Self-perceived moral superiority means stagnation. Either you build the better system - or you endlessly keep shouting why you're better than everybody else until there's nobody left to listen.
Nobody cares about your thing representing better values except for those who are already on your side.
There is a rare combination of the two though and I'm thinking of some Bitcoin projects that are very vocal about their values and actually keep delivering. But the 90% don't deliver. They keep pointing fingers until nobody cares about them anymore.
calle ๐ฏ
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Good analogy for how Chaumian mints work:
You enter a casino and buy poker chips with Lightning. The chips all look the same. You can pass those chips around to other players.
When go back home, you give the chips back at the counter and get your money back on Lightning.
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It feels so damn great to top up an anonymous e-sim card with Bitcoin paid from a Chaumian mint.


I don't sell Bitcoin, I spend it.


PSA: as long as you're not using a Cashu wallet that can be restored from a seed phrase (currently: Nutshell-py, Nutstash Alpha, soon: all of them), things could go wrong and you could lose ecash due to some weird bug. Please treat it with care and only use small amounts. I'm very serious about this. I don't hold more than a few dollars worth of ecash myself in non-deterministic (seedless) wallets.
BUT HERE IS THE GOOD NEWS:
Determinisitc wallets are so much safer. Even if something goes wrong, you can just revert time and restore your entire balance.
Fucking creepy


Normalize NIP-24 Giftwrapped DMs that don't doxx to the world who you're talking to.
Which clients support it? I'll start: Amethyst.
gm โ๏ธ


Zapping with minibits on Nostr is so damn smooth!
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(Yes, I do have many Lightning wallets ๐)
Minibits โ Bitcoin Lightning & Ecash Wallet
Minibits is a Bitcoin Lightning and ecash wallet for Android and iOS that enables instant, low-cost, and private value transfers using the Cashu pr...
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Releases ยท minibits-cash/minibits_wallet
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Incredible work! Minibits.cash now has Tor and LNURL supprt. Check this out, he's zapping on nostr paid with ecash.

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Minibits (@MinibitsCash) on X
Ecash should not live on its own, but do its job silently in many contexts. Minibits now supports lightning deeplinks, LNURL pay and lightning addr...
Where is the ecash?
"NUT-12: Chaum-Pedersen DLEQ proofs" โ is looking for reviewers!

GitHub
NUT-12: Chaum-Pedersen DLEQ proofs by callebtc ยท Pull Request #51 ยท cashubtc/nuts
Chaum-Pedersen DLEQ proofs
In this document, we present an extension of Cashu's crypto system to allow a user Alice to verify the mint Bob'...
Where is the node?