Kids growing up today don't know what the internet could have been.

I'm not here on Nostr because I run away from Twitter. I'm here because I'm in search for an internet as it once used to be. I'm a hacker who fucking hates that social media is in the hands of private companies. I remember using IRC and meeting likeminded anons online. I remember what the internet utopia felt like. People who didn't care what your name or status is, people who aren't interested in sharing their boring holiday pics with random strangers online. I'm not interested in what politicians and influencers have to say. I don't care about the latest mainstream trend that's going viral. I want random weird interesting smart people around me who share their ideas in a free and open space that isn't controlled by anyone. That's all I'm looking for. There aren't many such spaces on the internet.

I FUCKING LOVE BITCOIN

✨ Merged: NUT-14: Hashed Timelock Contracts (HTLCs) HTLCs allow you to attack spending conditions to Cashu Ecash the similar to how it works with Lightning. There are two ways to spend the ecash: either you know the preimage to a hash, or you wait until the timelock expires. Both conditions can be combined with an additional public key that needs to sign the token for spending it (same as with P2PK tokens). This allows us to build awesome things like: - Atomic swaps between ecash (of different mints for example) - Combine it with Lightning HTLCs to extend payment routes over an Ecash mint - Build trustless Lightning gateways that can serve as Lightning payment providers for users of a mint - Probably more cool stuff that I can't think of

GitHub

nuts/14.md at main · cashubtc/nuts

Cashu protocol specifications https://cashubtc.github.io/nuts/ - cashubtc/nuts

Chaumian Ecash isn't shadowy tech. It's as mainstream as it gets. Arguably even more mainstream than blockchains. If you want proof, check out the Ecash systems the European Central Bank and the Bank of International Settlements are building.

Since the fee spike, it feels a bit like the real-world economic capacity of Bitcoin has dropped from 21M to whatever is left in Lightning channels.

my snort loaded, hallelujah

A Cashu wallet is a custodial wallet that speaks the Cashu protocol. The Cashu protocol is an open protocol for developing Chaumian Ecash solutions for Bitcoin.

GitHub

GitHub - cashubtc/nuts: Cashu protocol specifications https://cashubtc.github.io/nuts/

Cashu protocol specifications https://cashubtc.github.io/nuts/ - cashubtc/nuts

Oh no I kept UI designing. Thanks @Karnage for the direction, will keep working on this.

That's it for UI design today!

Whether the Bitcoin community decides to accept or to reject changes for the base layer, we're dedicated to building the best and most modern Chaumian Ecash infrastructure the world has ever seen. To quote one of the most OG Bitcoiner I ever spoke to: "It’s just kind of the first time i actually feel like there’s a real concrete path we can take with electronic payments the whole world could use rather than the we’ll just have to see how the current thing goes and what we can get to after it."

I'm extremely bad at UI design. What do you think about this?

GM nostr ☕️

@Kieran @Sirius Snort and Iris haven't been working for me for weeks. I see random connections to relays I've never set and also attempts to connect to onion relays that won't work on my machine. Am I the only one?

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