josie 🏴☠️🧡
@josibake
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Joined October 2013
satoshi: *builds bitcoin to eliminate the need for trusted third parties*. humans: *gives bitcoin to trusted third parties*. trusted third parties: *steals bitcoin*. humans:
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friendly reminder that bitcoin core runs perfectly fine on your daily computer and doesn’t need a dedicated raspi to setup.
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are you even a bitcoin dev if you still have the dollar on your terminal? . h/t @willcl_ark
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friendly reminder: chaincode labs runs a 5 week seminar on bitcoin protocol development and another one on lightning development. they are free, all the material is open source, and they help place participants in bitcoin/LN jobs.
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just spent a taproot output to pay for a flight, no gift cards or conversion to fiat required. as a dev, it’s easy to get in the weeds and only see the things that need to be fixed/improved/built but it’s moments like these where i am in awe of what we’ve accomplished so far.
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beyond thrilled and humbled to be able to work on #bitcoin full-time for the next year. a huge thanks to @ChaincodeLabs for helping me get started as a contributor and a huge thanks to @coinbase for funding this work!. GM 2022 LFG!!!.
The Crypto Community Fund🏆. Announcing developer grant winners focused on contributing directly to a blockchain codebase. 🏅@bitcoinbrink.🏅@wefuzz_io.🏅@LionesEscanor.🏅@josibake.🏅AMIS Technologies. 👏👏👏👏
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twitter is connecting to strike, not lightning. strike is not a global monetary network. this means you can receive tips if you live in the areas strike has approved. this is permissioned. this is kyc’d. this is not #bitcoin. twitter could build this correctly, on lightning.
Still pretty crazy that Twitter will soon allow users to connect to an open global monetary network. I get that there will be restrictions on receivers, but if it is indeed Lightning, then anyone can send funds instantly from anyone on earth to a tip jar. This is underrated.
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"no one uses lightning". yes they do. "but it's not private". that's being worked on. "well it should be done by now". wut? who is setting the due dates for projects in bitcoin?.
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so excited to finally announce this 🧡
"Supporting bitcoin to 2140 & beyond". 👨💻 📆 "Bitcoin is decentralized - so who is responsible?". Ruben Somsen (@SomsenRuben) en Josie Baker (@josibake) zijn de stichting '2140 foundation' gestart om #bitcoin ook in de toekomst door te ontwikkelen en decentraal te houden.
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this is fucked up. writing software is not a crime.
free Samourai Wallet. fuck the state. wake up people. we need you.
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everyone talk about what a bitcoiner is, nobody asking how a bitcoiner is
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this is absolutely insane. the judge ruled a developer can be held liable for *code* they've written being used for "criminal activity".
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for everyone complaining about samourai:. if you think someone is wrong/an asshole/whatever, you build better shit than them. period. you do not act smug when they get arrested, or worse act like they somehow got what they deserved. complete and utter bullshit.
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pretty excited to announce something myself, @willcl_ark and @MatthewZipkin have been working on for the last few months: warnet! .
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@JuanSGalt don’t worry tho, they put out a strongly worded cease and desist letter threatening court action.
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excited about silent payments (BIP352)? the most important thing wallets can to today is implement sending support. luckily, this is the easiest part to implement and we've already got libraries to make it even easier!.
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“we broke bitcoin”. tell me you have no clue how bitcoin works without telling me you have no clue how bitcoin works.
If you're not seeing your Ordinal in your wallet, don't stress out. You have your ordinal, wallets just aren't showing it yet. It's because is broken, which a lot of wallets use. is down because we temporarily broke Bitcoin.
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DNSSEC 🤝 silent payment addresses. imagine a world where you can send bitcoin to user@domain. if their wallet supports bolt12, you make the payment over lightning, if their wallet supports bip352 you fall back to an on-chain payment. no interaction, no on-chain reuse ❤️.
It’s time bitcoin had a way to specify human-readable names for payment instructions. LN Address has demonstrated the utility of such names, but it’s time to take it beyond just lightning and remove the dependence on HTTPS/CAs.
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this indictment is insane. samourai charges a fee for staggering ricochet transactions across multiple hops. samourai coinjoins the fees they earn in whirlpool. and by the very act of coinjoining this automatically counts as laundering??
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we won’t have pseudonymous devs until we normalise paying in bitcoin without requiring kyc. that’s the only barrier, imo.
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my first merged contribution! it's not much, but its honest work. been wanting to get involved with contributing to core for awhile, it feels amazing to finally get off zero.
Josiah Baker's first merged PR: Congratulations! 🎉🍾🎆.
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BREAKING: you’ll now have a full example bitcoin.conf shipped with every release (and a script to generate one for yourself on the fly!).
Merged PR from @josibake: script add script to generate example bitcoinconf
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ive been sleeping on @PhoenixWallet . got everything set up in < 2 mins, paid an invoice, and only paid 2 sats in fees. bravo @acinq_co 🎉.
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@stephanlivera op_cat concatenates two elements on the stack. that’s it. asking this question feels like asking “is bitcoin a terrorist / CP system?” because somebody out there once used bitcoin to do some terrorism/cp stuff.
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@Mrsamericanhodl respectfully disagree. id say one of the best things about #Bitcoin is we don’t have the same worldview and dont have to for it to work. financial freedom allows me to live a life of my choosing. fiat systems require people to share a worldview to keep the system propped up.
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worth pointing out, before he started this "investigation," his market cap on bitclout was around 50k ~ 65k. after tweeting this, his market cap on bitclout is 156k. make of that what you will. .
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@mikeinspace people get tired too, or have different interests, different stages of life. this is natural and all the more reason to keep encouraging people to get involved as contributors. the hope is to build something that outlives all of us, which means we will always need new devs.
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@MrHodl @stephanlivera the universal taxation law in america is just one example of how you are not a citizen, you are property of the US.
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it’s been buggin me so im just gonna say it: nostr is IRC with pubkeys. *ducks*.
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can’t be too upset about binance flooding the mempool. at least they actually have some bitcoin. i dont recall ftx ever flooding the mempool 🤔.
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@mikeinspace while funding is an issue, i don’t think this is the reason. bitcoin has changed a lot in the last 5 years and that growth brings different challenges. working on a 1T network with nation state adoption is a whole different animal than working on bitcoin 5 years ago.
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to paraphrase my favorite talk from tabconf (h/t @adamcjonas): if you want to build a ship, dont give the sailors orders on how to build but instead teach them to yearn for the sea.
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couldn’t be happier to be a Bitcoin Open Source Software contributor 🧡#weare151 #BOSScontributor
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@nikcantmine #bitcoin flowing from weak to strong hands. think about it: people are selling because they care about USD price. and countries are buying because they no longer care about USD.
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shout out to @cakewallet ! its not easy being the first mover on brand new protocols, were you have to work through all the hard parts first, and often alone. but also so important for demonstrating new protocols are viable and useful. love seeing builders build.
Just scanned 13k blocks for silent payments in 10 minutes, LFG @cakewallet.
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there is even a seminar-alum slack channel that you get lifetime access to!. why not stack $850 worth of sats and apply for a seminar at:
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amazing article for understanding how silent payments works under the hood. my favourite quote:. “It is always a great feeling when so many people volunteer their time and effort to build something in the open, and it all comes together in the end.”. keep building fam ❤️.
Understanding Silent Payments - PART TWO 🔍. In this second installment of our Silent Payments series written by @_benma_, we’re taking an in-depth look at the technical workings of your BitBox and how it securely supports silent payments. 👇.
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disclaimer: this will be my first attempt at building a wallet with BDK. so even if you aren't interested in silent payments, you might want to pop by the workshop just for the entertainment value 👀. see you nerds in london!.
NEW SPEAKER ANNOUNCED 📢. Josie Bake (@josibake) is a @bitcoincoreorg developer. He will host a workshop on Building a silent payments mobile client. This will be a great opportunity to educate yourself about silent payment slips & how to use BDK for rapid wallet development.
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@BitcoinErrorLog @Breedlove22 “hi, brock? yeah this is breadlove. so how do i join the official bitcoin foundation? id like to tell the prez about this new thing called bitclout”.
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running silent payments with @cakewallet 🤫.
@sethforprivacy sp1qqvvnsd3xnjpmx8hnn2ua0e9sllm34t9jydf8qfesgc7nhdxgzksjwqlrxx37nfzsg6rure5vwa92fksd6f5a6rk05kr07twhd55u3ahquy2v7t6s. 🤫.
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imagine: you see a tx with a few taproot single sig inputs and a few taproot outputs. what you don't know is that the inputs are actually multisig, one of the outputs is a silent payment, and the other output is a lightning channel open. that future is closer than you think.
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@BitcoinIsSaving @nic__carter this can’t be stated enough. the pace of innovation happening on LN is astounding. it’s because its built on a bedrock base layer. base layer upgrades will also happen faster because we aren’t constantly overhauling the whole system and instead making incremental improvements.
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we got a twitter account, so now it’s official official!.
Announcing 2140, a non-profit foundation with physical office in Amsterdam supporting Bitcoin development. Co-founded by @josibake and @somsenruben. Site:
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@sethforprivacy @L0laL33tz working on a libsecp silent payments module that will make implementing silent payments stupid easy, secure, and performant.
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help your cryptographers get Musig2 and FROST into wallets everywhere by helping review the Musig2 module, PSBT specs, descriptor specs, etc. (a lot of the work for getting a new cryptographic protocol over the finish line is non-crypto work that anyone can help with).
Push your cryptographers to expand multisignature and threshold signature signing protocols (MuSig2 and FROST) to support silent payments!.
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there are plenty of valid criticisms of how LN is developing and plenty of problems that need to be addressed, but to dismiss it as irrelevant or a complete failure is not accurate. it's going to take patience and a lot of hard work, but it's slowly happening.
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cryptography is hard, so if it sounds tgtbt, it probably is.
@brqgoo It's cool to see that people keep thinking about optimizing t-of-n threshold signatures and bring their perspectives. But this is quite an extraordinary claim and I don't see a security proof. So the scheme is most likely broken. A few notes after skimming though the slides:. -.
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a big thanks to the @hrf for posting this bounty!. a mobile wallet that doesn't rely on a trusted server or require the user to run a full node is not just about silent payments, it's a win for every mobile wallet!. if you want to work on this bounty, feel free to get in contact!.
Bounty #4: Silent Payments. 2 BTC for a mobile Bitcoin wallet which can send and receive Silent Payments in a private manner without requiring the user to run a full node.
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PSA: the bitcoin core github repo is not the place to air your grievances. ranting and raving against things you don't like is only making life harder for the people trying to work in that repo.
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@peterktodd guy claims to have invented censorship resistant, un-seizable money based on cryptography. same guy sues devs demanding they give him the un-seizable money.
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seeing review and momentum in the BIPs repo is making me more bullish than ever on bitcoin development. seriously. so many ideas out there, just waiting to be implemented.
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this may come as a shock, but there is no claim about “bitcoin devs” as a group that you can make that will be correct. read optech, learn what individual people are working on. stop talking about individuals as a generalisation and stereotype. its harmful and disrespectful.
Read @bitcoinoptech to stay updated on what Bitcoin devs are working on.
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super excited for this conference and for my first time visiting cape town 🇿🇦!.
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getting ready to embark on my bitcoiner pilgrimage to finally visit @PubKey_NYC , if you're around next week shoot me a DM and lets get a beer!.
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its humbling how much effort goes into creating such a simple, magical experience: years of lightning development, bolt12, bip21, bip353, bip352, wallet implementations, education and advocacy, etc. so incredible to see it all culminate into a simple, elegant payment experience.
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massive kudos to @n1ckler for getting this module over the finish line and a huge thank you to everyone who helped test/review this!. now time to make sure @theStack and I's libsecp256k1 silentpayments module PR is rebased and ready for review 👀👀.
The MuSig2 🎶 module has been merged into libsecp256k1. This marks significant progress in the real-world deployment of MuSig2 as it'll be available to all existing projects using libsecp256k1 with the next release. Example usage:. The module has been.
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BIP352 + BOLT12 = BIP353 🧡.
@nvk This is a silent payment address. You can send Bitcoin to it multiple times, and each time it will be a unique address. No address reuse. Combine this with bolt12 via unified QR code or BIP 353 and you have magic!.
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critic: 99% of people lost their life savings in 2017. bitcoiner: that’s not true and here’s some data. critic: stop it. you’re lying and gaslighting. ???.
“bitcoin is a criminal fraud, a tulip ponzi scam for malicious idiots”. [24 hours later]. “bitcoin proponents are rude bullies”. Do these people have ZERO self-awareness?.
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twitter would be a helluva lot nicer if people would simply tweet about how they *like* to use bitcoin/monero/whatever , instead of tweeting about all the shit they don’t like, or how other people use the things in ways they don’t like.
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friendly reminder: people gonna use bitcoin in ways you don’t like and you can’t stop them. that’s kind of the point.
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@ChiaGarden @nic__carter damage? you mean using stranded electricity that was going to waste and being significantly powered by renewable energy?.
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stop looking for a leader. stop asking for permission, or asking what the rules, the expectations are. show up. do the hard work. ask for forgiveness when you fuck up, but never give up.
Consensus changes: always a leadership problem, never a "CI is failing and a rebase is needed" problem. Yet somehow, all 5 of the open PRs against core fail CI and 3/5 need rebase, and likewise 2/3 of the open PRs against inquisition fail CI.
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the entire value proposition of a desentralised system is being unstoppable. the entire value proposition of encryption is being unreadable. the entire value proposition of privacy is protecting personal information from 3rd parties who have and will abuse that information.
@YaelOss The position taken by prosecutors is that the act of deploying open source code can be criminal if criminals subsequently use that code - regardless of the original developers' lack of control.
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also, feel free to reach out if you have questions. i have attended both and would be happy to share about my experience. no charge!.
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fantastic overview of how silent payments works, great article @BitBoxSwiss !.
We are proud to announce that the BitBox02 is the first hardware wallet to be able to securely send silent payments. 🎉. What are silent payments?. Read our new in-depth article explaining how the mechanics and cryptography behind silent payments work:.
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sure, plenty of problems with the law itself and plenty of problems with the state run wallet. but did you really expect the very first country to make bitcoin legal tender to get everything perfect right out the gate?.
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@elonmusk @TeslaGong @wintonARK bitcoin doesn’t use “energy per transaction.”. in fact, energy usage is completely independent of transaction rate (especially with lightning network). you’re barking up the wrong tree.
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breaking my twitter hiatus to shill silent payments 😁.
The Silent Payments BIP is finally out for review, together with a WIP implementation for Core. @josibake and I worked hard to get this polished and ready. A single silent payment address is enough to receive funds from anyone without loss of privacy🤫.
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they clearly state at the beginning of the indictment that they are charging samourai for being an unlicensed money transmitter. they also *acknowledge* that samourai never touched user funds:
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friendly reminder that software development is an iceberg: the majority of the work is beneath the surface, but critical to keeping that little bit at the top above water!.
@Dolu_Web @glozow @theinstagibbs It isn't a user-visible feature though: it's a low-level detail that improves channel management (and makes force-closing cheaper).
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@brian_armstrong support for withdrawing to bech32m (taproot) is trivial compared to implementing lightning and has an arguably bigger impact. taproot has been around since Nov 2021, so if you're not ignoring bitcoin. i only have one question:
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whaaat the fuck. by the same argument, "an undercover agent placed illicit funds into a wallet, sent the transaction to a miner and the miner mined it and collected a fee, ergo was complicit in the illicit receipt and transfer of money"
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how does this not also apply to every lightning routing node?.
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here is me paying 50€ to someone's lnurl after they bought me drinks (they refused to let me pay them back in person 😅). settling up my airbnb bill. and someone using BIP353+BOLT12 as a way to send me a message because we had just met and not exchanged signal numbers yet 😂
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just paid for my hotel with lightning at the church boutique hotel in Arnhem! felt magical 🥰.
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BIP352's killer use case: supporting open source with magic internet money 🧡.
You can now donate to the Cashu open-source project via BIP-352 silent payments. Silent payment addresses are ideal for receiving Bitcoin donations with a static address while still providing privacy.
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great thread on combining silent payments with swap-in-potentiam addresses for a unified wallet balance. as the thread points out, sp v0 on-chain outputs are incompatible with swap-in-potentiam on-chain outputs, but in theory this can work with an sp v1 address like so. .
So. how can we integrate silent payments into a unified-balance LN Wallet?. A core technique of unifying balances in both onchain UTXOs and Lightning channels is swap-in-potentiam onchain addresses. An onchain UTXO protected by a swap-in-potentiam address is. .
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