My new paradigm for risk management in Bitcoin is to imagine the most fucked up thing that could possibly happen to the protocol and the community and project them out to the dead centre of the next bear.

Nice night to test out the scattering capability.

So what’s it going to be tomorrow? Prisoner’s dilemma or miner collusion? #asknostr

New tool. Great when used with optional scattering lens, mounted underbarrel on a Winchester 870 tactical. Or as a single focused beam for pointing at things in the next zip code, pointing for star gazing, scattering pests, and igniting paper. The average classroom or keychain laser pointer is 1-5 mW. This model is all I could justify buying at 550 mW. Available up to 6W! Range: 24 miles There’s a Spruce tree 500yd south of me by the lake that I can see the square dot on, and the dot illuminates the entire top of the tree. Beam fully visible in full daylight. Even the reflected light off nearby surfaces is enough to temporarily impair vision. ALWAYS WEAR LASER PROTECTION EYEWEAR WHEN HANDLING! Not to be used carelessly. (Hence the custom labels I felt I should add inside the case in the event I die and someone finds it. Imagine what the military has access to if we can get these in 7 days from Shenzen. 👀 I can see restrictions being tightened in the near future. I wonder how it works on flock camera sensors? That may be an urban myth. Maybe not. I’m cautious about when and where I’ve tested it, with a military airbase and a few civilian aerodromes within 50 miles of here. Don’t need that heat.

Has anyone been through the @Start9 migration to 0.4.0. Given how important the Bitcoin node implementation has proven to be in the past week, and with BIP activation upon us this weekend, I don’t really feel like footgunning myself by messing with a smoothly operating Electrs instance in the next couple of weeks or until I get a redundant box set up. Thanks for comments. #asknostr