Congressmen that were elected via stolen funds given to them by a conman are going to pass a bill written by that same conman, using the conman's conning as justification. It is impossible to have too low of an opinion of the US government.

Next narrative is dex coins and privacy coins.

Just how they suppress gold price.

interesting insight into mastodon's federation problems

translation: nobody wants to go from a crappy administration (twitter) to a despotic administrator (mastodon). that's why there is #nostr.

This will be interesting . Especially for spam prevention.

One of my fav papers in 2022 recently got updated: arxiv.org/pdf/2201.11860…. 50% of LN payments can be deanonymized by a handful of central nodes, e.g., Wallet of Satoshi, ACINQ, Lightning Network statistics ⚡, CoinGate, etc. L2 privacy is still a dream. Source code: github.com/pi-yush/anon-c….

We continued to escalate this and found the HTTP request to run vehicle commands. This also worked! We could execute commands on vehicles and fetch user information from the accounts by only knowing the victim's VIN number, something that was on the windshield.

Measuring how #XMR’s performance against #BTC stacks up against other prominent cryptocurrencies shows Monero's considerable strength in the bear market.

Very valid point. Often overlooked by analysts

Monero doesn't understand what a bear market means

"on chain" Bitcoin now premium to off chain lightning nightmare

lightning is already fully compromised

If you’re worried about stranded dollars at your bitcoin exchange because the banking crisis: look out for if the BTC price on the exchange starts trading at a premium compared to market averages. (It means the exchange’s dollar balances are losing purchasing power.)

Back in the 1600s, one guilder kept at the Bank of Amsterdam was worth more than a physical one in your hand. The reason was that it was more useful; it was protected from theft, you could borrow against it, buy securities with it, etc. Will the $USDT agio persist?

The BitPay data shows the same thing: #LightningNetwork users are overwhelmingly using custodial services. #Bitcoin needs to start exploring different scaling methods ASAP, before we end up with fractional reserve banking 2.0!

Help Wei the new UX is terrible on coins.ph app Was the UI even trialed with customers before rollout ? Its very un-intuitive. Any way to rollback to old UI ?