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Leo Wandersleb
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https://walletscrutiny.com https://nostr.info Working on Bitcoin, Nostr and being a good dad.

Grok is the arbiter of truth, right? This indeed is truthful, yet misleading 99% of Xitter users.

That's usually the assassination market reality. If you all bet "no" and Trump bets "yes" and then does it, he gets bribed and a huge incentive to pretend this would never ever happen, so people pile in to the no side.

It would be good to have a mechanism to let affected people know. Some 1-click suggestion dm.

Amounts received pretty certainly follow a pareto distribution. The long tail will never reach 10ksat/month.

I wonder if any page tracks this for current nostr in these terms.

Sorry but that's quite ignorant to suggest. Zaps for posts are truely zero sum. For 800.000.000 to be net earners you also need net payers.

You are a net earner because you are a known influencer in a niche. No network can afford even a fraction of that many influencers.

We celebrated lost coins as deflationary. And we controle bitcoin. Why should nocoiners get to find giant stashes of lost coins? That's why I say: we shouldn't shoulder the quantum frenzy.

Friends and family: May I give your plumber your telefone number or should I ask him for permission to give you his?

Also friends and family: Let's see who of my contacts is also playing this random new game I just installed.

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Imagine a future where lost, vulnerable coins are a $50T honeypot. Is that the prize we want to offer for the first Quantum Computer out of our collective pockets?

Bitcoiners shouldn't be the ones sponsoring the quantum frenzy.

We aren't freezing funds to "save" them like we would for Saylor vs. The State. We are freezing them because lost coins must remain lost. Loss is deflationary - quantum "mining" lost coins is inflationary.

With years of notice, the deal is simple: Move your coins to quantum-safe addresses, or thank you for your donation to the deflationary supply.

I don't think I ever will. My follows are my filter. I'd rather like some more content they engage with, like through reactions.

nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp proposed using bip32 for ownership proofs here already: https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/uEaf4bj07rE/m/RMkPWnrSBwAJ

"allow recovery of legacy UTXOs through ZK proof of possession of BIP-39 seed phrase."

Given seed phrase to masterseed many expensive hashes, the solution is probably somewhere in between. Also I'm not sure about post quantum zero knowledge proofs.

My proposal is the caveman approach but it's certainly feasible for unfreezing coins if we freeze them in a panic fork. Users could then access their coins or wait for some future fork that can give them their coins and preserve their privacy.

Can't wait to see a standard emerge!

What Rabble did with divine - make legacy content available on the newcomer - is what will also drive a github replacement.

If github on nostr remains an add-on, it will fail. If I can find all projects on one (nostr enabled) tool regardless if hosted on codeberg, selfhosted gitea or github, we will win.

For me it's not about the perfect emulation of GitHub code reviews or AI integration. Discoverability is key to network effects.

"The bounty" is huge and I trust nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2ap0qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kytc79p4zh will honor it if somebody delivers something serious. And discoverability to me would be the top metric. If self-hosted becomes an option for young devs building their portfolio, we win.

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Backups in 5 relays are probably safer than on 2 relays and your hard drive. Just make sure it remains 5 over time.

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I had an ad open since a year or so and now somebody contacted me on it. Our "common friend" is the mailbox number. WTH? Might this and maybe other numbers be worthy of black-listing for the purpose of friend-of-a-friend estimates?

Also, as a beginner I did not understand that this was the most important information I should have looked for given my ad was limited to "friends of friends". Maybe that "common friend" should be zero clicks away, not one?

With our Chilean provider it would show up on their website shortly and I wonder how they could do this otherwise, as people would bombard them with calls. Bet you found out eventually.

Networks matter.

How about: Bots can bootstrap the illusion of valuable networks. People in search of entering valuable networks will fall for these.

There are countries that do not honor IP laws. Iran for example. So it's probably not only IP but also actual trade secrets.

Oh, that got me thinking. At WalletScrutiny we dismiss deeper analysis of custodial products as the custodian has full control, thus it's on him to keep the funds safe but with eCash the custodian almost can't exercise any discretion to protect the user.

Let's say somebody would backdoor some popular eCash client to then trigger a "send all funds to me", what could a mint do about it? nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg have there been any such considerations? Are there mints that would lock funds all of a sudden thousands of IPs would ask to send to the same address? As mints don't send to addresses but to invoices I doubt it would even be possible. The mint would simply detect a sudden surge in activity.

For WalletScrutiny that means that we either can treat eCash as worse than custodial (they can rug you but also cannot protect you against your wallet rugging you) or as "yeah, custodial but popular and vulnerable to both custodian and client, so we better scrutinize the wallets".

I don't see knots on https://bitnodes.io/dashboard/1y/

Nodes on .onion vs. IP:

.onion grew 26% while IP grew 13%.

Around 39% of the U.S. violent crime prison population is black. The rate of arrest for violent crimes is also 38% black. Might it be the US has a crime problem and not a particular black problem?

This case's offender clearly stood out many times but the stats matching tells me that there is no racial bias to keep black offenders out of prison.

Lastly, prison for life is unnecessarily expensive. Violent crime peaks at a young age and is barely committed by people aged 45 or older. To keep people locked away after 55 should really be reserved for actual murderers or otherwise very extreme cases.

So what are your policy suggestions? Pre-crime put away all blacks? Should we also put away all men that are also drastically over-represented in violent crime?

A thing I could get behind is to put away all gang members that are actually more over-represented among violent offenders than blacks or young men.

Lastly, the whole "put them away" thing is also very popular in the US already, so they are doing something wrong but it's certainly not that they don't put away enough people.

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WiFi signals can measure heart rate, no wearables needed

The Pulse-F system enables highly accurate, clinical-level heart rate monitoring using ultra-low-cost WiFi devices, making it useful for low-resource settings.The system works with the person in various positions and from up to 10 feet away, demonstrating its versatility and robustness.Heart rate is a crucial health indicator, providing insights into physical activity, stress, anxiety, hydration levels, and more.Traditional heart rate measurement requires wearables, but the Pulse-F system offers a non-intrusive alternative using household WiFi devices.The technology was developed by engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and demonstrated using low-cost WiFi devices like ESP32 chips ($5-$10) and Raspberry Pi chips ($30).The system combines WiFi devices with a machine learning algorithm to distinguish even the faintest signal variations caused by a human heartbeat.Experiments with 118 participants showed that after only five seconds of signal processing, heart rate could be measured with clinical-level accuracy.The Pulse-F system performed accurately regardless of the equipment's position in the room or the participant's posture, including sitting, standing, lying down, or walking.The researchers created their own dataset to train the machine learning algorithm, as no existing data for these patterns using an ESP32 device was available.Future research aims to extend the technology to detect breathing rate in addition to heart rate, which can be useful for detecting conditions like sleep apnea.

https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/09/pulse-fi-wifi-heart-rate/

Cool but also creepy. They already can measure the pulse while walking? If that doesn't mean the sensor also knows about the walking I'd be surprised. How long before this can be used for even more spying into every home via the phones? Will youtube monitor my heart rate while watching clips to better detect what grabs my attention?

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But I find the fatalism exaggerated. Even if the last bull run was 90% flowing into Wall Street products, these can only do fractional reserve to an extent. Let's say Coinbase sold twice the Bitcoins there were, what would that mean? That would mean that if we manage to expose the scam now or soon, Coinbase will go under, not Bitcoin. People using custodial services will go under, not self-custodial hodlers. Most of the cost will be paid by those who don't understand or support bitcoin as it should be. Only if the cypherpunks give up and hand over their coins for cheap will Bitcoin die. Use the remaining economic fire power to fight now!

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Is that more consistent now? 5 years ago it was hit and miss. If you want control, use the rollout percentage. Roll it out to only a hand full of test users and get instant increments when you see it being approved.