- Coinbase spent millions on an army of lobbyists to build a regulatory moat and crowd out competitors - Hired many ex-SEC lawyers and even a former Senator in order to make use of their access to the State - Helped contribute to the death of Jstark by reporting his transactions to German authorities Seeing influencers crying as the SEC tries to take Coinbase down makes me grin a little

gm, Chainalysis is astrology for spooks

When my grandchildren ask me "when were you sure the dollar had lost", I'm going to say 2023, somewhere between the torrent of daily "de-dollarization isn't a big deal and also isn't happening" articles and that cashapp advertisement that advertised sats next to the $

Re: the PSBT dutch auctions - has anyone seen (and/or proposed) any non-ordinal use cases for these yet?

Anyone have takes to shill me on CivKit before I dive into it? (At first glace the 'KYP' oracles seem iffy to me.)

Booking tickets for Miami. Any nostr breakout events planned for Bitcoin 2023?

Feels like a good day to mix and withdraw

I'm noticing as Twitter withers away and nostr replaces it: the lack of algorithmic content makes it much more difficult to manufacture consent. It's wild how many psyops I'm missing out on by just following friends / WoT.

POV: you weren't at PubKey for the meetup last night to hear us discuss soft fork activations

Things I'm hoping we'll talk about: BIP 8 / BIP 9/ Speedy Trial Inquisition How do soft forks get activated, anyway? PubKey, this Monday 4/3, 7 PM, see you there! https://iris.to/note1eut6kd6nm6zzx2nyweae9kr68f03g6upratcz5yzzzgvmly4tj6smu6fzy

"Nearly all threshold ECDSA based TSS implementations are vulnerable to key extraction attacks despite having undergone multiple security audits." TL,DR: Most MPC implementations appear to be vulnerable. Bitcoin users unaffected.

No Bullshit Bitcoin

Verichains Discovers Critical Key Extraction Attacks in TSS for MPC Wallets and Digital Asset Custody: Native Bitcoin MultiSig Not Affected

Verichains announced that it discovered critical Key Extraction Attacks in many popular Threshold Signature Scheme (TSS) implementations, a Multi-P...

Thought exercise: if a nation-state actor decided to choke off all the exchange on-ramps and restrict or prohibit the exchange of BTC to fiat, what would you wish you had done differently? what would you wish you'd done sooner? I think I would wish that I had used Bisq exclusively and mixed all my sats before sending to either cold storage or some physical bearer device (e.g. OpenDime, SatsCards). Which means I should probably start doing that right now.

Chokepoints, chokepoints everywhere

Cloudflare Disables Access to 'Pirated' Content on its IPFS Gateway * TorrentFreak

Cloudflare helps to provide access to millions of websites on the regular web. The company also offers an IPFS gateway, making it easier to access ...

Reading this when I'm 2/3 of the way through writing a book hits different :-|

That Greenpeace sculpture is right up there with calling Trump supporters "deplorables" - it's not convincing anyone that wasn't already convinced, but it gives their opponents some amazing branding for free. Can't wait to see it on a satscard :)

They're going to cut Kraken off from ACH, sic the DOJ on Binance, and as for Coinbase:

It's all so tiresome

GM to everyone except fiat apologists https://twitter.com/arbedout/status/1339968110342909953

No words to describe how much Nostrica FOMO I'm feeling rn