Disgusting. Actual violent criminals pardoned, and non violent entrepreneurs like Ross are just political currency of lies on the campaign trail.

The one opportunity for him to show Bitcoiners wasn’t completely full of shit.

To the rubes, better buy some Trump meme coins before nation states try to get in with their tribe and bribe.

There is no way I would give a Bank all my coin. However, I would consider lending a Bank some coin, so I could borrow some worthless fiat from them.

One can use that worthless fiat to trade with nocoiners, they actually think it has value! You can even buy more Bitcoin! (this window will not be open forever, as eventually no rational person would trade fiat for Bitcoin).

I know Darth will dislike this, but until the last human refuses fiat, we need the ability to buy things without reducing our Bitcoin holdings.

Public Indexing of spam only encourages it.

Set up your own block explorer and extract the strings. It’s boring tho, like reading grafiti in a bathroom.

The point is that folks will always abuse the commons, given the opportunity.

This is an intractable technical problem, as we cannot have both indistinguishability and distinguishability simultaneously. Any attempt to enforce behavior leads to indignation and further abuse.

People will always spam the Bitcoin Blockchain. It is very important that the lessons of the past be known to those who are newly discovering it. They will lose money.

Abuse of the commons is a people problem, not a digital one.

99% of video content would be of greater value as a short blog post, tweet or comment. The move towards longer and longer videos to optimize ad revenue is destructive of peoples valuable time. I watch a lot of content at 1.5x+ just to try to get through what traditionally I could do reading fast.

Contrast with Joes content, which is brief, to the point, insightful and fun. I've grown to be a fan of Kratters content recently too, because he also is succinct and does not waste our time with filler.

More content producers could add more value by considering the temporal density of information.

Great video! I'm afraid we are going to see more and more of this, and occasionally its leaking in here too. Fantastic to document and expose, to increase awareness.

I think that especially this year, we are going to see more scam "L2" projects on Bitcoin, and Bitcoiners need to be very considered in the airtime they give people "here to save bitcoin (but really to rip everyone off)".

those other tx confirms to that addr, are they all from accelerators?

and this canary tx should confirm as soon as at least one miner is running 28 with that mempool inclusion policy?

Way too soon. 2038 might be more appropriate. Compare and contrast the space industry in China vs US. The US is nowhere near such a feat today, and neither is China.

Asimov's ideas are an inevitability however. This time I suspect a percentage of it will be funded by Bitcoin Miners, which Asimov did not predict.

Id add that https://vyos.io/ is another open source alternative Firewall OS that implements the cisco configuration language, if that's your thing.

I tend to prefer Linux firewalls over BSD based, but that's generally a preference in features over simplicity.

A hypervisor lets you try them all with as minimal effort in swapping them out.

You are right in that I cannot stop you running it, nor do I really care to stop you. I can just warn of the risks. If you have been around a while, you know the history for that developer. I lost trust when he messed with the gentoo package.

Bitcoin does not have a formal spec. It has an implementation, and someone elses interpretation of that implementation called Knots. There is no 'within design spec but wrong implementation in Core'. There is just the core implementation.

If there is a bug in Knots, the rest of the network will reject its blocks and it will hard fork. Its not an 'opportunity to fix core'.

Hypervisor on the metal vs running an network/firewall os on metal (pf/opn/openwrt/etc):

disadvantages:

Buying old cisco devices can be a pain to get the newest patched firmware. Cisco will gate this behind subscriptions and maintenance contracts.

I'm not familiar with the Protectli kit, but it does look decent hardware for a good price, with no software vendor lock in. I'd probably go the i7 core over the i3, and run several instances in a hypervisor, maybe up the ram.

What convinced you of this security and privacy?

Soatok has convinced me with this blog post that several decisions made by session in the code have reduced the security of the protocol.

How the session developers respond to these criticisms will be more telling.

Whoa! This is damning! Using the users public key to symmetrically encrypt the payloads for onion routing? What?

Highly suspicious. Ive never used session, but I would very much avoid it after reading this. It never seemed right to me. There are several examples of Nation states running fake 'secure' messaging apps in order to learn the plaintext of their users. I am not saying this is the case here, but stranger things have happened. A 'community' hatefork would be a great cover for cryptographic subversion.

I very much respect Soatok in the field of cryptography engineering and you would be wise to heed their warning.

I fundamentally disagree and think that Satoshis words are timeless here. Knots does not add anything here. If “core” aka Bitcoin does something else, knots is not in a position to enforce consensus. It’s a minority fork, and we have dealt with these before.

Knots is nothing but a hard fork risk created by a sick man.

This is all the part of the evolution of any memetic structure where false prophets lead the unwise into poverty.

A just saw the Kratter video where he said to runs knots. Kratter is wrong about this and wrong about client diversity increasing the resilience of the network. He also said if the devs act in bad faith their rep would be known. Oh we know indeed.

Satoshi addressed this in 2010, the quote is in the other comment.

“I don't believe a second, compatible implementation of Bitcoin will ever be a good idea. So much of the design depends on all nodes getting exactly identical results in lockstep that a second implementation would be a menace to the network. The MIT license is compatible with all other licenses and commercial uses, so there is no need to rewrite it from a licensing standpoint.” SN, 2010

If you run knots, you are a fool for ignoring this wisdom.

I agree with Laurie here. The VLC codebase is a mess. The RCE from subtitles is merely a symptom. Yes, all code has bugs. Some code is buggier than others. The surface area of all those codecs and file parsers really adds up. The fact it was an example of “easy to find vulns” in the past is also telling.

If you look at 0-click exploits for mobile in the last few years, the almost certainly relate to file or content parsing. It’s going to continue to be a thing as long as there is untrusted data being parsed in unsafe languages.

Skill issue! Blame the victim. Oh my. If only it was that simple.

And lightning channels. Or any modern wallet.

What I learned is there are always new people coming into the scene trying to 'save' Bitcoin.

They always have a hidden agenda -- selling proprietary namespaces; selling shittokens; selling NFTs; selling bullshit.

Ignore them.

Which is the fundamental thesis of my essay, that it cannot solve this problem.

I'm glad you agree with me.