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I've had repetitive issues with my particular nsec on some sites but not others when signed from a bunker. The same sites have no problems with test npubs from the same bunker implementation. Anyone ran into this kind of issue?

BITCOIN CORE IS SPAM

If it’s gonna happen, it’s gonna happen whether or not you stress over it. It sounds obvious, but once I truly internalized this, I stopped stressing so much, especially over things I can’t control.

Future me: you want to run a node? Great! There are 2 main kinds: Core and Knots. The main difference between them is how they approach spam. Core takes a welcoming stance toward spam transactions, whereas Knots filters them out as much as possible. Which one do you want to run?

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💡 Bitcoin Quiz:

Which cryptographic function is used in Bitcoin addresses?

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I switched over to Bitcoin knots.

Who is still running core?

Why?

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It's more nuanced. But yes, public source code is the minimum requirement to trust a product that's built to manage great wealth.

Open source is better than public source as competing teams using the same code is the best way to have adversarial thinkers checking every line that goes into the repository.

Public source is better than closed source or course.

But with hardware wallets one aspect that bothers me is that the user has to trust what is on the device when he receives it.

Trezor ships their devices "without firmware" but not without bootloader, so what if that bootloader isn't exactly what they claim it is? Could it patch any bootloader and firmware updates the user puts on the device in transit?

nostr:npub1a3xjg8pngvgm8gcygvlwx3ptu2wsaz88asvmshkl9waznwf4vh3qqrx0r7 brought my attention to "Cardware Wallet" which advertises the inability to update the firmware as a security feature. 🤨 is it though? Bitcoin is not static. Do you want a hardware wallet that will never be able to use new features? This wallet brags about LN capability which I would assume to be a much faster moving field than base layer Bitcoin. But the fundamental issue is that the user probably cannot audit what software he's actually running as it comes pre-installed on the device. But it's open source. Or so they say.

There's going to be a Nostr event there in a few hours 👀

Has anyone given a live Nostr presentation in a video game yet? 👀

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