Bits vs Sasts, Adam vs Giacomo!

https://twitter.com/LuganoPlanB/status/1685584288534683648

Are you assuming my gender or weight???!!!!

Thanks!

Somebody suggested to me that this may be a good occasion to re-post the original 2018 RGB announcement, since I mention it in my speech. Here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHWxtmgQP94

To be pedantic, pruning can happen even at non-witness level. If you set it in the bitcoin.conf, you can just reduce your stored timechain keeping just the last blocks (of course *after* you downloaded and validated all of them once). Pruning is just discarding what you don't need anymore after sync. In principle, everything but the UTXOset is prunable (assuming no reorgs). Witness program is somehow even "more prunable".

Here it is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=596InlNtfD0&feature=youtu.be

Was about to post! Thanks!

Should be out today in some hours.

You do keep custody, but keys are "hot" of course, so lower security than cold storage, especially if you are a maker, always connected with hot keys. But it's the same with Sparrow+Whirpool or with Wasabi (unless you use the latest Wasabi+Trezor integration).

To elaborate more on nostr:npub1t7wmzee4f5mhne4rurk2mdyr8hhagm3sklt02h7qk7xy7d6429fqlq3rr7 's answer, I don't think Wasabi has specific "privacy leak" issues, but it definitely has ethical issues because it partners with chainanal companies to blacklist some UTXOs based on their political ranking. Whirpool, otoh, may have some privacy issues, but hugely mitigated when used with Sparrow (or Dojo). I still prefer Joinmarket.

I absolutely do. JM user since 2016, but it was a pain in the ass. Jam is very easy to use, almost complete as functionalities right now.

Enjoyed a lot indeed! :)

Gli Italiani, che sono foneticamente normodotati, dicono "nostr". Gli anglofoni, che si slogherebbero la mandibola con la "r" moscia dopo la "t", dicono "noster".

Should work normally. Text?

I did, in fact, rug pull him twice.

weeeeel_we_are_waiting.gif :)

To be honest, only running it via JoininBox on a raspiblitz and via JAM on a couple of other nodes...not using the CLI anymore since a long while! :D

Crashes?

I may have invested way more time than initially imagined answering this YouTube comment about "Bitcoin progressives", under my last published video. May as well publish the wall-of-text here too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Otoz02b9PiY&lc=Ugw_uHM7aPz6oURCSsd4AaABAg.9o7CZ2NFMiH9oN75OChcak

(PS: I know on nost I could have just pasted all the links in a single note...I'm just used to use thread to separate points...is it annoying? Feedback appreciated.)

For all these reasons, I was very happy when #[6] asked me to give a more elaborate version of the speech in Riga. Unfortunately nobody recorded it, there. So, I was very happy to give it again for Strike, thanks to the ghost of a lovely Rockstar (RIP <3).

Enjoy.

Another thing that pushed me to review my semi-serious Las Vegas speech was this presentation by Sergej Kotliar, where he separated (imo correctly) "Bitcoin the tool" from "Bitcoin the movement", but in a way that triggered a lot my Venn-related autism, because he ascribed to the "movement" only the subset of cultural idiosyncrasies I would ascribe to the "Austrian/Maximalism" subculture ("low time preference", "HODL", "NgU", "no shitcoins", "hyperbitcoinization fixes this", etc), and to the "tool" some memes that are imo very much part of the cypherpunk subculture ("privacy", "dissidents", "wikileaks"), itself very much part of the "movement", not of the "tool", which I think would instead include, from a pragmatic PoV, most of the gambling-related uses Sergej call "the Casino":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkjEcSmZKfc