Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Announcement

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Announcement

SMBC comics parts ways with their ad provider, leaving them without any income. I really wish I could just pay with lightning to see content. Are there any easy to use lightning paywalls? Surely someone could write some simple JavaScript to do this. It doesn't need to be completely secure.

Neat video of Starship Flight 8 just after the upper stage exploded. It's sufficiently high and fast that we see the explosion quickly moving across the sky with no appreciable air resistance.

Interesting service:

Fully bootstrapping Java from source in Wolfi

Learn how Chainguard engineers created a chain of OpenJDK packages to provide full provenance from pure source code for the entire Java ecosystem i...

Second time that OpenTimestamps has been used to secure election results in the US:

Bitcoin Magazine

Bitcoin Blockchain Used To Secure Results Of Tennessee County’s Republican Convention Vote

In a hotly contested election for local Republican party leadership in Williamson County, TN, Simple Proof, a company that safeguards public record...

“When you see that “cloud” seeming to “settle” fast, realize it isn’t a cloud and it isn’t settling. It is a supersonic sandblasting spray flying ballistically away from the camera at 2-3 kilometers per second, crossing the horizon and impacting many kilometers across the Moon.”

X (formerly Twitter)

Phil Metzger (@DrPhiltill) on X

When you see that “cloud” seeming to “settle” fast, realize it isn’t a cloud and it isn’t settling. It is a supersonic sandblasting spr...

Technical Difficulties

They want to sanction your Bitcoin wallet. Yet until today the US didn't even bother designating the Houthies as a terrorist organization.

Good time to remind people of my Ripple paper:

GitHub

ripple-consensus-analysis-paper/paper.pdf at master · petertodd/ripple-consensus-analysis-paper

Contribute to petertodd/ripple-consensus-analysis-paper development by creating an account on GitHub.

BBC could face terror probe after admitting family of senior Hamas official was paid for making controversial Gaza documentary | Daily Mail Online

Counter terror police could launch a probe after the production company behind a BBC documentary admitted it had paid the family of a senior Hamas ...

They want to ban self-custody of your Bitcoin. But it's ok for the BBC to give money to a Hamas member to make a documentary so full of blatant pro-Hamas lies that the BBC had to pull it off the air.

Watcher Guru

SEC: Meme Coins are Generally Not Securities Under Federal Law

In another major statement for crypto Thursday, the SEC says that meme coins are generally not securities under federal law.

“The offer and sale of meme coins does not involve an investment in an enterprise nor is it undertaken with a reasonable expectation of profits” 😁😁😁