If humans manage to digitize themselves and live on a network in which their essence has no single point of failure, will they finally be able to achieve freedom from government since there won't be a monopoly on violence?
I'm not so sure about your claim that fleshers will be necessary. Seems to me that digitized humans ought to be able to project their will into meatspace by controlling robots / network connected machines.
As much as I want the bitcoin exchange rate to moon, as it would benefit me personally and my business commercially...
part of me wants it to stay stuck at 58k just to splatter egg in the faces of all the price predictors.
In the past 2 months I've tripled my testosterone, halved my cholesterol, and lost 4 inches off my belly with the aid of various peptides. Will have more results in 2 months regarding body composition.
My favorite part about operating a responsible disclosure program is all the drive-by Indian "security researchers" who copy paste OWASP best practices and then go silent when you ask them to provide a practical demonstration that their reported vulnerability is actually exploitable against our infrastructure. 🙄
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I love how X will often simply refuse to send DMs that include a link, even if it's in a long-running conversation.
And the error will innocuously say "message failed to send" but of course when I remove the link it delivers just fine.
OP_CAT has been live on Bitcoin Cash (and Liquid IIRC) for years.
Please demonstrate how dangerous it is by exploiting the weakness you claim those networks have adopted.
Will be interesting to see what the new Linkin Park album is like.
Sadly, there will never be another Chester Bennington, who was arguably their greatest asset.
For some reason Parker thinks nostr isn't censorship resistant because it doesn't have PoW. He probably doesn't know there is a PoW NIP. He also probably hasn't considered that nostr's tight integration with lightning can act as a form of PoW (imposing economic costs on certain actions.)
I'm starting to suspect that one reason some Bitcoiners are bearish on nostr is because they are stuck in the mindset that distributed networks have to guarantee message delivery, message permanence, and thus form consensus around that.
They don't understand that nostr network fragmentation is actually flexibility.
Sure, whether or not you can convince the attacker is not relevant to the security of the funds.
If your physical security has been compromised, they may torture / kill you regardless. In most cases it seems physical attackers prefer to get in and out quickly without getting law enforcement on their tail for homicide.
You said that the funds had to go to a specific address after the timelock. It's not currently possible to place forward-looking restrictions upon your funds. That requires us to activate some form of covenants.
Just got locked out of one of my credit cards for daring to request a balance transfer while using a VPN (which I've done many times before) and their system doesn't support sending one time codes to my virtual phone number. Now I get to wait 2 to 3 weeks for snail mail authentication. 🙄
Upon closer review it appears that the only Yubikeys with firmware version 5.5 were the Yubikey Bio, so I bet the total number of those in the wild are rather low.
Tried wakeboarding for the first time. It's quite challenging - took me 7 tries to get up!
Also got some mild rope burn on my hands 😬
Will try again, preferably with gloves!
You don't have to double your attack surface to keep them separate. Just create different subaccounts (account derivation paths) within the same key set.
The OP_CAT Research Fund, sponsored by StarkWare, is a $1 million fund aimed at advancing research regarding the pros and cons of activating OP_CAT on Bitcoin.
The OP_CAT Research Fund committee is seeking to fund proposals that present novel research projects regarding OP_CAT activation on Bitcoin. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: the security implications of OP_CAT activation on Bitcoin, OP_CAT-based computing and locking script logic on Bitcoin, applications and protocols utilizing OP_CAT on Bitcoin, and general research related to OP_CAT and its impact.
https://starkware.co/submission-proposals/
I just hope Trump's high yield DeFi thing doesn't become the Terra Luna of 2025.
For the Trump team's sake, they'd better win the election or they're likely to have the SEC all over them.
It amuses me to no end to see Bitcoiners acting like Buttcoiners with regard to nostr.
I do wonder how much of this can be attributed to maximalist culture making people more close minded and pessimistic.
I'm not interested in all the ways nostr can fail.
I'm interested in all the ways it can succeed.
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