Last Notes
I recently watched a documentary about the Manosphere and concluded that its existence is the result of poor / missing father figures.
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You're crying about half of Core pull requests (that have been peer reviewed) being merged by a single maintainer and in the same breath you're suggesting people run Knots...
Knots is even worse, with 100% of pull requests merged by a single maintainer, many without even being peer reviewed!
https://blog.lopp.net/knot-a-serious-project/
You're welcome to fork yourself off the network with your fellow nutjobs in August 😁
Are you using a VPN?
A year or so ago they changed it to block logins from VPNs though once you get a session token they don't block the VPN.
Asked a friend in the Air Force if he thought he'd get sent to Iran and instead of saying yes or no he said "I go wherever they send me." 🫠
Weird take. As far as we're aware, it's neither well funded nor has any developers or code.
My main point all along is that if you truly want to be independent of Core, it's best not to be a downstream fork of Core.
Ask me how I know.
Just logged into a service and my TOTP 2FA code was 696969 😏
One would imagine that would be simpler and more effective than creating Yet Another Core Fork.
We desperately need more Bitcoin client implementations... if you conveniently ignore the fact that there are half a dozen independently maintained from-scratch implementations!
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Folks are using AI slop to spice up real estate listings 🙄
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6160-Carrollton-Ave-Indianapolis-IN-46220/1245994_zpid/
Stpe 1: build time machine
We stopped selling those 5 years ago.
At @nprofile…f2s8 we've been exploring how to leverage AI while being cautious about the undeveloped state of security for this fast-changing toolset.
We still had an AI security incident recently that falls into a pattern that is becoming increasingly common.
https://blog.casa.io/dont-trust-clankers-ai-agents-are-dangerously-helpful/
Right; they know they need to piggyback off of Core's development process.
One belief I have that keeps me optimistic about Bitcoin's future is that the system runs on the actions of rational, self-interested actors.
Irrational propagandists have no power here.
Beautiful
https://npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp.blossom.band/00e29c88db637b000164520ea6cdc2a05b184386135d41127b9334b7a2a54a40.jpg
Funny that you love the process that has led to Core being the most battle tested, yet the process is so terrible it must be completely thrown out the window.
There are already half a dozen independently maintained from-scratch Bitcoin clients.
I don't expect Yet Another Core Fork to change much.
Knotzis will find themselves acting in the same way after their fork fails.
I guarantee it.
There are already a half dozen built-from-scratch implementations being actively maintained.
How does Another Core Fork change anything?
Relays only store text, right? Don't you mean media hosts?
Let's play a game I like to call "Spot the Sybil Attack" 🙂
https://image.nostr.build/de043cc1452aafdba9cd7f94c57a4053952094fc7d4fe408aa5a2628cbee61ab.jpg
Consider that the dumbest person you know is repeatedly being told 'you are absolutely right' by an LLM.
Monero has objectively stronger privacy than Bitcoin.
Probably some cypherpunk.
https://image.nostr.build/7377fb4269fd13f39795d0d7a274e726e7a958670f253808455867229627acb1.jpg
Pretty neat dashboard tracking stablecoin censorship: https://stables.rip
For sure. The stands just needed some dusting off and they're good to go!
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Pretty much any tire with a car's weight on it will start to deform after several months of inactivity.
It's not a fiat, they don't make cars that I find particularly enjoyable 😎
Had to lift my fancy sports car off the ground because I'll be globetrotting for many months and the manual warns of tire deformation.
Naturally, the floor jack I've owned for 20 decided to stop working. Turns out you're supposed to do regular fluid changes on jacks 😅
https://image.nostr.build/feee4f87996b60e9f8418c690a011ddb5e1b8e5a4075684924a884bbd03a42ce.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/b3ddb7fc1f1f95cdd2fd991ba37a87c949c16e7d462f2ae6bf0931342a16281a.jpg
What it's like being Chief Security Officer
https://image.nostr.build/20af0ed7fe68c6b0c150beb049aaa7a006adf32432cf71c032bb689c7f090f0e.jpg
Soft forks in the sense that they're mainly removing content.
Hard in the sense they're hosted on different domains.
In an amusing twist there are now multiple Puritan forks of my Bitcoin educational resources web site because the original group has split from being pro Knotzi to being mostly anti Knotzi, so there's now a fork of my site for each stance. 🤣
Mostly low severity but there's a moderate and a high/critical buffer overflow CVE.
In all seriousness you sound like a retarded clanker with a tiny context window.
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As an avid motorcycle rider I've always wanted to try snowmobiling. It does seem more dangerous simply because the "road" must be a lot harder to read.
Easy workaround: make the market be about whether or not they will still be doing their job on date X 😆
Holy shit, the latest OpenSSL release patches 12 zero-day vulnerabilities, all of which were discovered by AI agents.
The really crazy thing is that 3 of the bugs had been present since 2000, for over a quarter century having been missed by intense machine and human effort alike. One predated OpenSSL itself, inherited from Eric Young’s original SSLeay implementation in the 1990s. All of this in a codebase that has been fuzzed for millions of CPU-hours and audited extensively for over two decades by teams including Google's.
It's pretty scary to realize that fundamental aspects of everyday internet security have been vulnerable for decades. I can only imagine that AI is going to unearth many more vulnerabilities in the coming years.
Happy Pi Day!
It takes ~2,000,000 kilowatt-hours to mint a Bitcoin block, yet this power can't overcome a few lines of code being run on a 4 watt Raspberry Pi.
I support you crying like a little bitch about non-issues.
I already made my case and won't be repeating myself. I will enjoy watching you fork off to a DOA network.
https://blog.lopp.net/a-laymans-guide-to-bip-110/
Neither I nor Bitcoin as a system give a fuck what authoritarians in the UK think.
No shit, the debate ended last year.
Now you can fork off 🥳
Puritans never had credibility.
Now it will finally be more obvious once the market resoundly rejects puritanism.
Fork off already.
We are waiting.
Bitcoin's so boring right now that many of my group chats are devolving into geopolitics and bullshit conspiracy theory discussion.