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The hardest part about being a contrarian is knowing when not to be.
The mind virus of conspiratorial thinking has been devastating. It completely paralyzes analysis and reduces everything to entertainment, fodder for clicks, traffic, and attention. It’s like a caricature of the Straussian close reading of texts: the “real” meaning is always hidden from view, and being unable to see it means you don’t have access to esoteric insights and knowledge. In reality, you’re just reading it wrong.
In the case of Russia right now, nobody really knows what’s happening. But that doesn’t matter; all you have to do is come up with the most absurd theory, and the more absurd it is, the truer it must be.
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German wind turbines near Leipzig, doing everything they can to help solve the energy crisis.
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"BUT WW3!!!"
These three men have more courage than all of Bitcoin Twitter combined.
Just look at this.
Shrapnel flies, the explosion tears the ground apart just meters away. Yet the Ukrainian soldier doesn’t flinch. Steel, grit, and unbreakable resolve—that’s who stands on the front line.
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To all the Solana memecoin degens spamming my mentios, I have one pet and it's name is your mom.
Hi @peterktodd. Not sure if you're aware but you're all over the Solana memesphere atm. A few degenerate questions if you don't mind. Do you have any animals? What are their names? Thanks.
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Not good.
Anyway, the only ethical option for Signal if this passes is to refuse to comply. Signal shouldn't even block the EU: let the EU block them.
It should be the only legal option too: implementing Chat Control is a crime against humanity. The US should explicitly criminalize compliance.
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe.
signal.org/blog/pdfs/germany…
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So Craig Wright has come out saying that HBO's documentary is bullshit.
On this, I think we should take him at his word.
After all, Craig Wright is the world's foremost expert on not being Satoshi.
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Solid investment thesis right there.
A+ fundamentals analysis.
I just bought 2% of $YOURMOM . Heres my Thesis:
Forbes just confirmed that HBO's documentary is saying Peter Todd is Satoshi. Theres some competeting coins currently, but the only one that really catches my eye is $yourmom
This is because earlier today Peter tweeted "my dogs name is your mom". Theres no public pets of his, so if HBO's evidence is convicing, this should be the main coin. Ticker is funny + has lore with him trolling saying its his dog. Should be the one
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Dogecoin's block interval is already just 60 seconds. That's low enough that larger miners already have a big profit advantage over smaller ones.
A 6 second block interval with 10MB blocks would just break the consensus.
Musk should focus on rockets.
Ideally, Doge speeds up block time 10X, increases block size 10X & drops fee 100X. Then it wins hands down.
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It's amazing how many idiots can look at a Russian soldier fleeing a drone and think "Ah! Obviously ethics demands we give him a chance to get back to base, get more weapons and ammo, and fight another day."
Fuck him. That's not a surrender. Killing him saves Ukrainian lives.
Drone attacks are really messed up. They are kiIIing people who are unarmed and want to surrender.
This war is only continuing because Biden and the EU keep funding it.
How many innocent Ukrainians and Russians need to die for Biden?
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Glamorizing Putin is pretty disgusting. The man is a war criminal responsible for killing and subjugating millions. His troops are literally hunting down Ukrainian civilians in front line cities like Kherson and murdering them with grenades dropped by drones.
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Custodia Bank is really interesting: all they want to do is offer non-fractional banking to customers to give them the option of ~zero risk banking.
Yet for some reason the regulators refuse to allow this. Why?
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I had no idea the standard paper sizes were so enormous. Literally hundreds of thousands of square kilometers!
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An excellent argument against taxing unrealized gains...
Seriously, imagine the shitshow the IRS could do by falsely accusing people of being Satoshi and seizing their assets on that basis. Madness.
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On the other hand, comparing Gaza to Russia is reasonable. Both decided to launch a war of terror against their neighbors civilians. The main difference is Russia did so from a position of strength. Hopefully both terrorist states will be thoroughly defeated.
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Killing off the Taliban was a worthwhile goal.
Trying to "win hearts and minds" on top of that was a stupid waste of money.
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Venezuela’s ruling regime just froze opposition leader Juan Guaid's bank accounts.
This is why we need Bitcoin, and even more importantly, physical cash.
Countries like Sweden that are trying to get rid of cash are setting themselves up for fascism.
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Fun fact: Elon Musk lost his position as CEO of PayPal in 2000 because of his attempts to get them to use Windows servers rather than Linux.
He should stick to rockets.
BTC & ETH are pursuing a multilayer transaction system, but base layer transaction rate is slow & transaction cost is high.
There is merit imo to Doge maximizing base layer transaction rate & minimizing transaction cost with exchanges acting as the de facto secondary layer.
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At this moment power is definitely an issue with most power being generated by conventional fossil fuel plants.
Shutting down Germany's nuclear plants was a terrible idea.
agora-energiewende.de/en/ser…
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“Todd maintains a divisive presence on Twitter, where he takes extreme right-wing views about issues like migrants in America and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.”
I gotta say, it's absolutely hilarious to see my views on Ukraine being portrayed as “extreme right-wing”, after all the claims that Trump is going to sell out Ukraine.
I have some personal connections to Ukraine, and I've been there multiple times during the full scale invasion. I was actually in Kyiv for September – only a week ago – among other things, giving talks to the Ukrainian Bitcoin community.
In that month I had Shahed drones flying very close to my Airbnb multiple times, and was within 2-3kms of explosions during air raids multiple times as well. It's accurate to say that there was a non-zero chance that Russia's genocidal war could have killed me. I don't say that to say I was doing anything particularly brave or dangerous – literally tens of millions of Ukrainians face those risks too. Often much worse ones – Russia is deliberately targeting Kherson civilians with grenades dropped from drones every single day. It's utterly horrifying.
It's just natural to want to see evil people stopped; the only way that's likely to happen is to kill the Russians doing this. That's why you see even "hipster", "peacenik", music events in Kyiv doing fundraisers to buy drones for the military.
That's not a right wing or left wing viewpoint. That's just not wanting to be murdered.
nitter.app/CaolanRob/status/18437…
Kherson is a living NIGHTMARE
I just went to a city in Ukraine where the Russians have been killing civilians with POV drones constantly and it’s getting worse
What I saw was shocking. The locals told me the only thing protecting them is the leaves 🍃 on the trees and now, the leaves are falling and there’s no protection and no plan
It’s an unprecedented evil I didn’t think humans were even possible of.
Everyone in that city looks up at the sky constantly because they are being hunted from above.
This is the future of warfare and it should terrify the world
Here’s my full documentary on Kherson
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Mandatory vaccination changes everything.
Without it, the likes of Pfizer would have to sell effective vaccines with messages of hope.
With it, they can sell ineffective vaccines with messages of fear.
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Yes. Your body detects lack of oxygen – the feeling of being out of air – by detecting the excess of CO2 that's usually present.
If it's purely a lack of oxygen, you just pass out and die.
Some mammals have the ability to directly detect lack of oxygen. But not humans.
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"Apparently, Ripple is missing 32,570 blocks from the start of the ledger and nodes are not able to obtain this data. This means that one may be unable to audit the whole chain and the full path of Ripple’s original 100 billion XRP launch." @BitMEXResearch
Very interesting!
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"How significant is it that the two top FDA officials responsible for vaccine research resigned last week and this week signed a letter in The Lancet that strongly warns against vaccine boosters?"
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Buy Bitcoin.
And there it is:
“You will not be allowed to access banking services if you have not been vaccinated.”
nitter.app/AwakenedLegal/status/1…
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$4 billion dollars of profits, yet Bitmain still couldn't shove a unwanted hardfork down users' throats.
That's the power of full nodes.
cnbc.com/amp/2018/02/23/secr…
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"Cab seizes 6,000 Bitcoin but sale impossible without access codes"
If you can't sell them, you didn't successfully seize them.
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Knowing that GPU's aren't used to mine Bitcoin is basic blockchain tech knowledge.
If a idiotic mistake like this can get past @Bloomberg's editors/fact checkers it's either too incompetent to be reporting on Bitcoin, or dishonestly making up #FakeNews
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“They didn't choose BTC's Lightning Network or any of the "faster and cheaper" L1 networks.”
Because PayPal built in the ability to freeze and seize funds at will and Lightning doesn't support that.
Coinbase, Visa and PayPal are using #Ethereum to deploy stablecoins and new payment systems.
They didn't choose BTC's Lightning Network or any of the "faster and cheaper" L1 networks.
This is where reality separates from narratives, and markets will take note of it.
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It's remarkable how dishonest the Facebook Libra technical documents are. They repeatedly describe Libra as decentralized, when it obviously isn't.
Reminds me of how often academics have lied to my clients, claiming their trusted consensus solutions are trustless/decentralized.
Facebook Calibra is today going public with (technical) papers on:
* Libra Blockchain
developers.libra.org/docs/as…
* LibraBFT Consensus
developers.libra.org/docs/as…
* Move Language & VM
developers.libra.org/docs/as…
And a plan to go more permissionless! libra.org/en-US/permissionle… #libra #crypto
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"The Ripple network did not re-route my request to the other 3 available servers: s1, s3, & s4.ripple.com"
When your cryptocurrency runs on servers with sX.ripple.com as the naming scheme, it just might be 100% centralized.
medium.com/@slinafirinne/on-…
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With all the drama coming out tonight, I gotta say that @CaolanRob is doing infinitely more important work than @CullenHoback
You really should watch this. And I hope one day I get the privilege of meeting Caolan.
As for Cullen, he bought lunch at least. 😂
Kherson is a living NIGHTMARE
I just went to a city in Ukraine where the Russians have been killing civilians with POV drones constantly and it’s getting worse
What I saw was shocking. The locals told me the only thing protecting them is the leaves 🍃 on the trees and now, the leaves are falling and there’s no protection and no plan
It’s an unprecedented evil I didn’t think humans were even possible of.
Everyone in that city looks up at the sky constantly because they are being hunted from above.
This is the future of warfare and it should terrify the world
Here’s my full documentary on Kherson
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Large fossil fuel power plant next to mostly still wind turbines.
Fact is, the wind just isn't blowing hard right now. 8km/hr winds.
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Bitcoiners paying with cash.
This is something that needs to happen a lot more often. Without cash we're all fucked.
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They're just psychopaths.
The fact that hundreds of Russians die every day is a good thing. It'd be better if it was a lot more.
Soldiers of Ukraine’s 12th Azov Brigade intercepted footage from a Russian FPV drone showing Russian operators hunting down civilian farmers and targeting agricultural equipment in Donetsk region. Another war crime added to the growing list of Russia’s violations against peaceful Ukrainians.
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I once gave a talk at a meetup in Toronto around 2013 and other than the organizer, no-one showed up, not even my girlfriend.
Explaining #bitcoin to an empty room in 2013, while it was worth less than $100.
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I decided to dress up as Craig Wright for Halloween.
Though in the spirit of Craig Wright, I won't be providing verifiable proof.
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Illegal donations to democrats go unpunished. But remember, your "unhosted" Bitcoin wallet is the biggest money laundering threat out there.
Sam Bankman-Fried donated $100 million in stolen customer funds to US politicians.
Today, the US Government announced they're dropping six charges against SBF and will not prosecute him for a political campaign finance violation.
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“The level of reaching here rivals QAnon stuff (which is pretty ironic if you know what Cullen's previous documentary was about)”
Exactly.
The truth is pretty simple: there's hundreds, even thousands of people who could have created Bitcoin.
We're not going to find Satoshi.
Just finished watching HBO Satoshi documentary.
That was one of the least compelling Satoshi Nakamoto identities I've ever seen.
Early on in the documentary, (around 11 minutes in), the narrator suggests the identity of Satoshi should not be known because it could endanger his safety. Then ironically, he proceeds to recklessly accuse Peter Todd of being Satoshi Nakamoto without actually having proof.
They interviewed Peter Todd, and Peter was trolling Cullen the whole time. At one point, Peter says "I suspect a lot of them [bitcoiners] will be very happy if you go this route [referring to Cullen accusing Peter of being Satoshi], because it's going to be yet another example of journalists really missing the point in a way that's very funny".
Peter was right, this documentary is garbage and shameful.
The ‘strongest’ piece of evidence presented was a reply Peter Todd made to Satoshi [image attached], which the documentary framed Peter Todd as accidentally continuing Satoshi’s thoughts while logged into an alt account. Believe it or not, this was their most compelling argument, and it's not compelling at all. It does not look to me like Peter is continuing Satoshi's thoughts, it just looks like he is correcting Satoshi, as Peter has done many times.
The second best piece of "evidence" was a message from a chat log where Peter Todd once said he's an a uniquely qualified expert in sacrificing coins, because he did exactly one sacrifice before himself.
Again, this is not proof of anything. Just more weak innuendo and circumstance
After that, that's when the evidence starts really falling off in quality (and that's saying something, because the earlier evidence wasn't good at all). Cullen tries to use the John Dillion emails as proof of something, but I'm really not sure how any of it was related. He goes into some insane conspiracy theory where he believes Peter Todd invented the John Dillion identity so he could coverup the tracks of his old forum post and make it easier for him to advocate for RBF. The level of reaching here rivals QAnon stuff (which is pretty ironic if you know what Cullen's previous documentary was about)
This documentary is emblematic of why all of the Satoshi Nakamoto theories are bunk. They all hinge on the belief that only a very small amount of people in the world are capable of building bitcoin, so the theorists just pick a notable person known for their achievements and work backwards retrospectively to find a bunch of "coincidences" in their lifestyle/background to support their confirmation bias. It's a broken methodology which results in stalking and unethical doxxing.
In reality, the potential amount of people with the profile and background capable of creating bitcoin in 2008 was in the tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands. The likelihood that Satoshi was any one of these semi-public figures that regularly get accused of being Satoshi is pretty slim. That's why if you don't have concrete proof, you should probably keep your Satoshi Nakamoto identity theories to yourself. All it does is put a $60 billion dollar bounty on the back of what is (most likely) the wrong person.
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Russia is getting forced out of Syria, a country with extremely important warm water ports they've spent hundreds of billions of dollars defending.
Is Russia responding to this disaster with nukes? No. Their "red lines" are a bluff.
Kill Russians. Make the world a better place.
The Russian fleet in Tartus received orders to abandon the naval port. "They are leaving."
This is how fast red lines are getting buried, no matter if they are in the Syrian desert or Ukraine's Donbas. When it is over, then it is over, and Russians leave.
Source: @stephglinksi
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Note how we're celebrating the launch of the Bitcoin whitepaper, rather than the software itself.
A sign of an industry that celebrates hype and marketing more than working code.
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“Also, at the time petertodd's account was named 'retep' and didn't have any immediately obvious connection to his identity. If there had been a slipup he could have just abandoned the account and certainly not later had it renamed to his legal name!”
-news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
Excellent point by Gregory Maxwell.
If @CullenHoback had actually wanted to find Satoshi, he would have presented his theories to Adam Back and I to see if there wasn't some trivial flaw in them like this.
But he didn't want to do that. He wanted to make a profitable documentary. So he never asked us if there were flaws in his theory.
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tl;dr: @jgarzik's 2x HF just failed due to an off-by-one error, w/ the root cause being the idiotic "activation block must be >1MB" HF logic (already failed before in a similar way on testnet).
Fact is, no competent devs worked on 2x, b/c competent devs know it's a dumb idea.
ZERO REVIEW
@wences @mikebelshe @JihanWu @jgarzik @ErikVoorhees @barrysilbert @OneMorePeter
Please take a moment to reflect.
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If Ukraine held an election during wartime the same scumbags complaining about a lack of elections during war would complain that the election isn't valid because people in occupied areas can't vote.
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Russians are just evil. Millions of Russians go to work every day knowing full well they're directly supporting mass murder with their tax dollars and they, at best, do nothing.
The entire Russian economy is a valid military target and it needs to be destroyed.
Russians are currently attacking Kyiv with swarms of Shahed drones, striking residential buildings all over the city.
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“Also my first time in Russia. And I didn't need a passport." 😂😂😂
This morning I went to Kursk in Russia.
I can confirm after speaking to soldiers in Sudzha that North Koreans have been spotted in combat on the front lines AND that the counter offensive has officially begun in a big way.
It was extremely loud and dramatic with KAB glide bombs and grads almost non stop with a 360* smoke stacks around the city
Releasing the full report later this week as part of a bigger documentary
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Read this.
The US government is basically arguing that an Ethernet cable used in a Bitcoin transaction is a money transmitter.
No surprise really. The psychopaths who work at these jobs want total control over everything. They always do. They have to be defeated politically.
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torontosun.com/news/more-you…
The numbers are insane: 5,535 total excess deaths in <65 year old with _at least_ 4,155 not related to covid in any way.
A lockdown fatality rate of 4,155 / 31.17 million = 0.013%
Lockdown was deadlier than covid itself for healthy people <45 years old.
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Really interesting fraud.
to;dr: Zcash clone Bitcoin Private secretly created an extra 2 million coin premine for the founders - something like half the market cap - hiding it in the shielded pool so no-one would notice.
So proud of the Coinmetrics team for this forensic analysis. One of the most fascinating case studies I've come across. Praise is due to @khannib for making the discovery and pushing through the investigation.
coinmetrics.io/bitcoin-priva…
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bitcoinforsignal.org/
I'm one of the judges who gave this project a well-deserved first place at the @btcplusplus hackathon.
I've been wanting to try MobileCoin. But it's such a failure I can't even buy any.
@signalapp needs to accept reality and just add Bitcoin support.
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At this moment power is definitely an issue with most power being generated by conventional fossil fuel plants.
Shutting down Germany's nuclear plants was a terrible idea.
agora-energiewende.de/en/ser…
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Great article from someone who actually tried to use IOTA
tl;dr: Even ignoring the ridiculous, amateur hour, security flaws, the network is a broken unusable mess.
codesuppository.blogspot.ca/…
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So someone managed to _accidentally_ make _all_ Parity multisig wallets suicide: paritytech.io/blog/security-…
Global shared state WTF people.
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Even though @jack is one of the people funding my defense against Craig Wright, I'm still going to say this: Twitter deserves to be sued for defamation and lose, badly. Censoring politically incorrect science is evil and gets people killed. Jack has blood on his hands.
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tl;dr: IOTA is so batshit crazy they managed to turn a theoretical one-time-signature vulnerability into an actual, practical to exploit one.
blog.lekkertech.net/blog/201…
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Three weeks ago, pre-quarantine, I had doctors ranting that I was a "sexist" "mansplaining" "tech dude" for posting evidence that masks work, and politely asking them to support their evidenceless claims that masks spread infection.
Now the CDC recommends everyone wear masks.
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I probably shouldn't admit it... But @JoeNakamoto's mostly right.
This nonsense is a genuine danger, as crazy people might try to get my non-existent fortune. But it's also hilarious.
Thing is, I didn't trick @CullenHoback. I think he just needed a stunt to hype up his film.
You’re missing the point. He’s enjoying this speculation because it’s really funny.
He tricked a documentary maker into thinking he’s bitcoin. And he’s quite right, it’s hilarious.
Now esteemed journos like yourself are saying he should do a polygraph? Loool it’s too silly!
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We fucked up the bech32 address format when we didn't include group separators, like UUIDs and phone numbers have.
See how much easier it is to compare addresses with groups:
bc1-qep2un4-cvwmhf-6kxjgp-6kzqcp-zzyl98-l5zkndl2
bc1-qep2un4-jrkmsl-78bn97-nnd5bk-ke47cx-l5zkndl2
An address poisoning attack that MATCHED the first 4 and last 4 characters of the address!
How often have you glanced at your hardware wallet to confirm a transaction, and only validated those few characters?
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"decentralized logins" is a ridiculous contradiction.
If you're logging in, it's centralized.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's seriously evaluating blockchain's potential for decentralized logins. ow.ly/eh6K50lRKcT
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So about those "dirty" coins that are so "dirty" @VoletCom can't send them back to @giacomozucco...
Turns out @VoletCom spent them, mixing them together with other customer deposits! 😂😂😂
Like, OMG, now all their customer funds are CONTAMINATED!!!
TELL @VOLETCOM YOU DON'T WANT @GIACOMOZUCCO'S FILTHY COINS SPLOOGED ALL OVER YOUR MONEY!!!
ALT Since Giacomo uses joinmarket, he gave me permission to publish the real transaction. One big advantage to using coinjoin!
Please note that there are no 'immediate refunds' here. You can't send dirty crypto and demand immediate return. As a regulated institution, we have to collect information, analyze it, and then make a decision.
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Review of IOTA by @abrkn
tl;dr: Useless for IoT because the Tangle DAG tech just adds complexity without changing the fundamental problem of needing all blockchain data to detect double-spend.
tl;dr²: IOTA doesn't scale.
shitcoin.com/iota-cannot-be-…
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In the long run, facilities like this are stupid and will be outcompeted.
By putting so much hash power in one place you're spending a lot of money getting the power from where it is generated to the facility. And not only you can't do anything useful with the waste heat, but getting rid of so much in one place requires expensive immersion cooling.
In the future, if Bitcoin survives, we'll see Bitcoin hashing integrated into solar panels and wind turbines, as well as used for heating. This will take a lot of work on reliable miners that are easy to configure remotely, and only makes sense as ASIC innovation inevitably slows. But it's an inevitable evolution of the industry, as long as regulations allow...
...and that's a very real problem. Huge hashing rigs like the ones Riot is building invite regulations in ways that large numbers of small setups do not. We'd be much better off with 400,000 people running little 1kW hashers from their rooftop solar than this monster.
Riot is nearing completion of Phase 1 (400 MW) of its new facility in Corsicana Texas, which, once fully developed, is expected to total 1 gigawatt (1,000 MW) in developed mining capacity.
The largest bitcoin mining facility in the world.
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While the transparency is cool... WTF at putting half a billion dollars into a single pay-to-pubkey-hash address.
That's completely insane. Use multisig. And prove to the world that you're using multisig.
Announcement: Today the Bitwise Bitcoin ETF (BITB) becomes the first U.S. bitcoin ETF to publish the bitcoin addresses of its holdings.
Now anyone can verify BITB's holdings and flows directly on the blockchain.
Onchain transparency is core to Bitcoin's ethos. We're proud to walk the walk with BITB.
[BITB disclosures & prospectus: bitbetf.com/welcome]
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“creating and using single-use wallets, addresses, or accounts, and sending [cryptocurrency] through such wallets, addresses, or accounts”
The US government wants to criminalize the most basic privacy provision, in the Bitcoin whitepaper itself: not reusing addresses.
Evil.
🚨SCOOP: US GOVERNMENT TO BRING PATRIOT ACT TO DIGITAL ASSETS
FinCEN Director reveals Treasury is finalizing ban on privacy tools, Representatives revive Special Measures to Fight Modern Threats Act
Full story👇
therage.co/us-government-to-…
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"Today, Membership is optional, but it will become mandatory soon."
Shapeshift bites the dust.
info.shapeshift.io/blog/2018…
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I've explained it this way a few times: if I bought something from you with a price quoted in Bitcoin and then sent you BCH instead, I can guarantee you a judge would rule against me for committing fraud.
This isn't a philosophical debate; this is a well defined financial asset.
Imagine some really rich person buys "Bitcoin" from this website, then later on finds out they were actually sold rat poison. 🐀☣️🤔 #bitcoin
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European skyscrapers have walls just as flimsy as American skyscrapers. Saves on weight.
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The 2X cancellation email was signed by Mike Belshe, Wences Casares, Jihan Wu, Jeff Garzik, Peter Smith, and Erik Voorhees, in case you were wondering who to send the bill for the millions of dollars worth of engineering time wasted on this mess.
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The hilarious thing about this nonsense is that BSV already has gigablocks, and unsurprisingly, it's network is close to collapse due to lack of nodes.
These people are always either idiots or scammers, trying to sell you a decentralized network that isn't.
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8 billion people * 5tx/day = ~460,000 tx/s
With (crazy) 60s blocks => 28million txs/block => 7GB/block.
Fair mining requires blocks propagate in ~0.1s => 210GB/s of peak bandwidth (70 in + 140 out)
A $6000 EPYC 7742 has just 204GB/s of peak RAM bandwidth.
It gets worse...
Achieving truly decentralized finance – power to the people – is a noble & important goal.
Layer count depends on projected bandwidth & compute, both rising rapidly, which means single layer network can carry all human transactions in future imo.
For now, Lightning is needed.
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It's utterly laughable to think that DeFi will replace the core thing genuine banks do: lending.
Decentralized smart contracts can't hold people accountable for debt. For that you need guns.
Expect a ton of DeFi lending fraud...
$1 billion locked in DeFi for the first time ever
Bitcoin hit $1b in 2013
Ethereum hit $1b in 2016
DeFi hit $1 billion in 2020
Historical milestones
Software eating money
Software eating banks
The next decade will be wild
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Disappointing frankly.
People should be able to trade what they want.
It's reasonable to criminalize fraud associated with ordinals, like false advertising. But there is no reason to prohibit the trade itself. It's just digital tokens.
It’s illegal to trade Ordinals (unregistered securities) in #ElSalvador
Same for NFT’s.
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I think Warren should be able to use energy for whatever she wants, be it her private jets or her Bitcoin miners.
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It took me 11 years. But I finally got full-RBF into Bitcoin Core.
github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/p…
I guess I can change my twitter name now...
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Prediction: COVID-19 and the quarantines will prove to be the fastest and biggest transfer of wealth from small businesses and lower/middle class to the 1% in history.
Your local restaurants are utterly fucked. Amazon is doing better than ever.
Here's what I know.
Republicans walked away from negotiations last night, and this morning showed up with:
- no real funding to save hospitals
- no real funding to save states
- slush fund for corporations
- no-strings bailouts for corporations
This is $1.5T. Do it right.
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20 years ago today I gave my first public talk, to an almost empty audience, at the Toronto Linux User Group on the anti-censorship Freenet network.
My mom told me not to go downtown that night. But I wasn't scared of terrorism. I was scared of the government.
I was right.
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One of the things Zelenskyy is doing is showing how good Ukrainian opsec and integrity is. Anyone who found out about the plan in advance could get him killed in a targeted attack. But this doesn't happen, because Zelenskyy's team is competent and loyal.
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Gregory Maxwell goes back to working on the Bitcoin protocol and related crypto exclusively, rather than also trying to be CTO of Blockstream: lists.linuxfoundation.org/pi…
I don't blame him at all: running a business is exhausting, and rather distracting.
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Blocked @rogerkver
Disagreements are one thing; scamming is another. I want to have nothing to do with him again.
nitter.app/alansilbert/status/920…
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FYI I've confirmed that this is real and not a Twitter hack via a mutual friend.
IIUC he used Gentoo as his desktop and didn't keep different activities separated. So backdoored software is one of many ways this could happen; he may not have been targeted.
Use @QubesOS people.
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Pro-tip: figure out what vaccination does to fertility before you force 100% of the population to get vaccinated.
The safety trials required women to use multiple forms of contraception to ensure there was no way they'd become pregnant; pregnancy wasn't tested.
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10 years after I pointed out the risk of a Ripple backdoor due to Ripple not PGP signing their software or providing any other way to get it securely... there's a a Ripple backdoor due to an npm compromise. 😂
github.com/petertodd/ripple-…
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