Over the course of 2023:
Reachable Bitcoin nodes are up 16% to 16,837
Reachable Ethereum nodes are down 25% to 7,483
Reachable Bitcoin Cash nodes are down 28% to 645
Reachable Zcash nodes are down 48% to 4,175
Premo cope on the bcash subreddit this week:
"When MTGOX payouts happen next year, the OGs will rush to convert their BTC to BCH since you can get 200 BCH per BTC!"
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If you carry a gun you should carry a tourniquet.
This is a pretty interesting option, though unfortunately only for open carry.
https://aliengearholsters.com/taq-strap
It's quite refreshing to see that fucktard on X calling us all treasonous. It's basically one step removed from calling for our execution.
If you're not an enemy of the State, you're not Bitcoining hard enough.
It's weird to see some folks acting like LLMs are the path to actual artificial intelligence.
Call me when an LLM can make deductions and have original thoughts without being fed the entirety of the Internet first. That's not how actually intelligent humans work. Of course compressing the entirety of human knowledge into a fuzzy completion machine will make it sound intelligent. You're basically making a lossy encoded compressed version of things actually intelligent people have said, with a modicum of ability to generalize by simple association and statistics.
The Turing test breaks down when you throw enough Big Data at it. Congratulations, you've beat the test. You haven't created real intelligence though, you used big data to build a parrot with a huge vocabulary.
Related, can you explain why BTCPay asks for an admin macaroon in order to connect a remote LND instance? Shouldn't a read-only macaroon with invoice permission suffice?
Really enjoying Arizona Sunshine 2 thus far.
It's pretty cool to have a German Shepherd buddy who helps warn you about enemies, slows them down, and can reach tough spots to retrieve items.
Also, I was overjoyed once I realized he can carry extra pistols for you on his tactical vest! 💪
I've enjoyed my Vive Pro for 5 years, but it appears the components are reaching end of life.
Replacement wireless adapter: $250
Replacement controllers: $200 each
The more upsetting thing is that there doesn't appear to be any significant advancement on the hardware side in 5 years. I'd love to upgrade, not just buy the same gear!
Perhaps because I say what I think rather than conforming to whatever the current popular narrative is; I've been cancelled countless times.
Also, I think there's plenty of room for non-Bitcoin crypto networks that offer different utility. I explore many technologies and I don't apologize for it.
People tend to form a mental model of me based upon my posts they've seen, then they get upset when I do something that breaks their model.
IDK about "good" vs "bad" guy because it's subjective. I consider myself good because I've educated many people and also helped many folks secure their funds. I don't defraud folks - the services I provide are quite transparent, even if some folks disagree with them.
I supported BIP101 which was implemented in XT.
You're thinking about a change that deprioritized connections from tor exit nodes to mitigate DoS attacks conducted via tor to fill up connection slots. I was neutral on that one.
He was literally selling it as a book for months and not sharing the PDF publicly.
It has a bunch of ideas, sure. But they do not flow to create a logical conclusion that can be acted upon.
All I've done is engage in intellectual discourse. I'm not owed a response, though Lowery tried to discredit me earlier by claiming I couldn't critique his ideas without reading the thesis he was paywalling. So here we are.
"Bitcoin is not for storing data" takes a bit of subjective gymnastics. Bitcoin is literally a database. It's just the least performant database ever invented with some unique properties as a result.
As I've said for some time, whenever you have a database and a scripting language, you're going to have crafty devs figure out how to leverage it in unintended ways. Trying to stop them turns into a game of whack-a-mole.
I'm still seeking a rational explanation for how the Ocean pool is going to succeed in the long term if it offers miners objectively lower fee revenue than other pools.
I'm saying that the portion of hashrate that chooses ideology over profit maximization will be quite small and I'm skeptical it's a sustainable business model in such a highly competitive space.
My favorite aspect of CVE remediation hell is when you get a vulnerability notification and the suggested action is "none" because it hasn't been patched.
My favorite aspect of software dependency hell is when you bump a library version and everything breaks because there's an undocumented incompatibility between a specific version of library X and a specific version of library Y.
That's a cool false dilemma you pose. Would you like to try again without committing a logical fallacy?
I don't want folks to read softwar because they'd be wasting their time. I already wasted mine so that others don't have to.
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