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Please tell me those 17 TB of data are actually still encrypted and the prosecution is just playing for both time and maximal lawfare pain:

The Rage

Samourai Wallet Trial Set For November 3, 2025

* The next hearing in the Samourai Wallet case is postponed until March 12th, 2025 in light of volume of discovery * The prosecution has added two...

Is there a reasonable explanation for why two different hardware wallet devices (from the same purchase) would generate random seed phrases with the same word on 3rd and 4th place, while all other words change, again and again and again? The chances for this happening once are fairly small, but 4 times in a row? 🤔

"Spain has arrested one of its top police officers after €20m (£17m) was found hidden in the walls of his house, as part of an investigation into the country’s largest-ever cocaine bust. Óscar Sánchez Gil was until recently the head of the fraud and anti-money laundering division of Spain’s national police force in Madrid."

the Guardian

Spanish police arrest ex-fraud chief after €20m found in walls of his house

Investigation into country’s largest cocaine bust reveals cash in home of former head of anti-money laundering

It's beyond me why Zcash is not regarded as a complete shitcoin. Here's the first reason Zooko states for why Zcash will switch to Hybrid Proof-of-Stake: "It reduces supply of ZEC by locking up staked ZEC and increases demand for ZEC by giving people something else to do with it." Not enough demand for "money"? People have no idea what to do with their "money"? Let's lock it up and reward investors with dividends! Now imagine someone looking at this chart, even adding it to their own blog post, and then linking said post with the comment "Zcash is winning": Am I thinking about this the wrong way perhaps? What am I missing about this amazing currency?

What's up with all the seemingly generated comments and profiles that are faking engagement at YakiHonne? Not a good look.

Initially, I didn't want to spend the whole Sunday on this, but it's basically almost done now. I started building a nice server-side renderer for long-form content on our Nostr relay: The next step is to create human-readable URLs, i.e. `/@username/article-id`. But my favorite feature will be `/@username/articles.rss`, because if it doesn't have an RSS feed, it's not a blog.

Fun fact from #hcpp24: I asked one of the crew how many payments during the conference she would estimate have been done via #LightningNetwork vs #Monero. She said about 30% XMR, but that she wished everyone used Lightning, because of how slow the Monero payments are. Point of Sale is just bad UX for anything taking longer than a few seconds. Only really committed merchants will tolerate that, and even then it's rough for them.