It looks like both mempoo.space and memepool.space are just reskins of mempool.space offered by mempool.

I think you are just ahead of the adoption curve. Credit cards are a terrible mode of payment for the internet, and for the same reasons you mentioned, Lightning will eventually conquer a chunk of that.

Impeached and suspended!

Bip bop bippity bop.

Transactions are chained together by the second transaction spending an output of the first transaction. Anyone that gets paid by the first transaction can use CPFP, so if there is no change output, the sender cannot use CPFP, but the other recipients can.

Using a VPN will help obfuscate your actual IP address, but the information that you are leaking, i.e. which addresses belong your wallet, gets transmitted independently of that to the Electrum server.

The problem with using an Electrum server is that you leak your entire wallet composition: you literally give the Electrum server the list of addresses you are interested in. It’s that you tell a server that has a high likelihood of being run by surveillants that all your addresses belong to the same wallet which they then can use to tie your wallet to your activity on exchanges and other KYCed businesses.

Regarding the Ledger it depends on the software wallet that you use with the Ledger.

Many guides focus on installing Bitcoin Core from the source code, but getting the binary directly from the Bitcoin Core website is much easier: https://bitcoincore.org/en/download/

It is also directly packaged for some Linux distributions, e.g. if you are on Ubuntu, you can get it via snap like this:

sudo snap install bitcoin-core

I’ve made some progress on catching up on BIP reviews. I’ve already reviewed the following five this week:

I also hosted a very short Bitcoin Optech Recap yesterday. The rest of the week, I will work on some Bitcoin Core reviews, preparation for a talk and a workshop session next week, and touching up my own pull request.

I would be surprised if he follows through on more than two of these.

"Mining all remaining bitcoin in the USA" should not be the goal. Hashrate being distributed around the planet is preferable.

This feels a bit outdated. More than 95% of the hashrate has adopted a full-RBF policy. Full-RBF in this context means that even transaction replacements are accepted for all transactions whether they signaled replaceability or not. More crucially, a replacement transaction has to both pay a higher feerate and a higher absolute fee than the original transaction to get accepted, which might be an interesting point to cover in a future explainer.

Yeah, external hard drive makes read/write significantly slower. I also had issues with USB-connected hard drives introducing write errors before.

I already provided my opinion: I have yet to hear or read anything from Lowery that I find remotely interesting.

At best those 400 pages should have been a long blog post.

Jameson’s review covers it more eloquently: https://blog.lopp.net/softwar-thesis-review/

Yeah

I really don’t get it. Everything he’s been on about just sounds like a stream of bullshit to me.

I have been traveling a lot in the past few weeks and a lot happened. I was on vacation, went to the Core Dev meeting and attended TABConf. We announced Localhost Research, a new Bitcoin Core contributor office that we are launching in the Bay Area last weekend.

Work piled up a bit. I already went through new questions on Bitcoin Stack Exchange, co-hosted the Bitcoin Optech Recap and BitDevs yesterday, agreed to a podcast appearance about Cluster Mempool in a couple weeks, went through a bunch of emails. I still need to (not sorted by priority):

So, I will work on some of that.

Every person has only 24h per day. We cannot be involved in every decision that affects our lives, nor would we as a society be able to decide anything if every single person were to speak on every single topic. You can of course pretend that decisions made by people outside your direct vicinity don’t affect your life if that’s your preference, but if other people decide to weigh in on societal processes by electing someone to represent their interests that’s outside of your self-sovereignty. A representative probably won’t always be exactly in line with your position on everything, and some representatives often fall short of their mandate, but in a functioning democracy they may still help achieve an outcome that benefits overall. Democracy is a messy process of compromises, but the alternative of sticking your head in the sand doesn’t seem all that appealing either.

I spent some time on flights in the past few weeks, so I got around to watching

The Fall Guy was great. The other two were okay.