one of the most genius farming tools of all time.
iirc, invented by an australian.
Save these and use them for replies. #Bitcoin.
From Marcus Connor: https://twitter.com/MarcusConnorNH/status/1715432005926539334
Not sure if he made them.
they are lame and ugly
bitcoin's biggest vulnerability is actually the rewriting of the github repositories associated with it.
i am cloning the whole set and archiving it so i at least know and can prove what it was right now.
i'm researching how one goes about writing arbitrary data to bitcoin blocks, and BIP-42 popped up as i scanned the list, talking about a finite supply.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0042.mediawiki
i did not know Peter Wuille was a tail emissions guy, number one.
secondly, there's nothing particularly mysterious about chopping off a bit every 4 years from the initial 50 (times 100 million) bitcoin block reward that it falls to zero in 64x4 years.
thirdly, wait, what, most bitcoin core devs are php programmers?
i shit you not, check it out:
i'm working on a codebase at the moment that uses a simple per-key
password (or not) option. i considered creating a keyfile that can be
used to encrypt multiple keys but i realised this was the wrong
approach.
the better approach is to build a secondary encryption key management system that has one or multiple secrets unlocked by one or multiple passwords, in the same manner as used with dm-crypt and LUKS disk encryption.
the crossing of the boundaries between the two systems with merging these two models into one creates more problems than it solves.
fiatjaf, of all people, you would think that he understands that systems should be simple and be layered, for reasons of simplicity and for reasons of security...
for this problem, what we need is a separate layer that keeps track of the grouped items. the users posts. the post threads. the subjects, the hashtags. these are second layer, and applying second layer techniques to first layer systems leads you to a mess.
as a developer of freedom tech, i'm acutely aware of the perverse incentives of the fiat system as it applies to software developers.
they pay us a LOT of money to help build their prison tech.
i don't need much to build freedom tech, just a slim margin above my costs. i am not even so much interested in stacking sats as solving problems and racking those up in a stack that nobody can take from me.
FinCEN’s proposal to outlaw all crypto privacy is a huge overreach. They apply a section of the Patriot Act on a “class of transactions” in a new precedent. Doesn’t matter if it’s custodial or noncustodial- merely using certain type of code can be an illegal act.
People are caught by the potential spot ETF, meanwhile this is proposed. Now they fight you.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/fincen-wants-to-outlaw-certain-bitcoin-on-chain-transactions/
if you aren't already at the margins of their reach at this point, you are willing to be the lamb for the slaughter.
europe and north america are going to be the first to burn.
And I told you it was about the Temple Mount from the start.
Creation is about the Abrahamic Religions whether you like it order not.
https://x.com/countereculture/status/1715364429204779075?s=46&t=xluX_1190pDDWq8kyllQOA 
satan is behind both sides of the equation.
the objective is mass slaughter, in order to break open a prison and let the locked up demons roam the earth causing even more pain and death and panic.
the angels are standing by and will move to evacuate, and have long planned this and are guiding a lot of big rocks on their way to make sure that, unlike the great flood, the whole of the seed of chronus/saturn is eradicated.
all of this is a lot more mundane than it sounds or looks. probably the book of mormon has a fair bit of it right, for example.
Open source software is only possible because it's subsidized by corporations.
I wish it weren't true.
Some corporations directly pay the salaries of open source developers, others make donations to open source foundations. Most FOSS contributors just have a day job, but that's still enabling them to eat, have a place to stay and publish their work on their off hours.
The only exception is the rich people who are set for life.
In all other cases, there has to be some day job, because being able to afford food and shelter is unattainable otherwise. People seldom pay for open source software at all, and when they do, it only covers a tiny fraction of the cost.
I know this because I've been a FOSS developer, living off my savings for almost two years now. Reporting and patching bugs here and there, finding 0-days and fixing them, decentralizing password management while improving the security, allowing people to break free from companies like Google... it's what I do.
Outside of Nostr, it has earned me nothing. In fact, I'm over $1000 in the hole from trying to build out the hardware.
Nostr has paid me. Including all the wisecracks or other posts that got zapped, that's earned me 12,249 sats. Enough to buy some cinnamon twists at Taco Bell.
At some point the money is going to run out and I'll have to go back to work. I'll still try to do open source stuff, but it'll be at a greatly reduced pace.
Now some would say that I'm not good enough at promoting my work. That's fair. However, I'd argue that would be paying me for tooting my own horn more so than doing the actual engineering.
I'm trying to give it one last shot to have the world prove me wrong. I'm going to pour my effort into just one of my projects: #Signet. That's the encrypted, open source password manager.
I'm going to set up one store to sell them for fiat, and another store to sell them or #Bitcoin at a discount.
I'll do something that is extremely out of character: agree to be a guest on podcasts. I'll even go to places I loathe like Twitter and LinkedIn to spread the word there. I want to see this value 4 value model work.
If I make a profit, it'll fund building more hardware, and the software development, which is the heavy lift. After that, it'll go to the software projects I've built upon. They deserve it.
But I assure you, the hardware sales won't do it alone. They're sold just barely above cost. Priced to just cover the cost of bad boards and screw ups where I ordered the wrong component or made some other mistake somewhere along the line.
If people step up and start making donations so I can keep cranking out hot tech, I will eat all these words. I'll become a loud advocate for the #v4v model and have the first hand experience to back it up.
After nearly 2 years of having none of this happen, I'm extremely skeptical.
Check it out at https://hax0rbana.org/signet and buy one once I get a store set up (the last two I instigated had vulnerabilities that leaked private keys, so it's taking longer than expected). Go a step further and tell your friends. Show me this work is valuable to the world (or not).
it's a fiat world. taxes are so high these days it's almost impossible for anyone to make a living doing anything without a government subsidy in the mix.
the genius of bitcoin - really, the entire internet money thing, is bypassing the banksters and tax man. unfortunately, only bitcoin and co are not doing it by robbing the users as well.
sorry to say it, but the only reason why FOSS is not easy to make money is because of these two interlopers.
the level of thievery these days is off the charts, we live in a society run by pirates.
https://pronoize.bandcamp.com/track/bull-fucking-shit
modulate's genius track "Skullfuck" is great but I think S.A.M. outdoes them in this one.
listening to the rest of their tracks i forgot how much i like this kind of hard style techno.
i don't think data structures have this kind of trade-off anyway. usually it's one simple structure (eg, signed integer), 5-10, a larger compound structure, made out of the simple structures, another 5-20 functions.
at least in my experience, data structure to method ratio is fairly consistent, slightly increasing with the complexity of the structure.
also considering the scope of transcendentals with floating point numbers, you got you 100 functions for a simple 64 bit data structure right there if you add in all the stuff hiding in infix and prefix and postfix operators.
i'd go so far as to say that this is a complete red herring because the purpose of a data structure dictates how many functions it needs. a large data structure often needs accessors to control access and/or prevent race conditions.
and then there's also the fact that accessing large data structures tends to be wrapped in FIFO pipes and/or network interfaces, and you can aggregate many of these into one application. Just go look at a typical web service API for an example of one data structure with hundreds of methods.
not meaning to nitpick exactly but data and methods to operate on it isn't really quantifiable in this way.
lol, wow.
people are truly retarded.
every time you post a link to HIX on nostr, God kills a kitten.
i've switched back to vscode... the demicrosofted version codium to be exact, and i'm honestly enjoying using it... still to see how it behaves with interfaces, but really that's probably the go language support plugin's responsibility.
i suspect i'm not gonna be paying jetbrains any further.
to be honest, the changes they were making were starting to really get on my nerves and i've put at least 250 euros in that black hole over the last 6 years or so, i think i'm done.
makes me want to play it just to make a game "hate speech only" :D
the bitcoin quickening is coming
can you feel it?
i'm excited. if you are scared, get moving already!
every crisis is an opportunity, so long as you aren't blind to the nature of it.
it works in war time to a proportionally reduced extent also. 10 years ago that meant sms getting across. now that can easily be bitcoin nodes staying in sync blocks-only.
also, just another reminder, a carrington event can by definition only affect half the planet at the same time, and it's going to screw up THEIR systems as much as it cuts us off from ours.
this is why it's vitally important now to make sure you have connections on the ground around you, if the threat level is high, such as any place where english is the official language.
it's really important not to panic but have your situational awareness tuned up and bullshit filters operational.
ok, maybe to some extent some of the ramps are closing up but mostly only for new people.
while they are busy doing this, here we are on a network that will be virtually impossible to stop messages transferring and plenty of people in places where the gates aren't closed yet who will happily help move things around.
i don't think there is reason to be alarmed yet.
but i also think that anyone who isn't alarmed enough to seek refuge from these places that are closing the gates are just plain stupid, complacent and are gonna get a big wake-up call very soon when the MIBs come knocking asking about their VPNs and so forth.
bitcoin is a nodal point. there are other nodes connected to it and they might be where the actual win is.
i see bitcoin as an attractor, bringing together people of a certain mindset, with a certain kind of sense of mission.
it may turn out that it's a bit more complicated and far out than just magic internet money.