Clearly you just need to commit to give more bitcoin talks at Linux conferences :)

JoinMarket remains, by far, the best CoinJoin tech ever built. nostr:note1jjujryql2qk5g82ng4kwy7nw4k0msu7tw6l5w2qlw9szyl4cen8s7hx4s5

Ah, I guess I was misinformed. FERC allows DC ties without triggering FERC oversight (though it seems like an obvious thing for a future overzealous federal government to change).

Err, sorry FERC.

Texas appears to finally submitting to DOE oversight by interconnecting ERCOT with the rest of the country.

https://electrek.co/2024/10/03/hell-froze-over-in-texas-us-grid-first-time/

It’s literally front page news. It’s a big deal, but it’s definitely getting reported lol.

I still use a 5 year old Apple Watch because there have been no new features worth spending a dollar for.

I’ve seen lots of people argue it’s terrible while suggesting alternatives that don’t provide the important features it offers…. And no one suggesting alternatives that do.

Of course also most of the arguments against it I’ve seen have been lazy af (eg “tor is slow so onion messages will be”…. Ignoring that they’re a totally different design lol).

But…Maybe just install Phoenix and try it? :)

I mean as a simple v1 we could just replace it with BOLT 12 as-is? It’s pretty simple to swap in, and BOLT 12’s reusability + proof of payment means you could still announce the zap on nostr.

(And, to be clear, if we want to avoid onion messages you could still do BOLT 12 over nostr, though I’d generally recommend against for privacy reasons)

LNURL-P indeed should be replaced…. But to replace it with a version of BOLT 12 reimplemented on nostr that misses out on ~all BOLT 12’s features (like, you know, recipient privacy, among many orders) just because NIH would be a massive disservice to Nostr users. nostr:note1740xst5ld6j4djxkv3gqkdc0ctnxs0apu2wdmz92xnx7qhdvdg8sw2y88h

The website is open-source, though currently entirely static…IIUC to do those changes it would have to no longer be static :/

Easy-peasy

Yea, I don’t think I buy that we’ll be able to get our act together enough to start cryptographically signing things for reasonable authenticity. My hot take is this actually drives people back to mainstream media as arbiters of truth.

I can’t, cause others never shipped a fix so I shouldn’t disclose issues that aren’t mine.

Today you can see the lightning nodes that ship fixes for novel attacks quickly (eclair and LDK, which did some force closures as a result of the fix) and those that don’t respond to security issues after months.

I mean the power available to do that from inside a hardware wallet is probably not gonna make it far enough for much anyone to do much with it, doubly so if you only have a relatively limited time to get it through before you run out of power.

Sadly no implementation exists for Taproot AFAIK, but the BitBox folks have a PR to secp256k1-zkp at least.

Yea, I mean it’s not like anti-exfil is perfect it doesn’t have UX challenges in some specific use cases, would be great to have someone who doesn’t use it on, eg the Jade folks only use it when plugged in, not in air gapped mode.

Not as a full-timer, but I’ve helped several hardware wallets in the design stage and have built Bitcoin wallets (and basically every other kind of Bitcoin protocol) over the past ~14 years.