Aaron Daniel

Tonight the ZEUS fairy comes!

Thanks for helping my son stack sats through his teeth,

and

.

My son lost his first tooth and has a fresh lighting wallet ready to go!

Also the deflationary forces of steel and steam drastically reduced overseas shipping costs by 65% over that gold standard period, massively offsetting the inhibitory effects of tariffs on the US economy.

That was a physical, real world technological revolution that directly improved trade efficiency of real world goods. AI can cause deflation in services, which may temper prices on goods to a degree, but not to the extent of the pre-1913 shipping revolution.

The shift from a passive consumer to an active creator is a mindset.

Lol I accidentally zapped

50,000 sats because of a big in amethyst.

Enjoy my grandkids' college tuition!

Crypto VC funds that haven't heard about Nostr.

NGMI

Voltorb DGAF.

Hodl on.

Pre-Orders for the 📜Satoshi Papers 📜 are live!

My contribution, "Dispute Resolution Beyond the State," posits that Bitcoin provides the ideal foundation for truly private adjudication and enforcement of arbitration awards.

That thesis that drove me to found

.

And look at that inspiring hardcover!

https://store.bitcoinmagazine.com/pages/the-satoshi-papers?_pos=3&_sid=aa9a82d9b&_ss=r

Diffie-Hellman Exchange: favorite prog-rock band.

My alma mater, Emory University in Atlanta, is the first university endowment to allocate to Bitcoin (the ETF).

Must be because the premier Bitcoin builder conference is

https://www.bitcoinbrief.io/nostr-bitcoin-inscriptions-and-the/

1500 sats up for grabs!

LFG, congrats

!

When a platform is built by a for-profit entity that has raised funds, it's easy for the state to target it and pressure founders.

Open Source protocols can live past their founders.

Nostr-native crowdfunding marketplaces like fundsolvr.com are necessary.

Build the change you want to see. https://github.com/Open-Source-Justice-Foundation/Fundsolvr

The only desktop app with integrated fedimint wallet support that I am aware of.

https://github.com/nodetec/keystache

Great example of a "last mile" Bitcoin service. Zaprite doesnt maintain it's own lightning infrastructure or nodes. It focuses its resources on amazing invoicing and smooth payment gateways (payment "links").

Now, LSPs, wallet providers, etc dont need to build the merchant interfaces, they just focus resources on robust infrastructure and integrate with Zaprite.

Comparative advantage and collaboration. 👌

🇺🇸The American Founders would have been Bitcoiners.

Here’s my article from a few years back offering the historical proof.

Happy Independence Day. 🎇

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/independence-day-the-founders-and-bitcoin

Why are this miner's own lawyers misinforming a District Court judge about the Bitcoin mining process?? (The order directly cites the miner's complaint.)

We need to do a better job of educating the courts. If you are a Bitcoin company that must litigate, hire Bitcoiners.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68325488/48/block-mining-inc-v-hosting-source-llc/

Matthew Green's (cryptography prof at Johns Hopkins) take on Apple's "Private Cloud Compute": https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1800291897245835616.html?utm_campaign=topunroll

"So Apple has introduced a new system called “Private Cloud Compute” that allows your phone to offload complex (typically AI) tasks to specialized secure devices in the cloud. I’m still trying to work out what I think about this. So here’s a thread.

1/ Apple, unlike most other mobile providers, has traditionally done a lot of processing on-device. For example, all of the machine learning and OCR text recognition on Photos is done right on your device.

2/ The problem is that while modern phone “neural” hardware is improving, it’s not improving fast enough to take advantage of all the crazy features Silicon Valley wants from modern AI, including generative AI and its ilk. This fundamentally requires servers.

3/ But if you send your tasks out to servers in “the cloud” (god using quotes makes me feel 80), this means sending incredibly private data off your phone and out over the Internet. That exposes you to spying, hacking, and the data hungry business model of Silicon Valley.

4/ The solution Apple has come up with is to try to build secure and trustworthy hardware in their own data centers. Your phone can then “outsource” heavy tasks to this hardware. Seems easy, right? Well: here’s the blog post.

5/

https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

TL;DR: it is not easy. Building trustworthy computers is literally the hardest problem in computer security. Honestly it’s almost the only problem in computer security. But while it remains a challenging problem, we’ve made a lot of advances. Apple is using almost all of them.

6/ The first thing Apple is doing is using all the advances they’ve made in building secure phones and PCs in their new servers. This involves using Secure Boot and a Secure Enclave Processor (SEP) to hold keys. They’ve presumably turned on all the processor security features.

7/ Then they’re throwing all kinds of processes at the server hardware to make sure the hardware isn’t tampered with. I can’t tell if this prevents hardware attacks, but it seems like a start.

8/ They also use a bunch of protections to ensure that software is legitimate. One is that the software is “stateless” and allegedly doesn’t keep information between user requests. To help ensure this, each server/node reboot re-keys and wipes all storage.

9/ A second protection is that the operating system can “attest” to the software image it’s running. Specifically, it signs a hash of the software and shares this with every phone/client. If you trust this infrastructure, you’ll know it’s running a specific piece of software.

10/ Of course, knowing that the phone is running a specific piece of software doesn’t help you if you don’t trust the software. So Apple plans to put each binary image into a “transparency log” and publish the software.

But here’s a sticky point: not with the full source code.

11/ Security researchers will get some code and a VM they can use to run the software. They’ll then have to reverse-engineer the binaries to see if they’re doing unexpected things. It’s a little suboptimal.

12/ When your phone wants to outsource a task, it will contact Apple and obtain a list of servers/nodes and their keys. It will then encrypt its request to all servers, and one will process it. They’re even using fancy anonymous credentials and a third part relay to hide your IP.

13/ Ok there are probably half a dozen more technical details in the blog post. It’s a very thoughtful design. Indeed, if you gave an excellent team a huge pile of money and told them to build the best “private” cloud in the world, it would probably look like this.

14/ But now the tough questions. Is it a good idea? And is it as secure as what Apple does today? And most importantly:

I admit that as I learned about this feature, it made me kind of sad. The thought that was going through my head was: this is going to be too much of a temptation. Once you can “safely” outsource tasks to the cloud, why bother doing them locally. Outsource everything! As best I can tell, Apple does not have explicit plans to announce when your data is going off-device for to Private Compute. You won’t opt into this, you won’t necessarily even be told it’s happening. It will just happen. Magically.

I don’t love that part.

17/ Finally, there are so many invisible sharp edges that could exist in a system like this. Hardware flaws. Issues with the cryptographic attenuation framework. Clever software exploits. Many of these will be hard for security researchers to detect. That worries me too.

18/ Wrapping up on a more positive note: it’s worth keeping in mind that sometimes the perfect is the enemy of the really good.

In practice the alternative to on-device is: ship private data to OpenAI or someplace sketchier, where who knows what might happen to it.

19/ And of course, keep in mind that super-spies aren’t your biggest adversary. For many people your biggest adversary is the company who sold you your device/software. This PCC system represents a real commitment by Apple not to “peek” at your data. That’s a big deal.

20/ In any case, this is the world we’re moving to. Your phone might seem to be in your pocket, but a part of it lives 2,000 miles away in a data center. As security folks we probably need to get used to that fact, and do the best we can to make sure all parts are secure.

//fin Addendum: “cryptographic attenuation” should read “cryptographic attestation”, but I’m sure folks will get the point."

#apple #privacy #AI

Has Fedi ever given a reason for their decision not to open source their wallet app?

I am curious what the business rationale is.

This jeweler is building explosive drones to safeguard her brothers and father on the frontlines.

Technology is decentralizing devastating deadly force into the hands of everyday people.

"In other words: the defendant, [co-defendant 1], and [co-defendant 2] are the designers, creators, and executors of [crypto-system]. As such, they are also responsible for the (consequences of the) functioning of this tool. The autonomous, immutable, and unstoppable nature of the smart contracts does not work in a way that exculpates them. After all, this is not a coincidental circumstance. These characteristics are the result of conscious choices by the designers. [Crypto-system] functions as it was conceived. In the opinion of the court, the defendant can therefore be regarded as the perpetrator of the money laundering operations carried out by [crypto-system]."

The Dutch judgment concluded that open source developers can be convicted of money laundering because they knew the potential of their software to be used to launder money and accepted that risk when they released the software.

(From casetext AI assistant)

Dutch prosectors in Alexey Pertsev's trial consider deploying open source code actionable if it subsequently is used to commit crimes, despite the developers' inability to control its use after release.

https://www.wired.com/story/tornado-cash-money-laundering-case-crypto-privacy/

Daniel Bernstein's attorneys (EFF's Cindy Cohn) advanced a secondary argument to the famous "Code is Speech":

Speech that enables private, anonymous speech is "inherently imbued with First Amendment significance."

This is a coinjoin post.

#FreeSamourai

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kfvBmD32jr-60xMgGz1Ucku8zE2GCRl6haMR4OgXr5Q/edit

The Diffie-Hellman Exchange sounds like a badass progrock band.

Mash.com is shutting down.

Mash provided an easy way to engage in #Value4Value content on the web through its custodial lightning wallet and integrations with many major web publishing platforms like Ghost.

I used Mash on bitcoinbrief.io (BEFORE TFTC and

, I might add!).

Another casualty of the current regulatory overreach?

Who is working on

?

Can this be implemented in wallets with nostr-integration?

Can we make every on-chain spend a coin join?

No time to waste. #asknostr

This is what seizure through coercion looks like.

Governments can't seize your Bitcoin, but they can seize YOU if you fail to surrender it.

I've been predicting that such coercion will be one way courts and governments overcome Bit okn's seizure resistance: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/how-civil-justice-reacts-to-bitcoin-custody

When New York passed the mining moratorium, I tried to organize NY miners to sue for violating their First Amendment rights.

Nobody was interested in rocking the boat.

Rights are taken not given.

Roman Sterlingov was convicted: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-12/crypto-mixer-convicted-of-money-laundering-on-bitcoin-fog

Blockchain forensics will go down as the DNA forensics of our era: Junk science based on black box algorithms that stole the liberty of innocents.

Read Robert J. Norris, Exonerated: A History of the Innocence Movement (2017).

The similarities are striking:

There are 2.1 quadrillion units of Bitcoin (2.1x10^15).

$1 buys you ~1,390 units of Bitcoin.

A few hours of work earns you 80,000 units of Bitcoin. https://resolvr.io/b/naddr1qvzqqqr4vgpzq3jhml5fvklgnq9fxpete767txn9zfzqdkc0sxfptmnchfrexje7qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsqttpd338jttyv4mx2mr0wpjhytt8w45kgetn94skuepdwe5kget0wvkk2vnrxa3xzvf4vy6njvs2h6lgg

No one is priced out of Bitcoin

#satsthestandard #bounty

#FreeAssange

What's Open Source Justice?

It's the thesis behind

.

Read my latest article on

to find out more!

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/open-source-justice-on-resolvr

Great conversation. Johns is a real one. He and the

crew don't get nearly enough credit for their efforts accelerating open-source development.

Check out my bounty at https://resolvr.io/b/naddr1qqnx2mnrwfuhqar9vskkg6tnvd6hxumfdahz6ar9wd6z6wp4xcckzen9xp3kxep5qy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsygxs3jf3986ucff2jqtm75heppgxpvg8vcs2trxkjg5mx83h8m7vnupsgqqqw43q9hvues

Thanks for the post!

👀

RESOLVR Hackathon Team Meeting, streaming live on zap.stream!

https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjrjcnrv9nxyve5943x2e3h956rxdp494snqcfk94nx2wp5vycryetzvcmnxq3qeaz6dwsnvwkha5sn5puwwyxjgy26uusundrm684lg3vw4ma5c2jsxpqqqpmxwysqdqq

Decentralized FOSS Bounty Adjudication.

The idea is becoming reality on

What might accelerate client forks and development is a system that allows non-technical users to incentivize desired changes or fixes.

I proposed a nostr-based bounty board where non-technical users could post bounties for features they'd like to see, and neutral developers would review whether those features had been properly implemented before payout.

What Bitcoin Did is now a cooking show.

How to prepare Miami Mango 🥭

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxY3Lll1PjfWDOv82aaQZjuYXtxHF5i2dT

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