I never understood the tailscale obsession, honestly. View quoted note →

Be like Andrew. View quoted note →

Mike Hearn is still the second Google result for “Whiney Ragequit”

The situation in the US is bad, but it’s not *that* bad. First of all, writing a wallet where you neither make money nor host any services (i.e. a pure OS software wallet) has much more powerful defenses that didn’t come up in the TC case. Second, and importantly, this judge didn’t give any material thought to the actual question that mattered here, and will be the focus of the appeal, so it’s far from settled, see

Coin Center

Analysis: The disappointing denial of Tornado dev’s motion to dismiss

Inconsistent choices amid overlapping law skips over the serious issues at play and sets up for a dangerous precedent

Third, never underestimate the value of prosecutorial discretion. Building a wallet that is privacy-focused and where you have private messages between founders talking about Bad People using your product and you do absolutely nothing despite operating the frontend entirely centralized isn’t a good look and prosecutors decide charges based on looks. Obviously I’m not gonna personally run to take the risk operating an LSP in the US under this argument, but let’s not overstate what the actual risk is here. Finally, let’s get the law changed! The CLARITY Act already passed the house with section 109 protecting developers from these kinds of charges and draft language from the senate has even stronger protections! The senate is in recess, so now’s a great time to go to a town hall and harass your senators! …or at least make a phone call. Look up the numbers at saveourwallets.org View quoted note →

Next question, when are y’all gonna offer self-custody instead of something fully trusting a third party (while lying about it)? View quoted note →

Most of my opinions, honestly. Someone’s always gotta hate 🤷‍♂️ View quoted note →

Me in 2011: this bitcoin thing is cool but I really want to build a nice computer, let me sell a few coins to buy parts. Me in 2025: this lightning this is cool, I can use it to buy nice computer parts. Some things never change, I guess.

On the software wallet side, *two* wallets have already stepped up and merged code that will claim the bounty! Given it was in less than ten days I'll be paying both of them out. That still leaves the bounty for hardware wallets, however. If you're a hardware wallet developer, now is a great time to dig into BIP 353. There's a few software wallets that will be including proofs for you, so its time to start validating and get the great UX benefit that comes with it! View quoted note →

Underrated fact: if there’s not enough demand for (truly) censorship-money, Bitcoin fails. Not just people won’t use it and it’ll fade (which is true), but literally someone’s gotta pay the miners, and there’s no indication anything but a real demand for censorship-resistant money will do.

I still think about how one of the very first academic papers ever written about bitcoin predicted it would fail because there’s no incentives to run a node and thus no one would and then transactions wouldn’t relay.

The CLARITY Act passed with section 110 intact. Y’all know what to do…. It’s time to call your senators! saveourwallets.org has the numbers, get to it! View quoted note →