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Pablo Xannybar
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The one and only. BTC. XMR. Freedom maxi. Say no to CBDCs and digital ID. #FreeRoss #McAfeeDidntKillHimself

The natural vaccine wins again 👌

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Article:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ajherrington/2023/10/13/study-finds-cannabis-users-had-better-covid-19-outcomes/

Study:

https://journal.chestnet.org/article/S0012-3692(23)02201-8/fulltext

#weedstr #covid #vaccine

Clonazepam + a nice indica = confidence and total lack of anxiety, literally anxiety no longer exists as a concept

Been pretty low energy recently but not anymore

Imagine you have a stupid name and you grow up getting bullied for it so you say "fuck these guys I'm gonna have a whole planet named after me and they'll have to take me seriously!"

So you study hard and become a space scientist and work at NASA and eventually discover a planet and name it after yourself, truly you have earned respect this day.

And that's the story of Professor Uranus.

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persistent issue (since amethyst inception) on non-play version of amethyst using gos:

issue: when composing a post, when a user swipes up (on grapheneos) to go to another app, it's a crapshoot if the post edit will still be there when the user returns

happens ~ 30/ 40% of the time and seems completely random

expected behavior: user starts composing a post, swipes up to go to another app to grab a link or search for a photo to download and can return to the app and the post draft will still be there.

seriously, i have to save my posts to a notepad because this issue happens so often

looking forward to your reply and a resolution. this doesn't happen with other apps.

#cybersecgirl #privacytechpro #amethyst

Getting this too. I assume it's very RAM intensive because the app tends to start lagging a little when this happens.

I've gotten into the habit of copying what I type before closing the app just in case.

Current progress on private Bitcoin transactions:

1. Silent Payments:

- Silent Payments, a concept similar to BIP47, enhances privacy in Bitcoin transactions by allowing users to create reusable payment codes.

- These payment codes can be tweaked by others to create unique public addresses, known only to the sender and receiver.

- Ruben Somsen, who suggested Silent Payments, is a notable figure in the Bitcoin community. He emphasizes that this approach eliminates the data usage tradeoff associated with BIP47, reducing the load on operators with full nodes.

- The first silent payment transaction was initiated on the Bitcoin testnet, Signet, in May 2022

https://www.thecoinrepublic.com/2022/05/27/how-do-silent-payments-increase-more-privacy-in-bitcoin-blockchain-transactions/

2. BIP-324:

- BIP-324 aims to add HTTPS-like encryption to Bitcoin, improving the security and privacy of transactions.

- It helps prevent private metadata from leaking and allows for the verification that no malicious man-in-the-middle attacks are occurring during transactions.

- The introduction of BIP-324 would mean that session IDs used in transactions could help identify and prevent attacks, enhancing overall security and privacy https://protos.com/bip-324-heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-bitcoin-proposal/

3. BIP 157/158 - Client-Side Block Filtering:

- These BIPs introduce client-side block filtering to enhance privacy on the Bitcoin network.

- They allow clients to specify the types of transactions they’re interested in, reducing the amount of data received and enhancing privacy.

- This approach improves privacy by allowing users to selectively retrieve only the transactions relevant to them https://www.doubloin.com/learn/bitcoin-bip-privacy-improvements

4. Schnorr Signatures:

- Although not specified by a BIP number in the sources, Schnorr Signatures represent an important advancement in Bitcoin privacy.

- They allow the aggregation of multiple signatures into a single signature, making it harder for observers to determine individual participants in a transaction.

- This method enhances privacy by obfuscating the link between addresses and transactions https://www.doubloin.com/learn/bitcoin-bip-privacy-improvements

An actually relevant link: this BIP natively allows encrypted P2P data transfer on the Bitcoin blockchain.

I don't see any silent spending feature in Bitcoin Core itself, but I see a lot of positive building blocks.

Taproot could possibly be used to add signature rings to Bitcoin transactions since it is very scriptable, but this would be complex and require special support in wallets.

If there's something I missed here, I'd be happy to see it.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0324.mediawiki

Oh sorry my bad I didn't see that you responded to the comment specifically about blind spending in Bitcoin Core.

*downs some coffee* 😂

The primary difference between LN and Monero for privacy as a regular user is that the recipient node is always public on LN. Both sender and receiver are anonymous on Monero. So are all wallets and balances. The only thing the blockchain ever shows is "anon sent an unknown amount of money to another anon."

There's a lot of complex details regarding the design of the underlying cryptography as well, such as rings and decoy transactions. This makes unmasking transactions much more difficult because you don't even know what to target.

The nostr:npub1tr4dstaptd2sp98h7hlysp8qle6mw7wmauhfkgz3rmxdd8ndprusnw2y5g link on Monero that's already been posted further down is a great resource to learn more.

I, too, define cypherpunk tools by their state categorisations.

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