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The beatings will continue until privacy improves.

Came across the simplicity paper in 2020 early in my bitcoin journey. Back then I thought it was an exciting idea, even started learning Coq (the formal verification language they used) because of it. Curious to revisit it and see what I’ll think about it now. View quoted note →

I’ll skip the botox 🤷

At an old job, my team was tasked with building a spam filter. We had a dataset of emails tagged as spam by our users. The assumption was that the spam was viagra selling and prince of Nigeria emails. We had none of those. Lots of “spam” were legit notification emails people didn’t want to see - but some really needed to see. Some were perfectly honest business offers - they were just not relevant for who was receiving them. Spam is highly subjective. The day bitcoin has “no spam”, is the day it has no censorship resistance, cause obviously the spammer cared about that transaction, followed the consensus rules, and paid an higher fee to get their transaction in a block, instead of a transaction someone else cared more about. If there are transactions that are valid but destructive to a part of the system (utxo set), maybe we should be redesigning the system to be less fragile and scale better, instead of trying to control its usage - cause if bitcoin works that won’t work. If we want to make a certain kind of transaction invalid, because it doesn’t fit the goals of the bitcoin project, then we should be discussing a concrete change to the consensus rules. Discussing “spam” leads nowhere. View quoted note →

I turned on the livestream twice. First it was Trump ass licking. Second discussing SEC regulation. I’m not naive to think that politics doesn’t matter. But I also have better things to do. View quoted note →

I guess I can close this PR 😅

GitHub

feat(icon): added `sats` icon by pmrcunha · Pull Request #3057 · lucide-icons/lucide

What is the purpose of this pull request? New Icon Bug fix New Feature Documentation update Other: Description Adds an icon for sats / sat...

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First you build an app… Then you get real users, with problems… Then you get a larger team, stepping on each other’s toes… That’s one of the fun things about software, there’s new challenges all the time. View quoted note →