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777 sats \ 1 reply \ @waltmunny 11h \ on: Post-quantum cryptography is too damn big. (2024) security
Have you tried to debug with 'ping'? If the packet size is really the culprit, ping will tell you.
I have never seen people talking past each other as much as "filters work" vs. "filters don't work" people
Filters work because they make certain tx more expensive, but also filters don't work because they still get mined
It's not that deep
Oh and lol @ WhatsApp idea but WhatsApp implies E2EE
On a broader meta-commentary level, I think it's a real shame that the first question people ask about a technology is whether it's "left-coded" or "right-coded" (~6 min in)
Like, why are we so polarized that the default short-cut to deciding whether I should support something is which political side supports it?
Another interesting observation is that the host says around 6:21 that Bitcoin is right-wing because it's "anti-government and seeks to disrupt the liberal democratic order". I think today, the people who want to "save democracy" really mean they want to preserve the status quo institutional order.
At 9:52 I had enough. The old white guy tried to tie the desire for monetary independence to pro-slavery confederates. I'm so sick of this playbook of attacking peoples' legitimate viewpoints by trying to link them to fascism or slavery or racism. I don't know if there's a word for it, but it's some sort of historical guilt-by-association, "Well these bad people liked what you like, so you must be bad too!" We can all play that game, like Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist right? I stopped watching at that point, I don't want to give these losers my clicks or watch-time.
I like Molly White a lot -- I think she's one of the crypto critics that really does do research, and while she's still often wrong about Bitcoin's future, she's been dead-on about a ton of the scammers in the overall industry. Still, she's much better when she's writing columns as opposed to doing interviews where she's not as prepared.
Also, gotta love this comment from the video:
Drivers licenses did make possible quite a dramatic expansion of the surveillance state.
Would TSA have worked if drivers licenses werent already widespread?
It seems to me that this new step into age verification requirements sets the stage for kyc to use the internet.
even though I understood very little of what was going on, i can still sense your satisfaction at having somewhat solved a fairly perplexing problem. nice work!
Without a doubt, exercise more.
I recommend it to anyone who I know, however, it is not something that I dominate or did with the necessary regularity. I feel that by continuing to pass the voice to others, it helped me to program the message to be able to dominate what the Council refers to. (Constant exercise routines)
FYI, TSA doesn't work
I couldn't agree more, but that only makes me more angry that I have to do all the security theater to get on an airplane. Just because it doesn't work, doesn't mean they won't make my life more difficult by trying it.
I don't think KYC laws work either, but they certainly make it more difficult for many Bitcoin businesses and for Bitcoiners in general. Just because they don't work doesn't mean I don't have to give all my details to an exchange and then get screwed when their database is leaked.
In the case of our original argument, I don't care what the subject is: porn, marijuana, being able to say racial slurs -- I see regulation of these things directly leading to ever-expanding surveillance of the general population. We are close to the point where the 4th amendment is null and void because there are so many established carve outs.
You know, this made me think of WHY this is - why am I good at following food restrictions, but not so great on digital restrictions.
Here's what I think it is.
With food (with the carnivore diet, anyway), it's VERY clear cut.
Animal origin? Good.
Not animal origin? Bad.
With use of screens/devices, it's nowhere near that clear cut. If I were to cut out my laptop and phone entirely, I couldn't function, couldn't work, couldn't do fun and interesting projects.
It's such a fuzzy line. For instance, take Youtube.
Youtube is critical for a lot of things. But then, it's so easy to go from "must watch youtube for an important project, or to learn how to do x,y,z", to "zzz...got nothing else I must do, so I will anesthetize myself with youtube for hours".
Wow! So cool that you are doing this! Meetups have been so huge for how I learned about Bitcoin. I'm sure you are gonna make an outsize impact with the efforts you put into this!
- Give-get is a good ice breaker that doesn't waste time: have each person introduce themselves and tell the group what they can give to the community and what they are looking to get from the community. It's better than just a casual ice breaker.
- Sometimes it's easy to get "stuck" talking to one person. If the meetup organizer finds a way to force people move around and talk to new people it can be really great.
- talking about bitcoin is fun!
- If it's the first time the group is getting together, it might be a good idea to have some topic or subject that you are going to talk about. I really like how bitdevs meetups do a list of links to interesting bitcoin things and talk about as many of them as people seem interested in. If you expect a bigger turnout, presentations can be good.
- My personal gripe is when meetup organizers are taking pictures. Even if you ask for permission, it's hard to make sure people aren't in the background. I always appreciate meetups that have a no picture policy.
I'd have to say our game, only because it was our first product. Neither my wife or I had any background in bitcoin mining, so it really was a leap of faith to launch a game about such a complex topic without being an "expert" in it. But once we put it out and started hearing from other families about how much they wanted to have products for their kids, it motivated us to keep building.
We had two winners to last week's Word of Mouth Wednesday!
Congratulations to @karanjbhatia for the 4chan post referencing SN and to @AGORA for the BitcoinTalk forum post!
I have the dev environment setup locally. Should I make an issue for a read-only graphql solution? I think middleware to block it would be pretty easy
yeah with the host permissions my background can break CORS and send whatever it wants. I need to check but I think it's making the requests with the logged in users credentials. This says https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/concepts/declare-permissions#host-permissions
Access cookies with the chrome.cookies API.
I want to make one with a page action that is for submitting any url you may be on but this one is to help arbitrage links between HN and Stacker. You don't want to submit a duplicate so it needs to call the dup check for all the HN post urls. Right now its doing it in batches of 5. Heres my current graphql query
query UrlBatch($url0: String!, $url1: String!, $url2: String!, $url3: String!, $url4: String!) {
url0: dupes(url: $url0) { ...DupeInfo }
url1: dupes(url: $url1) { ...DupeInfo }
url2: dupes(url: $url2) { ...DupeInfo }
url3: dupes(url: $url3) { ...DupeInfo }
url4: dupes(url: $url4) { ...DupeInfo }
}
fragment DupeInfo on Item {
createdAt
commentSats
commentCredits
credits
id
ncomments
sub { name }
sats
title
updatedAt
upvotes
url
user { name id }
}
It shows a loading icon while its waiting for the batches of graphql queries to finish
Then if it has results is shows you info about the territory it was submitted to and how many sats its gotten
but there being a mention of p2p electronic cash in the whitepaper, that the intent of using Bitcoin as an MoE is the intended use.
I don't see that intention has much to do with it at this point. The network is live and permissionless -- whatever can be done will be done. If we cannot stop someone from using it a certain way, isn't that one of the ways we have to accept it will be used?
The conversation began with the OP's question: what is our proxy for bitcoin winning? I believe block space because this is how we know the network is being used. What is in those blocks is by definition following the bitcoin protocol and using bitcoin.
It doesn't make sense to me that we should say these kinds of transactions are less bitcoin-like than others. These are the consensus rules we have.
If the presence of consensus valid txs in blocks is only a proxy for success when the transactions are the kind we like, we ought to figure out how to fork to get to consensus rules that reflect that. A bitcoin that relies on good behavior will not succeed. Whatever can be done, will be done by an attacker.
I failed in my attempt to twist your analogy: the plan was to reference the broken window fallacy and take your mention of graffiti literally: if someone was doing graffiti around town that was advertising bitcoin, it might actually be good for Bitcoin--unless janitors cleaned it up. But I'll admit I was stretching it to far.
Great question!
Progressive overload is the principle of gradually increasing the stress you place on your muscles to stimulate growth and adaptation.
That could mean:
Lifting heavier weights over time
Doing more reps or sets
Improving form or tempo
Reducing rest periods
Without increasing the challenge, your body has no reason to grow stronger.
Comfort = stagnation.
Stress = adaptation.
But progressive overload isn’t just for the gym — it applies to every area of life.
Want to get better at public speaking? Speak more often, to larger groups, or in higher-stakes settings.
Want to build emotional resilience? Face discomfort on purpose and learn to regulate under pressure.
Want to build wealth? Make progressively bolder, smarter decisions with your time, money, and skills.
Growth requires intentional resistance.
You add just enough weight to stretch you — not break you.
Then you recover, adapt, and come back stronger.
Apply progressive overload to your habits, mindset, and relationships — not just your workouts.
It’s the formula for transformation.
In the gym and in life.