Make sure you leave cookies out for Santa because he might steal your private keys when he comes down your chimney if you don’t This is the current state of Bitcoin discourse

I’m pretty sure that someone on X just claimed that they have a quantum computer lol

Okay we’re going to take this step by step The year is 1970 and near after… Diffie, Hellman, Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman develop pubkey crypto The NSA attempts to censor their publications arguing it could fall into enemy hands

I’m ready to talk about what I know

People who are undermining the math and science underlying battle tested cryptography to promote ideas clearly endorsed by conspiracy theorists and memetic psyops to line their pockets are BAD ACTORS and they should not be given ANY traction They are pushing cryptographic schemes that are not battle tested in an effort to override STRONG BATTLE TESTED cryptography putting you MORE at risk (not less) and acting as though they are the good faith actors IF ANYTHING THEY ARE THE SPOOKS

When you contribute to creating a marketplace where trust has been debased for the reputable merchant, wealthy merchants leave in pursuit of peace and protection

GM I can tell the podcasters realized they don’t understand sha-256, RSA keys, or the math behind brute forcing hash collisions

The reason that we cannot avoid the current thing is because mining output is no longer enough… this was proven during the block size wars that everyone pretends to remember but seemingly does not If a supermajority garners enough economic incentive to follow a chain (regardless of that chains invalidity) merchants will say “we do not accept the other coin” even if it is actually the valid chain (valid meaning true to backward compatible design for wallet files) During the block size wars there was enough critical understanding of blockchain by the economic powers… most economic powers understood valid underlying consensus and followed the chain that maintained valid consensus rules… even with that chain experiencing a temporary drop in hash power, the economic support of merchant nodes + difficulty adjustment in mining meant that miners were economically incentivized to not become orphaned and/or continue to point hash power toward an orphaned fork chain Clearly people no longer understand how a blockchain works and so it is imperative that shitty ideas don’t gain ANY traction We need both a combination of 1) hashpower pointing towards the appropriate prev hash and 2) economic merchants observing that prev hash output as btc

Picking a fight with me because you think I’m an easy target is gonna end in a bad time for you… I was typing on a computer and rigging up PCs before Y2K… I was 7 years old wrenching on shit with my dad. I started working with cryptography at 17 years old. I have been an active member of the libertarian party since 18. By 19, I was fully immersed in astrophysics and have multiple degrees that focus on biological infra that mimics quantum design. By 20, I was rigging up first gen raspberry pi’s. There are MANY developers who know me by various nyms from dev meetings throughout the years… To call me a conspiracy theorist is laughable. I hope you all can finally see who the bad actors are… If you can’t, I’ll give you a hint- they act just like the bad guys in Atlas Shrugged and are actively, publicly admitting to socially engineering social consensus. We’ve seen this movie before and it ends with them testifying in front of congress.

Crazy to watch everyone stumble into a future where only the Satoshis have Bitcoin and everyone else owns a shitcoin but to each their own idk

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