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Cryptocurrency: Privacy Rising - Wasabi Wallet CoinJoin JoinMarket Update w Nopara73
by grarpamp 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '23

https://bitcoin-takeover.com/s13-e2-nopara73-on-wasabi-wallets-beginnings-a… S13 E2: Nopara73 on Wasabi Wallet's Beginnings and Future First launched in October 2019, Wasabi wallet has certainly elevated the standard for Bitcoin privacy. Mostly developed by Nopara73 (Adam Ficsor) with help from his friends [198]Matthew Haywood and [199]Lucas Ontivero, the first Wasabi release made CoinJoins and coin control a lot more accessible. As Nopara73 reveals in this episode, his journey in the world of Bitcoin privacy started with a conversation during a P2P trade when the other person was able to see the amounts moved though the single address being used. Then Nopara got inspired by Andreas Antonopoulos to invest his time and skills into Bitcoin, and decided to work on an interface which makes Adam Gibson's JoinMarket accessible. During this journey, he also took C# coding lessons from Nicolas Dorier, the creator of NBitcoin who authored an ebook named "[200]Blockchain Programming: Blockchain Programming in C#" and would later become the "Emperor" of BTCPay Server who makes BitPay obsolete with open source software. In the beginning, Wasabi wallet was supposed to be called Hidden wallet. But the name change brought an entire code rewrite and took another couple of years to complete. The result, however, was meritorious. The first version of Wasabi wallet had simplified advanced features that you would otherwise only find in Electrum and enabled easy access to Chaumian CoinJoins. Furthermore, unlike JoinMarket, it introduced Neutrino-like block filters which download some of the latest blocks in order to offer a kind of hybrid between a full node and SPV that makes the user extra sovereign. Wasabi wallet users never needed someone else to provide the backend server, but instead could accelerate the initial load time by running their own instance of Bitcoin Core or Knots in the background. [201]IFrame Though great and innovative in its way, Wasabi 1.0 had some shortcomings – most notably, users needed 0.1 BTC to join a CoinJoin round and could only get outputs of equal sizes. Meaning that funds were merely getting scrambled, without any sort of division or consolidation to make tracking more difficult. The last time I interviewed Nopara73 in the [202]spring of 2020, he spoke about hiring a team of cryptographers to significantly improve the Wasabi wallet design. In the 3 years that passed, the privacy wallet introduced the WabiSabi engine which outputs unprecedentedly large CoinJoins which simultaneously do divisions and consolidations in a very efficient and scalable way. A constant from across timelines remains the Pay to End Point (P2EP) discussion. Since 2019, the development of this excellent privacy technique has mostly stagnated across all companies involved in the initial brainstorming. But the idea is still alive and some implementations seem to have worked between developers. Also, Nopara73 chooses to stay optimistic about the future of privacy and even goes as far as suggesting that the future of financial transactions is in the power of thought and will – as we'd all presumably become cyborgs in a few decades so the action of sending money becomes a telepathic (but most likely radio signal driven) exchange between individuals. On a more serious and realistic note, Wasabi wallet is currently pursuing new integrations. Two of them include adding Wasabi CoinJoins into [203]Trezor Suite and [204]BTCPay server. Both of these plans are highly ambitious and bound to normalize Bitcoin privacy across the board, thus bringing it to more mainstream audiences. Currently, Wasabi wallet hosts the biggest CoinJoin coordinator, with lots of liquidity and a great deal of plausible deniability. As this privacy tool gets more traction, it's likely that the CoinJoin rounds will become bigger and a lot more frequent – thus bringing Bitcoin closer to fungibility. Financial success and fame among his peers don't seem to have changed Nopara73 too much. Nonetheless, his long-term ambition remains the same: to buy Microsoft! Listen to Nopara73 on [205]Spotify, [206]Apple Podcasts & YouTube! Ideally, you should use a player that doesn't track you, doesn't require registration, and allows you to download the content for offline listening – [207]just like this one. On the other hand, if you do choose convenience and make use of these big tech platforms, you would be of tremendous help if you subscribed and left feedback where it's possible: Apple Podcasts allows you to leave 5-star ratings and comments, while YouTube also has a thumbs up system. These aren't just vanity metrics for myself, as they instruct these platforms on the importance on content and they proceed to rank the uploads accordingly. More likes and subscriptions translate in easier discoverability – meaning that someone searching for "Wasabi wallet interview" is more likely to find this than anything else... granted that you leave some positive feedback for others to see. Thank you in advance! IFrame: [208]_ytid_72822 Bitcoin Takeover Podcast Season 13 Is Sponsored By Wasabi Wallet, Cryptosteel, Bumbee & ShopInBit! Wasabi offers a free and open source private-centric wallet which makes use of [209]mega CoinJoins in order to provide excellent plausible deniability and obfuscation. If you don’t want your KYC exchange to know what you’re doing with your bitcoins after you withdraw them, join a Wasabi CoinJoin round and reclaim your freedom to do whatever you want with your money without being tracked – exchanges such as [210]Coinbase and [211]Crypto.com are interested to know where their users spend their BTC after withdrawing them. Also, if you’re concerned that someone else you know in real life has access to your public addresses and knows how much BTC you own, Wasabi wallet has got you covered. For amounts lower than 0.01 BTC, you pay no coordination fee – but if you’re wealthier, the fee is 0.3%. Download Wasabi wallet 2.0 for free today and [212]reclaim your privacy! IFrame: [213]_ytid_62977 Cryptosteel are innovators in Bitcoin cold storage. Back in 2013, they launched the Cryptosteel Cassette, which made it easy to back up your seed phrase, passphrase, or any other form of private key on the sturdy metal which resists water, fire, and earthquakes. Today, Cryptosteel offers the MotherLode: an all-in one box which endows you with everything you need to become financially sovereign. Inside the ModerLode, you get a Cryptosteel Capsule and a hardware wallet of your choice. All Cryptosteel products are engineered and manufactured in Poland. Order your Cryptosteel metal backup system today on [214]Cryptosteel.com and use promo code BTCTKVR at checkout for a 10% discount on your order. Cryptosteel – secure your wallet seed phrase! IFrame: [215]_ytid_32961 Are you a writer, photographer, musician, or video creator who’s trying to generate some revenue? Bumbee is the Bitcoin way to monetize your content. It’s more censorship resistant than any other platform of its kind, with a low and flat one-time fee of 10%. Bumbee is as easy to use as any social media mobile app. Sign up today at bumbee.com and subscribe for free to the [216]Bitcoin Takeover account to get access to some time-exclusive content. If you’re monetizing your creativity, why not get paid in bitcoin for it? Bumbee.com – the Bitcoin way to monetize your content. Online shopping with Bitcoin is easy. ShopinBit is Europe’s biggest Bitcoin Store with over 800 thousand products. Ranging from Bitcoin books, toothpaste, mobile phones, computers, and watches. This month, I bought a Nintendo Game & Watch console with the classic Legend of Zelda – and it arrived in only 5 working days. And if you can’t find what you’re looking for, ShopInBit’s got you covered. Their concierge service will get you anything and ship it worldwide. Additionally they also have a Travel HACKING Service to get you the best deals on all things travel: Flights, Hotels and more, for business and for vacations. Bitcoin Takeover listeners get a nice discount, of course: Use code BTCTKVR on your first order for a one-time 5 euro discount. For more details, go to [217]ShopinBit.com. ShopinBit – Europe’s biggest Bitcoin store * [218]Adam Ficsor * [219]Bitcoin Privacy * [220]CoinJoin * [221]Nopara73 * [222]P2EP * [223]Pay to End Point * [224]Wabisabi * [225]Wasabi Wallet [226]Previous post S13 E1: Eric Sirion & Obi Nwosu on Fedimint & Fedi [227]Vlad Costea I'm here for the freedom, censorship-resistance, and unconfiscatability. What about you? https://github.com/joinmarket-org/joinmarket/ 188. https://bitcoin-takeover.com/articles/ 190. https://bitcoin-takeover.com/podcast/ 192. https://bitcoin-takeover.com/author/vladdyc/ 198. https://bitcoin-takeover.com/s5-e9-matthew-haywood-on-the-liquid-sidechain-… 199. https://bitcoin-takeover.com/audio/?name=2022-01-22_s10_e5_lucas_ontivero_o… 200. https://aois.blob.core.windows.net/public/Blockchain%20Programming%20in%20C… 201. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=952ZDT1ckEw 202. https://bitcoin-takeover.com/s5-e6-nopara73-on-wasabi-wallet-p2ep-samourai-… 203. https://bitcoin-takeover.com/review-trezor-suite/ 204. https://bitcoin-takeover.com/s11-e1-pavlenex-kukks-on-btcpay-server-soft-si… 205. https://open.spotify.com/episode/0eLc80BGpl6hc8rVHpyGTf?si=777cecace0a74a13 206. https://podcasts.apple.com/ro/podcast/bitcoin-takeover-podcast/id1451766883… 207. https://bitcoin-takeover.com/audio/?name=2023-02-03_s13_e2_nopara73_on_wasa… 208. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g04d39R6kU 209. https://mempool.space/tx/084e9f1cff337425c3e66ddb85705f374afc922e9263e5af90… 210. https://bitcoin-takeover.com/why-delete-coinbase/ 211. https://blog.crypto.com/crypto-org-chain-partners-with-blockchain-analysis-… 212. https://wasabiwallet.io/ 213. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DoHlvghcEw 214. https://cryptosteel.com/shop/?csr=857 215. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39UCHjLL1uE 216. https://bitcoin-takeover.com/s12-e15-chris-ob_hodl-on-bumbee/ 217. https://shopinbit.com/ 218. https://bitcoin-takeover.com/tag/adam-ficsor/ 219. https://bitcoin-takeover.com/tag/bitcoin-privacy/ 220. https://bitcoin-takeover.com/tag/coinjoin/ 221. https://bitcoin-takeover.com/tag/nopara73/ 222. https://bitcoin-takeover.com/tag/p2ep/ 223. https://bitcoin-takeover.com/tag/pay-to-end-point/ 224. https://bitcoin-takeover.com/tag/wabisabi/ 225. https://bitcoin-takeover.com/tag/wasabi-wallet/ 226. https://bitcoin-takeover.com/s13-e1-eric-sirion-obi-nwosu-on-fedimint-fedi/

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Cryptocurrency: Kanye West For Crypto President 2024
by grarpamp 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '23

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Cryptocurrency: Demystifiying SMPC (Secure multi-party computation) and its threat model
by grarpamp 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '23

> https://hardenedvault.net/blog/2023-02-02-smpc/ Nobody can read the link you posted because you put it behind cloudflare which is a US spy agency that attacks the entire internet and everyone using it. It might also be some more FUD about how 'trusted setup' is bad and can't be trusted, when in fact the concept can, and that FUD is just FUD spewed by competing coins. Yes ZK left themselves open to FUD by naming it 'trusted setup', they should have called it 'mitigated trust', 'one-in-many trust', 'saints trust' or something more objectively indicative of its capabilities.

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Cryptocurrency: Is Fighting Against The OCC and FED De-Banking War
by grarpamp 09 Feb '23

09 Feb '23

Stitching together recent news reveals a major coordinated push to kill crypto by killing its banking. All they are doing is empowering and speeding up the long term revolution of the bankless into cryptoprivacy ;) The Fed and OCC are in the midst of a massive crypto de-banking operation. "what is going on is draconian and aimed to kill crypto". The Fed and OCC are going after Morgan Stanley, Custodia bank and even states that are crypto friendly like Wyoming. Paxos Global and others were told by the OCC to either withdraw their banking charter applications or they would be denied by Friday. "VC’s are starting to become very, very concerned that their crypto portfolio companies are being de-banked en masse." The OCC is said to produce a paper shortly that is said to be so draconian that a sizable portion of OCC employees may depart. "I don't want to alarm, but since the turn of the year, a new Operation Choke Point type operation began targeting the crypto space in the US. it is a well-coordinated effort to marginalize the industry and cut of its connectivity to the banking system - and it's working" - Nic Carter Quotes and Source: https://twitter.com/AP_Abacus/status/1623346563069116417 https://twitter.com/nic__carter/status/1622973966360133634

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Voluntaryism Beats "Democracy": NZ Queen Ruler Jacinda Ardern Has Mental Breakdown, Quits
by grarpamp 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

"In several opinion polls, Ardern's domestic popularity had reached all-time lows in the past few months" That is what being an Evil Authoritarian Tyrant Politician does to themselves. Locking down Humanity, forcing people to ingest things, smashing their businesses, stealing and extorting money from people under threat of prison and death, cancelling Human Freedom and transferring it from Humanity to themselves and their cronies, lies, power, debt, psyops, war, and endless reams of needless bullshit regimes growing till they implode. This is what politicians do, history proves that there are no exceptions. At least every once in a while one of them publicly suffers the mental consequences of their own soul robbing anti-Human Evils, thereby demonstrating all that is wrong in that. "Inability to commit" ... "I no longer have enough in the tank" -- Ardern "Jacinda has faced a level of hatred and vitriol which in my experience is unprecedented in our country. -- Helen Clark" There is a reason for that... "Democracy" is totalitarian and murderous at its core and claims the invalid non-authority of the "majority" to do so. Democracy is a fatally flawed violent anti-Freedom concept concocted by politicians seeking power, and it is now being exposed as such all over the internet. You are now at risk of Nuclear War because "Democracy" has taught as its false universal truth that it is right to forcibly rule your designs for and over top of other peoples who have done nothing to you. The Internet has now not only clearly exposed that flaw, but also provided the knowledge and path to a voluntary society. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=voluntaryism There is no longer any reason to put anyone in power over you, no Politician, and no Government, anymore, ever. And no longer any reason for you to "vote" yourselves into power over anyone else, anymore, ever. So stop doing that. Learn and adopt voluntaryism. Become Free. And introduce the healing path of Voluntaryism to those who have inflicted the moral and mental breakdown of Democracy upon themselves.

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Cryptocurrency: You Foolish Crypto Soy Morons Begging For Regulators... You Are Killing Crypto
by grarpamp 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

Dubai bans Privacy Coins because YOU STUPID SHEEP LET THEM. *YOU* are letting ALL of crypto be killed because *YOU* LACK BALLS. STOP doing that. It's a simple bigger balls psychological power game. So GROW SOME BALLS and a VOICE and tell the regulators to FUCK OFF. You will win. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWAwK2fHArc No Regulators !!! Dubai Prohibits Privacy Coins Like Monero Under New Crypto Rules https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/02/08/dubai-prohibits-privacy-coins-un… Dubai has prohibited all activities related to anonymity-enhancing cryptocurrencies such as monero (XMR) as of Tuesday. The UAE published its long-awaited crypto regulations, which sets licensing and authorization requirements for virtual asset companies and issuers looking to operate in Dubai. Japan has similar rules in place and the EU is considering similar restrictions.

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Space Startups Are Trying to Make Money Going to the Moon
by Gunnar Larson 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

Space Startups Are Trying to Make Money Going to the Moon https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-08/space-is-next-frontier-f…

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Demystifiying SMPC (Secure multi-party computation) and its threat model
by ROOT＠HardenedVault 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

https://hardenedvault.net/blog/2023-02-02-smpc/

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Cryptocurrency: Justin Sun Is A Scammer, Like Thousands Of Others
by grarpamp 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

Justin Sun is the biggest con artist / pump and dump scammer in crypto (possibly in the entire world altogether). Here is list of all of his pump & dumps since 2017 (Buttcoin CityofGrond). https://finance.caixin.com/2019-07-24/101443207.html https://protos.com/sun-grenada-his-excellency-justin-crypto-tron-diplomatic… https://www.theverge.com/c/22947663/justin-sun-tron-cryptocurrency-poloniex As Justin Sun announced his “ChatGPT/AI payments system on Tron”, I wanted to start a running thread on his long history of his bullshit pump & dump announcements over the years promising Tron is on the cusp of mass adoption, all which never came to anything. Sun will one day be known as one of the most prolific con men/ grifters on the planet. He will do and say literally anything to get in headlines and generate fake hype….profiting untold millions off his scams Here’s a big list of just some of his grifts and bullshit so far: 1.Justin Sun aggressively hypes purchasing a $5 million lunch with Warren Buffet (he intentionally canceled it multiple times to grab headlines): https://www.reuters.com/article/us-buffett-lunch-idUSKCN1T42ET 2.Justin Sun makes pinky promise to “donate $1 million to Greta Thunberg”…no proof it ever happened: https://u.today/justin-sun-to-donate-1-mln-in-crypto-to-help-greta-thunberg… 3.Justin Sun teases he will bail out FTX: https://cryptobriefing.com/is-justin-sun-about-bail-out-ftx-tron-boss-swoop… 4.Justin Sun teases “Partnership” with a “$100 million mega corporation”: https://u.today/tron-ceo-to-announce-partnership-with-hundred-billion-usd-m… 5.$100 Billion Partnership turns out to be putting an android app on the Samsung store: https://beincrypto.com/tron-added-to-samsung-keystore-just-another-case-of-… 6.Justin Sun teases “huge partnership” with Baidu for weeks…turns out he’s just purchasing their basic cloud services like a normal customer: https://cryptobriefing.com/tron-trx-partners-baidu/ 7.Justin Sun teases partnership with LC Liverpool Football Club…the club denied they’d ever spoken: https://cointelegraph.com/news/tron-ceo-justin-sun-hints-at-partnership-wit… 8.Justin Sun hosts a giveaway competition for a Tesla…refuses to give the winner their prize: https://blokt.com/news/wheres-my-tesla-justin-sun-refuses-to-honour-competi… 9.Justin Sun faces backlash after involving customers in failed Ponzi scheme in China : https://cryptonews.com/news/tron-s-justin-sun-faces-backlash-due-to-scam-in… 10.Justin Sun calls his own coin a shitcoin: https://coingeek.com/justin-sun-calls-tron-a-shitcoin-annoys-tron-and-btc-w… 11.Justin Sun files bullshit trademark opposition against Disney to grab headlines : https://coingeek.com/tron-foundation-fails-attempt-to-piggyback-on-disneys-… 12.Justin Sun teases $1 billion DCG acquisition that will never happen: https://cryptoslate.com/justin-sun-says-he-may-spend-1-billion-on-dcg-asset… 13.Justin Sun said he partnered with Steve Wozniak…he didn’t: https://www.ccn.com/justin-sun-goes-to-lunch-with-apple-co-founder-woz/ 14.Justin Sun claims he was trying to outbid Musk to acquire Twitter: https://cryptopotato.com/justin-sun-trying-to-outbid-elon-musks-twitter-off… 15.Justin Says says “most of China” uses tron and it will be a future national currency: https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/1619943206141190144 16.Justin Sun accused of plagiarizing his white paper in 2018 by Vitalik: https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/982194680258486273 17.Justin Sun promises to “turn down fake hype”, flees his government ban traveling outside China: https://fullycrypto.com/justin-sun-allegedly-agrees-to-dial-in-hype 18.In 2017 Justin Sun claimed Tron will replace the Apple App Store: https://cryptorand.medium.com/interview-with-justin-sun-founder-of-tron-trx… 19.in 2017 Justin Sun teased Tron was partnering with Alibaba…it was a lie: https://medium.com/@kazuoo/the-vastly-undervalued-tron-to-partner-with-indu… 20.In 2018 Justin Sun announces huge Tron partnership with Baofeng Group, the “Netflix of China”…it never happened: https://twitter.com/justinsuntron/status/950992805932838913 21.Justin Sun buys diplomat position in Grenada for extradition immunity for his crimes: https://protos.com/sun-grenada-his-excellency-justin-crypto-tron-diplomatic… Whatever he says, is a lie, extreme exaggeration, or flat fraud

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Cryptocurrency: Biden Forces Democrats To Disclose Their Energy Consumption
by grarpamp 08 Feb '23

08 Feb '23

https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/7/23588243/bitcoin-crypto-miners-energy-emi…

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