Satoshi chose DOUBLE Sha256 hash, as it offers some extra security over simple Sha256.
In my simple, XOR-based encryption project I chose DOUBLE XOR-ing for extra security :D
GM.
Chapter 13 of Broken Money is called "Heavy is the Head that Wears the Crown".
It focuses on the US trade deficit and why it arises structurally. In short, since the USD is the global reserve currency (for reserve assets, international contracts, FX trading pairs, and cross-border funding), there is tremendous automatic demand for USD in the world compared to other fiat currencies.
To supply the world with that ever-growing need for USD to service all sorts of needs, the United States runs structural trade deficits with the rest of the world. That's how the USD spills out to the rest of the world for them to use. And the mechanism for that is that the overvalued USD boosts Americans' import power, reduces Americans' low-margin export competiveness, and basically forces open that trade deficit.
That trade deficit is the cost of maintaining the benefits USD system as currently structured. The fatal flaw is that those who bear the cost (e.g. industrialists in the Rust Belt) are not the same as those to gain the benefits (e.g. Wall Street and Washington DC folks). And those costs and benefits accumulate over decades, resulting in rising populism and pushback, which is now front and center.
The challenge that the administration faces is that they have identified a real problem, but are tackling the surface issues rather than the underlying structural issues.
Anyway, I uploaded that chapter 13 on my website for free reading:
https://www.lynalden.com/wp-content/uploads/broken-money-chapter-13.pdf
I happened to just read Ch. 13 of Broken Money, a few days ago, just before this tariff tsunami started. It's got very relevant background information, very helpful, I've been recommending this chapter to folks.
Brilliant content, brilliant move to make it available for free now!
Correct, it was Fedimint, not a Cashu mint, I remember now. But it's history now unfortunately.
I remember now, it was through a Fedimint, not a Cashu mint.
What about a bolt like bolt 12 but with a fallback to create eCache tokens if the recipients node is offline. When the node comes back online, the proofs are melted and paid to the node.
nostr:nprofile1qqsrf5h4ya83jk8u6t9jgc76h6kalz3plp9vusjpm2ygqgalqhxgp9gpzfmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82cspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejqd2970s nostr:nprofile1qqs9pk20ctv9srrg9vr354p03v0rrgsqkpggh2u45va77zz4mu5p6ccpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgkwaehxw309a5xjum59ehx7um5wghxcctwvshszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qrxnfk #lightning #dev #ecash
Anything out there in the wild like this?
Isn't this what Mutiny wallet did? (shortly before they abandoned the project...)
All Lightning wallets could have ecash support.
All Lightning node implementations could have a Cashu mint add-on option.
Looks like the Cashu plugin for BtcPayServer is coming along 🎉
Toilet paper is actually useless
https://relay.utxo.one/bdab1a076d24ebc11fb7150d3b9b1e9908faf7df878e322abe0141a86b66a074.mp4
This is also practical:
Toilet paper is actually useless
https://relay.utxo.one/bdab1a076d24ebc11fb7150d3b9b1e9908faf7df878e322abe0141a86b66a074.mp4
This is also practical:
This bitcoin mining difficulty increase is BRUTAL
Glad you reposted this my fren. I’ve been working a good bit in this area. 👀
I don’t use SatShoot tho. Mind if I DM you nostr:npub1kxgpwh80gp79j0chc925srk6rghw0akggduwau8fwdflslh9jvqqd3lecx?
Sure, you can DM me! Sounds great!
Hey Nostr,
Please help me with this issue and I can pay sats for your time:
## Refactor website to pre-rendering, https://github.com/huszonegy/huszonegy.github.io
The task is described in this GitHub issue:
https://github.com/huszonegy/huszonegy.github.io/issues/221
I also copy the description here:
This is the website of https://huszonegy.world -- Hungarian bitcoin-only community. This is a relatively small, static-content website, with no dynamic content, database, or login.
Technically, it is built with vite and vue, and it is dynamically generated, in the sense that the delivered HTML page contains only scripts, and the content is filled only inside the client browser.
The problem is that this setup is not very search-engine (SE) friendly, as many SE's don't handle such dynamic context.
The goal is to refactor the website, with as minimal changes as possible, such that the full HTML content can be generated pre-deployment time.
Expectations:
- deployed HTML files contain the actual content (not just placeholders to be filled in dynamically by javascript code)
- minimal change, preferably still based on vite/vue
- friendly with GitHub Pages hosting, ideally deployable by simple copy (but minimal hooks are acceptable).
Make an offer on this URL:
#satshoot #asknostr #vite #web #vike #vue #seo
An EMOJI picker without a text search is just useless
We have the great projects of #BDK, #LDK, #NDK, #CDK -- shoutout to all the contributors!
We only need a few more:
ADK, DDK, EDK, FDK, GDK, HDK, IDK, JDK, KDK, MDK, ODK, PDK, QDK, RDK, SDK, TDK, UDK, VDK, WDK, XDK, YDK and ZDK.
Onwards!
On Blind vs. Validating Signers:
If you have access to a signer that blindly signs everything, it's as good as if you had access to the private key itself, even though the private key never leaves the signer!
That's why a signer needs to validate -- either by the user, or by algorithm.
Cypherpunks use and write open source code. But cypherpunks don't much care about licenses or copyright.
GPL is a neat idea, but not a cypherpunk idea, as it based on copyright and court system to enforce it.
Love the painting on the wall in the bg ❤️