LOL

What winning looks like.

"It ain't gay if it's TSA" I muttered to myself after the backscatter machine lit up my crotch with a big 🍊 blob.

I greatly preferred the last two presidential election cycles when I gave zero fucks who won.

I have thoughts on the risks and rewards of ossifying Bitcoin. A lot of thoughts. I've tried to lay them all out in my latest post.

Cypherpunk Cogitations

On Ossification

An impassioned argument for why we should continue striving to improve the Bitcoin protocol.

Without government, who would raid your animal rescue and murder the healthy and happy furry friends you had saved?

Someone had either a really good or really bad night.

*sigh*

New York City just legalized jaywalking. Pedestrians should note that the laws of physics still apply.

Got in line for automated passport control. Guy in front of me puts his passport in the scanner. It rejects his passport. He tries a few more times and then the whole machine crashes. Then he moves left to the next machine and repeats the process until it crashes. Guess what her does next? This dumb motherfucker ends up crashing all 4 passport control machines and even though they rebooted, the passport software didn't come back online.

Pill'd

Nostriches in Lugano! Chilling with @Sirius

Had a bunch of lightning payment failures trying to buy stuff from merchants in Lugano with Zeus connected to lnd. Turning off "attempt multi path payments" seems to have fixed it.

My latest talk, on the threat of quantum computing advancements to Bitcoin, is now available. Key takeaway: one way or another, whether we do something or do nothing, inviolable properties of Bitcoin will eventually be violated.

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Saylor's going to gaslight folks into believing that self custody is bad and we shouldn't continue improving the protocol because he wants you to buy $MSTR and regulated ETF products. As I've been warning

My long-term Bitcoin concerns mostly revolve around apathy. What if not enough people care to self custody? What if not enough people care to enforce the rules by running nodes? What if not enough people care to put in the hard work seeking consensus for improving Bitcoin? The most important thing is that we continue discussing Bitcoin. The exchange rate is merely a SIGNAL that we have done well SO FAR.

20 years ago The Pirate Bay went hard