Haciendo docencia sobre aspectos básicos del modelo utxo y su implicancia en la privacidad:

# The Labor Theory of Value makes people idiotic Since forever, I've been fascinated by some seemingly inexplicable phenomena I encounter daily in Argentina—something that makes people prefer slow services over fast ones or trivial services over those that require expertise, study, or specialized knowledge. Today, I finally understood why, and I’d like to share it here. The Argentine is a socialist man. We may not be fully conscious of this, but it’s true. Just as someone who believes there is only one God and that Muhammad is His prophet is a Muslim, regardless of what they claim, we embrace socialist mantras, making us socialists—even if we vehemently deny it. One of the deepest beliefs ingrained in the Argentine belief system is that the value of something is determined by the amount of work required to produce it. This belief is so deeply rooted in our culture that it’s taken as common sense. It explains some self-defeating behavior and absurd decision-making. Here’s an example: Juan is a graphic designer with a week to complete an important project when his laptop suddenly stops working. In desperation, he takes it to Pedro, a computer repair technician with a solid reputation. Juan is stressed because this is his only laptop, he has no backup, and the deadline is looming. He anxiously asks Pedro how long it will take to fix the problem. Pedro is an expert with extensive experience fixing laptops, especially that specific model. He immediately knows what the issue is and could resolve it in a matter of minutes. However, he tells Juan, “It will take about a week.” But why!? Why lie? Wouldn’t Pedro be seen as more efficient, knowledgeable, and even life-saving if he fixed Juan’s laptop on the spot? The answer: of course not! Remember that Juan doesn’t value Pedro’s service based on how quickly his need is met. Not at all. Juan’s need is irrelevant to Juan. What Juan values is the perceived amount of work Pedro has to do. If Pedro repairs the laptop in half an hour, the service would be perceived as worthless, and Pedro couldn't request more than a few pesos for it. Pedro also believes in the labor theory of value. He feels he should be compensated not just for the time it takes to fix the laptop but for all the years of training and expertise that made the repair possible. Yet, Pedro knows that if he fixes the laptop on the spot, he couldn't charge what he thinks is fair because Juan would feel cheated and never return—or recommend him to others. The result is a compromise where neither party is truly satisfied. Juan waits days for his laptop, and Pedro receives better payment than he would for a quick repair, but still less than he feels his expertise warrants. The Argentine man is perfectly okay paying one hundred American dollars for a meal or forty dollars for a bottle of mediocre red wine. But paying forty or fifty dollars for a visit to the doctor? No way. You could argue that a visit to the doctor might save your life in some cases, but those visits rarely last more than fifteen minutes. How could you justify paying more than what you pay for a bottle of wine that required tens of hours of hard work to produce? ----- I wite about Argentine people but other Latin American peoples are even more retarded than us.

There are no genders. Gender a word crafted to replace a clear concept (sex) by a nebulously ambiguous idea impossible to define, which is only useful to confuse people making them unable to reach any reasonable though or conclusion. Using the word gender instead of sex forces us to have stupid arguments about how many genders are, an absurd waste of time. No different to ask how many kind of unicorns are. Try to avoid using idiotic language and you will have less idiotic discussion.

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Note that the minimum registrable output amount is a configurable parameter. As a Wasabi coordinator operator, you can choose the value you want to allow. Currently, there are coordinators with minimums ranging from 1 sat to 10k sats, giving you the power to choose the coordinator that best suits your needs. Ideally, communities should set up private coordinators tailored to their specific needs, considering parameters like confirmation time, minimum and maximum registrable input amounts, minimum and maximum registrable output amounts, allowed script types in inputs and outputs, round duration/frequency, and more. However, if you prefer to use a public coordinator, simply select the one that best fits your requirements. View quoted note →

First Silent Payment from Wasabi Wallet in mainnet where mistakes are memorable.

Exactly. This is politics playing god—changing the time is no different from moving Christmas. View quoted note →

It seems the moster is coming after me now.

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Just a few minutes ago, I was scrolling through the "order book" in the Telegram lnp2pbot when I saw someone looking to buy a few sats at just -1% of the price. So, I thought, "Why not, let's try this!" I clicked on the order, the bot showed me a QR code, I sent the sats, and then waited for the buyer to contact me. Minutes passed, and nothing—no contact. I was expecting the sale to expire when I suddenly got a message from the bot saying, "Get in touch with @xxxontivero and let him know how to send you the money..." Haha! Turns out, the buyer was my little son! I laughed out loud for a few seconds and called my wife to share the funny story, but she wasn’t as amused since our son is currently at school. Oh! right, of course you are right -I said. But this made my day.

Silent Payments are coming to #Wasabi soon! The plan is to start with the sending functionality, and in a future release, add the receiving part in a privacy-preserving way using our block filters.

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Silent Payment - Sending part by lontivero · Pull Request #13536 · WalletWasabi/WalletWasabi

I’ll never understand why some people try to mislead less technical users with lies like this, discouraging them from using tech that protects them. Here’s the reality: someone received Bitcoin to the same address twice. While address reuse should be avoided, if I choose to send to your address twice, there’s nothing you can do to stop it—that’s just how Bitcoin works. In this case, I reused your address, not you. Now you have a problem: how can you unlink those two UTXOs that share the same address? Fortunately, there’s a solution. CoinJoin can break that link and restore your privacy. That’s exactly what happened in this transaction: someone in that situation was finally able to break the link between two of their UTXOs. (Here’s the address: bc1q6ym9rn724d5ny5xgzepxj6ngnh939e9atjq8g4) View quoted note →

I imagine Satoshi as an 40/45yo European man. Others could imagine him as a disabled black Peruvian lesbian and that can also be the case, however, all monuments in honor to Satoshi look like an antisocial 18yo boy installing Kali linux, again. Why?

Wasabi v1.x ran on a 188GB / 32-core machine. Wasabi v2.0? An even bigger monster. Today, the Wasabi coordinator can run on a Raspberry Pi, and the Wasabi Server/Backend can operate anywhere.

The largest multiparty Bitcoin transaction ever has just been confirmed! According to @Kruw, "with 430 inputs, this CoinJoin transaction is the biggest on the entire blockchain." 🚀

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This was only possible thanks to extensive work on improving communication reliability and reducing resource consumption, enabling the coordination of such a massive transaction.