William Casarin @[email protected]

bitcoin core code contributors need to step up their game on patch quality. There's a reason linux has such strict standards for patches. They're constrained by reviewers, not coders. Smaller, more logical patches with detailed descriptions is going to become more and more important going forward.

So many PRs have commits with no descriptions in them. I'm looking at https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/13947/commits right now. how do you even review this, there's no explanation at all, just vague descriptions.

@samourai_official is there somewhere I can download the apk directly? I don't have the play store on my phone.

I guess bitcoin is still trying to cross the early adopters to early majority chasm.

"it was recommended to me by one of the VCs that invested in my first startup - unfortunately a bit late. it was like reading the post-mortem for my startup, except it was all written before we ever started.

_Don't do this, because that will happen._ Oh, crap, that's what we did, and that's what happened. [..] When we finally turned things around, I gave all the credit directly to this book. It is that good."

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20180724

This seems interesting (via apenwarr):

**Q: Why is your multi-year epic project still not profitable?**

Because you don't understand how the "technology adoption life cycle" (the one
with visionaries, early adopters, mainstream, laggards, etc) really works. The
ultimate book on this topic is: "Crossing the Chasm, 3rd Edition: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers" http://a.co/d/f3eDLqW

Why isn't blake2 used more...

maybe I should get around to figuring out why I have a balance discrepancy between trezor and my full node. perhaps I didn't derive+import all the correct addresses... I wish it was easier to import bip44/49 wallets, right now I have to use a script...

I haven't been following the BCH clownshow but apparently they're hard forking again already? Who would have guessed that.

A bit nitpicky but mostly fair criticism of The Bitcoin Standard. https://twitter.com/twhirty_/status/1031576875678801920?s=19