339. DIY Bitcoin with HAC

Good combo

LFG!

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Epic positive doomerism

Maybe double the voting weight for people with skin in the game (kids?). 😁 No way non-French Europeans with similar living standards would move to Quebec of all places and have to learn French.

Appreciate the description of how PR articles become news.

Agree the mic drop moment was npubs emulated as IPv6 addresses through a custom local DNS service + network adapter. Allows third party apps to just work. FIPS might have some actual legs for decentralizing the internet.

Banger

"Lightning doesn't work" - Phoenix wallet NOT mentioned.

Plausible flavours of the coming world order.

Re:other nodes and making news, you're clearly not watching Eric Voskuil on Twitter. Libbitcoin 4 just did IBD in 14 minutes on a consumer connection (with assumevalid height of 950k) and 55 min for full validation. Older than Knots, and older than Core being called, well, Core. They slept for a good few years but are waking up with a vengeance.

The irony of AI naming the chapters "Caras ...". Looking forward to the listen!

A Bitcoin that can be governed by politicians passing laws, influencing public company miners, is not interesting to me. Spammers will always find ways around any filters we build. You can send a message by disallowing some formats, but it's probably not going to have a big impact. Excitement around using spam is low. Block space is cheap, so it still makes it in. There's a max size limit on blocks regardless of how much spam they contain. FUD about hard drive space is fake news.

Two worlds colliding (Bitcoin and defense of a nation). 2 lads hitting it off. Liked the slight focus on leadership failure. Apart from that I think the Triggernometry episode with Tommy had better flow.

Interesting times

Be the change.

Thanks for removing the friction from consuming Mises.

This is sweet, thanks for covering this. Been getting excited listening to @npub1v25jqj332… talk about Stratum v2 for a while now. Nice to see it in action.

Welcome back

The cloak and dagger shit with Switck is heating up. People were already looking for a reason for this to be inside. Still not totally convinced but it looks sketchy as fuck. Never been more glad I had fun playing dice games with my bitcoin.

Boston Bitdevs is coming up on July 30 at MIT Building 4. Be sure to RSVP through bostonbitdevs.org (or with the link if David wants to put it in notes). https://app.evento.so/e/evt_3M48gmwDKdbzNc63 Come with questions!

One of the best WBD's yet. Dines' coverage of the Eurodollar mechanics here and the shift that happened with LIBOR to SOFR is something far too few people are talking about (Luongo notwithstanding).

Welcome back! Your break sounds like it was good. Missed your updates.

The Jade and Jade Plus use ESP32 microcontrollers. Just FYI.

Your analogy is odd given that the twentyfirst amendment struck the 18th amendment from the constitution... The issue with 110 is that it was ineffective and targeting an issue that barely qualifies as one. 4 MB is 4 MB.

The point of airgapping isn't that QR'sbor SD cards are inherently more secure than USB or Bluetooth. It's that the amount of data is far more limited and easier to audit with lower tech methods. If you ask me floppy disks would be even better, as SD cards have firmware that could be an attack vector. But floppies are prohibitively hard to implement in 2026.

'Anything is safer than a coldcard' is not entirely accurate, especially if you're one of the fence cases. Malware hot wallets are having a field day. Saw one user lost 6.07 BTC on mobile 'wasabi' wallet which of course was fake.