People trying to fix "teh security budget" adding non-monetary use cases to Bitcoin are essentially arguing for Universal Basic Income for miners. As with the idiotic and self-serving politicians that push for such a thing, the cost is obfuscated and the benefit as stated would

It used to be illegal to do autopsies. There was a ban on human dissection. Medical science stagnated for centuries until some renegades said fuck it and paid grave robbers to learn how the human body worked. Imagine how many lives could have been saved if we didn't adhere to

To understand what BIP-110 actually does, I ran its rules across 912,723 blocks and 1.2 billion transactions. Not to simulate retroactive enforcement, but to find out how much of what BIP-110 blocks is spam versus legitimate transactions. I used the strictest possible spam

#Update: Delhi High Court records the last person, Rudra, has been released. Bench REFUSES constitution of a medical board to analyse grave allegations of torture. REFUSES to interfere with any investigation against the 10 persons. Next hearing on 27th March. Delhi Police to

1/ Yesterday, Matt Corallo entered a thread to deny that DEI ever influenced a single hiring or funding decision in Bitcoin Core development history. Let's look at what he said, and what the public record shows.

After three breaches, I stopped trusting “we promise” apps and built darkfolio--- a portfolio tracker that is verifiably private. Full story, screenshots, verification guide, and my $10k pledge to The Tor Project and Roman Storm 🇺🇸 🌪️'s defense, in the article below. 👇

In the dramatic circumstances of war, information must guard against the risk of turning into propaganda. It is every journalist's duty to verify the news, so as not to become a megaphone for power. They must show the suffering that war always brings to populations, which entails

Among the three paramedic volunteers killed today by an Israeli strike was Mehdi Rihan. Mehdi wasn’t just a volunteer. He was a young photographer & content creator who loved capturing the beauty of southern Lebanon; its landscapes, its people, its artists. His Instagram was

Soft Fork Activation: Hard Mode - Method: Have support from zero businesses and almost zero miners. Benefit: Reassert pleb dominance. Cost: Spend month getting dunked on by sniveling cowards who wish Bitcoin was controlled by a handful of Mining pools and exchanges.

Retard alert

Bitcoiners, remember that in 2013 March, Bitcoin Core deployed a temporary softfork to limit block sizes to 500kB, expiring 2 months later, with zero notice or miner signalling. It also retroactively invalidated existing blocks.

"Every year is supposed to be the year where we move away from proof of concepts and actually deliver on the products that all those ICOs promise to build." - Gloria Zhao when she was cold-emailed by Adam Jonas to set up a meeting with Newbery and Uttarwar Two and a half years

Seth Dillon Na, you guys always have to pretend I’m saying something I’m not. I’m not saying anything is permitted or justified. Terrorism is not self defense and neither are US or Israeli wars of aggression. It’s not a justified reaction. It is a predictable one. Try again.

Bitcoin Brabant Adam Back BitMEX Research Knut Svanholm ∞/21M BashCo The initial release is just the beginning. Libbitcoin is not just a node, or just a server, it’s a full stack high performance development environment. It’s organized for builders, for test, for perf, for scale, for simplicity, and importantly for choice. We don’t dictate your

No, I do remember 1979 and was there in the US Congress. The Iranian people were really pissed off after 26 years of the Shah's larceny and tyranny, joined the Revolution and forced the Shah to flee. All good. Then the idiots in Washington gave asylum to the Shah in the US when

Knut Svanholm ∞/21M Bitcoin Infinity Media Giacomo Bitcoin Ideological Destroyer Zucco Great discussion, and Giacomo Bitcoin Ideological Destroyer Zucco made a good showing I think. One of his best points imo, was in the "users are retarded" part: That Bitcoin governance is inherently skewed towards the status quo, and that "the unaware, or uniformed" rule by inertia. Basically, that those

Exciting news - the Florida Department of Education, Commission on Independent Education has granted us University status. We are excited for this next chapter and appreciate all of you supporting our open education mission to provide a free, quality higher education to all.

Hodgetwins Some of us told you this was going to happen. This post was two days BEFORE Trump was elected the FIRST time. So did Trump change and betray you? Or did wishful thinking and gullibility make you cheer for a narcissistic puppet of the machine, when you should have known better?

Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi — who mediated the most recent nuclear talks— writes a piece in The Economist arguing the US “has lost control of its own foreign policy.”

Grown man sucks blood from a 2-week-old baby’s fresh circumcision wound during a brit milah (Jewish ritual) → Baby now fighting herpes in his brain & spinal fluid. Could end in death or lifelong disability. But sure, keep calling it ‘holy’ Health Ministry begs: Use a tube,