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and a lot of this cowards are in the bitcoinspace - they are everywhere!

why do you put it in serie? The last miner will suffer the most.

Replying to Avatar waxwing

It took a bit of digging but I believe this is the commit that introduced the use of MT19937 into libbitcoin:

https://github.com/libbitcoin/libbitcoin-system/commit/6d5a06e283d81260165e0eab95175069bf03b408

I would like to hear from Eric what was the thought process behind this.

It's widely known (and certainly was, back then) that seeding a PRNG with a mersenne twister is not cryptographically secure. In the case of 32 bit MT19937 it's even comically insecure as you can just brute force every possible seed (you can also 'play back' earlier MT output if you see enough outputs in sequence).

But, the thing is, in that commit you can see that the approach taken is to use uniform_int_distribution taken from the std library, then seed it. As far as I can tell this function is platform dependent/implementation dependent and certainly not claimed to be cryptographically secure. What is going on here? Was there never an attempt in libbitcoin to use cryptographically secure random numbers? There is probably a bit more to the story.

Replying to Avatar Gigi

To whom?

old friend of mine.

Who is pushing bcash?

i am baffled that so many "professionals" don't get bitcoin.

This one is funny:

Trezor: We're going to integrate features from Wasabi wallet for 'privacy' that use chainanalysis to censor bad UTXOs.

Ledger: Lol, amateurs. We're going to copy your seed phrase to our servers.

i am more intersted in the SATSCHIP™ For Artists - i paid for some of them like half a year ago - any news on availability?

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.

fuck - all my sats "ver"-zapt - i have to blame you #[1]

i am not sure about his ability as an engineer. anyway i never worked with him - its all hearing and saying about him - and all of it is horrible.