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Heating the basement 👇🏻

What even is this? 🤔

WHAT!? Dude fuck those guys seriously

ME!! But also will I be able to connect Prinal to my AlbyHub?

I’ll give you my main points off the top of my head that tend to come up a lot. There’s no one answer obviously, which is actually part of the entire point. But each of these is often relevant depending on the context:

• Amount obfuscation at the base layer has the trade off of lower scarcity guarantees and invisible bugs causing irreparable damage.

• Mixing or obfuscation at the base layer has numerous options but almost all restrict some other capability and come with higher computation costs

• A significant part of the privacy problem currently in Bitcoin is more to do with the proximity that every UTXO has to fiat on/off ramps. Meaning privacy will naturally improve simply as the organic circular economy grows.

• Coinjoins are actually pretty great and you should use Wasabi wallet as a daily driver.

• Lightning is very private for the payer.

• A big limitation in getting privacy is liquidity. Almost all the altcoins lose a ton of their benefit through low liquidity and the need to bridge in and out with centralized services or other open protocols, negating any potential benefit.

• Privacy isn’t a check box. It requires nuance, a plethora of different vectors to protect (that are also always changing) and constant vigilance. There is no such thing as a single, permanent privacy solutions. There are thousands of attack vectors and losing one can make all the others worthless.

• Privacy will have many thousands of solutions catering to many millions of specific needs and use cases. It is arguably a bad idea to attempt a one-size-fits-all solution at the base layer, that could potentially be obsoleted, or have unknown consequences down the road.

• ecash is one of the best private payment systems built to date and it has stood the test of time.

• if your argument relies on that people have chosen to not care about privacy (ie. “Look at the ETF!” or “look people use KYC exchanges!”), then you are also arguing that almost no one will care about a coin who’s sole purpose is privacy… which also seems relatively true. The issue is about what level of privacy can be obtained by the people who value it. Not that people who don’t care, don’t care… which would be obvious.

The most important value, by miles, is having an open, decentralized, and permissionless base layer to build upon, so that any and all solutions can be tried, and any and all networks can be accessed no matter who or where you are in the world.

Bitcoin has this, plus more liquidity than any other digital money in the world. The privacy problem will continue to be solved and improved and no other network will be able to provide as good of privacy and as great of a monetary network to use it than Bitcoin. No altcoin even holds a candle to it.

My 2 Sats

HE HIRED A HITMAN TO KILL A FATHER OF THREE KIDS!!!

- people trying to push that shit super hard now that Ross is all the talk.

I got roped into a debate about Ross on twitter and now its unusable again. I've literally got people DM'ing me to argue 🤦‍♂️

I'll be ignoring everything over there for probably the next week or two until everyone is over it 🤣

Also i got to guilt trip everyone on The Orange Sun this morning if they aren't on #Nostr, so i did my duty in helping to bring people here today.

LYN ULBRICHT IS A FUCKING LEGEND.

Talk about persistence and devotion!!!! 🔥🔥🔥

The day Ross Ulbricht joins Nostr will be wild.

Prediction: It’ll be the most zapped note to date.

Way ahead of you! 😂

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ROSS IS GOING HOME MOTHER FUCKERS!!!!

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The only reason fiat money needs to “be backed” is to pretend it is hard to make more of like the thing it’s backed by.

Neither gold nor bitcoin need to be “backed” because we simply know people can’t print more of them.

I don’t think he has any clue what he’s signing. It’s the CIA’s “fuck you.”

This has been the biggest struggle with PearDrive. We’ve tried to do everything to make it as modular as possible… it may have required us to basically rebuild like 4 times already 🤣😅😭

#FreeRossDayOne

Fauci is single handedly responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths and more in ruined lives, and that’s BEFORE fucking Covid. I have more sympathy for the typical Nazi in Germany that I do for that piece of human shit.

Fuck that. Roast that goddamn monster anyway.

This 1000% 😂

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Correct 😆

Depends on how much BTC that $100K will get me and if the 1 BTC is KYC free or not.

The answer is always the one that gets the most sats with the most sovereignty 😉

That’s what the gif was supposed to be but it didn’t seem to load as an animation for some reason

Audiobook in the works

I doubt it. I didn’t go. Cost $2500 for a ticket too. I would’ve had to known that a bunch of my get-to-see-once-a-year friends was there… but honestly even then it just doesn’t sound like the crowd to be around. 😬

Probably. I could get behind the 100K party, but I’m not about to spend 2 days traveling to go to DC and hang out at a Clinton fundraiser looking, suit wearing, “crypto is cool” party who’s goal seems to be pandering to politicians. Not my scene. 😆

Maybe it’s just DC in general that irks me, but I go to events like that to see friends, and I doubt much of anyone I wanted to hang out with even went.

Well did you clean it up or just take a picture?

The facts that bots was corrected to bits and then nuts and a third correction still had it end up as “nuts” somehow confirms my theory that this is all a psyop and I’m just in the Guy Swann Show 😂

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Agree, it doesn't need backing, but that term catches people's attention because they associate with it.

BUT YOU'LL GET SCURVY!

It’s the most annoying of annoying first world problems 🤣

lol, yeah that’s some bullshit

Looking for a dev in 2025 who can work with Lightning, Nostr, and JS. Mostly just integration with existing tools, not modifying or building a custom client or anything.

If interested, DM me.

I will 100% subscribe to the “Gruff Daniel Radcliffe Fixes Shit” channel 🤣

I do, hosted on Nostr.Build

I actually think it’s a total nothing burger, because it was obviously optional anyway.

They basically conceded nothing to get a loan and then literally bought 10x the #Bitcoin they usually do after the deal was basically agreed 😆

Seems like BOLT12 should’ve been the standard already… why are we still having to do hacks to get things we can do natively with BOLT12? (as I understand it) 🤔

Oh that’s fancy! 😆

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