How long does the flash memory in a hardware wallet last without being plugged in? USB drives and flash memory usually fall prey to bitrot. Any numbers that we can reasonably go by? @NVK 🌞⚡️

Pushtx -- the Privacy-focused Bitcoin Transaction Broadcast Tool -- has received quality of life updates in v0.4.0: - broadcast to a single peer for more privacy - wait to see the transaction on the network for better confidence - misc improvements

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GitHub - alfred-hodler/pushtx: Privacy-focused Bitcoin Transaction Broadcast Tool

Privacy-focused Bitcoin Transaction Broadcast Tool - alfred-hodler/pushtx

Literally every non-user facing utility library out there.

Fellow plebs, what kind of Bitcoin or privacy software would scratch an itch for you right now? Anything that you'd actively use but just isn't there yet? #bitcoin

💯. Constant API breakages make rust-bitcoin really hard to use when different dependencies rely on different versions of it and expose it as part of their public API. Every upgrade is an uphill battle. Unfortunately the ecosystem does not offer an alternative yet. Should it? View quoted note →

I just finished listening to @Michael Saylor 's WBD episode on "ossification". I largely agree with regard to the base protocol -- stop messing with it. Whatever you think you're bringing to the base layer probably isn't worth the risk. But this shouldn't preclude innovation **on top of** Bitcoin. We need more L2 software, software that interacts with Bitcoin and lives symbiotically with it.

A new version of the Coldcard CLI and Rust lib has been published. Use Bitcoin responsibly, do not use centralized services and custodians.

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GitHub - alfred-hodler/rust-coldcard: Coldcard Interface Library in Rust

Coldcard Interface Library in Rust. Contribute to alfred-hodler/rust-coldcard development by creating an account on GitHub.

#rust #bitcoin

Politicians need to realize that not allowing permissionless innovation is a national security risk. Regardless of how you feel about the nation-state as a concept, putting a damper on innovation just causes your tribe to fall behind in civilizational terms. Every time you require a license for people to build stuff, your enemies rejoice.

Never use Electrum unless you're hosting your own backend. There is no telling how many public Electrum servers are run by chain analysis companies and other adversaries that are in the business of attributing IP addresses to UTXOs. Electrum was a great piece of software 10 years ago, but the surveillance landscape has changed a lot since then and it is not really safe to use it in its default state. TLDR: run your own Electrum backend or don't use Electrum.

I have released a unique privacy tool and code library that broadcasts Bitcoin transactions **directly** into the P2P network. 1. No external dependencies whatsoever. 2. No centralized backends. 3. Uses Tor if found running on the same system. Having the Tor Browser open in the background is enough. Find the CLI here:

crates.io: Rust Package Registry

And the Rust crate here:

crates.io: Rust Package Registry

Want to upgrade your Coldcard firmware with the latest release over USB? The right tool for the job is now available.

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rust-coldcard/coldcard-cli at master · alfred-hodler/rust-coldcard

Coldcard Interface Library in Rust. Contribute to alfred-hodler/rust-coldcard development by creating an account on GitHub.

#coldcard #rust

v0.11.0 of the #coldcard interface in Rust has been released. Support for Miniscript has been added.

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GitHub - alfred-hodler/rust-coldcard: Coldcard Interface Library in Rust

Coldcard Interface Library in Rust. Contribute to alfred-hodler/rust-coldcard development by creating an account on GitHub.

Legacy finance imploding, people escaping into Bitcoin because it's the most liquid thing and you can self custody it at almost no cost. You love to see it.

If you're a cypherpunk, you need to write code. There's just no way around it. Ideas won't implement themselves, no matter how cool they are. If you can't write code and you're into privacy, consider funding or promoting useful projects and their devs.

Version 0.6 of Peerlink has been released. Peerlink is a networking library for building nodes and other Bitcoin p2p applications in Rust.

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GitHub - alfred-hodler/peerlink: Low-level P2P Network Client

Low-level P2P Network Client. Contribute to alfred-hodler/peerlink development by creating an account on GitHub.

The future is sovereign entities using fedimints internally and on-chain for interjurisdictional settlements between the mints.

The recent removal of Damus from the Apple AppStore in Hong Kong isn't necessarily a political problem. Apple created a phone experience so slick that their market share is simply too big and people ultimately don't care about being walled in as long as the experience is smooth. The root of the problem is: 1) no one else seems to be able to create a comparable phone experience (Android is junk unfortunately), 2) open source / privacy community has tried it several times with Linux etc. but it never works out due to how much money is needed to build a good device. If the barrier to entry into the phone market was lower, we'd have more competition and less shenanigans like walled gardens. The state could still regulate app stores using traditional legislation but sideloading an alternate app store solves that problem. TLDR: building a good phone that people like is still expensive and hard.