If you're a hot sleeper like I am OR if you sleep with a partner who has very different temperature requirements, you'll likely benefit from an Eight Sleep mattress topper.
The machine learning algorithms run on their servers and benefit from collecting large data sets.
AFAIK you can use it just fine without WiFi I a subscription, you just lode our on autopilot.
That's a real post, yes. I've spoken about my journey through the scaling debates many times.
Did you know that people are allowed to change their minds? 🤔
Also, I still disagree with the/r/Bitcoin moderation policies enacted during that period. Open discourse is important for the future development of the protocol.
Some journalist is arguing that Bitcoin is fundamentally fascist because it's so good that people will have no choice but to adopt it.
We are winning harder than I thought!
It's certainly not clickbait, but neither am I claiming it's imminently necessary. My presentation outlines the long-term concerns that should be addressed.
Had a bunch of lightning payment failures trying to buy stuff from merchants in Lugano with Zeus connected to lnd.
Turning off "attempt multi path payments" seems to have fixed it.
My latest talk, on the threat of quantum computing advancements to Bitcoin, is now available.
Key takeaway: one way or another, whether we do something or do nothing, inviolable properties of Bitcoin will eventually be violated.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MTUzpR_mxAg
Per step 8: If applicable, repeat steps 3-7 for the Mobile Key.
You tap on the mobile key and then tap Public Keys.
Alternatively, you can set up a watch only wallet in sparrow quite easily with the descriptor.
To view and save the wallet descriptor for your vault in the Casa app, on the "Receive BTC" screen just tap on the "..." options button in the upper right and you'll see the toggle between viewing a single address and the full wallet descriptor.
Short sighted view. In order for Bitcoin to support more sovereign users it will require a variety of protocol improvements.
Otherwise mass adoption will mean most people only hold IOUs with trusted third parties.
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/
That would be a tricky consensus change. I think it would be easier to implement additional safety limitations per Rusty's Great Script Restoration project.
That feeling when you wrestle with GPT for hours to develop a complex formula to model a system and you keep telling GPT that's it's wrong. Only to eventually realize that you had some incorrect assumptions from the very beginning and GPT correctly ignored them...
My long-term Bitcoin concerns mostly revolve around apathy.
What if not enough people care to self custody?
What if not enough people care to enforce the rules by running nodes?
What if not enough people care to put in the hard work seeking consensus for improving Bitcoin?
The most important thing is that we continue discussing Bitcoin. The exchange rate is merely a SIGNAL that we have done well SO FAR.
TradFi folks don't care about sovereignty and will gaslight us into believing it's impossible. I'll be pushing back on those narratives in the coming weeks.
Widespread reports that BlueSky is down, presumably unable to handle the latest influx of refugees from X after the latest announcement of changes to blocking functionality.
That feeling when you procrastinated working on a half hour keynote until 2 days before the deadline, then navigate to your slides folder to start a new file only to find that you created 95% of the presentation 9 months ago.
As the cost of launching payloads continues to drop we should expect to see decentralized networks and DAOs expand beyond Earth's gravity well and out of reach of nation states. Blockstream Satellite was just the first proof of concept.
H/T Daniel Suarez for exploring this idea in Critical Mass
Pretty annoying to get a perfect sleep score on my Eight Sleep but a poor score on Oura because it thought the couple hours I spent on the couch watching a movie was me attempting to sleep.
There are numerous clues to Satoshi's identity that are unpublished and closely held secrets by those who have stumbled across them.
Even those of us who have researched Satoshi deeply dare not share them with each other lest they be leaked.
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There are numerous clues to Satoshi's identity that are unpublished and closely held secrets by those who have stumbled across them.
Even those of us who have researched Satoshi deeply dare not share them with each other lest they be leaked.
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If you've got to get up early for a commitment and don't want to get stuck somewhere away from home base with a restroom emergency, coffee + nicotine is a hack to get the bowels moving ASAP!
Thoughts on Trezor Safe 5 and Ledger Flex:
I like the UX improvements on both devices.
Nice improvements to Trezor's security model with Safe 3 and Safe 5. The addition of a secure element mitigates the old physical seed extraction vulnerability. Also, the chip in the Safe 5 mitigates glitching attacks and has additional anti-tamper features.
Safe 5 screen is slick and touchscreen + haptic feedback work exactly as I'd expect.
Ledger flex e-ink screen is also nice and I really hope the longevity of it is better than what we saw on Nano S devices with many experiencing screen failure after a few years.
On the complex bitcoin transaction signing performance side, Safe 5 is the fastest Trezor yet and is only exceeded by BitBox02.
Ledger, on the other hand, is looking to have worse signing performance than the Nano S Plus. SAD!
Props to both Ledger and Trezor for shipping new hardware that is compatible with existing APIs and SDKs. As a result, these devices were automatically usable with Casa's software!
"This is going to be very funny when you put this into the documentary and a bunch of bitcoiners watch it."
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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)
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