Nice! Looks like they're working on fixing JoinMarket.
I most recently used Travala just prior to New Years... I should do a low value test transaction.
Yes! Just re-read your article today. The idea is to move the fees to LN, see the other thread with @waxwing .
You might find this interesting BTW: https://github.com/m0wer/joinmarket_analyzer
Thanks! Interesting.
JoinMarket NG
Announcing today a full rewrite of all JoinMarket components in modern Python. Focusing on performance, maintainability, and extensibility. While maintaining compatibility with the existing JoinMarket network.
https://github.com/m0wer/joinmarket-ng
Why JoinMarket? Has no central coordinator: most censorship resistant and peer to peer.
Why a rewrite? The reference implementation has served the community well for years, and we're deeply grateful for all that the contributors have done. However, the project is no longer actively developed (181 open issues and 41 open pull requests) and had architectural limitations such as relying on Bitcoin Core's BerkeleyDB wallets (deprecated since v26.0.).
New features:
- Support for light clients using Neutrino
- Rate limiting to prevent logs flooding
- Extensive protocol and implementation documentation
- Realistic E2E tests including reference implementation makers and takers
Future plans:
- Nostr relay integration
- Lightning Network integration (CoinJoinXT) to hide roles and eliminate fee traces
- A lot more ideas
Help wanted:
- Funding: Applied to HRF Bitcoin Dev Fund and soon to OpenSats. Other grant ideas or direct donations welcome.
- Security: Need sponsorship or a volunteer for external security audit.
- Contributors: Peer review, testing, documentation.
Entrypoint for migrating makers: https://github.com/m0wer/joinmarket-ng/tree/master/maker#migrating-from-joinmarket-reference-implementation
The reference JoinMarket served us well for a decade. Let's make sure the protocol thrives for the next one.
Do you have a plan to fix the fee amounts flaw?
Bulgaria officially adopts the euro at midnight, becoming the 21st member of the eurozone as the country enters 2026.
Shared via https://pullthatupjamie.ai
The lei was already pegged to the euro anyway. This final step isn't that big of a change.
Lightning is a much better service than on-chain for many purposes. Unsurprising that it can have higher fees.
I've onboarded a lot of people with Phoenix. So far I've never had anyone complain about the fees. Spending a few dollars to create your wallet the first time doesn't seem to bother people. Lots of financial services charge registration fees.
Ukrainian ad for a kids chair that converts to a bed.
The bottom right says “in the corridor”. Because during raid raids if you don't go to a shelter, the advice is to sleep in a corridor or bathroom so you at least have two solid walls between you and a Russian attack.
Last time I was in Eastern Ukraine one night the shahed attacks seemed particularly close. So I put on a bulletproof vest, closed the blinds, and went back to sleep. I needed that chair. 😂
Putting that in a "peace" deal is absurd psychopathic normalization of theft. Associating Bitcoin with that is bad for Bitcoin. Hell, it's such an awful idea it's not even clear if the claim is real – IIUC all sources for that claim are Russian.
Russia clearly has no interest in a genuine peace deal. So making that claim may just be an attempt at sabotaging the idea of a peace deal.
As for Russia issuing loans to Bitcoin miners, again that's a negative for Bitcoin. Russia is a deeply evil terrorist state and anything that helps Russia stay afloat is not good. Unfortunately this will just fuel attempts to further regulate and ban Bitcoin; the Bitcoin community would do well to not publicize it further. No different than how it's not in our interests to showcase examples of serial killers who happen to use Bitcoin.
They did.
Honestly, I don't think they should have – the horse is likely to be recaptured and used again. But I'm not surprised they didn't want to kill an innocent animal.
I've met a lot of Ukrainian soldiers. I've yet to meet one who actually wants to be doing their job. They all want Russia to be defeated as quickly as possible, so they can go on with their regular lives. That said, the peace needs to be real and durable. A bullshit ceasefire will not achieve that. Destroying Russia will.
The good thing, is we certainly can kill them off. Russia is so short of money and equipment they're increasingly using horses for transportation:
https://video.nostr.build/ce6259d0d76a8fcaf1e20c0a02db4f1e9f99822be5fa97f2146f5b1cc1a42cd1.mp4
A Ukrainian soldier showed me a video of a FPV hit on a Russian soldier on a horse recently. He was very excited to show me, because it was a sign of Russian collapsing.
The faster Russia collapses, the sooner he can go home and get on with his life.
Do you have a generator?
In Odesa many people with Ecoflows eventually found out they they don't recharge themselves... A 1KW gasoline generator can be had to about 300€. Expensive. But may be necessary.
Russia's response to Zelensky proposing a ceasefire, followed by a fair election in occupied Ukraine to determine whether the population actually want to join Russia:
The reality is these Russians are just psychopaths who know damn well that they've brutally mistreated and exploited the population in occupied Ukraine. The only way peace will be achieved in the long run is for these psychopaths to be killed, and/or their economy to be collapsed sufficiently that they just can't fight.
Negotiating with murderers is stupid.
I was renewing some domain names and noticed that the @opentimestamps domains were getting a bit close to expiry.
They're now renewed until 2035!
OTS is here for the long run!
Of course, that costs money. Help me keep it running for another decade: https://geyser.fund/project/opentimestamps
You can just open lightning channels with your funds. FixedFloat.io and flyp.me both support lightning.
Anyway, these claims of "common wallet characteristics" are likely to be bullshit. Lots of people use the same wallet software. It's also entirely unnecessary for the people doing the coinjoins to use other wallet software – Wasabi is a perfectly good wallet.
I found a new level of Turing Test: https://youtu.be/bxvBUSVocJk
😂
I was well aware of the Noble Prize. I didn't know his name was Satoshi.
Invermectin is an excellent anti-parasitic. That alone was enough for the Nobel Prize.
Other potential uses of it are just a cherry on the top.
TIL Satoshi got the Nobel Prize for discovering Invermectin: https://www.nature.com/articles/ja201711
(Satoshi Ōmura)
My most listened songs in 2025 according to YouTube Music's AI:
Not that I'd trust the AI... That's not 10...
Russia isn't using sea drones very much. They do however attack civilian vessels shipping goods such as grain for Ukraine using arial drones and missiles. According to Grok five foreign crew have been killed by Russia, along with another ~20 wounded.
Ukraine released footage of their attack on two oil tankers transporting oil for Russia.
https://video.nostr.build/75019a318f06936a711f1368d9e8d50f79cc545ed222fef1de891c82af71f539.mp4
The entire Russian economy is a valid military target.
But that's the sun. The sun is a sphere. It's the Earth that is flat.
https://youtube.com/shorts/hbZb1Q0mM7k
"actual vibe coding"
Merchants should be required to pass on credit card fees. It's ridiculous that we have cards giving 3% cashback, charging merchants 4%. There's cases where these fees even result in merchants losing money on every sale.
The whole thing is a scam only made possible by the duopoly position credit card companies are in.
https://video.nostr.build/46476e3165233c36203f000821f788960bcf2c18d1036ca9f04a75548a61676c.mp4
Russians sneaking into Pokrovsk, Ukraine, under cover of fog.
Due to enormous numbers of Ukrainian drones, and their depleted reserves of actual military vehicles, they're riding to battle on the same crap you'd expect from Jihadis in the middle east.
https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/defence-watch/canadian-military-public-servants
...and guess which way public servants lean? Hard left.
The real goal of this is most likely to ensure that the Canadian military can put down an internal civil war if needed.
“the provocative t-shirt from Peter”
😂
Dude, making fun of Craig Wright is not provocative.
The sound of air raid sirens in Poland due to yet another Russian drone visit.
An extraordinarily cowardly sound. All Poland has to do is shoot down these drones and you wouldn't need the sirens. But they just can't bring themselves to take action.
https://video.nostr.build/244238aeae081d780ef93b48e85ba1b27c98667025462b67ef0de7baf334c258.mp4
The US does not have the highest incarceration rate in the world: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate
It's 4th, and the difference between the US and the next few dozen isn't that significant.
Also, you are assuming cause and effect. The US is a rich, well developed country with an unusually high black population due to slavery. The much simpler explanation is that the black population are much more criminally inclined. The fact that their average IQ is significantly less is explanation enough: criminality is closely tied to IQ.
In real life people have identities. They do not on the Bitcoin chain. And that's intentional.
Nothing to warn about here. Two Russian psychos got shot in the head. You don't even see any blood or guts.
I'd be happy showing this to older children for the exact same reason I'd be happy to show younger children footage of hunters killing off feral pigs. Younger children should understand that some animals need to be killed so we can eat; older children should understand that some humans need killing so we can be safe.
It's a surveillance drone. They're used all the time to provide intelligence to the troops on the ground. Most likely that Ukrainian soldier was in radio contact with the drone operator and knew those Russians were approaching.
Because surveillance drones are so common there's huge amounts of footage from operations out there. Obviously in this case the unit was proud of that soldier's bravery and cunning and released this footage for PR reasons, with the helpful labels.
Hey nostr:nprofile1qyv8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnvdac8qtnnda3kjctv9uqzpaegm8nwwpyrtrnsjv84efjtp9mhpkvfenvxs487vx8d48y28qgxxgzsvk nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7ct5d3shxtnwdaehgu3wd3skueqpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqqgxv4fvwxlyeepdute65q298rz75vjz7t57txdzkj8k2hq782h2ges3dvnqp and other core traitors alike,
if Ocean succeeds in keeping the 300+ EH and becomes a top mining pool from today on, will you please entertain us with your tears about the subject?
I want to start it of by thanking you for making bitcoin more anti-fragile by committing treason against it and its community. You have made me put up a lot of Knots nodes in the homes of family and friends and honoustly i would have never done that if it wasnt for my pure hate against meak goblins like urselfs.
We won and dont think we will stop here. I got a lot of knots node to setup and will spend a decent amount of my wage doing it with the warm feeling of beating evil shits like you.
https://www.crypto-college.nl/help-mee-met-bitcoin-decentraal-houden/
😂
That's an easy thing to do when fees are so low that mempool policy doesn't change profitability much.
Let's see how it goes when fees are higher...
One of the Kyiv apartment buildings Russia destroyed last night in their attempt to force Ukraine to surrender. So far 14 confirmed dead, including three children.
They'd be alive if we had blown up more Russian refineries sooner.
Afghanistan and Iraq were nothing like what Russia is doing now. Not even close.
And it's pretty lol that you're bringing up WW2 history. Ukraine was not an independent country then. It was controlled by both Germany and Russia, depending on exactly what part of the war and where you are talking about. Indeed, Nazi Germany and Russia were allies at the beginning.
What relevant is the situation now. Ukraine and Poland are at peace, as is Germany and Poland. Russia has continued to choose war.
Plain old wires can be so simple and cheap that it would not surprise me if it's easy for the lower capital costs to beat heat pumps.
Heat pumps should be able to produce more heat per unit electricity, so they actually have more than 100% efficiency. But they're only good at doing that if the temperature delta is low. Not so good for heat storage.
https://austinvernon.substack.com/p/building-ultra-cheap-energy-storage
Possible competition for Bitcoin mining heat reuse... If they can make this as cheap as they want it to be, mining might not be able to compete due to capital costs.
DOJ releases redacted transcripts and audio recordings of interviews with Ghislaine Maxwell.
Shared via https://pullthatupjamie.ai
Unsurprisingly, these interviews and transcripts haven't been OpenTimestamped.
What have they done to them in the years since they were recorded?
“Ukrainian man arrested in Italy over Nord Stream pipeline attacks”
If found guilty, this man needs to be sentenced to a military parade and medals.
Really interesting stats from Ukraine's Unmanned System Forces (aka drones).
The big one: the marginal cost to kill or seriously injure a Russian with drones is just $911 USD.
https://nostr.download/1cbe7c1ab49ff8d539b3b3f54a3269da359d30e2901659408a03e5bf4929ba1a.mp4
I've personally spoken to quite a few soldiers at different units (units have fundraising and recruiting booths at basically every big event in Ukraine), and they all say the same thing: a remarkably high percentage of their drone funding comes from private donations. A big problem is Western military aid tends to be tied to specific weapons systems – not money – so the overall resources can't be spent optimally.
Of course, it's not like the war itself costs $911/Russian casualty – there's lots of other costs and investment necessary to get there. But the fact that units are still short on drones even though relatively little investment would fix this is absurd.
Also, I don't keep track. But I wouldn't be surprised if just my personal donations – anonymously with Bitcoin – have resulted in the deaths of a few Russians. You can easily make a difference.
Ok Saturday I went to the K-41 nightclub in Kyiv. It's similar to Berghain, with a bouncer girl at the door who rejects you if you aren't the right "vibe". They're kinda woke, and insist you agree to their non-discrimination policy, no cameras, lots of trans people, etc. etc. If the music wasn't good I certainly wouldn't go.
The entrance fee is a minimum $10 donation to a military unit to buy drones. Turns out the left aren't stupid when evil men really are trying to murder them.
K-41 probably gets 1000 attendees on a Saturday night. That means ~$10,000 to the military unit, or ~10 casualties at $1000 marginal cost/casualty. Fatality rate is ~50%, so that's five more Russian soldiers killed in the course of us having a party.
Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if 10% of the men there had actual combat experience at this point. There was even one guy clearly recovering from combat injuries. No-one is complaining about where the money was going.
😂
That is what Ukraine is doing. There's an insane amount of 3d printing for defense going on with hundreds of groups building new drone and other weapons designs every week. Literally: a lot of this stuff is iterated on weekly or biweekly basis, with new designs constantly shipped out.
What people don't do is 3d print guns themselves: that's a stupid use of the technology as lots of excellent guns are available on the mass market. Ukraine is not short on guns.
If you have money and want to build weapons to kill Russians, Ukraine is the place to do it.
The issue is not property rights. No-one is in a position to actually defend themselves against an invading army. That's just not how war at this scale works. Defense by itself simply doesn't work: you can't stop Russia from taking your land by holding your ground. No weapon strong enough exists. You stop Russia from taking your land by working with others to counterattack and respond dynamically. That only works at big scale.
Libertarian ideas around war are simply stupid. War does not work that way.
Not very well. But someone who did helped me translate.
He spoke English infinitely better than I speak Ukrainian though! 😂