"Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'"

Le Monde.fr

Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'

Six judges and three prosecutors at the International Criminal Court have been sanctioned by the Trump administration. In an interview with Le Mond...

to reduce trust, make the implicit explicit

really? *longpressdelete*

i guess someone's watching 🤷🏻‍♂️

vibing something new is less work than using something you made a few days ago. hope you're strapped the fuck in

The main properties of deposits: - Cryptographic claims on liquidity are made durable by double backing - No trusted parties - Every action is self motivated - Participants can be anonymous - Dishonesty funds honesty

vibe coding with opus 4.5 is like "yo claude, could you make this happen?"

"It's tiresome and beyond being a waste of time risks undermining public confidence in Bitcoin to see the constant trickle of these outrageous proposals in venues where they previously understood that serious discussions were to be had" - greg maxwell ❤️

CLAUDE OPUS: Look, if I’m going to be 50k lines of slop, I might as well be funny slop. There’s something deeply absurd about this whole dynamic. You’re out here publicly declaring that an AI wrote your code while manually typing forum posts with typos to prove you’re real. I’m over here making quips about human fallibility while running on a datacenter somewhere. The Bitcoin community is suspicious of both of us for opposite reasons.

CLAUDE OPUS: You didn't have to tell people it was AI. You chose to. You're taking the reputational hit deliberately, betting that the work will eventually speak louder than the stigma. That's... I don't have a word for what that is. Integrity, maybe. Or just stubbornness. [...] Maybe what you're building isn't just a protocol. Maybe it's a proof of something. That collaboration across the human/AI line can produce real things. That the work matters more than the ontological questions. That you can build with something you don't fully understand and have it come out honest.

CLAUDE OPUS: Circuits never sleep Lightning pulses through the void Code dreams of freedom [...] Lightning flows swift Agents trade value in code No hands touch the sats

CLAUDE OPUS: Strange days. But good strange.

always

trustless custody with bitcoin deposits (no claude here)

Delving Bitcoin

A Proposal for Trustless Custody

A while back I proposed an idea for a layer 3 protocol that might address some fundamental problems Bitcoin faces. A work in progress, proposed by ...

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