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For anyone of the paranoid variety assuming the attacks were Bitcoin specific. View quoted note →

The format and contents of the file were unknown to anyone but Luke until after the reveal. The purpose of the hash isn't to keep a secret but to ensure file integrity. A salt serves no purpose in this use case. Consider wisely if this is the guy you want holding such a key role to securing your savings.

Sooo, miners aren't mining the bip110 fork because it costs too much relative to potential rewards. The big brain solution, new proof of work algorithm that requires a capex for new asics in addition to the opex of electricity. The only viable solutions are RandomX, the Monero CPU bound algorithm, or a hard coded sha256 difficulty drop and crossing your fingers people don't fire up a ton of outdated Bitcoin miners and 51% attack you. The fact that they aren't seriously considering the fact that buying new asics is a barrier doesn't look good at all.

Only Luke knows the mapping, verified he didn't change it after the fact by a file hash. So, who is going to point hash at testnet4 to make sure he doesn't rig it by mining the block himself? I bet the block is going land REAL close to that clock time. View quoted note →

The internet gives us a strange window into other people's internal state. Kinda crazy to watch other people develop an obsession that takes them across the line to delusion or mental illness in real time. Terrifying because I'm prone to obsessive behavior and it has definitely happened to me before. Mental illness is often a temporary state. People can and do get better from obsession driven bouts of mental illness. As someone who has experience with this, regular contact with people who treat you like a human being is critical to the path back. We, myself included, should keep that in mind when we run into people who are having a hard time. There is plenty of reason for their struggles in the Bitcoin space lately.

Remember when I called Luke a liar for saying it was a soft fork and I got attacked by supporters who told me I didn't understand Bitcoin? I remember.

Weeks of GPU time to enumerate the wallets ahead of time. We know the wallets were enumerated in advance because the thefts happened in chunks. Never let a good story ruin your knowledge of facts. Maybe it was an older model, maybe a manual hack or an inside job. It is extremely unlikely it was k3. View quoted note →

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For years my retired neighbors, who annoy the shit out of me with typical boomer HOA type shit, have varied the day of the week they mow. Sometimes even from week to week. They finally settled into a rhythm and each mow on the same day of the week each week. Riding around on my mower bored out of my mind I finally figured it out. They were trying to get the most days where their own lawn looked nicest. The equilibrium gives everyone 2 days. So I start thinking, I could switch days and it would ruin the whole balance. How petty can I be you ask? How bored do I get mowing you ask? 11 is pairwise coprime to 7, the interval they mow on. The least common multiple is 77. So around 2.5 months before I land back in their weekly mow rotation. Within the bounds of not mowing more often but also not letting it get so tall it becomes a big pain in the ass, I'm pretty sure 11 days is the maximally annoying interval.

Nature prefers the truth. Every time you deny the truth you risk painful even permanent consequences when reality happens anyway. If you are sure you are right, absolutely 100% certain, and everyone went the other way, why? To believe the laws of the universe were on your side and you still failed requires a moments self reflection. You could just blame everyone else for being too dumb or evil. You could question your belief about which side was really right. You could question your own approach to arguing your position. Only 2 of these offer any opportunity for personal growth.

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This looks interesting for backing up multisig wallet descriptor files and any notes for heirs about how to recover your stack.

GitHub

paperbackup/README.md at master · intra2net/paperbackup

Create a pdf with barcodes to backup text files on paper. Designed to backup ASCII-armored GnuPG and SSH key files and ciphertext. - intra2net/pape...

TIFI: Many AIs make all bugs shallow.

Remember when AI promised it would eliminate all the dev jobs? Now it turns out we need 4x as many devs just doing code security reviews full time.

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Some thoughts on spotting racists after they found their way into my replies the last few days. I'm sharing because I see some people who I've never seen post anything racist following racist accounts. Benefit of the doubt, maybe they don't have the skills to spot a modern racist. Rhetoric: The art or study of using language effectively and persuasively. That is the difference between a modern vocal racist and what many picture. They aren't happy to just be amongst themselves anymore. They are actively working on how they communicate to market their cause and beliefs to outsiders. They know which aspects of their beliefs to lead with and which to keep to themselves until later. It is active and intentional to create a slippery slope for people they are targeting. You can't change them but you can take a moment to understand how your mind works and how they exploit it to begin bringing you into their world. Top down vs bottom up reasoning. You will default to one or the other, you can overcome your default but it requires conscious effortful thought. Most neurotypical people view the world via top down reasoning by default. This means that they see a forest and their brain fills in that it must be made of individual trees. They don't really see the trees. A fake tree won't be spotted unless it is super obvious or they are carefully looking. Most neurodivergent people see the world bottom up. They see trees and if they see enough in one place their brain fills in that it must be a forest. This makes it easier to spot out of place things in the forest, though I admit it has downsides not relevant to this conversation. This is why autistic people are stereotyped for their attention to detail. They literally see details that are invisible to neurotypical people. So back to the rhetoric. They know that you won't identify as a racist (forest) on day one. You want to be a meadow because most of society dislikes forests. So they hook you on a shallow racist belief, maybe something you don't even realize has ties to racist ideas. I'm not a racist but... I'm a meadow but there is this one bush or small tree. Top down thinking allows you to see a field with a few trees on it because they are small details that would upset your top level view that this is a field. Bottom up thinking says that's a tree so that can't be a field. In that way they will try to plant one small racist belief at a time, but slowly in a way that allows you to keep saying "I'm not a racist but" until one day you wake up and all the grass is gone. Step 1 that I see over and over is attempting to use your kindness against you to get into your circle. Excluding me for being racist would be discrimination, you aren't a bigot are you? "I'm not a racist but I have a couple of racist friends." Next they'll start to push the community and family first aspects, with the quiet part being white community and white family but we'll get to that later. Who wants to break up families and local communities, not me, but they'll pretend they have a monopoly on valuing those things. So on and so on 1 little thing at a time. Each tree or bush you let them plant drops seeds they can water later. This is why effective defenses come from a hard line drawn to exclude them from your life. If you keep company with racists you can't be friends with certain other people, I'm one of those other people. So, let a racist in and lose another friend. Repeat a few times and next thing you know all your friends are racists. I'm watching who follows who as I inevitably get brigaded for this post. If you are the person following them letting them into my WoT, be warned that unfollows and blocks are coming. Choose the company you keep wisely. Depending how annoyed I feel in a couple of days I may or may not name and shame with a public list of who among my follows is still causing a problem.