It’s so annoying having to remove emdashes from text I write to avoid people thinking I just had an LLM do it.

I’m thinking my btc++ talk should be titled “Requiem for a Decentralized Bitcoin”. WDYT nostr?

TIL it’s impossible to set up nginx as a caching reverse proxy if you want to serve files that are larger than the available disk space, at least without writing per-file rules to disable caching for large files.

The fun thing is to watch LLMs struggle through getting JavaScript crap to run or even build. Not only is it a trash ecosystem but the error messages are so useless the combined knowledge of stackoverflow can’t even help you. View quoted note →

One day you wake up and realize you never made the time for that extra family visit and it’s too late.

Damn the Proto team killed it. I can’t imagine buying a Bitmain rig after this. View quoted note →

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 →

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.

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 →

Sheesh, how do I sell my name and get a windfall from a bitcoin treasury company?

Mining centralization is still horrible. Most users prefer non-private custodial wallets. Next gen wallets are lying about their trust model in marketing and people are eating it up. Things aren’t terrible but if you’re this bullish you aren’t paying attention to anything but price. View quoted note →

This is not an acceptable UX. Too many wallets keep doing it, stop. View quoted note →

I am once again begging wallets to come up with a better user experience than having to select between a list of technologies users have never heard of on the receive screen. One. QR. Code. Nothing more. You don’t need more, I promise.