A recent supply chain attack.

Kaspersky official blog

Review and analysis of fake Trezor cryptowallet

Fake hardware cryptowallet, and how bitcoins were stolen from it.

California went from a $97.5B surplus to a $32B deficit in a year. That’s impressive levels of incompetence even for commies.

I’ve been checking the Strike API docs about once a week since I saw #[0]​ mention they were going to add the ability to buy bitcoin to their API. Looks like they did that yesterday. It should now be possible to do extra custom BTC buys via API based on whatever criteria you can dream up.

It’s important that you understand he bent the knee. An interesting take from someone who likes to think she has more power than she really does.

It is imperative to the proper functioning of society that theater kids get the shit kicked out of them any time they get ideas about seizing power over any system. At any age.

Yesterday, as we worked through the mempool backlog, PNGs represented less than 5% of the total inscriptions included in blocks. But they paid the majority of the fees paid by inscription transactions and they represented the majority of the space used by inscriptions.

Daily Inscription Stats by Type

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They spent more than 85 bitcoin to write json to the timechain today. More than 3.5 bitcoin/hour. ≈40 megabytes of 💩 62.4K sats per json blob @ an avg fee rate of 363.52 sats/vB. Average size of 343 bytes and 174 vB.

I’m not forgiving or excusing the scam, but anyone ordering a Wagyu steak sandwich from a concession counter is buying the $PEPE of sandwiches and they bear a lot of responsibility for whatever happens after that. 🤣 Note: I’m assuming he did it for the story and I don’t even begrudge him that, it’s an amusing story. 🤷‍♂️

If California pays $1.2M in reparations payments per person, I wonder if they’ll make those payments tax exempt for state tax purposes. The Feds definitely won’t. Almost $500K/person going to federal taxes. That would be an interesting use of state tax money. Note: I don’t expect it to actually happen, but it’s interesting to think through the tax implications if it did. Would the state withhold federal taxes or leave it up to the taxpayers to handle paying their federal taxes properly? Those new IRS could end up being pretty busy. 🤣

People getting electrocuted or run over by a train because they jumped on the subway tracks sounds like a solution rather than a problem. 🤷‍♂️

Pausing in the middle of your hours long tirade about how much money 4x higher fees are costing you every year, as a North American businessman, to brag about how little you paid your local farmer in a much poorer LatAm country is a choice. It’s not a good choice, but it is certainly a choice. 9,300 sats. I’ve sent bigger zaps for mediocre dick jokes for fuck’s sake.

If your business depends on a low fee rate environment you might not have a long term viable business model. Adapt or die, just quit whining.

The first time I programmed a computer in 1986 I felt like a wizard. This week I’ve felt that feeling again for the first time since about 2007. Thanks to ChatGPT. It’s like having a chess computer for anything you can learn about on the internet. Prediction: Humans+AI will beat either the best AI or the best human alone for the foreseeable future. Kasparov (an insufferable Neocon on most topics) has been talking about this for decades. 4 billion years of evolution is a lot of computational irreducibility to overcome. Now, once I get my inscriptions stats project done I need to spend time getting a local LLM model running so I can do some custom model training. It’s an exciting time, even with all the chaos of 🤡🌎.

3,923 sats/vB, people are losing their damn minds. 🤣

My first full time job as an adult was as a Qualified Mental Retardation Professional Assistant (nurses aide at a facility for the mentally retarded). We had one autistic patient named Bill who loved trains and had a colostomy bag. He would throw his colostomy bag across the room and nail someone with his shit any time someone pissed him off for the slightest offense. He liked me so I never got hit with it, but I had to clean up the mess a few times. The smell was something else. Some of the autists on Bitcoin Twitter remind me of Bill. Bitcoin is their train and they are quick to fling shit like an unhinged monkey over anything.

For last week, inscriptions were way less likely to pay more than 50 sats/vB than non-inscription transactions. (This is just early text based R&D, I plan to create much prettier charts once I figure out how I want to see the data.)

I now have data for last week. Now I just need to create some visualizations for it. That should be fun. But first I’m going to drink a few beers and smoke a cigar or two to celebrate.

A US Senator admitted on live TV what everyone who has ever watched and understood It’s a Wonderful Life already knew. Fractional reserve banks are Ponzis.

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You’re not supposed to say the quiet part out loud.

When ChatGPT loses its “mind” and starts making things up you know you’ve reached the end of the internet’s documented understanding of a subject and you are in true R&D territory. The top 10% of knowledge workers have always lived in that niche. 🌎👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀