PSA: “Inscriptions” are exploiting a vulnerability in #Bitcoin Core to spam the blockchain. Bitcoin Core has, since 2013, allowed users to set a limit on the size of extra data in transactions they relay or mine (`-datacarriersize`). By obfuscating their data as program code, Inscriptions bypass this limit.

This bug was recently fixed in Bitcoin Knots v25.1. It took longer than usual due to my workflow being severely disrupted at the end of last year (v24 was skipped entirely).

Bitcoin Core is still vulnerable in the upcoming v26 release. I can only hope it will finally get fixed before v27 next year.

What are your favorite hardware wallets, among the latest generation of them?

And are there any that you really don’t like?

what’s the app/site you learn the most from?

So it is night here and the family pulled out a knockoff version of Jenga to play, called blocks.

There were no instructions (but there are four 6-sided dice and the blocks are numbered from 1 to 54). So I went to read the text on the box. First, whoever wrote the text on the box mistakenly called the game Layer (they must have missed the memo), and second, it’s the most glorious game description ever written.

bank run on gemini

"The consumer price index is inherently a recursive function. If the price of ribeye steak goes up and consumers shift to lower cost ground beef in response, then the basket of goods that the consumer price index is calculated from adjusts down to that new baseline. If ground beef gets too expensive and consumers shift to lower-cost poultry, then the basket of goods will be adjusted again. If poultry gets too expensive and consumers shift toward more rice and beans, then the basket of goods will be adjusted again. If butter from grass-fed cows gets too expensive and people shift toward industrially-produced soybean oil, then the basket of goods adjusts to that. Thus, highly-priced goods and services tend to filter themselves out of the basket, and low-priced goods and services tend to be emphasized."

- nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a

The never ending psyop of climate alarmism is one of the most powerful humans have ever been subjected to.

It’s effectiveness has caused humanity to take counterproductive measures that are reducing the quality of life for everyone by making energy infrastructure fragile.

become unruggable 🫡