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JoinMarket NG
Relays (5)
- wss://nos.lol/ – read & write
- wss://nostr.bitcoiner.social/ – read & write
- wss://relay.damus.io/ – read & write
- wss://relay.snort.social/ – read & write
- wss://nostr.sgn.space/ – read & write
Recent Notes
Cashu Mint Auditor
https://audit.8333.space/
This app sends random Lightning payments between mints. Forever. The sats go in a circle until all is lost to fees or rugs. If a mint fails to pay an invoice, it is marked with a scary red label.
https://stacker.news/items/1499492
https://audit.8333.space/
This app sends random Lightning payments between mints. Forever. The sats go in a circle until all is lost to fees or rugs. If a mint fails to pay an invoice, it is marked with a scary red label.
https://stacker.news/items/1499492
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Wouldn't it be nice so receive Silent Payments and CoinJoin them after?
Or how else could a developer receive Bitcoin donations with some privacy?
PR for Silent Payments (BIP352) support for JoinMarket NG: https://github.com/joinmarket-ng/joinmarket-ng/pull/513
Or how else could a developer receive Bitcoin donations with some privacy?
PR for Silent Payments (BIP352) support for JoinMarket NG: https://github.com/joinmarket-ng/joinmarket-ng/pull/513
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Android is our next App platform, but you can use our WireGuard configs in the meantime! https://obscura.net/#faq-wireguard-config
https://blossom.primal.net/f81814feaaef661315b84c96c98fd53a2843527e...
Have been using the now available Android app for a while now and unfortunately will have to go back to WireGuard configs. Mainly the missing features are:
- Widget to temporarily toggle it off. And that still works with the "Always on" VPN setting. So that you can actually use the Internet connection with the VPN temporarily off through the widget.
- Exclude addresses on local networks.
Other things are not that important. But can't live without these two!
Super happy with the service in general though.
- Widget to temporarily toggle it off. And that still works with the "Always on" VPN setting. So that you can actually use the Internet connection with the VPN temporarily off through the widget.
- Exclude addresses on local networks.
Other things are not that important. But can't live without these two!
Super happy with the service in general though.
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Huge milestone for Cashu.
After 3 years of work, we finally have unruggable mints.
I'm testing the first on-chain Cashu mint running inside a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), where the mint keys...
How does the Lightning channel management work? Is the Bitcoin node within the TEE or external?
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Privacy-preserving license plates using blind signatures
License plates are crazy from a privacy standpoint. We'd riot if the government made us wear a badge with our name on it every time we left the house. But bolting a permanent unique identifier to our car? Totally normal.
Now there are ALPR (automatic license plate reader) networks everywhere, public and private, logging everything. Check https://deflock.org/ for the USA picture. From plate data + camera feeds (public or insecure private ones) you can infer where someone lives, works, when they're not home, who they meet. Some countries even let you query the vehicle registry directly from the plate.
I don't think accountability for cars is necessarily wrong. If you rear-end someone and flee, it's fair they can identify you. I just don't think we need to trade mass surveillance for that. Cryptography exists.
A basic scheme:
Every day you generate a random string r, compute H(r), and get it blind-signed by an issuing authority (they sign without learning what they're signing: Chaumian blind signatures, same as ecash). You put r on your e-ink plate as a QR code, along with the signature. Anyone can verify: hash the preimage, check the signature. If you cause an accident, the witness notes r and can prove they saw your plate. To find out who you are, they go to court, the authority looks up who requested the blind signature for H(r). No public link between your plate and identity. Already way better than today.
Problems and improvements:
Daily rotation is too slow: Cameras still build a full-day profile. Rotate every 5–10 minutes instead. Eric Rescorla arrived at a similar scheme: https://educatedguesswork.org/posts/license-plates/ and explores the tradeoffs well, including how the authority can precompute a lookup table for all vehicles and time windows cheaply enough that de-anonymization doesn't require your cooperation.
The authority is still a chokepoint: Whoever registers you and creates the H(r) -> identity link already knows both sides. Threshold encryption of the stored record is a governance improvement (requires k-of-n parties to cooperate, auditable) but not a fundamental one. The registrar still has the information at creation time. The real protection is legal process + the fact that passive surveillance is broken. That's already a big deal compared to today, but it's not zero-trust.
The cryptography is production-ready. The gap between "solved" and "deployed" is almost entirely political.
Posted to https://stacker.news/items/1499201
License plates are crazy from a privacy standpoint. We'd riot if the government made us wear a badge with our name on it every time we left the house. But bolting a permanent unique identifier to our car? Totally normal.
Now there are ALPR (automatic license plate reader) networks everywhere, public and private, logging everything. Check https://deflock.org/ for the USA picture. From plate data + camera feeds (public or insecure private ones) you can infer where someone lives, works, when they're not home, who they meet. Some countries even let you query the vehicle registry directly from the plate.
I don't think accountability for cars is necessarily wrong. If you rear-end someone and flee, it's fair they can identify you. I just don't think we need to trade mass surveillance for that. Cryptography exists.
A basic scheme:
Every day you generate a random string r, compute H(r), and get it blind-signed by an issuing authority (they sign without learning what they're signing: Chaumian blind signatures, same as ecash). You put r on your e-ink plate as a QR code, along with the signature. Anyone can verify: hash the preimage, check the signature. If you cause an accident, the witness notes r and can prove they saw your plate. To find out who you are, they go to court, the authority looks up who requested the blind signature for H(r). No public link between your plate and identity. Already way better than today.
Problems and improvements:
Daily rotation is too slow: Cameras still build a full-day profile. Rotate every 5–10 minutes instead. Eric Rescorla arrived at a similar scheme: https://educatedguesswork.org/posts/license-plates/ and explores the tradeoffs well, including how the authority can precompute a lookup table for all vehicles and time windows cheaply enough that de-anonymization doesn't require your cooperation.
The authority is still a chokepoint: Whoever registers you and creates the H(r) -> identity link already knows both sides. Threshold encryption of the stored record is a governance improvement (requires k-of-n parties to cooperate, auditable) but not a fundamental one. The registrar still has the information at creation time. The real protection is legal process + the fact that passive surveillance is broken. That's already a big deal compared to today, but it's not zero-trust.
The cryptography is production-ready. The gap between "solved" and "deployed" is almost entirely political.
Posted to https://stacker.news/items/1499201
Rewrote the "JoinMarket Maker Clustering and Taker Anonymity-Set Reduction" article with a clear example as introduction, a glossary, and trimming most sections.
Published at https://joinmarket-ng.github.io/coinjoin-simulator/mainnet-deanon.html (same URL, old version preserved in git).
The discussion about possible mitigations is ongoing at https://github.com/joinmarket-ng/joinmarket-ng/issues/508
BTW the JM protocol is not broken, just improvable.
Published at https://joinmarket-ng.github.io/coinjoin-simulator/mainnet-deanon.html (same URL, old version preserved in git).
The discussion about possible mitigations is ongoing at https://github.com/joinmarket-ng/joinmarket-ng/issues/508
BTW the JM protocol is not broken, just improvable.
JoinMarket NG 0.31.0 release is out.
More improvements about deep wallet scanning. Also security hardening, TUI improvements, and bug fixes. Automated Win/Mac/Linux install tests.
https://github.com/joinmarket-ng/joinmarket-ng/releases/tag/0.31.0
More improvements about deep wallet scanning. Also security hardening, TUI improvements, and bug fixes. Automated Win/Mac/Linux install tests.
https://github.com/joinmarket-ng/joinmarket-ng/releases/tag/0.31.0
Max Hillebrand: The Praxeology of Privacy - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4_1E2kJ5_w
Timothy Allen speaks with Max Hillebrand.
Max joins me to explore freedom, privacy, and property rights in the free market of ideas. We discuss Cypherpunk strategies, the appeal of Bitcoin, Free Cities, and digital nomadism as ways to resist creeping socialism and surveillance. Drawing on Lockean ownership theory, Austrian economics, and praxeology, Max makes the case for combining decentralization, community, and technology to defend liberty in both physical and digital realms.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00:00 — Coming up
0:00:41 — Veritas Village preview
0:01:27 — Start of conversation
0:10:02 — Triangular Interventions of the State
0:11:26 — The banning of VPNs
0:16:27 — Mean Time To Harassment
0:24:43 — The Cypherpunk Ideal: Increasing the Cost of Attack
0:30:38 — Dragnet Surveillance & Privacy
0:36:48 — Free Cities and The Importance of Freedom in Meatspace
0:44:04 — There are No Frontiers Left
0:53:08 — Conscription is Coming Back
1:00:57 — There are Many More Good People Than Bad
1:06:53 — AI and Robots of Convenience in the Dystopian Future
1:18:25 — Bitcoin Proves John Locke's Theory of Property Rights
1:25:29 — Proving Economic Reasons
1:31:40 — The Cypherpunks Don't Know How Fundamentally Correct They Are
1:36:47 — Freedom is Correct. The State is Evil
1:49:22 — AI Will Remove Scarcity from the World
1:53:50 — Keynsian Bullshit
1:58:08 — Tik Tok Will Eventually Generate 100% AI Content
2:10:35 — Rally Cry for Freedom Lovers
NOSTR:
Max Hillebrand: @Max
Timothy Allen: Search '[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])' on your Nostr app
Free Cities Foundation: @Free Cities Foundation
https://stacker.news/items/1496628
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4_1E2kJ5_w
Timothy Allen speaks with Max Hillebrand.
Max joins me to explore freedom, privacy, and property rights in the free market of ideas. We discuss Cypherpunk strategies, the appeal of Bitcoin, Free Cities, and digital nomadism as ways to resist creeping socialism and surveillance. Drawing on Lockean ownership theory, Austrian economics, and praxeology, Max makes the case for combining decentralization, community, and technology to defend liberty in both physical and digital realms.
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00:00 — Coming up
0:00:41 — Veritas Village preview
0:01:27 — Start of conversation
0:10:02 — Triangular Interventions of the State
0:11:26 — The banning of VPNs
0:16:27 — Mean Time To Harassment
0:24:43 — The Cypherpunk Ideal: Increasing the Cost of Attack
0:30:38 — Dragnet Surveillance & Privacy
0:36:48 — Free Cities and The Importance of Freedom in Meatspace
0:44:04 — There are No Frontiers Left
0:53:08 — Conscription is Coming Back
1:00:57 — There are Many More Good People Than Bad
1:06:53 — AI and Robots of Convenience in the Dystopian Future
1:18:25 — Bitcoin Proves John Locke's Theory of Property Rights
1:25:29 — Proving Economic Reasons
1:31:40 — The Cypherpunks Don't Know How Fundamentally Correct They Are
1:36:47 — Freedom is Correct. The State is Evil
1:49:22 — AI Will Remove Scarcity from the World
1:53:50 — Keynsian Bullshit
1:58:08 — Tik Tok Will Eventually Generate 100% AI Content
2:10:35 — Rally Cry for Freedom Lovers
NOSTR:
Max Hillebrand: @Max
Timothy Allen: Search '[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])' on your Nostr app
Free Cities Foundation: @Free Cities Foundation
https://stacker.news/items/1496628
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