Dear meme bot, do a Zelensky one with it? View quoted note →
Sjors Provoost
sjors@sprovoost.nl
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Physicist turned bitcoin developer aka "shadowy super-coder", author of Bitcoin: A Work In Progress
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Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Bitcoin Core
Stay Humble, Stack Sats
See MIT license
Sometimes the For You tab delivers:
Advertising gets the bad rap, but the SaaS business model also seems to guarantee enshittification.
Keep calm and:
1. Delete at least one account per week;
2. Use more open source stuff; and
3. Stack sats
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New rule: if you have a hard shell suitcase, you need to check it in. The entire point of these annoying things is that they can survive the airplane hold and ground crew tosses.
As hand luggage they are ridiculously space inefficient and make boarding take twice as long as needed. Just don't do it.
So I'm part of that elite 3% of Youtube users who mostly use the Subscriptions tab (unless I'm actively looking for new stuff to follow).
I'm too stupid to understand selfish mining, please help: 
Bitcoin Stack Exchange
Why is a selfish-mining attack with bad propagation (γ=0) still profitable?
The 2013 selfish-mining paper by Ittay Eyal and Emin Gün Sirer [0] introduces a variable γ:

We denote by γ the ratio of h...
Not a fan of Github's new design where lots of red is used when there's no actual issue.
The fact that someone still needs to review isn't an error.
I sent an annoyed email to EBA (European Banking Authority) telling them that they need to remove the #SatoshiTest from their Travel Rules guidance in EBA/GL/2024/11 (item 83c on page 31).
And that they need to immediately ban the practice. Companies are doing this because they're lazy. On-chain privacy harm is irreversible. The other methods are bad too, but they at least don't put stuff on the chain.
I expect them to ignore my email of course, but who knows.
Guidelines on information requirements in relation to transfers of funds and certain crypto-assets transfers under Regulation (EU) 2023/1113 | European Banking Authority
Is anyone keeping track, using on-chain analytics, of how many people are doing this idiotic EU "satoshi test"? E.g, Kraken describes the procedure here, presumably other exchanges use variants, which makes for great fingerprinting.
https://support.kraken.com/hc/nl/articles/what-is-a-satoshi-test
Occasional self-indulgent reminder that I wrote a book: 
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Bitcoin: A Work in Progress
Bitcoin: A Work in Progress
A book about soft forks, challenges of keeping open source software free of money-stealing bugs, new ways to protect Bitcoin nodes against evildoer...