remember when Bitcoin was just going sideways for a while and everyone was bored?

I'm not picking a side here. I just want to clarify Mechanic's point as I understand it. A scammer just needs to get Granny to double-click on an application that does those things automatically. Fetch op return data from a block on the chain, does whatever parsing and chopping, and then runs it locally on her machine (stealing her credit card number or passwords or whatever arbitrary malicious malware activity). If the scammer hosted this malware on his own server, downloads would leave a paper trail that investigators could follow. Uploading the malware to any other public server would likely be blocked or filtered by whatever security and content restrictions that plarform has. his point is the Bitcoin blockchain becomes the least filtered, easiest place to upload that sort of thing. whether one sees this as a problem or not is up for debate, but I wanted the argument to at least be clear.

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This Week in Bitcoin • 82: The Missing Variable • Listen on Fountain

Once you see the missing variable, Bitcoin’s pullback clicks into place. The four-year cycle is cracking, and the filter-fork battle isn’t cool...

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Sometimes I wonder if shit like this is a cry for help. It's like they're begging to be put out of their misery by Bitcoin...?

ICYMI. free materials from Square. lovely finally seeing the B in the list of "accepted here" options

you asked how the bill pay thing works for me: i get "bank account and routing numbers" from Strike, where i have a bitcoin balance and zero USD. i put that "bank" account number in my credit card, mortgage, car payment, etc. - literally everywhere. so all my USD bills are paid from my bitcoin "checking account" balance in Strike. importantly, i have an auto-withdraw threshold on Strike where anything above that amount is moved to a (new) address in my cold storage automatically. so life is like: get paid in bitcoin; "checking account" balance stays in Strike for monthly expenses; excess above that is automatically hodled in cold storage. it's actually fairly mindblowing...

Fountain

This Week in Bitcoin • 82: The Missing Variable • Listen on Fountain

Once you see the missing variable, Bitcoin’s pullback clicks into place. The four-year cycle is cracking, and the filter-fork battle isn’t cool...

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yes, nostr (our thing) is going to melt faces shortly. #WoTathon View quoted note →

Well today was a good motivator to remove the last couple "cloudflare proxy" vestige settings I had enabled. Totally retarded to have a basic html/css site that is served from a single VPS with no CDN go "down" because a dumbass proxy decided to shit itself.