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12 sats \ 0 replies \ @kruw 16h \ parent \ on: Advice for home mining bitcoin_Mining
It's quiet enough for my cat to warm up in front of :)
Ocean is the ONLY pool that censors valid Bitcoin transactions, they literally have the worst block health % out of any mining pool out there: https://mempool.space/mining/pool/ocean
I'm home mining for the first time this winter. A local meetup guy sold me a custom single board S19J Pro that runs on a 120V power supply. It costs me $70 worth of electricity to earn $42 worth of Bitcoin each month, effectively reducing my heating cost by 60%.
I have no use for the device once summer comes around though, so it's definitely just a personal investment into the Bitcoin network rather than a money making opportunity. Also, fuck Ocean, use Braiins pool instead.
Naturally, the most obvious platforms that we could attract talent from are Reddit and BitcoinTalk because these platforms do basically the same thing but they don't have a good incentive model. You can't post images directly in reddit comments and the reply system on BitcoinTalk is so dated and difficult to follow.
Tbh, you don't want to bring in users from Reddit and Bitcointalk on here. Reddit is ENTIRELY filled with people discussing the price, there is nothing of interest posted there whatsoever.
Bitcointalk's earning model revolves around users selling their signature/avatar space for advertisements, and only veteran members are able to display signatures and avatars. This has driven the quality of posting down massively since users will repeat the same reply as each other in every topic while making sure to expand their posts to exactly 151 characters so they reach the quota required for them get paid.
I don't think that SN's incentive model is the only reason that the content here is of higher quality, there's also the underlying moderation team and algorithm that curates the content.
Yep, the writing of the article is a bit sloppy, a few corrections:
- There's no vulnerability in the protocol itself, rather, it's a bug in the clients implementing the protocol.
- I wouldn't categorize this as a "Major" vulnerability since clients can detect a malicious coordinator performing this sort of attack.
Overall, it's good that there's multiple teams implementing the protocol in open source projects, allowing these sorts of issues to be caught.
To increase privacy, he wants to use a silent payments receive address.
If he's a merchant, using a silent payment address won't do anything to increase his privacy since he's already interacting with his customer. If he wants to protect his customers, suppliers, and himself from being tracked on-chain, he should use BTCPay Server's coinjoin plugin: https://docs.btcpayserver.org/Wabisabi/
At the very least, this sounds like a business opportunity for someone to replace the hole left by ibex.
Not exactly sure what you mean. Each coinjoin output is registered with a unique Tor identity, and the coordinator doesn't learn which inputs are associated with its creation thanks to zero knowledge proofs and other crypto magic. There's a (convoluted) metaphorical explainer for the protocol here: https://github.com/WalletWasabi/WabiSabi/blob/master/explainer.md
Clients don't offer any data to coordinators, so there's nothing for a dishonest coordinator to dox them with. You can verify this yourself since all the code is open source :)
374 sats \ 18 replies \ @kruw 1 Dec \ parent \ on: Cobra says developers are working to activate CTV bitdevs
Taproot didn't bring ordinals.
Why do you continue promoting Monero even though Bitcoin was already made untraceable with the WabiSabi coinjoin protocol? https://mempool.space/tx/70aad1d92dd3fc6ddbd802ed20ed155472a5752126a0c3489b56fde6e4cf801c
You can still coinjoin, here's a few explorer websites that aggregate coordinator stats:
https://liquisabi.com/
https://wabisator.com/