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Geek. Bitcoiner. Economist.

For a given length password, yes, a randomly generated password with a large character set *will* have more entropy than four dictionary words.

Of course, most people aren't willing to memorize a long random password or use a password manager, so it is what it is.

The weather here is now officially "cold enough to mine shitcoins for the extra heat". ❄️

I sure am glad I hedged by buying a couple of ASICs…

Uhh… Does she not actually know what two-step is? Cuz that's line dancing, not two-step.

To be fair, he's right about 99% of "crypto".

IIRC, this is the article that led me to the original cypherpunks mailing list. (If not this one, then something similar in Mondo 2000 around that time.)

I didn't think it would take so long, but we finally have the magic Internet money we dreamed about!

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GM, fellow math outlaws

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We'd like to think everyone will get orange-pilled, go down the rabbit hole, and understand Bitcoin. But that's not how people work. People trust public key cryptography—and, for that matter, fiat money and banking— every day to complete financial transactions in their browser and they don't understand that, either. As with the technologies that make up the Internet, the best we can hope for is that they remain open enough that those who do want to understand and to control their destiny can do so. Normies have other things to worry about, like getting their kids to soccer practice, or whatever it is that normies do. It would be better if things were different, but they're not.

If laymen being able to understand a technology is a prerequisite for using it, boy do I have some bad news for you about the Internet…