A small window into the thoughts of those who run the financial structure at central banks: They will never accept responsibility for what has occurred to our financial system and economy. "An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes" Sun Tzu

An entity LinkingLion, active since 2018 and on a Monero banlist, is opening connections to many clearnet Bitcoin nodes. Its presumably attempting to link transactions to node IPs. Maybe a chain analysis company trying to enhance its product? From @lopp : Bitcoin node operators may run these to block a suspected surveillance service: bitcoin-cli setban 162.218.65.0/24 add 315360000 bitcoin-cli setban 209.222.240.0/24 add 315360000 bitcoin-cli setban 91.198.115.0/24 add 315360000 bitcoin-cli setban 2604:d500:4:1::/64 add 315360000

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LinkingLion: An entity linking Bitcoin transactions to IPs?

This post describes and discusses the behavior of an entity I call LinkingLion. The entity opens connections to many Bitcoin nodes using four IP ad...

Methane emissions, which would normally have 84 times the warming effect of CO2, are being decreased by off-grid bitcoin miners. This indicates that the carbon dioxide emissions produced by these miners are negative and are not taken into account by the emissions measurements that the media uses to incite moral panic.

I hate that the letter U is next to I on my keyboard when I type #Bitcoin. I have to double check spelling before sending a note.

People who want to change Bitcoin don't get it: You don’t change Bitcoin, Bitcoin changes you.

Zaps!

I asked GPT-4 and it doesn't have a direct access to the #bitcoin time chain nor the lightning network metadata or connect to nodes... Anyone know how to integrate the data with #AI?

I like the new hashtags in Amethyst. Now I can follow more #bitcoin people!

98% of the top 100 coins are in the green

#[0] Your nostr app is my favorite. I was wondering what was the purpose of the amethyst purple icon in to center top of the app? When touched it shines.