Anyone know wtf is going on here with the shear mempool vB shifts? 
Welcome to STEMM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths, and Money!
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Ouch! Hope you’re okay. Location looks amazing.
100% lobster trap and another upcoming lesson to be had in self custody.
Tempting, but only five days after Boston 🤔 
Oh no! When the joke goes too far. My PR was merged by nostr:npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6 😂😂 We are now "the Nostr".
Congratulations the Derek!
100%! With less emissions than Senator Warren's daily commute.
S14 E15 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast features legendary cypherpunk Phil Zimmermann:
– creator of PGP
– a privacy advocate who fought against the Cold War-era laws that restricted the use of cryptography outside military
– the boss who hired Hal Finney to work on PGP 🫡
The episode is now available on YouTube, Spotify & Apple Podcasts 🎧
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Great interview Vlad. Fantastic insight into what was going on at the time. Kudos also for your marketing genius!
You should Paco. Make a bedtime story version too for bitcoin kids.
Computer protocols are typically identified by their acronyms in all caps, so it’s refreshing you’re following Satoshi’s lead in breaking that trend.
As #bitcoin approaches 15 years of age and as far as I can tell there’s still no consensus on what the sat symbol should be.
One idea I heard recently is to recycle the $ symbol in lower case form, once the dollar has gone. I would go one step further and suggest taking over the $ symbol when 1 sat equals 1 dollar (USD) and calling it a V-shaped recovery!
In a similar spirit to ‘laser eyes’, in the run up to hyperbitcoinization we could wear $-$ eyes.
Congratulations & Happy Birthday 🥳
If like me you're probably wondering: What’s the difference between 'Seed XOR' and 'Shamir's Secret Sharing'?
Well, both seed XOR and Shamir’s Secret Sharing (SSS) are methods to split secrets, but they work differently and have distinct properties:
1. Mechanism:
• Seed XOR: This method involves the simple splitting of a secret into two parts using the XOR operation. Given a secret S and a random value R, you compute the value S XOR R to get T. Now, the two shares are R and T. To retrieve S, you’d XOR R and T again.
• Shamir’s Secret Sharing (SSS): SSS is based on polynomial interpolation over finite fields. The idea is to represent the secret as a coefficient in a polynomial and provide different points on that polynomial as shares. Using a sufficient number of these points (based on the degree of the polynomial), the secret can be reconstructed.
2. Number of Shares:
• Seed XOR: Typically creates two shares (though you could extend this idea to more).
• Shamir’s Secret Sharing: Can create any number of shares. You can specify a threshold, say k, such that any k shares are sufficient to reconstruct the secret.
3. Flexibility:
• Seed XOR: Less flexible. Always requires all the shares to reconstruct the original secret.
• Shamir’s Secret Sharing: More flexible. Allows you to specify how many shares (threshold) are needed to reconstruct the secret. For example, you could create 10 shares and set a threshold of 5, meaning any 5 out of the 10 shares can be used to reconstruct the secret.
4. Security:
• Seed XOR: Simple and based on the properties of the XOR operation. If you have one share, it reveals no information about the secret.
• Shamir’s Secret Sharing: More mathematically complex but offers strong security properties. Without a minimum number of shares (below the threshold), it’s computationally infeasible to retrieve the secret.
5. Applications:
• Seed XOR: More appropriate for simple, two-party secret splitting.
• Shamir’s Secret Sharing: Suited for scenarios where a secret needs to be split among multiple parties, and you want to ensure that only a certain number of them collaborating can recover the secret.
In essence, while both methods can be used to split secrets, Shamir’s Secret Sharing offers more flexibility and is appropriate for more complex use-cases.
This was our 3rd year running the Clarendon Marathon Relay 🇬🇧representing @BitcoinRunners and our greatest achievement so far at this excellent charity event. The challenge involved running Salisbury to Winchester. We came 2nd/50 mixed teams & 4th/79 overall. Here's some proof-of-work🧡
Delighted to announce the launch of my publishing house and online bookstore TheSaifHouse.com, publishing the best Bitcoin and economics books in high quality cloth hardcover and audiobook and ebook and offering 10% off for payment in bitcoin!
To launch, we're selling a fine cloth cover version of nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a's new book, Broken Money, as well as Fiat Food, Matthew Lysiak's forensic investigation into how inflation ruined the modern human diet and health.
You can get these two books, as well as my Principles of Economics, The Fiat Standard, and The Bitcoin Standard, all in hardcover for $99 only ($89.1 if paid in bitcoin!)
Take my sats! Great having a real incentive to pay in bitcoin. More businesses should adopt this practice.
Penrith - Glenridding. Bloody well love hiking in the Lake District 🇬🇧
