Embarrassing typos are the worst on a protocol, where a lot of clients don't properly deal with delete requests. :/

The German federal police just executed a major, concerted crackdown on non-KYC exchanges: "The operators of the now shut down exchange services are accused of knowingly concealing the origin of criminally obtained funds on a large scale through inadequate implementation of legal requirements for combating money laundering (so-called know-your-customer principle), and thus of having made themselves liable to prosecution for money laundering and operating criminal trading platforms on the Internet in accordance with Sections 127, 261 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 No. 2 and Paragraph 4 of the Criminal Code." https://www.bka.de/DE/Presse/Listenseite_Pressemitteilungen/2024/Presse2024/240919_PM_finalexchange.html And they're actively threatening all past users of these exchanges: https://www.finalexchange.de/en

What's the current state of NIP-17 support? I'm considering implementing it for Kosmos account notifications, but AFAICS the client I use (noStrudel), which is jam-packed with other features, doesn't support it yet. 🤔 Feels wrong for a new implementation to use the deprecated NIP-04 with zero metadata privacy.

"These results suggest a lack of physical reality to both the anthropogenic radiative forcing attributed to rising greenhouse gases and the positive (amplifying) feedbacks hypothesized by the greenhouse theory and simulated by climate models." https://www.mdpi.com/2673-7418/4/3/17

A certain someone sent a mainnet Ark payment to a @npub1k0sm...x3tg Lightning address today.

Casual reminder that Intellectual Property is not real property, and IP laws are simply government-imposed monopolies.

Property Rights and Intellectual Property

I ran into a Lightning force-closing tx being stuck a couple of days ago, and was able to resolve it using the mempool.space Accelerator. I wrote up how this works, so that whoever finds themselves in the same situation can waste less time on understanding and solving it: naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq8meqkx80g3yuklzymy0qfx2ekk56aqc2ht4ak03z3em4r4cdcwtqqxnzdejxcenjd3hx5urgwp4676hkz

Running strfry 1.0

A friend of mine is recording a Ripple/finance event in Switzerland right now, where a woman from Bhutan is schooling the whole room on bitcoin, and she's saying that her government is literally trying to on-board every single citizen to it. Furthermore, apparently BTC is already the effective reserve currency of the country, and they're using it for Forex trading of their own currency as well.

GN