I love the smell of fresh hydrocarbons in the morning #btc #bitcoin

Imagine a near-future where accounts no longer exist. You can go to a new web store, browse wares and buy something without ever creating an account or providing any private information, just as you would a store on the street Add what you want into the shopping trolly, pay with #bitcoin, and sign shipping instructions with a private key (not necessarily the same private key as your #bitcoin) The merchant delivers the goods to your designated shipper with your signed instructions The shipper already has your delivery location you provided (in advance) and confirms your signed instructions, and sends you a #bitcoin invoice. Once you pay your items are on the way Merchant doesn’t know who you are or where the goods are going or how to market to you in the future. No personal information to sell to a 3rd party, and shipper has no idea about contents Just like it should be #bitcoine #nostr

#asknostr Is the npub value just the X coordinate of the ECDSA outcome? No prefixes or anything else before encoding to bech32?

Powerful stuff and great read inspired to follow and duplicate https://ungovernablemisfits.com/the-lake-satoshi-report/ #bitcoin #meshtadel @soulexporter #freesamourai

If you had an 8k monitor where each pixel represented a #bitcoin private key, you would need a monitor approximately 128.51 billion universes wide by 40.66 billion universes tall to show all #bitcoin potential private keys #letthatsinkin #bitcoin #nostr

I came across something in #nostr and may have it wrong, when encoding a private key to bech32 zeros are padded at the beginning of the 5-bit string in #bitcoin space, but in #nostr they are padded at the end of the 5-bit string. Is this correct and was there a reason for the change? #asknostr

If a man builds a river through your living room it’s ok to take a drink every once in a while —daPlotzy #wordstoliveby

The starting point to the freedom of speech on the internet requires an answer to the question, does a private owner of internet gateway have the responsibility to ensure illegal acts do not take place on their equipment? Not to say the private owner must stop all illegal acts, but must the owner make an effort to try to stop illegal acts and to assist law enforcement to a reasonable extent? A moral citizen/owner of the gateway will try to prevent heinous crimes even if the legal obligation is not there, but if the system is designed to be unable to record what is sent from whom then policing by the private owner is impossible. So should the ISP design the system to track and record, just in case, or design the system to make tracking and recording impossible until a legal wiretap for a specific target is issued. But that leads to the question how does LE find their targets without the help from the ISP? It appears today ISP typically have a recorded physical address for every IP at every point in time, and keep records for long periods of time. I encourage you to use Tor to safeguard your privacy #freedomofspeech #firstamendment #bitcoin 🧡💜 #nostr #telegram #freeduval #freesamourai #tor

Who is responsible, the system owner or the user of the system? Let’s simplify the question: You have a wifi setup at your home and you decide to unlock it for all people on the street. Someone comes along and uses it to upload illegal images. Should the police be allowed to shut your wifi down or let you be and stake-out the user/offender(s)?

I am facing an interesting crossroads in a business I am developing Apparently it is standard practice within the Internet Service Provider community to keep records of all IP addresses and the IP to which they request information in case law enforcement requests the historical info, records going back for years in some cases I will be reading more about it over the coming weeks but has anyone gone through the spectrum of what is legally required vs. ISP industry practices Something doesn’t smell right #bitcoin #nostr

Some businesses don’t overtly accept #bitcoin, but there will be signs https://www.btcgrocery.com

I would like to test a note-zap. Whoever responds first to this post I will zap 21 sats, and if you confirm receipt of the zap I’ll zap you a second time

So #France can arrest you for illegal knowledge and forbidden use of math and statistics Not using standard privacy models is interdite; what does that say about the standard models In case you want to learn more and use a few yourself, #Telegram uses: 1. MTProto: This is Telegram's custom-designed encryption protocol used for client-server communication. It's based on 256-bit symmetric AES encryption, 2048-bit RSA encryption, and Diffie–Hellman key exchange 2. End-to-End Encryption (E2EE): For Secret Chats, Telegram uses end-to-end encryption based on a variant of the MTProto protocol. This means only the communicating users can read the messages 3. Transport Layer Security (TLS): Telegram uses TLS for the initial connection between the client and server 4. Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS): This is used in Secret Chats to ensure that even if an encryption key is compromised, it can't be used to decrypt past messages 5. SHA-256: Used for message authentication codes Just sharing…

1,560 #bitcoin for 1 #USD?!? #satoshisarebitcoin

Just learned that #nostr private and public key generation method is identical to #bitcoin’s🤯 One could use the same private key to keep one’s wealth and one’s speech secure (but I would not recommend it—Make two private keys) What it means is take good care of your private key and keep it safe A decentralised and anonymous future looks bright

Probably one of the top ten important memes throughout history #bitcoin #nostr #freesamourai❤️ #freeduval