arbedout

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I put the punk in cypherpunk

Public Key

npub15elf37hn9ujjptjhfkzzvff5u7u5vfwwp48pffgvjl3k9srtwu8qcayswk

NIP-05 Address

arbedout@granddecentral.com

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs2vl5cltej7ffq4et5mppxy56w0w2xyh8q6ns555xf0cmzcp4hwrsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0wl9ud8

Publishing to

nos.lol

Author Public Key

npub15elf37hn9ujjptjhfkzzvff5u7u5vfwwp48pffgvjl3k9srtwu8qcayswk

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Last Notes

2024-07-02 18:39:50

[advertisement for teething infants]: have you been sleeping through the night? are you not riddled with guilt wondering whether you're a good parent? well check this out!

2024-07-01 20:37:12

Watched the U.S. presidential debate last week between Trump and Biden. Watching the Iranian presidential debate between Pezeshkian and Jalili now. All the "this is fine" dog in burning house memes ever made aren't enough to convey what I'm feeling.

2024-06-12 23:20:55

https://m.primal.net/IiZZ.jpg

2024-05-24 20:04:39

Sigbash update: Making progress on the REST API! Hoping it'll be ready for testing white labeling in Two Weeks ™️
https://m.primal.net/ILkj.jpg

2024-05-22 13:12:32

I just run realized Van Morrison has two songs about the exact same thing - 'Dancing In The Moonlight' and also 'Moondance' - and they're both absolute bangers
gm

2024-05-14 12:43:38

"Building and deploying something unstoppable is also a decision" is deffo going on a t-shirt.

2024-05-12 01:59:31

Everybody was hyping me up for a possible Carrington Event and in the endI didn't even get to see any pretty lights ;(

2024-05-08 18:25:33

I had a great time at BHH last year. The amazing Latvian food was an unexpected treat, if I were going this year I'd definitely sign up for this. (P.S. if you're going try to find some Latvian hot chocolate if you can - it's literally liquid molten chocolate, not cocoa powder and milk.)
#nevent1q…7puh

2024-05-06 13:21:51

Sigbash update: Passkeys, Price Feeds, and PSBT introspection!
Original beta announcement Xitter thread here: https://twitter.com/arbedout/status/1772646454533755215
Six weeks of beta testing and I can separate out the feedback I've gotten into two broad categories:
1) The oracle is useless (because I don't really need it)
and
2) The oracle is useless (because it doesn't do what I really need)
For 1) - I definitely didn't appreciate how many users just wanted to submit a form to get an xpub / have an xpub signed without any conditions. That's great! But also Sigbash v1 was kind of terrible for that - without any conditions, every xpub is effectively an xprv, since you can just present it to the signing server and we'll happily assume that your ownership of the key is enough proof that we should sign for you. Since everyone in your multisig quorum can theoretically see your xpub, that means everyone has your xprv. Not ideal!
I thought about this for a bit and settled on implementing passkey authorization - now you can associate a passkey with an xpub when you first request it, and we'll only sign for that xpub if the passkey is presented at signing time. Givs your xpub to whoever you like; we won't sign requests for it unless you present your Apple FaceID, or fingerprint TouchID, or Yubikey, etc.
(Side note: This is the first Bitcoin-y thing I've built that I've had my mom test on her phone. Wild feeling watching her authenticate with her FaceID to make a signing request.)
For 2): The original oracle could only check three conditions - the bitcoin network hashrate, or the balance of a given Bitcoin address, or the BTC/USD exchange rate. All conditions were evaluatedaft signing time.
I got a *ton* of requests for new conditions to commit to, so many that I refactored the entire oracle UI and backend. Now you can restrict Sigbash from signing a request for an xpub based on:
*the price of 170+ fiat currencies, precious metals, or crude oil;
*Treasury yields, SOFR or the Fed Funds rate;
*hashrate for a given mining pool or the entire network;
*daily Bitcoin transaction fees in USD;
*the balance of a Bitcoin address
Instead of just checking the value for the condition at the time a signing request is submitted, you can now specify values for a given date - e.g. "Sign if Luxor's hashrate on May 6 is greater than 100 EH/s" or "Sign if the exchange rate of Bulgarian Lev to USD on April 27 is above $.010/USD". This radically changes the value proposition of the oracle; you can now build incredibly complex conditional contracts from these basic building blocks.
Finally, and also to address 2) - I added PSBT introspection, which is a fancy way of saying you can restrict an xpub to only sign for a request if the sum of the inputs, outputs or transaction fees in the PSBT you submit for signing are above or below a certain value in satoshis.
The combination of these features - being able to build addresses with spending conditions dependent on price feeds, or hashrate, or the value of a given Bitcoin address, or the inputs and outputs of the spending transaction - are what I'm hoping will be available to Bitcoin users when there's widespread adoption and support for discreet log contracts and a soft fork that enables some form of covenants. Since we aren't there yet, my hope is that we can start building and testing the UX out for that future and progressively upgrade the Sigbash backend to provide users more sovereignty as new soft forks are activated and DLC oracles get better tooling and wallet support.
(And if covenants are never activated and DLCs never get much traction? We'll still have this imperfect-but-good-enough implementation to get the job done.)
Give it a spin at https://www.sigbash.com, use code BETATEST to grab an xpub, and again please remember this could break at any time until we're out of beta. Thanks y'all, onward!

2024-05-05 13:13:33

Putting the finishing touches on a new Sigbash release based on all the feedback I've gotten over the past month. Definitely announcing all the changes here first instead of Xitter. (Maybe I can just screenshot the note and post it there?)

2024-05-04 20:05:32

There's a Craig Wright joke here somewhere
https://m.primal.net/IDLs.jpg

2024-05-02 00:57:31

Parenting tip: you don't have to sing baby lullabies or play baby songs to your newborn. They will happily rock out to The Sisters Of Mercy and Prince if you offer it to them, no matter how off key you are.

2024-05-01 16:22:55

The fact that your timeline isn't flooded with influencers proclaiming they stand with the students, chanting "Universities! Life! Freedom!", is something worth spending a few cyles thinking about.

2024-04-26 18:13:27

Current mood https://image.nostr.build/6c7ecc2def5f3208919b086fdd7efbd3e402d9c288307863d0a84cba43da4272.jpg

2024-04-13 23:24:33

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Side note: I used to do a lot of armchair geopolitical / finance tweets on Twitter and started self censoring when too many people were retweeting me. Feeling empowered by Nostr rn. I hope it lasts.

2024-04-13 23:21:50

My unsolicited Hot Take on the Current Thing is that you should maybe stockpile a spare laptop or two and grab some Bitcoin while it's on sale. If the US isn't intervening here, China's taking Taiwan without any kinetic intervention, and getting their dollar assets frozen the same day.

2024-04-11 20:11:29

Wrapping this up now. Excellent framing, contrasting Tim May's vision of crypto anarchy with Julian Assange's idea of 'crypto justice', exploring what 'privacy for the weak, transparency for the powerful' means in practice. https://image.nostr.build/4637fd8f0b96b801dee73ba90819749ec6d7b67f1f297f52fec98c1c8262b9ef.jpg

2024-04-11 20:07:05

New version of Mutiny has me wanting to send friends money just for funsies. Such a slick UI.

2024-04-04 13:00:42

>reading up on the Lightspark-Coinbase partnership https://image.nostr.build/b8beff4e51fb2665624bf544859691f1bac1ddafebe92f90f35db0a5f4aa6341.jpg

2024-04-01 14:10:30

Implemented QR codes at a beta tester's request, now importing sigbash keys into nunchuk.io is a breeze :) https://image.nostr.build/13b7eb136767ac6afa915b1d833961f213e3aa9eed6c3deb2e20fa8c32d723de.jpg

2024-03-31 14:29:41

Reposted from Xitter:
Bear markets are for building, bull markets are for... beta testing?
I've been working on an automated multisig key agent I'm calling Sigbash (website: https://sigbash.com - use code BETATEST if you want to help kick the tires on it).
Sigbash implements browser-side xpub blinding, which is a fancy way of saying that, from the time a user is issued a key, right up until the key agent is asked to sign a transaction, the key agent *doesn't actually know anything about the key it issued*
This means that if the signing server is ever compromised or a bad actor somehow gets a hold of the seed phrase, they won't be able to discover anything about what it protects (!)
Quick 🧵 below:
Techie mumbo jumbo: when a user requests an xpub, Sigbash sends one to the client browser, and then on the client the WebCrypto API is used to choose a random derivation path to generate a new child xpub. A SHA256 hash of this xpub is sent to the Sigbash server; the hash is the only information the server has about the key until a request is made to sign a PSBT.
When it's time to sign, the user submits the PSBT along with their xpub; the signing server takes the SHA256 hash of the submitted xpub and check whether there's a record of it, and if so returns a signed PSBT.
Instead of having a human in the loop to confirm a signing request, a user can instead attach signing conditions to a key when it's issued- e.g. "sign transactions submitted with this key immediately", or "only sign after a certain date", or "only after a certain block height"
along with
"sign only if this Bitcoin address has a balance greater or less than a certain number of satoshis"
or
"sign only if the global network hashrate is greater or less than a certain number of Terahash",
or
"sign only if the BTC/USD exchange rate is above or below a certain number"
I've tried to square the circle of making this as private as a multisig key agent can be while still being supported by as much of today's wallet software as possible - there are no trackers on the site, no accounts to set up or email addresses that can be harvested, no credit cards to bill (thanks @BtcpayServer !), and it's available over Tor to avoid leaking your IP address.
There's absolutely more that can be done here with e.g. Taproot key paths, Musig2, hopefully even OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK one day - but for now I wanted to focus on the existing wallet ecosystem ("meet your users where they are" and all that)
Instead of implementing some sort of slashing mechanism or fidelity bonds to ensure the signer doesn't go rogue, Sigbash makes use of what Mircea Popescu would have called a 'GPG contract' (https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/gpg-contracts) - every xpub purchased comes with a PGP signed receipt that includes the hash, the signing conditions and an OpenTimestamp file attesting to when it was created. If the signer either fails to sign when it should (or signs when it shouldn't), users can post the receipt and effectively burn the key agent's reputation.
If you want to give it a try:
a) check the FAQ at https://sigbash.com and in particular the compatibility chart - not all wallets support non-standard derivation paths! and
b) use the checkout code BETATEST to get a free xpub to play with - which I plan on disabling when the in a few weeks when the halving comes, just as a heads up ;)
Thanks to everyone who helped to test this over the past few months, I couldn't have done it without you. A very special thanks to @Rob1Ham and @SahilCO for their early feedback and uncovering the nastiest of bugs, and @mflaxman for coming up with the idea for blinded xpubs back in 2020 (https://github.com/mflaxman/blind-xpub)
Back to your regularly scheduled shitposting ASAP, I promise :)

2024-03-31 14:26:58

Feeling cute, might start getting back into nostr ^_-

2023-07-01 19:59:18

The Twitter-to-nostr lifeline has come back to life - and such perfect timing!

2023-07-01 15:41:39

Willing to bet a nickel that 'Twitter being down' and 'Twitter killing tweets for anyone not logged in' are causally related.
(Theory: Access to tweets from the outside blocked -> clients say "Hey we can't fetch tweets! Better retry again!" -> automatic decentralized DDoS)

2023-06-30 14:44:59

https://nostr.build/i/0d83459f99aef124de928cf3e72493b6996c463fc2fb2523e05bcd6582d5fe6d.jpg

2023-06-10 15:02:30

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2023-06-09 14:05:22

Our meetups at @npub1key…lt3h are laying the ground for a common understanding of Bitcoin, similar to the lectures of Shahid Morteza Motahhari and Dr. Ali Shariati at the Hosseniyeh Ershad in Tehran in the early 1970s, establishing 'Islamshenasi' as an alternative political ideology opposed to the Ancien Régime. In this essay I wil
(jk jk but also fr fr)
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https://nostr.build/i/bced18894cd05102c0a76ae887fc7b959010b7f747c5902e03cfc1903a841570.jpg

2023-06-08 20:53:00

many such cases!
https://nostr.build/i/6cb92896c16b9c3585ecfee2feb3441c933ca41b4962eb1937328b5be03d76b6.jpg

2023-06-08 17:47:17

https://nostr.build/i/0bc16df486b704f77677f4f3ff6757b28a64497960fe079b94f00101cb40f874.jpg

2023-06-08 14:57:33

mining the DMs for content
https://nostr.build/i/3d24d939b48995e56d74ed2487d5c7303f7bae40b97af283ec4451617dd28400.jpg

2023-06-06 15:27:05

- Coinbase spent millions on an army of lobbyists to build a regulatory moat and crowd out competitors
- Hired many ex-SEC lawyers and even a former Senator in order to make use of their access to the State
- Helped contribute to the death of Jstark by reporting his transactions to German authorities
Seeing influencers crying as the SEC tries to take Coinbase down makes me grin a little

2023-06-04 16:07:49

gm, Chainalysis is astrology for spooks

2023-04-28 19:11:30

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_0c86409822a4085c5d633ee1c350dd7a6b4d1baf89eab912e7f7ec17ce635293.jpg

2023-04-27 13:50:02

Re: the PSBT dutch auctions - has anyone seen (and/or proposed) any non-ordinal use cases for these yet?

2023-04-20 14:26:15

Anyone have takes to shill me on CivKit before I dive into it? (At first glace the 'KYP' oracles seem iffy to me.)

2023-04-16 14:40:31

Booking tickets for Miami. Any nostr breakout events planned for Bitcoin 2023?

2023-04-12 15:49:49

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Both! I keep a small amount of sats on OpenDimes. They also make great birthday gifts and wedding presents.

2023-04-12 14:34:52

Feels like a good day to mix and withdraw
https://i.imgur.com/z0XA6SQ.jpg

2023-04-08 22:15:05

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I know no one wants to hear this, but those 'Women, Life, Freedom' protests we were all getting blasted by in Q4 2022/ Q1 2023? Psyop.

2023-04-08 22:07:51

I'm noticing as Twitter withers away and nostr replaces it: the lack of algorithmic content makes it much more difficult to manufacture consent.
It's wild how many psyops I'm missing out on by just following friends / WoT.

2023-04-04 10:50:11

POV: you weren't at PubKey for the meetup last night to hear us discuss soft fork activations
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_84dcde9f91dc92b1acb7cf4350fdea57c353e0d3c73539b81eeb73fb6a54dde8.jpg

2023-03-30 13:21:12

Things I'm hoping we'll talk about:
BIP 8 / BIP 9/ Speedy Trial
Inquisition
How do soft forks get activated, anyway?
PubKey, this Monday 4/3, 7 PM, see you there!
https://iris.to/note1eut6kd6nm6zzx2nyweae9kr68f03g6upratcz5yzzzgvmly4tj6smu6fzy

2023-03-25 13:19:26

Chokepoints, chokepoints everywhere https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-disables-access-to-pirated-content-on-its-ipfs-gateway-230324/

2023-03-24 12:09:43

That Greenpeace sculpture is right up there with calling Trump supporters "deplorables" - it's not convincing anyone that wasn't already convinced, but it gives their opponents some amazing branding for free. Can't wait to see it on a satscard :)

2023-03-22 22:11:52

They're going to cut Kraken off from ACH, sic the DOJ on Binance, and as for Coinbase:
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_dc86987329e00725267a796a63e3dd488a4fca3e27f9a63078d0e741a5037875.png

2023-03-21 14:31:48

It's all so tiresome
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_b8f94c50c9d0d7d4bb0b7701360e8cb17339146659980263586f8b0338e520c6.jpg

2023-03-20 15:19:13

GM to everyone except fiat apologists https://twitter.com/arbedout/status/1339968110342909953

2023-03-17 22:24:33

No words to describe how much Nostrica FOMO I'm feeling rn

2023-03-17 13:23:29

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau, watching normies scramble from bank to bank in the midst of a crisis (maybe)

2023-03-15 17:45:21

Just don't dance.

2023-03-15 13:48:18

Last Friday the Chinese government brokered an agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia to restore diplomatic relations and bring a halt to the years-long undeclared conflict between both countries.
Meanwhile, after spending two absolutely wasted decades in first Iraq and then Afghanistan, the government of the United States spent last Friday cleaning up a regional bank blowup at the behest of members of their political donor class.
Years from now this will be written about in history textbooks as the signpost for when the post-WWII 'rules based order' came to an end.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/15/does-chinas-role-in-saudi-iran-rapprochement-represent-a-new-order-.html

2023-03-13 16:23:30

https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_201c99b2ef5d67b6af484970d2e4d3b1e64b366a426d10fecf61aad53228136e.jpg

2023-03-13 15:51:57

One down, one to go
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2023-03-13 13:52:43

Spare a thought for the people in your life stil trapped in the fiat mindset today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t3kQf3lWBs

2023-03-13 00:18:27

1) The FDIC, the Treasury and the Federal Reserve have decided that SVB depositors will be made whole.
This means that Circle will be able to redeem USDC at par. This means USDC will continue to exist. See Jeremy Allaire's thread celebrating here: https://twitter.com/jerallaire/status/1635059024050937856
2) Last year we learned that, in the event of a contentious Ethereum fork, the 'winning' chain will de-facto be whichever one Circle believes is 'valid' (see screenshot of Circle's August 9, 2022 statement before the merge).
1) + 2) =
3) Circle exists because Treasury has decided to allow them to exist, which means any forks that are recognized by Circle as valid for USDC are - in their judgement - not going to get them on Yellen's bad side and have her reconsider that decision.
So, yeah, Ethereum is officially captured by the State, I don't make the rules.
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_4a9396e6b1883728f86feacec35cb85f5194e22c36afc828c458c9fafddfead4.png

2023-03-12 16:20:24

I'm not certain what the ideal amount of Roku's $487mn of funds - out of a corporate treasury of $1.9 billion - should have been stored away in an m-of-n Bitcoin multisig.
But clearly the answer is not 'zero'. It turns out 'zero' loses you $487 million dollars!
Even for companies with significantly less exposure, if you find yourself not being able to make payroll - either b/c of exposure to Rippling or to SIVB diretly - how can you justify not keeping at least two weeks of payroll in an asset that doesn't require an intermediary between you and your employees, once you dig yourself out of this mess?

2023-03-12 00:18:40

Fuck a bailout, I want to see show trials.
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_70eeecd1744630cd2066122b934cc8b9cb7ce8f40b88e2893e44fe701f0f41bc.jpeg

2023-03-11 17:50:03

I mean. If you're a stablecoin that has lost it's peg as a result of a run on a fiat bank....
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2023-03-11 05:08:23

Them: you shouldn't celebrate when banks fail
Me:
https://i.imgur.com/9QSAKan.jpg

2023-03-10 16:59:33

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If you're a startup that held your deposits at SVB and you are now waiting on the FDIC to make you whole, you've just gotten a crash course in the benefits of self-custodying your own funds.

2023-03-10 16:53:24

SVB going into receivership. Bitcoin users unaffected.

2023-03-10 13:23:26

I would simply not build software that requires permission from the NYAG. It's not complicated

2023-03-09 21:28:55

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I bleed green and black, go birds! If Drew slanders me like that again I'll have no choice but to grow a moustache even more majestic than his

2023-03-09 16:02:46

Reading Dr. Niel Ten Oever's Ph.D thesis right now for the University of Amsterdam and it's such a banger:
The entanglement of the Internet with the daily practices of
governments, companies, institutions, and individuals means that
the processes that shape the Internet also shape society. In this
dissertation, I study the norms that shape the Internet’s under-
lying structure through its transnational governance. Norms are
the ‘widely-accepted and internalised [sic] principles or codes of
conduct that indicate what is deemed to be permitted, prohibited,
or required of agents within a specific community’ (Erskine and
Carr 2016, 87). Internet governance is the development, coordina-
tion, and implementation of policies, technologies, protocols, and
standards. Internet governance produces a global and interop-
erable Internet functioning as a general-purpose communication
network in transnational governance bodies. I examine four cases
of norm conflict and evolution in three key Internet governance
institutions: the Internet Engineering Taskforce (IETF); the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN); and the
Réseaux IP Européens Network (RIPE).
https://www.academia.edu/44194819/Wired_Norms_Inscription_resistance_and_subversion_in_the_governance_of_the_Internet_infrastructure
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2023-03-07 16:15:35

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Example: a few members of the Gopher team had these shirts made up, and I'm at a loss for words for describing how completely at odds with reality they are:
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2023-03-07 16:05:05

Doing research for the book aaaand:
I was already familiar with the "Everything about the Internet is bad" Greek chorus of Nicholas Carr et al - the early Internet equivalent of nocoiners, if you will - but I seem to have hit a rich vein of "the Internet would be so much better if only those damn Internet maxis would have listened to me" cope - from Louis Pouzin at CYCLADES (pre-TCP/ARPANet) to Mark McCahill at University of Minnesota (Gopher) to Robert Desjardins (OSI).
It's wild how often the same behavioral pattern repeats itself, with even the same personality (arche)types. Maybe I should be studying mental health and dysfunction instead of networking...?

2023-03-07 14:51:58

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Kind of - the US/Chinese/Russian import-export banks might be a better comparison

2023-03-07 14:49:44

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? I agree but am also confused - context?

2023-03-07 14:25:20

"Iranian Vice President for Economic Affairs, Mohsen Rezaei, proposed the creation of a joint bank with African states with the aim of helping develop economic relations."
https://thecradle.co/article-view/22279

2023-03-06 16:01:11

Goals for today: making chicken katsu at home and filling in the gaps in my understanding of PSBTs.
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_26f57f47ccbba8edda510d2105386e5c1d74c11cfbb1259e7c57f2436d435687.jpg

2023-03-04 16:38:03

Thinking about how the State encouraged home ownership because it meant more saltpetre (a precusor to gunpowder) would be produced.
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2023-03-03 20:59:34

Remember, the shitcoiners will try to write their own histories of their utter, total ideological defeat.
The slides below is an excerpt of a presentation from an ex-CYCLADES engineer. CYCLADES was a French research network that launched in 1971, was terminated in 1976, never reached more than 20-some nodes, and whose alumni have *very* strong opinions about the current Internet.
I feel like I can guess this guy's shitcoin portofilo just from reading these bullet points:
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2023-03-02 18:12:58

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2023-03-02 15:57:20

🎶 3AC was first in line 🎶
🎶 Now Silvergate and Gemini 🎶
🎶 SBF, Caroline 🎶c
🎶 Gensler wants Binance to die 🎶
🎶 We didn't play with shitcoins 🎶
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2023-03-02 14:35:53

Copied on a thread right now that reminds me of the Great Microsoft Exchange Email Storm of 1997 (Bedlam DL3)
For your morning enjoyment: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/me-too/ba-p/610643

2023-03-01 21:10:11

shill me your best 'the train derailments were caused by cyberattacks' theory
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2023-03-01 16:38:50

Nostr is less interesting to me as a communications protocol per se - at that layer it's just a bunch of websocket clients and servers with novel ways of discovering each other and a shared understanding of how to encode datagrams- but the sort of de-facto "not quite petnames, not quite SSL certs, something else" identity layer that has built up on top of that is frigging nuts

2023-02-28 16:01:00

Getting used to the nostr dynamic of posts with maybe two likes but several thousand sats from a dozen randos

2023-02-28 15:55:30

The first live show at Pubkey last night was a blast! Thanks to everyone who came out, especially in the middle of our first snowstorm of the year.
Most of the examples of data embedded in the blockchain are catalogued here: https://cirosantilli.com/cool-data-embedded-in-the-bitcoin-blockchain
This 2018 paper goes over different techniques to embed arbitrary data, including the Satoshi uploader I'd mentioned:
https://fc18.ifca.ai/preproceedings/6.pdf
@BitMEX
did an amazing article on the OP_RETURN wars that covers Counterparty: https://blog.bitmex.com/dapps-or-only-bitcoin-transactions-the-2014-debate/
The PSBT dutch auction stuff that @orenyomtov
is working on is here https://openordex.org
The case of the Slovakian politician sending financial transactions that were secretly coded messages is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Kotleba#%E2%82%AC1,488_cheques_court_case
...and I think that's all? DM me if you have any questions and see you next time!
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_9a32f83df515d6848c667016b57ec231be45aa47a218729eb76182794b7fa123.jpg

2023-02-28 14:24:11

From a comment on an HN article about the causes of the decine of UseNet:
"These days we're used to being overrun by everyone who can use a point-and-drool interface on their phone to look at Facebook, but back in September 1992 it was a real shock to the system when usenet was suddenly gatewayed onto AOL, I can tell you. Previously usenet more or less got along because the users were university staff and students (who could be held accountable to some extent) and computer industry folks. Thereafter, well, a lot of the worse aspects of 4chan and Reddit were pioneered on usenet. (Want to know why folks hero-worshipped Larry Wall before he wrote Perl? Because he wrote this thing called rn(1). Which had killfiles.) "
...we're gonna need nostr killfiles Soon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file

2023-02-27 22:27:37

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Literally you can't figure out how to @ people, I ain't scurred

2023-02-27 17:50:22

gm, ETHDenver has approximately 60% the number of attendees as the Midwest FurFest, America's largest furry convention

2023-02-26 15:29:32

gm, Gary Gensler is an ex-Goldman Sachs investment banker in an appointed-not-elected position, this guy isn't your friend just because he's making shitcoiners miserable.
better to let all these bad ideas fail on their own (lack of) merits instead of cheering that they're being regulated out of existence

2023-02-25 03:43:27

The PSBT auction stuff is undeniably cool. I hope it gets more traction / use cases. Maybe the POWSWAP hashrate derivatives Jeremy Rubin was working on...?

2023-02-24 18:09:48

Moving on from UseNet to the death of Gopher, comparing this article:
"Where Have all the Gophers Gone? Why the Web beat Gopher in the Battle for Protocol Mind Share" https://ils.unc.edu/callee/gopherpaper.htm
...with an interview with Mark McCahill, lead Gopher dev:
https://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/107471/oh328mmc.pdf
TL,DR:
Historian: This protocol failed due to complex technological and sociological problems
Lead Dev: "What killed the protocol off was when people stopped using Gopher clients specifically and started using Mosaic" 🤔

2023-02-24 16:38:10

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Don't get too excited. The IRR has been declining for literally my entire life. It's just an endless free-fall with no silver lining.
Opt out.

2023-02-24 15:49:21

The combo of:
a) this Politico oral history with Biden admin officials marking the one year anniversary of the war in Ukraine - in which sanctions against Russia are described in terms of 'shock-and-awe' and collective punishment, with Treasury officials imagining themselves as warfighters deterring enemy behavior and blithely ignoring collateral damage
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/02/24/russia-ukraine-war-oral-history-00083757
and
b) this Bloomberg article published on the same day, quietly admitting that sanctions proponents have given up on them having any impact on Russia's behavior
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-02-24/russia-sanctions-to-stop-putin-s-war-in-ukraine-became-300b-distraction
has convinced me we're in the final stage of the decline of the dollar system, in a "where are we going and why are we in this handbasket?" kind of way.

2023-02-24 15:18:53

CBDC strategy docs, but make it 30 years ago
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_54304dc420db92a4fd9f2f810f0d9307130d239ec8d617d617066c49c31c336a.png

2023-02-17 20:59:20

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alright that's enough for now
https://nostr.build/i/nostr.build_814cd45628dbab61f40d928464d2db1c1714f0b7c6fd13a7f71498a510c3e480.png

2023-02-17 20:52:00

Finally set up my lud16 address, just gonna start zapping randos

2023-02-17 15:28:12

eep, had a busy couple of days away from nostr and somehow lost all my follows? adding errybody back now....

2023-02-15 16:21:35

me: ordinals pass the bar for rough consensus and running code, you can do as you please with your sats, there are no protocol police
also me: the decline of usenet began when users figured out how to use it to store data
https://tedium.co/2017/10/03/usenet-binaries-history/

2023-02-06 16:11:52

Question for relay users (so, everyone on nostr):
So far I've been focusing on making my relay as private as possible - Onion Hidden V3 Service, running in njal.la, top level domains registered in privacy friendly jurisdictions, etc.
What other features would you like to see in a privacy-focused relay?

2023-01-25 16:33:30

In theory I think a Twitter-to-nostr bridge is useful.
In practice I'm wondering 'burning the boats' and forcing users to switch back and forth is Good, Actually. Realizing I'm actively using Twitter less now that I'm here, whereas my last attempt to switch over to Mastodon sort of fizzled after I set up moa.party to crosspost from Twitter.

2022-12-21 16:34:43

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