I’m simping for politicians 🤣

This video is gonna be a banger

Running a Lightning node is still a pain in the ass and most of the world will not run a Lightning node because of this.

They were one of the oldest retails accepting Bitcoin from 2015. Indeed was through (fucking) Bitpay.

Last time I use it was in 2018 and I paid in BTC.

Now I see their website is in re-construction, so let's see if they will implement LN.

Yup

GM!

"Toilet out of order due to break-in"

Who breaks into a public toilet?

sadly this can currently not be shown.

“1. Run a large number of xmr nodes from various geographical locations and ISPs to capture transaction ip address and time stamps. 2. Transaction feed (ip and everything) from one or more popular wallets’ default nodes.”

This image belongs to the chainalysis video where they say they can trace Monero transactions. As you can see in a blockchain you need privacy at the chain level and at the network level.

If one of the two fails you have no privacy. It's quite complicated to get privacy, it's not as easy as using tor either, you also have to mitigate time analytics.

To mitigate it you need:

- use Tor

- Different circuits for each operation

- Add delays to mitigate timing analysis attacks.

If on top of that you connect to a centralized server without all these precautions, the privacy chain is useless. All of you who used Samourai's tools simply threw your money away.

Exactly, the client creates a vpn connection to communicate with the relays.

We could say that the relays act as coordinators.

Yes, for everyone, anonymity by crowd, everyone has the same footprint.

It's a smart choice to not have to deal with tor circuit management.

About coinjoin coordinators.

There is a difference to be made between privacy on-chain and privacy at the network level.

Even if you have chain privacy you can tag the addresses with their respective ips and trace the user. Obviously this can only be done by the coordinator.

This is why Samourai and Whirpool have always sucked.

Whirpool:

- If you used the mobile wallet without your node, the coinjoin was useless because your public keys were exposed to the backend and with them all your past, present and future addresses.

- If you used your own node or sparrow it was also of little use, since both samourai and sparrow reuse the tor circuit, they only generate a new one if you close the application, and therefore the coordinator can tag the incoming and outgoing addresses at the time of registration and ruin the coinjoin. Whirpool has never been zerolink, the coordinator knew everything.

Wabisabi:

- It creates new connections for both input and output addresses, so the coordinator sees distinct identities, although I think it has flaws in its design due to the delay. We can consider it to be zerolink, at least they tried and were honest.

Joinmarket:

- Since there is no centralized coordinator it is much less important to create new tor circuits for each connection, still the coordinator (the taker) will know the ips of the incoming and outgoing addresses. I don't know if they are mitigating this in any way.

Joinstr:

- Use Riseup VPN for logging, everyone uses the same VPN, there is no possibility of tagging inbound and outbound addresses across relays.

Is there a list of LSPs and their fees/reserve requirements out there?

Spending 100 USD to open a 5M channel is not fun.

New version of Bitcoin Core 28.0! Quickly install it without even reading the changes! What is this consensus thing? 😂

I did, but the idea that the Logic Board can be replaced once you want to upgrade and that the old one can be run as better RPi made me go for the framework.

Well MiCA (or was it the latest AML directive? 🤔) explicitly states that "any method that obscures the blockchain origin" (i forgot the exact terminology) is deemed illegal.

It's so broad it'll affect Lightning, Liquid, etc

Until exchanges are forced to remove lightning support because it went from a niche nerd thing to large scale privacy.

They'd delisted privacy coins for merely the *marketing* of them being used.

And then might go after lightning developers holding them responsible for for North Korea deposit with the exact same arguments used against tornado cash.

Also, GM :-)

My last few days as macOS user have begun… Can’t wait 🔥