Subnostr

Can you do a mesh network open source? I’ve found one router isn’t enough to reach my whole house

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After watching #[0] and #[1] talk on Freedom Money episode 1, I can’t stop thinking about 1 thing…and it’s how much Apple have me by the balls. It’s not an easy switch when you’ve embedded your family into their ecosystem.

Gotta get to graphene os and linux life. Takes a little while, but it’s worth it

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Laser

Just be sure to remineralize your water; drinking empty filtered water actually steals minerals from ylur body.

How do you remineralize? Just via normal diet or are you doing anything special?

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It's rampant now with 25% of kids identifying as queer and/or gender non-conforming in middle school...

It should be an edge case but it's trendy now for young people and very common.

They even put litter boxes in some universities to accomodate people who identify as furries?

Maybe it’s similar to how more ppl identify as homosexual now that it’s generally accepted in the US vs the number of ppl who may in a repressive society like Iran.

Perhaps these ppl always existed but needed to keep that part of themselves quiet to be accepted in society.

Or maybe not, and this is a brand new phenomenon and ppl just want to be trendy. Honestly, it doesn’t matter.

Live and let live.

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Yes that's easy to say, but suppose that boy now wants to change in the women's change room with your daughter, how do you feel about that? Just treat them as an individual and go with it?

Again, dealing with edge cases that I doubt 99.99% of the population deals with. You may hear about it on the ‘news’, but unlikely that you’re telling me a story from your personal experience.

With that said, I’d imagine there is some way to deal with it in a way that is kind to most folks. Personally I think if one has special needs/accommodations the school can try to come up with a creative solution. Like this particular person can change in the teachers restroom or an empty classroom or an empty office?

But I don’t think you and I (or politicians)have to solve this edge case for the country, probably should be handled by folks on the front line in a compassionate way. They already handle exceptions all the time, this isn’t beyond them.

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Here's one that comes up for a lot of people I know:

Job requires you to list your pronouns in your email signature.

Cool or not cool?

I haven’t encountered that and while I personally don’t like it, if I want to be employed there and that is their policy then I’d have to adhere to it.

I don’t like giving them my passport, social security number, bank account info, etc.. either, it’s all enough for even a junior HR employee to easily steal my identity.

But alas, I didn’t win that battle, but Bitcoin does solve this… eventually.

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Is it possible to be respectful of people who suffer from gender dysphoria without redefining everything in society?

Does this pregnant man 🫃🏼 emoji help or hurt people?

Should we be so inclusive we allow men in women's sports where they absolutely dominate?

Or women's prisons were they rape and impregnate?

Maybe on Nostr we can have a civil discussion about it without getting banned by woke twitter moderators...

I wonder how much of an issue this actually is for everyday ppl. I’ve never run into it in my personal life nor do I know anyone it has affected.

Feels like a nice talking point for some folks in the media to get everyone all hopped up about.

I get there are some small percent of edge cases to be dealt with, but does this actually matter or is it just distraction from the real problems that the govt/media don’t want you to focus on.

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Max

We can compare the feature set of both options:

Wasabi:

- no mandatory amounts

- minimum of 5000 sats

- maximum of 40000 bitcoin

- inputs can be consolidated privately in coinjoin

- all output are private, no toxic change

- minimum of 150 inputs, up to 400 inputs and 400 outputs

- high remix ratio

- private payment batching in coinjoin

- hardware wallet signing

- taproot support

- can open lightning channels in coinjoin (not yet implemented)

- optimized to use little blockspace

- everyone pays for how much blockspace he consumes

Whirlpool:

- mandatory pool amounts

- minimum 100000 sats

- maximum 0.5 bitcoin

- tx0 common input ownership leak

- tx0 non-private output, toxic change

- 5 inputs and 5 outputs

- fixed remix ratio

- no payments in coinjoin

- no hardware wallet signing

- not optimized for blockspace efficiency

- blockspace fee of recurring users is paid by fresh users

- postmix tools instead of payments in coinjoin

Thanks for the list of positives of wasabi and negatives of whirlpool. Could you steelman the case and list pros of whirlpool over wasabi?

Also, is there any truth about wasabi working with coin surveillance firms or was that just FUD?

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no₿ody™ 🧱

Did you guys think i was joking when i said i’m going full Zap Mode™️?

What even is a Reaction anyway? A satsless zap????

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₿ennett

Can I zap myself?

You can, but the church looks negatively upon such behavior

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WasBuddhaMaybe

You own faggots? Sounds gay

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Humble Bitcoiner

1948

- average income of $3,200 per year

- a house $11,900

- a movie ticket $0,40

2023

- average income in $32,000 per year

- a house $420,000

- a movie ticket $10

Back then you worked 4 years to buy a house, now almost 13 years.

Do college education, that one shocked me!

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Max

A coinjoin is a collaborative bitcoin transaction, where multiple users own different inputs to the same transaction.

There is a consensus problem: every user needs to sign the exactly same transaction, if one input fails to sign, it is an invalid transaction and will never confirm.

An easy solution to consensus problems is to have a central coordinator to propose the transaction to be signed. Every coinjoin implementation so far uses centralized coordination, because deventralized consensus is bloody difficult.

In order to preserve privacy, nobody, including the coordinator, should learn that multiple inputs or outputs belong to the same user. Clients can create a new Tor identity for each input and output registration with the coordinator.

However, if the coordinator would allow any anonymous Tor identity to register outputs, then any troll can keep on registering unfunded outputs. The coordinator needs to ensure that a user can only register an output, if they registered an input with enough sats earlier.

This access right system can be designed in a privacy preserving way by using the cryptography that enabled anonymous eCash, Chaumian blind signatures. The client creates a random serial number, blinds it, and sends the cyphertext to the coordinator during input registration. If the input is valid, the coordinator signs the cyphertext with his privat key and returns the signature. Depending on the amount of sats in the input the coordinator uses a different private key. The non-standard change amount output has to be registered already now non-anonymously. Later during output registration, the client unblinds the signed cyphertext, and sends the unblinded signed serial number to the coordinator together with the output address. If the signature is valid, and the serial number is new, then the coordinator allows the output address registration with the sats value depending on from which key the signature is. If multiple users register the same amount, then there is an anonymity set for that private key. The coordinator cannot find out from which input registration this signature is. However, because users register arbitrary input amounts, there will always be a change output where the blind signature cryptography does not work, thus the coordinator learns the linkage between inputs and change output.

However, with the use of more fancy cryptography, this access right system can be greatly improved, this is Wabisabi: Keyed verified anonymous credentials have similar blinding attributes as blind signatures, however one credential can have multiple independent and flexible attributes. One of the attributes is the serial number, the other is a homomorphic encrypted value of the amount of sats. During input registration the client creates the serial number and adds the sats amount of his input minus fees to the credential. The coordinator verified the input and the amount of the credential, then signs it. The coordinator also signs credentials with a zero amount of sats. Next, the client can "reissue" credentials to himself, he presents to the coordinator two unblinded credentials, and two new blinded credentials. The coordinator does not know the values of any of the credentials, however he knows that the sum of the two old credentials is exactly equal to the value of the two new ones. This uses Peterson commitments and bullet proofs, like liquid or monero. This way the user can change the value of his credentials to whatever he likes, consolidating multiple small credentials into one big 2+2=4+0, or splitting up one big credential into multiple smaller 4+0=3+1. Later during output registration, the client unblinds the credential serial number and amount, and presents this with a fresh bitcoin address to the coordinator, who verifies his signature and approved the output. The anonymity set of the credential does not depend on the amount anymore, it is now the set of all users of this round. There is no non-private change output, each output registration is done with a new Tor identity and new anonymous credential.

After output registration, all clients construct the final unsigned transaction, verify that their inputs and outputs are represented, sign it, and send the signature to the coordinator. If all inputs sign the transaction, the coordinator broadcasts it to the Bitcoin network.

To sum up, a coinjoin coordinator is a centralized bulletin board that collects inputs, outputs, and signatures of multiple bitcoin users. The coordinator creates ecash tokens for a registered input, and only accepts outputs when that token is redeemed. Using Tor, blind signatures, and homomorphic value encryption ensures that not even the coordinator learns which inputs or outputs belong to the same user. The key innovation of Wabisabi is to make the value of the access right token anonymous to allow for arbitrary input and output values.

Sounds cool, a lot of that went over my head. But some folks I trust (namely #[2] ) prefer whirlpool so I’m sticking with that since I don’t know enough on my own.

Also heard wasabi is working with coin surveillance firms, and while they can do what makes them happy, that’s not my cup of tea

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Zoltan ⚡️

There are some here who will Hodl till death, but for all the others I have a question. Do you have an exact plan when you will spend from your coins? If yes and the plan is public would you share? Mine is not finished yet, but at 100K I buy myself a motorcycle. 🤙

As always,

Pv

My goal is when it reaches a certain price I have in mind which I hope we hit within 3 years, I’ll unload about 25% of my stack. That money I will use to ensure I never need a fiat job again by having both a traditional FIRE portfolio along with 75% of my btc stack.

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Laser

Time for Asia to kick off this bull market in earnest.

#Bitcoin

Looks like Europe/America is waking up and dragging it back down

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k3tan

So... is SBF in jail yet or what?

We have two justice systems in America. I’ll let you guess which one he falls under

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Tom

How to explain Ethereum to new Bitcoiners:

Imagine if Satoshi:

💩 Premined 14M #Bitcoin and gave it to his private investors.

💩 Removed the 21M Supply cap.

💩 Removed POW mining for bitcoin and instead new bitcoin is allocated as interest to the existing holders

And changed it all up every few years while trying to find product market fit

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Guy Swann

OMG we need polls where you have to pay like 100 sats (or whatever) to vote.

This will literally correct a major problem that skews polls on social media.

I mention because I’m about to release another Meme soon, but it’s only 30 seconds, and was intended as a part of a larger project (about 2 minutes). I wanted to poll people on whether I should move into the next project or see the one I’m about to drop to its next form.

Polls on #Nostr could be really interesting and far more useful (some degree of skin in the game) than normal social polls. 🤔