System Wide Exploratory Scenario…

The Bank of England has launched the scenario phase of the system-wide exploratory scenario.

This page details the hypothetical market shocks in the system-wide exploratory scenario.

Physical gold and bitcoin are quite undervalued.

Using mvt-iOS to see if my phone has Pegasus or other spyware. Never tried it before, pretty interesting to use. Just have to use iTunes to download a local backup of your iPhone, decrypt it, and then it can match compromise traces against the files.

Mobile Verification Toolkit

Mobile Verification Toolkit Documentation

It did detect some false positives that I’m glad it found, but overall no indications of being compromised.

Taking a trip to Ninghai, Zhejiang. Middle of nowhere, looks amazing.

Honored to have the opportunity to present in Beijing at the Financial Street Forum 2023 on Fintech Innovation in Capital Markets. Happy to share the work HSBC has done on real world asset tokenization, CBDC, and native digital assets.

I am super stoked I got circular plugin working on my @npub155m2...dcvg CLN. Also happy that I finally figured out how to get my VPN working in China so that it keeps the bitcoin connection working but not breaking lightning clearnet connections. Small battles but learning a lot.

Chengdu hotpot

Fun time doing a panel discussion yesterday in HK Fintech Week with Elliptic on how big data can be used to make digital asset adoption safer. Lot of great questions from audience of both DeFi and TradFi. #hkfintech

Landed in Chengdu Tianfu Airport. Hassled by police because they never saw a foreigner make it through the e-channel gate. Fun times.

Great day presenting decentralized identity using Polygon ID at the HSBC booth at the HK Fintech Week. Zero knowledge proofs can help both traditional finance and digital asset adoption in regulated institutions

Great to see the growing interest in digital assets in Hong Kong. Eager to see Bitcoin become an option for banks to provide #hkfintech2023

E-HKD on Bitcoin… using drivechain. Interesting.

Learning about Drivechain

Live relay from #nostrasiajp

Great to meet @Sherry at #nostrasiahk

Playing with Polygon ID to issue decentralized identity verified credential passports. You can use GROTH16 to calculate zero knowledge proofs, and see on chain that the issuance has not been revoked

Anyone able to explain why @Wallet of Satoshi is failing to decode the invoice for my new @npub155m2...dcvg wallet ben@pay.benchodroff.com? It seems to work in every other wallet (Zeus, Blue). Appreciate any help!

Raid1, UPS and BTCPayServer set up. Love the integrated cloudflared and so many amazing fragments to play with. Tested backup and recovery strategy. Time to get TEOS figured out next.

Never give up. I recovered all the missing funds from my corrupted CLN database. On the bright side… I learned a lot about the workings of Lightning, the differences between P2WSH and P2WPKH, and how exactly CLN stores all the details. I am hardening my new server to ensure I never have to go through this pain again: UPS, RAID1, use BTCPayServer instead of rolling my own and ideally going to figure out watchtower too.

If people learn anything this next cycle, let it be “only buy bitcoin”

Trying to rescue 4 closed channels from my corrupted CLN database. After looking at the source code for core lightning… yup, those funds aren’t moving for awhile. Going to need to figure out how to sign a transaction manually. I hope the data is in this broken database somewhere. I came across another person in the support channel with the same issue. Sounds like we should help fund some dev time to create a rescue utility.