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@keegreil I thought it was called "eclipse attack"

This assumes that new nodes can eventually connect to at least one non-attacking node. If a node is completely sealed off by fake nodes, that's called a Routing attack, something that could affect Bitcoin itself, and which we have not yet tackled for Gridpool.

Sybil attacks in Gridpool: The only way to qualify for a payout slot is to build work with your payout address in Slot-0 of the coinbase, the correct payout list in the rest of the coinbase, and do real work until you get a top-300 difficulty share. Extra nodes does nothing.

@PakoVM And then CISA for the financial incentive to payjoin

Everyone crying that SPA are not enough because people have to do coin control is forgetting that the next logical step in Bitcoin privacy is making non-interactive Payjoins the default. Once the default UX becomes SPA+PJ *with a sufficient user pool* everyone goes private.

@UnruggableGG @craigraw Is it possible to create vanity Silent Payment addresses? Now that would be a good use of some spare CPU cycles to generate.

🥷@craigraw just shipped Silent Payments receiving in Sparrow Wallet! One Bitcoin address. Reuse it forever. Zero privacy loss. This is one of the biggest privacy upgrades Bitcoin has had in years. Here's why it matters and what Silent Payments actually are. 🧵

@lopp At first glance the phishing link looks legit. Does it point to a different address than the visible text?

Tricky new phishing technique someone just tried on me: abusing an actual google recovery contact request form and stuffing it with a really long message that contains a phishing link. The true message is shoved after several pages of blank space at the bottom.

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@MrHodl @BitcoinNewsCom Reorgs and orphans go hand in hand? I can't imagine a situation were you have a reorg without orphaned blocks; or orphaned blocks without a reorg (even if 1 block deep). A reorg doesn't have to be malicious.

@BitcoinNewsCom Reorg or orphan?

Bitcoin just had a 2-block reorg. Foundry wound up mining 7 blocks in a row and rewrote two of AntPool/ViaBTC's blocks out of history. At blocks 941881–941882, Foundry and AntPool/ViaBTC were racing on competing chains simultaneously. Foundry won and their chain became the best chain. AntPool and ViaBTC's two blocks became stale. They are now orphaned, never to be part of the permanent ledger. You can verify it yourself on fork.observer Quick explainer on what a reorg actually is: Bitcoin's rule is simple: the chain with the most cumulative work wins. Sometimes two miners find a valid block at nearly the same time. The network splits briefly, with some nodes following one chain and others following another. The tie gets broken when someone mines the next block on top of one of them and the longer chain wins. The losing blocks become "stale" and are discarded entirely. Those miners get nothing. A 2-block reorg means this race extended across two consecutive blocks before resolving. This is rare but not unheard of. H/t @0xB10C

@stevenroose3 @methodandtheory @adam3us I still believe they are 95% bots and sockpuppets. With very few exceptions like hodlnaut and Luke that we know are real people, there can't be many that aren't fake. This is manufactured astroturfed drama with a few real victims that don't understand how bitcoin works.

@methodandtheory @adam3us You're right that infighting is a real threat. But the illusion of infighting is dangerous also. There was no infighting on BIP-110. No serious developer ever spoke in favor of it. Still bitcoin Twitter went on fire over it. Developers are not the problem. Tweet warriors are.

It’s my opinion that one of the biggest threats to Bitcoin is infighting among its key developers. I’m not going to pretend to understand all the facets of BIP-110. It’s not my lane and I stay firmly in my lane. But I do trust guys like @adam3us. He’s been at the front of this movement from the very start. It’s his ideas that assisted in the birth of this technology. Even setting the technical debate aside, forcing a contentious change through with low consensus thresholds goes against how Bitcoin is supposed to evolve.

@bitcoin_bugle @nic_carter Is that @nic_carter and @BTCsessions son?

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I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone comment that @SoloSatoshi account was hacked and is tweeting scams.

The @SamouraiWallet developers created a tool improving privacy for bitcoin on-chain use, similar to cash. Users held control of their own funds. Prosecutors ignored FinCEN guidance and concocted an unreasonable legal theory of liability to charge them both with breaking money transmission laws despite the tool never taking custody of the funds. Facing millions in legal costs, 25 years in prison, an overzealous and unfair prosecution, and a Judge with no patience for understanding the broader legal and technical arguments, the developers were essentially forced to plead to lesser charges of "conspiracy" for the sake of their families. Now, both developers have one month before they are to turn themselves in for 4+ years of incarceration, all for creating a piece of open-source code that allowed people to do want they wanted with their own money. This prosecution is an unwarranted and unjust process of law that will be looked back on in shame. Every legal tool or resource should be dispensed in order to free them and reverse the dangerous precedent this sets for privacy and financial sovereignty. Privacy is not a crime, and open-source developers who empower users are not criminals. Many wealthy and powerful people today use bitcoin and cryptocurrencies to safeguard their wealth and benefit from a real-time settlement network without intermediaries. Every consumer benefits from better tech tools that allow them to take control of their money and spend how they wish. If people of influence understand and appreciate the broader ethos of the Bitcoin and crypto revolution, rather than trading and getting rich off fees from their shitcoins, they should advocate for both the pardon of these two individuals and for legal safeguards in federal law to ensure this never happens again. It is not just two these people's at stake, but it's the future of how Americans will interact and benefit from technology going forward. #freesamourai @keonne @SamouraiDev

@gladstein @paulbrigner @jswihart @ElectricCoinCo Ha, he deleted the messages. Good thing you screenshotted them.

@paulbrigner Also @jswihart Is this guy really on the board of @ElectricCoinCo ?? one thing is having a debate about a technology another thing is a) saying that you are going to meet someone in person and then b) proceeding to say that they will "end" you Not great!

@PhoenixWallet Gamechanger!

Migration from existing channels is transparent, it will happen automatically next time you send or receive an on-chain payment.

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@notgrubles Compound that with all the other EVM clones with same address format. Victims withdraw "ETH" on the Binance network and don't understand why nothing is showing in their Ethereum wallet. Then they have to learn that they'll need BNB to pay gas fees, because that "EHT" is a token

TIL that more than $100M worth of ERC20 tokens have been lost due to Ethereum's poor engineering and UX. People commonly send tokens to contracts that aren't written to handle holding tokens, blackholing the funds forever. It's a flaw known about since 2017 but nothing has been done to correct it. Ethereum in a nutshell.

@csuwildcat It's just the latest coordinated attack on bitcoin, wasting the time of those who are actually building, or trying to make them quit

Somehow our Bitcoin community birthed a mob of low-information larpers who screech "Whitepaper!" and call other Bitcoiners shitcoiners for mentioning the timechain of Bitcoin enables provable timestamps, decentralized DNS, etc., all of which Satoshi himself detailed in his posts.

@kristapsk @bitgould Read somewhere = someone suggesting it could be done. Not that was already happening.

@kristapsk @bitgould I read somewhere about merchants opportunistically consolidating UTXOs as part of the payjoin, saving fees in the future.

Payjoin by default is a systems upgrade for Bitcoin without any consensus change.