Very earnest inquiry.: Where is good source of info on the actual mechanics of the trump shitcoin, which isn't based on some screenshots posted to twitter.? Certainly someone who understands how this works has written an explainer, right? Solana's not my jam but I think I could figure it out if pointed in the right direction.

I have it on good authority the price will recover

El Salvador becomes first nation in history to un-adopt Bitcoin

IMF

IMF Reaches Staff-Level Agreement with El Salvador on an Extended Fund Facility Arrangement

IMF staff and the El Salvadoran authorities have reached a staff-level agreement on a new arrangement under the IMF’s Extended Fund Facility (EFF...

Concerning

Elon Musk and SpaceX Face Federal Reviews After Violations of Security Reporting Rules (Published 2024)

Federal agencies have opened at least three reviews into whether the company and its leader complied with disclosure protocols intended to protect ...

The whole point of free speech and the first amendment was to explicitly NOT give the already powerful a legal tool to attack folks who criticize them. The whole point is balance of power,to avoid consolidation of power, which people used to think was a bad thing.

This is one of the better write ups of the future Bitcoin security model by @Lyn Alden . The takeaway seems to be that it’s certainly not a guarantee that Bitcoin will collapse in 40 years; there are many scenarios in which a fee market could develop which provides the necessary security. However this is hardly anything like the reassurance one would need to say, sell Bitcoin as a surefire way to pay off the national debt. Bitcoin might not even be around. Of course it might, but that’s not enough to build a national reserve on.

Lyn Alden

Bitcoin: Fee-Based Security Modeling

Originally published: March 2021 Over the past decade, the bitcoin network has been the most secure public blockchain. This is because it has by fa...

Update: Jesse not banned. Bluesky says users are empowered to control their online spaces. View quoted note →

FOMO is not a technology

Tell me again why Satoshi decided to stay anonymous?

He’s on BlueSky now, go have fun View quoted note →

The future, while dark, is at least occasional hilarious

Alright folks,low taper fade until $1m

Not if you’re not selling and they’re not buying. View quoted note →

Sam Harris takes no prisoners

Spotify

#391 — The Reckoning

Making Sense with Sam Harris · Episode

Time for Twitter files 2.0

A computational analysis of potential algorithmic bias on platform X during the 2024 US election | QUT ePrints

Graham, Timothy & Andrejevic, Mark (2024) A computational analysis of potential algorithmic bias on platform X during the 2024 US election. [Workin...