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Code is shipped with any device that contains processing units, so unless you can verify that the code only does what it's supposed to do, there's a basic level of trust that you have to accept. So then the question goes past just startOS. If they didn't have an OS and gave you a usb drive with all the linux packages that you could independently checksum, you'd still need to trust all the authors of the code that's gonna run on that machine, including firmware. So, you're right, they might as well include a copy of the blockchain, as long as you could reliably verify it. And people generally aren't going to be putting their life savings on these devices since they're hot wallets. An attacker isn't going to strike it rich before word gets out about the supply-chain attack.
I think for the same reason you can't just bittorrent the blockchain, even if you somehow trusted the source. You basically need to replay all transactions in order to rebuild the spendable state, so that you can verify future transactions. By randomly getting the blocks from different network peers, you're corroborating the integrity of what's being transferred. But there are proposed optimizations: https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/assumeutxo/
Seems like you could just spot check your chain and UTXO set though.
Before blaming others
"No explanation. No warning. No justification. Only a github email notification."
That's not blame. He is describing the problem. Why are you defensive about this? You seem to know something about this problem.
"Wuddya think of that B2 bomber flying over your head? That was pretty fun, huh? You probably never thought you'd see one of those so up close and personal, amirite right Vladdy-boy?"
Getting there. I've asked for this before, but the font is way too small. Can you please focus on that before any other UX improvements?
Just updated iOS version and didn't see it. I'll definitely close my account if they start charging people without their knowledge.
I don't think Swan's a bad company. They've just made some bad decisions choosing partners, afaik.
This must be for the Vault (multisig) product, which Unchained charges $250/yr for. Their original service is still free if you auto-withdraw, which is the only reason many went with Swan to begin with. They're bitcoin only and they encourage self-custody. Where did you clip that from?
Another way forward is meeting in meatspace. Cyberspace will become less useful for social cohesion and collective efforts.
Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.... and divide by 10 online. This is why (state-free) education will be critical as AI takes over more. Our bullshit detectors are going to be taxed.
Unfortunately these are all chock full of inscriptions.
Here's a consolidation of that retardom:
https://mempool.space/tx/302746867b35c97ebfb7997e1cea5da44d46d6ff2db3a92c1653c4173f158c40
Oh man, was this painful. Molly White is a broken clock: right all the time when it comes to crypto and the political opportunism regarding bitcoin, but always wrong on bitcoin. Sorry, I couldn't resist trying to make sense of her backdrop:
Dave on no cap gains for bitcoin: "why would anybody stick money into a mutual fund if they could stick money into bitcoin and have weird upsides and no taxes?"
I bet this guy has a coinjar he takes to his local supermarket every few months. He thinks that the government should get a cut of the "weird" appreciation from a money designed to undo all the bad things government has done to money! Or he's just simping for his tradfi sponsors. Either way, he hasn't spent six seconds considering the morality of double taxation.
There are so many moral gray areas that you almost need to think of it in terms of an efficient or Pareto frontier where high freedom and low responsibility are tradeoffs (with finance, this is high reward vs. low risk of an asset allocation). For every increase in individual sovereignty, a commensurate increase of personal responsibility is required. As long as participants can freely move along that curve (move to different jurisdictions) and thrive, there shouldn't be any conflicts. If they're far below the curve, that's when you get death, disease, societal collapse, etc.
- Just be you with everybody. When others show up, just go around and introduce them to everyone you just met to make them feel welcome and to help engrain their names into your noggin (sucks to be the last one!). Then just say a little about yourself and then ask what brought them to the meetup.
- I've never had any problems getting newcomers to get engaged in the convo. Most of us work regular jobs and have friends and family who never want to talk about bitcoin, so we're all just sponges for other perspectives and experiences. Sometimes it's hard to get people to talk about one specific thing though. Don't have any advice there except sending out an agenda before hand, but I'd just keep it very short.
- We struggle with this. Our plan is to start having separate technical meetups because when we all get together after work, people just want to have fun eating and drinking. But we haven't gotten very far there yet.
- Let things flow at first. Probably important to gauge the experience levels of everyone there so you can select interesting topics in subsequent meetings.
- Keep background questions to a minimum to avoid giving off a scammer or fed vibe. Don't wear anything with a bitcoin logo; bitcoin adjacent stuff is going to help ppl find you though.
Regarding the tab and paying in bitcoin, you or some other volunteer should offer to pay the whole tab in fiat (use something like fold or gemini card to get sats back) and use something like this app my friend made. You can scan the tab with your camera and then split the items for each attendee who wants to repay you in sats. It handles the tip as well. Very slick when the OCR works (~90%). Requires an LN address though. They get experience paying on LN and privacy from the fiat panopticon, you get their sats, and the network gets stronger.