If you've always wanted to import a bip39 mnemonic into Bitcoin Core, I wrote a little Rust script that can do it. You give it the 32 words and it gives you the magical incantation to import it into a descriptor wallet. Then just do a rescan to find historical transactions (which is super fast if you use -blockfilterindex). I'm not sure if the pull request will make it, but I can always publish it as a standalone utility. Disclaimers: 1. Very poorly tested, try with testnet 2. My Rust skills are ... non-existent 3. NEVER ENTER A HARDWARE WALLET MNEMONIC ON YOUR INTERNET CONNECTED MALWARE INFESTED COMPUTER (unless you want to)

GitHub

Rust tool to import bip39 mnemonic by Sjors · Pull Request #32115 · bitcoin/bitcoin

Since we're probably not going to support bip39 mnemonics in the wallet itself, but it's an often requested feature, this PR provides a sim...

Legal gambling companies are actively lobbying Dutch parliament to introduce heavy-handed internet censorship to crush their illegal competition. Collateral damage to free speech? Who cares! And of course banks have to play cop too. > Telecom and internet companies such as Meta and Google must cooperate in blocking illegal gambling sites and their advertisements. And banks must no longer cooperate in payments for illegal gambling sites.

Boodschap aan Kamerleden: zet illegale goksites op zwart

De Tweede Kamer wil nieuwe regels voor online gokken omdat het aantal gokverslaafden toeneemt. De gokbranche en de verslavingszorg kwamen langs in ...

It's that time of the year again when the EU and East Coast time are 5 hours apart instead of 6. Russia abolished DST. Somehow they managed to schedule the phone call though, so I guess Musk didn't fire whoever is in charge of understanding the timezone and DST mess?

You're not zapping hard enough.

If you think the current world is a clown show, this was just 158 years ago...

Look mom, no checkpoints! This will go into v30 this fall. The next six months would be a good time to remember any non-disclosed or forgotten attack that checkpoints prevented and the new mechanisms don't. View quoted note →

Champaign is a Veblen good, so tariffs should increase sales. Cheers!🥂

Veblen good - Wikipedia

Conversely, I don't want to hear "only conservatives suffer from debanking", "Trump will save us from debanking" or such similar nonsense. You get debanked when those in power don't like you. And the people in power change.

Maybe the selfish-mining emperor doesn't have any clothes.

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...

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