Light the Daniel Batten signal!

Fellow stacker, if I wanted to start learning about devices such as the Avalon Nano 3 and home mining etc. do you have any resources you can recommend?

“ Screven County, Georgia made history on November 5, 2024 when it became the first county in the United States to use the Bitcoin blockchain to safeguard the results of its elections.

The Screven County Board of Elections worked with Simple Proof, a U.S. company that protects digital records using the Bitcoin blockchain, to ensure that their election results couldn’t be altered.”

Very cool. If there is one thing I don’t think people appreciate is its ability to act as an independent system of record immune to the influence of, ell, everyone and thing. I expect to see a lot more of this in the future.

In a similar vein as AI and deepfakes continue to proliferate I could see a person’s reputation being what differentiates them from all the fakes done in their name. And they would prove their work belongs to them, by signing digital artefacts whatever they may be with their public key, a bit like a big, public, voluntary identity provider, not dissimilar to how pgp works.

I’m sure this is happening already but I can see it grow in the future as it gets more and more difficult to confirm who said what and attempting to distinguish what a person actually said vs what 100 extremely accurate deep fakes made it look like a person said. Hopefully still many years away from that though.

Thanks for posting!

Thank you

Wasn’t there a dev who came out early last year or so and declared lightning fundamentally broken? I did not know enough to understand the criticism but whatever happened to that person and their argument? Whatever they were claiming it hasn’t seemed to slow down lightning whatsoever.

At the cost of a few brain cells I skimmed through the comments section of that article and came across someone claiming "that even confiscating every single penny of every millionaire and billionaire in the US WOULD NOT SOLVE THE SPENDING PROBLEM!!!"

Does anyone know if this claim is true? On the surface I suppose it is, though I don't know how many hundreds of billions the richest in the US possess. Maybe the govt can discuss a taking out a loan with Wall Street, who apparently have $10 trillion under their management.

Been this way for a long time but seemingly getting worse. While not on this specific topic, Nik Bhatia and Caitin Long had an interesting chat that was published two days ago on Nik’s YouTube channel The Bitcoin Layer that definitely covers similar territory as your post.

Unbelievably they are both still around. Nick went into semi-retirement but is back and will be facing Vicent Luque before the end of the year. Nate has been fighting more regularly but is currently a free agent. Why either are still fighting is entirely beyond me.

I would zap you but I think I need it more than you. What an awesome story, I like many things about Bitcoin but the potential to harvest energy for mining is a story I think is going to emerge as the most incredible narrative as the years progress. And what you’re demonstrating here is a crucial part of that, genuinely pioneering work. Love it you should show Dan Batten, or let me know and I can share it with him. Keep on keeping on 🤜

Batman, well theoretically. In my days of reading comic books of ‘the world’s greatest detective’ rarely was he conducting any detective work of note.

I should really read an Agatha Christie Peroit.

What is the source of the text?

got it! truly awesome, thank you so much!

Awesome thanks, I replied to your other comment but all good it is a Firefox email relay which I remove and regenerate periodically so no worries 👍

Awesome thank you! 2uxbemkuo@mozmail.com

my dawg I have been after an Alby invite for months, if you still have it I would greatly greatly appreciate an invite!

Looks awesome, but before that how is the Alby Wallet waitlist progressing ? I have been waiting so long.

Been hearing no shortage of bad press about Mozilla recently with regards to privacy, but I have not really dug into the allegations.

Does anyone know if there is any truth to this stuff, or is it yet another attack on privacy? Afaik Mozilla and the EFF are among the few fighting the good fight.

Given he’s a kiwi we should hook him up with Daniel Battan. Actually Daniel follows me on X/Twitter maybe I should drop him a PM

I have not been following since he was elected. What would be the significance of his success to fiat?

Very interesting, thanks for posting.

interesting! Somewhat related, I heard recently, from a unreliable source, that way back in the day the introduction of the gold standard, whatever form that took, pissed off everyone who was using a silver standard. Do you know if this has any truth to it?