My PhD research is mainly on the Balance Discovery Attack (BDA). The BDA was introduced (in academia) by Herrera-Joancomartí et al.. In their paper they used the term balance discovery attack and balance disclosure attack interchangeably. Nowadays the term probing or probing attack is more commonly used, but I prefer BDA, so I'll keep using that while shouting at the clouds.

The BDA is an attack on privacy. It can be used to discover balances of payment channels, but when used over a longer period of time it can also be used to detect actual payments. These are things we want to keep private, so it is interesting to look at ways of preventing this data from being leaked. Multi-part payments, and more specifically Payments Split & Switch (PSS) has some surprising effects that can prevent data from being leaked in ways that I will try to explain in this post.

Lightning Network uses source-based routing. What that means is that the sender is responsible for finding a route to the payee. But because the sender doesn't know the balances of all channels along a possible route, the proposed route can fail for lack of liquidity. So the sender is forced to try routes until it stumbles upon one that has enough liquidity to relay the payment; it's a process of trial and error. To increase the likelihood of success the idea of splitting up a payments into smaller parts was floated early on in the development of Lightning Network. The idea was that multiple smaller payments were more likely to succeed than one big payment. But you still want all separate parts of such a payment to act as one single atomic payment, that either succeeds completely or doesn't succeed at all.

Dit linkje? https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/28/twitter-is-dying/

Zie ik daar nou het verzameld werk van Paulo Coelho?

People underestimate the amount by which software systems act as living organisms that require constant care and maintenance. Or as cars that suffer from wear and tear, if you don't like the former metaphor.

Yes, desert climate in the north, (sub)tropical climate in sub-saharan Africa. But I am not suggesting it is a good case to make. Look at the deserts of Namibia for instance.

There is a meteorological case to be made.

Complaining about stock buybacks just isn't part of public discourse in the NL. Is that because European companies don't do buybacks, or because the public just doesn't care about them?

And the link for those who are interested: https://open.substack.com/pub/noahpinion/p/macroeconomics-is-still-in-its-infancy?r=8mbdb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

> Macroeconomists want their math hard enough to make them look smarter than sociologists, but not too hard that they can’t get clean-looking solutions.

Don't we all. Don't we all.

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But isn't that what Eric and Udi are saying as well? You seem to be disagreeing with them, but I'm not sure.

Anyway, there's a lot of noise. I found my corner in academia which I am enjoying, and it's all about the technical core, blissfully unaware of crypto influencers.

Waarom vind je B2C inhoudelijk interessanter?

Ik echo het sentiment hier dat B2B minder gezeik geeft, maar ik denk dat de marges bij B2C potentieel wel veel interessanter kunnen zijn.

I took up cubing at the tender age of 45. Two days later and I have a sub 2-minute PR and an ao5 of 2:13. @jpermofficial 's tutorials are a huge help. Interesting to see if I can get a sub 1-minute PR and how long that will take me.

ill doers are ill deemers, it seems. There's a Dutch saying for this, which translates to: "How the innkeeper is, that’s how he trusts his guests."

The confusion comes from Hello Kitty, which is Japanese. The similarities in style are striking. So much so, that the creator of Miffy brought Hello Kitty to court over a less known character called Cathy (and won).

I've been playing around with the @StanfordOVAL Virtual Assistant called Genie...

Thanks for mentioning my research @bitgould! The above paper is wrong about LN being shortest path only, tho. All major clients support route randomization. Route randomization means the payment algorithm does not always use the lowest-fee or shortest route.

@MustardVideos I really enjoyed your vid on flying wings. Did you know that the idea is still pursued by @tudelft? check: https://www.tudelft.nl/lr/flying-v