Interests: #bitcoin, rust ๐ฆ, mobile dev, FOSS, mesh networking, accounting, economics, freedom.
Joined Aug 2018
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Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum ... Invented by Hedy Lamarr
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In case anyone was wondering.. all the little workers have the same smiling "you'll be happy" face.. except the scowling schoolmarm in the center (where new citizens are meant to take a picture with the American flag)
I attended a US naturalization ceremony today in the plaza of our county federal building... the motif of the surrounding relief and men's central jail as a background were disturbing but seem somehow appropriate ๐คจ
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In terms of adoption, Bitcoin has roughly the same users as the Internet had in 1997.
But Bitcoin's growing faster. Next 4 years on current path will bring Bitcoin users to 1b people, that's the equivalent of 2005 for the Internet.
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Happy birthday to the late great Murray N Rothbard
Imagine a world where Rothbard was as popular and widespread as ingrates like Che Guevara.
https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Murray-N-Rothbard-Anyone-But-Che-by-agnumasalis/31051719.GDEN5
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A letter for my daughter about these early years of #bitcoin
To be read it in 2052.
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@ctdl21 @fartface2000 Love this and reminded me a piece I wrote last year for @baby_btc to read in the future about all I wanted her to know about the early years of #bitcoin
https://citapress.org/#books/cypherpunk-women/web
cc @La__Cuen
https://twitter.com/mir_btc/status/1363605542283997193
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A very simple way to make time-decaying multi-sigs using bdk-cli.
Really shows how powerful descriptors can be! ๐๐ https://twitter.com/notmandatory/status/1365725548362690560
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From 2011 to 2021 you can see that consumer prices increased 19% on average. Everything got more expensive except communication. In 10 years we had about the same amount of inflation as Nigeria in 2020. We are all losing purchasing power.
Just published a new blog post with @thunderB on how to use the @bitcoindevkit to create and spend from a descriptor based #Bitcoin wallet using two different spending policies. Check it out! https://bitcoindevkit.org/blog/2021/02/spending-policy-demo/
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On the monster called KYC.
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KYC - Worst. Policy. Ever.
1. Kills Privacy
2. Kills Economy
3. Kills Innovation
4. Kills People
5. Kills Freedom
Cost: $2 Trillion+ annually
Accomplishes: Nothing
https://twitter.com/EdanYago/status/1364977756761698306
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Academia: Ha! Bitcoin might work in practice but it doesn't work in theory! Thus, it's useless.
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Reminder to everyone here, come to bitdevs Austin tomorrow
https://www.meetup.com/Austin-Bitcoin-Developers/events/276410251/
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Dropping this for you folks on here. Onwards!
https://reason.com/video/2021/02/05/bitcoin-is-protecting-human-rights-around-the-world/
@gladstein you might find the quote in this thread interesting, the mainstream media certainly won't cover it ...
... and there are plenty of other cringe moments if you watch the rest of the video. I can't stop thinking about the "banality of evil ".
Interests: #bitcoin, rust ๐ฆ, mobile dev, FOSS, mesh networking, accounting, economics, freedom.
Joined Aug 2018
