Always verify the randomness of your wallet mnemonic generator.
In a recent situation a bunch of wallets generated using bx, that, under the hood, uses a unsafe Mersenne Twister pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) initialized with 32 bits of system time.
With a gamer computer and some hints on wallet creation time you can brute force the wallet creation time to deterministically generate the wallet mnemonic and
More information here: https://milksad.info/
Mitigation strategies: use dices to generate your seed offline, and NOT those "airgap" linux computers...
Excited for #TabConf in Atlanta, GA, USA next month. Tons of workshops and networking opportunities. I am also going to attend a nostr:npub1vmpf90hq56wzyxht6teg3llpa74rzcepw9suj5unxl3tph24zd4qgtxhm7 Taproot Intensive workshop by nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy in the same week.
If you are heading to TabConf and want to connect, DM me or reply.
Iraq Blocks Telegram Access In The Country Citing 'Privacy Concerns'
The ministry said in a statement it had asked the app to close down "platforms that leak the data of the official state institutions and the personal data of citizens... but the company did not respond and did not interact with any of these requests."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/iraq-blocks-access-to-telegram-due-to-privacy-concerns/
Another shithole country blocking Telegram....
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🚨 Brazil's Censorship Regime Becomes Even More Despotic
Monark, "Brazil's Joe Rogan," is now being criminally investigated and fined ~$75,000 for online conduct—fully silencing the once mega-popular podcaster without any due process.
This is what's coming for everyone.
The West is using Brazil as its censorship laboratory, learning how to implement and escalate their totalitarian assault on free expression.
https://nostr.build/av/02cfe1077541a1a666ca8325e35ebe80440b74ad48cedcb1f95d71cfc376de0a.mp4
Things are screwed down there and also with huge inflation on the prospects it is definitely not a good place to live as a free self-sovereign.
https://github.com/realeinherjar/sweepr
For the past week I've been working on a bitcoin wallet as a side project/portfolio building.
This is sweepr a simple CLI that, given a mnemonic seed and address, will scan the most common segwit v0 descriptors and sweep all funds that it finds to the address.
I want to still enhance it as a way to learn more about PWAs, WASM, Rust, and BDK.
Check the codebase, test the wallet, and feel free to open issues or PRs.
Got a call from nostr:npub1pt53hr2wzgvz7zvz872y275cuwqyg8ayepc9l66xnfgefs2lw99sxyr0vf today.
They want us to come back and build on their platform. We told them no.
April 1st?
Nice! Do you need help on building the rust nostr:npub1exv22uulqnmlluszc4yk92jhs2e5ajcs6mu3t00a6avzjcalj9csm7d828 library? I am experienced in rust and would love to contribute. Is there a public repo up already?
Nostr for public stuff and nostr:npub1exv22uulqnmlluszc4yk92jhs2e5ajcs6mu3t00a6avzjcalj9csm7d828 for private stuff. That simple…
Yeah and somehow they managed to split the season in two mini-intra-seasons….
My standards are strict, very strict, but they apply only to me. Not strange at wall. I do it all the time
Same, for a long time I’ve thought that it was Aaron Schwarz blog that lingers on after his passing.
That’s a lesson that you’ll be stamped in your face with what you spend time/attention.
Despite hating Meta, I’m against censorship even if against persons/entities that I do not agree or despise.
Excited to see SimpleX start to decentralize and scale. Bye bye signal… nostr:note16j4plx8xl83mrlg2ccdvdyv95ssvv2qygymdw655pu8klkh6dcsqxgqxh3
I totally agree that Nostr and it’s inherent ecosystem of microapps have a huge role to play in the internet and society. nostr:note194n247lecqgcskk5rmmfgrapt4jx7ppq64xec0eca3s4ta3hwkrsex7pxa