An interesting trend I've noticed in recent years in FIRE forums is an increasing number of people who include cryptocurrency in their portfolio breakdown. Prior to 2020 this would get you laughed out of the room...

Signs you're an LLM retard: * You tell it that it's super smart and an expert in field X. * You tell it not to make mistakes. * You tell it not to hallucinate.

Everyone's a scammer. Everyone's a shitcoiner. Everyone's retarded about something. View quoted note →

The result of a litigious retarded society.

It seems I'll never have the pleasure of parting any Knotzis from their BTC via a trustless fork futures contract, but it's certainly entertaining to watch them burn their bitcoin by renting trivial amounts of hashrate. 😂😂😂 I encourage all BIP-110 supporters to follow Mad Kratter's guide! View quoted note →

Each new cohort of Bitcoin adopters will have a set of people who have to learn the hard way that Bitcoin Core is notsomuch a formal organization as it is a process. The process is not perfect, but rough consensus is that it's the best one we've got.

Story of my life

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Cypherpunk Cogitations

Cypherpunk Cogitations

Jameson Lopp's thoughts on Bitcoin, Privacy, and Freedom.

The 0-days will accelerate until everyone fixes their shit.

That feeling when you update the OS on a server you haven't touched in several years, reboot it, and... it doesn't come back up.

Just had someone tell me with a straight face that they don't use a password manager because they don't trust them. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Easy come, easy go! 🙂