Jon Atack @[email protected]

"Why Ada is the language you want to be programming your systems with."

https://hackaday.com/2019/09/10/why-ada-is-the-language-you-want-to-be-programming-your-systems-with/

@jon That makes perfect sense.
Buzzwords and technobabble lobbied at VC's that don't understand tech. Add famous autistic geniuses, the right packaging and you got investments.

Tomorrow's Bitcoin Core PR review is on ajtown's PR 16939 "Delay querying DNS seeds if addrman is populated (p2p)", hosted by John Newbery. We also discuss merged PR 15558 by sipa -- is there a bug to fix? Full details, notes, and questions are up at

https://bitcoin-core-review-club.github.io/16939.html

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/op-ed-want-to-learn-about-bitcoin-try-the-bitcoin-core-pr-review-club

RT @[email protected]

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #65 is here:

- requests feedback on not allowing P2SH-wrapped addresses for taproot
- describes proposed changes to script resource limits in tapscript
- mentions a discussion about watchtower storage costs

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/09/25/

@Sosthene @jon Voskuil's arguments are silly IMO. He's arguing that encryption without authentication provides no value (because you can be MITM'd) but Schnelli's protocol makes it possible to detect MITM. Voskuil discounts this because he thinks nobody will attempt detection, but if even one person does, we have a more private protocol than we have today. Moreover, with encryption available, performing authentication too becomes much easier (e.g. no more need to use Tor for that).

Great session of Bitcoin #pr-review-club hosted by @jon today, besides the technical aspect (tbh honest I still feel a bit short on that) I have been particularly interested to hear Jonas Schnelli (is he here btw?) making his point about the benefits of P2P encryption, even if tbf I'm still not entirely convinced, Eric's arguments still looks quite strong to me. I still need some time to make my mind.

I set up a little bot that toot quotes from the Cypherpunks old mailing list : @Cypherpunks_mailinglist
I originally intended to make it tweet and toot at the same time, but when I created the @[email protected] account, it got locked up for "breaking the terms of use" in literally 30s. WTF? I barely created it, how could I break any rule?
And guess what? They demand a phone number to give it back to me 😂
So yeah, it will be Masto only 🖕

At tomorrow's Bitcoin Core PR review meeting, we will be looking at PR #16202 "Refactor network message deserialization" by Jonas Schnelli. It's been a high-priority PR for some time. Please review the PR and prepare the notes and questions before the meeting if you can. See you tomorrow!

https://bitcoin-core-review-club.github.io/16202.html

It's coming ...

https://thenextweb.com/security/2019/09/02/fraudsters-deepfake-ceos-voice-to-trick-manager-into-transferring-243000/

Opensource Lightning Network dashboard in R! (https://github.com/valerio-vaccaro/Lightning-dashboard) http://vaccaro.tech:3838/lightning/ #lightning #shiny #rstudio #DataScience #in #fb

@waxwing tomorrow's Bitcoin Optech newletter by @harding discusses your SNICKER proposal, would be great if you can drop by for a quick review.

https://github.com/bitcoinops/bitcoinops.github.io/pull/219/files

@waxwing
#hal, the rust-bitcoin command line tool has PSBT support. It can decode, encode, merge and soon finalize PSBTs. For finalization, it will be using Andrew Poelstra's #miniscript implementation in #Rust.
#bitcoin

It's a really interesting PR, proposing to mitigate the risk of eclipse attacks by separating block relay from transaction relay.

Starting in less than half an hour!

Today's Bitcoin Core Review club is on PR 15759 "Add 2 outbound blocks-only connections (p2p)".

Meeting is on IRC #bitcoin-core-pr-reviews channel at 1700 UTC.

Notes and questions are here:

https://bitcoin-core-review-club.github.io/15759.html

RT @[email protected]
Oh my. This is so awesome. Get temperature in Linux/Unix/macOS shell using curl command:

curl http://v2.wttr.in
curl http://v2.wttr.in/Mumbai
curl http://v2.wttr.in/London

Trump and G7 VIPs arriving today. City in lockdown. Streets empty. Walls around city center. No access to the main beach. Must wear badge if leave house and stay in this zone. 15000 police/soldiers. Warrior copter hovering overhead with snipers. Cameras. Surface to air missiles. Welcome to the G7 in Biarritz.

New release of Joinmarket (as mentioned on the weekend); it's fairly minor but if you're a user you should definitely update, and scan through the release notes too:

https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver/releases/tag/v0.5.5