Technically it's illegal in many jurisdictions to record a phone call without consent. But if the counterparty is a social engineer who is trying to stay anonymous and defraud me, WTF are they gonna do? Sue me? 😂😂😂

Spent 2 solid days doing annual security review of 50 vendors for SOC2 compliance. Thank goodness for LLMs, otherwise it would have taken 2 weeks to sift through thousands of pages of audit reports.

The dynamics of Wizards and Knotzis.

Web site to which I already pay an annual subscription: "if you want to export this report as CSV or PDF then you need to upgrade for another several hundred dollars per year" Me: "GPT, look at the HTML of this web page and generate a CSV report."

The reactions to BIP-361 revealed that many believe the appearance of a quantum computer would only result in temporary market volatility. Unfortunately, it's not that simple. This is my attempt to comprehensively catalog what could happen.

Cypherpunk Cogitations

Quantum Attack Game Theory

A comprehensive analysis of potential attacks and undesirable outcomes resulting from a cryptographically relevant quantum computer being wielded a...

I've been doing a lot of adversarial thinking about Bitcoin's game theory recently and it led me to vibe code up a neat little tool to help understand and visualize miner fee sniping logic. In other words, when does the expected value of reorganizing the blockchain make sense for a given miner to attempt it?

Bitcoin fee-sniping reorg EV chart

It's a beautiful day to be alive.

Timeline cleanse:

Thousands of years ago, humans needed to be in great cardiovascular shape in order to hunt their prey. Today it's still important to do cardio in case a flight delay requires you to get from one end of an airport to the other in 10 minutes.

- Run a massive dark web market for years - Stay in hiding for years after the FBI seizes your market - Take all the market's bitcoin and move it to one wallet - Send the BTC through BitPay to buy gold bars - Have the gold shipped to your real home address 🤦🏼‍♂️