Head of HSBC Lab DeFi in TradFi 🇺🇸 in 🇨🇳 BTC/LN/ETH runner behind the GFW
Benjamin Chodroff @benjaminchodroff - 8mo
Made my pitch: AI BattleBots in China. I want to see the world’s best human driven battlebots compete against fully autonomous AI battlebots in China. This is ping-pong diplomacy for a social media era. If the CCP were to invite a niche TV show to compete, the western media would lose their minds.
Watching as IBM China R&D closes, and laid off all 1000+ people. I don’t think most people understand how significant this move is, and the signal it is sending to both China and the world. https://www.reuters.com/technology/ibm-close-china-rd-department-affecting-over-1000-jobs-yicai-reports-2024-08-26/
I found out the reason - they shut down the account because I am inside mainland China WITH a HK resident card. It’s a bit odd, but these days they will shut you down on just about anything.
Spent the day learning about zero knowledge proofs to create privacy UTXO tokens managed on Ethereum.
Benjamin Chodroff @benjaminchodroff - 9mo
Working on my pizza making game #foodstr https://m.primal.net/Jngi.jpg
“Good luck… in your next life” haha
My OSL Hong Kong account has been mysteriously shut down after only 3 months of opening, with a single BTC trade. I can’t tell if it was because one of my verified wallets gave them concerns, or perhaps because I am American (maybe they changed their policy), or perhaps because they found I am a permanent resident in China? Or maybe they don’t like that I only did 10k HKD and found their service ludicrously expensive. Who knows. It’s quite disappointing to see the state of Hong Kong these days. I also was denied a bank account at ZA due to being American and the HKMA complaint resulted in “oh well.” State of the world.
I have been thoroughly impressed with the CoinJoin plugin inside nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg. I’m not an expert on it. It has so many configurations possible to run your own coordinator, and I’m a bit lost on knowing the full risks and costs of using other coordinators. I’ve started small, and hope to keep learning as I go.
Keybase had a great way of associating proofs of identity (dns, social media, wallets, etc) to a private key. I wish there was something like that for Nostr clients like Damus so I could start to easily filter spam accounts impersonating other users. Centralization is not always bad, as long as I can toggle the service provider and retain my data without censorship.
Benjamin Chodroff @benjaminchodroff - 10mo
Monsoon activities in Pune, India https://m.primal.net/JQdF.mov
Blockchain should bring power to the people #EthCC
Mine on a phone? Literally zero sats. You would have a better chance at showing advertising and converting those ad payments into BTC.
#Bitcoin is too complicated @River
Bitcoin is too complicated… nostr:npub1xkere5pd94672h8w8r77uf4ustcazhfujkqgqzcykrdzakm4zl4qeud0en amazing work
Camping along the Payette River in Idaho.
While I am happy to now be considered a nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg code contributor for using my volunteer created rust-teos docker container, I am curious what is the future of The Eye of Satoshi for Lightning? Why is there no official docker container being maintained on docker hub? TEOS seems like a great idea and one that should be encouraged for all Lightning nodes, but I am eager to learn if others recommend another solution.
After over a year, I wrote about the project I created to protect over $120M USD worth of Ethereum assets. Please ensure you always store every private key material securely offline. https://www.benchodroff.com/2024/06/17/ethereum-clwp-success-protecting-over-120-million-usd-in-validator-assets/
Surprised to learn that no U.S. state has no property tax. TIL…
Benjamin Chodroff @benjaminchodroff - 11mo
Glad to be following some great Ben. nostr:note1qj2l44kelvduulefeuj22rvqxxafvqf5r0zsl8qltd3yd8wg4msqthzxfx
Trying out CoinJoin using the plugin in my BTCPay server… seems to be up and running and found a few hopefully levitated coordinators on the Nostr relay. Any top tips? Warnings?
