Having fun setting up slightly better containerization of my dev environment Using 'bwrap' (bubblewrap) so the my dev user has very little awareness of the rest of the machine. For example, it can't see all the processes that are running (just it's own processes) Next, I'll set up a proxy on localhost to forward my LLM requests, so that I don't need to share my API key with this dev user. Eventually, I'll extend that proxy to process Cashu channel payments, to pay myself bitcoin and stress test that system. I haven't tried them yet, but apparently 'cage' and 'weston' are good ways to allow that dev user to open a window on the display of my normal user I wish I'd done this earlier, and I hope somebody hasn't already hacked me by getting my clanker to run exploit code! (I'm kinda tempted to get a new laptop, to be very strict about what runs on it, and from there reset all my important passwords)

Thanks to AI, I'm starting loads of new projects. I guess that's the new "open lots of browser tabs that you never close" Here are my tmux/byobu tabs.

Just implemented a small Cashu mint, in order to have a mint to be used in the integration tests Maybe that seems like overkill, but I guess this is the world we live in now 😀

Need a book recommendation, as I've just finished @Aaron van Wirdum 's The Genesis Block I want something like it, and like @Lyn Alden 's Broken Money i.e. good research, not pleb slop 🙂

Any time I feel that I should have got into Bitcoin earlier, I remember that there were very valid criticisms from the start On-chain bitcoin can't scale. It would have required conventional custodial scaling solutions, with inevitable credit creation giving us more than 21m Bitcoin (i.e. it wouldn't store much value) Bitcoin wouldn't have been very different from gold, or even fiat for that matter! Countries on the Gold Standard were never "backed" by gold; they always issued more notes than were covered by the gold TL/DR: Lightning is a Store Of Value technology From Aaron van Wirdum's "The Genesisb Block":

Instead of sharing a Bolt11 invoice with a Cashu mint, let's instead compute a path locally and give this path to the mint Why should the mint know which public key I'm paying? (Although I guess Bolt12 solves this)

I'm here to fight the later ideas of Friedrich Hayek He wanted private institutions (PayPal) to issue many new currencies (memecoins on Coinbase) which spy on us Bitcoin is the antithesis of this, as it's a public good Private means private-to-use, not private sector -------

I've had a lot of fun playing around with FIPS (the replacement to IP) in recent weeks View article →

Considering running Devuan. I'm assuming it's easy to switch from Debian to it? Or maybe I'll just pin systemd at a non-age-verifying version for as long as possible 😀

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OpenCode has stopped working with Claude Max subscriptions again. I'm pretty sure it was working a couple of weeks ago Back to burning $100 on busy days again I guess!

Watching 'The Last Starfighter' (1984) while my agent works on this View quoted note →

Finally reorganizing the Cashu payment code so that this payment libraries *depends* on the CDK (Cashu Dev Kit), rather than is a fork of it. That will be more natural for people wishing to integrate it It's high time I stopped just having fun and adding new features and just made it an easy-to-use library that people expect 😀

A difficulty adjustment before Bitcoin? @Aaron van Wirdum, describing Wei Dai's b-money. I thought bitcoin was the first with a difficulty adjustment?

Just started reading The Sovereign Individual This childish sentence, in the preface, makes me think this might be no better than the pleb slop in The Bitcoin Standard and the first page of the first chapter isn't any better: