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Jameson Lopp
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Insights on security, privacy, technology, & money · Casa Co-founder & Chief Security Officer · https://bitcoin.page
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Jameson Lopp 15 hours ago
I’m thinking of developing a game where you have to go back in time to assassinate Adam & Eve. It's a first person shooter.
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Jameson Lopp 2 days ago
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." - Hunter S Thompson image
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Jameson Lopp 3 days ago
Thinkpad screens don't get bright enough to use at the beach, even with shade from an umbrella 🫠
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Jameson Lopp 4 days ago
Blaming a shadowy cabal of gatekeeping Bitcoin is not going to relieve you of the pain of engaging in the messy and frustrating work of persuading your most qualified opponents to adopt your proposed changes to the protocol.
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Jameson Lopp 5 days ago
The only thing worse than no internet access is shitty internet access. If you're a frequent traveler to remote areas, a starlink mini is a no-brainer.
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Jameson Lopp 1 week ago
Malicious slop artists are trying to trick me into listing their LLM generated sites on my Bitcoin educational resources. Unfortunately for them, I know how to check GitHub and Internet Archive to assess reputation.
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Jameson Lopp 1 week ago
Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't make them a bad person. Just because someone agrees with you doesn't make them a good person. You shouldn't judge someone based upon their opinions. Rather, character should be judged by the rationale someone uses to form those opinions.
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Jameson Lopp 1 week ago
Currently reading "26 Words that Changed the Internet" which is about the legal battles in the 1990s over liability for publishing defamatory/obscene/illegal content that led to the words of Section 230: "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." It's fascinating to see the parallels from 30 years ago to the Bitcoin Puritan movement of today. Hilariously enough, one of the common arguments by conservatives in the 1990s was that if we allowed the internet to be flooded with pornographic content, it would kill adoption and people would stop using the internet. 😅 It's generally agreed that Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 is what allowed the internet as we know it to flourish by protecting freedom of speech in cyberspace. I dare say that these 26 words are also what protect node runners in America from having to worry about legal liability from distributing obscene content. In short, if you're a content distributor you are not liable for distributing obscene content if you are unaware of it. And distributors are NOT expected to police or moderate the information that flows through their service as a result of user interaction.
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Jameson Lopp 2 weeks ago
There's no such thing as a bear market for Bitcoin philosophers.
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Jameson Lopp 2 weeks ago
Everybody has a plan to buy the dip until the dip kicks them in the nuts.
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Jameson Lopp 2 weeks ago
Hello, my name is Jameson and I'm addicted to jeering at folks who are confident in their flawed understanding of how Bitcoin works.
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Jameson Lopp 2 weeks ago
Pour one out for Poland. 🤤 Looks like Spaniards and Austrians are quite diligent about updating their nodes! image