My Bitcoin node infrastructure upgrade for 2025 is nearing completion. I know I promised a write-up on the particulars of the design. However, this would be such poor operational security that I would have to pass it up.

100pro agree to your comments on sponsors going south. V4V is the way. Love your show! I hope I find a way to just boost using straight forward lightning. Love my non-v2 podcasting app.

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Working with ChatGPT is like working with an optimistic colleague who takes one step at a time and takes feedback really well. This is me and ChatGPT writing a little Rust program that calculates the final seedword for a set of 11 or 23. The draft was straightforward; if the code failed to compile, I would poke back and get these replies. It is funny how it would say, "You are slicing..." when the code was written by ChatGPT just five minutes ago. However, with a bit of tweaking, I got a working program. - Ah, good catch! That’s due to a change in the crate structure in the newer versions of bip39. The MnemonicType was moved or renamed. - Ah yes — another subtle change in the bip39 crate! - Ah! Got it — thanks for catching that. The issue here is that in the newer bip39 crate versions, Language is an enum, and its word list is not accessed via .wordlist() anymore. - Ah yes — this error means you're slicing a string (&bits[..entropy_bits_required]) at a character index that doesn’t exist. Let's break it down...

Wenn ich richtig gerechnet habe, dann beträgt die Masse aller bisher ausgegebenen Bitcoin zusammen um die 30 kg (

Wie schwer ist Bitcoin? – Bitcoin Weesen

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What do you Bitcoiners think of tailscale? Is this software I should consider as part of my Bitcoin setup?

"Imagine being an expert in the very fields that overlap Bitcoin and getting it wrong not once but continuously over several years in front of a large audience - and costing your family generational wealth along the way. Although bitcoin proponents often carry bias-inducing bags of bitcoin, bitcoin critics often carry much bigger bags of lost opportunity. But unlike bitcoin proponents who can sell their bitcoin for fiat currency at any time, bitcoin critics can't unload their opportunity costs. It's too late. They'd have to change the past. Opportunity costs, like diamonds, are forever." - copied from "Resistance Money" by @Andrew M. Bailey, @Craig Warmke, and @Bradley Rettler

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The most significant risk to Bitcoin is a behavioral change in the guardians of our current financial system, which has existed since 1971. If they adopted a transparent, fair, impartial, reasonable, competent, and apolitical approach to managing FIAT, this could significantly delay the adoption of Bitcoin. Otherwise, LFG team #Bitcoin.

Today I sold my MG Magna L-Type. The car was built in 1933 and participated in numerous hill climbs and circuit races since. I had a lot of fun with the car on the road and naturally also spent countless hours restoring/improving it with the help of a professional garage.

The opening talk by @jack mallers is a must. Great to see him build on @Gigi s thoughts. Thank both of you. View quoted note →

I just booked my flight to

Bitcoin Atlantis

A Bitcoin only conference in Madeira Island, in the middle of the Atlantic.

and am looking forward to this mega event. I was totally surprised to see that I could pay for the flight with "Miles & More" miles I collected ages ago (between 2000 and 2007). So, it seems that airline miles are a much better SoV than most shitcoins.

“The state increasingly knows everything about its citizens, while citizens know less and less about the state. In a liberal democracy, it should be the other way around.” - Alexander Grau in

Schweizer Monat

Asymmetry of information – Schweizer Monat

Knowledge is power: The state increasingly knows everything about its citizens, while citizens know less and less about the state. In a liberal dem...

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It is nice in this part of Switzerland. Hope one of these days you’ll be joining a gathering 🤙🏻 - https://www.flockstr.com/event/naddr1qqyrzvmrxsenjvfcqy8hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddaksygpakl9y928g8szt65kwsd4fsx9kayzja8364pwj9s4ncu2lzg0edupsgqqq0jes4fyav6

🙏🏻 to @Shawn for expanding my musical horizon 🪂

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