Parallels was up for renewal today. ~AU$140/year Used to use it a lot when I was working in different roles but now only used for a single VM. Took a bit of effort to get up and running but switched to UTM - open source. Bit embarrassed it took so long for the switch. While I was at it I also got rid of some other software that I know has heaps of telemetry and could be considered somewhat user-hostile: - Raycast - I’d already switched back to Alfred recently - Warp - now using Ghostty

Up and running with my first production peer-observer box…

NixOS & Peer Observer on a VPS

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My 2026 in “3 M”s Meditation - create more time and space and calm the monkey brain down Math - it’s been almost 20 years since I did much math during undergrad physics and my math brain has completely atrophied Monitoring - I’m working on the Bitcoin monitoring challenge, looking to support @b10c in his heroic efforts of many years

Best gift I gave this year, a silent Bitcoin miner (designed in Perth, WA no less!!) 2 of 3 already up and hashing, the other not yet home. Recipients were super engaged and excited

Merry Christmas 🎅🏿 🎄 In for a seemingly typical Christmas Day in Perth today, 40°C

Squats are the standard It’s amazing how much better my back feels the day after doing squats

My Aussie twist on Santa for playgroup this morning…

Zaps are the standard (or at least should be)

Gonna have a decent crop of suburban grapes this summer

Hey Claude, add “AI influencer” to my resume

I just published my latest research at:

P2MS Data Carry Part 2: UTXO set analysis

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I analysed all 2.4M P2MS UTXOs. 99.98% are data carriage, with only 552 outputs (~0.02%) appearing to be legitimate multisig custody usage. Around 75% of P2MS outputs are permanently unspendable due to use of fake keys. Bitcoin Stamps dominates at 74% of all P2MS UTXOs - all created since early 2023, and all deliberately unspendable! With Bitcoin Core v30 removing OP_RETURN limits, and Bitcoin Stamps no longer embedding "art" in P2MS outputs (the original justification for P2MS permanence), I believe there is now a reasonable case for deprecating P2MS creation entirely!

Kids will do that to ya