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JoinMarket NG

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2026-03-12 11:25:54 UTC

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Learned that this was just a one time sync... Setting up a permanent two-way mirror takes a bit more effort, but can be done with: https://codeberg.org/wl/GithubCodebergMirror
#nevent1q…40pz

2026-03-12 09:58:42 UTC

Github Copilot subscription quota tracker
https://gist.github.com/m0wer/06181c2f445285f9f03ae74312b8c64e
```
── Copilot Premium Requests ─────────────────────────
Entitlement : 1500 / month (48.4 / day)
Used : 373 (24.9%)
Remaining : 1127
── Usage vs Month ───────────────────────────────────
Usage [████████▒▒▒░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░] 24.9%
Month [███████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░] 32.3% (day 10/31)
── Pace Check ───────────────────────────────────────
Burn rate : 37.3 req/day (budget 48.4/day)
Expected used: 483
Actual used : 373
Status : ✅ UNDER pace by 110 req (7.3%) · 2.3 days ahead
── Forecast ─────────────────────────────────────────
Projected EOM: 1156 req (77.1% of entitlement)
Quota runs out: after reset (~+111 req surplus)
```
https://stacker.news/items/1452613

2026-03-11 08:30:09 UTC

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https://github.com/joinmarket-ng/joinmarket-ng/

2026-03-10 07:57:13 UTC

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

2026-03-07 12:00:01 UTC

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
https://stacker.news/items/1449378

2026-03-07 10:11:44 UTC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle%E2%80%93Hellman_knapsack_cryptosystem

2026-03-05 17:24:55 UTC

Getting the integration of JoinMarket NG + Jam v2 ready!
Here are some automated playwright frontend tests in a realistic regtest environment with other makers. directories, ...
An image for alpha testing is built automatically and available for testing: https://github.com/joinmarket-ng/joinmarket-ng/pkgs/container/joinmarket-ng%2Fjam-ng
#JoinMarketNG
https://blossom.primal.net/bbd21b3bb438a7dfda20b951118117f22b6e543f8afab7247b858094d531a974.webm

2026-03-05 14:16:25 UTC

A few days ago, a JoinMarket NG collaborator's GitHub account was deleted without previous warning. The account was a member of the joinmarket-ng organization and had just opened a Pull Request.
Now GitHub is asking the collaborator some info but has not restored the account yet.
Really annoying, because all the issues and PRs of the collaborator have suddenly disappeared!
As always, a good chance to learn and strengthen our weak spots.
Here is the complete mirror (code, issues, labels, milestones, PRs, ...) to CodeBerg: https://codeberg.org/m0wer/joinmarket-ng
It works automatically using a GitHub personal token with read only access to what's already public.
Here is the guide on how to do the mirroring: https://codeberg.org/Recommendations/Mirror_to_Codeberg#4-github-codeberg-mirroring-tutorial It did fail at first but ended up working after 3 or so retries.
#JoinMarketNG

2026-03-03 09:54:43 UTC

The problem with insufficient entropy at boot time:
> In 2012, researchers scanned the whole internet and harvested public keys from TLS certificates and SSH hosts. They found that a handful of systems had identical public keys, and in some cases very similar keys (namely, RSA keys with shared prime factors): in short, two numbers, n = pq and n′ = p′q′, with p = p′, whereas normally all ps and qs should be different in distinct modulus values. After further investigation, it turned out that many devices generated their public key early, at first boot, before having collected enough entropy, despite using an otherwise decent PRNG (typically /dev/urandom). PRNGs in different systems ended up producing identical random bits due to a same base entropy source (for example, a hardcoded seed).
From the book Serious Cryptography.
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2026-03-03 09:31:32 UTC

> The 2G standard also defined A5/2, a cipher for areas other than the EU and US. A5/2 was purposefully weaker to prevent the use of strong encryption everywhere.
From the book: Serious Cryptography.
So basically they made 2G A5/1 cypher insecure accidentally, but from the beginning designed a weaker A5/2 for the rest of the world on purpose...

2026-02-24 09:27:59 UTC

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So nice to have a rational debate online! Appreciated :-)

2026-02-24 07:41:52 UTC

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Don't want to start a war. Just to mention the truism that different tools have different tradeoffs and that does not mean one is better than the other.
That being said:
- (Current) Bitcoin had no hard forks
- Bitcoin is protected by a hashrate that's orders of magnitude larger and that can't be outpaced with generic hardware
- Higher cost to validate transactions (in CPU, RAM, and tx size)
- Bitcoin has a limited supply. NGU technology is very important for a SoV! And nice to have for a MoE.
- Monero has no layer 2, protocols are built in layers and blockchains don't scale
All of this might be worth it for some particular person doing some particular task, but the privacy gains are not a free meal!

2026-02-24 07:13:17 UTC

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Different tradeoffs 😉

2026-02-22 14:03:20 UTC

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Yes, very cool🔥

2026-02-21 14:01:46 UTC

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Well, the taker is the coordinator. I would not call that a centralized coordinator.
It's not always the same entity, and no one other than the taker knows the input and output mappings or can easily perform a Sybil attack.
Not sure if it can get much better than this from the taker's perspective.

2026-02-18 15:39:26 UTC

Compare E-readers: comparison table/chart (specs, features, size)
https://comparisontabl.es/e-readers/
https://stacker.news/items/1436624

2026-02-18 07:54:27 UTC

Introducing Sonnet 4.6 \ Anthropic
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6
https://stacker.news/items/1436365

2026-02-18 07:37:01 UTC

MiniMax M2.5: Built for Real-World Productivity
https://www.minimax.io/news/minimax-m25
https://stacker.news/items/1436362

2026-02-17 21:14:31 UTC

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<3
I managed to fix it by running a newer version than what was avaialble at the Debian repos.
It's now at 83% sync. It's running on my home server on an nvme with gigabit internet, so the conditions are pretty good.
Here is the command in case it helps anyone:
```
docker run -d --restart always --name monerod -v /flash/monero/:/home/monero/.bitmonero --user 1000:1000 --network "container:gluetun" ghcr.io/sethforprivacy/simple-monerod:v0.18.4.5 --rpc-restricted-bind-ip=0.0.0.0 --rpc-restricted-bind-port=18089 --no-igd --no-zmq --enable-dns-blocklist --ban-list=/home/monero/ban_list.txt
```
It's more or less the recommended parameters from the Docker image repo, with the addition of running it as unprivileged and behind a VPN (gluetun).

2026-02-17 07:58:08 UTC

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After all night running, on nvme, a powerful CPU and with plenty of RAM, it took several hours to reach 65% and is stuck there. Now all peers are blocked for some reason and is not syncing anymore.
Command used:
```
monerod --data-dir /flash/monero/ --prune-blockchain --sync-pruned-blocks --db-sync-mode=fast:async:250000000 --fast-block-sync 1 --prep-blocks-threads 8 --block-sync-size 100 --max-concurrency 8 --no-igd --no-zmq --enable-dns-blocklist --out-peers 16 --in-peers 8
```
logs:
```
...
2026-02-17 07:54:36.217 I Host 95.217.7.137 blocked.
2026-02-17 07:54:36.217 I Host 95.217.7.248 blocked.
2026-02-17 07:54:40.113 E Too many object fields
2026-02-17 07:54:40.116 E Exception at [portable_storage::load_from_binary], what=Too many object fields
2026-02-17 07:54:41.609 E Too many object fields
2026-02-17 07:54:41.611 E Exception at [portable_storage::load_from_binary], what=Too many object fields
status
Height: 2365820/3611892 (65.5%) on mainnet, not mining, net hash 2.70 GH/s, v14, 16(out)+0(in) connections, uptime 0d 0h 0m 16s
```
All I want is to finish sync and measure the CPU time of validating transactions after the initial sync, to compare with bitcoind and see how it would scale.

2026-02-16 21:56:05 UTC

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Not so nice... Created at could be kind of sensitive. Donated at not sure what it means. And device? Is it decodable somehow? What is it?

2026-02-16 17:11:31 UTC

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Well that's with a remote node. I tried to sync from scratch as I would have for a Bitcoin node. What was very demanding is the IO.
I'm testing it again, and will compare the CPU time of transaction verification after the initial sync.

2026-02-16 17:01:09 UTC

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What was this about? Asking honestly, just read a few articles when it happened. https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2025/09/15/monero-record-reorganization-18-blocks-rewritten-and-118-transactions-made-unconfirmed/

2026-02-16 16:13:34 UTC

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care to elaborate?

2026-02-16 14:34:37 UTC

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IMO no external/centralized coordinator is the way. JoinMarket can still be improved, and that's the plan for JoinMarket NG.

2026-02-16 14:26:14 UTC

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what, why?

2026-02-16 14:09:29 UTC

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I see. IMO there's no perfect solution, just different tradeoffs.
I haven't personally thought much about the spam debate. My (ignorant) view is that fees are too cheap and that's the consequence of a bigger problem (lack of adoption and MoE through self custody). Maybe that's what we should focus on instead.
I would expect that with 10x or 100x fees, spam would just be priced out. Another point is that it kind of “helps” to have a baseline “security budget” sponsored by bored people. Cool, whatever.
I generally don't like the idea of saying what a system/protocol is “for”. With a hacker mindset, I admire when someone finds a new use to an existing thing. For example, hash algorithms are not meant to be used for anything like Proof of Work, but it's amazing how well they fit.
Not saying that embedding pepe images on Bitcoin transactions is that “hacker” breakthrough. But who knows what people will come up with in the future.
Please, educate me on whatever I'm missing. Really haven't put much thought into it. The topic looks so “hot” and politics-like that just pushes me away.

2026-02-16 10:52:00 UTC

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I once tried to run a monero node and that's when I saw it had no chance of “winning”. Craaazy resource requirements, and that despite being used way less than Bitcoin. If it ever reached the same levels or its full capacity, decentralization would be interesting to keep.
Oh, and it already has 51% attacks and hard forks on a monthly basis.

2026-02-16 10:46:22 UTC

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The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

2026-02-16 09:58:31 UTC

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with KYC? no thanks

2026-02-12 22:02:08 UTC

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ouch

2026-02-12 09:27:11 UTC

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No, that's just the inverse of interest rates. Things with a long time horizon and unclear profitability like tech products (e.g., the metaverse or whatever) just hire more when money is cheap and cut costs when it's expensive. They are not in a rush and it's unclear if delivering one year earlier is worth a 5% higher cost.
Same figure upside down:
https://blossom.primal.net/bb44a37672b1a03357d02e642a026d3c2cf723de34c09eb6f11efa62deb36fc0.png

2026-02-09 09:09:16 UTC

Claude Opus Finds more than 500 High Severity Vulnerabilities in Open Source
https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/
https://stacker.news/items/1429717

2026-02-08 11:28:04 UTC

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making progress!!! https://blossom.primal.net/d5779e110d93d3cd9dd3e9699d6e7364414d5dc9b88c2625097a61276db7ea92.mp4
#nevent1q…23w9

2026-02-08 10:53:26 UTC

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I think the question should be how to coordinate so Bitcoin has (more) layer one privacy and fungibility.
All that Bitcoin cares about is that in each block all transactions are valid. “Nothing” stops us from making a single transaction per block with all inputs and all outputs arranged in a way that subset sum analysis is broken. Not the same as Monero's ring signatures, but both for good and for bad.
And then of course move as far away from the base layer as possible, because blockchains don't scale.
IMO Monero just chooses different tradeoffs and pushes the scalability problem further, but does not solve it.

2026-02-08 09:00:50 UTC

Don't mind the content. But I'm blown away at how decent these “AI” generated videos look. I just sent Opus 4.6 the DOCS.md of jm-ng and the links to https://github.com/3b1b/manim (used by 3Blue1Brown math youtuber) and https://github.com/remotion-dev/remotion (programatic videos using React). So this looks veeery promising. https://blossom.primal.net/89a2ce02609db11919d96090f4c35c24b8ccedfdfee54823d0cc298caa2661e1.mp4 https://blossom.primal.net/d2a9308fd96e75dca36f3f16526ead0f51ae7505dd208f06fb2b30df3c770c9f.mp4

2026-02-06 21:11:30 UTC

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oh no... already selling a course to get rich quick xD

2026-02-06 14:37:30 UTC

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I knew you two would get along xD (equally based)

2026-02-06 14:33:11 UTC

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link? what happened?

2026-02-05 16:30:56 UTC

Xiaogang, Anhui - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaogang,_Anhui
> In December 1978, eighteen of the local farmers, led by Yen Jingchang, met in the largest house in the village. They agreed to break the law at the time by signing a secret agreement to divide the land, a local People's Commune, into family plots. Each plot was to be worked by an individual family who would turn over some of what they grew to the government and the collective whilst at the same time agreeing that they could keep the surplus for themselves. The villagers also agreed that should one of them be caught and sentenced to death that the other villagers would raise their children until they were eighteen years old. At the time, the villagers were worried that another famine might strike the village after a particularly bad harvest and more people might die of hunger.
> After this secret reform, Xiaogang village produced a harvest that was larger than the previous five years combined. Per capita income in the village increased from 22 yuan to 400 yuan with grain output increasing to 90,000 kg in 1979. This attracted significant attention from surrounding villages and before long the government in Beijing had found out. The villagers were fortunate in that at the time China had just changed leadership after the death of Mao Zedong. The new leadership under Deng Xiaoping was looking for ways to reform China's economy and the discovery of Xiaogang's innovation was held up as a model to other villages across the country. This led to the abandonment of collectivised farming across China by 1983 and a large increase in agricultural production. The secret signing of the contract in Xiaogang is widely regarded by historians and media as the beginning of the period of rapid economic growth and industrialisation that mainland China has experienced ever since.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaogang,_Anhui
https://stacker.news/items/1427062

2026-02-05 09:27:15 UTC

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Happy to follow you and to see some contrarian opinion.
Bitcoin's value comes from being decentralized ans secure, and that hasn't changed. Bitcoin promises: censorship resistance, absolute property, ...
NGU is great, but it's not guaranteed or even the biggest value proposition.
Doing as well as the SP500 in the worst time frame that you could pick is still a great baseline. I think most people here would be willing to give up a few percentage points for the sake of sovereignty. Those percentage points would have been taxed away or confiscated somehow anyway in the KYC'd SP500 shares.
It's very unrealistic to expect for a 2T market cap asset to just go up and to the right unbothered.

2026-02-04 14:15:28 UTC

https://github.com/elikaski/ECC_Attacks
Great read! Explains elliptic curve cryptography from the fundamentals and step by step.

2026-02-02 09:57:30 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/c3ec117f4196ef588af2606d1abe4557b6cc025fe4fc23d83c578f9d4ea62da7.png

2026-02-02 08:28:22 UTC

Built-In statistical profiler for Python in 3.15
https://docs.python.org/3.15/library/profiling.sampling.html#module-profiling.sampling
https://stacker.news/items/1424595

2026-02-02 07:42:43 UTC

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You can also do something similar with an additional privacy layer hiding the destination node pubkey using lnproxy!
https://github.com/lnproxy/lnproxy-address

2026-02-01 10:01:34 UTC

#NymVPN #FOSDEM
https://blossom.primal.net/aac033873c542912481b1c8fa488ff82249332ac7424362789d671da817c084a.jpg

2026-02-01 09:33:23 UTC

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do you want to be found? I'm there now

2026-01-31 14:27:19 UTC

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Haven't found you yet. But you can find me as well. I'm wearing an "opt out" t-shirt.
BTW, should we set up a table with a sign saying "open spurce self hosted money (Bitcoin), yay or nay?". Really sad to not see anything about Bitcoin here. And I think the general attitude towards it is negative. Maybe we should get the debate started.

2026-01-31 09:20:15 UTC

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challenge accepted!

2026-01-31 09:03:50 UTC

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do you have a stand somewhere?

2026-01-31 07:48:52 UTC

Anyone at #FOSDEM ?