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Chris Monetary Maximalist Eleutheropraxeology
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Sapere Aude! Educate yourself, do not trust, verify and act accordingly. Most importantly understand the individual uneasiness. Question everything! Study Eleutherology, Praxeology and BitCoin Advanced Bitcoin Mantras (from Bitcoiners for Bitcoiners): Study BitCoin Not your seed, not your UXTOs Not your regular node, not your rules Not your miner, not your network Not your selected pool, not your defense

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Sure. How can you proof that?

And by the way, finally answer following:

This is interesting, and is a possible way to embed messages inside anonymous payments, at the cost of transaction fees.

So if a payment contains a No-op string that says "Message encrypted for Public Key [xxx]: [yyyyy]" then that gets passed along to the destination? Or even "Cleartext message to recipient: [zzzzz]."

Of course the content of these messages - the [xxx] or [yyyyy] have nothing to do with Bitcoin, but they could be used as part of a layer on top of Bitcoin.

The reason I'm so interested in embedding messages is that they allow use of a "static" anonymity network like Freenet, rather than a "live" network like Tor or I2P. Live networks have exit nodes, a few of which can be compromised. If a government compromises 1% of all exit nodes, then they have a small chance of figuring out where a given site is hosted. So to use my Heroin Store example, they would send an N byte message to the store and watch all of their compromised exit nodes for N byte messages. They'd do this over a few hours, watching where N byte messages got sent to, eventually discovering the IP address of the store.

In a network like Freenet, data just floats around - there is no one machine where a website (for example) lives. You publish data to the cloud, and as long as people access it periodically, it stays around.

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Like it or not, the Bitcoin system faces the struggles of control taking; reduction of decentralization into an increment of

centralization.

Big pools are striving to become “the” nodes of Bitcoin, uniting again mining and storage activities while wiping out the non-mining nodes via equipment and operation cost increment.

To be able to retrain Bitcoin decentralization, people will need to run a regular Bitcoin node + a affordable mining device and connecting it to a public share hash rate pool.

Running at least a regular Bitcoin node wouldn’t be sufficient for self-defense and dealing with the challenges triggered by actors interested in the centralized vision for Bitcoin.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-miners-btc-price-98k-halving

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At a first glance, it looks like it is a lightweight Bitcoin full node (a node that only downloads the block headers instead of the entire history); thus, not useful for newcomer’s IBD phase, since it is not an archival full node. But I can be wrong. I’ve not done enough due diligence regarding that topic.