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Books And Articles Newsletter, Issue 17

SeanKnapp2IU

Are there any books that have meaningfully changed your view of the world?

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## SUMMARY
>["LNHANCE.ORG"](https://lnhance.org/#hero), launched to show the LNhance proposal by __Brandon Black (Reardencode)__ and __4moonsettler__, which aims to improve Bitcoin's scalability, privacy, and flexibility by introducing four new opcodes. These opcodes enable several enhancements for the Lightning Network, including the creation of symmetrical channels, non-interactive channels, and more efficient vault setups. The proposal also introduces payment pools, which allow users to share UTXOs and create channels without requiring individual transaction footprints on-chain. Overall, LNhance seeks to advance Bitcoin's capabilities by facilitating more efficient and secure transactions within the Lightning Network.

#### Audio Summary below👇🏽👇🏽
 [Audio Summary](https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/742bc7ea-68f0-4f78-90f9-c280e6f4bbe4/audio)

LNhance LAUNCHES WEBSITE🎊🎊🎊 (THE GREATEST OF SOFT FORKS)

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![EFF Animated Website](https://im3.ezgif.com/tmp/ezgif-3-e0096200f5.gif)

- EFF’s Street-Level Surveillance project shines a light on the surveillance technologies that law enforcement agencies routinely deploy in our communities.
- These resources are designed for advocacy organizations, journalists, defense attorneys, policymakers, and members of the public who often are not getting the straight story from police representatives or the vendors marketing this equipment.
- Whether it’s phone-based location tracking, ubiquitous video recording, biometric data collection, or police access to people’s smart devices, law enforcement agencies follow closely behind their counterparts in the military and intelligence services in acquiring privacy-invasive technologies and getting access to consumer data.
- Just as analog surveillance historically has been used as a tool for oppression, we must understand the threat posed by emerging technologies to successfully defend civil liberties and civil rights in the digital age. 
- **The threats to privacy of these surveillance technologies is enormous**, as law enforcement agencies at all levels of government use surveillance technologies to compile vast databases filled with our personal information or gain access to devices that can lay bare the intricacies of our daily lives. 
- The resources contained in this hub bring together years of research, litigation, and advocacy by EFF staff and our allies, and will continue to grow as we obtain more information.

**[Link to EFF page](https://sls.eff.org/)** 🔗
[Donate to EFF](https://eff.org/slsgive)

Street Level Surveillance - EFF Exposing Invasive Privacy Practices

nostr

I'm not *that* knowledgeable about anything, really... Naturally, that makes me a pretty boring partner in terms of socializing and conversations.

The only topics I can have a conversation about is Outdoor-gear and Bitcoin, which would be fine, if only the other side would be interested or knowledgeable about these two topics...

In order to change this, I'd like to start reading a healthy amount of books, in no specific order, but on a multitude of different topics.

I've written a post already where I'm asking about book recommendations on the topics of "Relationships" and "Parenting", for which I've received some good recommendations, but what other topics would be interesting or handy to know about?

I'd like the books to be on the shorter side in terms of pages, since I'm thinking about taking the books along with me while going on an overnighter in the woods or something akin to that, it's a hobby I'd like to start, too. I'd also like to be able to read a book a 2d or 3d time, too, without it taking too long.

I've got no particular "must-have" topics and am hoping for you guys to recommend me some topics that wouldn't hurt to know a bit about.

Thanks in advance.

I'm not the brightest bulb out there, help me change it.

Privacy, human rights, and Tornado Cash - Molly White

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Two years ago today I posted my bio with a puzzle that lead to an ln.cash link. @frostdragon solved it and they got a 10,000k sats reward!







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How To Vanish

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Books And Articles Newsletter, Issue 29

DouglasRuiz7O5

Just got rugged. The road to recovery starts today. 

My spirit is low but never broken. Lesson learned on to the future. 

bitcoin

It's such a pain to check addresses when sending.  Now I KNOW it would be long since you'd presumably convert to binary and then to mnemonics, and I'm too lazy to do the math.  But imagine if instead of 

bc1qzyda53xqwkqruex3mzwvpja04x23r572mygpgfc90qckdw2cwwaqr2h70u

you saw 

fold laptop kitten marine impulse roast hundred brown 
desk ride broken advice appear awkward job logic
 elevator boy alert above shiver thought grace tone.

Or couldn't you just hash it and give an abbreviated version, since any change to it would change all the words?

Why don't wallets show addresses as mnemonic words?

Toxic people will always be snarky and sarcastic when you're winning at life. That's how you know that they're toxic.

The envy that they feel is channelled into cutting you down. This is particularly vicious with people with an entitlement mindset. They hate feeling inferior and they feel a deep need to cut you down to size when they perceive you're getting "too big for your britches."

Honestly, this is loser behavior and should be recognized as such. Engaging in debate and going back and forth on a real substantive argument is one thing. Snark and sarcasm is almost always toxic envy. Sarcasm is not argument. Snark is not reason. Sarcasm and snark are emotional weapons to sideswipe logic and reason. Toxic people do this to make you submit to their frame, to get you to emotionally abandon your position rather than rationally be argued out of it.

Sadly, this is how most of the world works. They are not convinced by argument, but by tribalism and emotion. In a fiat world, such tactics are extremely effective. It's called peer pressure and it robs us of our individuality. Becoming immune to such peer pressure is exactly what thinking for yourself means. Hence, cutting toxic people out of your life is not just healthy, but necessary if you want to grow.

What's nice about the Bitcoin community is that there is a deep respect for real argument, particularly from first principles. That's good because the fiat system lends itself to centralized groupthink. And centralized groupthink will have its share of bullying, toxic Karens.

Thankfully, we can cut the toxic people out of our lives under a Bitcoin standard and leave them powerless to influence us, but to do that we need to not just get on a Bitcoin standard, but also change our mentality to be self sovereign.