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🔥 looking for testers – big bitchat android update 1.6.0-rc1

BACKGROUND PERSISTENCE: this update introduces background services! that means, bitchat can run in the background and support the mesh, even if you leave the app.

TOR: we're now also compiling the arti tor library ourselves, which improves reproducibility and reduces the apk size from 150 to 10 mb (lol).

this is a pre-release for testers. would love to get some feedback. does it work on your phone? please report bugs (including phone brand and OS version) in this thread!

https://github.com/permissionlesstech/bitchat-android/releases/tag/1.6.0-rc1

the price of freedom. the more people use it the better it should become.

What if you could pay with Bitcoin — but anywhere? PlebQR is the killer Bitcoin app in Thailand.

An incredible alignment of different interests: one pleb wants to buy something in a store with Bitcoin, another pleb wants to stack sats. PlebQR is a pleb-to-pleb Bitcoin exchange that's basically unstoppable. The platform connects product buyers with Bitcoin stackers.

Here's how it works: you (the Bitcoiner buying a product) scan the ubiquitous Thai fiat QR payment code and upload it to the PlebQR platform. You then pay a Lightning invoice, wait 1-2 minutes for a match, and some pleb out there looking to buy BTC pays your fiat QR and receives your Bitcoin. Everybody happy.

I just bought a pair of sandals and a shirt and some guy got to stack my non-KYC sats at a pretty good rate.

I love Bitcoin when it shines like this. Bitcoin is the money of the future and we don't need the old world's permission to make it work. Big respect to the Thai Bitcoiner community.

Yes I know this site, but I'd like to understand how exactly this tree thing works, what the transactions look like, and how they solved mercury's problem of splitting and recommending the coin... is there any technical paper?

I love @nprofile1q...

2.2 XMR bounty for creating a Cashu mint for Monero
https://bounties.monero.social/posts/136/2-210m-ecash-mint-and-wallet-for-monero

stablecoins are .1% "training wheels for users to eventually buy bitcoin" and 99.9% a USD foreign policy and fiat dominance super weapon for US crypto colonialism.

gm.

"I didn't have a way to spend my bitcoin so we've built <african bitcoin off-ramp>."

"We want to build <us/european bitcoin off-ramp> but before we launch we first need to pay 10 lawyers to give us 20 reasons why we can't do it, hire a compliance team to implement AML rules, talk to the regulators, jump through 1000 loops to become a VASP, implement MICA, and KYC everyone who spends 10 bucks in a supermarket, so I can exit as a founder and sell the company to Coinbase."

Who would win?

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Could you point us to a technical reference / documentation / talk that explains how spark works? it's notoriously hard to find a full technical breakdown.