SVB going into receivership. Bitcoin users unaffected.
🎶 whoah ooo oh, all your shitcoins lie in dust, my friend 🎶
I would simply not build software that requires permission from the NYAG. It's not complicated
I bleed green and black, go birds! If Drew slanders me like that again I'll have no choice but to grow a moustache even more majestic than his
Reading Dr. Niel Ten Oever's Ph.D thesis right now for the University of Amsterdam and it's such a banger:
The entanglement of the Internet with the daily practices of
governments, companies, institutions, and individuals means that
the processes that shape the Internet also shape society. In this
dissertation, I study the norms that shape the Internet’s under-
lying structure through its transnational governance. Norms are
the ‘widely-accepted and internalised [sic] principles or codes of
conduct that indicate what is deemed to be permitted, prohibited,
or required of agents within a specific community’ (Erskine and
Carr 2016, 87). Internet governance is the development, coordina-
tion, and implementation of policies, technologies, protocols, and
standards. Internet governance produces a global and interop-
erable Internet functioning as a general-purpose communication
network in transnational governance bodies. I examine four cases
of norm conflict and evolution in three key Internet governance
institutions: the Internet Engineering Taskforce (IETF); the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN); and the
Réseaux IP Européens Network (RIPE).
Example: a few members of the Gopher team had these shirts made up, and I'm at a loss for words for describing how completely at odds with reality they are:
Doing research for the book aaaand:
I was already familiar with the "Everything about the Internet is bad" Greek chorus of Nicholas Carr et al - the early Internet equivalent of nocoiners, if you will - but I seem to have hit a rich vein of "the Internet would be so much better if only those damn Internet maxis would have listened to me" cope - from Louis Pouzin at CYCLADES (pre-TCP/ARPANet) to Mark McCahill at University of Minnesota (Gopher) to Robert Desjardins (OSI).
It's wild how often the same behavioral pattern repeats itself, with even the same personality (arche)types. Maybe I should be studying mental health and dysfunction instead of networking...?
Kind of - the US/Chinese/Russian import-export banks might be a better comparison
"Iranian Vice President for Economic Affairs, Mohsen Rezaei, proposed the creation of a joint bank with African states with the aim of helping develop economic relations."
Goals for today: making chicken katsu at home and filling in the gaps in my understanding of PSBTs.
Any nostr clients or apps with built in cashu wallets?
Thinking about how the State encouraged home ownership because it meant more saltpetre (a precusor to gunpowder) would be produced.
Remember, the shitcoiners will try to write their own histories of their utter, total ideological defeat.
The slides below is an excerpt of a presentation from an ex-CYCLADES engineer. CYCLADES was a French research network that launched in 1971, was terminated in 1976, never reached more than 20-some nodes, and whose alumni have *very* strong opinions about the current Internet.
I feel like I can guess this guy's shitcoin portofilo just from reading these bullet points:
🎶 3AC was first in line 🎶
🎶 Now Silvergate and Gemini 🎶
🎶 SBF, Caroline 🎶c
🎶 Gensler wants Binance to die 🎶
🎶 We didn't play with shitcoins 🎶
Copied on a thread right now that reminds me of the Great Microsoft Exchange Email Storm of 1997 (Bedlam DL3)
For your morning enjoyment: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/me-too/ba-p/610643
shill me your best 'the train derailments were caused by cyberattacks' theory
Nostr is less interesting to me as a communications protocol per se - at that layer it's just a bunch of websocket clients and servers with novel ways of discovering each other and a shared understanding of how to encode datagrams- but the sort of de-facto "not quite petnames, not quite SSL certs, something else" identity layer that has built up on top of that is frigging nuts
Getting used to the nostr dynamic of posts with maybe two likes but several thousand sats from a dozen randos