AntonioWintersKBG

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Latest updates: 3nm chip headed to the foundry, our new mining system, and more

ClaytonJenningsKIZ

Day 179 of snailposting everyday 'til BTC hits $100k.

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Bitnodes showing large drop off of tor nodes

DevonStuartDYF

What kind of thermostat do you have?
One with a needle?

Stacker_Sports

Here's the deal: you don't read Thomas Pynchon for his plots. It's all a mess and you're never going to actually find out what's going on. You just have to accept it.[^2]

[^2]: It's been a while since I posted one of these reviews because this darn book got me lost and maybe I lost interest and it took me a while to finish--which I will admit has happened before with Pynchon. 

> Finally, at a phone number obtained off a toilet wall at a bar in Mile End, she located one Felix Boingueaux, who'd been working out of a basement apartment, what they call a *garconniere*, off of Saint-Denis, for whom Vip's name didn't just ring a bell but threatened to kick the door in, since there were apparently some late-payment issues. They arranged to meet at an Internet-enabled laundromat called NetNet, soon to be  a legend on the Plateau. Felix looked almost old enough to drive.

She is Maxine. And she's the star of the show. A no nonsense Jewish lady from New York who's tougher than an over-boiled bagel. 

> Maxine runs a small fraud-investigating agency down the street, called Tail 'Em and Nail 'Em--she once briefly considered adding "and Jail 'Em," but grasped soon enough how wishful, if not delusional, this would be--in an old bank building, entered by way of a lobby whose ceiling is so high that back before smoking was outlawed sometimes you couldn't even see it.

You might think it's about Maxine sifting through pages of account books and double checking things with her calculator. Maybe some excel spreadsheet action. Not so. There's a lot of breathless charging across town on questionably important errands. 

It's really about Maxine's many different relationships: ex-husband, kids, CIA agents, crusty activists, hackers, rich wives, cabbies, crafty convenience store owners. And how the dot-com bubble felt. And the days before and after 9/11. And some secretive tech mogul who's funneling money to terrorists? And also a 3D graphical representation of the internet, like the metaverse, but really it's just a search engine. And a lot of just being in New York. And food. 

Each sentence is loaded, like he wrote a paragraph and cut away at it until all that was left was this sentence and it's not got a single whiff of filler left in it. But also, it might be missing some of the regular parts you're used to.

> "So," shrugging away any scold signifiers in face and voice, "a mom-approved first-person shooter."

In *Bleeding Edge*, as all Pynchon, things get zany, serious too, but goofy, and you find yourself reading along happy to believe in scent detectives with odor-guns ("The Naser") and retired Russian mobsters who have turned into tech VCs with a deep appreciation for ice cream.[^1] There's no trouble being there. He's got a gift for sucking you in so that when you finally come back up for air, you're wondering whether you've been reading for five minutes or fifty. But it can be tiring and sometimes you end up never finishing. 

[^1]: "Fucking Nestle," Igor rooting through the freezer. "Fucking unsaturated vegetable oils. Hippie shit. Corrupting entire generation. I have arrangements, fly this in once a month on refrigerator plane to Kennedy. OK, so we got Ice-Fili here, Ramzai, also Inmarko, from Novosibirsk, very awesome *morozhenoye, Metelitsa, Talosto...today, for you, on special, hazelnut, chocolate chips, *vishnya*, which is sour cherry..."

> "Envy," supposes Heidi, "is so often all that stands between some of us and a sad, empty life."

[REVIEW] Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon

econ

Can Value4Value replace Ads?

OmarFloresYEB

- [Using HODL invoices for anon payments to make them atomic](https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/issues/415)
- rendering [blog posts](https://ekzyis.com/blog) from markdown to HTML
- blog post about forwarding packets between hosts inside a VPN

Hello Stackers,

Excited to share my submission for the [Alby + Blockstream](https://stacker.news/items/359778) Liquid Wallet bounty: [Anser](https://anserliquid.frk.wf/). 
It's a user-friendly, open-source, non-custodial web wallet and library designed for managing your Liquid assets right from your browser.

Anser is fully non-custodial and does not sign transactions on its own; instead, it leverages Alby's liquid integration for this purpose. 
Once signed and finalized, the transaction gets broadcasted to a liquid node and relayed to the network.  

*With this process your private key remains safe within your Alby extension, never exposed to the web.*

In addition to the graphical app, Anser is also released as a JavaScript library that can be integrated anywhere, for example Liquid zaps can be built on top of this library or it can be used as a starting point to implement a different web wallet or web service leveraging liquid transactions.

I tried my best to thoughtfully comment on every important part of the code, making it easy to understand and audit. Additionally, I've released everything under the very permissive BSD 3-Clause license to ensure no barriers for future developments.

I hope you guys like it.

Anser: A Liquid Companion for Alby

bitcoin

About a week ago, Darthcoin made a post using the nostr protocol about how while channel opening fees are manageable in the lightning network, unexpected channel closing fees in high fee environments are unacceptable and unmanageable. 

You can see that post here: https://primal.net/e/note10rprgyaltjyumf42079x2pq7zv0g9jlxdjrzuhetm689t08jvzlsssfgn5

So how do you remedy this issue? One solution presented to get all the different implementations for LN to agree on rules that are more forgiving about downtime and stuck payments and don't go straight to force closures so quickly.

Another method is LNSymmetry (formerly known as eltoo). It does away with the justice transaction and allows for any later state to replace any older state. So if you close a channel with a low fee, you don't have to sweet bullets over your peer trying to submit an older state to cheat funds out of you with a higher fee, because you can just replace their older state with the newer one.

APO is one of those BIPs that everyone seems to like...but no movement at all seems to be made to activate it. I posted information about APO on reddit once and 1 commenter (the only commenter) asked why it wasn't activated yet. You should know, that APO discussion became complicated because people figured out you can do covenants with it.

"(APO) can also be used to emulate a CTV-like covenant and all its use-cases, but this emulation is both more fragile (as you need to store signatures and pre-signed transactions) and less efficient, so it is not an ideal solution to bring about these use-cases." -https://covenants.info/proposals/apo/

More APO information: https://anyprevout.xyz/

Another method for activating LNSymmetry (and covenants) is CTV + CSFS (CTV can not do covenants by itself). Of the 2 activation clients written for CTV (I again remind you that no activation client has been written for APO), only 1 contains CSFS. Its actually 3 BIPs. The third BIP is very simple tho. It just makes referencing taproot keys from the stack possible so that you don't have to write out the whole key over and over again, thereby saving space.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/796935699034144798/1196271271764304005/jpegdim500x544blurhashNJa_19uVxVksngt7Imgs9DXAs.jpg?ex=65b70570&is=65a49070&hm=ee56c51b667b81d5897cb0208b2a98159875d9b257d8dea31bae94625c87a5d9&

Unlike CTV + CSFS, I have seen an LN client written for APO that implements LNSymmetry. You can test it out here: https://github.com/instagibbs/lightning/tree/eltoo_support

So APO has no activation client to rally around, but a test application people can try. Meanwhile, while CTV advocates a very good about posting code blocks, I personally run into trouble finding the test apps they've made.

An Eltoo codeblock written by moonsettler for LNHance: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/lnhance-bips-and-implementation/376/8

CTV advocates did write a test app for vaults, but quite frankly, people don't care enough about vaults to get anyone up in the morning to talk about activation among peers. Nontheless, I do like the LNHance BIPs. I could go on and on about timeout trees and flow control and all the rest, but I'm here looking for consensus among my node running peers, not to preach about a BIP being better than the other.

I've seen "Lets do APO" I've seen "Lets do CTV then APO" and I've seen "Lets do CTV + CSFS" and of course I've seen "What about more general covenant BIPs" honey we're trying to get consensus over here nobody is even discussing TXHash right now in any context other than to interject with "but what about it"

We really are in a spot where Eltoo/LNSymmetry discussion is also a covenants discussion. I will fall in line with what ultimately gets decided for with which BIP we want to use to get this thing, I'm only here to ask you how we're going to do it.

So...How are We Activating Eltoo (LNSymmetry)?

**Say hello to silentpayments.xyz**

Wanting to learn more about Silent Payments, see which wallets support them, or find out how to integrate them into your wallet?

I've built out a website with all of that info and more to do what I can to speed up Silent Payments adoption.