I have the opposite problem, a 50KW FM radio station transmitter nearby. I have to put a 30dB notch filter in anything if I want to use VHF.
Is that noise floor in the room with us right now?
My answer to that question is always, "anyone who wants to."
One of my all time faves. He also puts a lot of his shorter stuff online for free.
Make the content you "miss" on Twitter.
Welcome home my friend. It has been a long time.
Idea: would it make sense to build a report on a bona fide FULL COST/BENEFIT ANALYSIS OF KYC? On the "benefits" side, all documented foiled criminal activity, plus estimated avoided criminal activity. On the "costs" side, the staff & infrastructure required for KYC, the estimated costs of criminal activity (e.g. identity theft) enabled by leaks/hacks of personal data, as well as estimated loss of privacy.
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The fallacy here is that the justification for enforced KYC is if there is a net benefit to it.
Plain and simple--it is coercion. It is forcing two parties acting privately with their own resources to change their actions, with threats of violence.
The biggest scam ever sold to people about "democracy" is that you can only vote out a politician by voting another one in.
As long as you believe it is left vs. right, democrats vs. republicans, or the rich vs. the poor, a politician wins. What a racket!
This doesn't seem too surprising; just being "seen" by doctors and getting a "prescription" might have psychological effects even if the the drug is a known placebo.
Are these "wallets" in the room with you right now?
Four thousand years from now archaeologists will encounter these and wonder what religion was flourishing at the time.
Satoshi wept.
has anyone been able to do a withdrawal from nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft's Nutsack? i tested this morning on multiple wallets and was unable to withdrawal via a Lightning invoice. the invoice was recognized and i attempted to pay it, but nothing happened afterwards.
This note is peak Nostr.
Have you seen these PCIE SSD cards? 50+ GB/s Transfer speeds…that’s like approaching DRAM speeds. HighPoint Technologies Rocket 1608A PCIe Gen5 x16 to 8-M.2x4 NVMe Switch AIC https://a.co/d/d7m8oPx
I have wondered what would make interacting with my node faster for wallet stuff and ibd…I can fully sync and make all the indexes in 8.5 hrs off another node on the 10GBE lan, but CPU never seems to get stressed (well, not par=16 of them at least). I can’t imagine my NVME drives on either end are the bottleneck, but I’ve always wondered what is the performance bottleneck running bitcoind.
I hadn't seen that nvme switch, it looks pretty sweet. Will have to keep it in mind for future builds.
Bitcoin IBD is I/O intensive both on the network and with random read/write patterns to disk during verification. If you're sync'ing from another node over 10Gb than the network is not the issue.
GM ☕ Thought for the day:
Politicians don't make Bitcoin relevant.
Bitcoin makes politicians irrelevant.
Cypherpunks make Bitcoin.
Be a cypherpunk, ignore the politicians.
If it matters what politician is in office or what bureaucratic "regulations" get imposed, then Bitcoin has already failed.
Focusing on number go up, centralized exchanges to fiat, and political lobbying is not a path to separating money from state or gaining freedom from economic censorship.
Bitcoin works because it is dependent on the laws of physics and number theory, not the laws of men and women.
I've come to accept that each generation must learn from their own mistakes; it is very rare to see someone trying to learn from the mistakes of those who came before them.
If whether a former or a current US president attends a bitcoin conference has any impact on bitcoin or the "community" around it, we have strayed far, far away from the path my friends.