He makes claims he can't back up.
He refuses to engage in rational discourse.
He employs his own softwar tactics to impose high costs upon those who question him.
I'm also 98% convinced that he operates social media Sybil accounts to make it appear that lots of people agree with him.
https://blog.lopp.net/softwar-thesis-review/
Few folks are aware of one of my behind the scenes janitorial jobs. I'm somewhat responsible for ensuring that a lot of amatuer-run Bitcoin web sites remain online.
How so? I have scripts that check the liveness of every one of the thousands of links on my Bitcoin Resources site.
When a site goes down, it alerts me, then I reach out to the site's operator.
It's amazing how few people monitor their own sites given that there are plenty of services that will do it for free.
Swearing is like adding spices while cooking.
It's important to strike the right balance without overpowering the underlying taste of the message being conveyed.
My healthcare portal was down for maintenance and now it's back up except all my messages with my doctor are now Chinese gibberish. Literal gibberish that doesn't even translate to anything.
Somebody is gonna have a bad week.
Underappreciated and apparently unmarketed benefit of infrared sauna over traditional: it doesn't make your phone overheat and do an emergency shutdown.
Bitcoin developers will literally tell users to burn a million dollars worth of energy to achieve covenant functionality instead of soft forking in an opcode that would achieve it for a millionth the cost.
I have thoughts on the risks and rewards of ossifying Bitcoin.
A lot of thoughts.
I've tried to lay them all out in my latest post.
https://blog.lopp.net/on-ossification/
So you want developers to have to choose between a federated L1 or a highly interactive L2 that has been shown to mostly achieve adoption via trusted third parties.
Coolcoolcool.
Got in line for automated passport control. Guy in front of me puts his passport in the scanner. It rejects his passport. He tries a few more times and then the whole machine crashes.
Then he moves left to the next machine and repeats the process until it crashes. Guess what her does next?
This dumb motherfucker ends up crashing all 4 passport control machines and even though they rebooted, the passport software didn't come back online.
In my latest technical deep dive I ruminate upon a theoretical attack scenario that could be performed by an adversarial miner in order to give themselves a competitive advantage.
https://blog.lopp.net/slow-block-validation-attacks/
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