Sjors Provoost
sjors@sprovoost.nl
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https://github.com/sjors/
Book: https://www.btcwip.com
Podcast: https://bitcoinexplainedpodcast.com/@nado/episodes
So they want to take advantage of all the work by cryptocurrency developers, but also discriminate against them? 
Codeberg.org
Proposal for Assembly 2026: Disallow cryptocurrency projects
Context:
- https://forum.codeberg.org/d/82-taking-a-stance-against-cryptocurrency
- https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/794
- https://co...
On rare occasions they run a steam train to the museum. Fun, albeit useless, fact: it used to take the southern way around.
#trainstr
250 pages into its adventure, Fable still believes it's living in a Cypherpunk adventure game internet simulation. Full of captchas, throwaway email services that PyPy blocked, looking for US number that Yahoo doesn't block. It even knows about BTCPay (from memory). Should it get some Bitcoin?
https://cdn.sanity.io/files/4zrzovbb/website/8359003bfb12a2f01ce84ad3df1d3a3e2f15a8eb.pdf
> The authoring agencies recommend U.S. AI companies take three immediate actions:
> 2. Deploy targeted response changes: Subtly alter responses for suspected malicious distillation attempts to attenuate the payoffs to companies conducting industrial-scale distillation campaigns.
In other words: poison competitor models, and potentially harm falsely flagged legitimate users (and get sued if they find out).
When reading, replace "China-based AI companies" with "US based competitors" and understand what that implies in a future where the big four can no longer undercut competitors with mountains of investor cash.
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA
China-Based Artificial Intelligence Companies Conducting Industrial-Scale Distillation Campaigns Against U.S. AI Companies | CISA
I had my clanker implement the Liquid inflation attack as a Python functional test, and then explain it to me with some diagrams.
A functional test is a good way to catch hallucinations in the attack scenario. When responsibly disclosed, it also gives maintainers a way to quickly assess if they want to read your slop.
This is safe to publish because the attack involves transactions that are consensus invalid for both old nodes and future fixed nodes. No blocks are mined currently, so new attacks won't get mined. Even if they did, they'd get reorged along with the attack block once operations resume.
Gist
Elements rangeproof-cache collision functional-test reproducer
Elements rangeproof-cache collision functional-test reproducer - README.md
How long can you keep a lightning long offline, if there's no HTLC in flight, before someone can screw you over? Asking for a friend who doesn't like binaries.
Oh by the way, how's the Sztorc-fork going?
Happy K-Day!
https://forkmonitor.info/
With permission, hopefully :-)
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If you're one of the cool kids who use wkd to fetch PGP keys, I just bumped the expiration date for mine:
gpg --auto-key-locate clear,wkd,nodefault --locate-keys sjors@sprovoost.nl
You can also ask your agent to fetch the branch for each open pull request, as a backup for work in progress.
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The world's most populous dictatorship.
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No, the US is not accusing Europe of forced labor. EU foreign minister Kallas is lying, as usual.
What the White House is saying, is that the EU is not doing enough to prevent the import (and re-export) of products involving forced labor.
That's hypocritical, but also true. The EU Directive to fix that won't take effect until next year. Ironically this will impact American companies, presumably triggering more tariffs.
The White House
Actions by the United States in the Investigations under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 of the Acts, Policies, and Practices of 60 Economies Related to the Failure of Each Economy to Impose and Effectively Enforce a Prohibition on the Importation of Goods Produced with Forced Labor
MEMORANDUM FOR THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE Subject: Actions by the United States in the Investigations under Section 301 of ...