#Linux for Bitcoiners. 🐧🐧🐧

1. Enable the firewall. This limits all incoming connections, forcing you to explicitly allow connections (ex: incoming Bitcoin core peers) as they're needed.

2. Install and enable Opensnitch, an application firewall that limits all outgoing connections, forcing you to explicilty audit every binary's attempt to communicate out to the internet. This will make visible all the network traffic on your machine and snitch on programs

3. Install and periodically scan for malware usijf clamav, rkhunter, and chkrootkit. This will give you a sense of whether your machine has been pwned by a known exploit.

4. Use a minimal Linux distro like Zorin Lite. Remove all unused apps. Install needed apps through Snap/Flatpak (built in). Install OS with full disk encryption enabled.

5. Neuter hardware backdoors in your BIOS by flashing your machine with Libreboot or Coreboot. For extra bonus points, install HEADS to cryptographically detect evil maids.

6. Dump Firefox LibreWolf. Use Tor when anonymitiy is needed. Use LibreWolf + Mullvad/iVPN when a whitelisted IP is needed.

7. Isolate your #Bitcoin usage (savings) to a dedicated machine away from your daily driver. Consider running your entire Bitcoin stack (node+coordinator) enclosed on one machine. If leaving machine on to sync blocks, use Sparrow to keep your wallet encrypted at rest.

Chatting with Greg Foss tomorrow. What questions should I ask him?

(biden was installed, not elected)

"Bitcoin is essentially a kick in the nuts, every day." #[0]

I'm addicted to zapping. Fuck.

Jade is kind of great, kind of shitty. Seedsigner is cool, but not really my thing. Passport, keystone with bitcoin only firmware are both super easy QR implementations. Sparrow is the most robust and is head and shoulders above all of its competitors. Ledger isn’t as big of a piece of shit as I used to believe. Trezor needs to stop selling the trezor one at this point.

Do you all like zapping a lot of small amounts or dropping a few bombs?

Don't say both because that's what I've been doing and I don't recommend it unless you wanna hfsp

Not exactly.

Cashu or Fedimint use ecash as a money warehouse receipt redeemable at par for sats.

In Wabisabi coinjoin the ecash is used as anonymous access rights to the output side of the coinjoin transaction coordination.

The token is not "as good as" sats and it cannot be "redeemed" for sats. Instead it can be redeemed for the right to do an api call in the output registration phase.

A coinjoin coordination can fail frequently and for many reasons. If only one input fails to sign, the transaction is invalid, and even if all sign, it can still get double spent before confirmation.

The merchant doesn't consider himself paid when he receives the wabisabi credential, but only when the final transaction with his output is in the blockchain.

So far nobody has implemented this, but both BTCPay and Wasabi will have this functionality soonish in two weeks.

pura vida, stay humble and stack sats 🤙

Apparently people are still using Solana and now they're trying to figure out how to restart the network again.

Idk who to believe tbh. I've seen them défend their point well in the past.

HOLY SHIT!

Someone dropped me 1,000,000 sat zap ⚡

Thank you 🙏

Whenever someone says they are NIP verified, this pops into my head.

Don't judge how my brain works

Best hack: using graphene os withing multiple profiles possible so you can use a separate clean profile for this case

Have you dumped $GBTC for hard sats yet, anon?

Why are there apps that are opinionated on whether you're allowed to download content over cellular? Being told I must connect to Wi-Fi to do something irritates me to no end.