Paul Troon @[email protected]

Today I created a regtest bitcoind P2TR descriptor based wallet and spent from it to a legacy wallet. The gist is below for anyone who want's to try it. I built a `bitcoind` docker image and used `bdk-cli` to generate my test xprv but the gist should also work if you build your own `bitcoind` and `bitcoin-cli` as long as you're on the bitcoin v22.0rc2 tag:
https://gist.github.com/notmandatory/483c7edd098550c235da75d5babcf255

✅✅ 💯 http://taproot.watch

I will leave this here with no comment.

This #femtostar system could be a great fit for off grid #bitcoin nodes. I appreciate that they're planning to use a centrally managed satellite access token and NOT creating a new (pointless) cyrpto currency. Would love to see a secondary market develop where you could buy these tokens with #btc.

https://www.pine64.org/2021/05/19/femtostar-taking-aim-for-the-stars/

RT @jamesob
In good news today, my bechmarks finally finished: @pwuille's updates to libsecp256k1 look to have sped up Bitcoin Core's validation by roughly 7%.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/21573#issuecomment-844294096

SLP268 @peterktodd Should Signal Have Used #Bitcoin Instead?

We chat:
- MobileCoin centralisation
- Tradeoffs of using Bitcoin and Lightning instead
- The future for private messaging

https://stephanlivera.com/episode/268/

Bitcoin vs Coinbase During The Blocksize War. A History Lesson by BTCsessions. Delete Coinbase is Trending Again. .. https://youtu.be/tNnAjJvxF6k http://reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/mrd08a/bitcoin_vs_coinbase_during_the_blocksize_war_a/

The business owner of Tin Horn Flats in Burbank gets it: “This has never been about safety or the public. It's never been about that. This whole thing is about fear and control.”

I've been to this establishment (after their utilities were cut-off) and every customer and staff there were perfectly capable of making their own decisions about eating and drinking or working there.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/burbank-puts-chain-link-fence-around-tinhorn-flats-in-efforts-to-finally-stop-operations/2570560/

Another great take from Mises Inst. Rather than trying to quantify all the ways the fiat monetary system consume energy St.Onge digs into the incredible waste caused only by fiat induced recessions.

https://mises.org/wire/critics-claim-bitcoin-threat-environment-theyre-wrong

This @stephanlivera podcast with @Diverter_NoKYC is a great listen 👏

Something that I picked up from this: I didn’t know that @Bitwarden password manager has an option to self-host 😯
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SLP265 @Diverter_NoKYC Becoming Uncle Jim

Diverter and I chat:
- Helping family and friends with their sovereignty or privacy
- Password managers
- Dealing with "I don't have anything to hide"
- Self hosting

https://stephanlivera…
https://twitter.com/stephanlivera/status/1379422711630290951

Chainalyses scumbag named as acting FinCEN director.

https://www.coindesk.com/fincen-names-former-chainalysis-executive-acting-director-as-blanco-resigns

Before WWI, you could travel wherever whenever. Passports were a "temporary" war measure.
https://indianlibertyreport.com/did-you-know-passports-were-a-temporary-war-measure/

The sad thing is by committing fraud - and let's be 100% clear, MobileCoin's advertising is already fraud - they're putting Signal itself at risk.

It'll be intersting to find out just how tightly linked MobileCoin is legally to Signal itself.

lololol They're actually rolling out Intel SGX coin.

"MobileCoin is a payment network with no central authority."

That is a lie. Intel is a central authority if you rely on SGX.

https://github.com/mobilecoinfoundation/mobilecoin

To all the Bitcoin maximalists that have insisted to me over the last few years that Signal being centralized is no big deal:

I told you so.