I'm going to do a public tutorial series in stages, where you can follow along and learn gpg and sha256 verification skills. Lessons in small manageable chunks. Use #gpgparman to find related posts, and bookmark this one as I'll add subsequent tutorials in replies. Let's begin... You can follow along with a computer (not a phone), Mac, Windows, or Linux. Today, let's just do a basic sha256 hash of a file with some explanations. Step 1: Download my free pdf book (why not make a smol plug?) from this website, click the download button on the page...

The Orange Pill Book – Bitcoin Guides

Alternatively, the direct link to the file is... https://armantheparman.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/The-Orange-Pill-Book.pdf It should download to your downloads directory. The size is 32.52 MB, but how can you be sure you truly downloaded the correct file, and where does the trust start and end? This is where hashing comes in. (It doesn't matter much for a PDF, but it's crucial for a Bitcoin Wallet!) A hash is a computer function that takes data and produces a numerical fingerprint of fixed value - a random-looking big number. There are many properties to hashes, the relevant thing here is that if you repeatedly hash the same data, you'll always get the same fingerprint. If you want a detailed explanation of mining, I have an essay,

SHA256 and Bitcoin Mining Walkthrough – Bitcoin Guides

Anyway, if I hash my PDF file, and report the result to you, then when you hash it and get the same value, you know we have identical copies. If you get a different result, it's likely you did something wrong, downloaded the wrong file, or the file got modified from what I originally published. While you still trust I'm giving you a friendly product, you're no longer trusting the delivery system (the internet and anyone trying to trick your computer), ie the file hasn't been tampered with because the hashes are identical. Step 2: This is the hash of my file, make a note of it: 23cd0813cc811d8cf11995335ca6c74825e9b97b4571f80f4d99abe5aa81bdd1 Step 3: For Mac and Linux, open the terminal and find your file. If it's in the downloads directory, you can get there by typing: cd ~/Downloads <enter>Windows ls <enter> For Windows, open cmd and type cd downloads <enter> dir <enter> For Parmanode computers, I have included a shortcut as part of 'ParmaShell', just type dl <enter> The above instructions will list everything in the downloads directory (A text-based version of exploring files). You should see the pdf file in there and the spelling of the filename. The-Orange-Pill-Book.pdf Make sure the file has finished downloading before attempting the next step, it's possible to hash an incompletely downloaded file and then you'll get a hash value mismatch. Detour: A common reason why people get the wrong hash values on Macs is because they might download a zipped file, and once downloaded, the Mac operating system automatically unzips the file and throws the original in the trash! Without asking - Yes. Why? I don't know, it's dumb. Then, people hash the extracted file, get a mismatch and wonder what's going on. They need to remove the file from the trash and hash that file, not the extracted file. Moving on... have Now we hash the file. For Linux and Mac, type this in the terminal: shasum -a 256 The-Orange-Pill-Book.pdf For Windows: certutil -hashfile The-Orange-Pill-Book.pdf sha256 You should then get exactly the same hash as what I attest: 23cd0813cc811d8cf11995335ca6c74825e9b97b4571f80f4d99abe5aa81bdd1 Step 5: Now repeat the above command and hash any other file for practice. Then do the same file again and see that you get an identical result. That's it for now, I hope it was fun. I'll write more to build from this in a little while.

Give me your retarded, your poor, Your subscribed masses yearning to trade charts, The wretched refuse of your teeming engagement farm. Send these, the chairless, tempest-toss to me, I lift my lamp beside the orange door!

Embarking on a 5 hr series of physics lectures by Richard Feynman, "The character of physical law", 1964, because why not? Later, I might tackle the mysteries of the universe, IDK.

Bitcoin podcaster starter pack

Democracy is a scam

X is gradually getting worse because weak people are posting stupid things to get paid for engagement. Fuckem™

Not gay if it's a Bitcoiner and only the tip.

If Saylor buying 100,000 bitcoin doesn't move the price, will buying 22 million bitcoin move the price?

There are a lot of liberal women out there completely depressed... There is the rare one that might be cute... MAGA-guys, please don't take advantage of them with your charm in this delicate moment, they can't get abortions.

Happy Bitcoin Whitepaper Day!!

Everyone should wear a Guy Fawkes mask when they go out to vote on Nov 5.

A quick explanation of how to assess a Bitcoin miner for profitability... Let's take the S21 Pro. It has a hash rate of 234 TH/s. The world is hashing at 750M TH/s, so that machine will contribute to the following fraction of the world hash rate... 234/750,000,000 = 0.000000312 Cool. That means, if left on all day, it should generate the total world bitcoin reward for the day multiplied by that percentage... 450 bitcoin x 0.000000312 = 0.00014040 bitcoin (14,040 stats) So the S21 Pro produces 14k sats per day if left on. The next question is how much that costs per day. The machine is rated at 3510 Watts, or 3.51 kW, 3.51 kilojoules per second. Electricity prices are in $/kWhr ($/energy). BTW, Energy is kW (kJoules/second) multiplied by 1 hr (ie E / time x time) = Energy. So 3.51kW * 1hr = 3.51kWhr is the amount of energy used in 1 hour by this machine, and x 24 = 84.24 kWhr in one day. How much does 84.24 kWhr, which was used in the day to produce 14k sats, cost? If your electricity price is 0.06c per kWhr, then it costs: 84.24 kWhr x 0.06 $/kWhr = $5.05 per day. So $5.05 to produce 14k sats. At what price are you effectively "buying" bitcoin? We need the units $/bitcoin... 5.05 ÷ 0.00014040(ie 14k sats) = $35968 The current market price is $72,000 It means that if you pay full price for the s21 Pro ($6318), and have cheap electricity at 0.06c/kWhr (I pay around 20c US btw where I live), you will be mining bitcoin profitably, but... you need to recover the cost of the ASIC. $72000 x 0.0001404 bitcoin means that you're earning about $10.10 per day in bitcoin, and paying $5.05 in electricity. $5 per day profit will take a while to pay off that $6,318 miner!! (3.46 years) How can it make sense? Answer: Well, if the bitcoin price doubles, guess what happens to the value of the ASIC? That will probably roughly double also - if it doesn't many people will buy them, bid up their price, and by turning them on also make mining less profitable. For the miner who got in early, that reduction in profitability is compensated for by a capital gain on the equipment. Meanwhile, they are still mining somewhat profitably - They'll be mining less than 14k sats/day as the hashrate goes up, but those sats will be worth more. And their daily costs are static. Another way to put it... MINING COST FOLLOWS PRICE ...not the other way around as with every other commodity in nature. For everything else, the price follows the cost to produce. I like to call it "anchored" to the cost of production. For Bitcoin, the cost to produce is anchored to the price, and this is fundamentally due to the difficulty adjustment, which keeps the daily production constant regardless of price. OK, that was a long explanation, not quick, sorry, I lied. Here's the other thing that most people don't think about... That $6k miner that was bought hoping for a bitcoin price pump... what if you just bought $6k worth of bitcoin today? You probably would end up with more sats. Mining is fun but opportunity cost is a bitch.

I can't wait for the release of the JFK files, Epstein files and Diddy files.

GM Bitcoiners... Umbrel supports an insideous shitcoin used as barter and pretending to compete as money, that has hard forked 15 times and pretends to magically give you privacy, and... Parmanode is Bitcoin only, with easy to follow code that you can learn from. It also has a tool that lets you import your Unbrel external drive and make it work with Parmanode, no need to resync the timechain. Act accordingly.

Bitcoin is both paradoxical and not paradoxical the same time.

The moment Oprah realised she shouldn't have bought ETH.

BITCOIN IN ADDRESSES IS SCARCE, "BITCOIN" ON EXCHANGES IS INFINITE. I want to talk about the effects of #Bitcoin price suppression logically, but use extreme numbers to illustrate some obvious points... Suppose price was suppressed to $1 today using whatever methods available. What would happen is that all available bitcoin would very quickly be bought, then people would want more, and some who bought might sell for $2, and so on, and up we go. But why can't price be suppressed back to $1 forever? First consider the methods... They all involve either selling bitcoin that doesn't exist to people who think they getting bitcoin (ETFs or long contracts in various forms, that pay bitcoin or cash in the future at settlement - some never settle), or getting people with bitcoin to buy contacts in exchange for their bitcoin (the contracts being cash arbitrage profitable for the bitcoin holder). These people anticipate buying bitcoin back later with immediate dollar profits. Ultimately bitcoin always flows to people who want it more - so even though some people might sell some bitcoin in exchange for a contract, over time the bitcoin they relinquish goes to people who are less inclined to. Also, the people that are buying real bitcoin eventually get all the available bitcoin, and the people who are buying paper bitcoin lose all their dollars in exchange for infinite quantities of bitcoin (they're getting scammed). What happens when the people buying real bitcoin buy up all the $1 bitcoin and there is none left? Either 1) The exchanges acting badly abolish withdrawals (remember Celucius "HODL" mode? Or was that BlockFi?), with the honest ones having zero trading volume, and users with locked funds can continue to buy and sell fake bitcoin at the artificial price, but never self custody. They might even be able to trade p2p with this easy money (easy = not scarce and "easy" to produce, ie fiat), or they'd make fake unbacked derivatives (wrapped versions with no evidence of backing or ability to redeem). This will birth an ALTERNATIVE MARKET with real bitcoin which can only be exchanged by p2p trade directly with bitcoiners who actually have bitcoin, or via decentralised exchanges. The price of bitcoin will then find its true form, decoupled from paper bitcoin. Or They go bankrupt Or The price goes back up to a level where bitcoiners release some bitcoin back to the market, sufficient to allow fractional reserve to continue a LITTLE longer but at a higher price - THIS is what I think is happening, which is why bitcoin isn't $1 and also not $1M. The way the manipulation ends is by waiting. Bitcoin always flows to people who want to hold it harder. The price gets to $1M when most of the people who wouldn't sell at $1M (me include) own most of the bitcoin. Then up from there. I don't know how long it takes, but the lower the price, the faster the 1M+ holders get all the bitcoin. That is the logic I can't find a flaw in

Can someone explain general relativity to me like I'm 5?

I've been bursting out with "they're eating the dogs!" throughout the day randomly 🤣 I know I'm not alone.

I'm announcing BitVotr, a new voting protocol to fight election fraud, releasing today to the public domain. The whitepaper of the protocol is available on GitHub and has a website, BitVotr.com. Pull requests welcome. Questions and comments welcome in GitHub issues section, and will go towards a FAQ document later. The protocol introduces new concepts and borrows from old... - Proof of Tax linked to public keys (new). - Vote merging for anonymity (borrowed from coin mixing). - Peer to peer network to submit, sign, and merge votes (every voter is a peer). - Tamper proofing of count via pgp signatures. - Peers use RAFT protocol for consensus and data protection (borrowed). - Byzantine Fault Tolerance thresholds for minimum verification, and defends against network attack. - Data dissemination of the tally and signatures to Nostr and BitTorrent (no blockchain or token required). - Vote count by the public (like nodes in Bitcoin verifying blocks). - Election clock using Bitcoin timechain (without writing to it). BitVote doesn't force a tyrannical government to be honest and benign, instead, it makes election fraud evident. Voting doesn't overthrow tyranny, only revolution or total collapse does. Step 1 is to overcome the gaslighting and make fraud undeniable. Of course dishonest governments will reject this. The system must begin small, prove itself, and be unavoidable to larger and larger democracies. This is not an endorsement of voting as an ethical way to organise society, but if we are going to vote, it should be verifiable by the people it affects.