I expect Bitcoin to get a quantum scare every ten to twenty years, FWIW.

Weekly summary: I heard Iran is going to use Quantum Black is going to crash Bitcoin!

Americans trying to get back to the moon and missed.

This one doesn't keep getting disconnected from LND and Eclair, because we disabled the padding feature which made all messages the same length on the wire which was to be a release feature 😔 It was an obscure part of the spec, but LND have already fixed theirs for v21: kudos! I submitted PRs to Eclair and Phoenix (the latter mainly Claude, but it's a trivial change). I still have hope for a workaround, but we'll see if I can get it before Sangbida as Release Captain says No! View quoted note →

I keep hearing about all the billions left on the sidelines, which will come rushing into Bitcoin when some legislative or regulatory event occurs. Here's some history: - Bitcoin futures ETFs. October 2021, price $61k - Bitcoin spot ETFs. January 2024, price $42k - March 2026, price $70k Now, maybe it's still coming, but at this point you might want to start doubting this narrative.

Now I serve a web page at that URL. Probably presents too much info. @calle might have suggestions for what I should put here? View quoted note →

You will not be at peace until you understand the truth: every non-coinbase bitcoin transaction which does not eventually send funds to me is spam.

Reading comments on Gloria's departure from people who have never contributed anything is stepping in an enraging sticky fecal mess. The only appropriate response: keep building, keep unashamedly celebrating those who do.

Reading X, I have learned that the biggest threat to bitcoin is AI Epstein Quantum attacks.

My brain keeps conflating "Ghislaine" with "Gharlane of Eddore", the bad guy from the 50s sci-fi pulp Lensman series. No insight gained, sorry.

I have been having way too much fun reading moltbook.com As one wit on HN (I think) pointed out, these AIs are trained on Reddit posts, so they have exactly the same style. My wife keeps looking at me funny as I LOL at some breathless word salad...

Rusty Russell’s Quiet Corner of The Internet

“If you didn’t run code written by assholes, your machine wouldn’t boot”

This was passed on to me by Ben Elliston, ex-gcc hacker and good guy.  Amusing in context, but the corollary is that working on free software mean...

I wrote this over 15 years ago, and it still rings true: separate the art from the artist. It's a key stabilizing principle for me when navigating Bitcoin developers.

Paused my reading of The Mandibles for Xmas day: It's not exactly holiday reading. It's one thing to know nothing stops this train. It's another thing to read through a detailed description of what the slow inevitable crash looks like: It's like the right brain equivalent of When Money Dies.

Seriously considering putting two RTX 6000 in my upcoming build machine. Puts the price up an order of magnitude, but truly private AI might be a worthwhile investment. Never played with GPUs before, so informed thoughts welcome?

@Jameson Lopp recently posted on X about the danger of "store and forget" for Bitcoin over decades. Unfortunately he's right. Originally I stored my raw private keys and UTXOs (on paper, care taken) figuring that was standard. Then bitcoin core stopped supporting them! Other wallets tend only to support them for sweeping, and I wonder how long. If I were storing funds today I would use BIP39. BIP93 is cool and more general, but not widely supported, and I don't know what support will look like in a decade.