There are always many things you can do with your time, but implementing silent payments (https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0352.mediawiki) for Core Lightning is rising in my to-do list.
Unfortunately, we are all PSBT internally, so we need support so we can receive, which the authors argue (sensibly) should be the first priority for wallets. There's a delving post on this, so I did my bit by annoying Ava Chow into looking at it. We can probably hack in some experimental thing if we need for now, but proper support on libwally would smooth the path for Blockstream Green in future, which frankly is a much bigger win than CLN support.
Looking forward to the day when they're not "silent payment addresses" but simply "Bitcoin addresses".
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TIL: Rusty is on Nostr
How has Bitcoin´s code evolved? 
and now we can imagine how the other decisions are made at this company...
That's exactly how it is! After months of Rubin aggressively trying to push his fork, one day (after much thought) he came up with another idea! Namely that his first thought was not the right one and that no change to Bitcoin was needed!
Maybe it's due to his youth or lack of experience - or both - but this behaviour has been seen time and again from some developers over the last 15 years.
Too fast, too impatient and too superficial.
Fortunately, Bitcoin can fend off these "improvements".
#CSW on "The Oxford Union Society" in 2019 talking about how he looks forward to proving himself in court (he also has a weird part in there about western culture being multi colored??).
https://blossom.oxtr.dev/effce26d2708a3d86d5236baeb346e3f57fdafe548a8cb3182cf8d52655880bf.mp4
I hope this fraud will end in jail
Why #Bitcoin is superior to #RealEstate as a store of value in two paragraphs. Nice work nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy
I would disagree: Real estate has the superpower of being able to move enormous amounts of borrowed capital. However, like all investments, you have to understand how it works.
I see your point.
If it were the case that miners can activate soft forks from which they mainly benefit but are against the majority of the other players in the network, why haven't miners been doing this for a long time?
Kinda weird that the same people who laugh in your face for abusing witness data to jam clownfart.jpg in the blockchain for eternity are trying to convince us the opcode they want activated will have no ill effects.
Miners only have the task of organising the blocks. If miners use software that violates the rules of the network, a fork is created. Miners cannot run any other software otherwise they are no longer part of Bitcoin.
Also, there are miners who will not follow this and make a lot of money from it.
"After this policy has a chance to be further discussed, it is the intention of the project to begin disclosing vulnerabilities affecting Bitcoin Core 24.x and below. It is strongly recommended that all users and administrators upgrade to Bitcoin Core 25.0 or above within the next two weeks." 
just as the segwit 2x attackers were also stopped
this is the best sign that this patch will not be integrated - fortunately
The effect of a simple walk in nature is underestimated 🌾 🚶♂️
"Another way to think about this: when you ask GPT a question, the answer is effectively what you’d get if you asked every person on the internet that question, and then averaged out their answers."
Good read on the limits of AI.
https://blog.wispem-wantex.xyz/posts/the-great-ai-stagnation/
GPT is very good at some things but really subterranean at others: GPT can't correct spelling or give examples of companies that offer a particular product. Worse still, there are answers to everything that are 100% wrong!
