Computers used to be really slow.

Your homework problem: figure out how this can be used to DoS attack Bitcoin Knots nodes.

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Bitcoin Knots enhanced Bitcoin node/wallet software - bitcoinknots/bitcoin

We're halfway there to raising 42,000sats for the btc++ OpenTimestamps prize!

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NATO vs Ukraine The interceptor drones that Ukraine has been using to take out ~$50,000 shaheds cost ~$2000 Poland used $250,000 missiles to take them out... and didn't even come close to getting them all.

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Ryssland trappade upp sin drönarterror – här är Ukrainas svar

Ny ukrainsk försvarsdrönare har redan skjutit ned 600 ryska Shahed-drönare.

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At the btc++ Berlin Hackathon we're doing a new award: The Most Unnecessary Use of OpenTimestamps In An Otherwise Serious Entry, with a 42,000sat prize. With your donations we hope to guide a young hitchhiker to an entire galaxy of OpenTimestamps use-cases...

https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/09/30/situatsiya-kriticheskaya-rossii-gotovitsya-zakupat-benzin-zagranitsei-iz-za-defitsita-a175876 Enough Russian oil refining capacity has been taken out that Russia is preparing to import gasoline and diesel. 😁😁😁

Footage of a recent Ukrainian attack on the power grid in Belgorod, Russia: The sound is really interesting: that sounds like a fast cruise missile. Possibly one of Ukraine's new Flamingo cruise missiles. Based on time delay, the actual hit was about 1km away. Also, another video from earlier in the attack (it took hours from what I've read): Funny enough I was recently in Kharkiv, Ukraine, during a drone attack that caused a large blackout in the city. Good to see Ukraine returning the favor...

A Ukrainian naval drones successfully hitting the oil exports terminal at the Russian port of Tuapse yesterday. The Kyiv War Museum has four of those naval drones. The one outside saw actual combat and returned home with damages that weren't economical to repair.: But the three inside are shiny display models, as though they're being presented to potential buyers at a big sales conference. 😂

It's trippy how beautiful downtown Kharkiv, Ukraine is. Just 30km from the front lines, in range of artillery. Yet my hometown Toronto has nothing as nice as its busy parks and European buildings. As I left Russia attacked the electric grid, causing a city-wide blackout. WTF.

Safelite image of the massive drone cages Russia has built around the oil refinery in Salavat, 1300km from Ukraine: It didn't work:

The sound of air raid sirens in Poland due to yet another Russian drone visit. An extraordinarily cowardly sound. All Poland has to do is shoot down these drones and you wouldn't need the sirens. But they just can't bring themselves to take action.

I created a @Geyser fundraiser goal for Libre Relay v30.0:

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I've already finished Libre Relay v30.0rc1, based on Bitcoin Core v30.0rc1:

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The goal should be enough to pay for my hours of work so far, and a few more hours for the rest of the rc's and the final release.

HRF board member Yulia Navalnaya campaigning to get Russians allowed in the EU on tourist visas. Seriously, WTF. It's insane to allow Russians into the EU except in exceptional cases. It's an obvious security risk given the western world is effectively at war with Russia, and we know Russia is conducting sabotage and surveillance operations in western countries. Russia is also actively attacking western countries, e.g. the drone attack on Poland. And obviously, Russians don't deserve it: all Russians wealthy enough to travel are meaningfully supporting the invasion. About half of all Russian tax dollars are going to the invasion. If you are in Russia and working, you are meaningfully supporting genocide. Yulia's Twitter feed is very telling: she pays near zero attention to Ukraine. She's not actually anti-war. She's focused on helping Russians. She even goes as far as to advocate for Russia to keep occupied territory: directly advocating that war criminals keep the loot they stole through genocide. That HRF continues to work with her and rehabilitate her image is evil.

Easy to see why they didn't release the full Iryna Zarutska video immediately: