Trump apparently called bitcoin a scam. Then the assets he thought were his were taken from him in a political attack. I wonder if he understands bitcoin better now?
https://themessenger.com/politics/trump-appeals-fraud-ruling-business-empire-dissolved
It's great to see Unchained pushing the bitcoin industry closer to a multi-institution multisig model that will reduce the potential for the mismanagement of client bitcoin.
I believe this will be the standard demanded by the market in the long run.
https://tftc.io/martys-bent/the-new-bitcoin-custody-standard-is-being-set/
Needs to be multi-jurisdictional too. Ideally in countries that wouldn’t collude. Reduce the chance of regulatory abuse.
To be a serious tool, nostr needs IP privacy. Perhaps someone could add something like onion routing between the relays. Maybe pick three relays and route the message through the first two to be decrypted and posted by the third. Would make it a bit harder for govts to track your IP address to your posts.
So many questions 
It seems the CIA bribed their own analysts to deny it came from the Chinese lab and they secretly brought in Fauci to mislead the people investigators. Why? Because they funded it.
You were already thinking they were wasting your tax money … you just had no idea how bad it was. 
For those of you keeping score, how many conspiracy theories have become conspiracy truths? I’ve lost count.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/09/scientists-shocked-and-alarmed-at-whats-in-the-mrna-shots/
I don’t buy it. Personally, I believe Len Sassaman was probably Satoshi.
A govt initiative would have had more participants so more people who would leak or fight over (spend) some of the coins. Sassaman died around the time that Satoshi disappeared.
The paper referred to in that report was a David Chaum-type ecash system. Nothing like bitcoin. Sassaman was one of the OG cypherpunks so he would have been familiar with Adam’s hashcash / proof of work, etc.
It’s more likely Sassaman might disguise his name as Satoshi Nakamoto rather than a guy named Tatsuiaki Okamoto (who probably would have used “John Smilth”).
More on Sassaman:
https://evanhatch.medium.com/len-sassaman-and-satoshi-e483c85c2b10
Found the macro discussion to be really thought provoking. Raoul comes across like a WEF member, but I think he’s directionally correct on some things. Let me know what you think!
It’s my base case too. Just expecting a bumpy road in western countries as the world transitions.
It seems clear to me that both drivechains and liquid use a federation. The mechanics are different but in both cases there is a group that has the power to validate transactions and who can collude and steal funds. There is no free lunch.
When you set up your sidechain you can ask the big mining companies to be in your private federation. If you trust them as drivechain validators, you should trust them as your sidechain validators. No need to hack bitcoin and change the incentives of the core protocol.
Nothing wrong with sidechains. As you continue your studies, you’ll learn how Adam built a sidechain using a separate federation.
Go build your sidechain. Just don’t propose to hack bitcoin or give miners powers they don’t currently have.
That’s right!
When you’re in the house, it’s better to have a sawed off shotgun for close combat fighting.
This is so obvious it hurts. I can’t believe we’re still discussing big blocks and bitcoin can’t scale.
Not problems:
+ scaling
+ security budget
+ lack of shitcoinery features
Actual problem: self custody
+ normies are scared of losing keys
+ no private inheritance
When someone says something is “too late” and “we’re stuck”, I interpret that as meaning it can’t be fixed. Thanks for clarifying.
“We fucked it up by not listening to Satoshi……
It’s already to late and now we’re suck…”
Yes, you said we fucked it up and now it’s too late. We didn’t and it’s not.