Going to BitDevs instead of watching the Presidential debate was a fantastic decision

Yesterday at the Minneapolis Bitcoin meetup, we launched The Minneapolis Fed, which is a Fedimint for our community. I think this is one of the first mainnet community-lead federations and I'm excited to see more federations pop up over the coming year. We on-boarded attendees using Fedi and @OpenSecret and even had a contest to see who could redeem a 100000 sat ecash note the fastest (shout out to Collin for winning). Fedimint is still pretty early software so it was made clear that this is still somewhat #Reckless and to use with low value but given that v0.2.1 is the first stable release, we were eager to test it out with some real funds. It was pretty cool to see federated ecash in action. I know we had an IRL ecash transaction for Real Bedford merch and some attendees reimbursed others for Keeper's Heart Old Fashions. Unfairly cheap too, our federation has no fees! Given that this Fedimint is for the Minneapolis community, we will be keeping it small and mainly share invite codes during in-person gatherings. So if you want to try it out, be sure to attend a Minneapolis Bitcoin meetup or Minneapolis BitDevs

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We are working on a guide that other communities can follow to setup their own federation. And over time this will get easier as we build tools to automate the deployment process. Very fun meetup last night, thanks to everyone who attended and tried out Fedimint! https://image.nostr.build/e1d1beff236e6474c7014a923f9c92dd4161c350595aad0f8b807c11677af590.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=886x1920&blurhash=%5B65%3DR%25x%2CjbV%7CrWVxt7bWxaV%5BWBfPt-XMe-jKQknqa_X2pIkUWAe%3FkrWmWVj%5DQ%2CnUbcbWyZX0a%23jK&x=d7d32373ea1674d26a497988c154b499343773106d11c392238513a00e180888 https://image.nostr.build/6ebe37d821b84dbc4e07b14221fce27fbefbcd06558eed75b68a4bdd7690d418.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=886x1920&blurhash=%5ByRfIHWVkCj%5Brqj%5BkCfQNbofj%40ay%3Fwf6aefQT0WBaej%5B%25Mj%40f6fQIAofj%5Bays9a%7Cj%5DfQITayfkj%5B&x=9072939eb66dcc527d36c0d134417fb7fae1f989fd4b5b8506a6f386f77b0c6a

Mutiny + Fedimint is slick

Pretty big change to Fedimint got merged last week. We switched the consensus algorithm from HBBFT to AlephBFT. This change should improve the latency of Fedimint transactions and also eliminates a lot of redundant code. Shout out to joshican for getting it merged!

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feat: switch to Aleph BFT (rebase) by joschisan · Pull Request #3313 · fedimint/fedimint

This pr realises the switch from HBBFT to Aleph BFT which has been tracked in #2638 We note a slight regression here that aleph bft only supports f...

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Are there any Rust K/V embedded database benchmarks? YSCB is all in java