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Closed: proposal to remove luke-jr from DNS seed list in bitcoin core

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From Conclusions Section:

149 (d) However, because he (Wright) advanced a deliberately false case and put forward deliberately false evidence until days before trial, he will recover only nominal damages.

150 Accordingly, I shall enter judgment for Dr Wright on the claim in the sum of £1

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# The unsung Heroes of Bitcoin, Cryptography

I'm writing this post directed at Bitcoin enthusiasts that are not cryptographers. If you are a programmer you might have heard of some of these names. 

The brilliance of Bitcoin is imo how Satoshi did not invent a new building block but elegantly combined preexsisting classics of cryptography. Standing on the shoulders of giants. But every story about giants has its side characters. 

So, let's take a look at the side figures in the development of cryptography:

## Vigenere

![Vigenere](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Vigenere.jpg)

One of the most foundational achievements in Cryptography is the concept of perfect security (in symmetric encryption). It is mainly attributed to the One Time Pad nowadays. But Vigenere reached almost the same conclusion based on letter-permutations instead of bitwise xor in the 1500s without the theoretical groundworks that the later One Time Pad had.

Everybody in cryptography knows Claude Shannon. He was for sure a great man creating the very foundations for modern cryptography but he's not as underrated. Other notable figures in this field are Frank Miller, Gilbert Vernam etc.

## Kerckhoff

![Kerckhoffs](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Auguste_Kerckhoffs.jpg)

In the 1800s Kerckhoff formulated the principle that all cryptographys security should only be based on the key and not the system. He said it a little differently but the thought still stands.

> « Il faut qu’il n’exige pas le secret, et qu’il puisse sans inconvénient tomber entre les mains de l’ennemi. » 

## Friedman

![Friedman](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/William-Friedman.jpg/800px-William-Friedman.jpg)

William Friedman broke "code purple" in WW2 which was not only instrumental for the free world winning against the Japanese  but also maybe the reason cryptography came into institutions, universities and companies in the US.

Everybody knows about Alan Turing inventing basically modern computers to beat the Nazis, few people know about William Friedman and his later to be wife Elizebeth Smith basically reinventing cryptoanalysis from scratch.

Another funny story about Friedman: His first employer was a millionairs playground who didn't know anything about cryptography and basically thought it wasn't important but very fun and interesting to pour his endless wealth into.

## Adleman

![Adelman](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Len-mankin-pic.jpg/573px-Len-mankin-pic.jpg)

Everybody has heard about RSA . But even a lot of people that know the brilliance of prime factorization based crypto don't know why we talk so much about Rivest and Shamir and so little about Leonard Adelman. Sure, especially Shamir has achieved a lot a lot more - he's basically the DaVinci of crypto...

Have you evere wondered why "RSA" isn't alphabetically?

In the development of RSA Rivest and Shamir were inventing new ideas and algorithms all the time and then running over to Leonard Adelman who was trying to break it or build a mathematical proof around it. It's the underrated job in this development process. But not at all less important. Certainly not so much less important to write his name last.

I think Adelmans contribution to humankind is so underrated, don't forget him when mentioning Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, Adi Shamir and Taher Elgamal.

## Chaum

![Chaum](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/David_Chaum_at_Web_Summit_2022.jpg/1280px-David_Chaum_at_Web_Summit_2022.jpg)

David Chaum might not be as unknown to non-cryptographer Bitcoiners here. Basically Chaum introduced in 1990 anonymous eCASH with his company DiGiCash. It did not *really* solve the double spend problem and it was still a centralized currency. But he was so far ahead and he is the godfather of all that came later. He almost cashed out big with Microsoft but did not because he had idiotic demands. I can't speak for his actions after 2009, some of you guys probably have opinions about that.

## Ulbricht

![Ulbricht](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Ross_Ulbricht.jpg/800px-Ross_Ulbricht.jpg)

The founder of Silk Road. Why is his contribution to Bitcoin underrated in my opinion? Because Bitcoins early days were highly dependent on people who ugently needed Bitcoin. For most of us the need for a decentralized hard money is a goal in pursuit of noble ideals. For Silk Road users it was an urgent necessity. 

## You

okay, you know what cringe paragraph comes here. Blabla, you get the point

This was a fun writeup for me. I still know a lot of other stories that I want to tell, I could write a second post if you liked this one

The unsung Heroes of Bitcoin, Cryptography

Bitkit Wallet AMA - John Carvalho, CEO of Synonym

FrederickDavilaOKN

New Bsats app released blocked by apple... so sad..

They want the app to: 

* have an account deletion function
* have sign in with apple option..
* have licenses because of the lightning wallet feature 

let's see how to work around those..

The PubKey NYC AMA

DaisyHuerta92Z

XRP is a meme, and i hope this post is too

Last time I shared something here from the perspective of my identity as a woman, I didn't enjoy the degenerate arguments that collected in the comments. It scared me away from saying anything for a while. Well, I'm deciding now that I'm not scared of ya'll. And this is my opinion on "being a woman" in bitcoin.

Here's an anecdote about why this has come up again: Last week, I was hanging out with a few friends I've made that work for a bitcoin focused company. We were catching up after not seeing each other for a few months, and it was so much fun. We gathered around a fire, argued our beliefs about God, and sang "Rich Men North of Richmond" together. Because what else would we do? Anyway, one man from the group put a question to me. He asked, basically, "How do you do this? How do you stand being a woman in this space?" 

I get why he wants to know this. I understand the place where he's coming from. There's an organic, protective "this-is-not-for-you" attitude that shells, let's say, mainstream bitcoin. Personally, I have never felt that I wasn't welcomed, yet I have spent a lot of time on Twitter. So if that was my only proxy for understanding this culture, I would feel some type of way about it. 

I also have understanding for why such a protective nature exists. It is the network's best defense. Maybe it's my exposure to subcultures through music and art that make me comfortable with the idea. Or what I was trying to state when I spoke on this before, maybe it's that I have a special tolerance for being a loner, just happy to be in the room. 

This is how I answered my friend: "I'm just an individual who has adjacent interest in this." 

I think that's simple enough, but I'll explain further. When you show up to bitcoin, there is a temptation to want to save something. There's a vortex that pulls you in and tells you, "your contribution can actually matter here, so what are you going to do?" It can be tempting to discover a cause to promote. It happens often, and it takes a lot of people down. This is part of the network's defense. I felt this temptation, and if I ran with it, I would be promoting the gender equality cause. But I believe that is a futile pursuit. I don't like that game, it's a fiat game. I do not care to step into the position as the judge of equality. 

And do you know what's a whole lot more fun than waving a banner? It's kind of the opposite. It's taking whatever opportunities that interest me. It is having faith that if I seek it, I will find it. It is believing that my job is to do what is true, and let my work find the people it is meant for.

So I don't care that I'm a woman, and you don't either. I mean, I love being a woman. It means a lot of very special things to me. But the reason I'm here is because it doesn't matter who I am, if I have something to add that's valuable to anyone, I'm capable of realizing it. That responsibility rests on me, not the crowd.

Thanks for reading!

Why not open this up again? ~ On being a woman in bitcoin ~

Writing to think

BlakeHarveyY6B

WoS is a custodial wallet, so you are correct to wonder if your funds there are safe.  The answer is, ... no, your funds are not safe on a custodial wallet.  Because YOU HAVE NO FUNDS on a custodial wallet.  You have only an IOU from the operator of said custodial wallet.

That being said, WoS has been in operation from 2018, and the creators of WoS have been a bitcoin service beginning several years before that.    So your risk of getting rugged because of unscrupulous operators is not high, in my opinion.   And hopefully they know how to secure customer funds properly (hot wallet only for what is need for daily operation, and cold wallet with multisug, etc.)

But would I store any funds of significance on WoS?  Absolutely not!  I do use WoS but have never had a balance on it about maybe 50,000 sats (~$20 at the time).  I would have no worry using WoS maybe for a RoboSats trade for an amount of a couple hundred dollars, ... just that such an opportunity has not yet arisen.  (WoS is one of the few wallets that handle an LN "hold transaction", which is a requirement for using RoboSats).  But I wouldn't leave those funds on WoS after the trade very long after the has completed.   I would do the same whether this was WoS or any custodial exchange or wallet.

One potential risk is how WoS is based out of Australia. It would not shock me that one day I will wake up and see an e-mail from them stating that my account on WoS is locked until I KYC myself.   I doubt WoS would want to engage in "shotgun KYC" like that, but when you have an anti-bitcoin, tyrannical government like Australia is now, be prepared for something like that to happen.