rafael_xmr

Yep

Yes it is an Amethyst fork with a Monero wallet and support for tipping

And then switching from Matrix to nostr channels and from IRC to SimpleX private messaging

It seems to be more like hiding coins in different addresses while obscuring it on chain & using some clever math to make the UX better.

You are accurate: you "hide" coins in different addresses which are only know to the receiver and the sender, I cannot paste a SP address in a block explorer and find what addresses belong to it, and what is the total balance of this BTC user. I can however send a payment to it and then have a "watch" on this entity, there is no obscuring happening on-chain so usual heuristics like when a coin is spent, to where, how much is change, etc still apply.

Which also means if they spend many SP payments together, they reveal to me & others all the addresses belonging to them and what the total balance was, you can think of it like if bitcoin users sent their BTC addresses to each other via DMs, but it removes the interactivity step from handling new addresses, while adding the scanning requirement so the receiver can also know which addresses were generated to them without having to ask senders each time

It is a good feature to have in general in my opinion, but definitely does not come any close to competing with Monero still

Based. I couldn't find it on annas archive before

Great blog! does this have any benefit over a polyseed mnemonic where you also have a secret password? With polyseed as well as BIP39, even if your mnemonic is caught you can use that plain seed as a decoy that opens a fake wallet, while your real seed with your real funds can only be decrypted with the password, and this encrypted mnemonic by hand won't result in a valid seed so the malicious actor can assume that a valid seed still exists and it still needs to be seized or brute forced?

I think this method is better when using steganography combined since the mnemonic looks like a blob of nothing when reading the contents of the file, while if an actual seed was used it could reveal there is a Monero seed hidden in that file, but then I think a better encryption method can be used since using digital files loses the benefit of not using a computer?

https://github.com/tevador/polyseed

And trocador.app released gift cards :D people must be gift card shopping, I hear there's many options available

You can compare the diffs like so: https://github.com/haveno-dex/haveno/compare/master...retoaccess1:haveno-reto:master but for extra security build the binaries yourself if their repo's changes look good or as expected from the Haveno setup documentation

ok no servers make sense, but choosing arbitrators is like choosing a server equivalent to a multisig wallet, there is "someone's computer" that will have the third key to resolve arbitration issues, and also can it read chat messages? if so networks should be picked with care, but of course trades can complete without it, but I was confused and called it "federation" for the fact they should be merged in the UI

I didn't read the docs yet but what do the "haveno networks" do, wouldn't it be beneficial to have a federated design? I.e. even if they don't interact directly, I as a user of both can list their orders, make trades on each on the same UI?

it was explained in the blog post I shared, but Ratatui's share come from this: https://www.drips.network/app/drip-lists/34625983682950977210847096367816372822461201185275535522726531049130 so the Radicle project decided to split a certain value between all dependencies the project uses, and "Drips" is an ethereum based contract that is supposed to distribute a percentage to each projects "address" but in this case how I think it's working is OpenCollective is the one holding the keys to the address that the smart contract sends funds to, so they basically collect the amount earned and send it to the project's owner in this case Ratatui, otherwise that would be "lost" if no one were to claim those funds, and if Drips is contract based it means there is no one holding and distributing the rewards so this is why you have to claim the funds from the contract, and it's why it's not a direct contribution in my mind but also the difference is the previous support to crypto was native in the OpenCollective app and this is what is now disabled, but this is just an example of them receiving and holding funds via crypto means still

As per docs they removed this option for individual users to contribute using crypto as a payment method: https://docs.opencollective.com/help/financial-contributors/crypto but they still manage crypto assets, as shown by the recent Ratatui invoice paid by the "drips network" https://opencollective.com/ratatui/contributions/751695