Chris Belcher is the founder of JoinMarket, the first complete privacy tool for on chain Bitcoin. Fidelity Bonds protect coinjoiners who pay fees from feeding bots who spam many identities. [2019]
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Chris Belcher is the founder of JoinMarket, the first complete privacy tool for on chain Bitcoin. Fidelity Bonds protect coinjoiners who pay fees from feeding bots who spam many identities. [2019]
looks like @adlai commented back then
I quit collaborating on reasonably good terms rather than turn things acrimonious by politicsing over technical decisions, especially after Greg Maxwell said that Bitcoin has dealbreakingly bad UX already, and my planned ideas for JM would only make it worse.
thank you for the highlight, and ... did you have any question for me?
@adlai would you do an AMA? I will zap it big. I am not familiar with your work.
thanks for the interest; how do you suggest I pick a time? people don't seem to vote much on my SN polls, although it could be from getting muted by folks who prefer vibes and slop over bitter prose.
there's not much of it; I honestly don't like driving the world from a computer keyboard.
I often miss AMAs because the author only stays around for an hour to answer questions. Just wait until you have the biggest time window availability, you don't have to sit at the keyboard the whole time.
I think part of the appeal is the pseudo-synchronous nature of it; even if someone doesn't have their own questions, they can show up and vote on pending questions while waiting for the next answer to appear.
I think Reddit sometimes opens an AMA thread some fixed time [e.g. 24 hours] before the answers begin. I doubt that's necessary in this case, although it could at least help to post a tl;dr of why anyone would even care to read mine, maybe as the description text for the poll about a convenient timing.
If you let me know with a little lead time, I'll be happy to advertise it a bit (or to help out with gathering questions in whatever way you like).
I'm leaning towards either this weekend, or sometime next week; and have no strong idea regarding timezones.
One thing I'm wondering about is whether I should even aim to have it be synchronous like the classic AMA concept, or rather do a preliminary poll for timezone interest, and then post earlier, and come back after a few hours to answer questions.
For example, if most site users are going to be posting and reading during afternoon-evening EST, then I could post the final AMA thread at noon EST [which is around sunset, local time], go to sleep, and return to answer questions after waking up.
the delay of a few days is because my Alby Hub isn't restarting nicely after not having any logins for a few months, and I need to figure out how to restore it after possibly having trusted the wrong password manager
quoting my old comments, in case github dies next week or people just prefer comment sections over anubis "catgirls":
tl;dr: The most significant unspoken question is whether "liquidity" can even be defined without some level of de-anonymization of the UTXO set; my idea was to avoid violating fungibility in principle, by having takers consider all available counterparties a single Sybil swarm, and selecting the UTXOs that produce the best resulting overall graph, when considering the iterated result.
bit of a mouthful
In my opinion, the implementation direction that was ultimately pursued by the quorum of Joinmarket devolpers worsened the actually resultant privacy, or at least, made an equivalent level of privacy more expensive to obtain, than what could have been achieved by the halfbaked bullshit that I never implemented because literally nobody else had anything positive to say about my idea.
His Coinswap (teleport transactions) project got forked after ill health forced him to stop working on it, but i dunno what your view of any of the versions would be - it seemed promising to me at the time, based on what i'd read from him, but maybe take a look at it.
https://github.com/bitcoin-teleport/teleport-transactions