Just published: first study of Bitcoin's resilience to submarine cable failures, using 11 years of P2P network data & 68 cable fault events. Random cable failures are mostly harmless, but targeted attacks on 5 hosting providers could take out 95% of clearnet nodes. Authors recommend using tor to increase network robustness.

arXiv.org

Bitcoin Under Stress: Measuring Infrastructure Resilience 2014-2025

Bitcoin's design promises resilience through decentralization, yet the physical infrastructure supporting the network creates hidden dependencies. ...

Just upgraded the firmware on my toothbrush. What a time to be alive!

Ubuntu devs are discussing implementing mandatory age verification at the OS level due to some California BS law. How the hell would you enforce that for headless servers that get deployed and torn down automatically?

Cash on the Internet. Regular auto-updates from the monarch. Bitcoin CashJr! View quoted note →

Don't trust clankers Verify their outputs

My recent exploration of popular hip hop music has led me to discover that one of the top artists is called "Pooh Shiesty" and one of the top songs is called "DOG $HIT" Catchy tunes, check 'em out if that's your jam!

Bought a badass brand new six figure sports car and now I can't stand driving my normie vehicles because the contrast is so stark. Lifestyle inflation is a harsh mistress!

I'm sad that Dathan Ohm decided to make a BIP-110 BTC bet with Zender rather than me, but I'm even more disappointed that they are executing the bet via a simple 2of3 multisig with a human arbiter rather than using a trustless script based contract. 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

Today marks my 8th anniversary of building @Casa Time flies when you're having fun!

Mark Karpeles is proposing a hard fork to reclaim 80,000 BTC that was stolen from MTGOX 15 years ago. Bold move, let's see if it pays off for him. 😂

Proposal: Consensus rule to recover 79,956 BTC stolen from MtGox

Proposal: Consensus rule to recover 79,956 BTC stolen from MtGox

Knotzis would be really upset if they could read and understand these points. 😬

The Knots lies

You know you're in the south if you see a highway exit sign that says to turn left for the Chick-fil-A with the playground and turn right for the Chick-fil-A without a playground.

PSA: if you have a public Amazon wishlist then it's easy for a malicious party to find your shipping address. A stalker who wants your address can simply open an Amazon seller account and list themselves as a third party seller for any item on your public wishlist. Then, they order the item from themselves as a gift for you. Presto, they now know your address!

Thanks to government enforced scarcity...

Arbitrary data > arbitrary purity tests.

Bitcoin is strong but it's not perfect; Bitcoin is vulnerable to attack. There are principled people who have been warning us for years about the need to patch Bitcoin's weaknesses, and it's long overdue for us to take action. It's not controversial: let's activate BIP 54!

BIP 54: Consensus Cleanup

Read BIPs like a pro.

American sauna etiquette is ridiculous and basically anything goes, but I just had a guy enter and start TAKING PHONE CALLS. 😡