It's been 3 weeks ☺️
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Jameson Lopp
lopp@lopp.net
npub17u5d...t4tp
Insights on security, privacy, technology, & money · Casa Co-founder & Chief Security Officer · https://bitcoin.page
Never trust an incoming message on any platform.
Props to the Knots Cult - they provide plenty of entertainment!
The Knots Cult
Listen and make your own on Suno.
Looks like the Liquid Network drainer has returned the 4,000 BTC!
Never a dull day in Bitcoin 😅
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Patience is a virtue.
Especially when you're trying to cost optimize your clankers.
Slapped a GeForce RTX 5070 on my Framework laptop in 10 minutes.
Installed CUDA toolkit and recompiled whispercpp with CUDA support.
Now I can transcribe an hour's worth of audio in 1 minute flat!
I guess I'm doomed to play tech support for my entire life.
Welcome to The Great Breakening.
It's gonna be a volatile security landscape for a while, but we will rebuild and come out stronger.
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Luke trying to fire the miners.
Shortest.
Sabbatical.
Ever.
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Hate can be a powerful tool if you use it as motivation to accomplish something good.
But if you don't direct it as a useful motivator, hate can be a powerful poison that consumes you from within.
"Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life."
- Dolly Parton
Rest in Peace
Pro tip: tell your clanker to find all of the TODO comments in your codebase and implement them.
Stay humble and stack cows.
Woke up in merge commit conflict hell.
Realized I can just make the clanker dig us out of hell.
Good morning 🌄
One thing I love about agentic coding is that we're at the point now that I can go back and find specs for features I wanted to build years ago that never got high enough priority to get on our product roadmap and just clank them out on my own.
Reflections upon the past year of the BIP-110 movement, similarities I noted to the 2017 scaling debates, and numerous receipts to hold folks accountable for their mistakes.
Cypherpunk Cogitations
BIP-110 Post Mortem
A comprehensive review of the spam debates and BIP-110 fork movement.
The folks who got burned by coldcard have something in common with the folks burned by BIP-110:
they placed too much trust in social signals and neglected to do their own independent research to form conclusions.
"And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise."
Luke 6:31
The BIP-110 chain is now the most secure blockchain network in the world.
No one can attack or defile the 110 chain.
No one can have their coins stolen on the 110 chain.
Checkmate, bad actors!