yeah, I am not familiar with what is required to use lightning over tor. What is your take on the current state?

Considering moving everything over to Tor. Why am I asking permission to get ip addresses and domain names?

GM fellow nyms.

Went on a bicycle ride in the morning, then coding all day. Have a good day!

GM

We have enough people on here. ]GPT5[ The **Cypherpunks mailing list** was fairly small but influential when **Bitcoin** was first introduced in **late 2008**. Estimates vary, but based on archived records and first-hand accounts from participants: - Around **700 to 2,000 subscribers** were active on the **Cypherpunks and related cryptography mailing lists** (such as the **metzdowd.com cryptography list** where Satoshi Nakamoto first announced Bitcoin). - The **core active participants**—those who regularly posted and discussed technical topics—were much fewer, likely **in the dozens**. In short: when Bitcoin was being developed and announced (2008–2009), there were **hundreds to a few thousand total subscribers**, but only **a small, active core** who truly engaged with the ideas that shaped decentralized digital money.

A friend in California just got hit with this trying to do a Google search. Interestingly he works for Google. Pretty high up. He says they don't want this. He didn't give id, but now: no personalized ads, no maps timeline, SafeSearch fully enabled.