"The CivKit Node is an experimental Nostr relay, complemented by the ongoing development of communications gateways for BOLT8 Noise transport and BOLT4 sphinx onion routing, thus enabling Nostr services to be accessed over the Lightning network."

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CivKit Roadmap: BOLT12 Offers, Staking Credentials, Mainstay & More

"The CivKit Node is an experimental Nostr relay, complemented by the ongoing development of communications gateways for BOLT8 Noise transport and B...

....k, now I'm interested.

The Twitter-to-nostr lifeline has come back to life - and such perfect timing!

Willing to bet a nickel that 'Twitter being down' and 'Twitter killing tweets for anyone not logged in' are causally related. (Theory: Access to tweets from the outside blocked -> clients say "Hey we can't fetch tweets! Better retry again!" -> automatic decentralized DDoS)

Our meetups at @PUBKEY are laying the ground for a common understanding of Bitcoin, similar to the lectures of Shahid Morteza Motahhari and Dr. Ali Shariati at the Hosseniyeh Ershad in Tehran in the early 1970s, establishing 'Islamshenasi' as an alternative political ideology opposed to the Ancien Régime. In this essay I wil (jk jk but also fr fr)

many such cases!

mining the DMs for content

This LedgerX spread is unreal, did a market maker get liq'd or is this just what the looks like in a post-SEC lawsuit world?

Join us tomorrow, Thursday, June 8th, 6 PM at @PubKey_NYC at 85 Washington Place! We'll be talking about tumbling, mixing, Chainalysis, the strange case of Roman Sterlingov and Alexey Pertsev, peeling 🍌 and pooling 🌀, and all that jazz! We talk about coins, we're based, it's Coinbased!

Meetup

Coin Based: Mixing , Thu, Jun 8, 2023, 6:00 PM | Meetup

The meetup fka "I guess we're talking about...." Ben Kingsley and Thomas Pacchia discuss... chain analysis, tornado cash, and Roman Sterlingov

- Coinbase spent millions on an army of lobbyists to build a regulatory moat and crowd out competitors - Hired many ex-SEC lawyers and even a former Senator in order to make use of their access to the State - Helped contribute to the death of Jstark by reporting his transactions to German authorities Seeing influencers crying as the SEC tries to take Coinbase down makes me grin a little

gm, Chainalysis is astrology for spooks

When my grandchildren ask me "when were you sure the dollar had lost", I'm going to say 2023, somewhere between the torrent of daily "de-dollarization isn't a big deal and also isn't happening" articles and that cashapp advertisement that advertised sats next to the $

Re: the PSBT dutch auctions - has anyone seen (and/or proposed) any non-ordinal use cases for these yet?

Anyone have takes to shill me on CivKit before I dive into it? (At first glace the 'KYP' oracles seem iffy to me.)

Booking tickets for Miami. Any nostr breakout events planned for Bitcoin 2023?

Feels like a good day to mix and withdraw

I'm noticing as Twitter withers away and nostr replaces it: the lack of algorithmic content makes it much more difficult to manufacture consent. It's wild how many psyops I'm missing out on by just following friends / WoT.