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Luke
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Bitcoin class of 2011. Sci-fi Author since Birth. He who dies with the most Bitcoins wins.

Adding that kind of complexity to the base code is 1001 headaches waiting to happen... I doubt any serious devs would undertake such an upgrade. Not to mention, how many node runners would download that frankencore version? Not all bitcoin node runners are privacy advocates; some just want to earn more dollars.

The proper way to decentralize this is joinmarket's approach. Joinmarket is a P2P network, with no central point of failure that I have seen. It's based on the Coinjoin protocol, which is, like bitcoin, truly open source & distributed.

Both Samourai and Wasabi have implemented the coinjoin protocol in their products too, so some were very surprised to see that the fedcoats would come after a company that just implemented open source code... But honestly I'm not surprised that they did. They don't care about what you use, only that they can find someone to stick in a cage. Neanderthals.

Joinmarket doesn't (appear to, so far) have anyone to stick in a cage. Just 61 volunteer contributors on github.

https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver

Century of the Self (BBC, 4 hours)

It shows how Sigmund Freud's nephew created Public Relations and the commercialistic society we live in today. This effected everything from politics to corn flakes, even inventing santa claus & all kinds of odd marketing tricks.

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Ok I've built this for fun and it's incredible.

A Cashu gateway: it's a normal Cashu user who has a Lightning node (or another Lightning payment backend). Everyone can act like a gateway as long as the mint supports ecash HTLCs (NUT-15).

If you as a Cashu user know of such a gateway, your wallet can send your Lightning payment request to it instead of to the mint.

The gateway responds with an amount (it can take a fee). If you agree, you send it ecash, and it pays your Lightning invoice. The process is atomic.

What does that mean? Let's think a little ahead and imagine this was deployed on a significant scale.

Even if the mint is full KYC for peg-in and peg-outs, a user could still make Lightning payments anonymously with the help of other users.

(!!! this alone would be huge !!!)

This would also enable us to make on-chain-only mints which opens up a whole new way of building mints (reserves could be in a multisig for example).

Crazy part: Gateways can be lazy and use custodial Lightning backends. The user doesn't care as long as the invoice gets paid.

Yes. That means you could use your Strike or Blink or LNbits account to act as a Gateway for a Cashu mint you like.

There could be many of crazy people like you. Nobody would ever know. Neither the mint. nor your LN service provider would notice. They all just see invoices.

It gets weirder. Gateways could use *another Cashu mint* as an LN backend. I know sounds like an inception nut but bare with me.

A user of mint M1 can ask a gateway of mint M1 to pay an invoice. The gateway could pay the invoice via mint M2 and receive ecash from M1 in return.

I always thought "you could run a mint for a thousand users on a Strike or a Blink backend without them even noticing the smallest thing".

Now I think you could probably run a mint for 100k users without them noticing, if there are other gateways handling payments for everyone.

Note: this is still experimental. Only paying works right now over the gateway, not receiving (more complicated).

The bast part though is that it doesn't require any Cashu protocol changes and the mints don't have to give you permission to do this.

It's all pretty nuts.

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You must be mistaken. I've heard many prominent shitcoiners and nocoiners both explain to me in great detail that development for bitcoin is dead.

Not convinced.

I've probably had around 50 Metric tons of white, processed sugar in my teas and coffees alone since I was 4. Add to that all the sugar from candy, cakes, and soda? You'd have to measure it in planetary mass percentages.

I'm pretty sure that taking one or two pounds of coke over that same timeframe would literally end me.

Asimov should have written: "Any sufficiently advanced government conspiracy is indistinguishable from a crackpot conspiracy theory."

If the browser works for you then there's no reason to stop. - But don't trust that bitcoin wallet nor any of their future promises... They're on record as being major liars & hypocrites.

My bet is that if she was smart enough to do this, then she was smart enough to get the mortality stats on all the patients to her hospital and show those to the court... And wouldn't you know it, her patients actually lived while the others didn't do so well.

Somehow "I told you so" just doesn't cover it. The drama we had over these shitcoiners during their launch back in 2015 was epic... Yet so prophetic.

They were the 1st scammers to say "We love Bitcoin, buy my shitcoin."

Didn't Elon just soft-announce fees for all new users to post?

So basically all new users could come here.

I guess biz insider doesn't consider investing in bitcoin "saving" yet.

More stacking for us, Lol.

I've been to this one, it's at the Austrian summer palace. Incredible garden.

Do you have any idea how small your market is?

In the US alone, you'd have a few thousand people (who are perceived as "radical domestic terrorists" by the mainstream) appreciate Nostr for this, while the other 330 Million people all call for their arrest.

You'd certainly put nostr on the map... Just not in the way you're hoping.