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Financial Parasites
@Parasites_6102

Bitcoin and chill

Relays (14)
  • wss://nwc.primal.net/yfur8oz5jgdsi1hs8wdvu4r5bel32t – read & write
  • wss://nos.lol – read & write
  • wss://nwc.primal.net/ghnt4iyiu1lhlkpscggjsozoo5wlwp – read & write
  • wss://nostr.wine – read & write
  • wss://relay.damus.io – read & write
  • wss://eden.nostr.land – read & write
  • wss://relay.snort.social – read & write
  • wss://nostr.land – read & write
  • wss://bitcoiner.social – read & write
  • wss://relay.nostrplebs.com – read & write
  • wss://nostrelites.org – read & write
  • wss://pyramid.fiatjaf.com – read & write
  • wss://relay.mostr.pub – read & write
  • wss://relay.wisp.talk – read & write

Recent Notes

Jay · 5h
It's very telling. There's a network at play here.
McCoy · 6h
Appreciate your knowledge/take. Honest ?s: so the number generated from the "badly weighted dice" are biased to one numer (1-6), so the hacker then scans a smaller subset of possble PVT keys with "too...
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You are just doing mental gymnastics at this point. Buy any hardware wallet. Most of them use TRNG, which generates seed inside the hardware. It was not the failure of TRNG but instead coldcard coded shitty software where they defaulted the seed generation to PRNG.
They are total clowns in the space and all the circle jerks instead of pointing that out are telling us that we did something wrong.
If you don’t understand what you’re doing in cryptography, you should probably not do it.
Staying retarded helps.
node · 6h
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node · 6h
Keeping it as a decoy. Wisdom 🤭
McCoy · 6h
No way.... how exactly does some f-up dice rolls?
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Fuck ups:
1) Regular dices are heavily weighted on one side. They don’t generate the same entropy as a casino dice.
2) doing it on a hard surface like your table, uneven surface. This reduces the entropy as causes dice to slide.
3) Not shaking properly every time you roll.
4) Most importantly you are relying on coldcard to give you the seed word. How can you trust that device, that’s it’s really really giving you the randomness you generated via dice rolls.

For true proper generation you have to do the dice rolls properly plus do the math yourself otherwise it’s always trust involved at certain point.
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McCoy · 6h
Appreciate your knowledge/take. Honest ?s: so the number generated from the "badly weighted dice" are biased to one numer (1-6), so the hacker then scans a smaller subset of possble PVT keys with "too many" 1s or 2s....etc.... Is this how it works? And yes at some point u trust someone to generate t...
Gigi · 9h
I'm not a cryptographer. And yes, it was shitty code. I'm talking about something else. I'm talking about how gun people will handle any and all guns always as if they are loaded, even if they know they are not.
McCoy · 6h
No way.... how exactly does some f-up dice rolls?
Gigi · 10h
Computers can't generate random numbers without external help. Dice and coins might be one source of entropy, but they aren't the only one. Cameras are a good source of entropy too. Hardware walle...
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You are a cryptographer, you know everything about this space because that’s what your job is.
Someone who is not a cryptographer won’t understand the complexity and will fuck up.
So that’s why they pay someone to do the heavy lifting. That’s how the economy grows and scale.
It’s not possible that everyone who wants to self custody will roll the dice. We need to be practical.

This hack wasn’t because of some sophisticated attack. It was because coldcard wrote shitty code.
Gigi · 10h
I don't care about NFTs. I care about capital-B Bitcoin.
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This tells you a lot about this community tbh. Just larping all around.
You have to now roll a casino dice and do the math? If you are a cryptographer yes you can.
As a human we all work on trust based society. Imagine your doctor said “don’t trust verify” “you should have known about the disease, diagnosis and treatment” after they fuck up.
You pay a hardware provider and they have just one job. To generate random seed. Just like you pay a doctor or a lawyer.
No other hardware provider has been affected. Sure they aren’t just “bitcoin only” but they have done their work.

Imho you need to call out the circle jerking happening in our community rather than pointing out to people that they need to do more. People have already done their best and still got rugged.
Gigi · 10h
Computers can't generate random numbers without external help. Dice and coins might be one source of entropy, but they aren't the only one. Cameras are a good source of entropy too. Hardware wallets are great and will remain important. I remember early full-disk encryption software that forced...
Gigi · 10h
I don't care about NFTs. I care about capital-B Bitcoin.
MAHDOOD · 20h
I left a little on an mk4. My fucking node is shitting itself though. I am reindexing electrs trying to see if it will fix it. I'll post if I see anything missing.
node · 19h
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