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Still working on the WYSIWYG. Functionality is done but it needs a lot of testing and I need to fine tune UI/UX and stuff.
Might ship the new editor to a url today and ask stackers to give feedback on it while do the above.
Is it planned to export your connectors as an NPM package? I think it's too bad to see you building one and Zeus too but none of you export it as package. I have also started a NPM package few months ago before I discover alby
Both! VLS encapsulates the minimum amount of state required to maintain custody, so it's useful for both high end operations using a HSM and individuals using a personal signing device
Yes we do, but this will take more time.
This year, we are mainly focusing on winning our home turf Switzerland.
In 2025, once we have the MiCA-License, we will dedicate more resources into expanding into all the EU countries and potentially the UK.
In 2026, we will then start our global expansion, starting with the US and the Middle East, possibly including mergers and acquisitions with great already existing local companies.
The ambition to expand is in our DNA, but more time is needed! :)
100 pushups a day until $100k has officially defeated me. After the first few months, I tweaked my wrist. No big deal, I just switched to knuckle pushups. Well, after a few months of those, my wrist seems to be sprained.
No retreat. No surrender. My new goal is 100k steps per week until $100k.
🚫 Dwindling bitcoin capacity
✅ Getting more capital-efficient
🚫 Expensive to receive money
✅ Startup costs are amortized during the life of a channel
🚫 Channel freezes and other Lightning Network bugs
✅ Can be mitigated today. Could be solved by covenant soft fork.
🚫 Significant developer departures from Bitcoin Lightning
✅ Many new devs are building on LN
🚫 A growing list of Bitcoin Lightning complaints
✅ A growing list of LN companies/communities to support you
Tony said...
But concerned about the reliance on nostr. How privacy preserving is it really?
Very private if you make a conscious effort to use it privately, but I haven't done that. Nostr can be used as a cache for anonymous messages if you use a different pubkey for every message. I'm not doing that so I'm not using it in a very privacy conscious way. You can view every interaction with a market maker from initial contact through each psbt signature. You can't view the contents of those messages but you can pretty well guess their general contents because my codebase tells you the order in which messages are sent back and forth. Plus you can do timing analysis: after the final round of signatures you can watch the blockchain for a coinjoin's appearance, and then know exactly what coinjoin the market makers coordinated with the taker on. But even if you do all that you still won't know what outputs belong to whom. You'll just know the sender sent money to one of those outputs and that the other ones belong to market makers, but you won't know which is which, which is the really important thing that coinjoins are supposed to achieve.
Tony said...
I heard they censor tor IPs because they have an unsolved spam issue.
Some relays do that, and those same relays also take your ip address and match it against a list of known spammer ip addresses. So if you want to use nostr privately (and, by extension, void), consider using a vpn. You should also connect it to your own node because right now it doxes all your bitcoin addresses to mempool.space, but I haven't written in any tools for connecting it to your own node so good luck!
Tony said...
Plus linking utxos and communicating through the same nostr pubkey isn't good either.
Doing key rotation in nostr is pretty easy, I've done it for a prior project where I attacked a bunch of nostr relays with a load of spam. (Incidentally, that spam attack is also the reason why many of them now track ip addresses and block tor users, so in a sense it's all my fault.) It wouldn't be difficult to add that and thus make data tracking harder. As for linking utxos, the only way I know how to stop that is by learning how to do blind signatures. That sounds fun so maybe I'll do that next.
Thanks for the feedback Tony!
Important work. Taking care of our sick puppy dog the past couple days, although my wife is off today so she will probably take over doggie and kiddo duties.
The pooch has a tough bought of pancreatitis right now and vet said we can manage it at home without admitting her but we have to stay on top of her medication, feeding schedule, water intake, shorter but more frequent walks.
Pancreatitis can be chronic in some dogs and we got her as a rescue so I am wondering if this is the reason she was given up. Her blood panel was clear when we got her last December but she was also malnourished at that time so it has me thinking the family that had her before could not manage the expense and care needed if she had chronic bouts of it. It can be managed with meds and a prescription diet and routine blood work but it will be expensive (maybe 350 a month or so) so I could understand how some families could not afford that.
Anyways, we got her. I will actually get off my lazy butt and go do some work if we can't fit the extra expense in our budget.