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I wonder how many guys like you are really out there?
Of my age? Tens of thousands.
Of younger people that had the benefit of learning from the mistakes from guys my age without wasting years? Millions.
To be in power, you don’t need guns or money or even numbers. You just need the will to do what the other guy wouldn’t
- Verbal Kint
Then why the hell didn't anybody notice the coldcard bug? Have all these guys sold out and cashed in on shitcoin projects? Can we really expect better from guys who are basically operating as volunteers.
Because it was really, really hard to "spot" and no one cared enough to hack through the code. jamesob claims he spotted it though. I don't really believe him because he's cloutchaser and his evidence got deleted by Signal message expiry (lmao!!!) but on the off chance that he's being 100% honest, it was spotted.
So does that mean that AI is all we can trust? God help us!
Not at all. AI is just an analysis tool. It means that if you want to be your own bank, your choices are:
- Play money only, or
- Take it deeply serious and defend your stack like a bank would
"I cannot review this" is an option. It means you need to hedge in another way.
Good advice, and it would work for an obsessed lunatic like me. What about the normie who recognizes the problem with fiat and wants self sovereignty? We can't get them to attach a wallet to Stacker News.
Edit: coinos
- "normie that recognizes the problem with fiat" just goes on the stonkmarket and buys some
VTI/VOO/SPY/QQQ, preferably a mix of all of em. - "normie who recognizes the problem with fiat and wants self sovereignty" is not a normie. No normie wants self-sovereignty. That's the least convenient option.
We can't get them to attach a wallet to Stacker News.
Forget about connected wallets. That won't sustain you. No one on SN earns the sats needed to feed them and their family consistently.
Fully self sovereign lightning the easiest way is:
- Send sats to Blixt or Zeus
- Find a good channel partner
- Open private channel
- Send invoices and spend sats
I meant the technical challenge, not the rewards.
Hi @siggy47! Thanks for your contributions over the years. 🙂
Disclaimer: I started as a dev focusing on Core a few years ago.
The Hodlonaut articles get some facts right, but the wokeism appears to have peaked around 2020.
Core v30's did a drastic change in default length OP_RETURN policy (not consensus) from ~80 to ~100 000 bytes. The reason the default value wasn't changed to 256 as a next step was to minimize the amount of repeated Luke & co shenanigans that would come from repeated increases.
I'm one of many who physically work alone. However, starting multiple physical offices to encourage collaboration and forward motion on hardening & improving Core is a good way for Bitcoiners to spend their sats on Bitcoin development. (Not the only way).
The trans thing appears to be incidental and pertains to 2 very long-term devs. They are not activists pushing an agenda on others.
Core is not perfect but don't let the shit-slinging get to you even if it appears to resonate.
It is healthy to be skeptical but please apply it to both sides.
You nailed it. That's what matters right now. You are a talented coder /developer, unlike most of us, so you have the ability to get down into the weeds (I wonder how many guys like you are really out there?) For the rest of us, all we have is trust, which really sucks when you're talking about something that is supposed to be trustless. So, human actions matter. Hodlonaut articles matter. Ideological direction matters.