Bitcoin Wallets Struggle with Variable‑amount Merchant Payments
😂 Also, this is an example of a UI problem for Bitcoin wallets: there's no good way to replicate this UI with Lightning, or anything similar, because the merchant wants the ability to take up to hundreds of dollars from you. Same with hotels/car rental/etc. But less obvious.
Russia Seeks May 9 Ceasefire to Protect Parade
Russia asked for a ceasefire on May 9: they want to hold their annual military parade in Moscow without it getting disrupted by a Ukrainian drone attack. Ukraine responded with a ceasefire on May 5th to 6th, which if upheld would...
Mike Casey Labels P2PK as Satoshi-Era, Not Satoshi’s
Really good to hear Mike Casey describe the famous P2PK coins as the "Satoshi-era coins", rather than claiming they're Satoshi's coins. https://t.co/kNLbEvTDAh
Decentralized Mining Enables Open‑Source Heat‑Reuse Innovations
I voted for @256foundation myself. It's really important that mining be decentralized, obviously. A less obvious factor here is that we have a long tail of mining heat-reuse applications that are only really practical with open source hardware and firmware, e.g....
EU Demands Real‑time Google Search Feed, Privacy at Risk
tl;dr: the EU wants to force Google to make a real time feed of all searches done on Google, with bullshit privacy protections, available to any EU company or researcher who wants it. Complying is evil. A future EU government should...
Bitcoin's Consensus Is Fundamentally Centralized by Light‑speed Limits
tl;dr: Bitcoin is inherently centralized. Because a consensus system is limited by the speed of light.
Destroying Tuapse Beaches Could Save 2,250 Ukrainian Lives
Grok thinks Tuapse represents roughly $1.5 billion/year in tourism, almost entirely from Russians. Let's suppose that this oil spill results in 10% of those tourist dollars getting spent outside of Russia instead, and let's suppose that 30% of those dollars were...
Bitcoin's Complexity Mirrors Decades-Long Engineering Feats
Before you vote, think through the complexity of all the dependencies of Bitcoin Core. Libraries like secp256k1, hash functions, networking, compilers, assemblers, linkers, etc. etc. etc. The Hoover Dam was finished in 1937. It took decades more for Bitcoin to even be...
Bitcoin‑funded Van Delivered Amid Russian Drone Attacks
So I actually spent Easter in a small front line town near Kramatorsk, delivering a van bought with â‚¿ donations. Literally dozens of armed Russian FPV drones attacked that town during this "ceasefire". Hell, I even spotted one; the soldiers around...
Prediction‑Market Insurance Lets Bots Profit by Providing Liquidity
If prediction markets are getting used efficiently, for insurance, you could almost expect this bot to make money. Why? Because to buy insurance with prediction markets, usually you're betting yes: Yes Amazon AWS will will; Yes rain will come. Thus, the bot provides...
Russian Fiber‑optic Drones Leave Debris; Shotguns Work
Can confirm. I went for a walk to the east edge of Kramatorsk, and even there, near peoples' homes and apartments, I found some fiber from Russian fiber optic drones. A lot easier to hit a drone with a shotgun for...
Matt Corallo Rep
inb4 Matt Corallo dusts off his old fork generator and turns it into nyt slop exposé generator
Weak Military Policy Erodes Freedoms, Demands Stronger Action
This. It's also yet another example of how weak military policy leads to our freedoms being taken away. Iran shouldn't be an issue. The only reason these tolls even exist is because Trump is too weak to crush Iran with force. His...
Russian Drone Pilots Target Journalists, Hide Your Press Badge
You couldn't make a movie out of this because no-one would believe how cartoonishly evil Russians actually are. Speaking of, see Caolan's press badge and concealed body armor? Current advice is to hide your journalist status, as Russian drone pilots actively...
US Military Overmatch: Unlimited Resources, Zero Cost Concern
Actually an example of how bad-ass the US military is: Downed pilots? No worries. We'll mobilize hundreds of millions of dollars worth of assets to get them back, whatever the cost. On, some C-130's had mechanical problems? No worries. We'll send...