> The Fourth Amendment still applies at the border, despite the feds' insistence that it doesn't. (the headline is phrased a bit ambiguously, but it's good news) View quoted note →

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Somewhere in #Norway

The only "strategic Bitcoin reserve" the US government is actually implementing is collecting KYC on all holders. View quoted note →

Who do I nag at Njump.me to refresh the profile picture cache?

Continuing my big buildings with trees collection, this one is in #Hamburg

The Feldstrasse Bunker in Hamburg St. Pauli

The enormous WWII bunker on Feldstrasse hosts all kinds of music events, and there are plans for a massive rooftop garden.​​​​​​​

Yolo... managed to compile a very, very, experimental branch od Bitcoin Core that can receive silent payments ... and then crash. Added the address to my BIP353 - there's always a chance coins sent there end up in the ether. And I don't mean swapped to it...

BIP 353 Human Readable Names Resolver

Good advice. Did not follow. View quoted note →

Interesting spin: "Thanks to a culture of responsible disclosure, Bitcoin developers have managed to keep their major coding mistakes quiet." (in reality they just forgot to set a calendar reminder to disclose the bug once it became responsible to do so) > On January 14, 2021, @Aaron van Wirdum announced the release of Bitcoin Core 0.21.0, a major upgrade of Bitcoin Core software. Did you?

Protos

Bitcoin devs finally admitting to major mistakes in Core software

Bitcoin devs have historically kept coding mistakes quiet but a new movement toward transparency is revealing a raft of fascinating snafus.

#Utrecht joining the trees-on-tall-buildings bandwagon. Contruction is almost finished. Although I'm a bit skeptical, they did think through some of the practicalities. It can handle Dutch wind, it has a water retention system, there's cranes installed to lift replacement trees, specially trained (presumably expensive) gardeners will abseil down the building to maintain it.

Sats to whom? View quoted note →