that would be true if they were transacting on anything but L1. their daily flows are strictly L1 and it's cash create...so at this point in time that's not a concern.

what incentives do the ETF suits have to defend Bitcoin privacy?

they are apart of Bitcoin now too. what can the maximalists do to unlock their lobbying power?

there has to be something #asknostr

Many cryptographic protocols are designed around the security model that assumes an attack will be a remote attacker using cryptanalysis to derive one of your keys (among a set of keys). You can understand why this is, these protocols are designed by cryptographers, and the threat they are always thinking about is a cryptographic attack.

But the real world threat is device compromise. You are at the very least 1000x more likely to be compromised by having your device hacked and all of its keys and data stolen or otherwise compromised.

Therefore, things like the double-ratchet protocol don't really help in the real world. Breaking one conversation key doesn't break the others, but if your device can read all past messages, so can someone that totally compromises your device.

The signal double ratchet protocol is fine. It doesn't make things worse. It makes things marginally better. But I want people to understand how thin that margin really is.

First they came for Tornado cash

and I said nothing

because they were shitcoiners

…

The reason of nuking nostr especially when it tide to your identity and bitcoin ! nostr:note1tl2mz8zgd70p8cflv6nf93f3tpqyvjguy66qncd5xzv6t80rk82qtn5dqh

False accusations and opportunistic theatrics hurt the people who are dealing with actual problems and anyone who comes to their aid.

From now on, any woman who complains about harrassment will be assumed to be lying to get attention and we have one woman to thank for that.

Thank you, but no thank you, for feeding the trolls.

Did you ever stop and *really* think about what it means to "do a Satoshi Nakamoto"?

Context for my weird question: I have met many, many bitcoiners over the years. Many of them take a stab at keeping privacy by doing some combo of: not revealing name, not revealing location, not revealing face. Etc. So often, if I happen to meet them in person, they end up revealing the things that they were hiding online. Quite literally a mask came off (pre covid!) once we started drinking - a simple, funny anecdotal example of what I mean. Many complain about photos being taken, many focus on always using a pseudonym. I'm sure most people reading recognize these patterns of behaviour.

I can see the purpose, up to a point, so this is not criticism. It's a little like me doing coinjoin "here and there" - you don't expect to defend yourself against a hyper powerful aggressor, only against a casual criminal looking for an easy score.

But if you do want *real* defence against *strong* attackers, you have a huge problem. These half-measures will be useless, perhaps worse than that, if you get overconfident, because the determined investigator only needs *one* strand to pull on, and the measures I describe above, which are almost always rules only half-stuck to anyway, don't cut it, at all.

Which brings me to my point: is it even possible to "go all the way"? Clearly it is; Satoshi Nakamoto is not the only person who's ever done it, but it's pretty damn rare at the very least.

Imagine what it would mean. If you are engaged in a serious project, that takes let's say at least a year's worth of full time work, then you are going to do that for no reward. Not just, no money, people do that quite often when it comes to things they genuinely enjoy, but no recognition, no social context, not even "oh I won't bother you because I know you're busy with that project". Nobody will say that because nobody will know. Imagine doing a full, intense 8 hour day of work (more likely, split over many days) and knowing that there will *never* be a direct reward of any form, for that. And then doing it again, and again.

What's more, you don't just "not get a reward". You have to do almost double the work, to ensure that at every step, every pushed commit or technical discussion, does not expose anything at the network trace level, or the language, vocabulary etc. Managing tricky pseudonym accounts, handling the headaches of Tor etc. I'm not trying to say it needs super-genius level tech skills, I'm trying to say it's a massive amount of effort.

Could you do that? I daren't even ask the question of myself, because I'm almost sure it's a no. But to *imagine* where that kind of motivation would come from, that's what fascinates me.

Not sure. Looks like you can build it from source on their GitHub but I don’t see signatures. But not my area of expertise so I could easily be missing if

Thoughts on ProtonPass as a password manager?

Good enough if you already are using the proton suite?

Any significant downsides besides not self-hosted?

#asknostr

#infosec

Yep. It’s all gonna come to head sooner rather than later. I don’t give a fuck what they decide. Just decide so we can act accordingly

Yer it’s all fucked up. They are just enabling all the agencies to come for us. Hold fast.

someone can see. nostr:note1p33wvk52gqehms3rypl8d8mf4pjejesfpkp4v5cmfqfz0klm2exsv2dlsv

AS THE NEWS CAN BE ALARMING, REMEMBER THAT INDICTMENTS ARE NOT SENTENCES

IT IS ALSO AN OPPORTUNITY TO SET A PRECENDENT IN FAVOR OF PRIVACY TECH

IN ADDITION, THE READING OF THE PRESS RELEASE IS EXTREMELY WEAK

IT IS TANTAMOUNT TO ARRESTING THE CEO OF AN ISP FOR STATING SOME REVENUE IS COMING FROM PEOPLE WHO COMMIT CRIMES ONLINE

RECOGNIZING YOUR SERVICE IS USED BY AND PAID FOR IN PART BY CRIMINALS DOESN'T MEAN THE OWNERS OF THE SERVICE ARE COMMITING A CRIME

IT IS MY BELIEF THAT SAMOURAI WALLET MAY BE BEST POSITIONEDV, OF ANY FREEDOM TECH DEVS, TO FIGHT THIS INDICTMENT

PRIVACY IS A FIGHT

Fascist regime?