mining the DMs for content
This LedgerX spread is unreal, did a market maker get liq'd or is this just what the looks like in a post-SEC lawsuit world?
Join us tomorrow, Thursday, June 8th, 6 PM at @PubKey_NYC at 85 Washington Place!
We'll be talking about tumbling, mixing, Chainalysis, the strange case of Roman Sterlingov and Alexey Pertsev, peeling 🍌 and pooling 🌀, and all that jazz!
We talk about coins, we're based, it's Coinbased!
- Coinbase spent millions on an army of lobbyists to build a regulatory moat and crowd out competitors
- Hired many ex-SEC lawyers and even a former Senator in order to make use of their access to the State
- Helped contribute to the death of Jstark by reporting his transactions to German authorities
Seeing influencers crying as the SEC tries to take Coinbase down makes me grin a little
gm, Chainalysis is astrology for spooks
When my grandchildren ask me "when were you sure the dollar had lost", I'm going to say 2023, somewhere between the torrent of daily "de-dollarization isn't a big deal and also isn't happening" articles and that cashapp advertisement that advertised sats next to the $
Re: the PSBT dutch auctions - has anyone seen (and/or proposed) any non-ordinal use cases for these yet?
Anyone have takes to shill me on CivKit before I dive into it? (At first glace the 'KYP' oracles seem iffy to me.)
Booking tickets for Miami. Any nostr breakout events planned for Bitcoin 2023?
Both! I keep a small amount of sats on OpenDimes. They also make great birthday gifts and wedding presents.
Feels like a good day to mix and withdraw
I know no one wants to hear this, but those 'Women, Life, Freedom' protests we were all getting blasted by in Q4 2022/ Q1 2023? Psyop.
I'm noticing as Twitter withers away and nostr replaces it: the lack of algorithmic content makes it much more difficult to manufacture consent.
It's wild how many psyops I'm missing out on by just following friends / WoT.
POV: you weren't at PubKey for the meetup last night to hear us discuss soft fork activations
Things I'm hoping we'll talk about:
BIP 8 / BIP 9/ Speedy Trial
Inquisition
How do soft forks get activated, anyway?
PubKey, this Monday 4/3, 7 PM, see you there!
https://iris.to/note1eut6kd6nm6zzx2nyweae9kr68f03g6upratcz5yzzzgvmly4tj6smu6fzy
"Nearly all threshold ECDSA based TSS implementations are vulnerable to key extraction attacks despite having undergone multiple security audits."
TL,DR: Most MPC implementations appear to be vulnerable. Bitcoin users unaffected.
Thought exercise: if a nation-state actor decided to choke off all the exchange on-ramps and restrict or prohibit the exchange of BTC to fiat, what would you wish you had done differently? what would you wish you'd done sooner?
I think I would wish that I had used Bisq exclusively and mixed all my sats before sending to either cold storage or some physical bearer device (e.g. OpenDime, SatsCards). Which means I should probably start doing that right now.
Chokepoints, chokepoints everywhere https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-disables-access-to-pirated-content-on-its-ipfs-gateway-230324/