Reminder: #Bitcoin doesn't have enough full nodes online for 100k users (even on L1) to be safe!

Just a reminder: police didn't 'find' fetuses in Lauren Handy's home. Handy and Terrisa Bukovinac found the preemie-sized babies in a box outside Washington Surgi Clinic on its way to be incinerated. They photographed them and called police to conduct autopsies.

The gruesome deaths of

#Bitcoin Knots 26.1.knots20240513 released! 🎉

Be sure to _verify_ your download(s)!

bitcoinknots.org/?26.1.knots202…

Random thought:

I think it's pretty dang cool that roughly 1 out of every 60 Bitcoin that will ever be created has already been mined by a pool I've helped run.

First Eligius, now OCEAN.

If you own any BTC, decent odds some was originally mined by one of them. 😎⛏️

Carry on!

Remember the reporting of bodies of murdered indigenous children found in unmarked mass graves at residential schools in Canada?

All a hoax. Never was a single shred of evidence. Not a bone. Nothing.

Ground-penetrating radar had picked up underground ‘anomalies’ near a

Why #Bitcoin security relies on a supermajority using their own full node:

26 hours to get to Feb 2023.

Another ~55 hours and I'm still not synced.

Last year's explosion of UTXOs made IBD a pain in the ass.

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David Bitcoin's anti-fragility comes from the runner nodes that act.

For now >98% execute a version that is spam friendly:

Eric Lombrozo The consequences of the IRS being able to tax after you renounce are disastrous.

It would be a massive public benefit for the unjust 'exit tax' to get overturned too.

People should be free to opt-out of the USA if they're willing to give up the benefits.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but you can commit to basically infinite data in Bitcoin outputs without using any marginal space and multiple existing independent implementations of this concept exist that are open source. Also all you need is hashes not fancy cryptography.

Study: Bernstein v. US Department of Justice

How the US government tried to argue that sharing cryptography was arms dealing, and how they lost

'While a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, Bernstein completed the development of an encryption equation

It's time for Lightning⚡️ and it's time for BOLT12🔩

As of today, OCEAN miners can attach a BOLT12 offer to their #Bitcoin address and get paid out over Lightning!

BOLT12 offers allow us to request multiple invoices for any amount while only requiring the miner to set things