Relevant: https://github.com/opentimestamps/nist-inject
tl;dr: I have a long standing project that timestamps the NIST random beacon, and a bunch of other blockchains, with OTS/Bitcoin. This means that Bitcoin blocks can be proven to have been created _after_ those random beacons, giving even more evidence as to the accuracy of Bitcoin block header times.
Also, I'm time-stamping Bitcoin block headers with a bunch of Roughtime servers: https://github.com/opentimestamps/restamp Again, this provides evidence proving Bitcoin blocks were create prior to those trusted Roughtime servers.
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Just in the occupied areas, there's about $12 trillion worth of resources, including coal, iron ore, etc. https://www.dw.com/en/russia-ukraine-war-natural-resources-grain/a-66639269
And Ukraine has more top quality topsoil than any other country in the world. There's a reason why they're (still) one of the world's top food exporterers.
As for the US, they haven't taken resources for free.
"as many Ukrainians among these Russians" π
This isn't some complex moral quandary. Russia is trying to invade Ukraine to take their land and steal their resources.
Russians are fighting this war for money: the Russian military is promising huge (for Russia) salaries to soldiers. If it was successful, it would have been a very profitable war because Ukraine has trillions or dollars worth of resources to steal; Russia has already stolen something like a trillion dollars worth of land and resources already.
Within Ukraine the supermajority of fundraising is to buy more drones to kill Russians. Drones are one of the most effective tools Ukraine has, and unlike other weapons, the parts for them can be easily bought commercially.
Of course the fundraising is going to purchase weapons. Killing Russians is how Ukrainians stop Russians from killing them.
Solve the root cause of the problem. Not the symptoms.
I reached my funding goal to release my port of Libre Relay to Bitcoin Core v28.0rc1
A donation from nostr:nprofile1qqsxzk2dw992jnl928mqgy340rz2vkfpgh6z9zkcvqfzfvdcnnjqrvqpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7l9df8l put it over the finish line. Thanks to everyone who donated!
As promised, the code: https://github.com/petertodd/bitcoin/tree/libre-relay-v28.0rc1
"notes coming from certain IP addresses"
Congratulations: in your ineffective efforts to stop spam, you'll end up getting rid of privacy. Because inevitably spammers will use the same tools β like Tor β that people use to achieve privacy.
Found a version with subtitles:
https://video.nostr.build/52a823aebfb8287a98ac977aebbb961dda3174219b7fa60f21e7c73f3178f3ed.mp4
βResidents of the Tver region are asked not to publish photos and videos from the site of the UAV crash in Toropets.β
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That UAV must have been filled with nukes.
Won't be long before we can subtitle client side with AI...
You might be having a bad day. But you're probably not having as bad a day as the governor of Tver, Russia, who had to say they all Ukrainian drones attacking the Toropets ammo depot were shot down while explosions were still going off in the background. π
https://video.nostr.build/2c9cd04a721ddae7110d73b1e047b5ac1a37747407f2596450fd34bb6ce50627.mp4
https://video.nostr.build/3ddba349888994ac0af6b4f060298cf81e819b828cbb9d0ce1bfe370fdd2468b.mp4
Nah. It's a potential flame thrower maybe. But not a bomb. Lithium batteries just don't have the chemistry necessary to make a proper explosion. They can pressurize a battery case. But batteries are intentionally designed to blow out in a controlled way.
It would be good if Israel came out and explicitly said this was an attack done with explosives.
I'm halfway to my goal on geyser.fund for the next Libre Relay release.
https://geyser.fund/project/librerelay
Correct!
BTW, I'm fundraising for the next release of Libre Relay: https://geyser.fund/project/librerelay
In theory it's a competitor to Slipstream. In practice though Libre Relay simply can't relay all consensus valid transactions because there are real technical rationales for almost all the filters in Core.
For example, Slipstream has been used for extremely large transactions. The current Core codebase simply do good transaction selection if the maximum transaction size is close to the block size limit.
I run two out of four calendars. The other two are run by Bull Bitcoin and Riccardo Casatta.
The nature of time-stamping is that it doesn't make sense to duplicate efforts beyond what is necessary for failure tolerance.
Indeed, I should add a pay-with-lightning scheme to trigger an immediate time-stamp transaction for anyone willing to pay for it.
The calendar server software is of course open source, so it's trivial for others to run their own calenders. But there isn't a good reason to do so.
Note that the OTS infrastructure works better if there are fewer calendars, not more (to a point at least). The issue is that OTS clients create incomplete proofs by default, to avoid waiting for a confirmation. So to verify a proof, the calendar data needs to be available. More calenders means more data for the whole community to backup, and more chances something gets lost.
If someone, eg, wanted timestamps once a block it would be much better if they just paid me to do timestamps once a block than setting up their own calendar. Which incidentally is exactly what was done for the Guatemalan election project: the company doing it paid me a few hundred dollars to pay for fees of doing almost constant timestamps.