2 weeks until BIP-110 nodes blow up! Follow along at bip110.com

The U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border authorities with a passcode that wiped the contents of his phone, according to an indictment and media reports. This is thought to be the first known case in the United States where federal prosecutors have charged someone for the alleged destruction of data using a “duress” password built into a phone’s software. The case centers on a feature included in GrapheneOS, a custom Android operating system that runs in place of the software on most modern Google Pixel devices. Tunick’s attorneys confirmed GrapheneOS was running on his phone.

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US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch

A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone&#...

I find the sociological aspects of BIP-110 to be far more interesting than the technical aspects. 110 supporters admit it's not a technical solution; the BIP itself admits it can't stop arbitrary data. But what's fascinating is the Bitcoin Puritans claim they are trying to fix "Bitcoin Culture" at the "social layer" by rejecting "woke Core developers." What's amusing about this is I see little difference between puritans and the woke folk they detest. AFAICT the only distinction is which particular attributes each group uses to select people for cancellation. Fuck woke mobs. Fuck puritan mobs.

Dune: Part 3 comes out in December...

As you're probably aware, BIP-110 is not particularly popular. However, here's an interesting perspective: BIP-110 has 3X the hashrate of the entire Bitcoin Cash network!

A North Korean made the mistake of showing up to a job interview with me today. I recorded video of myself asking him some extremely uncomfortable questions 😏

Yet another consensus bug found in BIP-110 and it certainly ain't the last.

BlockSlop — BIP110 Late-Upgrade Chainstate Validation Gap

BlockSlop: a detailed validation report on history-dependent retention of BIP110-invalid blocks when an existing Bitcoin Knots datadir is upgraded ...

Bitcoin Core v32 will sync 30% - 40% faster due to parallelization improvements! 🎉

What fresh hell is this?

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