Ginger, ginger, ginger. Grate frozen ginger (lots of it) and pour boiling water on it. Breathe in for a couple of minutes and then drink. Repeat a couple of times daily. Watch the miracles happen.
Also, Xlear ( = saline + xylitol + grapefruit seed extract) is your friend.
Yes... but we're just a small part of the funding. The actual funding is the money printing.
He's also worried about... climate change... So he might be a contrarian signal. : https://www.marc.cn/2025/01/2025-the-year-ai-will-start-changing-the-world.html
MAN OF STEEL: Video of a North Texas school resource officer and U.S. Army veteran is going viral after he single-handedly pushed a broken-down school bus full of students out of traffic.
Wowzers
https://blossom.primal.net/e71ccaa6494cc55d42d600e0dd6ad486b5ad4a1b71d9220ec6e7d6b2ea20d518.mp4
The *one* person in government who's actually earning his keep.
I heard about this really cool internet magic money and it's all open source. But I wouldn't touch it because I hear it was made by a pseudonym and we don't know who it was ...
/sarc
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
My understanding is that, normally, you now have to give biometrics for Europe.
But your friend Peter Thiel might be able to help you bypass that ;-)
Just make sure to also go to a european non-schengen country : https://visaguide.world/europe/non-schengen-countries/
OGs bought into bitcoin as money but Core with v30 wants bitcoin to be a jpg relay network.
On a completely unrelated note, gold and monero pumped.
Aunt Voula: "What do you mean he don't eat no meat? ... ... Oh, that's okay. I make lamb."
I agree 100%. If the btc gets stolen, so be it. No preemptive stealing.
But since it'll take years to have a good solution implemented, we better start now.
I don't want any quantum solution to be replacing our current elliptic curve, just added to it. That way, any btc sent to a quantum-resistant address would require both signatures to be spent. The btc in old addresses, should never be consfiscated and always usable with the same old signatures.
We would get a choice : pay more fees to use an additional (big) signature or go cheap and cross your fingers.
I understand how your face might look like that if it's her right time of the month... but how did she manage that? That's some flexibility right there.
If he had simply invested all the money he got from his Dad in the stock market, he probably would have had more money than he does now and he wouldn't have had to kick all of those widows out of their cheap apartments.
And after getting used to linux, I suggest also taking a look at a systemd-free linux distribution. Artix linux is looking good.
Worried about quantum computing overpowering SHA-256, but not the 4-digit PIN securing your bank account?
https://blossom.primal.net/f31e608ef68c6d77962943537d19a728927d826f2b62b0e657470e92c9694d0f.mov
I'm not worried about the 10$ in my bank account being stolen by quantum.
I'm not worried about quantum for sha-256.
I am worried about the quantum risks for the elliptic curve for my only asset (btc), which can not be insured and no one would ever pay me back, no matter how many lawsuits I file and no matter how blue in the face I get.
Strong (really really strong) ginger tea. You freeze the ginger and then grate it. Pour boiling water. Breathe it in for a couple of minutes and then drink it. Three cups a day. Works wonders.
A little bit of baking soda does the trick. Wet the tip of a finger, slightly touch baking soda powder with it, rub it under your armpit, and voila!
#deodorant #bakingsoda #armpit
Is it even open source? They talk about being open and all, but I can't find the link to download it. They also talk about licenses?
Plus, it uses systemd. I'm trying to get out of systemd, not more into it.
You're right, I have no interest in smart contracts.
I'm only looking for freedom money.
But again, I'm not even suggesting that we stop using ECC. I'm only talking about adding to it (optionally, for those who want to).
That's how I had read it.
Also, I have the same opinion as you do about the death jabs.
On (1) : absolutely, and I wouldn't want bitcoin to replace ECC with PQ algos. I would want PQ algos added. So, if I choose to transfer to an address that also uses a PQ algo, I would then need to sign with ECC *and* with that PQ algo. For big amounts, I wouldn't want to risk it being at the mercy of a technological advancement.
On (2) : higher fees : if bitcoin Core wants to consider that, there is a lot of work to do in making it harder for spam data to price out actual monetary transactions. The higher fees argument might have hit harder last year but v30 changed that (on top of what taproot and segwit did). They even changed the definition of bitcoin to make it into a jpg network instead of p2p money.
On (3) : on killing cheap nodes : again, same as with (2), v30 pretty much affirms that Core doesn't care about that. They'll have us relay whatever spam spammers want to spam us with. Pruning is not an interesting option because it kills archival nodes and kills electrum servers.
If we fix the bad incentives to spam the network with non-monetary transactions (thereby limiting the undue competition for blockspace), we can afford to protect the network by giving the option (for those who prefer that) to also have a PQ algo in addition to ECC.
That might actually make blockspace more competitive, while keep bitcoin a p2p money network, and might be good long-term for the network when the mining needs to run only on miner fees.
Many serious people are saying that quantum will be a threat. I'm not technically competent enough to know one way or the other. But giving what's at stake, adding an optional (additional) PQ seems to be the way to go.
I see that he's starting his own shitcoin : https://dark.fi/
"DarkFi is a new Layer 1 blockchain, designed with anonymity at the forefront." https://codeberg.org/darkrenaissance/darkfi and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Taaki
So bitcoin is not good enough for him, monero is not good enough for him.
I remember how he just abandoned his darkwallet project. I'm not holding my breath for anything to come out of this either.
Amir Taaki unmasks supertestnet around 49mins, referencing the infamous debate between Luke Parker and Supertestnet.
Watchman Privacy: 188 - Amir Taaki: Let There Be Dark
Episode webpage: https://watchmanprivacy.com/
Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/watchmanprivacy/188_-_Amir_Taaki_Let_There_Be_Dark.mp3?dest-id=2727836
I listened starting at 49mns for a couple of minutes and he's just rambling that the lightning guys were lying, and he keeps repeating that. I was waiting for a little bit more meat on those argument bones. He says now he'll just challenge them to fight him physically... That didn't convince me of anything.
In my book, he's insane.
He went to fight ISIS, which to me indicates that he understands very little of what is actually going on in the world.
And in went to Rojova to do that. Rojova = Kurds. Kurds still do excision (female mutilation).
That this guy (Amir Taaki) would still be considered even remotely relevant blows my mind.
From my understanding :
- the crypto used for extra privacy makes it harder to audit the total supply of coins,
- the coin emission schedule (inflation),
- frequent hard forks, which increases the dependency on the main devs (although that fear for monero feels a little overblown comparatively since bitcoin core v30),
- limited options for second layers, which presents a problem for future scaling in case of massive adoption, and
- the choice of preventing ASICs which limits the total hashing power of the network, making reorgs more likely.
Those are the main concerns that come to mind right now.
v30 -> OG maxis lose faith -> gold and monero pump.
But keep on telling yourself it's not related.
> A cryptographically-relevant quantum computer is physically impossible
Lord Kelvin : "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
As bitcoiners, we can't be bearish on tech.
Why not simply ADD quantum resistance? Not removing the current scheme, just adding quantum resistance as an optional extra for those who are willing to pay the extra fee.
For small amounts, I'm okay with receiving and sending a hot potato.
But when moving sats to my cold storage "pension fund", I'd be more than willing to pay more in fees to cover the extra quantum resistance.
As a bitcoiner, I don't feel like risking my family's financial future on your mathematical assurances of impossibility of the quantum threat.
#quantum #bitcoin #btc #QC
But is it easy to have many profiles in the app? Because " ID + Wallet " seems is too close to a potential future Digital ID if it's not easy to change profiles. Defaults and ease of use matter a lot for privacy.
I don't know about that. v30 changed a lot of things. OGs are selling, for good reason.
I agree with most points you mentioned. I would be very tempted to define it simply as :
- No changes unless to fix an existential bug or problem (possibly quantum at some point).
A third implementation that is extremely conservative would be wonderful in my opinion. It would probably have to start with Core version 28 (no later than v28).
Adam Simecka seems to feel that way too and he has a fairly substantial presence on X, but I can't find him here on Nostr.
https://xcancel.com/AdamSimecka/status/1985405874031194290#m
Bitcoin's development process has been broken for a long time and Bitcoin's developers have failed the community.
Developers have to start treating Bitcoin's users as stakeholders, not an audience they have contempt for.
I wrote the first Bitcoin Development Governance Proposal (BDGP-1).
This is a rough draft. If someone wants to work on it further/take the idea and write a better proposal, feel free to.
https://controlplanecapital.com/p/bitcoin-development-governance-proposal
I don't see how that can be enforced. The only real option in my mind is to have other implementations.
You need to hug the tree, not stare at it.
You need to find an old one. At least 400 years old.
If you don't feel calmer after touching a 400 year old tree, I don't know what to tell you.
Cool story, except that's not what Satoshi said : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=12.msg79#msg79
But I'm also talking about afterwards. I've lost trust in Core. So, even with a soft fork, I feel we need a third implementation going forward. We have to make sure this can't happen again.
Who do we have who's working on a third implementation?
Core has gone rogue and Luke is pro-covenants, which I'm not.
Is there any third implementation that would simply be conservative? Just keeping bitcoin the way it was before the horror of v30 (and possibly v29) ?
We just need good stewards to be there in cases of dramatic bugs that could mess up the network (and potentially something for quantum down the line).
#core #knots #node #bitcoin #btc
No, the solution is simple : don't radically change bitcoin! Don't blow-up the op_return limit. Simple.
I don't know if they can require it in Japan. They can require it in the US, in Canada, in the UK, in Australia, and many others.
In Canada, I believe they would just seize the device if you don't give them the password. In the UK and in Australia, I believe they send you to jail...
Conclusion : no electronic device when flying.
By the way, do you know if you can opt-out of the body scanner in Japanese airports? I believe you can in Europe, Canada and in the US. You can choose to get a pat-down instead. But I don't know about Japan. Any thoughts?
Absolutely. Also, it's easier to learn to do things on a desktop, not just consume content.
You could make yourself a DIY box fan filter. Put in one room, it might improve the smell quite a bit.
I'll never understand why some people find cosmetic surgery to be a plus (barring a totally disfiguring injury).
"We've Become Serfs On Our Own Land": The USDA Trap, Foreign Land Sales, And The Collapse Of American Farming
> "I can't even legally sell what I grow on my farm to any of my friends, family, or neighbors," Sagdal says. Why? Because of USDA slaughter rules. With few exceptions, unless meat is processed at a USDA-inspected facility, and labeled with a USDA stamp, it's illegal to sell. An issue compounded by the fact that just four companies have monopolized the few meatpacking plants that still exist.
#beef #farms #USDA #BeefInitiative #WEF
for us yes, not for everybody
A 2-year-old Iranian boy is in a coma after a violent assault at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport lounge, where Vladimir Vitkov, a Jewish Belarusian man, a threw the toddler headfirst onto the floor.
https://video.nostr.build/30f387aa3ae946e7c97a08efd06f69e09af3d4b17a5fe3b693460ad862b9c6dc.mp4
Speechless...
Holy shit. I thought this guy was a bad joke.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/24/mamdani-leads-cuomo-nyc-mayor-race-00422363
His position on Palestine may have been enough to get him across the finish line, to send a message.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zohran_Mamdani
> Mamdani supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. He has denounced Israel's actions during the Gaza war, calling them acts of genocide.
Thank you very much!
I've got to get my zapping going again. Getalby gives me error messages saying i'm over the limit. I'll have to configure something else.
Respectfully asking and very interested in the Japan btc situation :
- Is it not possible to live on btc in Japan? Meetups, a good network of friends, for p2p to get whatever fiat you need for vendors who refuse btc?
- I hear that Japan is still strong on cash so shouldn't there be a way to be basically in btc and cash only?