I just created a Python 'safebox' component where it can connect to any relay for proof storage and any mint for issuing/redeeming tokens.

The safebox can receive funds via the mint and send funds to any lightning address.

The only thing 'local' for the safebox is the nsec, which you can pick up and take anywhere. So long as you know the nsec and know the relay(s) you have access to your ecash.

TENNESSEE ATTORNEY GENERAL JONATHAN SKRMETTI JOINED US AT THE PARK A FEW WEEKS AGO TO DISCUSS THE LEGAL ENVIRONMENT FOR OPEN SOURCE DEVS IN AMERICA.

HE WILL BE ON CITADEL DISPATCH TOMORROW AT 2100 UTC. JOIN US IN THE INTERACTIVE LIVE CHAT. 🫡

The US just recommended a 30-year prison sentence for alleged Bitcoin Fog operator Roman Sterlingov.

Sterlingov's case became known as the case to "put cryptocurrency tracing on trial", as much of the evidence presented was collected using Chainalysis' blockchain analysis software Reactor – The prosecution "haven’t pointed to any smoking-gun digital evidence retrieved from Sterlingov’s possessions or devices", as WIRED reported following Sterlingov's arrest.

Chainalysis described Sterlingov's guilty verdict as setting precedent for "Chainalysis blockchain analytics being used by prosecutors as evidence when they take criminals to court", arguing that the verdict "affirms the ways in which our solutions have become the industry standard, made possible by our partners in government who use our tools everyday to fight illicit activity".

The only problem: experts believe that the government's got the wrong guy, and that the jury has convicted a user of Bitcoin Fog as its operator – arguing that Chainalysis' tools are "flawed" and "shouldn't be trusted to convict defendants when they face decades in prison".

2024 is the year of dangerous precedents in which not just your right to privacy is on the line, but the very question of how much science matters in a court of law when it comes to BTC.

All the tea:

I'm gonna tell you a life hack.

- go to duckduckgo

- open their AI chat thing

- choose one of 4 models (got 4o mini is great)

- chat with that thang

Free. No tracking. No accounts. Open source models included. Did I say free? And no accounts.

I have an OpenAI account but this is the only thing I've been using for a few weeks. Privacy feels great.

For as long as I code, I will contribute to #Bitcoin as a medium of exchange. Satoshis must flow to all humans around the world.

If it is a Bitcoin conference, it must accept $BTC!