The foundation of technical analysis...
If the price goes one way, then it keeps going that way, because momentum, but if it turns around, then it goes the other way with the new momentum, and keeps going that way.
Unless it turns around.
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If your friend has never called you a cunt, then, I hate to break this to you, but you're not actually friends.
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Once upon a time, someone exploited a bug and got 184 billion bitcoins.
The VALID TRANSACTIONS were rugged by Satoshi to keep bitcoin going.
Today, another exploit (that Core refuses to acknowledge or fix) is damaging Bitcoin.
Similarly to the previous bug fix, where a malicious exploiter was rugged, should "valid transaction" be a reason to not fix Bitcoin?
It requires consensus that fixing a life threatening bug overrides immutability.
It's uncomfortable to talk about, but if you think about it, OF COURSE the survival of Bitcoin logically supercedes immutability.
And so, the debate should be about if this is really going to destroy Bitcoin if left unchecked. That conversation is being drowned out by appealing to less important principles of money.
I think we should first determine that, then encourage discussions about how to fix it, always remembering that the highest principle is Bitcoin surviving as digital sound money for the world.
It's OK to entertain an idea, like rugging malicious spammers, perhaps deciding against it, or not, or finding an alternative.
It was easier to fix when Satoshi was in charge and Bitcoin wasn't decentralised, now we all have to decide, all while the enemy is sending bots, and Adam Back, to muddy the waters and distract us from the most important conversations.
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My learning/teaching/coding about securing Bitcoin has spilled over to trustlessly securing personal data.
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DM if you need help designing a particular system.
I spent the last 3 days intensely thinking to create something new for computer security, making ParmanodL computers safer, but applicable to others who would want to copy. It involved...
1) Aggressive whiteboard doodling with frizzy hair
2) Long battles with retarded AI to test and probe
3)5 hr insominia mind's eye designing
4) Code testing
It's a way to solve the injection problem when making software patches that require restricted access.
Normally you'd need to physically enter the sudo password to permit (a deal breaker for web GUI), and if triggering the patch remotely, it's dangerous to send the sudo pass via a browser, or have the browser trigger scripts run by root.
It's solved with a restricted bucket directory, a sudoers.d-preapproved patch-running script, that enforces pgp signature checks before moving git pull patche files to the restricted area for running.
This way, parman-approved patch scripts can't be modified once they are in the restricted area, and beforehand if they are modified, The signature will be invalidated. This makes the script safe to execute with root privileges triggered by a remote browser, as nothing but parman-signed code can run.
It's super niche, but new, so maybe I'll do a publication somewhere.
Of course this is dependent on trusting Parmanode software in the first place, which you imply when entering your sudo password when requested.
The modification means you don't have to keep doing it, and no extra risk is added.
Similar to how you PGP check a wallet once when you install it, not every time you do a transaction.
The wallet you are running can actually maliciously change after you've PGP-approved and installed it, but Parmanode restricted bucket files can't.
This is one more reason to get a clean transaction computer at the very least, for bitcoin transactions - don't use your regular computer.
Most people don't have $400 available to buy bitcoin in an emergency.
It's a nice feeling knowing you can't get fucked in the arse because you bitcoin is in self custody.
Not buying bitcoin during these stupid crazy cheap prices is wrong and gay.
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Here, it can only look like one thing...
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Do you think Parmanode is looking pretty?
People no longer saying "bingo card" was not on my bingo card for 2025.
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Blank canvas for Parmanode4 - some people want mouse action, so a browser interface is being added. The old-school terminal interaction will always be available; don't worry, everyone, calm down!
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Do you want to know why a lot of base64 numbers (not all) end with = or ==?
eg dGhlIHNhbXBsZSBub25jZQ==
This might seem boring, but explaining it covers a lot of interesting things (also, I'm assuming you know what base64 is, but I will take requests to explain that another time).
The = sign is not part of the character set (64 characters) of base64. It's used for padding at the end (for remainders), when the data to be encoded doesn't fit evenly in the byte-groups that will be used.
It starts with understanding that base 64 encodes data with 6 bits at a time (00000000-00111111 in binary can hold the values 0 to 63 in decimal), and the smallest data communication unit in modern computers, a byte, has 8 bits (8 bits can hold 0 to 255, ie 256 different numbers).
So instead of wasting two leading bits per byte, the lowest common multiple of 6 and 8 is used as a minimum "packet" for base64 storage - that common multiple is 24.
So 3 bytes (24 bits) will correspond to four base64 characters.
But, if the number of characters needed doesn't divide evenly, ie, there is a remainder, then the = sign indicates whether there is one or two entire unused bytes at the end.
For example, let's say there is a large number (all data on a computer is a number) that requires 21 base64 characters to encode.
That would use up 3 bytes for each 4 base64 characters (4 characters fit per 3 bytes), so 5 groups of 3 bytes (15 bytes) will be used for the first 20 characters.
The last character will sit inside a 3-byte group on its own. The first byte of the three will have 6 bits with two unused bits, and then there are two entire unused bytes, so two ='s are added at the end of the base64 number.
BUT WHY?
Why not just print the base64 number and omit the = sign(s)?
Because their purpose isn't for encoding the number - the purpose is for the time when the number is going to be decoded back to bytes.
It is done in groups of 3 bytes, and without the = sign, the decoder won't know if there is a remainder or not, and the empty bytes will be interpreted as a zero instead of padding.
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You don't have to risk your life to resist tyranny - only your wealth.
If you are afraid now, and selling Bitcoin to get some of your master's, money, shame on you.
If you can't buy more Bitcoin when it's cheap, fine, not everyone has spare money, but you're doing the OPPOSITE?? - what the fuck are you doing?
Bitcoiner life tip, just my opinion, don't hate me for it...
Don't be impatient for Bitcoin to win, and don't wait for your life to become good based on how Bitcoin performs.
Appreciation for life can happen now, and hope for the future can remain intact.
Making your life better can happen now in ways other than the ones you imagine you need extra wealth for.
I'm not saying not to acknowledge the shit things, I'm saying there are always ways to improve the situation, and working towards that with a low time preference can be very satisfying too.
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