Check for yourself! en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Covenants…

Take any life and prevent it from evolving, the probable end result on a long term timescale will be the termination of that line of life. The same is mostly true of complex software.

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Thankfully Bitcoin is taking post quantum seriously

Trolls have been going after Gloria hard. She’s human, and it must take a toll. If you want to share support or remind her trolls don’t speak for most Bitcoiners, email me and I’ll forward it: Antoine [at] Chaincode [dot] com.

❗️Russia was preparing terrorist attacks in Europe using drones and corn cans filled with explosives. In Lithuania, a cache of explosives was discovered in a cemetery, while in Poland authorities detained a suspected Russian intelligence operative carrying explosive-filled

An unfortunate theme I see permeating our NGU culture is a strong resistance to discussing any ways that Bitcoin could potentially fail. While I know these discussions are uncomfortable, it's common sense that avoiding them could be most dangerous of all - since it's only

BREAKING: Gen Bryan Fenton, Commander of the US Special Operations Command signs his departure letter

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/germ…

The source told CBS News that leadership asked for "large, beefy" agents to conduct an arrest of Comey "in full kit," including Kevlar vests and exterior wear emblazoned with the FBI logo. It was suggested that Chris Ray, a supervisory special agent in the violent crimes division

The Ukrainian Special Operations Forces struck the missile ship Grad of Project 21631 Buyan-M on Lake Onega (Republic of Karelia, Russia). The missile carrier was en route from the Baltic Sea to the Caspian Sea. The strike hit the starboard side of the ship’s engine compartment.

Q: Why do I think that increasing the OP_RETURN limit is harm reduction? A: All other things being equal, I would prefer that data like this would go into OP_RETURN outputs instead of P2WSH outputs.

God, people are actually attaching a partition between “device scans my texts for crime” and “device just monitors my behavior for crime”. There’s no partition. They’re the same damned technology.

It’s incredible to me that nobody understands what we’re debating. Because if they did there’d be a string of smashed iPhones down every street in the EU.

You’re carrying a phone that sees, hears and reads everything you do. Do you want this information read by an LLM and crimes (definitions constantly in flux and updateable) being reported to the cops? Because that’s what the EU debate is about.

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This is pathetic and the sign of a deeply insecure man.

Google recently released a toolkit to enable anonymous credentials and web authentication using zero-knowledge. This will likely be in Android and hopefully Apple will adopt it, which is a good thing! I’m not complaining! blog.google/technology/saf…

The greatest sign of Bitcoin's success is that it is censorship resistant even for transactions that most of the people that work on the protocol don't like.

Cool work! Web Application Integrity, Consistency, and Transparency (WAICT) blog.cloudflare.com/improving-the-…