Cool to see different ways to get randomness.

How far would you trust the randomness generated by a device like a laptop, phone, or hardware wallet?

100%

Yeah, my understanding is that Core and libbitcoin do verification differently. Voskuil goes into quite a bit of detail about the differences on Vlad's recent podcast.

So most recent improvements to IBD times are based on "just trust me, bro." That doesn't seem great.

Very nice!

The scroll is a new way to encounter it. And I kind of like it. The flying headings are a little distracting, though.

Here's an html version of the white paper.

When you put it that way...

Respect.

Even so, the building he refers to here is building competing implementations (non Core). There is a very reasonable argument that this sort if building is desperately needed in bitcoin. So I do agree with you.

It was only one mention, and hey, more power to him, but I think it exposes the message to criticism by muddying it.

Calling for support of alternate implementations is interesting.

Maybe. If so, he probably should have used fewer words and not mentioned Synonym.

Pierre Rochard's reply goes hard (although, Pierre goes on to defend saylor quite a bit, which I find surprising).

You can really hear @BitcoinErrorLog channeling Voskuil here.

I'm a little skeptical of what he's trying to do here. Saylor obviously doesn't care about the real value proposition of bitcoin (anymore than people like Lummis or Trump). So what is the goal of a public letter to Saylor?

Wow! Thanks a bunch! Meme contests are super fun!

I've used Craigslist to buy and sell plants and furniture. I've rented apartments and found roommates on it. A long while ago I worked at a salvage yard and sold a ton of stuff on it.

Also the free section on Craigslist is pretty awesome.

I'm loving these reports. Keep up the good work!

(I spent a bit of time in Bologna some while ago, but never made it to Rovigo -- there's always next time!)

You just copied Rizzo's thread.

gimp is the best.