Can’t buy the dips if you’re already all in 🥺

Instructions unclear; leveraging my house to buy more sats.

Privacy invasion will continue until morale improves.

You’re right. We need alternatives to these platforms. We have GrapheneOS and other projects which are helpful but ultimately we rely on a handful of hardware manufacturers that can be easily tapped by governments to put in backdoors at the hardware layer. It’s happened time and time again [1].

Ideally we’d lower the barrier to simple chip fabrication so we can build basic phones and laptops ourselves. Until then it’s impossible to secure our devices.

1. https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/exploit-used-in-mass-iphone-infection-campaign-targeted-secret-hardware-feature/

Agreed! That’s why I also mentioned AI agents as being computationally bound as well. Any process capable of “observing” or modeling another process has limits and those limits shape the “rules of nature” that it can perceive.

You can see this in action if you train a small neural net for example. If you take a 1-hidden-layer neural network and try to fit it to the movement of the planets around the sun you won’t get the loss below some really high threshold. It can’t accurately learn that behavior. However you can take an LLM and teach it the equations of motion and how to use a calculator and it can predict the movements just fine.

Here’s the original blog post I think (with a link to the encoder and decoder):

https://paulbutler.org/2025/smuggling-arbitrary-data-through-an-emoji/

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Given all the hype around quantum computing these days I started digging and discovered that in 1970 a man named Stephen Wiesner invented a protocol for “quantum money” [1].

It solves the double spend problem for unauthorized parties but doesn’t guarantee a fixed supply. Satoshi is still the GOAT.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_money

Probably too busy dancing on stage somewhere.

Can’t they just ask Vitalik to refund them like he did with the DAO hack?

Ah the classic noodle in the chopsticks pattern. It indicates things are about to get hot and spicy.

Be willing to say stupid things.

If you push yourself to learn through reasoning then you’ll often say things that in hindsight make you cringe. It’s part of the journey.

Microsoft is marketing a new quantum computing chip architecture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSHmygPQukQ

If you believe in Gresham’s law then you would necessarily believe that #gold will circulate among central banks before (or more commonly than) Bitcoin.

In fact if that’s the case then you might paradoxically only see Bitcoin being used between allied institutions rather than between adversarial ones where trust is nonexistent. Why give good money to people you don’t align with?

Stay humble. Stack sats. nostr:note1nel0jn6g2zqp8s9uslye7xk8a5v6v9ty3d4aw5vr8vwc94ze9nzstrcn8j

How does Obscura play into this?

On that note, I’ve got a question about photons (and I’ll bring Cashu into this somehow).

Light takes the path of least time but photons have probabilities of taking other paths as well. Traditionally I think we'd say that those other paths destructively interfere.

If we take the Everett interpretation of QM then we'd say that those other branches interfere and cease to exist, but what if there are branches that don't destructively interfere and linger for some amount of time before merging again with the branch we observe?

In that interim time there would be energy that's unobservable. Where am I going wrong here? And could this be related to dark energy? And how can cashu fix this?

So much for the “sovereign” part of the sovereign wealth fund.

Joseph Jacquard introduced a simple form of programming into textile manufacturing and created the first automated machine [1] in 1804.

Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace then improved on the design. In just over 200 years we've automated so much of our modern world and have become codependent on these machines: cars, mobile phones, LLMs, etc.

I say codependent because the LLMs are trained on human language, games, etc. and we're leveraging them to improve productivity. We have self-driving cars that learn our roads and from how we drive and are manufactured by people in assembly lines.

This, to me, is similar to how mitochondria being absorbed into another bacterial cell enabled both to thrive symbiotically [2]. Over time the vast majority of the biomass on Earth has come to rely on mitochondria. That combination dominates.

It's becoming clear that cultures who adopt automation are able to outcompete those who don't. We're adapting to offload tasks to machines and even embedding them within our bodies (e.g. pacemakers or brain-computer interfaces). And for now the machines that are proliferating are the ones most useful to humans.

One million years from now the fossil record will show a leap much like mitochondria entering another cell and we're living through that age right now. Something to think about.

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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_machine

2. https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/the-origin-of-mitochondria-14232356/

Grateful for all the cypherpunks of today and of the past 🫂

What does this mean for the mining industry in the US? I don’t think H100s are up to the task. nostr:note1ttzyw4yz4kj6yxrz5kljz84g8h84sqymekj8dnuwllmwggnpfrjq4d9vf3