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 Stupid behavior. Just wastes devs time, pushing them to spin up alternative test infrastructure. ... 
 You're welcome. 
 hope it was worth it nostr:note1c4r3kz3fyfk5sx9tgrq8tz6udq2xw0el2lpekwe4cvd00jtf062qs5latk 
 It cost me approximately a dollar worth of electricity. ☺️ 
 Someone recently asked if I was happy.

Sure, I'm grateful to be so privileged that I'm likely in the top 0.1% of humans with regard to quality of life.

But I'm not satisfied. I can not relax until I see the authoritarians driven before me and I delight in the lamentations of their sycophants. 
 My griefing attack on Bitcoin testnet has resulted in over 165,000 blocks (3 years worth) generated in the past week. 😏 
 I'm not intentionally reorging (yet ☺️) though there are some decent reorgs happening organically. 
 See my development mailing list post about resetting testnet. 
 To encourage folks to abandoned testnet3 and launch testnet4. 
 Testnet is supposed to have no value, thus no harm should come of disrupting it. 😇 
 Had to remove half a dozen dead links from my resources site thanks to the Samourai seizure.

RIP OXT charts, metrics, and landscapes 😐 
 Site on my profile: lopp.net 
 In 2014, Obama's lawyers insisted a president had the right to extrajudicially assassinate Americans.

10 years later, Trump's lawyers are basing political assassination assertions on the same argument.

Power always seeks more power. 
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 If a self custody wallets are money transmitters under this interpretation then how are ISPs NOT money transmitters?
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 No, Whirlpool is a non-custodial protocol. However, the coordinator was fairly centralized. 
 Gm

Very easy to criticize a no KYC bitcoin company 

Much harder and riskier to run one

Especia... 
 I have a feeling this will age well.
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 On the bright side, as far as I can tell, no one who was using Whirlpool actually lost their money when the feds shut down the coordinator. 👏🏻 
 I think polls on nostr would be cool, anyone working on this?  nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqj... 
 Polls are easy in Amethyst  
 Privacy is not a crime.

But apparently if you dare to earn money by helping others improve their financial privacy, that's a crime. 😐 
 Thanks to folks overloading the term "regarded" to route around censorship, now whenever I see someone using it for the original meaning, I have to do a double take and use context clues to determine which meaning is intended. 🤡 
 It's fascinating to see how the remaining few Bitcoin Cash supporters continue to delude themselves.
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 Bitcoin is not limited to capturing the gold market. The payments market is tiny in comparison to the global settlement / store of value market. 
 Some Bitcoiners are so blinded by their hatred of altcoins that they recommend "pure" KYC services over "impure" non-KYC services. 🤡 
 I stick to ideas rather than finger pointing. 
 Best I can do is testnet BTC. 
 I'm working on that particular problem. 😇 
 🤷‍♂️

Testnet3 will continue to exist for a while, possibly for years if folks continue operating nodes and miners. 
 Probably far fewer than that. 
 Plenty of reasons but top ones:

1. The multisig tech matured to the point we were confident building on it.

2. Consistent increased demand from current and potential clients.

3. Massive growth in stablecoin ecosystem. 
 I was a Republican until I realized I had no money.

I was a Democrat until I realized I was ever... 
 That's all Libertarians want! 
 Oopsies 😇
Poor degens!
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 Yeah, and I think I figured out why they're so dumb. A lot of them appear to be BSV morons. 
 Nope, they're (in their own words) ponzifying testnet. I have receipts, will publish a postmortem when I'm done. 
 Phase 2 of my griefing of Bitcoin Testnet has commenced. 🫠 
 Oopsies 😇
Poor degens!
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 Finally got to meet ZmnSCPxj at MIT Bitcoin Expo 🥳 
 So little time.
So many tyrants to fuck with. 
 Today I'm publishing some little known halving related history. Meet ditto-b!
https://blog.lopp.net/the-untold-story-of-ditto-b/ 
 I know nothing about Pokemon  
 Gm

Mempools will clear by tomorrow no worries  
 Bold prediction! 
 What's the best eye candy halving dashboard? 
 I have a joke about trickle down economics, but most of you won't get it. 
 There are some degens who are trading testnet coins and other testnet tokens for real value and they're upset about my griefing attack this week.

They've been taunting me that I'm wasting my resources on the attack.

Little do they know that the 563 blocks I've mined on the past 3 days only cost me $0.03 worth of electricity. 😏

Nor do they suspect what's coming next! 
 Has anyone had success adding muscle while on a low carb diet? In my experience it's great for losing fat but is a huge challenge for gaining muscle.

If so, what's the trick? 
 These guys deserve to get rekt. I have plans in motion. 
 I have a theory that if a sufficiently decentralized test network remains in operation long enough, it will accrue value. 

While we can't kill testnet3, we can abandon it to the degens. 
 As a full-time VPN user you also end up becoming an expert at solving cutting edge CAPTCHAs. 
 Just posted! 
 I have the same problem with my VPS VPN.

Seems like tons of services block all data center IPs. 
 It should be borderline illegal for a server hosting provider to only offer Linux versions that are 4+ years old. Becomes a huge pain in the ass to build recent C++ software with obsolete libraries! 
 Ubuntu is 5 years IIRC  
 At least a quarter of my thoughts that I consider posting never get sent... because I decide they would leak too much information about me. 
 Do people really use phones to do all sorts of things? I think I use my phone just to listen to p... 
 Pixel Pro 50X camera zoom has resulted in me taking far more photos. 😏 
 Bitches managed to lose the other $49,500 even more than it was lost last week. It was at least appearing in the balance of one of the 401K providers. This week it's not showing up on either end!
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 In the most fiat possible resolution to this month-long ordeal, I found my account manager's boss and emailed him, explaining my frustration. An hour later and the account manager had magically fixed all the account balances. 

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 I'm just using a GPU and a special modified Bitcoin node. 😏 
 If you ever need to feel better about your romantic life, just watch Love on the Spectrum and it will cheer you right up! 

https://imdb.com/title/tt19037550/ 
 I haven't, will take a look! 
 I was told that you're supposed to mellow with age, but I feel like the older I get, the more radicalized I become from observing my government's actions. 
 Had a good time talking about the future of Bitcoin development at Harvard today. 

Damn shame the conference was sponsored by TRON. 
 I don't get paid to speak at conferences. 

I do request travel reimbursement from for-profit conferences, but not from academic conferences. 
 CoinMarketCap's community/ social network is rather odd. Many of my posts supposedly get a ton of views and reaction emojis, but never any comments that look organic.

So I did a test post recently asking for everyone to comment on the post... and it got basically no engagement.

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 Bitches have found $500 of my $50,000
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 Bitches managed to lose the other $49,500 even more than it was lost last week. It was at least appearing in the balance of one of the 401K providers. This week it's not showing up on either end!
nostr:nevent1qqsz80uaktcyn99np3pup77j9tu2xqdanqndy9nmy4sllspkp3cl98cpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfdupzpaegm8nwwpyrtrnsjv84efjtp9mhpkvfenvxs487vx8d48y28qgxqvzqqqqqqygnlh2w