Steve @[email protected]

Here's a payjoin demo, so people have some idea what workflow might be like: https://joinmarket.me/blog/blog/payjoin-basic-demo/

(used asciinema + tmux, quite a nice combination btw!)

Stowaway ready for SneakerNet face-to-face QR or text P2EP. Other UI/UX being worked on as well. 2-person joined spend: https://blockstream.info/testnet/tx/99a084d7389864aa48756cf1a115c06cf4c98aa815d0ce9169411472183bcf40 … #Cahoots #SamouraiWallet

"Confirmed. The repeating fast radio bursts from space is a message."
"What does it say?"
"We don't know."
"Who sent it?"
"We don't know."
"Should we reply?"
"It was sent 1.5 billion years ago. They're dead."
"So what do we do?"
"Remember them."
"But we don't know them."
"Still."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Nadia Henninger et al on "biased nonce-sense" - basically with lattice attacks they scanned and found a small number of repeated signatures with weak nonces leading to privkey extraction (almost no money in them, but still) - use RFC6979 wallet devs ...

https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/023.pdf

Sometime on or after January 3rd, 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto created the genesis block. Six days later he mined the first block and released the open source Bitcoin client software. And on the seventh day (we hope) he rested. https://medium.com/@bytabit/happy-ten-year-anniversary-of-the-satoshi-bitcoin-client-243cdb9c76ad

RT @[email protected]
Happy 10th Birthday, Bitcoin! Here is to the next 10 amazing years of growth, development, and adaption!

Really interesting read about evolution of use of dead drops in DNMs.

https://opaque.link/post/dropgang/

The statement about cryptocurrency privacy tech is kind of cringe-inducingly wrong ("Cryptocurrencies like Beam and Grin both provide a reasonable amount of privacy while also supporting atomic on-chain swaps between them and widely accepted cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum.") but don't let that put you off, a strong recommend.

The future of science, technology, and blockchain, according to @michaelshermer, @RonaldBailey, and @jimepstein.
http://bit.ly/2BKAWWH

blog pot about Neutrino:
https://blog.lightning.engineering/posts/2018/10/17/neutrino.html

RIP Tim May, father of "crypto anarchy" and original Cypherpunk, whose work was a major influence on bitcoin and WikiLeaks.
http://bit.ly/2QDjvl5

“Who Controls Bitcoin Core?” by Jameson Lopp https://link.medium.com/dvGHPFyCFS

RT @[email protected] If you’re looking for ideas on how crypto can be used to promote liberty and justice for ALL ... well, here you go. The best thing you will read on the internet today. https://www.epsilontheory.com/the-et-interviews-anti-authoritarian-technology/#.XAWvhb-YU2d.twitter

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/EpsilonTheory/status/1069723539635347456

"Now it's dark." Whirlpool over Tor. Mixing will be mobile. #SamouraiWallet https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/720fe03c-32ad-46df-96b4-0705e875576e#ryLwhxKYRX.twitter