A Win For Bitcoin Privacy | THE BITCOIN BRIEF 55

Last boost for a while, thank you gentlemen.

Cheers to getting out of the UK

Out of the UK!? CONGRATS! I don't need to know where you moved but I hope to one day meet you in person! Q: I already met you but maybe in the future can buy you both a beer or 10!

Congrats on getting out of the UK!

GOOD MORNING 🎧

Welcoming back Phoenix oligarchs

I’m really glad you got off the island, Max. #40HPW🎧

Orbot for iOS still sucks 🐒🥜s. Drops the connection and restarts every minute or two… Keep complaining til it’s better 🫡 Max, your critique of Nostr’s private key issues is spot-on (although I bet Q is about to explain why it’s no longer an issue). Pausing the episode now; it’s a problem, yes, and “people are working on it”, but since you point out that it’s essentially various risk of rugpull and account compromise that homd you back, I’d ask what sort of alternatives are instead worth putting in the time & energy. To me, it’s the best solution yet for a distributed digital information network (beyond simply social media use cases, btw), since basically everything else is centralized. At least on nostr, there is a “pretty good” solution (and you can use something like Alby or Nostore to securely store your nsec in a single app that can sign events on your behalf without exposing your private key. Still clunky but “we’re still early” and all that. I see it as a censorship-resistant communication layer for Bitcoin if the centralized communication providers were to someday begin censoring all things Bitcoin (or Monero). Now unpausing… ok Frostr, holy fuck. Multisig security with key rotation flexibility and authorized signing convenience… that sounds pretty damn fixed to me. Been meaning to explore frost for Bitcoin; isn’t that where it came from? Oh, and Orbot for iOS still sucks 🐒🥜s

Thanks for sharing useful information in the space

Correct @QnA you can run your own relay. I have one locally on Start9 and one in the cloud. I should look into downloading my data from other relays and put them on mine. 🤔 For me I use Nostr to see if anything cool can be used in PC 2.0. In fact I've been listening to this episode and streaming sats in @npub1t8cmt7hjn… because it uses my own lightning node. This Boostagram from Fountain is just so it shows up on Nostr. Cross app comments have been a hot topic in PC 2.0 for years so I'm just trying to pump data into the system to see how it goes. Doing this in Fountain also is the easiest way to do this since this episode in Fountain is the root post for the Nostr comments. I'd love my Boostagrams from the apps using AlbyHub to be posted to Nostr but it's not a deal breaker because using Podverse with my own node is already my dream setup so the devs can do whatever they want with their apps. I rambled a little so my 333 Boost amount got upgraded to a "Satchel of Richards"

"Nostr users are like vegans" lol My buddy @bitpunk.fm is typing calls Nostr the ham radio of social media that I also like.

These birds are killing me but the show must go on. 🫡