Look mom, no checkpoints! This will go into v30 this fall. The next six months would be a good time to remember any non-disclosed or forgotten attack that checkpoints prevented and the new mechanisms don't. View quoted note →

Champaign is a Veblen good, so tariffs should increase sales. Cheers!🥂

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Conversely, I don't want to hear "only conservatives suffer from debanking", "Trump will save us from debanking" or such similar nonsense. You get debanked when those in power don't like you. And the people in power change.

Somewhat surprisingly, the European Banking Authority #EBA did respond to my complaint regarding the Travel Rule "satoshi test": > The Guidelines were the outcome of several exercises done with the industry (including consultation). The Satoshi test is one of the existing verification methods used by the industry alone or in combination with other verification methods. Although your arguments were not put forward by those who replied to the consultation, your complaint raises privacy considerations which we continue to review and assess to determine whether the Guidelines should be amended View quoted note →

Lots of interesting stuff from a former SEC insider:

Dutch newspaper NRC just gave up on following US news and gave all their subscribers a one year New York Times subscription :-)

Nice of #VNVnation to swing by #Utrecht!

Maybe the selfish-mining emperor doesn't have any clothes.

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Why is a selfish-mining attack with bad propagation (γ=0) still profitable?

The 2013 selfish-mining paper by Ittay Eyal and Emin Gün Sirer [0] introduces a variable γ:

We denote by γ the ratio of h...

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