Everyone's a scammer. Everyone's a shitcoiner. Everyone's retarded about something. View quoted note →

The result of a litigious retarded society.

It seems I'll never have the pleasure of parting any Knotzis from their BTC via a trustless fork futures contract, but it's certainly entertaining to watch them burn their bitcoin by renting trivial amounts of hashrate. 😂😂😂 I encourage all BIP-110 supporters to follow Mad Kratter's guide! View quoted note →

Each new cohort of Bitcoin adopters will have a set of people who have to learn the hard way that Bitcoin Core is notsomuch a formal organization as it is a process. The process is not perfect, but rough consensus is that it's the best one we've got.

Sadly, I can no longer recommend Gandi for hosting services, as their support quality has tanked since they were acquired a few years ago. I used to be able to get a response within an hour or two if my server went unresponsive. My latest issue, which was a kernel problem I consider to be Gandi's fault for changing how their virtual machine hypervisor works, saw my support request hanging for 4 days before they sent a generic "this is your problem, we can recommend some third party consultants to pay if you want." Thankfully I hadn't sat around waiting for them and managed to resolve it myself in an hour with the support of an LLM.

Story of my life

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Cypherpunk Cogitations

Cypherpunk Cogitations

Jameson Lopp's thoughts on Bitcoin, Privacy, and Freedom.

The 0-days will accelerate until everyone fixes their shit.

Some have suggested I throw my hat in the ring for BIP Editor. I dunno. Seems like a really high work-to-controversy ratio. I prefer maximum controversy with minimal effort.

That feeling when you update the OS on a server you haven't touched in several years, reboot it, and... it doesn't come back up.

Just had someone tell me with a straight face that they don't use a password manager because they don't trust them. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Easy come, easy go! 🙂

1 year ago today @Peter Todd opened a pull request to relax relay restrictions on transactions with OP_RETURN outputs. Little did he know that this would trigger a sequence of events leading to a puritanical fork of Bitcoin. 🙃

If you're asking yourself "should I buy $STRC?" then you should be asking yourself "would I lend money to a trusted friend at 11% interest so that they could use that money to buy BTC?"

Depresso: the feeling you get when you run out of coffee.