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Nostr nuked my following list, pls drop some 𧑠if we are friends
Playing around with this new Alby Hub thing and honestly its incredible to me how far we've come in Lightning.
Six years ago I was running a RaspiBlitz in my bedroom that almost caught fire, today you can zap me straight to my self-custodial wallet where I can manage my channels in two clicks from my browser. Bullish that Lightning self-custody can be this easy.
I figured it out, needed to restart my Alby Hub after update π«
With Proton's plans to build a Whirlpool client, it seems obvious that their decision on whether or not to follow through will hinge on the outcome of the Samourai Wallet trial β But the Tornado Cash trial is arguably much more important to Proton's potential coinjoin plans.
Samourai Wallet stands accused of conspiracy to money laundering β in part thanks to their rather entertaining Twitter posts β and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money service business β mainly pertaining to the operation of the Whirlpool coinjoin coordinator.
This should effectively only minimally influence Proton's decision on whether or not to build a Whirlpool client, as a client and a coordinator are technically different things, and obviously you can't just be arrested for writing a user interface... or can you?
One of the main arguments made in the Tornado Cash trial is that TC maintained a User Interface that enabled people to access the Tornado Cash protocol. In the Tornado Cash trial, the prosecution is deliberately attempting to equate control over a UI to control over the software itself, trying to paint the development of UIs for privacy software as a conspiracy to commit multiple alleged felonies.
These allegations stem directly from FATF recommendations, which attempt to classify anyone as a money transmitter who is "a central party with some measure of involvement of control," such as "developing user interfaces for accounts holding an administrative "key".
If Roman Storm and Roman Semenov are found guilty of conspiracy to money laundering, conspiracy to operate an unlicensed MSB, and conspiracy to commit sanctions violations in the US on the basis of the prosecution's claims, then *anyone* building user interfaces for self-custodial privacy software could be next β including Proton if a Whirlpool client is built.
Learn more about how your rights are at risk in the Tornado Cash trial, see both cases from a FATF perspective, and consider donating to Roman Storm's defense (in ETH) (dumb comments on shitcoins will be ignored as this is not the time for your retarded tribalism):
https://juicebox.money/@defend-roman-storm
https://www.therage.co/why-your-rights-are-at-stake-in-the-tornado-cash-trial/
https://www.therage.co/meet-fatf-the-financial-bullies-memberclub/
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I'd imagine that the plan is to do something similar to what WW is doing today, offering an interface to connect to a third party coordinator. Since the SW coordinator is down we'll have to wait and see whether they'll flock to WabiSabi, if the SW coordinator comes back online after trial (in case running software is still legal then), or whether other coordinators for Whirlpool will pop up. I'd imagine that this also depends strongly on how the Tornado Cash trial turns out where they're trying to criminalize building UIs for privacy services.
For WabiSabi there are already a few coordinators with decent liquidity, which imo is the better choice as its easier to protect your xpub in a lightweight client but bullish nontheless