sovereignengineering.io 😁
Loan ETFs BTC to MM/OTC desks & rebuy those BTC back from MM/OTC - reloan them again & again 🔄 earning loan fees and AMF i.e their ETF is backed by PAPER BTC loan contracts rather than physical bitcoin.
Rince & repeat until GBTC is stripped of it's 550K BTC!
This would bypass the spot market it wouldn't drive the price higher.
VERY NICE! I just sent USDt @Tether_to from my @side_swap wallet to @AquaBitcoin wallet and L-BTC over @Liquid_BTC and both transactions went through very smoothly!!! No wonder #Bitcoin is winning 😍 with all these awesome devs 🚀🌛
Ending the year off strong!
Over the last few months, we've been preparing our wallet for Fedimint integrations. Today marks the first release with Fedimint support ready for alpha testing!
Fedimint is software for managing federated custodian funds. It's similar to the trust model of Liquid but better privacy and without a blockchain involved. It also has first-class support for Lightning.
The way we've gone about the integration is to seamlessly smooth over the edges that exist in self-custodial Lightning. Our hybrid approach will use a configured Federation when needed. Otherwise, it uses self-custodial Lightning if it exists for the user. This helps things like channel reserves, channel minimums, high chain fees to get started, etc.
You may add a Federation alongside your existing wallet or start with one without needing to open channels or pay on-chain costs. We recommend keeping the value low since this is a very early release, and there are some known features that we still need to develop.
It should feel and act like the same Mutiny Wallet with some caveats around backups for now.
A massive shoutout to the Fedimint team for their recent v0.2 release. It's still early for them and us, so all testing and feedback is welcomed! This does rely on having a federation invite code. We suspect that, over the next few weeks and months, more mainnet federations will pop up. There is not a default one built into the wallet.
We should also have Lightning Address support in a few weeks that works through federations. Kody has already started that work, and it seems promising: https://github.com/Kodylow/hermes
Also, there's beginning work on supporting the Lightning Service Provider Specification, which will eventually allow more plug-and-play support for any LSP to power Mutiny. This will be huge for more advanced node runners as the spec matures. Huge shoutout to John Cantrell for that work.
A lot of core infrastructure has been built into this release. Let us know if there are any problems; it should be identical to previous versions if you do not configure a Fedimint or different LSP.
Expect much more to come soon. Happy new year!
Sounds like a big milestone!
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Proudly presenting: The Cashu Protocol v1 specs!
One year after the inception of Cashu, we finally introduce the first version of the protocol.
This is a major evolution! We dubbed it "The Great Cleanup" and it's already being implemented in different Cashu projects.
You can find the pull request in the Cashu NUTs repository.
Cashu NUTs (Notation, Usage, and Terminology) describe the protocol specifications of Cashu wallets and mints. This makes sure that Cashu Ecash systems are interoperable.
https://github.com/cashubtc/nuts/pull/55
Among countless other improvements, we introduce a new concept: Quotes!
Quotes allow mint operations with different payment methods (Lightning, on-chain, ...) and Ecash units (sats, msats, usd, ...).
This brings incredible flexibility for building Ecash systems.
We also transition from base64 keyset IDs to hexadecimal IDs with a version flag. This allows much easier upgrades of the keyset ID in the future.
Read more about Cashu and check out Cashu projects like Wallets and mints at https://cashu.space
If you are a developer, make sure to check out the many Cashu libraries on our documentation page at https://docs.cashu.space
Onward!
Wow I didn't realise there are so many wallets already. Unstoppable!
Really enjoyed this one. I hadn't come across Seb before. He did such an amazing job of communicating the key issues an easy to understand way!
💯🤡🌏 Not your keys not your cheese!
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💯🤡🌏 Not your keys not your cheese!
Just listening to a live X spaces. What a line up! 🤣
Elon, Alex Jones, Tate, General Flynn, Ramaswamy...
Always good to listen to others views even if you don't agree. Would have loved to have had nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m on there too.
Just playing around comparing answers to questions from ChatGPT, Google Gemini Nano, Bard, Bing Chat etc
Interesting reply from Microsoft Bing. 🤣 Me 1-0 AI
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So much building going on I missed this. Website looks great!
So sorry to hear of your loss Jack. RIP🫂
👆Sounds like a job for #Stacks, #RSK, #RGB, #Taro or #Fujimoney?