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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SaloonCat 30 Apr \ parent \ on: New Website Design for the Bolt12 implementation on Lightning protocols Design
My suspicions confirmed. Grifters and LARPers fucking everywhere.
The RSS is great, just needs a limit of the number of results returned.
Posting this feedback here in case they lurk, but glad you're finding it useful too.
Imagine smearing Tor on a lightning site. Telling people to expose their IP address when they run a node, or hoping they don't run one at all and use your shitty centralised service.
What a fucking joke.
No wonder Darthcoin is in here too with his bullshit advice.
Their small web RSS feed (https://kagi.com/api/v1/smallweb/feed) is excellent too.
Did you pay on lightning? I found the flow needed a bit of work.
I'll hazard a guess though, that it shares a source with white and carries the sense of divine purity. You could read The White Goddess by Robert Graves for more on that history.
Very interesting, as always.
I was looking at the word 'husband' a few days ago, wondering whether or how it is related to 'husbandry' in the agricultural sense. I suspected it conveyed a sense of looking after one's wife in the same way as one's cattle, but it's not so. It only means the master of the house, and it comes from the old Norse.
That replaced the word 'wer' from Old English, so previously husband and wife would have been wer and wife. The dictionary also reveals that wer only lives on in werewolf, but I'd like to see a wer revival.
I'd always understood Esquire to be a consolation prize for the sons that weren't the eldest, so those that would go without a title. That corresponds to Chinese, where Mister is XianSheng 先生, literally 'first born'. I don't know whence comes the use of Esquire for the son of a father with the same name, I think it's an American tradition.
This looks very well handled at a conceptual level. I'm sure the procedural transparency is appreciated by others as much as me, and I've no doubt the execution will fulfil the potential of the conceptual vision.
It looks like BOLT12 could be useful in this kind of architecture too. I look forward to seeing things move forward.
When great powers are in a state of direct conflict, each has a strong justification to enact powers that wouldn't be accepted under conditions of peace. Without assigning responsibility to any side in the present conflict, the lack of interest in diplomatic solutions among bitcoiners has been remarkable.
Partly, that's because you risk losing social media followers if you start commenting on areas outside your area of expertise. There is one notable exception, and his solution is for Russia to be conquered. I have no doubt that's been noticed in Moscow.
As much as I find there to be no reasonable alternative to permissionless hard money, anyone involved with Bitcoin in any way needs to consider how a people can defend itself against attacks like that which took place at Crocus City Hall. Russia believes the attackers were paid using Tron.
In the same way as I find it difficult to blame Moscow for its careful surveillance and suppression of domestic opposition with links to, and funding from, those who seek to conquer it, I find it difficult to blame Moscow alone for this decision, given the complete disinterest shown by those involved in cryptocurrency (Bitcoin in particular) in peaceful, diplomatic solutions.
Of course, it leads us all closer to a CBDC dystopia. Russia's will certainly be interoperable with China's, as will that of the US in due course. But as that process unfolds, people involved with Bitcoin will have to assume the consequences of their political naïveté, dismissal of the victims of violence and ignorance of geopolitical realities.
That seems like three distinct quotes from different works, though I don't know which.
I'm very sceptical of internet quote culture, I find it to be a huge net negative in terms of understanding. It seems that everyone points to the same few lines of the same few works and very often they make no sense outside of their context. To point to the original quote:
When you understand everything you can forgive everything.
That's taken from War and Peace and I recognised it, but it's a female character written by Tolstoy quoting a French-Swiss author who wrote:
Comprendre, c'est pardonner.
In the novel, she says (in French):
Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner.
It's usually translated as:
To understand all is to forgive all.
It helps paint the character and illustrates the influence of French thought and language in Russia at the time of Napolean's attempt to conquer it. Throughout the novel, Tolstoy is scathing as regards the Russian aristocracy and its mindless acceptance of Western European culture. Like Dostoevsky, he sees it as a mark of low self-esteem in the Russian character.
So in the end, I find reading quotes and making assessments based on them can often lead to judgements that don't reflect the author's work or intentions.
I'm fond of Tolstoy but he has a huge of body of work I haven't read. I was just very surprised at the level of vitriol, I've never seen that before regarding his work.
Yes, I think others handled the question perfectly on technical solutions. If you want to read more, I'd suggest the keywords 'bitcoin wrench attack'.
I'm suggesting that you're more likely to be hit in more subtle ways that aren't specific to Bitcoin, especially if your focus is on guarding against a wrench attack. Consider your own environment, no advice fits everyone.
When I was first learning about Bitcoin, I felt a bit like you - I didn't really trust myself to manage self-custody. Embracing it has been good for my confidence and self-respect, similar to working out.
I feel somewhat obliged to reply as I mentioned this risk here a few days ago.
Firstly, I'm much more concerned about rapidly progressing totalitarian technocracy, with the Chinese social credit system now in place, CBDCs under a frenetic pace of development and an absence of constitutional protections in almost every country apart from the US.
I think if someone wanted to target you, a much more likely attack vector would seem completely innocent to the victim, like the case of the Bettencourt family:
At the root of the family dispute was the alleged abuse of Bettencourt’s weakness by society photographer Francois-Marie Banier, who had been given “gifts” by the billionaire totalling millions of euros. The guardianship order would be recognition that Bettencourt, 88, is incapable of managing her own finances.
A fairly standard investment scam also seems a likely approach.
Kidnapping and direct theft of an asset as challenging as Bitcoin would require unusual conditions. Kidnapping is almost invariably related to organised crime and mafia activity with state involvement. Fiat targets are much simpler for obvious reasons.
If I were a Ricardo Salinas Pliego, for example, living in a country where it's a fairly common crime and having been very open about being a major hodler, I'd have serious security in place. I'm sure he does and understands the game he's playing.
If I found myself living in Sicily, I'd leave immediately, but again I don't think that level of mafia/government coordination exists in many countries.
I do believe that FATF and many national governments are creating a system that incentivises crimes like kidnapping, and I suspect that's intentional. But Bitcoin is the best solution we have.
Setup looks fine today, a bit worried about certain people but very calm.
"version": 270000,
"subversion": "/Satoshi:27.0.0/",
"networkactive": true,
"connections": 36,
"connections_in": 26,
"connections_out": 10
It's like a big hug every time I check getnetworkinfo.
This is shocking. That it's come to this shows how afraid US elected representatives are of the FBI and CIA.
These 'security services', including MI5, MI6 and GCHQ, are out of control and more dangerous than any external threat.
This was a great episode, I hope it receives the attention it deserves. I'll just draw out one part that struck me from the transcript at your link:
Matt
Now, you know, that needs to be on the roadmap in the very short term because we're in such a bad place right now. And I you know, I think the Bitcoin community needs to start thinking about what the long term plan is here if miners don't start taking these options.
Marty
Yeah. What hash function would you would you prefer to use?
Matt
Honestly, just leave SHA256, but use a 64-bit timestamp. Let's just fix the timestamp issue. Keep SHA256. Who cares? And well yeah, we'll just brick all the miners and replace them with new ones.
The next questions sensibly included the concern that it could lead to another monopoly/dominance issue, given the timing and the announcement of a new 'mining system'. At any rate, a cartel forming doesn't look as likely as some healthy competition.
I like the dynamic on ZeroHedge, where for nearly ten years now it's been consistently open to the merits of Bitcoin as an investment thesis if nothing else, and its readership no less consistently cites all the 'arguments' you mention and sticks to gold.
Yet they haven't changed their editorial line to please their readers or advertisers, and the readers haven't stopped reading. Agreement to disagree, not respectfully in the least, but consistently on all sides.