Bitcoin/Poker is a big thing. Unconfiscatable is a conference/poker tournament. The original Bitcoin client had Poker in it. Also just alot of online Bitcoin gambling sites.
There is a growing group of non-technical hodlers who have been trying to spread anti-dev culture around. Bad stuff.
I'm on Amethyst, never saw that once.
Do his pills make me last as long as his URL is?
Thats a bit problematic. Yeah, the website still says because it holds "lightning info" which actually is a lie. The wallet operates with a two of two multisig so there is this pdf that has the backup data... but like, you want a wallet for your main stack that you can access if a company goes out of business. Anyway the backup data contains multisig wallet Metadata. The Website says that when you make a payment, you sign and Muun signs, which makes me worry that if Muun's servers are down, you can't pay... haven't heard of this happening though.
It's actually held on chain, and it's noncustodial, so it's actually as secure as they get. People don't like it because when you pay a LN invoice, it actually sends an onchain transaction to Muun headquarters and they pay the LN invoice. It means it's kinda not "no trusted intermediaries." I worry if they can keep that up if fees rise though. Back before lightning network, they were like 50$ a onchain transaction.
Just saw this, I'm gonna take a look at it. They are a good LN company and have been very involved in Nostr, so they probably got some good info: https://blog.kollider.xyz/using-nostr-with-paid-relay
People hate on Muun for not being a 'real' Lightning Wallet. Muun did figure out a way of dealing with Lightning payments and storing your funds noncustodially. When doing this with 'real' Lightning funds, the only way is running a node on your phone. In low internet environments this can be hard, and many in the Global South pay per MB. The developers are Argentinian and know what their neighbors deal with. This arrangement also results in a unified balance, rather than separate balances for onchain and Lightning.
Those are my thoughts on Muun.
Yeah... i want my npub to login on podcasting 2. 0 apps. And really all apps.
It's bizarre. It's alot like Scientology, you can't just go back to normal society as a BSVer. It's crazy what they believe. Strange things like Blockstream owns a patent on Lightning and stuff. (Meanwhile Lightning Labs' LND is 87% of nodes)
Bitcoin pre-nostr had an attack vector. We need to go online, talk, vent, share news, code, what we are working on, etc. I knew that could be taken from us.
You know, even that's a bit controversial. I was talking to the Twetch account when that (the mechanics for nonimmutability) was being announced and a good amount of the community didn't like it. Enough so that if they had nodes to reject it with, they probably would have. Too bad they don't have any "useless non-mining nodes".
It's the podcasting 2 .0 terminology. They encouraged choosing a rate of sats/min to stream. And then if you liked a part more, you'd give a "boost" or a one time extra (now known as a zap) a boostagram is a boost with a comment added. These comments are viewable across all the Bitcoin enabled podcasting apps, and are frequently read on-air. Anyway it's a boost, because it's in addition to the sats/min stream. An extra pow.
I collected coins, but only ones I got in change. Traded in my silver for Bitcoin when silver was higher than it is now and Bitcoin was around 8k. I mean, it was like $200 bucks worth. But now it's like 600 bucks woth.
To Bitcoiners who don't follow Ethereum, because... why would you, an interesting precedent has been set, in which Jump Crypto, who lost 120,000 Eth in February of 2022 when the "Wormhole Bridge" was attacked got a court order, from the England/Wales courts to make Oasis alter a smart contract to be able to steal back funds for them. Most Defi smart contracts are "upgradable" (changeable) and this could happen again.
How is this relevant for Bitcoiners?
Ahead of launching any Fedimints, I think it's good to keep in mind that if we are operating any mints in jurisdictions that won't appreciate the privacy gains Chaumian E-Cash offers, we need to be very careful about selecting multisig custodians of the mints. This may involve selecting people from different jurisdictions or possibly nyms. The Canadian Trucker Funds getting seized was a great example of why a majority of signers possibly should not be in the operating jurisdiction. However in interviews with Fedi's Obi, he imagines local, trusted members of the community. I may disagree.
Hate to bring him up, but there is someone else who is trying to claim in court developers have fiduciary duty to change code to return customer funds, even if that change results in loss of trust in the system. (I'm talking about CSW.) Now a smart contract held by a 4 of 12 multisig is different than the most decentralized computer network ever invented/discovered, but I am sure he will site this as precedent in his legal tirade against Bitcoin Core Maintainers.
