@NeerajKA depends on the drug use and sex scenes of course
The Last of Us
Season 1, Episode 3
was nothing short of beautiful. pic.twitter.com/GuX1PR6Rju
@SGBarbour Whenever you have a platform with a scripting language, savvy devs will figure out how to use it in unco..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Lw
RT @jeetsidhu_: looks like @geoffgolberg is back on twitter
geoff exposed significant bot manipulating on twitter (later backed up by @el…
lopp When you didn’t prep because prepping is for the paranoid. pic.twitter.com/mO9SaVG5pq
@jessebabies You just made the same argument that big blockers often made to argue for cheap on-chain transactions…twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Xm
On why banning arbitrary data is a rabbit hole you don’t want to go down. Excellent objective analysis by Andrew Po..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…lZ
@KryptoWarz Meh, I don’t find it useful to even think that way. The underlying motives are irrelevant - what’s impo..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…ce
There is a subset of Bitcoiners who would deign to impose their morality upon how the protocol is used, even with t..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…K9
Today is a good day for folks to read the sidechains whitepaper (from 2014) and then ask what went wrong…. https://t.co/0XrcFX90Ne
@cburniske Then you should realize that “maxis” is the wrong descriptor, as many maximalists would prefer to see Bi..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…9f
In order to achieve better scalability, privacy, and versatility, developers build desired functionality as new lay..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…6l
Looks like Google Fi users are affected by a recent T-Mobile breach. pic.twitter.com/gc2sHQeZ3S
@CivilDavid3 The real bitcoiners are on nostr, of course!
If you are dismayed by certain aspects of “Bitcoin culture,” take comfort in the fact that the vast majority of Bit..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…4S
When the new junior dev accidentally commits npm_modules/ pic.twitter.com/9Qungnbgyy
@kirankumarj_eth @brian_trollz nah
lopp Bitcoin miners don’t “solve complicated math problems.”
They make 100,000,000,000,000,000,000+ guesses per second…twitter.com/i/web/status/1…SH
@btctickr In the annual performance test posts I have the config values listed. For Bitcoin Core:
assumevalid=0
db..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…cS
@nate_zec @ssaintleger @CryptoCuddler Unfortunately it’s all manual except for one script I wrote to parse the debu… https://t.co/Jq7DxRVCpD
goldrel “Humans generally don’t like change. Or at least we like to say we don’t like change; [tho] we’re very adaptive.”..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…NA
Bitcoin does not follow any form of traditional governance model. No one, regardless of their stature, is a represe..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…le
johnkvallis Recently @lopp joined me for a discussion about #bitcoin covenants, OP_VAULT, Ossification, how he assesses potenti..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…jE
@nsquaredcrypto Much less exciting with traditional currencies.
There’s always a bright side. pic.twitter.com/DVDRLCX48H
@brian_trollz Dude in question was a Bitconnect scammer who pivoted to BSV scammer.
He ain’t gonna do jack.
RT @keet_io:
@AriDavidPaul @gladstein The fact is that miner exclusion of transactions with specific attributes has always been… https://t.co/ReyTcjEuXi
@AriDavidPaul I reject your framing of “leading core devs.” Have a nice day
@AriDavidPaul @gladstein Dude quoted above thought Adam Back was a core developer. They’re not sending their best gaslighters.
@KiranVaidya Will there be problems in the future? Definitely.
Is Bitcoin not resilient because there will be prob..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…wr
@csuwildcat It’s especially dumb FUD. twitter.com/theinstagibbs/…
@BlakeLaPierre @sassal0x Oh wow, you guys still exist? Hang in there, buddy!
@0xArbiter If you have a spare machine with 2+ Ethernet ports laying around that you’re willing to install opnsense.org on, sure.
@0xArbiter You can point it to any VPN that supports wireguard, though I explain why I recommend using your own ser..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…eB
@TheDrago663 Kind of. My solution has me running my own VPN endpoint, thus my own IP address is not in a range that..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…YM
@0xArbiter $300-$500 for the router and $5 a month for a suitable VPS to run the tunnel endpoint.
@Arthur_van_Pelt Kurt has a fetish for inefficient use of block space.
Did you know that over 100 physical attacks have been perpetrated against Bitcoiners? You can learn more at this hi..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Yw
@calga7 Check out zerosync.org
@KiranVaidya @sassal0x Wat.
You need to be more specific with what you’re claiming is failing. A handful of people… https://t.co/9vF3d0cqd9
@Truthcoin Correct - exactly why I repost evergreen articles, because folks tend to miss them for a variety of reas..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Ms
In order to sync a Bitcoin node quickly from scratch you need both fast hardware and plenty of bandwidth. The follo..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…c0
@druidian Can still be sybilled. What’s far harder to fake is the attention graph, per @hivedotone
@sassal0x It’s even more amusing that you’re trying to build outrage based on Luke, who is arguably one of the most… https://t.co/DYFshs3WYR
@sassal0x Adam Back has never contributed to Bitcoin Core.
Your ignorance is confirmed.
~/code/bitcoin$ git log —… https://t.co/mjWIl2jHso
Be ungovernable! pic.twitter.com/SDfxXkYA3X
@sassal0x s/maximalists/core developers/
https://t.co/to55ajOQUW
@BITCOINALLCAPS @BashCo_ Can you be more specific? I’m not seeing any abberations on my node. https://t.co/vvgpZp7hAd
@ducebagger @BoringProtocol Ain’t no way you’ll achieve gigabit speeds after hopping through a bunch of raspberry pis.
One more week of testing and I’ll release my DIY Gigabit VPN guide. Unfortunately, fewer than 1% of readers will be..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…v1
@Paulie10101010 Have a link?
@iLoveJaneAdams @SatoshiLite No. I’ve already been targeted once. https://t.co/wqawX5OXtK
Me: “Aw sweet, Goldeneye for Switch lets you play online!”
Nintendo: “You must have friends to play online.”
Me:
@billbarhydt @Excellion It’s just the topic du jour for folks to be upset about.
@adam3us @criptobastardo You can’t fight economic reality for the long term; just look at how Veriblock worked out…. https://t.co/jGgq4ragGd
The EPA recommends limiting ingestion to 0.004 parts per trillion (ppt) for PFOA & 0.02 ppt for PFOS to prevent neg..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…wv
A Bitcoiner trying to remember how to access their ultra cold storage. pic.twitter.com/r6jsxCCV2h
@maxtannahill @Meister_Ancap @ottosch_ Good point. Though folks who run wallet infrastructure on behalf of others c..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…EF
@MrHodl @nvk Evergreen tweet: https://t.co/KgJcE52Fsa
In my 4th annual Bitcoin node sync performance report I tested 9 different implementations to see how they stack up. blog.lopp.net/2022-bitcoin-n…
@nvk This perspective is even applicable to Lightning. It was technically possible to construct HTLCs without SegWi… https://t.co/aoKyz34rhs
@nvk This reads to me as a defeatist attitude that because there is no known perfect scaling solution, we should no… https://t.co/J5gfNfBryQ
@nvk Yes, it’s always about trade-offs. My main point being that, all else being equal, if we can improve the secur… https://t.co/FaBmRLhNnm
@add_BTC @nvk It’s a hard problem. No one can see the future.
I’d posit that similar arguments can be made in the… https://t.co/3MsX8ucmZN
@add_BTC @nvk Correct. And yet this fact should not be a convenient excuse to cover our eyes and ignore every possi… https://t.co/qC7soRUNR4
@nvk Are we not seeing the same trajectory?
* Sidechains (centralized pegging)
* Chaumian mints (centralized custo… https://t.co/qWA4rrMoS8
@nvk If the threshold is “need” then nothing will meet it other than CVEs / looming breaking issues. Bitcoin will,… https://t.co/64QH2sD3up
@nvk Multiple years between new features already feels pretty “less” to me. Given that the design space is so huge,… https://t.co/8vjkytu1M3
If you don’t like a project that someone is building on Bitcoin, your only option to stop them is to build somethin..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…8x
@byronhambly It’s a pretty well known story. I’ve written several articles about it on my blog. twitter.com/lopp/status/91…
@Meister_Ancap @ottosch_ We tested Fulcrum in the more recent report that you can find here.
blog.keys.casa/electrum-serve…
Casa engineers compare and contrast the performance of 3 popular Electrum server implementations. blog.keys.casa/electrum-serve…
@St_Diogenes Ha, mostly. I didn’t post a video of an AR-15 after that incident; it was a photo of a KelTec shotgun. twitter.com/lopp/status/92…
Vitriolic folks fail to grasp a unique aspect of my perspective.
After achieving the milestone of having guns lite..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…VO
lopp bitcoin vs “the next bitcoin” pic.twitter.com/uGQ5n0n7cb
@hudsonjameson @ercwl Block space will go to the highest bidder, regardless of use case. Thus the most valuable use..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…CA
Coincidence? pic.twitter.com/euBdpaVWpA
@MASTERBTCLTC It should be pretty trivial to run my script against litecoind: https://t.co/3uI12qe6aT
How well does the historical distribution of timestamps on bitcoin blocks match the expected distribution? blog.lopp.net/bitcoin-block-…
@NomadicMGTOW Heh I’ve actually never been to Vegas.
@RealKeithWeiner @davidlhansen3 Thankfully Bitcoin allows you to create a level of redundancy and robustness that c..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Y8
“Sometimes science is more art than science, Morty. A lot of people don’t get that.”
- Rick Sanchez pic.twitter.com/YobLgROWuy
@onesien @flirtingwithbtc oopsies
lopp The true scammers are the “journalists” who claimed that Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme.
@monetarydivorce @carl_dong @gladstein Devices like this that are retail routers flashed with custom firmware tend… https://t.co/K2bz317YHT
@carl_dong @gladstein I’m currently sitting on a 6,000 word draft explaining the new VPN setup I’ve been building t… https://t.co/KoZWEVrG1e
@Arthur_van_Pelt It’s his job as Chief History Rewriter
*squints* OK so you’re saying the password has to be between 10 and 12 characters long?
This, of course, is from a..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…OA
@0xToymaker White House whitehouse.gov/nec/briefing-r…
“It would be a grave mistake to… deepen the ties between cryptocurrencies and the broader financial system.”
Bro..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…ZD
@LN_Capital Feel free to comment on this issue when you have a URL I can add: github.com/jlopp/lopp.net…
@flirtingwithbtc Heads up, I’m getting a 404 error when trying to load your web site.
@NeerajKA He’ll always have Elon Tusk pic.twitter.com/PnYU5McuM5
In 1950 there were more than 16 workers for every social security beneficiary. That ratio is now below three worker..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…CT
kouloumos 1/ It’s been a year since I left my job to become a Bitcoin Core contributor.
“Getting to Base Camp” is my journey..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…HR
@BitcoinMerges Hopefully this resolves the issue I examined in depth here! blog.lopp.net/is-bitcoin-net…
Podcasts are great way to keep up with current events in Bitcoin land. Quality podcasts provide high signal, low no..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Gt
Goldeneye re-release on Switch tomorrow.
New Aqua Teen Hunger Force season in the works.
Good times for early 2000s nostalgia.
@satofishi Fireworks are banned in many American cities and states too twitter.com/stillgray/stat…
lopp Dating can be tough when you have Bitcoin on the brain. pic.twitter.com/43wOGHgrHN
@jamesob @JeremyRubin bruh why would you mess with perfection
Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays
“Other Stuff” is a very large category pic.twitter.com/XKJjV6iZgH
@JeremyRubin Goldeneye on Switch gets released tomorrow!
@chenbfang @bryan_johnson @calico @altos_labs None, but the fact that there are many horses makes me more optimisti… https://t.co/58y7vBdTGE
@chenbfang @bryan_johnson On a cosmic scale we’re all doomed, but I would not dismiss the possibility of advances i… https://t.co/XBWtZiVExP
“He blasts his pelvic floor with electromagnetic pulses to improve muscle tone in hard-to-reach places and has a de..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Px
Figuring out how to build a gigabit VPN to protect an entire home network has taken me down many rabbit holes, each..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…tK
@CoinDesk @camomileshumba This headline was puzzling because software (to my knowledge) can’t file lawsuits. Turns..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…GU
This is the clown world that authoritarians want. pic.twitter.com/GdeZpvCI84
aimbot hax pic.twitter.com/LLFLf869ub
@exodus_io You’ll be hard pressed to find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than BSV. Good luck supporting it.
Privacy is a prerequisite for freedom.
@ericohreilly @CasaHODL Sure, it’s a trade-off. You bear more responsibility for backups with the 2HW setup, wherea..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…3d
@shawnyeager Of the ones I’ve tested thus far, hetzner has had the most reliable throughput.
@ericohreilly @CasaHODL If you’re a 2-of-3 user you can be sure Casa only holds 1 key by using a “2 hardware device..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…nr
@ewaneth Someone’s a fan of strawmen.
@evan_van_ness It’s an economic theory rabbit hole down which I’m uninterested in diving into for the hundredth tim… https://t.co/HTz3PIt0M6
@evan_van_ness Gotcha. If you think that there is actually such a thing as intrinsic value then we’re not going to… https://t.co/nvBHQcv2HH
@evan_van_ness Do you ever stop and listen to yourself?
Do you not think that “
@Thakkaryx As I recall it kept me engaged for countless hours of play due to the tiered system of level difficultie..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…wr
lopp BRACE YOURSELVES pic.twitter.com/SGu5WZYUPr
When I hear they’re re-releasing Goldeneye for Switch pic.twitter.com/E6lXTMnypv
After testing half a dozen hosting providers, here’s what I learned:
If you want sustained gigabit network through..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…cj
@lisa_hough_ @PeterMcCormack I’m not aware of a company that focuses on that in particular, but any decent size web… https://t.co/6tfaFapk7R
Hosting providers: “Your server has a gigabit connection!”
Me: *runs bandwidth tests* pic.twitter.com/qUGaDZe9gJ
@FrodoJansen @100PERCENTBTC @unchainedcap @Ledger @nvk @Blockstream With absolute timelocks you can no longer recov… https://t.co/wt3DZRw9qf
@100PERCENTBTC @unchainedcap @Ledger @nvk @Blockstream Absolute timelocks are a no-go because they break deterministic backups.
Police in Barcelona, Spain, have arrested five men after they stormed into a crypto company’s office armed with tas..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…cu
Guias Bitcoin en Español bitcoin.cipix.eu
Bitcoin covenants are a powerful and promising potential feature that could be added to the protocol. In this post..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…w4
@ecurrencyhodler Welp, looks like coinsecrets is dead. Only one left I’m aware of is bitcoinstrings.com
lopp This could come in handy if you live in San Francisco. Keep your valuables safe! pic.twitter.com/WQaeq9kIqg
@Shane100100 No specific safes. Depends on the usage.
Generally anything with a simplex lock. They can be opened q..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…FE
@0x0ff_ @Richard_Lee_BA @LaurentMT You can achieve covenant functionality with no protocol changes if you’re workin..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Uc
@6D6F64 Check out: twitter.com/i/lists/981976…
johnkvallis Hanging w/ @lopp twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
@LaurentMT Aha yes, I’d agree that a form of covenants that don’t require the user to commit to the restrictions could indeed be dangerous.
@salvatoshi Ahhh nice, I’ll add this to the “further reading” section.
@LaurentMT While the specific implementation / enforcement is different, both require the end user to voluntarily a..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…vU
Bitcoin covenants are a powerful and promising potential feature that could be added to the protocol. In this artic..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…qp
@gaborgurbacs @adam3us The context of the quote is certainly interesting, given that the fellow on the receiving en..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…jT
@adam3us @gaborgurbacs This is my least favorite quote because of how people tend to use it, as if their time is an..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…WF
WhatBitcoinDid “Nostr was invented by a Lighting developer…if we can get to a point where we really have these decentralised pee..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…fA
This could come in handy if you live in San Francisco. Keep your valuables safe! pic.twitter.com/WQaeq9kIqg
Long-form thought pieces go into far greater detail than you’ll find via other mediums. Quality blog posts expand o..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…pc
@flyosity Sorry bruh, pickleball is the tits because it’s the first time I can get normies to play racquet sports w..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…6f
WhatBitcoinDid WBD609 - Bitcoin Security + the Future of AI with Jameson @lopp. We discuss:
- Casa’s provision of Ethereum custody..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Ze
IntelTechniques Sources are confirming that a plan for T-Mobile to acquire Mint Mobile is proceeding. This could be a huge hit to c..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…pg
Snowden One of the cool things about Nostr (“Notes and other stuff transmitted by relays”, a new decentralized protocol tha..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…14
lopp Entropy is your friend. pic.twitter.com/rUVIznTRSW
Seeking to stack more sats in the bear market?
Run your washing machine with cold water. You only really need hot..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Je
“biTcOiN iS tHe BeSt PeRfoRmiNg aSsEt yEaR tO dAtE” pic.twitter.com/SanHelCBv2
@JesusDailyWords Seems to me like crypto and stock markets are usually correlated but you never know!
Degen traders tuned in to their charts, waiting for signs of life in the markets. pic.twitter.com/OHCio6kF4D
Want to make sure you don’t miss my in-depth articles? Subscribe to my newsletter at blog.lopp.net - you’..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…wy
A demonstration of the dangers of manually manipulating seed phrases by showing how easy it is to reduce their comp..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Sp
@JeremyRubin That would certainly solve it faster than doing nothing and starving to death!
@iamkrishnadahal I think I sleep a bit better, am able to stay more focused in the morning.
@JeremyRubin Doing anything is likely better than doing nothing.
spot monster hire foam camera ethics seminar enter robust express since clarify pic.twitter.com/4Zj9QfvCWc
violin feel book hedgehog when depart grit rescue angle purpose word female pic.twitter.com/q9qioqv96O
@Fintech_Brennan Do your research before you make false claims. blog.lopp.net/who-controls-b…
@RBReich Nice try, Elizabeth Warren. pic.twitter.com/YgonAdle0f
@josephskewes @balajis Yes, but it’s hard to find such examples because so few folks run their own email infrastruc… https://t.co/R6tdXlx0r5
@adoctoronfire I suspect that the concept of needing to be adequately fueled throughout the day by constantly eatin..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…J5
@keccers SARMs should be used sparingly; I’ve only been doing one round (of 6 weeks) per year.
Didn’t change my wo..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…C6
Six months ago I switched to a restricted eating schedule between noon and 7 PM every day. Easy way to reduce your..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…lW
@ecurrencyhodler @fiatjaf @wlrvs The SegWit UASF is tricky to measure because its “success” was via threat rather t..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…62
@robustus @fiatjaf This was the list of inviolable properties I came up with a few years ago: nakamoto.com/what-are-the-k…
@robustus @fiatjaf Thus the grey area around “reasonable” objections. Unreasonable objections should not be suffici..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…pA
@JuergenStrobel @fiatjaf There is DANGER in extra complexity. There is also OPPORTUNITY.
The question always comes..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…Co
lopp @fiatjaf Bitcoin must not be changed in ways that are harmful to others.
But changes that are positive for some wh..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…YS
@Rassah @fiatjaf The issue to which I refer is the strength of “veto” power in Bitcoin “governance.”
My point is t… https://t.co/xLKd8STOpI
Numerous changes have been made to Bitcoin over the years; should any of them be considered hard forks? blog.lopp.net/has-bitcoin-ev…
@happybtc17 Well, termination without explicit consent is murder. So yeah, we should be against murder.
@alistairmilne FUDsters scraping the bottom of the barrel these days.
@happybtc17 Freedom includes full bodily autonomy. If someone wishes to end their life, they have every right to do so.
@BitcoinIslander Obviously consent is paramount. This is why living wills are a thing, in case you get into a non-c..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…ou
@440UrPp @jenetemm If I’m successful, that won’t be an issue because the tunnel will only exist between 2 Linux ser..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…C5
@jimmysong Or if you scam enough people fast enough, you can buy a bunch of politicians before you get caught.
@fiatjaf Bitcoin must not be changed in ways that are harmful to others.
But changes that are positive for some wh..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…YS
@EchoBees13 I’d never use a camera system that sends your footage to third parties. Ring is well known to happily h..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…n2
This is what happens when the state does not allow doctors to assist terminally ill patients with a quick, dignifie..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…jq
A comprehensive post covering considerations to take when designing a multilayered home defense system. blog.keys.casa/a-home-defense…