There's a whole book about it: https://www.amazon.com/Blocksize-War-controls-Bitcoins-protocol/dp/B08YQMC2WM
Definitely worth the read.
That's more of a protection against in-transit manipulation of the device.
The evil maid attack is just referring to anyone who has trusted access to your home or wherever you store your device, and who would therefore have opportunity to maliciously flash firmware that could leak your private key, such as the dark skippy attack. It could also be done by someone breaking into your home and gaining physical access to your device, but it's still called the evil maid attack regardless.
With a ColdCard, the indicator light turning red on boot-up is a dead giveaway that firmware that hasn't been signed by the manufacturer is currently running. There is no such safeguard on a SeedSigner.
So, yes. Verifying the signature on firmware you download and install yourself is a great protection when you can be absolutely certain that the firmware running is what you personally installed. But if that device is ever out of your sight, how can you be certain that the firmware is still what you installed?
Yeah, the block-size war really proved who is in charge of what "upgrades" get implemented on Bitcoin; namely the folks who run full-nodes and actually use them for transacting.
It is a story of how the plebs who run the nodes successfully defended the network from having a block-size increase forced on them by the big miners and exchanges. An increase that would have had a centralizing effect, since it would have meant running a node would require beefier and more expensive hardware that maybe the average pleb could no longer afford.
My dive into understanding Bitcoin got an interesting boost with nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev's podcast, Bitcoin Audible.
If you're a beginner, and a little paranoid, here's a good episode to extinguish some of those fears. I have a long journey ahead but I wanted to mark his first episode that I interacted with in the forever memory of Nostr.
Here's the link from nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5
This and the block-size war proved just how incredibly resilient Bitcoin is to attacks from both without and within.
Who wants an ecash token? I'm fooling around with nostr:nprofile1qqstxwlea9ah3u6kjjszu6a7lrnhqkfh8eptp2z6v0e9558tlkkl2rgpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpremhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet59u4kl3vp
#asknostr
Feel free to send some my way at dikaios1517@minibits.cash. Happy to reciprocate.
They really have! Nostr Wallet Connect is an incredible tool for the entire Lightning ecosystem, whether you use any of Alby's other services or not. Then they come out with Alby Hub, which is an incredibly versatile tool for self-custody lightning, whether you have your own node hardware or not. And now a native mobile wallet that connects WAY faster than most LNDHub wallets, because it leverages NWC.
Excited to see what they come up with next!
Some risk? Sir, you have approaching 15 Bitcoin in total capacity. Even assuming only ~1/2 of that is on your side of any given channel, that is far more money in a hot wallet than most plebs even own, let alone would be willing to have in a hot wallet.
So it's not just time and effort and decent hardware that is needed to run a profitable routing node. It's also a decent amount of capital outside of cold storage.
If you didn't know already, snort has an android app
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=social.snort.app
NIP-46 and/or NIP-55, please sir.
Wen NIP-46 and/or NIP-55 login support so we can use our regular npub without giving the app our nsec or being forced to use a random nsec/npub?
I was today years old when I learned that nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg has an app 🙈
Still no support for NIP-46 or NIP-55 login, though. nostr:nprofile1qqszy58kj62v9fpe98nhuh0q76np4e0r0g0wd44rhth3wphdnyqjfzcpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwashvmrpddjjucm0d5q3samnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwdhx7un59eek7cmfv9kqurnrls
noStrudel is probably the most full featured of all the web apps, but yeah, some of the UI elements are annoying.
Coracle is probably my favorite for how it looks and how much control I have over my feed, but I miss being able to have a variety of reactions.
Another one to try out is satellite.earth
Really wish he shipped a web app.
https://fountain.fm/episode/vJ5gfuWv2qzrbsBagHmu
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What web app are you currently using? I have really been liking ditto.pub and noStrudel.ninja
This event is approaching fast! Hope to see a lot of #Bitcoiners and #Nostriches there!
Nostr devs: Please remember that we want to protect our nsec, and requiring us to enter it into your client will result in many of us simply not using your app at all. There are multiple ways to allow for login and signing of events without requiring an nsec. Please support at least one of them when you release your client and want people to start trying it out. Ideally, support more than one.
NIP-07 for web app login using a browser extension.
NIP-46 for remote signing over relays, which is OS agnostic.
NIP-55 for native Android apps.
Right. While using nos2x as your signer, correct?
The above allow you to use Amber on your phone as your signer for a couple web apps on desktop.
It may also have to do with what wallet you are using for zapping, rather than anything to do with signer permissions.
The amount of transactions in blocks is still plenty high. Blocks are full, just of low fee rate transactions. This just means there there aren't a lot of folks trying to get their transactions prioritized. My mempool still shows 74 block's worth of transactions waiting to clear, and mempool.space shows 97 blocks worth.
So, the amount of activity actually hitting the chain is the same, because mempools still haven't cleared. We're not seeing any partially full blocks at all. It's just that most of the transactions waiting in the mempools are in no rush to make it into a block.
Values based largely on the summarization of the moral law of God in the 10 commandments, which both Jews and Christians share, last I checked, further summarized in the two greatest commandments: You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might, (Deuteronomy 6:5, summarizing commandments 1-4) and you shall love your neighbor as yourself (Leviticus 19:18, summarizing the last 6).
So, while the two faiths may not be theologically compatible, they are largely compatible when it comes to ethics/values.
Controversial take of the night: We all knew that spam was going to be a major issue to resolve eventually. We hoped we wouldn't see massive levels of spam for some time, and we could deal with it then.
Yet, some things just never get attention until the problem is painful. There's always more exciting things to work on in the moment. New features to implement, new interoperability opportunities, and new ideas for "other stuff" clients to build. No one will find the time to deal with the things we KNOW need to be dealt with in the midst of that. Not unless they are pushed to it by pain.
As the saying goes, "Necessity is the mother of invention."
👀 🚨 This has to be the best looking booth at Valley Fest! We are out here recruiting students for our first @MiPrimerBitcoin cohort, educating our community about #Bitcoin, talking to military vets about @bitcoinveterans and @Op_Bitcoin , trying to sign them up on @orangepillapp , telling people to read @saifedean The Bitcoin Standard, and The Bullish Case for Bitcoin by Vijay Boyapati, handing out free Bitcoin trading cards from Bitcoin Trading Cards and lastly, spreading the word about @ThankGodForBTC and what good stuff Jordan Bush has been doing! Brothers, @matthew and nostr:npub1s9djlxxr2qu4696xmph4paj3zxek8w73vvdj8q2tludvfusjjldqzkrp5v are out here all day! Let’s go! #PoW
Y'all need a Lightning address on this npub! I want to zap this!
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Caught nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z zapsturbating.
Nests works so well in Nostur. Comments. Zapping. Background audio keeps playing when I switch apps. Great work nostr:npub1n0sturny6w9zn2wwexju3m6asu7zh7jnv2jt2kx6tlmfhs7thq0qnflahe 🔥🔥🔥
No Android clients with it built in, yet?
They can't make your battery blow up if your HWW doesn't have a battery.
1999 F-250 with the 7.3 turbo diesel is my old rig of choice these days.
