@Majestic-Entity
Long time anonymous cypherpunk. In Bitcoin since the early days.
I use different names and identities for each activity. This is my casual use nostr profile.
No relay list published yet.
Recent Notes
Liquid hack explained.
Liquid has confidential transactions that hide the amounts for improved privacy. A bug in how these transactions are validated caused inflation of Liquid BTC (L-BTC) and allowe...
This re-enforces and just proves further that bitcoin is secure.
With the inflation bug that was exploited in monero and now liquid, also rumored zcash in the past; the theme is that confidential transactions introduce complexity and a large attack surface for exploitation. What many said was one of Bitcoins flaws (lack of onchain privacy) actually is its strength. The trade-off of going without confidential transactions onchain, in exchange for solid transparency and security.
Privacy can still be achieved via coin control, coinjoin, payjoin, coinswap, lightning. This liquid hack only proves further how secure Bitcoin really is. Bitcoin does not use confidential transactions which resulted in hacks of things which do like monero, Liquid, (zcash?). I was a fan of liquid network, though going forward I lack confidence in confidential transactions on anything.
With the inflation bug that was exploited in monero and now liquid, also rumored zcash in the past; the theme is that confidential transactions introduce complexity and a large attack surface for exploitation. What many said was one of Bitcoins flaws (lack of onchain privacy) actually is its strength. The trade-off of going without confidential transactions onchain, in exchange for solid transparency and security.
Privacy can still be achieved via coin control, coinjoin, payjoin, coinswap, lightning. This liquid hack only proves further how secure Bitcoin really is. Bitcoin does not use confidential transactions which resulted in hacks of things which do like monero, Liquid, (zcash?). I was a fan of liquid network, though going forward I lack confidence in confidential transactions on anything.
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I hope the hackers keep the BTC, well deserved.
Fuck Blockstream and Andy - Bitcoin suffered long enough.
nah, fuck you @Chuck Langstrumpf
Adam Back is a good person. Blockstream is good also. Now shut the fuck up Chucky and go back to your bip110blake2b retard camp
Adam Back is a good person. Blockstream is good also. Now shut the fuck up Chucky and go back to your bip110blake2b retard camp
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Sparrow v2.5.4 has been released, delivering the results of several extensive security reviews.
Thank you to all the contributors and security researchers who provided input on this release.
Changel...
I am sending a donation to Sparrow Wallet project, I encourage others to do the same.
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I'm open to discussion.
1. golang source code last I checked is not even signed, and vulnerable to supply chain attacks. When I brought up this concern with the devs they lacked interest in basic pro...
Simplifying my last statement
1. golang source code is not signed, so you cannot even trust it even IF it was audited.
2. You cannot compile the golang compiler. It is the same as closed source as a result. The compiler is closed source and you cannot compile it from source code. I doubt anyone else even tried.
1. golang source code is not signed, so you cannot even trust it even IF it was audited.
2. You cannot compile the golang compiler. It is the same as closed source as a result. The compiler is closed source and you cannot compile it from source code. I doubt anyone else even tried.
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Real food is not expensive, fake food just happens to be cheap.
Buy real food.
And support USA ranchers. Supporting local and domestic food production is critical for food security and resilience.
For the next 90 days… check your labels.
Buy beef marked "Product of USA."
300,000 tons of tariff-free beef is incoming, and nobody will say where it's actually from (best guess is Argentina, not...
Real food is not expensive, fake food just happens to be cheap.
Buy real food.
Buy real food.
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If its the best one then... Fuuuuuccckkkk lol.
yeah, concerning for sure. Maybe we need to fork CLN to continue it on. Now the open source updates have been suspended in favor of closed source "updates"
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CLN is open source... It always has been.
Their "update" they are pushing via a sense of fear and urgency, is closed source.
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Lol... Nothing wrong with golang.
I'm open to discussion.
1. golang source code last I checked is not even signed, and vulnerable to supply chain attacks. When I brought up this concern with the devs they lacked interest in basic proper security practice and said something like "we dont have the time to sign" or some weird comment like that
2. golang is compiled in golang, you cannot compile golang without first compiling golang to compile golang to compile golang. You have to do some weird ritual of where you have to install some ancient version of golang then work your way up in order to then be able to compile golang which is written in golang. Which goes back to issue number 1
I consider anything written in golang as potentially backdoored. Since the compiler is neither signed, NOR really open source, this is a problem, it can inject backdoors in whatever it compiles.
1. golang source code last I checked is not even signed, and vulnerable to supply chain attacks. When I brought up this concern with the devs they lacked interest in basic proper security practice and said something like "we dont have the time to sign" or some weird comment like that
2. golang is compiled in golang, you cannot compile golang without first compiling golang to compile golang to compile golang. You have to do some weird ritual of where you have to install some ancient version of golang then work your way up in order to then be able to compile golang which is written in golang. Which goes back to issue number 1
I consider anything written in golang as potentially backdoored. Since the compiler is neither signed, NOR really open source, this is a problem, it can inject backdoors in whatever it compiles.
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