Rules that are not being enforced cannot be enforced selectively neither. I'm not a lawyer but I think this is a pretty widely accepted principle.

If a company doesn't allow you to use your company email for private email so they can later go through your email when you're not around anymore, they have to punish employees that use their email for private stuff when it comes to the company's attention. If they don't, they lose the right to go through these emails to use them against the employee in a court for example.

I'm well aware of TEEs in general. SGX being one implementation of TEE doesn't fix the concerns I have with TEEs in general.

Would you mind sharing what Mercury is about even if your question was not for me cause I'm somewhat often asked about these trade-offs and if there is some new thing in town, I'd like to know if it changes anything about my assumptions.

You are throwing terms around that I would have to google.

Apparently you are talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Guard_Extensions and not the Singapore Exchange.

"Mercury" though ... ??

I'm in the camp that sees e-cash as clearly custodial so there's no argument to be had about sgx fixing anything.

Now if trusted software was running on SGX to manage the mint, you could maybe gain some assurance that the software used for issuance of tokens was not tampered with but that only means that you now have to trust SGX and not the people who run the mint. Certainly better than without a TEE assuming you had doubts about the people running the mint but they keep controlling the BTC so if you don't trust them ... they can still rug-pull you ... or not? If the BTC keys are only in the TEE maybe not? It all depends on how the TEE is being used.

Either way I wouldn't trust it neither as probably TEEs like SEs in hardware wallets run closed source software and I don't trust closed source software. Getting rugged by those who control the TEE isn't better than getting rugged by those who run the mint.

René is well deserving of a grant. Is he on nostr though? 🤔

Just shitposting.

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So could we use this for simpler zaps? Instead of the recipient that has to be a LN server behind a domain name, we can publish locked nuts? Can the keys be nostr keys? Can others verify with the mint if these nuts actually are valid for the intended recipient?

ZAPs now: Alice pays LN payment to Bob's online LN node. Bob's LN node sends a nostr event to acknowledge the payment.

ZAPs then: Alice includes nuts in her message to Bob. Anybody can verify with the mint or Bob once he reclaims the nuts publishes his own ZAP1.0 event attesting to the sats received.

Report an issue with your client. NoStrudel users not affected.

In NoStrudel it isn't even clickable:

Yeah, I got that DM but who clicks it? Did nostr:npub18dlusgmprudw46nracaldxe9hz4pdmrws8g6lsusy6qglcv5x48s0lh8x3 click that link? 🤦

It's not only relays. Any file hoster can, too.

The trick with keto is not the protein but the fat.

The goal everybody knows about is "low carb" but most think that means you eat filet all day every day. I eat the most fatty meat and as my family members often don't like the fat, I eat theirs, too. You need some protein but not for energy. For energy you need fat.

7 years ago I discovered keto and I lost 20kg in a year. The great thing is you can always eat as much as you want and you still lose weight if you stick to extreme low carb even without any exercise at all.

I do not live alone and the others are not on my diet, so there's always temptations around. Chocolate, Nutella, cookies, cake ... and I had gained 10kg on these temptations but with discipline I'm currently at -15kg.

Add Bukele to that list ;)

I always thought that personal responsibility will never win a public vote against collectivists as the latter by definition are better at rallying for a common cause, so yes, Milei winning fascinates me.

All successful politicians are most likely psychopaths and would kill to have things their way so no, I don't trust any of them but Milei in this case got a lot of attention sharing values I highly appreciate. I don't love the messenger but I sure do love the message.

Has anybody understood why Milei was invited to Davos? Did they expect anything different from him? How is he a "friend of Klaus Schwab" or was that just a false claim by a random podcaster I heard? Or was the speech in some Machiavellian sense part of WEF's strategy?

Adding the next bracket of cheaper transactions and looking at 30 days makes the green triangle stand out even more.

So somebody adds at a constant rate transactions in the 30-40sat/vB range since at least a week. Or is it not even constant rate but constant increase, as it looks like once transactions in that bracket were mined, the pool was filled again to match the trend?

I suspect, Bitcoin mining space heaters will never actually be a thing apart from maybe in the polar circles.

If you are willing to invest in anything more expensive than a cable resistor aka electric space heater, heat pumps beat ASICs in every aspect. You get at least double the heating per Watt and the hardware is not high maintenance and obsolete after a year. So you spend less than 50% on electricity and investing the other 50% of electricity cost on buying sats beats any ASIC most of the time.