The main project hasn't received a meaningful update since 2022.

One of the more active forks however is Helium314's:

https://github.com/Helium314/openboard

There are some changes from the main openboard project listed on the main page.

Big upcoming events may affect the mempool greatly very, very soon.

Fees right now are fairly low compared to what we've had in the last few months, so get your affairs in order people!

Here's a friendly reminder to consolidate your UTXOs and get rid of your doxxic change.

Getting ready for the new stacking cycle....

The new next stop after mixing.

https://samouraiwallet.com/sentinel

There are individuals that are trying to write laws for Bitcoin in order to regulate it.

These individuals do not understand, the bitcoin protocol IS the law. It lays out what can and cannot be done.

You cannot marry Bitcoin to the legacy financial system. It won't work in the long-run, and we're already starting to see the cracks (such as the recent US tax reporting amendment for BTC transfers).

Countries write laws for themselves, not for others. A country cannot write a law for cyberspace and even hope to enforce it.

That's an exchange problem as well though. They should give you the option, as any wallet worth its salt does. I'm aware of the large multi-user UTXO TXs that exchanges do, but when it's costing both them and the user more, then the design of withdrawals should be revisited.

Worth noting, fees are expecting to increase anyway, as that helps sustain L1 ops in the future. It just so happened to happen a little earlier than anyone expected.

You don't deposit any fiat on Bisq.

Instead, it's done via an escrow system, with multisig'd security deposits of BTC.

The fiat transaction happens separately. This way, there is no fiat information outside of the fiat system itself.

As an example, via Revolut as the fiat payment method you can even pay without any of the peers exchanging any payment info.

Along with this there is a mediation system.

Either way, the end-state is that on the fiat-side it looks like a regular TX, with no connection to BTC at all.

As for requiring BTC beforehand, Bisq has a Matrix room where a tradce for the initial minimum amount for security deposits on the bisq market can take place P2P and mediated by the admins.

Anyone else having trouble accessing the public instance for mempool.space?

https://mempool.space

The last line is the focal point I'm trying to get across, because over the years I've seen many mentions of it, but one thing is to always take it as "Glad I'm still early!", another is to fast-forward and realise your most loved ones were late, and you see the consequences.

Guess I'm a fucking criminal.

Never agreed with their law overall anyway, so seems like it was bound to happen. Let's fucking go.

Keep fighting the good fight.

Personally, I've attempted to orange-pill family for many years. I am now of two minds, one of which I'm certain will win in the end.

a) They were indoctrinated their whole life into believing they cannot live without government support. From then on, anything that detaches them from the government, such as money, becomes a tribulation. Their idea of freedoms is true, justified, and realized, but ultimately limited, and hence, immediately incorrect to us who see beyond the lie, beyond the Matrix.

b) Wait. Wait for things to worsen, because they will. Personally over the years I've accrued as much bitcoin as I can, mainly thinking about myself and my immediate family, but also thinking about my parents and siblings if the need arises. And when the time comes, either one is able to offer a hand, or they're simply not, and that is the way of life. I imagine many people saw themselves in similar shows when previous currencies were debased. Navigate it the best you can.

By Mastadon I meant Reddit to Lemmy, but same issues go for mastadon for people who moved from Twitter.

I find this embarrasing honestly.

As a community that prides itself in fostering the Bitcoin ethos (At least that's the way I see it and personally action as such), after the exodus' we've seen over last year from reddit, to twitter and other centralised services, people wanted an alternative but they did not question why it happened in the first place. "Brilliant - Let's move from one centralised platform when these issues, to another centralised platform, with exactly the same issues!".

I saw a bunch of people move from Twitter to Rumble or Reddit to Mastadon.

Mastadon is prone to the exact same issues (more even, considering account data is attached to administration and that admin itself is even more scattered in the form of instances, which itself means we see smaller instance failures more often, but also means more people are more often affected).

As for Rumble, fast-forward a couple months and they've shutdown services in Brazil due to state pressure.

The people leading these moves had no forethought, at all. And again, those are just 2 high-profile examples. There are many more, and they're bound to hit a brick wall again.

How can you even suggest KYC is the only way when I gave TWO non-KYC options? Not to mention the numerous guides on why and how out on the web.

The fact people are getting credited in fiat, be it from Mt. #Gox, #FTX, or any other #CEX should be enough to make everyone stay away.

If you use a CEX, and when this happens to you, you won't be part of the 21 million club. The #Bitcoin on the timechain will not be assigned to you in any way. You will be given fiat.

In the case of FTX, they were given fiat value from a year prior, THEY LOST value compared to where BTC is/was at time of crediting.

Not your keys, nor your coins.

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From experience, most of them are in it to sell for fiat.

Hodl yours sats.

Or just stack with no KYC.

Bisq for larger purchases & Robosats for DCA.

Marrying one's sats to the fiat system only brings risk.

I think for those that weren't around, price discovery between 2010-2016 is lost on some people because we've zoomed out too much.

I think at this point if we want to communicate how halving (other factors) affected price discovery, we need two graphs. The second is as it is for the years 2016-2023.

The first however, has a pricing axis of only up to $1000.

Looking to stack more sats?

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Cheap.

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Best of all, NO KYC.

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Absolutely, but I also believe bridging the gap with a little proof of work, and using services like nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 which offer full custody of your sats.

Does it mean you need to learn a little on what a channel is and how to open it? Sure, but you get full custody.

I never trust software nor hardware that can't be verified.

I trust software to an extent IF it can be verified.

But even so, if there are options to self-host, I will.

If there are options to pull as much responsibility onto myself, I will.

As for hardware, I always custom-flash everything I get my hands on so that the potential attack surface for hardware becomes minimised to, potentially and hopefully, physical backdoors. I then secure said hardware.

If I can't secure something, if I can't trust something, I consider it disposable. I don't consider my sats disposable. And every time I zap something, I mean it, knowing full well what future-wealth I may be giving away.