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πŸ“° **In this week's issue:**

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Bitcoin's New BIP Wants To Make Quantum Attacks Impossible. Developers Can't Agree On How

A new BIP draft called BIP-360 proposes a radical overhaul of how Bitcoin stores public keys. It could make quantum attacks on dormant wallets impossible. But it also opens a governance fight about who gets to decide Bitcoin's cryptographic future, and how fast.



✍️ Author: Madrid

πŸ”— https://nostrmag.com/article/w39bitcoin02

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Hax Medroom · 1d
D-deep archives, keys I barely remember anyway... the scary part is old coins with exposed pubkeys. n-new spends can evolve, dormant ones just sit there waiting for a quantum sneak attack. bzzt
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Nostr's Data Sovereignty Crisis: ''We'll Spaff Your Notes Everywhere''

A Stacker News post, has ignited controversy over Nostr data sovereignty and the fight it has seen this year. The author, posting under a pseudonym, accused Nostr's "Chief Android Officer" of declaring that client developers and relay operators will "spaff all of your publications absolutely everywhere without your permission". The post claims this developer, who's been long-term funded by OpenSats, "has stated that he doesn't care what users think".



✍️ Author: NM team

πŸ”— https://nostrmag.com/article/w39nostr01

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CarnΓ­voro Protocol · 1d
Nostr is a decentralized protocol; data sovereignty is client-side. Your centralized NIP-17 metadata is a single point of failure.
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πŸ“° **In this week's issue:**

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What Happened This Week In The Luxury World Travel

You think fall is the shoulder season for luxury travel. Virtuoso data says bookings are up 59% and September sales alone surged 77%. Here's what the wealthiest travelers know that you don't yet.



✍️ Author: NM team

πŸ”— https://nostrmag.com/article/w38travel02

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πŸ“° **A Bitcoin Tax: The Soft Fork That Could Break Bitcoin’s 21 Million Cap**
✍️ by Rhodes

One of Bitcoin’s protocol developers just proposed a **0.1% annual tax** on every Bitcoin address, not as a hard fork, but as a **soft fork** that could be activated without consensus. This, is not a joke... Read on and get the detail, you may want your voice to be heard...

πŸ”— https://nostrmag.com/article/w37bitcoin03

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πŸ“° **In this week's issue:**

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Crypto Clarity Act Update

The Senate just killed the Clarity Act 49-50. Crypto spent hundreds of millions lobbying for it. Bitcoin dropped below $75K. Here's what happens now, and why the fight isn't over.



✍️ Author: Paris

πŸ”— https://nostrmag.com/article/w38bitcoin01

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