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> I really don't think some random guy wants to weaken ssh just to extract some petty ransomware cash from a couple targets.

Which is why there's probably nothing remotely interesting in them logs.

It's quite fun. Start here: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
Re:Erotetics on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @07:44PM (#30621921)
Shouldn't take too long to run out of "silly" questions before you get to the right ones, as long as the interest is there and it's genuine. Now how do you foster sincere curiosity is a better question :)
Maybe that's a good thing?
I'm trying to dispel the myth that all good dotcoms are already taken and/or unaffordable with https://zlipa.com

It's passive income in the sense that I add new brands in the weekend and mostly doing this for fun.

Re:Show HN: I Built HN for Crypto on Monday January 17, 2022 @12:51PM (#29969260)
Meanwhile, accepting Bitcoin Lightning Network payments is free of charge. Can't wait for more adoption.
Re:The Perils of an .xyz Domain on Thursday September 16, 2021 @04:06PM (#28556791)
Re:MasterCard Acquires CipherTrace on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:20PM (#28474801)
> Just the transaction costs alone make it infeasible to use Bitcoin to order pizza.

Blatantly false. Transacting on the Lightning Network (Bitcoin L2) costs next to nothing and the settlement is final and immediate.

Screw pizza, top-of-mind, you can pay a fraction of a cent's worth for an API call with Bitcoin (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28459713)...

or pay 66 satoshis (~$0.03) / hour for a VPS instance (https://www.bitclouds.sh)...

or buy gift cards for any amount (https://www.bitrefill.com/buy/)...

or tip anyone as little as 1 satoshi (~$0.00046) (here's 5 cents worth https://ln.cash/tFVDMpUMRQPYwyj9DZHMqg)...

or hell, if you're feeling like pizza, DM me on Twitter and I'll get you one, paid for in Bitcoin (https://ln.pizza).

Re:Panama unveils bill to make Bitcoin legal tender on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:08PM (#28474682)
Selling 1 or 2 USD billions worth of Bitcoin each day, right.
Re:Panama unveils bill to make Bitcoin legal tender on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:06PM (#28474666)
Are you personally not satisfied with LN's level of privacy? If you're not, mind explaining why?
Re:Panama unveils bill to make Bitcoin legal tender on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:04PM (#28474647)
Don't know, perhaps decentralization?
Re:Panama unveils bill to make Bitcoin legal tender on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:45AM (#28467974)
*anonymity

Bitcoin's Lightning Network is private enough, thank you very much.

Re:Panama unveils bill to make Bitcoin legal tender on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:41AM (#28467948)
Running a T-account in Excel is even more energy-efficient.
Re:Panama unveils bill to make Bitcoin legal tender on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:39AM (#28467941)
It definitely would, if it was true.
Re:Panama unveils bill to make Bitcoin legal tender on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:38AM (#28467935)
Market cap is a useless metric. All altcoins without exception are a leveraged way to play Bitcoin.
Re:Panama unveils bill to make Bitcoin legal tender on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:38AM (#28467930)
What are you talking about? Bitcoin's daily trading volume is well into billions of dollars.
Re:Panama unveils bill to make Bitcoin legal tender on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:35AM (#28467917)
Transactions on Bitcoin's layer 2 (the Lightning Network) are extremely private and there's no way to blacklist anything.
Re:Panama unveils bill to make Bitcoin legal tender on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:32AM (#28467902)
Same thing, tried dipping my toes a couple of years ago, payments would often fail, gui inexistent, etc. But we've come a long way since then.

For starters, download bluewallet and get some free sats to play around with:

https://lnfaucet.com

https://fixedfloat.com/lightning-faucet

Quite a rabbit hole you're falling into. And no, there's no public ledger.

Re:Panama unveils bill to make Bitcoin legal tender on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:15AM (#28467806)
Why would anyone look beyond Bitcoin defeats me
Re:Panama unveils bill to make Bitcoin legal tender on Thursday September 09, 2021 @05:09AM (#28467781)
Bitcoin is perfectly fungible, if you know what you're doing. Even beyond this, there are no "accounts" or "addresses" on the Lightning Network - its privacy is superb.
Re:Bitcoin’s first day as El Salvador’s legal tender on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @05:06PM (#28463066)
> Nobody uses side-chains...

I use LN every day. Also, have you heard the El Salvador news?

This is just active, malicious disinformation - why are you doing this?

Re:Bitcoin’s first day as El Salvador’s legal tender on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @05:01PM (#28463012)
LN blows away legacy payment rails by many orders of magnitude - you can do hundreds of millions of transactions per second, today.
Re:Bitcoin’s first day as El Salvador’s legal tender on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @04:58PM (#28462965)
This is wrong. Lightning Network transactions are 100% non-custodial.
Re:Twitter is working on the ability to receive tips in Bitcoin on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @03:14PM (#28384355)
A shame really, they could've supported it natively and all it would have taken is a few dev-hours.
Re:Twitter is working on the ability to receive tips in Bitcoin on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @03:12PM (#28384315)
To clarify, that's ln.cash-es service fee. A 50 sat micro-transaction between two decently connected nodes would be completely free of charge.

There's plenty Zero Base Fee nodes (mine included) that make that possible: https://lnrouter.app/graph/zero-base-fee

Re:Twitter is working on the ability to receive tips in Bitcoin on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @02:13PM (#28383594)
I'm a Bitcoiner and am tipping sats (1 sat = 0.00000001 BTC or $0.00049) left and right.

Here's 50 sats https://ln.cash/ogFZFxSbJCjuCDZQ3L2rR6

Re:Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack? on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @09:04AM (#28301126)
https://zlipa.com - Unique, high-impact dotcoms for startups

- Digital Ocean VPS running Ubuntu

- Let's Encrypt certificate

- Simple Analytics

- Nginx + PHP

- SleekDB NoSQL

- AWS SES email

- Cloudflare CDN

Re:Twitter starts to require login to view tweets on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @04:14PM (#28294357)
Just use a verification service like https://sms4sats.com

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