New year, new Ledger customer database leak.

Out of over 1,500,000 OP_RETURN outputs created since block height 930,600 (Core v30 release) only 0.001% have been larger than 83 bytes. So much for "blowing out the OP_RETURN limit" killing Bitcoin, eh @Matthew Kratter?

Ain't no party like an oil baron party!

Hyperinflating your country's currency should be considered a crime punishable by death. View quoted note →

The median reachable Bitcoin node's upstream bandwidth dropped by 39% year over year to 6.6 megabits per second. This is both baffling and concerning.

RIP Stack Overflow

"How can Trump abduct a sitting president? Doesn't this violate international law?" Oh sweet summer child, "international law" is a misnomer that should just be called "geopolitical customs." At the top of the power hierarchy, there is no law - there is only anarchy.

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Burned 1,000 calories and checked Nordic skiing off the bucket list!

With BTC's exchange rate ending 2025 down 6%, the 4 year cycle of 3 up years followed by 1 down year is officially broken. On the bright side, Bitcoin has never seen 2 down years in a row. Let's just hope that pattern isn't broken in 2026!

At the beginning of 2025 I predicted an all-time high for wrench attacks. Unfortunately, that prediction came true.

I'm just trying to read a Coinbase blog post. Enshittification intensifies!

Major Jason Lowery fallaciously claims that no one is allowed to critique the concepts he propagates without first reading his nearly 400 page thesis. Challenge accepted.

Cypherpunk Cogitations

Softwar Thesis Review

A critique of Jason Lowery's thesis on proof of work systems and "bitpower."