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Jameson Lopp
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On this 15th anniversary of the Bitcoin whitepaper, let's have a laugh at Fraudtoshi's Freudian slip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWix77CEcFg

Delta KYC dumbassery update:

Support: "Submit your ID via this personal info update request form."

Me: "but I don't need to update my name, birthday, or gender..."

Support: "Just choose one."

Me: [updates gender from male to male]

The next day I receive an email from Delta saying that I can't update my gender because my account is under audit for suspicious activity and to unlock it I need to submit a different form.

Delta blocked me from buying a flight in my own name with my own credit card. Support agent said their system suspected my account was compromised and they need me to upload my ID to prove it's me. Of course the review process will take an indeterminate period of time.

The only reason I can imagine this happening is because I use a VPN.

It's pretty annoying when news publications refer to Craig Wright as an Australian Computer Scientist. Craig is as much of a Computer Scientist as he is Satoshi.

If you're cold, they're cold; bring them inside!

Nope, switched to casein because the egg white protein powder had sunflower lecithin which causes bloating.

Ugh, you get one high LDL-C result on a lipid panel and the pharmaceutical industrial complex wants to pump you full of statins.

How is it illegal to drive while holding a phone but it's legal to drive while your dog is climbing all over you rather than in the back seat?

Armed minorities are harder to oppress.

The smallest (and most oppressed) minority is the individual.

Feels like a new wave of adoption is coming. Seeing a surge in newbie posts on social media.

There are far more Faketoshi frauds out there than you might imagine. You just don't hear about them because they are so obviously unhinged that their rants get completely ignored.

Pretty sure this is the manifestation of a specific type of mental illness.

Looks like 4TB NVMe PCIe 4 hard drives that can read and write 8 GB/s have dropped under $200.

Makes me wonder how long it would take to sync a fully validating Ethereum node on one. ๐Ÿ™ƒ

Maybe marketers aren't the best adversarial thinkers.

What the fuck does this even mean?

Germany has one of the highest levels of Bitcoin adoption in the world. Usually in the #1 or #2 spot for number of nodes. Why? Do they remember the hyperinflation from a century ago?

Yet German politicians are overwhelmingly against it. Why? Liberal ESG concerns?

So long, Switzerland

Hal Finney was a legendary Cypherpunk, but he was not Satoshi.

Today I present my research to support that claim.

https://blog.lopp.net/hal-finney-was-not-satoshi-nakamoto/

Android 14 update to GrapheneOS appears to have massively improved battery life! ๐ŸŽ†

"I think that the biggest thing that held back PGP adoption was not the regulatory attacks, but rather the cognitive overhead imposed by the decentralized trust model."

- Phil Zimmermann

Lugano, Switzerland has the highest density of merchants accepting bitcoin in Europe with 350+ shops onboarded.

https://video.nostr.build/9d47aa1bd8a0144d1ff5bea8cb185802ba92cf291389f3e3d9bb54c03da28bb4.mp4