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I don't understand why I've haven't been able to buy a router in the past decade that just works well continuously and supports more than 4 clients.

This just in:

BITFINEX DATA BREACH CONFIRMED, 2.5TB OF DATA AND 400K CUSTOMERS DATA LEAKED: SHINOJI RESEARCH

Trusted third parties are security holes.

I sometimes wonder if I people think I'm hacking the plane when I have my windows open like this...

You definitely have a point but, on the last one, it's hard to see a scenario where a state would capture him/her and not advertise it.

Did you ever stop and *really* think about what it means to "do a Satoshi Nakamoto"?

Context for my weird question: I have met many, many bitcoiners over the years. Many of them take a stab at keeping privacy by doing some combo of: not revealing name, not revealing location, not revealing face. Etc. So often, if I happen to meet them in person, they end up revealing the things that they were hiding online. Quite literally a mask came off (pre covid!) once we started drinking - a simple, funny anecdotal example of what I mean. Many complain about photos being taken, many focus on always using a pseudonym. I'm sure most people reading recognize these patterns of behaviour.

I can see the purpose, up to a point, so this is not criticism. It's a little like me doing coinjoin "here and there" - you don't expect to defend yourself against a hyper powerful aggressor, only against a casual criminal looking for an easy score.

But if you do want *real* defence against *strong* attackers, you have a huge problem. These half-measures will be useless, perhaps worse than that, if you get overconfident, because the determined investigator only needs *one* strand to pull on, and the measures I describe above, which are almost always rules only half-stuck to anyway, don't cut it, at all.

Which brings me to my point: is it even possible to "go all the way"? Clearly it is; Satoshi Nakamoto is not the only person who's ever done it, but it's pretty damn rare at the very least.

Imagine what it would mean. If you are engaged in a serious project, that takes let's say at least a year's worth of full time work, then you are going to do that for no reward. Not just, no money, people do that quite often when it comes to things they genuinely enjoy, but no recognition, no social context, not even "oh I won't bother you because I know you're busy with that project". Nobody will say that because nobody will know. Imagine doing a full, intense 8 hour day of work (more likely, split over many days) and knowing that there will *never* be a direct reward of any form, for that. And then doing it again, and again.

What's more, you don't just "not get a reward". You have to do almost double the work, to ensure that at every step, every pushed commit or technical discussion, does not expose anything at the network trace level, or the language, vocabulary etc. Managing tricky pseudonym accounts, handling the headaches of Tor etc. I'm not trying to say it needs super-genius level tech skills, I'm trying to say it's a massive amount of effort.

Could you do that? I daren't even ask the question of myself, because I'm almost sure it's a no. But to *imagine* where that kind of motivation would come from, that's what fascinates me.

He’s talking about the six lessons of mises it’s a compilation that came out of mises Brazil during the pandemic very popular over there n around the world

I officially have skin in the game for a UFC fighter for the first time. 🤣🔥 nostr:note1a4xeh8pjfm274gf8wxuvjvltu0luukzd4rm7qqyjhekjt97d2x5snhama0

It doesn't work in that direction

Write something that tells me you're not fiat.

Haha his name is Jorge I meet him while creating street art in London. He is one of the many people who’s illness makes him dependent on the health care system of his country.

The support he receives is enough so he can sleep under a roof but not enough to feed him.

Surprisingly he new a lot about bitcoin even more than the regular people I have meet from all walks of life.

#Bitcoin

No danger of signing frivolously, but will take up some extra space and consume nonces. But tbh it's definitely doable