Except the whole thing is a joke to begin with, because proving your Satoshi is as simple as signing a message with his original private key.

And even if he were actually satoshi, who the hell cares. Satoshi doesn’t matter.

Except none of that is truly feasible, which is why it wouldn’t matter even if CSW wins.

It’s like saying the state is going to write new rules for chess and produce a bunch of board games with the new instructions in the box.

No one is going to be forced to give a shit about the new instructions.

You can’t do what CSW wants to do without hard forking bitcoin. That’s why it’s vital for as many people to run nodes as possible. We’re the keepers of the original ledger. We don’t have to play by the fake rules.

Regarding miners, the worst case is the US government spends an insane amount of money to DOS the blockchain until they can’t sustain that anymore, or until they realize they could be making money via transaction fees instead. It’s a losing battle to mine empty blocks or coerce miners.

a) it’s not compulsory, it’s voluntary to prove a point b / c) exactly, exactly

I'm not the one making any assertions here, I'm asking questions and trying to figure out what the actual claim is, because bitcoin is not inherently private.

I'm aware of things like this - so the assertion is that bitcoin can only be successful w/ mixers?

Yeah I read the post - you're not answering the question though. What freedom do you lack if your transactions are public?

As soon as someone known your single-sig public key, privacy is kinda toast, isn't it?

@ODELL Just to play devil's advocate... Let's just say you don't give a shit about what anyone thinks - do you lack freedom if your transactions are public? Is there a transaction you can only make in private?

The privacy conversation is truly interesting. When you think about what makes something a viable currency... Privacy has never been a part of the conversation. It needs to be salable across time and space (finite and divisible)... But privacy interestingly isn't a factor into whether to not something can [technically] behave as global currency.

It's only a part of the conversation now because cryptocurrency is digital.

Isn't embracing a public, immutable ledger the same as embracing 100% public transactions?

HIPAA

Yep. This is so tough. I agree in cases where we’re fully reliant on the internet for things like medical info and other things required to exist in society, but…

I think long term, self-verifiable end-to-end encryption has to be more common place. We should be less focused on building out functionality to be custom for every bit of personal information and more focused on protecting people’s data. But idk, maybe that’s super radical.

Personally, I think the current state of things is such that neither is truly feasible, although the former is more feasible.

Not that feasibility is the sole factor.

I recently said this in another post:

If you send unencrypted data to a server, you are fully reliant on not only their willingness to protect your data, but their ability and competence to do so.

So:

On the “individual responsibility” side of things, seems like people should A: be made aware of the dangers of how their data can be handled and B: willingly choose if it’s worth taking the risk.

On the one hand, a democratically enforced policy that ensures big tech doesn’t do malicious things with our data seems important. On the other hand, even if a tech company or start up wants to handle your data securely, that doesn’t mean they have the bullet proof competence to do so. Everyone gets hacked.

First and foremost, data self custody is a right that should not be infringed. If a person encrypts their own data, they should never be forced to give up the key.

Beyond that, my gut says individual responsibility is where the buck ultimately stops.

And yes, I think that means most people should put significantly less into the internet and web applications.

So much of the internet is a mistake.

We need to change how we think of internet privacy in general.

Anytime you send any data to someone’s server, it could be made public or known to hackers or nation states at any moment.

If you send unencrypted data to a server, you are fully reliant on not only their willingness to protect your data, but their ability and competence to do so.

A password modulates a seed phrase, and it becomes and entirely new wallet. You might as well think of it as a 13th seed word. So yes, you can have one “password” for one wallet and another “password” for another. Every password makes a new wallet.

This is somewhat tricky/confusing, because people don’t always realize that if you lose your password, you lose access to your wallet.

Hey, finally a good excuse to play around with midjourney! It's not great with wings, legs, claws, and tails, but these turned out ok. I have more I can DM you on nostr, just lmk

Ha, so, no actually. I’ve been reading through this book that goes pretty deep into the science of meat and heat and how to get incredible cooking/grilling/smoking results. I’m not much of an expert with this stuff, so I decided to take its suggestions.

Said meat doesn’t need to be wrapped in the fridge before, and rubs don’t need to go on more than 15ish minutes before cooking. Those are supposedly common misconceptions… But! It did say salt is what actually sinks into the meat over time and cause it to retain juices during cooking, so I think that’s what I was noticing when I used to use saltier rubs. It said to apply a dry brine (salt only) 12-24 hours before cooking, and avoid using salt in the rub, that way you have more control over both of those factors.

I feel like that worked really well. I used a cherry bbq rub. Wanted to experiment with something more sugary to see how it would affect the bark.

This was also the first time I didn’t wrap during smoking to speed up the stall. I definitely used too much salt in the brine, but other than that, it turns out really great.

The book is “Meathead” by Meathead Goldwyn, and I can’t think of a better title or author name for something like that.