Imagine a near-future where accounts no longer exist. You can go to a new web store, browse wares and buy something without ever creating an account or providing any private information, just as you would a store on the street
Add what you want into the shopping trolly, pay with #bitcoin, and sign shipping instructions with a private key (not necessarily the same private key as your #bitcoin)
The merchant delivers the goods to your designated shipper with your signed instructions
The shipper already has your delivery location you provided (in advance) and confirms your signed instructions, and sends you a #bitcoin invoice. Once you pay your items are on the way
Merchant doesn’t know who you are or where the goods are going or how to market to you in the future. No personal information to sell to a 3rd party, and shipper has no idea about contents
Just like it should be
#bitcoine #nostr
* #bitcoin
#butcoin is an #excusecoin 🤣
There are many ways, but always remember a #bitcoin private key is just a very large number
I linked the #butcoin private key you create completely offline in a separate response but here it is again…version 2 in stainless steel is prototyping now and I hope to have it ready for sale for around $129 within a few months
I shared the same concerns, so check out https://modulo.network and their private keys
#asknostr
Is the npub value just the X coordinate of the ECDSA outcome? No prefixes or anything else before encoding to bech32?
Powerful stuff and great read
inspired to follow and duplicate
https://ungovernablemisfits.com/the-lake-satoshi-report/
#bitcoin #meshtadel nostr:npub1l6eva7lqf7fn79w6pqp5x64x9ja2emapevp67yn4hxkdz6s5yvxs3tdl44 #freesamourai
(10billion x 5billion universes)
That seems too large—maybe 10 x 5 universes…calling in some #mathhelp
If you had an 8k monitor where each pixel represented a #bitcoin private key, you would need a monitor approximately 128.51 billion universes wide by 40.66 billion universes tall to show all #bitcoin potential private keys
#letthatsinkin #bitcoin #nostr
I came across something in #nostr and may have it wrong, when encoding a private key to bech32 zeros are padded at the beginning of the 5-bit string in #bitcoin space, but in #nostr they are padded at the end of the 5-bit string. Is this correct and was there a reason for the change?
#asknostr
Actually, daPlotzy’s father
If a man builds a river through your living room it’s ok to take a drink every once in a while
—daPlotzy
#wordstoliveby
I would love to hear your thoughts too. I am starting to come to a conclusion but want to hear as many perspectives as possible
At 20% interest rates $150 of your $250 payment is going by toward interest charges. Probably take 5 to 6 years just to pay it down (guessing) if you don’t add more to it, so I think you are on the high end of what is normal
Hey I zapped you sats for this note but don’t see it registered in the note any longer. Did you receive the zap? 21?
Not enough information to tell. What is the total balance outstanding across the four cards, and is what you pay the minimum amount due?
I agree with you and especially on the point law enforcement should do the ground/detective work to find perpetrators and not cast the net so wide as to ensnare and breach the privacy of innocent actors, but here is the rub—without the ISP tracking everyone’s IP from the physical address to the sites visited at all points in time, the ISP becomes an information black hole and no connections can be made. Additionally, if the ISP creates the impossibility to connect physical addresses to illegal activities, it invites more malicious actors to that ISP.
Perhaps that is the answer, which somewhat exists today: Each private entity (#ISP, #telegram, #freesamourai) decides for itself and should never be a target, and law enforcement identify the conduits that act as black holes and do the necessary work to find perpetrators that access these black-hole-ISP connections
Trouble is government has taken the step too far to persecute the service providers for the bad actions of a few, if any. And due to diverse regulatory regimes what may be good practice in one country breaches the rules in #france.
I appreciate your comments and thanks for the response.
The starting point to the freedom of speech on the internet requires an answer to the question, does a private owner of internet gateway have the responsibility to ensure illegal acts do not take place on their equipment? Not to say the private owner must stop all illegal acts, but must the owner make an effort to try to stop illegal acts and to assist law enforcement to a reasonable extent?
A moral citizen/owner of the gateway will try to prevent heinous crimes even if the legal obligation is not there, but if the system is designed to be unable to record what is sent from whom then policing by the private owner is impossible. So should the ISP design the system to track and record, just in case, or design the system to make tracking and recording impossible until a legal wiretap for a specific target is issued. But that leads to the question how does LE find their targets without the help from the ISP?
It appears today ISP typically have a recorded physical address for every IP at every point in time, and keep records for long periods of time. I encourage you to use Tor to safeguard your privacy
#freedomofspeech #firstamendment #bitcoin 🧡💜 #nostr #telegram #freeduval #freesamourai #tor
Who is responsible, the system owner or the user of the system? Let’s simplify the question:
You have a wifi setup at your home and you decide to unlock it for all people on the street. Someone comes along and uses it to upload illegal images. Should the police be allowed to shut your wifi down or let you be and stake-out the user/offender(s)?