Cool! Basically tether on e-cash. My guess is that exchanges will rug mints of their dollar balance, but that will have to be seen.
Can a DLC be sustained indefinitely? Presumably the mint would need collateral.
I would not be surprised if Tether ends up running a mint. Good way for them to acquire sats.
Don't upload your ... mnemomic nostr:note1x80craa3mq7mecd4602uvec7tz6h4qtwjvyar7sd06tn6lausqeqpfc2xv
For my one year old hot take on the segwit discount, see:
https://bitcoinexplainedpodcast.com/@nado/episodes/bitcoin-explained-79-the-witness-discount
I could see future soft forks that enable functionality which is both useful for the three things you mention (e.g. vaults, new layer two techniques) AND enable stuff that NFT degens like. That way you get more people to contribute, review and test code. As long as these new things don't degrade the core functionality of course.
(I also don't agree that the current "degradation" is important. The main effect is higher fees, but in the future fees probably need to be even higher to offset the lower subsidy. Any use case that depends on low fees has always been on borrowed time.)
It may not be wise of Nigeria to hold a former US law enforcement agent hostage...
> Gambarayan has an interesting history in crypto. He is a former US special agent with the US Internal Revenue Service who helped crack the Silk Road darknet market. He used to go after crypto crooks. Now he’s head of Binance investigations.
Then again, when you work for Binance you know what you're doing.
Went on a little walk from Canary Wharf to the 02 dome, via the Greenwich foot tunnel, on the last day. 
In London for #AdvancingBitcoin 
Patoshi will. It's not certain that Patoshi is a single entity, nor that it's Satoshi.
All we know is that it's not CSW :-)
Interesting illustration of how cluster ammunition compares to a single explosive, given the same weight: https://youtu.be/bb8Lw-1zs9g
I believe the default is based on the minimum system requirements.
It would be nice to have the default be based on RAM instead. Luke mentioned having a (older) PR for that.
Never been to Poland? Start in the capital city of Warsaw, which this year will be the go-to spot for Bitcoin culture, film, and unique celebrations.
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SEE YOU AT #EuropeanHalvingParty & #BFF24.
Tickets + Details at: https://europeanhalvingparty.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcjeOHCLaDQ&t=1s&ab_channel=DroneSnap
Little glitch on the site: Friday is the 19th 
(b) could easily be tested by showing random strangers the manipulated image and then ask them to pick the victim from amongst 50 normal photos
(a) can be achieved by showing the manipulated image to 50 strangers and asking them if it's real or manipulated
Sure, you might traumatize the witnesses.
How does this only have 21K views after three months? (even if a bit one-sided, it's informative and has excellent footage) nostr:note1zps648q5kur49xmmra48uw8cxatm2x070usxdejxsqzxw6walsns7wrj9w
Well for the wallet at day 1. Bucketing peers was introduced a few years later I think to deal with eclipse attacks. With the removal of openssl a few years ago a more clear distinction was made between cryptographically secure vs fast random data.
Here's some current stuff: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/random.h
IIRC for DoS stuff it uses a not cryptographically secure (but fast) RNG.
And frequent home raids encourage you to regularly switch locks and label all your belongings!
Drink tea 
Just memorize the sha256 hash of the Arch. Oh but what operating system would you check the hash on? :-)
Maybe don't bring it across the border but just buy it in Shenzhen and destroy it on the way out :-)
If you're worried about malware: it's not like your importer is going to remove that.
Looks like Youtube took down the original Bitconnect What Is Love remix (Haddaway). There's a few other attempts online now, but they're not as good. Did anyone archive it?
Dutch bank ABN-AMRO tried to de-risk (one of?) the last surviving Bitcoin ATM provider in the country. A judge put a stop to that.
The basic rule is that terms in a contract can't be enforced if they lead to unacceptable outcomes, which the judge believes to be the case here. Note that banks are required to serve the interests of their clients (and the public IIUC), not just their own. Losing this bank account would have made it impossible for the company to safely/legally get rid of its cash within the country. This puts a high burden on the bank to be able to terminate the agreement.
The bank had two arguments for termination, both were dismissed, but the second one is the most interesting. The ATM company does not, and refuses to, monitor transactions for non-custodial wallets. The current EU AML law doesn't require that, neither does the (far more strict) Dutch implementation of it. The comparison was made to the fact that this bank does not follow cash that comes out of its own ATM either.
The judge also pointed out that AML law does not have the (stated??) goal of removing risky business from the financial rails.
(the bank could still appeal this, but so far so good)
https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=ECLI:NL:RBAMS:2024:1081
Also of note is that this ATM company obtained a (very expensive and hard to obtain) permit from the Dutch Central Bank, which includes all sorts of ongoing AML requirements. And the bastards at ABN *still* wanted to kick them out.
This bank is still for a large part state owned after their last bailout.
Dutch bank ABN-AMRO tried to de-risk (one of?) the last surviving Bitcoin ATM provider in the country. A judge put a stop to that.
The basic rule is that terms in a contract can't be enforced if they lead to unacceptable outcomes, which the judge believes to be the case here. Note that banks are required to serve the interests of their clients (and the public IIUC), not just their own. Losing this bank account would have made it impossible for the company to safely/legally get rid of its cash within the country. This puts a high burden on the bank to be able to terminate the agreement.
The bank had two arguments for termination, both were dismissed, but the second one is the most interesting. The ATM company does not, and refuses to, monitor transactions for non-custodial wallets. The current EU AML law doesn't require that, neither does the (far more strict) Dutch implementation of it. The comparison was made to the fact that this bank does not follow cash that comes out of its own ATM either.
The judge also pointed out that AML law does not have the (stated??) goal of removing risky business from the financial rails.
(the bank could still appeal this, but so far so good)
https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=ECLI:NL:RBAMS:2024:1081
It's try because the use of cryptocurrency in funding could be used against them, given the nature of the case.
Dutch lawyers are not allowed to take Bitcoin donations, at least that was the case a few years ago. I'm not sure if and how Pertsev's case is currently crowdfunded. Last time I checked his trial is in March.
Meanwhile in fiat land: https://cointelegraph.com/news/gofundme-tornado-cash-defense-crowdfunding
Note that this article is from two years ago. Not sure what the most recent development is here. It's very frustrating how the EU often sneaks in a bunch of fascist nonsense into otherwise good ideas.
I'm going to wait for "could" and "might" to change to: here's multiple HD photos taken by different unrelated people from different angles, verified not to be photoshopped.
As others have observed: camera's keep getting exponentially better and more abundant, but UFO sightings consistently remain right at the edge of visibility.
I'm not making any predictions, I'm not a guru :-)
Anything interesting under "Try another way"?
In addition: there's been YEARS for people to setup their own mailinglist infrastructure and offer it to the dev list. Nobody did. Nostr isn't ready to take over. Act less entitled please. nostr:note1fhphq56zwj6ez0am92wysu04c4yvl0w5qwjfe7kta0dj7vnckx3qwx0a6g