I'm learning about Steganography: the practice of concealing information within another message. More specifically, I'm learning about Least Significant Bit Steganography, which changes the color of a pixel in a parent image (in this case a meme) by an indistinguishable amount to communicate the information that is hidden. Like an an invisible watermark. Within this meme is a secret QR code that holds 10,000 sats worth of e-cash. The money is in the meme. E-cash, secret messages, signatures, or even private keys (though I wouldn't recommend it) could be hidden in plain sight within an image. So instead of sending long text strings like "cashuBo2Ftdmh0dHBzOi8..." you can just pay people in memes, which I think is pretty cool. image

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JackTheMimic 1 year ago
100% I love Steganography. I have heard people do cross reference common photographs for pixel deviation but, You can always make false positives which is really fun too.
I think you should check out pico8 carts 🙂 these look like a picture of a cartridge from some old-school console, but the picture itself includes the full game code. #pico8
Not in images! Cashu tokens have been transmitted via radio and audio before but I don't think they were put into images yet. Show us an example sir!
Yes, I use also steganography, but keep in mind that only the original image file contain the embedded text. Once you send it through any digital form, it loses that information.
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anonymous 1 year ago
It's also nice for storing information you don't want to unintentionally access, e.g. suspicious file. Yeah, a zip-file works if processes and scanners aren't too nosy, but this is reliable and predictable.
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anonymous 1 year ago
18 years ago, I stored a bunch of computer viruses of the time in BMPs. (To clarify because apparently some paranoid, cynical assholes are threatening me again.)
And you can get Miyoo Mini Plus for $40 or similar game console and it supports playing pico8 games...
I'm always surprised that people never took advantage of the .PNG format. It allows for chunks of various data natively...
Yes PNG is nice, but still do not keep all data for a steganographied file. Even if you attach it as file to an email or message is still compressing it so is altered and not containing anymore the stego data. You must keep the original file you stego.
This is true Fortunately, I should be able to keep the file size under 21MB so that I can upload it to nostr.build without transforming it But you’re right, this is something to be aware of