There is an interesting pair of sentences in this explainer about Second's new variant of Ark: "All cosigners would need to collude to compromise a user's VTXO...currently, the only cosigner is the server itself." In other words, the server can steal. For now.

Second Blog

hArk explained: async forfeits and mobile-friendly refreshes

hArk (hash-lock Ark), first described in a Delving Bitcoin post, and shipped in v0.1.0-beta.6 is an update to our implementation of the Ark protoco...

When monero people say "it's not safe to send your monero to KYC'd exchanges" it is an implicit confession that monero is not fungible If it was, it would be safe to receive it from anyone and send it anywhere

Electrum WSS: - mainnet - wss://mempool.guide/electrum-websocket/ - test3 - wss://blockstream.info/testnet/electrum-websocket/ - test4 - wss://blackie.c3-soft.com:57012 - signet - wss://blockstream.info/signet/electrum-websocket/ - mutiny - wss://mutinynet.com/electrum-websocket That is a list of electrum servers that expose their TCP api over websockets, meaning even web browsers can use them for validating info like a p2p node would do. Electrum servers are, of course, not exactly "peers" to most of their users, but if you validate their data they are.

Goofus and Gallant

Good news for lightning privacy: LND has new docs describing a forthcoming feature called "deletefwdinghistory" which purges your node's historical transaction logs Much requested by me, Peter Todd, and others Give it a read and thank the devs!

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lnd/docs/forwarding_history_privacy.md at 017299fe6f3aec3d8c7ece84c383a47da59862f0 · Roasbeef/lnd

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