ishaq

An academic and an engineer.
Interests: Blockchain, DeFi, Decentralized Systems.

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2026-02-19 06:31:39 UTC

Ramzan Mubarak!

2026-01-15 07:27:03 UTC

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nah! I just can't decide whether the crap I write here is wroth others' reading time. 😀

2026-01-15 07:24:14 UTC

If all those papers about micro-plastics in human body raised your anxiety, you can breath easy.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/13/microplastics-human-body-doubt
There could still be micro-plastics in human body, but the existing papers claiming are not trust worthy.

2026-01-11 15:10:27 UTC

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Can't zap!

2026-01-10 16:18:42 UTC

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A 5090 is minimum. Or if you are on a mac, buy the m4 chip with max gpu. But a 5090 is still better.

2026-01-09 15:51:02 UTC

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Mass Effect 2, Legendary Edition.
Do you play any games?

2026-01-09 12:57:49 UTC

Winter break is over. Children went to grandparents, and I finished the video game I started 2 years ago.

2026-01-09 12:27:12 UTC

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😀 RE2 was 2 CDs, so probably more than 750MB.

2026-01-08 05:17:55 UTC

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Re: the encryption, pardon my laziness but what are you encrypting with? npub?

2026-01-08 05:07:06 UTC

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confirmed that iit minimizes the window. This is still not canonical UX but better than before.

2026-01-02 11:13:06 UTC

A banking app that *requires* precise location permission is developed either by a stupid team, or by a malicious team. Hopefully it's the former.

2026-01-01 10:23:50 UTC

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And this one is easy to fix: The X button (the close button?) behaviour. On macs, if you click X on a window, the canonical behavior is for the window to close/hide. It should not quit the application (You choose "Quit" from the application menu or use "Cmd + Q") to quit.
I keep quitting NoorNote because I am used to using the X button to hide windows. But then I have to relaunch and re-enter my signer password.
Note: I am reporting these issues under the assumption that you want the feedback. let me know if it is a nuisance and I'll stop.

2026-01-01 10:09:01 UTC

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ooh! now that would make sense! my bad!

2026-01-01 10:07:52 UTC

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your original note does not talk about a particular bank (e.g., Chase). that would make it a true equivalance.
I agree with the sentiment. that Fiat is indeed problematic and should be replaced.

2026-01-01 10:03:50 UTC

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size does matter I guess! 😀

2026-01-01 10:01:03 UTC

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reporting another bug :-) 0.3.3 on mac.
shortcuts should be handled in correct context. For example,
1. Open the new note or reply popup (the one that has a textbox to type).
2. type some gibberish.
3. You want to select text to the beginning of line so that you can start typing over it so you press "Cmd + Shift + Left"
Instead of selecting text to the beginning of line, noor note captures it as command input on the UI behind it.

2026-01-01 09:55:18 UTC

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A hyperbole with a false equivalence.
One is a product, the other is one company making a product. people boycotting starbucks are not boycotting coffee.
also boycotting fiat is considerably more difficult than boycotting a private company.

2026-01-01 09:38:42 UTC

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the animal looks like a dog, or a wolf, but it's so small, that it must be the size of a rat!

2026-01-01 08:52:03 UTC

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Public Key Infrastructure. the system of certificates, public keys/private keys, signatures, etc.

2026-01-01 08:50:41 UTC

May the new year be better than the last. May the people of Gaza, Sudan, Libya, and everywhere get peace and freedom. And may Allah give us the strength to stand against evil.

2025-12-29 14:19:09 UTC

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how would you solve PKI without SSL certs?

2025-12-29 13:51:51 UTC

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confirmed fixed.

2025-12-25 12:38:02 UTC

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You jest but some people may think you're serious.

2025-12-25 09:28:56 UTC

Looks suspicious. If they are sending you sats/tokens, why do they need you to sign a transaction. #note1lxm…q8ml

2025-12-25 06:59:54 UTC

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Why do you need the recipient of your zaps to sign a transaction?

2025-12-23 07:49:33 UTC

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I am on a mac version 0.2.16 . I just pressed Cmd+Left in this text box, and I can see that it went "back" in the page behind it.
yeah, the search function is great. kudos!

2025-12-23 07:44:36 UTC

Enkrypt plugin seems to have a bug, has started showing 0 Bitcoin (BTC) balance.
Ethereum (ETH) balance shows up fine.

2025-12-23 07:37:07 UTC

#NoorNote first impression:
+ Signer: setup is straight forward
+ System Logs: make it easy to see under the hood
Improvement Suggestions:
- NoorNote seems to capture some (all?) shortcuts even though it is not in focus. Example: NoorNote is the top window on the other screen. On the current screen, when typing in SublimeText, Cmd + Left (to go to the beginning of the line )doesn't work because NoorNote handles it (it goes back).
- The Right pane (with system logs) seems under utilized e.g., tap on a thread in the timeline could open the full thread on the right vis-a-vis a mail client. It would be good to be able to open multiple threads in multiple tabs e.g., by doubl clicking.

2025-12-21 12:40:22 UTC

Microsoft now asks you to pay 10 dollars to change your gamertag. I miss the 90s so much.

2025-12-13 03:51:50 UTC

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Mubarak!!

2025-11-24 04:11:30 UTC

This argument is so absurd, that refuting it is like shooting fish in a barrel.
Say I were to go and occupy Prof. Yehuda Lindell's (he likes this post) house. Then:
Israel's area: 8,019 square miles
Area that I have: 0.00007174 square miles
therefore, I claim that Prof. Lindell (and his Israeli friends) must give his house to me because it's not about land and there's no occupation. This absurdity is the argument that is being made here.
PS: Note also that Israel's area (8,550 sq. miles) is overstated. Wikipedia lists it at 8,019 sq. miles (the figure I used above), and the CIA World Factbook lists it at 8469.92 sq. miles.
https://image.nostr.build/ccced154cf3a4f6415427af08ca014c7fbf56858fac8bef6d5e54409567fc5da.png

2025-11-19 11:57:50 UTC

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100%! I am sick of all the frivolous degrees and specializations those pesky doctors have. I suggest we start by abolishing medical schools. Let a real practioner with no formal education shine for finding that magical concoction he claims cures everything from a headache to schizophrenia!

2025-11-19 11:48:51 UTC

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It's a good assistant to help one get familiar with a project. It may also flag well known problems/patterns. But for anything more sophisticated, AI will at least struggle if not outright fail. Auditing a codebase that's hundreds of thousands of lines of code requires a lot of context and reasoning. AI can keep context, albeit at an increased cost but reasoning is beyond current AI's capabilities.

2025-11-19 11:34:05 UTC

https://www.heise.de/en/news/3-5-Billion-Accounts-Complete-WhatsApp-Directory-Retrieved-and-Evaluated-11083244.html
Meta/Facebook is so bad at security that one starts to suspect if it's intentional.
#nevent1q…9wr5

2025-11-10 14:50:27 UTC

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Agreed! Fair criticism isn't the issue though, it is disguising the teachings one feels are inconvenient as oppression by men.

2025-11-10 14:13:02 UTC

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The pattern is more general than just Malaysia. Ishfaq Ahmad (a Pakistani literary figure) used to say that; because they can't openly hate Islam (on issueslike Hijab, Talaq, Qurbani, etc), they disguise it as hatred of Muslims.

2025-11-10 13:23:26 UTC

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I never understood Telegram's reputation as being private, recall that their chats were not encrypted by default.

2025-11-10 06:44:32 UTC

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I guess I just need to be stronger!

2025-11-10 06:32:44 UTC

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I only installed it last year when I moved back home (Pakistan) because it's so entrenched in the system here. Still use Signal for everything else.

2025-11-10 05:50:32 UTC

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Hollywood (western media in general) is to blame in part. Having a child (even the expectation of one) is portrayed as a panic scenario! A nightmare! The idiocy related to "population" is mostly based on a book "Population Bomb", the claims of which have been thoroughly debunked by the scientific community. But I guess the western media did not get the memo!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb

2025-11-10 05:41:33 UTC

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Couldn't agree more. I deleted my twitter some time ago and it was a relief (even when I wasn't very active there).

2025-11-10 05:25:05 UTC

Whatsapp continues its degeneration. In the latest pain-point, it now refuses to let me share anything until I give it permission to access my Contacts. Like that's going to work!

2025-11-05 15:36:34 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/b15b903a1844ea0fb9134232ad6668acb37c87b27bca7ae128764bd9944d9965.jpg
The moon

2025-10-31 16:34:43 UTC

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Yes.

2025-10-31 16:08:57 UTC

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Splendid! Purchased.
I'll let you know but I doubt there would be any issues.
Jumu'ah Mubarak!

2025-10-30 11:28:21 UTC

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I have no preference. EPUB has wide compatibility but I am not sure if it has good DRM.

2025-10-30 03:12:30 UTC

A request to the Muslim authors here (e.g., @npub175n…g6w0 @npub1yse…mk06): Please see if there is a way to make your work available in digital formats. Paper-only format is not a viable option for someone in e.g., Pakistan, where shipping would cost more than the book itself.

2025-10-28 06:32:16 UTC

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As a doctor, I agree.

2025-10-27 05:52:24 UTC

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yes, eating pizza and playing video games (sometimes both at the same time).

2025-10-20 08:39:16 UTC

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I am sorry, this statement itself is problematic. Islam has not become untrue, ugly, or unlivable.

2025-10-16 05:44:09 UTC

A bank in India has sent me a bank statement email (meant to be sent to their customer).
Ignore that they sent potentially sensitive information to a stranger.
The statement pdf is password protected.
And the email says the password is first 4 letters of his name and last 4 digits of the account number.
Both the name and account number are given in the email.
Q. So what did the password achieve?
A. Bank grade security!

2025-10-15 12:09:37 UTC

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Yes, agreed.

2025-10-15 11:58:30 UTC

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Going all in on cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, and others) is a good ideal. The path to it is not as straight forward. The traditional systems are designed to lock you in. For example, amy large purchase (house, car, etc) is likely goinh through a conversion to fiat because most sellers don't accept cryptocurrency. Your child's college would probably require fiat for fee payment. Given, how volatile the fiat vs cryptocurrency market is, it will keep aa significant population away from converting their life savings.

2025-10-15 02:49:09 UTC

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"Reimagining Islam" may be a problematic phrase. Looking at website's mission statement, it feels more of an effort to "reimagining Islamic art".

2025-10-10 12:09:27 UTC

"When you argue with him, you make him feel that you are at the same level. Don’t!"
This is a great piece of advice when supervising a bullshitter. I have wasted time and energy whenever I have ignored it. Short, authoritative messaging works best.

2025-10-08 08:46:22 UTC

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You're right, I had to go to dashboard, then tap on the dropdown menu (in the top nav bar) to choose "Bookmarks". Thank you.

2025-10-08 08:42:46 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/3c535c2c9f06ea1afb1fb0f3d5d4ba871d85d7a212c0a69c620e25f71ddd24c0.png
Whatsapp on the web browser encourages to download the app, making disingenous claims that the app is faster and as if it is impossible to do such calls within the browser. Most probably the "app" is the same code that runs in a browser but wrapped within electron. And by being able to run outside of the browser's sandbox (being an app), it can access more of your system and gather more personal information.

2025-10-08 07:01:47 UTC

@npub1yzv…rf8q doesn't show bookmarks?

2025-10-06 17:27:06 UTC

Cardano/ADA is one of the two most academically sound cryptocurrencies (the other being Algorand). Calling it a shitcoin is ignorant.
There is nothing "Islamic" about cardano. Calling it (or any cryptocurrency) Islamic is equally ignorant.

2025-10-06 06:20:12 UTC

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https://apps.apple.com/us/app/keychat-io/id6447493752
This one? Couldn't find it on PlayStore.

2025-10-06 05:59:02 UTC

Now using Jumble on desktop and YakiHonne on Android.
The good news is that zaps work (for the first time). #note192t…8de3

2025-10-06 05:39:43 UTC

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Packagestan, Love it!!!

2025-10-06 05:37:46 UTC

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interested.

2025-10-06 04:32:57 UTC

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Bitcoin adoption in Pakistan is crap. There are no respectable and/or well known exchanges here.
There is nothing in Bitcoin thst makes it Halal or Rina free.

2025-10-06 04:28:25 UTC

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Would be interested to try it out. Is it going to be open source? Are you planning any security audits?

2025-10-06 03:33:18 UTC

There is an opportunity here for Pakistan, and other markets where Amazon has no presence, to come up with its own alternatives. Build a more transparent and ethical platfom.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/05/way-past-its-prime-how-did-amazon-get-so-rubbish

2025-10-01 18:03:54 UTC

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Thank you both

2025-10-01 16:40:35 UTC

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These are not controlled by Zionists, correct?

2025-10-01 16:39:10 UTC

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Jokes on you, no sych chain can exist because there would be no consensus.

2025-10-01 03:19:16 UTC

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What are the alternatives?

2025-09-30 08:44:44 UTC

https://www.dawn.com/news/1945635/taliban-internet-cut-sparks-afghanistan-telecoms-blackout
This has nothing to do with Islam or Sharia.

2025-09-28 16:09:21 UTC

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The initial impression was wring. Primal has its own set of issue (like a note and then tap again to undo the like, not working. Editing a post not working).

2025-09-28 13:08:47 UTC

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*on Android
seems to *be less temperamental
Primal does not offer ability to edit posts--at least on the free version--which Amethyst did.

2025-09-28 13:05:20 UTC

Have started using Primal (omn Android), initial impression is good. It shows the notifications that Amethyst fails to show for some reason. The profile page also seems to beess temperamental.

2025-09-27 07:35:09 UTC

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1746
Preprint of our new paper

2025-05-20 06:30:42 UTC

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/05/15/serious-blackrock-bitcoin-warning-fuels-fears-of-disaster-as-the-price-suddenly-dives/
got to love the hyperbolic headlines. And quantum computing community loves to portray doom-and-gloom, see e.g., https://quantumdoomclock.com/explanation .
cryptography is fine, we’ll have migrated to PQC by the time a quantum computer is able to break real world systems.

2025-05-01 17:22:49 UTC

Gemma (offline version of Gemini) keeps referring to me as Alex, despite my corrections that my name isn't Alex.
Offline models are more prone to hallucinations.

2025-04-29 10:54:30 UTC

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I understand. I shall try Jumble. I have found amethyst to be quiet temperamental. Thank you for the suggestions ☺️
Oh I am not comparing the protocol with a platform at all. But the protocol does give rise to a distributed platform. And a big chunk of the people on this platform (nostriches) within my bubble are constantly treating Nostr as something sacred (same thing happens for Bitcoin). But lets agree to disagree on this. Btw, I have no horse in this race, i used Facebook for a few months in 2007 and Twitter for a year or so around 2011.
With respect, and I say this now only because the topic has come up, I have a Ph.D. in cryptography with focus on multiparty computation, Saif is completely unknown in this line of research, much less required reading. Not trying to act snobbish, saying what is true. ☺️ Similarly, unless Bitcoin Majlis folks get some academics behind their "journal", it is going to be another evangelist magazine. Non-reseaechers cannot start an academic journal (exceptions aside). Besides, why do they need to start an "academic" journal considering we already have established, very high quality, venues for such research. What purpose would it seve except "me too"!
Yes, I agree re:Nostr. Other SM tools? they have their merits, lets agree to disagree. 😁

2025-04-29 06:46:57 UTC

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Neither Amethyst nor Damus want to play with Coinos. Oh well, I’ll do it manually.
Thank you for your reply. Having a bone to pick is fine, it’s the cult-like behavior that’s bothersome. Denying the merits of other platforms is simply immature. :-)
Thanks for the suggestion re: Saifedean. I’ll follow him. I have not heard of him before, and a search for author name on eprint and arXiv returns no papers. In general, one needs to have published peer-reviewed research to qualify as an academic. I have read articles posted by BItcoin Majlis and/or Muslim Bitcoiner in the past. Those were flawed. Will see about Saif.
From my profile you have discovered that I don’t participate much. I agree with that assessment. I did preface my rant with “in my experience”. Having said that, my profile does not give you evidence that the people I follow are the only people whose notes I have read.
Maybe I need to unfollow the people who are making this “bubble” for me and follow other people. :D

2025-04-29 06:03:53 UTC

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(fixing problems with sending zaps, will reply after)

2025-04-29 04:06:01 UTC

rant: In my experience on Nostr, most (not all) nostriches have a holier than thou attitude towards other social platforms. The same chest-thumping behavior, and unfortunately without the required academic background, extends towards Bitcoin vs other cryptocurrencies. But there is only so much one can read about Nostr/Bitcoin superiority. This makes it an unwelcoming and boring place for those who do not want to join the echo chamber.

2025-03-02 09:57:34 UTC

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Can see your notes. Welcome back

2025-03-01 14:05:43 UTC

I am looking for alternatives to Gnosis Safe for Ethereum multisig solution. Decided to ask local AI. Deepseek R1 and Llama are both hallucinating and suggest Electrum (the bitcoin wallet). :D

2025-02-27 18:27:51 UTC

Many folks may be looking for multisig wallets after Gnosis Safe's compromised code that resulted in Bybit hack.
If you come across Krayon ( https://www.krayondigital.com/ ), KEEP MOVING!
This guy's chest-thumpy attitude and many misleading claims about MPC undermine his credibility. He either doesn't understand MPC or claim things which aren't true.

2025-02-27 18:18:17 UTC

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"Hardware wallet doesn't have all contextual information"
What contextual information is that?

2025-02-27 15:47:10 UTC

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The issue wasn't in the smart contract, it was a compromised dev machine. Something like this can happen to any cryptocurrency, we have seen such compromises causing issues on Bitcoin too.
Ethereim smart contracts have many issues, but this incident wasn't a case of smart contract vulnerability.
Ethereum and Bitcoin both share the same elliptic curve (secp256k1) so the cost of signing is the same. The issue with multisig is lack of standization. If there were one dominant standard, the hardware wallet could do it.
What hardware wallets support multisig on Bitcoin?

2025-02-27 04:35:40 UTC

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Yeah I figured it was Bybit, and surprised to learn that issue was in a Safe contract (Safe was considered standard multisig contract), am looking in to it deeper today.

2025-02-27 04:32:49 UTC

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“Barak Allahu feek” <- Wa Iyyakum.
I disagree with everything in this reply, but don’t have the time to refute :-) Fi Amaanillah.

2025-02-24 08:42:48 UTC

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“I cannot stand the way most academics write” <- will not argue on this point to stay on the topic.
NOTE: I neither support nor care for the garbage coins that keep popping up. My arguments assume academically sound systems.
a couple of representative examples:
1. The article is hand wavy regarding Bitcoin’s decentralization. It claims, without evidence, that Bitcoin has no concentration of influence. The issue here is that gathering such evidence, despite the weaker privacy (pseudo-anonymity) on Bitcoin (and other similar pseudo-anonymous currencies) is not trivial. A couple of graph analysis studies suggest that the same lopsided influence exists in Bitcoin. And this sounds likely too, considering that Bitcoin ecosystem involves large mining operations and mining pools. Moreover, Bitcoin (and any PoW blockchain) will always require more computing power than a PoS (or other lottery mechanism) blockchain. This is because the node has to solve the PoW puzzle in addition to the work of maintaining a ledger. CPU/GPU era of Bitcoin mining ended in early 2010s. Nowadays one requires significant investment in a mining rig. Your argument should have been that Bitcoin, despite the lopsided influence that most probably exists, is less susceptible attacks/bad-behavior because of its superior market adoption. It’s not because running a Bitcoin node is cheap. Regarding true decentralization of influence, it is a hard problem. The real world influences find a way to be reflected in decentralized systems too. The property is certainly desirable and should be researched into.
2. In its passion for bashing blockchain, the article makes the strange statement that blockchain is “inefficient” and that any “centralized” solution will be “cheaper, faster, more reliable”, and “more maintainable”. This statement is a mix of incorrect claims (e.g., a centralized system is *not* more reliable) and correct but misleading claims (e.g., centralized systems are faster) because these distract from the real reasons one would choose a decentralized system over a centralized one e.g., Trustlessness. What’s worse, if one were to take these misleading claims on face value, then Bitcoin itself is a bad system because It’s not faster than Visa (25,000 tps vs. < 10 tps), it’s inefficient (requires more computing power and storage than a centralized system), and it’s not cheap (the energy cost to keep the system running is more than that of many small countries). The value of Bitcoin cannot be judged on these metrics, the benefits it brings (Trustlessness, Reliability, Ease, etc) are what make it a superior solution to the centralized Visa/Mastercard systems. It’s like saying insecure traditional programs are faster, more power efficient, and reliable compared to secure multiparty computation (MPC).
Blockchain is an instance (specific problem) of the State Machine Replication or SMR (the general problem). It is most definitely not “just a linked list”. Someone who says so has probably never read anything on Consensus. "there’s nothing inherently magical about a blockchain”. Yes! There’s nothing magical about any science. The excitement doesn’t stem from seeing magic, it stems from the possibility of a solution to a previously hard problem.
A final note, the article (at least how much I read) reads like Bitcoin is panacea for all ailments. There are significant issues in Bitcoin—Low throughput, Inefficiency, lack of privacy, etc—that others are trying to solve. The extremely misleading statement on blockchain betrays that if the author of the statement (not sure if it were you or someone you quoted) were presented with the idea of decentralized payment system before Bitcoin’s boom, he would have exactly the same talking points against Bitcoin that he is now using against Blockchain and other cryptocurrencies on it. It’s also probable that the author will sing praises of Blockchain as soon as it has its Google or YouTube or Spotify moment. Till then, one should not become dogmatic when discussion man-made technology.

2025-02-23 10:10:03 UTC

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went through the first one-third of the article. It’s probably written by a non-academic/evangelist type and contains many hand-wavy claims and inaccuracies. Not worth the time to ready it fully.

2025-02-23 08:56:42 UTC

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Which smart contract was it this time, care to share a link?

2025-02-23 08:15:28 UTC

If you feel concerned about privacy when speaking to AI models (you should be), and would prefer to experiment with them offline, Msty makes it a breeze to install/try various models offline.
https://msty.app/

2025-02-21 17:53:45 UTC

I am glad that the age of digital nomad is coming to an end. The idea of working remotely never made sense to me. From time to time, sure! But it can't be the default work mode and not cause dips in productivity.

2025-02-20 17:01:29 UTC

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Preparing tax returns? :-)

2025-02-20 16:33:54 UTC

There is a pattern in Trump's stance on immigration and Palestine.
Trump isn't against just the illegal immigration. That's only the rhetoric he uses to mask his hatred for the "others". He is against all immigration. He doesn't want the others to live on his land.
One may say that he probably wants those "others" to prosper and flourish in their own countries. Except that in his plan for Gaza/Palestine, he doesn't want the others to live on their own land either.
At its core, it is not about immigration or peace in the middle east, it is: "might is right". It is that, we "the civilized" decide where and how the others "the savages" will live. There is no principle, rule or law. It is the whim of "the civilized".

2025-02-03 16:43:55 UTC

What Israel is (and has been) doing in the west bank should shut up "But Khamas" Israel apologists. There was no Oct 7 from the west bank and there is no "Khamas" there, but that hasn't stopped Israel from committing same atrocities in the west bank. Then again, if such apologists had an IQ above room temperature, "But Khamas" argument would not exist in first place.

2025-02-02 18:18:42 UTC

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If you trust Boltz.exchange (that their solution is academically sound and that their implementation is correct), then yes.

2025-02-01 02:48:39 UTC

Musk's nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize, an extremist whose actively encouraged arms sale to Israel, actively villainized Muslims and publicly interferes with elections, is an indication that these nominations are based on an agenda, not merit. These are the people who gave a prize to Malala, but won't even consider the brave girls of Palestine, Kashmir, etc.

2025-01-28 03:21:35 UTC

Another reminder that hyperbolic claims of any tech should be taken with a grain of salt
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/23/ai_developer_devin_poor_reviews/

2025-01-22 14:25:23 UTC

Trump Frees Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht. The guy must have billions in BTC, don’t think they would have been able to cease all of his coins.
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-frees-silk-road-creator-ross-ulbricht-after-11-years-in-prison/