Make #Bitcoin #Privacy a #FirstClassCitizen again.
Need to get hold of the latest whirlpool cli which includes soroban decentralisation. I hadn't gotten around to updating my whirlpool dojo so I'm out in the cold for now as far as coinjoin is concerned :P
Either way, Samourai managed to get Soroban whirlpool out in the wild just before this happened, so it's just a case of finding a way in and spreading the code.
#AskNostr #Development #DNS
Are there any nostr-based DNS projects?
#Tor will only go so far.
Make a #Privacy a #FirstClassCitizen of #Bitcoin again.
I don't think any of us can truly see far enough to understand where things will end up - But truth of the matter is this is the next best time to take action and help steer things in the direction we want - Through consensus we overcome the negatives of personal agendas.
I'm looking for a revival of the Bitcoin privacy advocacy and cypherpunk values in the coming months and years.
Having followed the Samourai devs for years, they knew this was going to happen - And I for one am looking forward to the fight they're going to put up because they won't go down easy. Their fight may be a catalyst for privacy-minded individuals to 'hoist the colors.'
Samourai devs also picked a lot of fights with a lot of other developers when they saw non-privacy implementations of code in privacy-focused services - Their biggest fight was probably with Wasabi Wallet. Years later and we now know Wasabi censors transactions and via chain analysis users of their mixing service have been deanonimised. Yet Samourai get insulted left right and center because of their abrasiveness... Divisive at a communtiy level, but actions must speak louder.
They weren't assholes, they were OG maxis in the sense that they were absolutely uncompromising in everything they tried to do, and they were very vocal about that fact - For better or wose.
That is, until they turned to Monero for some extra help on the privacy front becausee Bitcoin wasn't moving as fast they'd like/
Most people however, seem to confuse lack of compromise (and absolute maximalism, especially at a time when maximalism wasn't a popular term) with arrogance.
Personally, I find it sad and absolutely disrespectful to call them assholes when 10 years later their now dead-in-the-water wallet seems to be the ONLY wallet in the Bitcoin ecosystem to apply certain privacy techniques you just don't see anywhere else. That's the real sad part. It's a huge loss for Bitcoin in general.
This.
You're either here to fight for your rights, or you're not and you stand to give up everything.
Help is on the way...
With a 1,000,000 sat minimum payout with Ocean, it will not be a very frequent payment in your case.
Lightning will do away with the minimum payout. Minimum payouts are in place due to on-chain fees.
Point #hashrate to nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7un9d3shjt3s0p3ksct59e3k7mf0qy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjctzd3jjummjvuhsz8thwden5te0wfjkccte9ekh2arfdeuhwctvd3jhgtnrdakj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz8nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ehx7um5wgh8w6tjv4jxuet59e48qtcqyqpdnat8dlluxw0la9xl4vuta03pecghcmc4p8vey25z6320ggx6yxp3q3c or other solo mining pools.
NOW.
#Money Laundering is a #Lie.
It's the term for justified privacy removal and criminalization of money use in the eyes of governments.
Want a better one?
Anyone who's been transacting in #Bitcoin for long enough with specificity such as paying attention to coin-control, using same-amount UTXOs and so on AND/OR has used #Lightning (uh-oh...) is essentially #mixing #BTC.
We're all criminals now, apparently.
Have to disagree there... When it comes to password management, 1Password just doesn't fit the bill. They're source-viewable, but doesn't seem like you can do much with the available pieces of source code. And it's not self-hostable. Not saying everyone would want to, but the option, when it comes to passwords, is quite an important one. Not being open source as a password manager just means I *can't* even trust a third party with such things.
In the opposite end of the spectrum, Bitwarden has all the right ingredients down to reproducible builds.
Same here. Over the past two years managed to move my work's servers from Windows hosts to Proxmox, and not a single windows machine at home.
#Samourai were the only ones for the longest time developing privacy as a first-class citizen into a #Bitcoin wallet.
With techniques like Stonewall, Ricochet, etc, UTXO/coin control management, tor integration since early on - To all #wallet developers out there - The bar has been raised, out of pure necessity.
Also, DON'T mix KYC with non-KYC.
Wasabi coinjoin implementation is weak and they're known to censor transactions + work with chain analysis companies.
You never shared any private keys with samourai, so that's not the case. Anyone using samourai has their funds as long as they have their seed phrase.
The same day the #Samourai arrests are announced, people celebrate #KYC Bitcoin with #Strike (Great software, but.....).
If developers are being arrested for writing code, specifically now as governments push against #Bitcoin, do you really think they'll not pressure you?
Get ready, fight's just beginning, and KYC-Free sats are your only shield.