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m1sterc001guy 9 months ago
Curious what Nostr thinks about this idea: A Fedimint module to be a "maker" on JoinMarket. A federation could earn fees (or the forbidden word "yield") on the backing reserves of the Fedimint. Currently the federation's funds do not move unless there is a pegin or a pegout, and the idea would be to put this capital to use in a non-custodial way. Could provide an incentive for running a Fedimint. credit: @Lethal Lee
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m1sterc001guy 9 months ago
New Fedimint FOSS wallet inbound! Still finishing up all the features, like onchain and Lightning Address, but below is a sneak peak at the wallet. Shooting for a release later this summer or in the early fall. Desktop and Android support, iOS at a later date. What other ecash or Nostr features should we include? Feedback welcome!
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m1sterc001guy 10 months ago
I am interested in purchasing some "smart home" devices for my house, like cameras and sensors. But I'm not really thrilled about using a cloud service or some server that is going to track my data. Is anyone familiar with any low-friction self-hosted alternatives?
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m1sterc001guy 10 months ago
We're doing trivia tomorrow at the Minneapolis Bitcoin Meetup! We will have a mixture of prizes, including a Bit Axe and a Minneapolis branded seed signer. Nostr gets the sneak peak at the format and scoresheet that @Shaner created image
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m1sterc001guy 10 months ago
Minneapolis BitDevs is happening this Tuesday! Free food and drinks will be provided. We will be arguing about OP_RETURN, discussing SwiftSync, partitioning mempools, and more. Happy hour at Indeed Brewing afterwards. When: Tuesday May 13th 5-7pm. Socratic Seminar starts at 5:30. Where: Improving Inc in Minneapolis. See website for details. Agenda:
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m1sterc001guy 11 months ago
Myself and other open source contributors are building a new Fedimint wallet. It will support multiple mints, NIP87 mint discovery, and connecting to federations via Iroh. Ideally LN Address and NWC as well. What should we name this wallet?
On the Fedimint dev call today, we setup a demo federation using Iroh. Iroh is fucking awesome. It allows each Fedimint guardian to talk to each other via a relay, sets up P2P communication using hole punching, and uses public keys as identifiers (which allows the servers to change their actual IP address). Everything can run behind a NAT on your laptop or home server. No domain names, no cloud servers, no open ports. It took us just 15 minutes to set one up with zero networking issues. Distributed systems magic.
Minneapolis BitDevs is tonight at 5pm! Not a developer? Not a problem. BitDevs is targeted for anyone that wants to further their understanding of Bitcoin. If you're going to hold Bitcoin, you might as well understand how it works Where: Improving Inc When: Tuesday Jan 14th, 5-7pm. Socratic Seminar will start at 5:30pm Agenda: Food and refreshments are provided. We will be discussing bitcoin privacy tools like Coinjoin and Coinswap, as well as a Lightning vulnerability (update your nodes!)
What are the best resources for becoming familiar with miniscript?
Going to BitDevs instead of watching the Presidential debate was a fantastic decision
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m1sterc001guy 2 years ago
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 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
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