I've tried pretty much every form of milk over the years for my protein smoothies and eventually settled on Silk Cashew milk for the following reasons:
1. 0 cholesterol
2. 0 sugar
3. 0 carbs
4. No seed oils (many plant based milks have them)
5. No lecithin emulsifiers (also common in plant based milks)
Ever fuck up your coffee because you haven't had your coffee yet?
This morning while operating in the dark on autopilot I out the coffee mug in the machine... upside down. What a mess.
In the coming months I expect to make a lot of people upset by discussing controversial changes to the Bitcoin protocol.
Mind you, I will be bringing these issues up because I believe that it's more important to address them while there's no current crisis than it is to avoid triggering the ossifiers.
What I believe absolutely matters with regard to what I decide to say in public.
What we collectively believe is what matters with regard to the evolution of Bitcoin.
Exactly - we don't have much data on this defensive measure and you can't predict how an attacker will react to being given a decoy wallet. I'm not a big fan of speculative security measures. 🤷🏻♂️
In the 1990s I used to write the HTML for my web site by hand.
I still do, because I've yet to find a WYSIWYG editor that doesn't produce bloated code.
Cybercriminals who hit a jackpot payday tend to fall victim to the same issue that befalls lottery winners and professional athletes.
Nobody seems to understand just how easy it is to blow a hundred million dollars.
German culture instills a strong sense of following the rules in its citizens. I wonder if that's one of the reasons why so many Germans are Bitcoiners...
Eastern TN, Western NC, upstate SC are rekt. Hundreds of roads in Western NC simply no longer exist.
The state and federal response has been ongoing, with over 1,000 personnel, including National Guard assets, deployed according to FEMA. A disaster declaration for NC has been made but crews cannot traverse over collapsed bridges and 100+ foot ravines.
Main interstates I-40 and I-26 have collapsed sections. Numerous state roads have washed away.
Many secondary roads into neighborhoods are effectively eviscerated for miles. Survivors can't get out, help can't get in.
It's hard to get into Asheville. A 30 minute drive take 8-12 hours with many roads not existing, the remaining gas stations swamped. To get into smaller towns in the mountains is a day's journey if possible at all. National Guard trucks with food and water have to stop at collapses.
Similar to Hurricane Katrina, where boats and helicopters were the only viable means of aid delivery in the first days, air support is currently the most effective way to connect Western NC to the outside world. There are a limited amount of helicopters operating. Although the water has receded, the roads are still impassable.
This is still very much an active search and rescue mission. There is a high number of missing (in the thousands per state media) because people can't get in touch with loved ones. We saw this after Hurricane Ian as well, and expect that number will drop significantly when phone service/internet returns. For death toll and recovery, the final number will likely not be known for at least a month.
The lack of media presence on the ground isn't for lack of trying - reporters can't get into many areas for the same reason rescue can't. Even if they could, communication systems are destroyed / offline.
This is not going to be a quick recovery for anyone. Some rural parts of Western NC may never be rebuilt.
Just because a cryptographic protocol is secure doesn't mean a given implementation of it is secure.
Just because an implementation of a cryptographic protocol is secure doesn't mean the way its users use it is secure.
"Strong encryption has mixed effects.
PGP is in the Al Qaeda training manual. I wish that wasn't the case, but it's the price we must pay."
- Phil Zimmermann
"Encryption alone is not enough to ensure freedom. We must organize politically against autocrats.
End to end encryption allows us to safely do just that."
- Phil Zimmermann
As an introvert I don't look forward to socializing and networking at conferences, but this weekend resulted in me establishing direct comms with Phil Zimmermann so I've got that going for me.
If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude more than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace.
We ask not your counsels nor your arms.
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.
May your chains rest lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
- Samuel Adams
In Frankfurt for four days, speaking at Proof of Work Summit about my research into potential shady mining pool activity.
Next weekend I'll be in Antwerp to speak at Future of Bitcoin with a spicy controversial consensus topic!
Be thankful for naughty nostriches who spam the network!
Attacks will come one way or another. Best to incentivize hardening infrastructure earlier rather than later.
3 years ago I recorded a half hour episode about Bitcoin with William Shatner but the show was cancelled a month later before the episode aired. One of my greatest disappointments is that it will probably never see the light of day. 🥺
10 hours ago a Satoshi era miner spent coinbase outputs from block 2247, 2401, 2455, 2486, and 2690.
None of these blocks fall into the Patoshi Pattern (which is considered likely to be Satoshi's coins.)
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