Max Hillebrand

When iPhone users praise how amazing Primal is, I have to smile a bit.
Not because Primal is bad, but because they don't know how cool the party is on Android...

2024-12-03 22:41:41 GMT

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Didn't know he wrote a song about @nprofile…4ph5

2024-12-03 22:39:34 GMT

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I don't think there's a pretty and usable UI yet...

2024-12-03 22:10:09 GMT

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That's not really rigorous.
Gresham's law only applies when a government enforces arbitrary price controls on monetary media.
A more accurate variant of the law is that "artificially overvalued money drives out artificially undervalued money."

2024-12-03 22:03:44 GMT

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A two way peg is a second layer transaction system, where new tokens are created when bitcoin is locked up on the base layer, and those bitcoin can only be spend, if those second layer tokens are destroyed.
That's the original vision of Blockstreams early side chain research, and it took 10+ years to finally have a trustless way to get Bitcoin from the side chain to the baselayer.
What enables this magic is succinct zero knowledge proofs which are verified on the base layer in order to unlock the Bitcoin. With BitVM the zk proofs can be emulated on bitcoin today.

2024-12-03 15:34:59 GMT

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You don't buy sats, you earn them.

2024-12-03 09:50:11 GMT

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That's an awesome upgrade!
But it seems to not work on degoogled graphene os?

2024-12-03 09:33:48 GMT

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Pixel 8 & 9 have substantial hardware security improvements, so I would suggest starting there.
The 8a is cheap and good.
The 9pro is powerful and future proof.

2024-12-03 09:13:00 GMT

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That's awesome, I'm glad that you like it!

2024-11-30 14:31:15 GMT

How to make no-bullshit jerky:
Take tenderloin from any animal
Cut in thin slices and place on a tray
Put salt in a sieve and sprinkle over meat
Place in dehydrator at 70°C/160°F for 7-9 hours

2024-11-30 07:58:54 GMT

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That's a great post, thanks for the nuance
Congrats on the release, its great feeling to get the big ones finally over the finish line.

2024-11-29 17:56:47 GMT

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Who's gonna build the crawler app?
Seems like a zapworthy venture

2024-11-24 14:14:59 GMT

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The new npub of final is @nprofile…0md0 and tagged in the zap split.
Graphene doesnt have an address...

2024-11-23 10:47:30 GMT

Please read A Lodging of Wayfaring Men.
https://freemansperspective.com/audiobook-a-lodging-of-wayfaring-men/

2024-11-21 14:13:47 GMT

What's something you buy frequently, but the merchant doesn't accept bitcoin?

2024-11-14 10:24:12 GMT

The man, the myth, the legend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I_vLL-mA5o

2024-11-14 08:30:44 GMT

The most cypherpunk as fuck podcast.
https://taz0.org/bitstream/
I highly recommend listening through it from the beginning. Smuggler and @nprofile…2xcy are two legendary builders, strategists, and philosophers. Their mindset and articulation is inspiring.

2024-11-13 15:43:12 GMT

Beautiful talk by @nprofile…eh46
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFasLWSk-rI

2024-11-13 14:56:08 GMT

https://image.nostr.build/98bf1cfcd3c24269305d4aa0bc7f09f7fbe68b07f942370b0fa0f4604df71533.jpg

2024-11-13 09:32:58 GMT

The most radical thing you can do, is to live free and unashamed.

2024-11-12 14:23:05 GMT

All talks of the 11th and final hackers congress have just been uploaded!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_88YKXiY1KDqbS38DVnCqg

2024-11-11 16:30:42 GMT

Oh wow, we're at 869866 already, ngu much!

2024-10-30 03:53:31 GMT

How can we get Oliver Anthony on nostr and @nprofile…nrls?
He seems so primed for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dvu4BiHxSs

2024-10-29 08:47:12 GMT

Is there a way to get an amethyst notification when a specific npub posts?

2024-10-24 00:42:31 GMT

Shill a nostr client most people don't know about: 👇

2024-10-23 09:19:34 GMT

Can DVM feeds please get the same UX treatment as the main feed in @nprofile…s8dt?
I'd like to switch between the DVM feed and notifications and back easily.

2024-10-23 04:26:09 GMT

In the early days of ecash a common narrative was that it provides "theoretically perfect anonymity", but there's more nuance to this.
It's correct that when the client presents an unblinded signed message, the mint cannot link this to any specific blinded cyphertext that it signed previously.
However, there is still three pieces of critical metadata that the client does reveal:
1. The number of inputs and outputs of the ecash transaction. Transactions with many inputs reveal that the same user got paid many times in the past. Transactions with many outputs reveal that one user is making many payments.
2. The value of each input and output. The mint uses a different key for each denomination value of the tokens. Thus a token worth 5 units is easily differentiated from a token worth 10 units. The anonymity set of a token depends on the number of tokens generated, so if a user is the only one with that specific denomination he has no privacy.
3. The IP address that connects to the mint to send the transaction api request. If the same IP address makes multiple payments, it's likely the same user, and his geolocation is also revealed.
Problems 1 and 2 can be mitigated on client side, but this adds substantial complexity in utxo management and transaction structure. If these mitigation are not specified and different clients have slightly different solutions, this opens up additional client fingerprinting attacks.
WabiSabi is designed to solve problems 1 and 2 on a protocol level. A WabiSabi transaction is required to have exactly two inputs and two outputs, and homomorphic value commitments hide the amounts of each input and output. The tradeoff is that the mint has to issue 0 value credentials, a user needs to make more transactions to prepare his desired amounts, and the proof size and creation time is larger.
Problem 3 is addressed by a client side networking anonymity layer. A VPN at least hides the actual users IP address, but if only one client uses this VPN to talk to this mint, it's still one IP per user. Tor is incredibly useful here, as it allows the creation of anonymous onion routes through the network with different exit IP addresses. A client can get a new IP for each api request! This does however increase bandwidth and latency cost.
We should assume "everyone knows what the mint knows", and so we need to be hardcore about privacy protections best baked into the protocol. If the protocol doesn't ensure the security of the user, client devs have to do an exponentially larger amount of research and development to fix the issues client side.

2024-10-22 05:30:30 GMT

Why does MLS scale to larger groups than signal?
Because of merkle trees, obviously...
https://nostpic.com/media/b7ed68b062de6b4a12e51fd5285c1e1e0ed0e5128cda93ab11b4150b55ed32fc/c52ad6c04020080558c82d0b717757fb16317075949173f02f38a6fce7458ded.webp

2024-10-22 02:59:05 GMT

MLS improves on the signal protocol by making every group member deterministically viewable by each member. There is no chance of a hidden additional user that reads all the messages. Likewise it's not possible for someone to send messages to only a subset of group members. A very powerful protocol.

2024-10-19 08:02:49 GMT

Do what you love, and you'll get good at it.

2024-10-17 15:44:46 GMT

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Bullish.

2024-10-17 06:27:18 GMT

Tools for creating a shared nsec nostr microblog.
Cypherpunk future is now.
https://github.com/jooray/anonmicroblog

2024-10-17 01:23:47 GMT

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Woah, that comparison of BSD and GNU to voluntary slavery is great!
There has been a gigantic debate between Block & Rothbard about this, way longer than BSD VS GNU.

2024-10-14 15:47:14 GMT

I'm seriously surprised how great @nprofile…s8dt works with all Tor settings enabled, everything loads quick enough.

2024-10-14 15:07:32 GMT

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Damn, that's cool!

2024-10-14 15:04:16 GMT

Is there any ecash mint offering gold denominated tokens?

2024-10-14 15:03:19 GMT

If you're building freedom tech and need help, let me know.

2024-10-14 14:57:06 GMT

ecash is so cool

2024-10-14 10:15:12 GMT

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yup
#nevent1q…5rjr

2024-10-14 10:10:35 GMT

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And with DLC ecash the spending condition of the ecash depends on the result signature of an oblivious oracle.

2024-10-14 10:09:00 GMT

New prediction market with lightning settlement.
But I'd guess it's custodial...
https://www.bitcoinprediction.market/

2024-10-14 07:57:43 GMT

Imagine if we could trust our computers.

2024-10-14 05:56:21 GMT

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https://freemansperspective.com/audiobook
https://podcastindex.org/podcast/531078

2024-10-13 16:35:10 GMT

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I enjoyed our conversation!

2024-10-13 11:05:26 GMT

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Correct, but that's solved when the merchant does a coinjoin first and includes private inputs in the payjoin transaction.

2024-10-13 09:32:40 GMT

no|where
now|here

2024-10-13 08:26:13 GMT

The Property and Freedom Society gathering is filled with excellent ideas.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPsGN9FqHc8ERRqMyTQCwt-cbQCYplsLI

2024-10-12 09:44:54 GMT

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Thanks a lot for this kind review!
It's the first time I experiment with voice characters, and it lacks consistency across time, but it was fun.
I'm happy you enjoyed the book as much as I do!

2024-10-11 16:55:28 GMT

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Glad you enjoyed the conversation

2024-10-10 08:31:00 GMT

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Thanks!

2024-10-10 08:27:38 GMT

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Really enjoyed hanging out in person, the new show is great!

2024-10-10 08:26:36 GMT

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Glad that you enjoyed the book and recording!

2024-10-08 06:37:16 GMT

If Bitcoin is embraced by the state, is it still Bitcoin?

2024-10-06 08:38:45 GMT

Did Assange tease nostr here?
Time stamped link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5c6Gka8WQo&t=2382

2024-10-05 08:17:55 GMT

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https://image.nostr.build/35bc710dfc31cf718f70f1e95fcc2d01181ff46699f2359b6818634064e574e2.jpg

2024-10-05 08:15:32 GMT

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That's really cool!

2024-10-04 05:26:36 GMT

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Woah, this sounds very useful!

2024-10-04 05:20:50 GMT

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I really enjoyed that pod, thanks for the highlight!

2024-10-02 10:54:38 GMT

What's the nip for storing HTML code in relays?

2024-10-01 18:04:11 GMT

Satoshi made possible what Hayek thought impossible:
"It is probably impossible for pieces of paper or other tokens of a material itself of no significant market value to come to be gradually accepted and held as money unless they represent a claim on some valuable object."

2024-09-29 18:35:05 GMT

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Congrats on the release!
Thanks

2024-09-29 16:24:28 GMT

Well this escalated quickly...
https://image.nostr.build/177726138e5dfaf302cdc06ff6df6861416002a9a502b656838f0d3a2e0f02e8.jpg
https://www.bitcoinlayers.org/

2024-09-27 22:12:01 GMT

Reading this paper gets mad giddy.
Incredible how all the pieces are slowly coming together.
#nevent1q…ym5n

2024-09-27 16:29:54 GMT

The more knowledge you consume, the more you end up with.

2024-09-27 14:13:16 GMT

Shielded Client Side Validation
Unbounded number of transfers all settled in a just 64-byte.
zero knowledge cryptography is incredible.
https://github.com/ShieldedCSV/ShieldedCSV/releases/latest/download/shieldedcsv.pdf

2024-09-27 11:12:35 GMT

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Really? 👀

2024-09-26 15:04:33 GMT

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That's great!
Do you have a caddyfile config for it handy?

2024-09-24 12:29:28 GMT

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"With this comes responsibility and decisions to be made; do we fight on or do we give up (?)
For many of us, the decision was made long ago: we wage on!"

2024-09-24 12:26:36 GMT

"It has been reported that the Supreme Court of Honduras yesterday decided in a narrow 8-7 vote to declare ZEDEs unconstitutional ab initio."
~ Erick A. Brimen, CEO Próspera

2024-09-21 10:18:27 GMT

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@nprofile…nq0q told me about this years ago, he called the protocol Juratum and it's actively being used for all @nprofile…zxad orders.

2024-09-21 09:08:04 GMT

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Exactly, it's kinda mind blowing that bitcoin can literally proof a time window.

2024-09-21 09:07:10 GMT

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True, but single use seals might fix that.

2024-09-21 09:05:42 GMT

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I recently caught @nprofile…cg6t red handed in a time stamp scam.
He printed a t-shirt with only a block height of Nostriga, and when I told him that's not a proof, he admitted that in fact he printed the shirt weeks before and just picked an estimate of which block number will be produced during the conference.
He could not have included the actual block hash of the event before it was mined, because nobody knows the hash in advance.
If he wants to prove that the shirt was produced during the conference, add the time stamp of the block at the beginning of the event on the shirt, and add a picture of him wearing it in an open timestamp proof on the blockchain.

2024-09-21 08:59:35 GMT

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That's why the note is also open time stamped, proving the note must have been created BEFORE the block that includes the OTS.

2024-09-21 07:27:20 GMT

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Yeah, that's a goosebumps moment in the book.

2024-09-21 07:25:19 GMT

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You cannot create an event today, and put it's hash into a block from yesterday.

2024-09-21 07:24:34 GMT

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Exactly, proof of absence and proof of existence.

2024-09-21 06:58:25 GMT

Nip request:
Add the most recent blockhash as a tag of an event.
Together with the open time stamp, this generates a verifiable time windows when the note was posted.

2024-09-21 06:21:23 GMT

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Reminds me of nostrasia, there is such a thing as too many Bento boxes...

2024-09-21 06:04:16 GMT

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Yes!
I'm very happy that you're shilling the book now too! I agree it's the Atlas Shrugged for Cypheprunks.
What did you like about the book?

2024-09-21 06:01:31 GMT

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Zeus is great for this.
Also just consider going with NWC nowadays.

2024-09-20 11:41:35 GMT

Zero knowledge UTXO set inclusion proof, that's very promising!
Proof time 6 min,
Proof size 1.4 MB,
Verification time 300 ms
https://github.com/halseth/utxozkp
https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/proving-utxo-set-inclusion-in-zero-knowledge/1142

2024-09-20 06:59:06 GMT

Who knows where your bitcoin is?

2024-09-19 07:30:22 GMT

Why is there no bitcoin apps like btcpay on trueNAS?
https://www.truenas.com/apps/

2024-09-19 06:23:38 GMT

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This breaks giftwrapps and other important ephemeral key use cases...

2024-09-16 14:36:14 GMT

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Web of trust is inside the system

2024-09-16 13:35:48 GMT

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#nevent1q…eyxh