there's nothing for me here—i didn't escape so much as drifted away

that reminds me, Zooko tried to recruit me once, in the early days of Zcash
i think around the block size war or some other drama episode
he seemed like an okay guy, but told him that if i was done with bitcoin, i was also done with coins in general

joinmarket still doesn't work with descriptor wallets in bitcoin core, and it's become kind of pressing that this is addressed

legacy wallets have been deprecated for a long time, and are very likely going to be removed in next major version of bitcoin core (29.0), there's migration functionality to upgrade old wallets but this won't help for the use of legacy RPC calls like "importmulti"

after that it will ofc. still be possible to use it with version 28.x, but it's kind of sad to see an important privacy tool fall behind like this

so in case anyone wants to give it a go:
https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver/issues/1571

i'lll try to get to reviewing https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30595 soon

i remember this kind of thing from the early days of bitcoin, people have real difficulty coping with a system where there's no company and organization in charge, or directly profiting from use

at some level many people just *can't* understand it, which means Bitcoin Core was a convenient target for all nasty complaints

one of the most persistent, hard issues was fighting scope creep in Bitcoin Core (and in the consensus code); yes, that you can do something with bitcoin doesn't mean it all has to be in that software, the onus of decentralization is to create an ecosystem, where everyone does their part, but no part is critical
(and a project with everything is unmaintainable anyhow; there's the tendency to push the burden on a few people, a kind of Omelas effect)

and the relentless nagging for me to be "more like a dictator" (remember Mike Hearn)... sigh, no that's not the kind of thing we're trying to do here: create a decentralized financial system, not a weird new government. the reason BSV appealed to quite a few people is that it had a central dictator, even if clearly a scam

eventually, things fell in their place, though even in bitcoin it's a continuing struggle... really want something to be done? great, take initiative yourself, help out one of the projects in some way or get people to help

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attacking the internet archive should be counted as crime against humanity imo
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it doesn't help that there's a lot of nonsense innovation by tech companies to sell new software and hardware and vendor lock-in (how many UI frameworks do we really need?), so everything is always new in that sense, always needing to be ported to some new API or API version

with all that context drift, writing software is like building sand castles, unfortunately, i often wish it'd stop and some things would be standardized

this is the general theme, bitcoin has more considerations than just privacy, while monero has it as their marketing and can focus on it at the expense of everything else

for one, syncing a monero node takes ages, and requires fast storage for the entire block chain instead of only a UTXO database, do people generally run their own monero node? if not and they're using some wallet provider, that's not great for privacy either

also yes things like potential DoS attacks might fly under the radar for a more obscure coin, but wouldn't for bitcoin

speaking of Dandelion, has anyone yet made a stand-alone bitcoin P2P transaction broadcast tool using arti (https://tpo.pages.torproject.net/core/arti/ )?

like https://github.com/laanwj/bitcoin-submittx but it wouldn't use a SOCKS proxy to an existing Tor daemon but handles the Tor network handling internally

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it's emotional race-to-the-bottom thinking that became popular around 9/11 with terrorism, "CSAM is infinitely bad so it warrants infinitely bad measures"

the more idealistic governance where measures are tested against other, what you would say, important cornerstones of civilization, like civil liberties, are long gone. Only this absolute (questionable) measure of safety matters and even bringing up privacy, freedom of speech and movement, or even whether a measure would really be effective, is ever more of a taboo

"we have to do something!!! don't get in the way!!!"

if even security and intelligence agencies raise caution with your drastic plans for monitoring and control over communication, maybe it's a "are we the bad guys" moment… i dunno…
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