The Bitcoin halving equation (taken from @Adam Back) According to Grok: A compact mathematical model of Bitcoin’s core consensus rule. It states that a coinbase transaction c (the special transaction that creates new bitcoins) is valid for the current block only if, when you hash together the previous block’s hash h_i, this coinbase c, and the exact protocol-allowed subsidy of \frac{50}{2^h} BTC (where h is the number of halvings that have occurred), the resulting block hash h_{i+1} satisfies the proof-of-work condition of being less than the current difficulty target T. In short, it cryptographically binds two rules into one statement: miners must perform real computational work (hash < target) and may only claim the precisely correct block reward dictated by Bitcoin’s halving schedule.

Taken from 𝕏 account ‘Physics in History’

Taken from ‘The Magic Of Code’ by S . Arbesman

There are bad actors, but blanket approaches never work for human actors and seldomly covers the problem attempting to be solved.

Privacy a constitutional right. Many think if you’re an advocate for privacy you have something to hide…FOOLS! You wear clothes no? You have curtains in your house no? You can lock the door to your bedroom no?

It takes work. It takes conviction. It’s a virtuous undertaking not for the weak.

Taken from 𝕏 account ‘Night Sky Today’

AI amplifies whatever you point it at. It can create incredible things, but it can also automate fraud at scale, supercharge surveillance, or destabilize systems if put in the wrong hands. Most folks are sleepwalking through one of the biggest technological shifts in history. The gap between what it can actually do and what the average person understands is massive right now.

Journal Entry 2026/06/24 CS exams are done, and college break has started. Using this time to study Andrew Ng’s Deep Learning course. Really fascinating. One lecture includes a 2017 interview with Geoffrey Hinton, and it’s eye-opening seeing how differently he spoke about AI progress back then. Watching that interview in 2026 is surreal. So much has changed in less than a decade. Things that once sounded ambitious now feel almost conservative. AI progress is moving at an astonishing pace. There’s something special about studying this field while watching history unfold in real time.

The human experience is such a tragedy. So many books you’ll never read, places you’ll never visit, people you’ll never meet or fall in love with, and future technologies you’ll never live to experience. An infinite universe… experienced through a finite life.

Payments over mesh networks without Internet? Authorities don’t stand a chance man😂 @jack

Historical records have been tampered with before 🫠

When tweet stamping launched in 2019, it failed to gain real traction. It was simply too early. Back then, most people still trusted what they saw online. Today, AI slop has changed the landscape completely. The cost of generating convincing text, images, audio and video has collapsed. The real danger isn’t just fake content. It’s the erosion of trust in digital reality itself. Skepticism toward anything seen online is rising rapidly, and understandably so. This is exactly why cryptographic timestamping, hashing and digital signatures are becoming critical infrastructure. Many still view Bitcoin purely through the lens of money or speculation, missing the deeper breakthrough: decentralized verification without reliance on central authority.

Writing exams by hand made me realize how much I’ve adapted to auto-correct and digital tools. Human interaction with computers doesn’t just increase productivity but changes the cognitive process itself. The way we generate, organize, refine and implement ideas is fundamentally different when technology becomes part of the thinking loop. AI is simply the next step in that evolution.

I think what many plebs are alluding to but rarely articulate is that: -Elon Musk, as an investment, is bound to centralized energy, time & space subject to entropy’s degrading effects and carries a central point of failure. -Bitcoin is dimensionless, timeless, energy-agnostic and engineered to resist monetary entropy through fixed supply and decentralized consensus. Your perspective will depend on time horizon and risk appetite.

Bitcoin and Nostr are protocols that do not require cloud infrastructure to function. Almost every other major network service today is built on top of Cloud infrastructure.

Synchronicity 2026/06/16 While preparing for my Computer Science Mathematics exam, I came across a particular recursive sequence problem that had only appeared once in a past paper over a 10-year period. After solving it, I posted my solution to the module’s social media group. In the exam, one of the more challenging questions was based on recursive sequences and required the same technique I had shared.