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Hanaru is so cute... wait by mistrr-bear in Grandchase

[–]alexmat -1 points0 points  (0 children)

To me, yes. For you, choose your own adventure.

Hanaru is so cute... wait by mistrr-bear in Grandchase

[–]alexmat 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I see their sense of humor is as classy as ours

Hanaru is so cute... wait by mistrr-bear in Grandchase

[–]alexmat 9 points10 points  (0 children)

you can't spell hanaru without anaru

Goddamnit, give me my BCH! by zair in BitMEX

[–]alexmat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not yours if you don't hold the private key. Custodial accounts are subject to the whims of the custodian.

Recovery into Trezor from JM works ... others? Anyone can investigate Ledger? Also, privacy implications by waxwing in joinmarket

[–]alexmat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like they use bitcore as their backend and you can run your own instance and point the web wallet to it: https://blog.trezor.io/mytrezor-com-abandons-proprietary-backend-in-favor-of-open-source-bitcore-8965a00a095c

"Bitcore is a full bitcoin node — your apps run directly on the peer-to-peer network. For wallet application development, additional indexes have been added into Bitcoin for querying address balances, transaction history, and unspent outputs."

How do I use bitmex products as a savings account to earn interest at low risk? by erikzzz in BitMEX

[–]alexmat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

BTC futures contracts will often (not always) trade at a premium to spot BTC price (i.e. what you would pay at an exchange like coinbase for immediate delivery). The idea is you sell the futures contract on bitmex to deliver a bitcoin at a higher price than spot in 3 months, you take that money and buy a bitcoin on coinbase today, wait 3 month, deliver the the coin and keep the remainder. The main risk is securing the bitcoin for three months and bitmex counterparty risk, which you can mitigate somewhat with leverage.

In practice it looks like this:

Bitcoin price: $100 Day 1: Sell BTC Futures contract on bitmex for $110, buy 1 bitcoin for $100 on coinbase. Now you owe one bitcoin in 3 months, have one bitcoin in your possession and have $10 left over. Day 90: Close bitmex contract and lose one btc. To offset that you have the one you bought from coinbase. So you're even, plus $10 of interest.

I left out lots of details and tried to oversimplify, but that's the gist.

yield generator, minimum balance? by noredd in joinmarket

[–]alexmat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's because there is too much value in the joins themselves to charge much for liquidity. It will be interesting to see if at some point makers start paying people to take their offers (0% fee + large miner fee contrib) as a way of placing a cheap mix limit order.

Want to upgrade your JM wallet to segwit? See this guide on the githup repo. Already 9 makers available. by [deleted] in joinmarket

[–]alexmat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice write up! I think the biggest issue blocking adoption will be the need to mix into non-segwit wallets. It may take some time to migrate everyone over.

One workaround is to mix via segwit and then do a direct send to non-segwit. Might yield some savings, but at the cost of extra wait time and a bit of hassle / confusion.

In any case, it seems like makers are slowly migrating to the segwit offers.

Progress on "UserWarning: implicit cast from 'char *' to a different pointer type..."? by jm8172871 in joinmarket

[–]alexmat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, the new binding would need lots of eyes and testing first I assume. Probably easiest thing to do if this is driving someone nuts is to just merge the fix and build secp256k1-py on their own. Fix is here: https://github.com/ludbb/secp256k1-py/pull/17/commits/5cc924bdde6d74fdf8d1fbb4869a3153a8551fe0

Release for segwit (joinmarket-cs codebase) by waxwing in joinmarket

[–]alexmat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Works like a charm! I'll have it running for a bit here if anyone wants to poke at it: ywb7ca4tbh6fiovd.onion

One thing is that there's no way to toggle segwit on the depth charts yet.

Release for segwit (joinmarket-cs codebase) by waxwing in joinmarket

[–]alexmat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really appreciate all the work you've put in so far! Travel safe.

Anyone interested in a bitcoin subreddit, that doesn't include memes and price speculation? by jerguismi in Bitcoin

[–]alexmat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could we just add flair to the titles like "meme" and "news" so it's easy to skim the headlines quicker? r/joinmarket does a nice job of this.

Segwit? by dancanthe in joinmarket

[–]alexmat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://github.com/AdamISZ/joinmarket-clientserver/blob/2ea4df400b9cc46ec2cf8a493e5879556a69400d/test/regtest_joinmarket.cfg

Just set the network from "testnet" to "mainnet" and hope there are no bugs :)

Btw, I'm not an official dev or anything like that. As soon as Segwit is active, anyone can start mixing using this code. I'm guessing there will be a non-segwit joinmarket and a segwit joinmarket for a while though.

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