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Today I decided to analyze a paper discussing attacks against the privacy of the lightning network. The paper is here: arxiv.org/pdf/2003.12470 and it is called β€œAn Empirical Analysis of Privacy in the Lightning Network.” It analyzes a number of attacks on LN privacy, including one I found particularly... show more
cloaked wireless is πŸ˜™πŸ‘Œ
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we have more community specs on nostr than actual communities
JSON?! Ridiculous! We need to develop a universal standard for serializing off-chain transaction data that covers everyone's use cases!
There are many reasons to build on Nostr, but to me the main one is the fact that we don't have a central codebase anywhere. If fiatjaf had said "this is nostr and here is my library you all should use", I would have never done anything in Nostr. Amethyst, Primal, Coracle, NoStrudel, and Damus... show more
Paradigm Files Amicus On Behalf Of Roman Storm: In light of the court's "incorrect" interpretation of money transmission laws, the jury must be instructed to find that Storm knew his conduct was unlawful. The brief gets to the heart of what's at issue here: Did Storm, or did he not, know that... show more
Sometimes it is hard to tell when software is designed with incredible careless-ness, or as a deliberate backdoor into your machine:
The INI file with "SilentInstallRun" that bypasses all signature-checking and runs any binary is the cherry on top. Watch out for vendor software slop.
What are some popular use-cases for blinded keys? Asking for a friend.
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Isn't that what NWC is for? Just because it's RPC doesn't mean everything has to go through the signer interface. I'm also not sure what the use case for a bidirectional session would be. Maybe key migration? But even then, it seems like that would be better served by a method that explicitly does... show more
DLCs and mints come to mind.