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Make the states great again. Move all unconstitutional federal powers back to state control. Enforce the 10th Amendment. Build cashu tools.

All federal outgoing money should flow through the treasury (I assume it already does) and within the treasury there should be an auditor that *requires* documentation on which law passed by congress this money derives from, and exactly who the recipient is and for what purpose the money is being sent.

This documentation should be on treasury.gov website for *anyone* to see.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant

Bhutan and El Salvador making outsized projections onto the future of global wealth.

EU looks cooked.

US holding steady, but I don’t believe the China numbers in BTC holdings or gold holdings.

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Given your infosec background, I'm sure what I am about to say is nothing new for you, so I am mostly speaking to "the room" here.

Yes, Lightning offers better privacy than Bitcoin when set up properly, but it also has a more complex system, equating to a larger attack surface. LN's privacy features are not automatic; users must understand and manage their privacy settings actively, which can lead to unintentional exposure of transaction details.

A fundamental privacy weakness persists in the asymmetric nature of Lightning transactions—the sender learns extensive details about the receiver's node, channels, and liquidity, while the receiver learns nothing about the sender. Plus, there's the persistent hassle of maintaining channel liquidity.

Even with proper setup, Lightning faces critical privacy vulnerabilities against global adversaries who can monitor network traffic—while individual participants can't see payment details, entities capable of monitoring internet connections can track payment flows by observing message patterns between nodes, making its privacy guarantees fundamentally weak against sophisticated surveillance.

Lightning falls well short of the anonymity provided by Monero with its stealth addresses, ring signatures, and RingCT—and soon, Full-chain Membership Proofs (FCMPs) will fix current vulnerabilities like the Exchange Attack Everywhere (EAE) attack. With FCMPs, every input will have a 100-million anonymity set, up from the current 16 Ring Signatures.

Where privacy is a concern, I still recommend Monero over Lightning for most people, as Monero's privacy features are built-in on the base layer and work by default.

cashu with professional “bitcoin banks” LN operators facilitating the money transfer is the privacy future.

Don’t like the custody trade off? Run your own node. Too difficult? Use a trusted mint.

It scales, it’s private, and it works right now.

The weird thing is, on most exchanges it’s listed as $btc.

Just trust me bro

Maybe the real reason to release $TRUMP and $$MELANIA was to accelerate the demise of altcoins.

Coinbase is complaining about compliance *because* of what these coins exposed (the ease of grift.)

The separation of Bitcoin and *all other “projects “* should be obvious to anyone paying attention.

Now we see who is truly dense. Exposing $XRP is an easy lift.

Arguing with a mob…

Bitcoin Nostr is mad because the US government is using bitcoin and putting “state stink” on it.

Bitcoin nostr is super mad because Trump is keeping their bitcoin and other seized crypto and not calling it an SBR.

Everything is good for bitcoin. In the end, the US Government will print north of $2T in 2025, which is literally all that matters. The dollar will be devalued.

Nothing stops this train!

Naive take, IMO.

Money laundering tools are like cigarettes in a prison to government types.

Your obv bias aside, I’ll add some nuance. The president cannot “buy” assets, federal government spending comes thru congress. I don’t think he can trade those altcoins for bitcoin either.

This “classification” of the seized assets seems to move all the assets into a protected bucket, hopefully with Lummis adding some ability to purchase.

3 years 363 days left. I’m sorry for your loss.

How many scammers are creating Ross Ulbrict nostr profiles to get the first mover zaps?

Funny to see if people zap this account thinking it goes to trump. The person who made the bot is a genius marketer.

Probably worth a thanks to the guy that signed the commutation. What’s his name again?

Everyone on nostr has a built in wallet at npub.cash.

Zap to @npub.cash and they keep the sats (cashu ecash) until she claims them.

Everyone should check their address to see if there's some free sats out there.

No, it was a self hosted LND.

I’m off the gram.

I think I figured it out tho.

Question about an LND node:

I have a bunch of small transactions (+1c, -3c, etc) on Zeus under transactions. I didn’t initiate these.

The show_forwards only lists 4 forwards in the same timeframe as 10+ transactions.

I don’t remember forwards showing in transactions on Zeus before.

I had my phone stolen and reset and spun up a new LND node so I wanna make sure these transactions aren’t some attacker testing liquidity.