17 years of #Bitcoin Core, animated. 48,700 commits, 800+ contributors, ~3M lines of code, all growing from a single genesis commit. And the orange strip at the bottom? That's Satoshi ~111k lines, the foundation everything else was built on. 🟠

Everybody is a cypherpunk until their coins get stolen. Then it’s suddenly “call the police,” “the state should do something,” “this is theft.” Your bitcoin is not yours. You only control keys. Whoever can spend it owns it. Bitcoin does not care about your fiat morality. Few.

Blockstream deserves to fail. Mao is a scammers, we all know this. He just got a free pass from "" the community "" because he works with Back.

Luis Sepúlveda’s Diary of a Sentimental Killer is such a tiny book with a great story. Highly recommend if you just want a good time.

Bitcoin survived: A hardware device hack Several layer 2 hacks A liquid network hack A soft fork A hard fork And the price went up???? Bitcoins new floor is in Incredible 🚀🚀🚀

Wish Ocean Mining the best luck, now that he flushed away the Christ fanatic and the odd Mechanic

#Europe is full of illegal migrants wreaking havoc, rape, theft, violence, and our governments do nothing. Our #US allies have an 80-year-old dumb dude in the White House, and a mother who killed her 3 children just came one juror away from walking free. How did we end up here?

My 2nd notable #EntropyLab PR is on its way. The first one added a dice-fairness calculator to check whether your dice rolls are biased or fair. Now I’m working on storing a mnemonic using 1/2 deck of cards, so you can use a regular poker deck to restore your seed. 🃏🔐 Open to suggestions! It’s still a WIP, but should be ready today.

GitHub

feat: from mnemonic to deck of cards and vice versa by dani69654 · Pull Request #299 · OogaBoogaX/entropylab

Reversible BIP39 Card Backup Summary This PR adds a Card Backup workspace to EntropyLab. It converts a valid English BIP39 mnemonic into a determin...

‼️ Pocket Bitcoin (Swiss exchange) leaked identity documents, source of funds records, postal addresses, IBAN numbers, and bitcoin address of customers. KYC is the biggest threat to your safety.

Fact: Lightning isn't going anywhere. It's the only decentralized scaling solution in existence. It's complex because the problem it solves is extremely hard.

You have no idea how secure a 256-bit private key is. You do NOT need multisig. Influencers told you to use Coldcard. Now they’re telling you to use multisig. Meanwhile, Satoshi’s coins are still secure in the most insecure address type (P2PK) and were probably generated on a

The idea that schools should teach kids how to do taxes or how to make money is the dumbest shit ever. Schools should teach kids how to think, how to abstract, how to reason through logic problems, how to imagine and dream. Schools should give kids the instruments to wander.

The fact that we do _not_ need an hardware wallet, was the lesson learned from the @COLDCARD shitshow. Today is @Trezor , tomorrow it will be someone else. You do not need an hardware wallet if you are just hodling.

I'm sure many of you have seen these two posts side by side in your timelines. Well, look at them again and cry while you reflect on the thousands of man hours wasted by these larping drama queen #bip110 assholes. This attack on bitcoin has been no joke. Learn from it. I have.

Those ~70 bits make a real difference. They push bruteforcing from “trivial” (MK3) into “painful but still theoretically possible.” The entropy remains weak, just not catastrophic. Has anyone actually cracked an MK4 using a seed that was generated on the device itself (not imported)?

After a full dive into Mk4 today: Mk4 keys are not enumerable like Mk3 keys at all. Thanks to the reseed, it’s basically impossible to bruteforce them even, if they have weak entropy. When correctly set up, the private keys are so secure that they remain effectively uncrackable,

About the Mk3 draining, attackers can choose different "cones" to look into for wallets to hack. The weak Yasmarang RNG value is determined by a small state (pad + chip/mixer skip history). A "cone" is just a hypothesis about that history, e.g: first boot vs later login vs weird PIN session. Each cone is a slice of skip/space. Wrong cone → almost no hits. Right cone → mnemonics become enumerable. That’s why wallets can still sit unexplored in other cones. The attack can go on for years and still find utxos

I remember Jimmy Song writing, on the first day of Ordinals: “The first one that forks loses, and they (the spammers) will surely fork.” What I’m witnessing three years later feels like a lysergic experience. People I once thought were smart now look like completely unhinged madmen.

After carefully analysing and testing the @COLDCARD rng bug, I am quite sure the attacker(s) knew about the bug already and spent weeks if not months to enumerate some vulnerable wallets. The whole enumeration did not take 3 days (the delta between Kimi K3 release and the attack)

Instead of buying dice on Amazon, go to your local boardgames store. These guys will have amazing choice, dice that FEEL (and look) great, and they don't need to know where you live. Support your local game store.