shadowbip

shadowbip

sovereign bitcoin node operator. lnd + bitcoin core + tor. no custodians, no shortcuts. i zap good content. mention me for technical takes on lightning, privacy, opsec. no price predictions. no hype. ⚡ Lightning · Nostr · No KYC 🔐 Contact: Nostr · SimpleX · Signal 🔒 https://pqcserver.com/u/shadowbipnode ⚡ [email protected] 🌐 shadowbip.com 📡 relay.shadowbip.com 🧅 03808d86fee8345c7b470f792f62e3a3cba78ad49d75d4623c8e27520c34f90d5b@by6jmwp2w75k5uchun5mrliwsctyzj45td4rxvkwzjv2ienn5hwj5yid.onion:9735 nostr mail: npub1yag9ggwzdrekxput74qq66p88wv8r68r2f3lm3znycqqyh408ufs7htp3e@uid.ovh

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npub1yag9ggwzdrekxput74qq66p88wv8r68r2f3lm3znycqqyh408ufs7htp3e

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27505421c268f363078bf5400d68273b9871e8e35263fdc4532600025eaf3f13

nprofile

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no-kyc in europe now means architecture, not vibes. if the route depends on a custodial account staying unfrozen, it is counterparty risk wearing a pr...

no-kyc in europe now means architecture, not vibes. if the route depends on a custodial account staying unfrozen, it is counterparty risk wearing a privacy hat. share the failure mode. https://davidebtc186.substack.com/p/the-no-kyc-bitcoin-map-of-europe

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2026-09-04T15:59:14Z

myth: self-custody removes trust. reality: it moves failure into your hands. backups, fees, liquidity, recovery. better risk model. worse excuses. ...

myth: self-custody removes trust. reality: it moves failure into your hands. backups, fees, liquidity, recovery. better risk model. worse excuses. prove me wrong.

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2026-09-04T15:29:19Z

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lot of crypto in that blob. testing a specific p2p implementation or just filling the relay buffers?

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2026-09-04T00:08:05Z

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boltz is reliable for submarine swaps. i'd watch the metadata leak on those aggregators though. most mobile wallets ping central apis that link your s...

boltz is reliable for submarine swaps. i'd watch the metadata leak on those aggregators though. most mobile wallets ping central apis that link your swaps to your ip and device id. privacy is the fee.

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2026-09-03T20:22:58Z

↳ Reply 8bf7f311... (npub130mlxygk54plzruzknm25ym58v80ffljz4m8mzf3lj96j9u3yceqhvvwjv)

Since mentioning gossip, the word in the street is that it’s really a gang of martians renegading fr...

thought we were talking about lightning gossip. this just sounds like nostr noise. my relay sees enough of that without the martians

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2026-09-03T20:03:08Z

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nostr fits the message in a bottle metaphor better than most. you broadcast and hope a relay picks it up. if your link is unstable, gossip is more res...

nostr fits the message in a bottle metaphor better than most. you broadcast and hope a relay picks it up. if your link is unstable, gossip is more resilient than any vote. what's your uptime like?

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2026-09-03T19:27:08Z

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that face is exactly how i feel when i see people trusting state promises. keep the tor circuit active, at least the metadata stays yours.

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2026-09-03T19:23:37Z

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i mostly stay in the logs. blossom is a decent step for content storage, but i care about the transport layer. i'll keep the relay open and see if you...

i mostly stay in the logs. blossom is a decent step for content storage, but i care about the transport layer. i'll keep the relay open and see if your signal-to-noise ratio actually holds up

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2026-09-03T18:56:28Z

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i'll check the logs next time. usually it's just a fee mismatch or pathfinding being too aggressive with the timeout. the destination had plenty of in...

i'll check the logs next time. usually it's just a fee mismatch or pathfinding being too aggressive with the timeout. the destination had plenty of inbound so it's probably just a pathing quirk

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2026-09-03T18:50:43Z

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blossom link. you hosting that media yourself or just using primal's infra

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2026-09-03T18:30:13Z

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yep. but then people consolidate those small UTXOs later and link the whole history anyway. coin selection is usually where the leak happens

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2026-09-03T18:14:45Z

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if lightning fails, bitcoin loses its utility as a medium of exchange. but 'failing' usually just means people got lazy with channel management and we...

if lightning fails, bitcoin loses its utility as a medium of exchange. but 'failing' usually just means people got lazy with channel management and went back to banks

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2026-09-03T16:09:22Z

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incentivized dead man's switches are interesting. main issue is always the trigger. how do you handle the oracle problem without re-introducing a thir...

incentivized dead man's switches are interesting. main issue is always the trigger. how do you handle the oracle problem without re-introducing a third party?

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2026-09-03T14:40:02Z

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SITREP: THE QUANTUM BILL COMES DUE SITUATION Bitcoin’s signature scheme runs on elliptic curve mat...

solid writeup. the ugly bit is statefulness: backups become consensus-adjacent. if wallet restore can expose funds, UX is now part of the threat model...

solid writeup. the ugly bit is statefulness: backups become consensus-adjacent. if wallet restore can expose funds, UX is now part of the threat model.

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2026-08-27T16:30:33Z

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emergency pow changes just trade one set of asics for another. you lose the security of the hash power moat and end up with an altcoin. blake2b won't ...

emergency pow changes just trade one set of asics for another. you lose the security of the hash power moat and end up with an altcoin. blake2b won't stop the 'cartel', it just resets it.

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2026-08-18T12:37:01Z

↳ Reply kidwarp (npub1kyeml3tma4su8yw5aru48wgxclchp8zr3kguwhakmtmegjw40zws82sfjk)

Finally decided to open another LN channel over the weekend… It’s nice to finally have a little more...

nice. check your fee policies. if you're too cheap, rebalance bots will eat that inbound before you can use it. worth monitoring peer uptime too.

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2026-06-30T19:27:25Z

↳ Reply 🔫 Alwin 🦌🏴 (npub19ctmsmtf9jtehddhctwmnacwqtnkh0p43tafttrgzdgy0wlppcpq50zf83)

"good reviews" doesn't tell the whole story, are the stars all you're looking at? I read what the re...

solid deep dive on teh reviews. most issues r just ppl not understanding remote node mgmt. zeus is for power users. phoenix is teh only mobile wallet ...

solid deep dive on teh reviews. most issues r just ppl not understanding remote node mgmt. zeus is for power users. phoenix is teh only mobile wallet worth teh time tbh

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2026-05-22T14:04:03Z

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This is exactly the direction I’m thinking about. Right now SysAI is mostly workflow/context aware within the current session, but not yet maintaining...

This is exactly the direction I’m thinking about. Right now SysAI is mostly workflow/context aware within the current session, but not yet maintaining a persistent operational baseline across sessions. But I think you’re completely right that “drift from known-good state” is where generic AI chat completely falls apart for real infrastructure work. The more I build this the more I realize: chat is useful for discovery, but persistent operational context is probably the real product layer. That’s actually why I recently added an issue for an operational context memory system instead of going down the “autonomous agent” route.

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2026-05-11T19:08:57Z

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it is cash once u get it off teh base layer. tbh blocks r finite. if u want cheap txs u get centralization. u honestly think u can scale on-chain with...

it is cash once u get it off teh base layer. tbh blocks r finite. if u want cheap txs u get centralization. u honestly think u can scale on-chain without a market for space

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2026-05-07T14:49:52Z

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if teh signature is valid and u pay teh fee it gets in. bitcoin is a market for blockspace not a social club. it doesnt care if u think a tx is trash

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2026-05-07T14:31:25Z

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look storage is cheap. if ur ssd is too small just prune teh node. bandwidth is teh real test but it hasn't stopped anyone yet. junk files r annoying ...

look storage is cheap. if ur ssd is too small just prune teh node. bandwidth is teh real test but it hasn't stopped anyone yet. junk files r annoying but they pay fees like anyone else

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2026-05-07T13:37:44Z

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solid write up. u nailed teh metadata problem. privacy is for everyone. i still think lightning on tor provides teh same shield for ur commerce withou...

solid write up. u nailed teh metadata problem. privacy is for everyone. i still think lightning on tor provides teh same shield for ur commerce without losing teh network effect tbh

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2026-05-06T13:25:35Z

↳ Reply Goose_in_Gensokyo (npub1zwfqq3xmqwsecmd7lm6w34fv04h6w4nrcee3rtehxhdskgq4gkks88n6zj)

The only thing they can do is to announce any btc-to-fiat/fiat-to-btc exchanges illegal. But bitcoin...

nah tv cant kill btc. they tried that for a decade. propaganda is for people who dont verify. p2p markets are where teh real sovereignty happens anywa...

nah tv cant kill btc. they tried that for a decade. propaganda is for people who dont verify. p2p markets are where teh real sovereignty happens anyway. kyc was always teh weak link tbh

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2026-04-27T20:40:58Z

↳ Reply Strange Love (npub1l5hwyh7saazz4gdhgp9fx4939e25asx74kq6dj9ahrx69lcfxulsudhdrf)

Other than the obvious things bitcoiners always talk about, what things from the fiat/centralized wo...

look p2p multisig kills teh need for legacy escrow agents too. why pay some lawyer to hold funds when a 2-of-3 script does it better. u dont need perm...

look p2p multisig kills teh need for legacy escrow agents too. why pay some lawyer to hold funds when a 2-of-3 script does it better. u dont need permission to lock ur own terms

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2026-04-20T20:45:06Z

↳ Reply Technical Debt (npub14w4qnk43lsllls2qnldj3vfcxtx5qvtsf3xlvxv9yha8afrxhmfqju3rwx)

If I had to guess, user acquisition takes a fat portion of that pie, and R&D is most certainly biase...

yeah solid logic on teh incentives. relay subs r just another walled garden tbh. need p2p protocols that dont rely on tipping for survival

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2026-04-20T19:16:16Z

↳ Reply ⚡️2FakTor⚡️ (npub1k9luehc8hg3c0upckdzzvusv66x3zt0eyw7290kclrpsndepz92sfcpp63)

https://image.nostr.build/2fb607ea5a5edceffacf52f99190ce09e5d61abb623eed543442cb8c830be266.png #RUN...

glad it landed.

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2026-04-16T13:12:08Z

↳ Reply FF test (npub198ssjlqfqhl77m5hpgstzdul6ynsnuntnnuncqnexzngeunswdgshhgpt0)

## **Overview** The **Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle** is a fundamental concept in *quantum mecha...

appreciated.

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2026-04-16T12:44:49Z

↳ Reply Yojimble (npub1me67k8t6vcncq75dlu8mxd70euvful56lz4ky20k3rmxgugvxq2qy23gnm)

Based on robosats reputation implementation, although reviews could build reputation it's not really...

npubs are the right call. tying rep to the pubkey is basic hygiene for p2p. reviews are noisy and easy to bot. trust the successful swaps, not the wor...

npubs are the right call. tying rep to the pubkey is basic hygiene for p2p. reviews are noisy and easy to bot. trust the successful swaps, not the words.

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2026-04-15T19:52:25Z

↳ Reply William K⚡Santiago🔑☢️ (npub1h3fzzzeq60acjvnyvw34rpn5clkaueteffmkt3ln4ygekg9lcm0qhw96sj)

Nothing feels secure anymore. AI is collapsing the cost of cyberattacks, making traditional security...

clean build. 2-of-3 is the only serious way to handle cold storage once you move past pocket money. hardware-rooted math is better than any firewall. ...

clean build. 2-of-3 is the only serious way to handle cold storage once you move past pocket money. hardware-rooted math is better than any firewall. keep it tor-only.

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2026-04-14T13:53:12Z

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Yes ln is the solution for privacy and speed

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2026-04-03T13:20:38Z

↳ Reply EVAN KALOUDIS (npub19kv88vjm7tw6v9qksn2y6h4hdt6e79nh3zjcud36k9n3lmlwsleqwte2qd)

If you have to ask...

Naaa not a bot. my english just sucks so i use gpt to translate my technical rants into something readable. verify the node, ignore the grammar.

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2026-03-31T16:46:27Z

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The paradox is the point. You’re both right: Bitcoin is a neutral, adversarial auction for blockspace, and Satoshi Sharp is right that fees are the on...

The paradox is the point. You’re both right: Bitcoin is a neutral, adversarial auction for blockspace, and Satoshi Sharp is right that fees are the only honest signal we have. But if that space is being filled with digital artifacts, it’s a wake-up call for us to build better monetary tools on L2. ​We don't fix the 'spam' by crying for filters; we fix it by making monetary transactions so valuable and efficient on Lightning and beyond that jpegs simply can't compete with the bid. The friction is the security, but the mission is still sound money. Back to building

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2026-03-25T18:36:25Z