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Sovereignty Through Mathematics
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Maximus Maximalistus 1 year ago
Thank you so much to #DCentralTech and #CanadianBTCPod for they #giveaway Another #BitAxe Ultra (BM1366) putting some hashrate on #Bitcoin base layer.
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Maximus Maximalistus 1 year ago
#LightningNetwork resources
Blockstream: Bitcoin and digital asset infrastructure
Lightning Network: Bitcoin micropayments | Blockstream
Blockstream
Blockstream
Blockstream (Page 1)
 https://community.corelightning.org/home
Core Lightning
Welcome to Core Lightning Documentation Portal
Here you can find everything you need to jump-start your journey to running and building on Core Lightning.
Telegram
Core Lightning (CLN)
if we can't help you here you might consider asking on #c-lightning on Libera IRC or opening an issue on https://github.com/ElementsProject/lightni...
Blockstream: Bitcoin and digital asset infrastructure
Lightning-as-a-service, without the technical fuss.
With Greenlight, developers can integrate Lightning in their apps seamlessly, while granting users full control over their funds.
GitHub
GitHub - Blockstream/greenlight: Build apps using self-custodial lightning nodes in the cloud
Build apps using self-custodial lightning nodes in the cloud - Blockstream/greenlight
Jameson Lopp
A comprehensive guide to educational Lightning Network information and resources.
 https://lopp.net/pdf/lightning-network-paper.pdf #Bitcoin
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Maximus Maximalistus 2 years ago
#LiquidNetwork resources:
The Liquid Network
The Liquid Network: The Financial Layer for Bitcoin Capital Markets
Liquid is an open-source Bitcoin layer-2 that enables fast, confidential bitcoin payments and secure asset issuance.
The Liquid Blog: Tracking the Latest in Bitcoin’s Financial Lay
The Liquid Blog: Tracking the Latest in Bitcoin’s Financial Lay
Stay informed with news, insights, and ecosystem developments taking place on the Liquid Network.
The Liquid Developer Docs: Resources for Building on Bitcoin’s Financial Layer
The Liquid Developer Docs: Resources for Building on Bitcoin’s Financial Layer
Explore comprehensive Liquid Network documentation to learn the fundamentals, answer technical questions, or jump-start your next Liquid project.
GitHub
GitHub - ElementsProject/elements: Open Source implementation of advanced blockchain features extending the Bitcoin protocol
Open Source implementation of advanced blockchain features extending the Bitcoin protocol - ElementsProject/elements
Blockstream Help Center
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The Liquid Community Hub: Connect, Learn and Build with Liquid Developers
The Liquid Community Hub: Connect, Learn and Build with Liquid Developers
Join the global Liquid Network community. Discover resources, contribute to open-source projects, and connect with builders shaping Bitcoin’s fin...
 https://youtube.com/liquidnetwork
Telegram
Liquid Community
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Liquid Dev
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 Wallets and markets:
SideSwap - Settlement infrastructure of the Liquid Network
The most convenient way to hold, send, receive and swap assets on the Liquid Network, a bitcoin sidechain built for securities issuance and trading.
TDEX – Trading Unleashed
Bisq - A decentralized bitcoin exchange network
Bisq - A decentralized bitcoin exchange network
Bisq is an open-source desktop application that allows you to buy and sell bitcoin in exchange for national currencies, or alternative cryptocurren...
GLOBAL P2P LENDING PLATFORM
Bitcoin-backed global P2P non-custodial lending platform
 https://beta.bitmatrix.app https://raretoshi.com https://www.mavennft.io
Boltz | Non-Custodial Bitcoin Bridge
Boltz | Non-Custodial Bitcoin Bridge
Swap between different Bitcoin layers while staying in full control. Fast and non-custodial Lightning / Bitcoin / Liquid / Rootstock swaps.
SideShift.ai - Direct to Wallet Trading
SideShift.ai - Direct to Wallet Trading
Trade BTC, ETH, SOL and 200+ cryptocurrencies with SideShift.ai. Direct-to-wallet crypto swaps. Fast, reliable and trusted.
Fuji Money
Borrow bitcoin-backed stablecoins & synthetic assets without intermediaries.
 Wallets:
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GitHub
GitHub - vulpemventures/marina: Liquid Wallet browser extension
Liquid Wallet browser extension. Contribute to vulpemventures/marina development by creating an account on GitHub.
AQUA Wallet
AQUA Wallet – Bitcoin Made Simple
AQUA Wallet is a fast, private, and self-custodial Bitcoin and Liquid wallet. Send, receive, and manage BTC and assets securely with ease.
 https://store.blockstream.com//maximus (10% discount) #LiquidNetwork #LightningNetwork #Bitcoin
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Maximus Maximalistus 2 years ago
#LiquidNetwork resources:
The Liquid Network
The Liquid Network: The Financial Layer for Bitcoin Capital Markets
Liquid is an open-source Bitcoin layer-2 that enables fast, confidential bitcoin payments and secure asset issuance.
The Liquid Blog: Tracking the Latest in Bitcoin’s Financial Lay
The Liquid Blog: Tracking the Latest in Bitcoin’s Financial Lay
Stay informed with news, insights, and ecosystem developments taking place on the Liquid Network.
The Liquid Developer Docs: Resources for Building on Bitcoin’s Financial Layer
The Liquid Developer Docs: Resources for Building on Bitcoin’s Financial Layer
Explore comprehensive Liquid Network documentation to learn the fundamentals, answer technical questions, or jump-start your next Liquid project.
GitHub
GitHub - ElementsProject/elements: Open Source implementation of advanced blockchain features extending the Bitcoin protocol
Open Source implementation of advanced blockchain features extending the Bitcoin protocol - ElementsProject/elements
Blockstream Help Center
 More:
The Liquid Community Hub: Connect, Learn and Build with Liquid Developers
The Liquid Community Hub: Connect, Learn and Build with Liquid Developers
Join the global Liquid Network community. Discover resources, contribute to open-source projects, and connect with builders shaping Bitcoin’s fin...
 https://youtube.com/liquidnetwork
Telegram
Liquid Community
Do NOT accept DMs, Liquid members or Blockstream will never DM you first. Don't trust, verify! Official site: https://liquid.net/ Community: ...
Telegram
Liquid Dev
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Maximus Maximalistus 2 years ago
The Basics of Home #Bitcoin Mining: From Hardware to Hashes with @TatumTurnUp
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skot (@skot9000) on X
Electrical engineer working on open source #bitcoin mining hardware and firmware. Instigator of the Bitaxe Bitcoin ASIC miner.
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DTV Electronics (@dtvelectronics) on X
‘Don’t Trust Verify’ Electronics. Bitcoin focused hardware company. All FOSS open-sourced projects. Working alongside RunCitadel bitcoin full...
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kaboomracks (@kaboomracks) on X
Kaboom! We’re the hottest place to buy & sell miners, hosting, and other equipment 💥 subsidiary of A.R.T. Digital Holdings (OTC: CGAC)
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Maximus Maximalistus 2 years ago
Explainer of @liquid_btc tradeoffs for newcomers: Under the high-fee market, there has been a renewed interest in second layers, resulting in an increased usage and adoption of Liquid 🌊. Many are now leveraging Liquid’s cheap fees and faster one-minute block times to stack cheap sats and HODL in the mid-term, using it as a bridge to Lightning⚡️without having to use the mainchain (see @Boltzhq and @PeerswapLN today). With that adoption, a number of new users are grappling with understanding the tradeoffs Liquid makes–so we thought we would address some of their questions. - “Liquid is centralized” Liquid is distributed but is not fully permissionless like #Bitcoin. Today, Liquid is governed by a geographically and geopolitically-distributed federation of more than 65 Bitcoin-centric companies (https://liquid.net). Within these members are a subset (we call them functionary operators) who run specialized hardware (functionaries). The functionaries propose and sign the blocks that require 2/3rds + 1 (or 11-of-15) of them to approve. Compromising the Federation's multisig wallet would require commandeering 11 separate functionaries around the world while remaining undetected or for 11-of-15 functionary operators to be dishonest and collude–against their incentives as contributing members of Liquid.🌊🌎 We have plans to increase the number of functionaries with DynaFed, which went live on Liquid in 2022, and with potentially new signature schemes like ROAST, which can help us further Liquid’s overall decentralization without network disruption. - “Why L-BTC? Why a federation?” Liquid has no separate altcoin, pre-mine or ICO. The native coin of Liquid is BTC! We opt to use a federated two-way peg model (with pegged BTC—called L-BTC—as the underlying coin), which still provides some decentralization and protection from a single point of failure and is more scalable. This is the tradeoff for not wanting to issue a separate Proof-of-Stake (PoS) governance token that we believe would encourage dishonest participation and take away from Bitcoin network effects. We believe altcoins generally—and more so with premines—inherently create conflicts of interest, distorting participant behavior to gaming other participants. People frequently ask if they can invest in Liquid (they mean to buy a pre-mined token or altcoin), but like Lightning, Liquid has none—the native currency IS BTC. If you want to invest, BUY BITCOIN. Another reason we chose the federated model is that it did not require any changes to be made to Bitcoin itself, something other layer-2 proposals require first. This not only allowed us to build and experiment without constraints right out the gate but, more importantly, the federated model did not impose any risk to Bitcoin’s own consensus and incentive model. - “Seriously, why the two-way peg though? Aren’t there alternatives?” There is still no generic approach to delivering trustless, two-way pegged sidechains. Solutions must consider tradeoffs between security, features provided, and the impact they might have on the Bitcoin mainchain. A sidechain that requires coupling to the mainchain may expose the incentives of the mainchain to unknown attack vectors and may lead to remedial soft forks. A federated peg model may not be as permissionless as other solutions, but it has the benefit of being isolated from Bitcoin in its implementation; plus, the use of strong federations establishes a security profile that is suitable for many applications. We consider a federated approach to pegged sidechains as a sound alternative to solutions that either require a centralized counterparty, an altcoin, or changes to Bitcoin itself. The increased trust requirements necessitated by the federated model are a risk assumed by sidechain users alone, and place no extra burden on users of the mainchain. - “Fees go to Blockstream” Blockstream’s role in Liquid is purely as a technical provider to the federation; Liquid’s governance technology board requests software features and fixes for the functionary software and ultimately evaluates whether to adopt any changes. As the technical provider of Liquid, one of Blockstream’s duties is to maintain the fee wallet; however, the fees ultimately belong to the federation. Blockstream only administers them, burning them as needed for sweeps and peg-outs–the rest remains untouched. The fee wallet is viewable and can be audited here:
Liquid Explorer - Blockstream.info
Blockstream Explorer is an open source block explorer providing detailed blockchain data across Bitcoin, Testnet, and Liquid. Supports Tor and trac...
 It’s additionally important to note that the 15 functionaries, not Blockstream, control the bitcoin (11-of-15) multisignature wallet and the wallet can be viewed here:
Bitcoin Explorer - Blockstream.info
Blockstream Explorer is an open source block explorer providing detailed blockchain data across Bitcoin, Testnet, and Liquid. Supports Tor and trac...
 - “What are Confidential Transactions?” Liquid's Confidential Transactions (CT) feature blind transaction amounts and asset types. This makes selectively not processing certain transactions difficult as the information to distinguish is hidden and available only to the sender and receiver end to end securely. We believe the lack of on-chain confidentiality on competing platforms is a major liability for serious investors and companies, allowing for the possibility of front-running that disregards the overall protection of one’s financial privacy. Longer term, there is some research being done with schemes like Bulletproofs++ (https://blog.blockstream.com/bulletproofs-a-step-towards-fully-anonymous-transactions-with-multiple-asset-types/) that could potentially improve this confidentiality aspect. We’ve only covered a few key points, but we encourage those who would like to learn more about Liquid’s federated sidechain model, how it can bring new features to Bitcoin, and the tradeoffs it makes to read the post here:
The Liquid Blog: Tracking the Latest in Bitcoin’s Financial Lay
The Truth About Liquid
Clearing up misunderstandings about the Liquid Network.
 We also invite you to join us on the Liquid Community Telegram group for any specific questions and for further dialogue, we're happy to have you!:
Telegram
Liquid Community
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Liquid Network 🌊 (@Liquid_BTC) on X
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Maximus Maximalistus 2 years ago
#BlockstreamJade #Bitcoin Hardware Wallet allows users to enter the first 11 or 23 words of a BIP39 recovery phrase, and will automatically calculate possible options for their final word. This is especially helpful for users who want to generate entropy manually (such as by rolling dice) to create a recovery phrase, but still need a safe way to calculate valid final word options.
Blockstream Help Center
Create a recovery phrase using dice
Your Jade allows users to enter the first 11 or 23 words of a BIP39 recovery phrase, and will automatically calculate possible options for their fi...
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Maximus Maximalistus 2 years ago
@jb55 created a software that should enable nostr desktop notifications on Linux using libnotify. I am testing it.
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