Really interesting observation since spending six (6) days on Nostr: this thing is complete dopamine detox. As a result people seem to actually engage with each other and share their thoughts instead of engineering posts and comments to get more likes or followers.
I have no idea how many likes my posts get, I have no idea how many followers I have, all I see is anon avatars and people called depressed analplug or horny hailbutt. It's the polar opposite of what social media has come to be.
@https://primal.net/e/note1enm8gth2rzlxxhdpy3863sh6uyyd74knt5sr4nz48hmnrwj7rdwsfsf8sz
Right but propagating exclusively via Tor/I2P even via proxy is not desirable for everyone due to reliability, but again its def an improvement. I don't think an anonymity set assumption makes sense for Dandelion++ as we're not hiding in a crowd, it's rather the idea of a sneakernet: since P2P traffic is encrypted now it's more the idea of passing messages out of band. You could likely observe who is running a stempool, but shouldn't be able to see much more beyond that
because it only works for nodes running behind Tor/I2P, which means that it improves obfuscation only to that percentage. Definitely better than nothing, but not complete heuristic breakage which Dandelion++ etc aim to achieve. I like that your autocorrect turns supernodes into supermodels though.
This is a work around but it does not achieve „the same thing“
Doesn't erlay solve this problem by allowing a node to 'broadcast' transactions using reconciliation instead of flooding?
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0330.mediawiki
Oh wow good question! I dont think so bc Erlay‘s goal is scaling not privacy, as it assumes that „every unreachable node is directly connected to several reachable nodes, this policy ensures that a transaction is quickly propagated to be within one hop from most of the nodes in the network“ - I think that obfuscating one hop (sometimes, not all the time) as a byproduct would probably not be enough to reliably break BS heuristics, but I wonder if parts of the BIP could be used to improve the stempool idea - would def be interesting to see an analysis from a privacy perspective for this!
I wrote a very basic overview of watermarking, fingerprinting, timing analysis and supernodes for Bitcoin Magazine's last print issue, which is pretty much an unsolicited advertisement for why I think we need a second mempool (and also mixnets, but thats a longer story). Since no one cares about stuff like this on Twitter anyway, I'll explain here.
Bitcoin has a privacy issue on baselayer. I know this. You know this. Everybody knows this. The problem is that there's a lot of stuff we can't do to solve this issue without completely fucking up how Bitcoin works, like, say, anonymous amounts. But there is some stuff we *can* do to increase privacy on the Bitcoin baselayer. One of those things is incorporating a second mempool to integrate Dandelion++, the routing protocol used in Monero. Hear me out.
One of the ways blockchain surveillance firms identify who what transactions belong to on the Bitcoin blockchain is by operating so-called supernodes. A supernode sets up as many connections to other nodes as it can, and by doing so can establish where a transaction was first seen in the peer-to-peer network, ergo ascribe whom a transaction belongs to.
Here's where Dandelion++ comes in. Instead of propagating transactions to *all* connected peers, Dandelion++ propagates transactions like, well, a Dandelion.
In Dandelion++ propagation, Bitcoin nodes send transactions to *one* peer, instead of to all of them. This peer sends it to another peer, they send it to another peer, and so on and so forth. This is called the "stem phase".
When we've established enough plausible deniability, Dandelion++ reaches the "fluff phase". At this point, a node that did not *create* the transaction, but is simply relaying it, propagates it to all nodes in the network it is connected to, including supernodes, and the next node does the same, and so on and so forth – business as usual.
Incorporating Dandelion++ (or any other anonymizing propagation protocol, like Dandelion, Dandelion Lite, or Clover) would arguably seriously fuck up the blockchain surveillance stick as we are taking away the most obvious attack vector for blockchain surveillance firms. It's also not a trivial task, see ajtowns' overview of stempools (and no one wants to maintain another mempool on bitcoin, if we're honest). But it's a really interesting proposal to think about to increase privacy on Bitcoin that, yes, would be a lot of work to implement and maintain, but also does not get talked about enough imo for everyone yapping about Bitcoin baselayer privacy.
AJ Towns' Stempool overview: https://gist.github.com/ajtowns/f3a19c33b80750a47c5b83ecf6a09aaf
BM Article:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/print/whistleblowing-in-the-surveillance-age
If you publish your notes as long form they can be viewed on any client that supports long form note rendering. Habla.news and yakihone are built specifically for this. But you can also use them to publish and then use notepress host the long form notes on your own site. Like this:
These are nostr:npub1getal6ykt05fsz5nqu4uld09nfj3y3qxmv8crys4aeut53unfvlqr80nfm long form nostr notes displayed in notepress.
nice!
Everything action you do on Nostr, posting, liking, replying can be called as 'events'. Each event has a 'kind' number which describes what type of event it is.
What you're looking for is long form content (kind: 30023)
The following are some clients that support this event kind:
Yakihonne: https://yakihonne.com/
Habla: https://habla.news/
Highlighter: https://highlighter.com/
Not all twitter-like clients we use display this event kind on your profile by default.
Amethyst does support it on Android though. You can always share a link on your preferred twitter-like client after publishing on the long-form client. The post will still be nostr-native and people can directly zap it as well.
do you know what the reason is for twitter clones not supporting long form?
It would probably be better to publish the newsletter as a "long-form content" event using https://habla.news or https://highlighter.com. I prefer Habla because of it's UX and design (I've only published two minor long form posts though).
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Okay Nostr peeps we need to talk. I know Ive been on here for like 5 minutes and Im already complaining but hear me out.
Id really like to publish my newsletter directly on Nostr. You dont need to worry about clicking an extra link, I dont need to worry about writing a stupid summary, everyone is happy.
But here‘s the problem. Iris shows link previews and organizes pics where they are placed in the text. Primal does the same, but doesnt show link previews. Damus shows link previews, but organizes pics in a carousel. If I post both pics and link previews, the content repeats and gets unnecessarily long. If I dont, everything is all over the place.
Can you guys like get together and have a standard for this or something? Because that would be pretty helpful. Thanks!
Ah smart ok cool. Thank you!
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New from The Rage: Open Source Arrests: US Officials Sour on Biden's War on Privacy (you've already seen this but I don't know how to link to notes) https://www.therage.co/us-officials-sour-on-biden-war-on-privacy/
Declaration of Separation republished on Anarplex https://anarplex.sirion.io/hosted/files/declarationseparation.html
Paralelni Polis' Institute of Cryptoanarchy hosts Pizza Day https://x.com/PizzaDayPrague/status/1791548751942656286
Ketominer gives a talk on Samourai Wallet at Pizza Day (featuring lots of more great talks) https://pizzaday.cz/
The Rage sends the feds some questions (you've already seen this too and I still don't know how to link to notes) https://x.com/L0laL33tz/status/1791779128447742272
Yellow makes his bank send ecash https://x.com/ICOffenderII/status/1790704693225627751
Bruce Schneier is still a moron https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tornado-cash-not-free-speech-its-golem
Tether does some more money laundering https://protos.com/china-busts-2-billion-usdt-money-laundering-operation/
Paolo says he is a good boy https://x.com/paoloardoino/status/1789921257632207233
Former State Dept. Cyber Mike Benz has theories https://x.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1790606401569427479
Black Rock sells paper bitcoin https://x.com/DU09BTC/status/1791020511864246513
Silent Payments overview site is launched https://silentpayments.xyz/
US Attorneys discover MEVil https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/two-brothers-arrested-attacking-ethereum-blockchain-and-stealing-25-million
Salame got some sweet Alameda loans to give to politicians https://x.com/leomschwartz/status/1790737620512739501
IBEX Pay shuts down in US https://x.com/IBEXpay/status/1790814896239620577
Bolt12 moves forward on LND https://x.com/nitesh_btc/status/1791847412916433095
Silent Payments coming to Rust Bitcoin https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/issues/2778
Silent Payments coming to BlueWallet https://github.com/BlueWallet/SilentPayments
Bonus due to relevance: Room77's Joerg Platzer's talk at Paralelni Polis Hackers Congress 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfdYmIxbODw
Three weeks ago I wrote an article on the EU's new AMLR in Bitcoin Magazine, detailing how the EU passed ALM laws restricting the use of Bitcoin privacy tools without any data to back up their claims that privacy heightens money laundering and terrorist financing risks.
Alex Stachtchenko took it a step further and ran the numbers. For every Euro confiscated, 200€ are spent. This means that the EU's AML compliance costs of 144B Euro exceeds all money ascribed to crime per year at 110B Euro – and still, 99% of criminal profits escape confiscation.
Despite their absolute inefficiency AML laws continue to be expanded, subjecting all EU citizens to total financial surveillance for the price of catching 1%. It is a system that has grown completely out of control and is in no way proportionate to the right to privacy enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
It's a long read, and its in French so you'll need to translate it, but I guarantee that it will be worth every minute of your time.
BM article:
Alex' article:
Ok i think i figured it out
I just checked the zap settings on damus but all i can find there is a drop down to select local wallet 🫠
Do you know where i can update it on damus mobile?
Do you know where i can find that on damus?
I have no idea - Im on damus for mobile, but i cant find where to add a new lightning address. Halp