SuperTestnet struggling to demo during y'alls #zapathon

If anyone at BBB wants to hang out, reach out! I should be at the Hilton later in the afternoon.

Let's go gay camping! We have rainbow campfires, baked jellybeans, and mushroom hotdogs. And the company is fabulous, honey. #artstr #aiart #midjourney #gay

Slides for the presentation I'm currently giving at PlebLab Startup Day: https://cryptoquick.com/files/How%20RGB%20Colors%20Coins%20in%20Secret.pdf

If you're not mad as hell about inflation, we're probably not going to agree on anything that actually matters. 8% inflation is nearly a month's worth of wages, lost. All so the rich can continue to borrow money they'll never have to pay back, and the government can spend money they don't have and don't have to ask for. Inflation is the most regressive tax there is. It concentrates wealth into the already wealthy, and robs purchasing power from those who can least afford it. I could give a shit if you're cool with the fact that I'm a man married to another man, or that I identify as being a mountain lion person on the internet. That shit doesn't matter when people can't afford to feed themselves because a weekly grocery bill seems to regularly exceed $100, when it didn't used to. Touchy-feely rainbow-washed identity politics doesn't solve this problem, and neither does socialism. In fact, socialism makes the problems that lead to price inflation far worse, in several ways. I've also gotta say, I've felt way more accepted for being who I am in the community of Bitcoiners than I've felt amongst those who don't understand money. If you know what a Rai stone is, chances are, you're alright.

There's value in both appreciation and skepticism, but the value depends upon the quality of either.

A new release always gets the adrenaline going! Not sure if it's getting any easier, but we're definitely getting better at it. The product feels like it's maturing now, there's so many features that were once placeholders that now actually work. The team pushed hard on this one.

In cryptography, timing can be incredibly important. Some things are made to be intentionally slow, like the argon2id cryptographic hashing function, to consume lots of memory and computation to mitigate brute force attacks. Some things are made to be faster, like signature algorithms like secp256k1. This doesn't compromise security, but it does improve node syncing performance, and reduces hardware requirements. Finally, some things are built to take a constant amount of time, especially when handling keys or other secrets, because certain inputs can reveal the secret depending on how long the operation takes. Ensuring code gets executed in constant time gets complex and often this guarantee can be broken as compilers update over time. To humans, it looks like secure code, but computers just see inefficient code. Cryptography is complex and there's a lot to know. This knowledge is built up over a lifetime. There's still a lot I don't know, perhaps some cryptographer is cringing even as I write this, but it's just what I've been able to gather so far.

"Important? Yes! Critical? Absolutely. I would go so far as to say that Superconducting Fiber alone makes our present economy possible." - CEO Nwabudike Morgan, MorganLink 3DVision Live Interview -- "With sufficiently high amounts of proof of work, the less there is a difference between energy and money." - Satoshi Nakamoto, 2023

Could you imagine if Coinbase loses their court case with the SEC? What would that do to businesses that built on specific platforms and ecosystems? This existential threat can be avoided if they instead dedicate to building on Bitcoin layers, but that's not an easy, beaten path.

Would it make sense for there to be a Nostr NIP for people who follow a user to also subscribe to a blocklist of users they've marked as spammers? Such a list would need more nuance than those who are just muted, of course. And it should be overridden if you're already following a user marked as spam by someone popular. If popular accounts abused this feature, social pressure could factor in, since people might just unfollow them instead. Just a thought after seeing some of these spam accounts.

I'VE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEARS

I hadn't really taken the idea of aliens being real seriously up until just last week, and I know I should be skeptical of what the government says, but the government is made of lots of different people with different ideas of how it should be run, so who knows, maybe it's about time we know. I also do like the idea of us not being alone, so long as the aliens are nice. But ever since the UAP hearings, I sensed a rabbithole I was behind on. After watching Matthew Pines's excellent interview on WBD, twice, I bought Ross Coulthart's book, In Plain Sight, on my Kindle. I'm about 50 pages in, and I have to say, this is a really good overview. I like the format, it's a good way to get caught up on some of these official historical records. I'm also getting caught up on the terminology... Writing things down. Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon. Non-Human Intelligence. Exotic Technology of Non-Earth Origin. Powerful terms. I'm keeping my eyes open and following closely. I'm not sure I'll be 100% until I actually see the aliens, not just spacecraft, but I think it's safe to say I'm pretty convinced, there might be something there, and I actually think that's pretty exciting. I don't think they're a threat, though it's very possible the USG bungled first contact. If I had to guess, and this is just a newcomer to this space speculating, they wanted to avoid accountability and so they kept it a secret, along with help from the CIA. But after nearly 80 years, they got really good at keeping this secret. But perhaps strategically, they primed the public through science fiction, so we might have an idea for what we were in for. Or perhaps it was just filmmakers with sources on the inside who wanted to speak out in their own way. Or maybe it's just people's imaginations subconsciously following what might actually be a logical conclusion, we are not alone. It's hard to know without further evidence. So, I'll continue reading and evaluating. Fascinating stuff! #UAPNostr #UAPHearing #UAPs