Peter Todd

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2025-05-21 02:14:10

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Nah, VAT is a gigantic pain in the ass, and very invasive. It forces you to keep lots of records and disclose lots of data that you otherwise would not have to.
Property tax has the advantage of being applied to something that inherently isn't very private: the fact that land is owned.

2025-05-20 21:03:34

“But without taxes or a central bank how will we pay for genocide?”
Ideologue bitcoiners are so hopelessly dumb about this... Governments collected taxes just fine when everything was run on cash. Hiding income and especially property from the taxman is not easy.
The governments of the world that are actually funding genocide – Russia, Iran, Qatar, etc. – are doing it even though their currencies are garbage and hardly anyone trusts them enough to loan them money.
Bitcoin doesn't fix this.
#nevent1q…a24n

2025-05-19 21:42:32

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you can't just make shit up

2025-05-17 16:33:26

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...and? It's perfectly reasonable for them to want Gazans out, as I explained above. Gaza used their sovereignty – given to them by Israel – to slaughter Jews. There is no respon to want Gaza to ever have sovereignty again.
Russian fascism and imperialism predates Putin by literally centuries, and Navalny himself has been in support of Russian imperialism. Putin has only been in power since 2000 – Chechnya was first invaded in 1994.
As I said, Navalny had an anti-corruption campaign. Not an anti-imperialism campaign. You're literally supporting a political force that, if successful, would make Russia even more of a threat to the world.

2025-05-17 16:12:22

Quite likely that Trump thinks he can force Ukraine into a one-sided peace deal by lying about the effectiveness of Russian forces. A strategy that's ultimately no different than what Biden was doing. Just – in usual Trump fashion – being implemented in a much more heavy handed and overt way.
The truth is, Ukraine can absolutely defeat Russia by force. This pisses off a lot of scumbags in the west who have made tons of money off of trade with Russia. But it's a much better option than the alternative of yet more invasions and war.
#nevent1q…590w

2025-05-17 05:17:47

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They're protesting because they're losing and they're pissed off. If there was actually substantial opposition to killing Jews Oct 7th wouldn't have happened.
_Hamas_ doesn't even claim that "tens of thousands" of woman and children non-combatants have been killed:
https://www.euronews.com/2025/04/03/hamas-run-health-ministry-quietly-removes-thousands-from-gaza-death-toll-researchers-find
Even Hamas claims that the deaths are 72% males aged 13 to 55. That's not killing woman and children indiscriminately. That's killing combatants.
Meanwhile hundreds of IDF soldiers have given their lives in the fighting since Oct 7th. Those men and woman simply wouldn't be dead if Israel was actually bombing Gaza indiscriminately. They died because Israel is trying it's best to only kill combatants. It's a miracle that so few civilians have died given that Hamas is quite happy to fight in the middle of them, even putting military forces in active hospitals.
The fact is, those deaths were a waste. Israel should have indiscriminately leveled Gaza from the air – as is their right – and not sent any soldiers into Gaza. There's nothing Israel can do to get people like you on their side, who are ultimately anti-Semitics who don't really think Israel deserves to live in peace and would rather support perpetual victims. Israel might as well get peace by force. In this case, it's not hard: Gazan society is such a mess they'll wipe out themselves given the chance.

2025-05-17 03:36:24

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The IDF owes them nothing at all. Hamas is the government of Gaza, and it clearly has significant support among the population, particularly the wealthier segment who – if they disagreed – could just leave Gaza. Hell, Hamas got voted into power with a clear majority between them and even more extremist parties.
Worse, Oct 7th was _not_ solely Hamas. Roughly half of the murders and kidnappings were by "ordinary" Gazans who just decided to join in. And again, we see that support in how – unlike WW2 – there's no examples of Gazans helping hostages escape.
The onus was on Gazans as a whole to stop this violence rather than support it. They chose the latter.
Germany paid huge sums for WW2 reparations, including wide scale confiscation of private property. Hopefully Russia will as well. And for that matter, Iran.
Does Ukraine owe Russians anything for the large amount of Russian property destroyed and Russian "civilians" killed in the course of defending themselves? Of course not. Israel is no different.

2025-05-16 22:20:05

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Why?
I did the math recently and a reasonable guess for the damages that Gaza owes Israel for Oct 7th is ~$30k/Gazan – tens of billions of dollars.
All of the real estate in Gaza is probably worth less than that: that works out to be $172/m².
It'd be perfectly reasonable for Israel to just take all of Gaza in compensation and kick everyone out. Sending them all to Libya would be a very reasonable way to do this.
The Gazan population clearly has an irrational hatred of Jews, they're extremely violent, and there is no path to fixing this problem. Trying peace and diplomacy got us Oct 7th.
A perfectly valid alternative to this would be to cut all aid to Gaza and just wait for the population to starve to death. No-one owes them free food or supplies, and they can't feed themselves. They fucked up their economy through violence – no one owes them anything to fix that.
Speaking of, you can solve a lot of problems that way: Yemen can rain missiles down on Israel and our shipping lanes in large part because western food aid is keeping 90% of their population alive. It's ridiculous that we're doing that.
Also, cutting off all this suicidal aid to people who hate us would free up money to send to Ukraine, a population actually fighting for us.

2025-05-15 18:07:39

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My pull-req was closed.

2025-05-15 09:53:20

Good read.
One of the reasons why I haven't rushed to make Libre Relay easier to install, e.g. with binary releases, step-by-step docs, etc. is that it's just a one man proof-of-concept/experiment and people probably shouldn't be running it on a big scale.
If it were to be widely used, I'd want more eyes on it first. And really, Core is perfectly goodfor 99% of users.
#nevent1q…px3n

2025-05-10 22:45:24

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2053412/households-england-not-go-outside-sunday
“Households in England urged not to go outside between 11am and 3pm on Sunday”
“Residents in parts of England might be well advised to stay indoors on Sunday between 11am and 3pm as soaring temperatures are likely to blast parts of the country. According to the latest BBC weather forecast, Sunday will see highs of 26C in London and Manchester.”
WTF‽ Even at 100% humidity that's just not hot.

2025-05-10 22:23:48

https://youtu.be/CS9ptA3Ya9E

2025-05-07 15:11:31

If anyone at btc++ wants to try out real world payjoin with the new Bull Bitcoin wallet, I'll happily sell you some ₿ for USD (maybe buy too).

2025-05-04 02:54:16

https://www.lee.senate.gov/2025/2/lee-introduces-the-saving-privacy-act-for-119th-congress
This looks good!
In particular:
“Institutes penalties for federal employees who illegally seek constitutionally protected financial information.”

2025-05-03 21:29:55

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It's a combat zone where active fighting was happening. Of course there are going to be Hamas forces in every building. They move around to try to avoid being killed, and in the process of killing them, Israel is going to end up flattening basically every building.

2025-05-01 20:12:25

“Need a tattoo? A piercing?”
“I need a piercing like I need a hole in my head.”

2025-05-01 17:46:07

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FWIW I did suggest that to them. They said they didn't want to rely on just MARA and F2Pool to mine the transactions, so they'd prefer to stick to creating unpeunable outputs.
Their system has time constraints so there is a deadline to get the transaction published or theft can happen.

2025-05-01 17:18:56

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Gonna use this for some free advertising.
These guys could use your ₿ donations to kill some more Russian scumbags: https://www.sternenkofund.org/donate
Russia just tried to assassinate their founder:
#nevent1q…l6p2

2025-05-01 17:16:42

Video of a failed assassination attempt on Serhiy Sternenko, a Ukrainian who founded a notable charity organization that, among other things, supplies drones to the military:
https://video.nostr.build/1d892ec55fad8445ab41174a0fc038f8e2583042f37ff0fcffbb04efa4c49fd7.mp4
The assassin:
https://image.nostr.build/30cbb39150d5d48dc956093cb1cf36b30dd954f294f18fecebb2e13f54843f96.jpg
Apparently Russia is running out of hot female spies. So much for the movies... 😂
Like most Ukrainian charities, they accept Bitcoin:
https://www.sternenkofund.org/donate
Looks like their ₿ address just got another 60k sats.
Interestingly, their Paypal donation link can only be used for non-lethal aid. Bitcoin fixes that!

2025-04-29 18:25:27

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War is not inherently genocide. Israel has every right to defeat Hamas, and if Hamas chooses to fight in the middle of a city, Israel gets to flatten it.
Israel of course has gone well beyond what it is required to do by giving people living in these cities plenty of opportunities to move to safety.

2025-04-29 17:57:22

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A literal steamroller would invade Ukraine significantly faster than Russia is advancing.

2025-04-29 15:54:56

Politicizing the ICC by going after Israel was an enormous failure for the free world.
Big win for Russia. The ICC was able to legitimately go after Putin, and had some practical impact on his travels.
Going after Israel for aburd charges of genocide is both effective at harassing Jews, while also helping solve Putin's travel problems.
No surprise that the ICC has Russian judges and staff who went along with this nonsense...
Anyway, regrettable, Hungary is doing the right thing here. As is the US by sanctioning the ICC.
#nevent1q…g8mz

2025-04-29 01:57:11

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My favorite is left wing Canadians arguing vehemently that voter ID is the work of the devil... when Canada has voter ID.

2025-04-28 20:51:46

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Nah, don't just credit me. It takes two to tango^H^H^H flame war.

2025-04-28 20:50:49

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It's not a phobia if the danger is real.

2025-04-28 20:49:59

Relevant video to current events: https://youtu.be/xGQxSJmadm0
Chris Boden is awesome. Sadly he spent some time in jail for buying and selling Bitcoin awhile back. But he's since been rebuilding his life and making awesome tech videos.

2025-04-28 14:51:53

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The claimed cause is interesting: Induced Atmospheric Vibration.
Basically, if the conditions are just right, at the corona discharge threshold, the force of corona discharge leads to an oscillation with the corona discharge turning on and off. This in turn causes oscillations on overall power discharge (corona discharge can be a non-trivial amount of losses), triggering protection circuits and causing blackouts.
At least, that's the one description I could find.. but it sounds plausible.

2025-04-28 14:43:39

https://image.nostr.build/3ec23d95f3a3e88aaee49fc29d4ff70e32fe3fd7deb37ded8af34d35f98970bd.png
Carry cash you idiots.
(Context: there's a massive blackout in Spain and Portugal that has taken down card networks, among many other things)

2025-04-28 03:24:44

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Dec '23?

2025-04-27 21:16:15

Note that it is believed that the chemicals in question were rocket fuel precursors, meant to be turned into missiles to attack Israel and Ukraine with.
Either a remarkable bit of luck, or sabotage.
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2025-04-26 17:49:28

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Yeah, good chance I don't get to visit Russia again in my lifetime...

2025-04-26 17:25:15

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Until the aggression is over it'd be unethical of you to go back.

2025-04-26 14:07:37

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My 12th grade comp-sci teacher would have loved a problem with a source like that actually. Nice.

2025-04-26 14:05:17

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This feels like a 12th grade comp-sci challenge... 😂

2025-04-26 14:00:42

Ukrainians (most likely) assassinated a Russian Major General at his home near Moscow yesterday, yet another in a long list of assassinations of Russians (e.g. the EW warfare expert, Yevgeny Rytikov, killed with a car bomb earlier this week).
https://video.nostr.build/704010ad864830f584cc6608ec58e537e07921e56cc3fbc00819feab058d20a9.mp4
https://image.nostr.build/c3b1cf99e1a3e266fa754fe602404559fb8926db5ea510a6aebc8a67c0e7b21d.jpg
One interesting detail: the assassination seems to have been done with an IED made of grenades planted in car they parked on the street outside his apartment, probably triggered remotely with a webcam. Not all of the grenades exploded at once, which meant that after the first explosion, additional secondaries kept on happening.
Now think about it: suppose the general had only been wounded, not killed. A stream of secondary explosions would discourage anyone from getting close enough to help, maximizing the chances they he does in fact die. Smart.
https://video.nostr.build/88fb9144d589a0ad281008e25cc23f323022c509a9e16f7a2fbc94e422adf010.mp4
Russia does follow-up "double-tap" air strikes all the time on Ukrainian civilians to try to kill rescue crews. Using a similar tactic on Russia for assassinations is more than fair.

2025-04-25 19:50:36

😂😂😂
Google's AI Overview completely hallucinated the existence of "unsafe" for the Zig language.
Grok 3 correctly says that Zig doesn't have unsafe blocks.
https://image.nostr.build/838a63846bf6f47771f15764fc12a82d04e69378bc371ad667d5238f340b3b8d.png

2025-04-25 18:51:51

Accidentally orange-pilled a sticker vendor in Mexico. I only had 500 peso notes, and he didn't have change. So I had him install Wallet of Satoshi and sent him 100 pesos (~$5 USD) via Lightning.
He was actually pretty clueful. He seemed to understand that this was like digital gold. He also seemed to understand me when I explained how Bitcoin was a protocol – kinda like email – and that's why I was able to use different software to send him Bitcoin than Wallet of Satoshi. And he seemed to understand that since the amount was so small, Wallet of Satoshi was the one who actually had his Bitcoin, not him.
Second time I found someone who was willing to accept ₿, but normally didn't. First time was a t-shirt vendor who knew all about Bitcoin, but didn't himself have a wallet, and just got his friend to accept it for him.
Bitcoin is getting to the point where so many people know about it that you don't have to convince people its valuable. They already basically know what it is even if they've never personally used it.

2025-04-24 17:40:42

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/contributors/2025/04/23/a-cashless-society-risks-leaving-millions-behind-opinion/83217122007/#
I was on a panel recently in DC with one of the sponsors of this bill, State Representative Warren Davidson.
He's awesome. I didn't need to push the ideals of freedom. He did it for me.
Ensuring that you can always pay cash is essential for financial freedoms; this bill is a very good start.

2025-04-24 16:33:54

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Ukraine is slowly winning. Slow is obviously bad here, as far too many innocent Ukrainians are dying in the process. If they had more support they could win faster, and fewer good people would die.
That is obvious to any reasonable person. Clearly you are just a troll.

2025-04-24 16:31:37

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“I don't see any difference between Russians and Ukrainians” 😂😂😂
She is Ukrainian:
https://image.nostr.build/2b46bd50fb37b9edcc63817b8799c68153cd97688b9678a9d5e4708e3380923f.jpg
Ukraine isn't doing that. Ukraine didn't invade Russia.
As I said, you're just a psychopath saying bullshit for social media points.
Anyway, clearly this is a waste of my time.

2025-04-24 16:22:06

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Ukraine wants the constant stream of murders to stop. Russia is using attacks on civilians as a way to try to crush Ukraine and force them to surrender, precisely because Russia is not having success on the battlefield. And more generally, because Russians are hopelessly evil and have absolutely no sense of honor.
https://image.nostr.build/2b46bd50fb37b9edcc63817b8799c68153cd97688b9678a9d5e4708e3380923f.jpg
I know you know this. Which goes to show you're just a psychopath who is saying this crap for social media points.

2025-04-24 16:10:33

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You don't get to chose whether or not the other side forces you to “play”.

2025-04-24 16:10:04

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"The money was embezzled” 😂😂😂
This would be a good thing for defamation law to cover. You should know damn well that's it's obvious that Ukraine is in fact using donated military hardware and cash on defense, by the simple fact that Ukraine is successfully holding firm against Russian attacks. They're losing small amounts of territory in the east that Russia is taking at astronomical cost, while simultaneously being able to successfully take Russian territory, clear the black sea of Russian ships, and repeatedly hit military and industrial targets deep inside Russia. Just the other day Ukraine blew up a massive Russian ammo storage facility _north-east_ of Moscow:
https://video.nostr.build/9cd271042be22240fe0901521a93a390035119c0bf522744d8d2dcaaf8037169.mp4
The evacuation zone was easily visible on traffic maps:
https://image.nostr.build/6b36b26d984821e08a4575ad5299a70facfc0eddfc84acb5a5c41e427d87762f.jpg
Now, think through where that facility was and what it must have took for Ukraine to blow it up.
Claiming with zero evidence that Ukraine is just embezzling money on a significant scale rather than using it on defense is absurd. It would be perfectly reasonable for you to lose a few thousand dollars in a defamation claim over this.
You're either hopelessly stupid – the sort of person who doesn't really matter – or actively malicious. Likely both. Either way, it's reasonable to assume you are intentionally lying to defame Ukraine and collect damages from you for it.

2025-04-24 15:51:37

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You don't get a choice how this ends. Getting angry because good people are using drones to kill bad people doesn't stop bad people from using drones to kill good people. It just means that good people won't be able to defend themselves when they get attacked.
Hell, if Ukraine hadn't gived up their nuclear weapons most likely _none_ of this would have happened. Ukraine would have been able to threaten Russia with annihilation, and not a single Ukrainian child would have been murdered.
Peaceniks like you have blood on your hands.

2025-04-24 15:36:57

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And?
Russia is murdering Ukrainians in their sleep with drones and ballistic missile attacks on apartment buildings. This photo is from yesterdays attack on Kyiv, a nearly daily event:
https://image.nostr.build/2b46bd50fb37b9edcc63817b8799c68153cd97688b9678a9d5e4708e3380923f.jpg
Killing Russian soldiers is no more terrible than capturing murderers or putting down rabid dogs. If you're a squeamish young kid it might be hard to watch. But adult men should be able to recognize that it has to be done. Since it has to be done, it should be done in the most effective way possible at the least risk to the good people doing it. Right now, that's with remote controlled drones.

2025-04-24 15:29:33

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The "peace" being proposed by Trump is a high-time preference surrender in disguise.
Ukraine has already been through this before, many times over. Russia proposes a "peace", regroups, and attacks again. Russia did the exact same thing with Chechnya in the 90's: Russia lost the first war, signed a peace treaty, and just spent the next three years rearming to attack again. This time winning.
European countries know this, especially ones bordering Russia. To achieve an actual peace Russia needs to be thoroughly defeated and permanently disarmed. Fucking up their economy is the most realistic way to do that.
Fortunately, Russia makes its money via highly flammable oil and gas infrastructure:
https://video.nostr.build/73d389454b6fe45c8a6f9b0893ee3b7a9a3191a6f2be6f83cd2010ea80de868c.mp4

2025-04-24 15:11:14

https://image.nostr.build/4eae94b14d7cb026c5cb8d802db96c83e79255b49c33ae7bae78e22782e3fff0.jpg
Trump is hopelessly weak here. But one thing in particular is how he keeps on both-siding losses.
Most Russian soldiers are dying from drones, like these men. Look at their faces:
https://video.nostr.build/0f623a747fe1293a18f3d4dc97aed0038a5b622fffa70a7912ac4066b58d4b12.mp4
They're not young boys forced into war. They're older men who knowingly signed up to help slaughter Ukrainians for money. A lot of money. Enough of them survive to make it worth it.
It's a good thing when these psychopaths are kille and injured. And Putin and Russian society in general don't give a fuck about their deaths. Trump appealing to humanity just goes to show he has absolutely no control over the situation.

2025-04-23 23:44:28

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In fairness, at the moment my python-bitcoinlib library isn't PGP signed for most users because PyPi made the idiotic decision to phase out PGP signatures. But my hands are tied on that; the entire software industry is incompetent.

2025-04-23 23:38:49

10 years after I pointed out the risk of a Ripple backdoor due to Ripple not PGP signing their software or providing any other way to get it securely... there's a a Ripple backdoor due to an npm compromise. 😂
https://github.com/petertodd/ripple-consensus-analysis-paper/blob/master/paper.pdf
https://image.nostr.build/550b7f806d3e02fa054601c999b5959743a5aa49fe5a4dcd80ae4bdc27e8ed38.png https://image.nostr.build/2910d114fd064fbfe0b42d3b06dde40feabd9cf40450ac0a4b42df6f9ec4ec39.png https://image.nostr.build/f26f74239d7b45f0cbaf4861b49cebb605366b069e29559fe547a55f15434e29.png

2025-04-23 03:57:02

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...and an Iraq that isn't a threat to anyone else. For the rest of the world that's a win.
I wouldn't be so quick to argue they were better off with Saddam either. He and his regime were monsters that much of the population hated.

2025-04-22 23:39:10

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Neither is really pro-war.
Trump is pro-war. He's trying to appease Russia for a short term political “win”, an action that will inevitably lead to an even bigger war later.
Appeasement does not work. Killing scumbags does.

2025-04-22 23:10:56

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Cope.

2025-04-22 22:43:37

https://video.nostr.build/c0a482198dc85b5c320b668c64f1e43f845cf8f85e2c40d8528ef17ba99ddb7b.mp4
Best video so far of the Russian ammo depot that Ukraine blew up today, 65km _north-east_ of Moscow. Not even the main explosion. Just a secondary.
A 5km radius was evacuated, and Russians in the area complained of impacts from debris thrown by the explosions. NASA's fire monitoring satellite system shows an enormous fire:
https://image.nostr.build/dffbad934ccc98e90a96286e71fa1828513cc51c778323b65645223d687ec7bd.jpg
Fact is, if Ukraine can successfully, repeatedly, hit ammo depots right by Moscow they can destroy the Russian “civilian” economy and end the slaughter of Ukrainians. The only obstacles are funding, and the scumbags who keep complaining about the safety of Russian “civilians”.
There is zero reason why Moscow's four airports should still be operating. At the very least, blow up the fuel tanks and destroy the ATC towers and radars. Shutting down convenient travel to Moscow would be a big hit to their economy.

2025-04-21 22:13:35

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The fact that _she_ got her handbag stolen is obviously newsworthy regardless of what was actually stolen. The cash thing is just interesting from a financial privacy perspective.

2025-04-21 21:57:36

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Note that her salary is $250,600, and her husband's is $1.1 million. The off chance of having $3000 stolen isn't a big deal for her.

2025-04-21 21:54:47

Notable how she was carrying around cash rather than putting everything on cars. Financial privacy FTW.
Spending that amount of cash all at once is outright illegal in a lot of EU shitholes, like Spain.
#nevent1q…ch77

2025-04-20 22:38:45

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It'd be good if Trump sued people like you for defamation.

2025-04-20 21:05:42

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The US dollar is just as real as Bitcoin. It's real for different reasons. But they're both money and spending USD means allocating very real economic resources.

2025-04-20 20:25:32

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I personally know people in the Ukrainian military; I've been to Ukraine plenty of times during the war. This isn't propaganda. It's a big part of why I can reasonably safely visit.

2025-04-20 13:49:56

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Not my government.

2025-04-20 08:16:47

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Why does the US have to pay the price for his life?
There are literally hundreds of millions of people whose lives could be saved with US money. Is the US obligated to save every one of them?

2025-04-19 21:53:17

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Russia isn't advancing at a pace that allows them to actually win the war by capturing territory alone. Hence their efforts to crush the Ukrainian economy (and spirit) with endless attacks on Ukrainian civilians. That is much more concerning than the small amount of territory Russia is taking.
Ukraine is taking territory as well where it can with minimal casualties.

2025-04-19 21:48:29

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Suffice to say if the dev was Russian, I'd saying so very loudly... I'll respect their wishes not to make it explicitly public. But I'm sure you can guess.

2025-04-19 21:46:20

“This is the hand of the man that the Democrats feel should be brought back to the United States, because he is such “a fine and innocent person.” They said he is not a member of MS-13, even though he’s got MS-13 tattooed onto his knuckles, and two Highly Respected Courts found that he was a member of MS-13, beat up his wife, etc. I was elected to take bad people out of the United States, among other things. I must be allowed to do my job. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” - Donald J Trump
https://image.nostr.build/14e715a5ec6421f6b130d774b4e5d6e1dad5d9ca51ef3f3ac09c5482ac6cdf12.jpg
It's hilarious how effectively and brutally Trump has played the left with this.

2025-04-19 20:59:59

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I know.
If I didn't pay my taxes I'd eventually get arrested. This is the wartime version of that. He refused to cooperate with conscription and unsurprisingly got arrested. Other people are risking their lives to keep him safe – the onus is on him to do his part too.
Probably best I don't say more details at this point. But in general, crypto tech people keep on getting themselves in trouble with this because they're selfish idiots.
Of course, if he were Russian it'd be an entirely opposite situation. All Russians have a moral ditu to evade their government, e.g. by leaving Russia, or sabotage. Paying Russian taxes and contributing to their economy is a deeply evil act.

2025-04-19 19:50:42

https://youtu.be/CRRYmT6hhQA
The US could lose the next war if it doesn't learn from Ukraine's mastery of drone warfare.
There's 1000+ Russian casualties per day right now, about 75% of which are due to drones. Ukraine has been able to push back Russian supply logistics 50km+ from the front lines with drones – anything closer gets destroyed, fast. Russia is advancing slightly in some areas. But at a truly absurd cost.

2025-04-18 16:31:13

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Basically yes.
_But_ from what I've read pardons are not valid unless you accept your guilt, specifically. Which means the Fauci pardon may be invalid unless he starts admitting things. And only Fauci was pardoned, so lots of people around him could still be put in jail.

2025-04-18 16:13:36

https://www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-true-origins-of-covid-19/
Now that the truth is finally admitted, next step is investigations and criminal prosecutions.

2025-04-17 15:26:52

https://image.nostr.build/18a101b149a879bb05fb6f4261999e0e752301b770cbffac59b4a7a478ed37a7.png
I wonder who timestamped this?
Would be awesome if it was Ross himself!
#nevent1q…a5gx

2025-04-17 00:59:16

“The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Salvadoran migrant whose wrongful deportation to El Salvador is at the center of a legal battle with the Trump administration, had a temporary order of protection against him in 2021 in which she cited being slapped, hit with an object, and being detained against her will, according to court documents”
Trump is really good at trolling the left into taking ridiculous sounding positions protecting people who are quite likely scumbags.
Also, there is good evidence that he was a MS13 gang member; I'm not surprised El Salvador isn't interested in giving him back.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wife-deported-maryland-man-abrego-garcia-hit-scratched/story

2025-04-16 01:12:57

https://youtube.com/shorts/AqTaKiKccic

2025-04-15 15:20:38

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This.
If universities are going to have federal funding it's pretty obvious that they should allow Jews to attend their classes without violence and harassment from Islamic extremists who hate Jews.

2025-04-15 15:00:04

As I said, find me an example. You haven't yet. Trump says a _lot_ of stuff. Let's see what is actually done.
That said, deporting US citizens who got their citizenship fraudulently is reasonable. And using El Salvador for extra prison capacity can be reasonable too.

2025-04-15 14:28:19

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"populism" 😂
The facts are they the west is experiencing dramatic increases in crime in many locations because of terrible immigration policies. Many classes of non-(white/asian/Jewish) immigrants are _far_ more violent than the native populations. Those people damn well should be forced out.

2025-04-15 14:23:05

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COVID at the beginning was a potential emergency. But we should have figured out quickly from the overwhelming scientific evidence that it wasn't actually an emergency, and lifted all restrictions.
Instead, we artificially turned it into an emergency by fucking up society – and the medical system – for political reasons.
Getting the psychopaths responsible for this out of society is it self an emergency. Because they're probably going to do it again; they already tried to before with the H1N1 fraud.

2025-04-15 14:20:52

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-15/us-derails-g-7-condemnation-of-russian-missile-strike-on-ukraine
https://image.nostr.build/fa039292567098b949cda0901001a2e1f5bdc17c0a2c1a1930bd476cfa4cdb9b.png
Great example of how morally bankrupt diplomacy often is.
The truth is, negotiations with Russia are high time preference nonsense. This latest massacre was completely intentional, pre-meditated, and a common event. Russian culture is irredeemable evil and needs to be wiped out, not negotiated with.
But that conflicts with Trump's campaign promises of a quick end to the war…

2025-04-15 14:06:17

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Force vaccinations would be acceptable if the vaccines actually worked and the disease was actually an existential threat to society. COVID failed that test on both counts.

2025-04-15 13:57:31

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Find an example of someone _not_ from El Salvador who was deported to El Salvador. I haven't actually found one yet – there's been claims. But they turn out to be El Salvadorans when their background is investigated more fully.
There probably will be the occasional mistake. But that isn't proving to be very common.

2025-04-15 13:53:28

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"US money and weapons in Ukraine"
..which is obviously preventing a genocide, by Russia, of Ukrainians. Just the other day Russia intentionally massacred dozens of Ukrainian civilians with two ballistic missile strikes to central Sumy, right when be streets would be busiest due to a Christian holiday. And the second missile was a few minutes later, to try to kill rescuers.
If you can't accept that talking to you is pointless because you're either evil or delusional.

2025-04-15 13:49:40

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I'm welcome to make the argument that it's an emergency. As are politicians... Which is exactly what is happening.

2025-04-15 13:48:11

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It's also how the government justified WW2. And fighting the Nazis was the correct thing to do.

2025-04-15 13:43:49

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I'm a Canadian, and visit the US and EU often, so wrongful deportation does affect me.

2025-04-15 13:39:07

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The fact we put anyone in jail, or deport anyone at all, is obviously a compromise because any legal system will make mistakes. You're just being absolutist in a ridiculous, obviously counterproductive way.

2025-04-15 13:37:47

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As I said, the scale of the illegal/undesirable immigration problem in the west is such that it's closer to war than a pure policing operation.
Tens of millions of people have been allowed in who need to be deported.

2025-04-15 13:36:22

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Dunno if you've noticed but the US is in debt...
And lately, who are they bombing? The Houthies clearly deserve it. If anything, the US is making the mistake of spending too much money on carefully targeted attacks rather than just wiping out the Houthies cheaply.

2025-04-15 13:15:49

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It's a war. Obviously the people dropping bombs on Russians are stopping innocent people from dying.

2025-04-15 13:10:43

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The US does not have a society threatening problem with rape; the US did have a (somewhat) society threatening problem with false rape allegations, and I've personally been a victim of that.
The UK on the other hand does have a society threatening problem with with Muslim rape gangs (mainly Pakistani). In _that_ case, yes, it absolutely would be justified to reduce standards of due process to get the Muslims perpetrating that crime out of the UK. Although equally, the UK doesn't actually need to reduce due process standards by much to solve the problem: court cases have established beyond a reasonable doubt that a remarkably high percentage of the Pakistani Muslim population are rapists.

2025-04-15 13:05:14

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Nope. The US has different due process standards for all kinds of different situations. This is a situation where the scale of the problem is so huge that due process standards simply have to be diminished.
All sane, non-suicidal, societies do this. That's why pretty much every country has a martial law mechanism. Indeed, I'm in Kyiv at the moment, and subject to martial law. One of the reasons why I can (relatively) safely be here is because normal standards of due process have been diminished.

2025-04-15 13:01:47

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If the US hadn't had that policy they wouldn't even be here. So returning them is just getting back to the status quo.
The _lack_ of consequence is one reason why this is acceptable: in most of these removal cases the US is _not_ punishing the person being removed in any meaningful way. They're just being returned to where they came from.

2025-04-15 10:59:31

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“The money can be found/printed if required.”
Nonsense. Money isn't magic. There just aren't enough judges and lawyers out there to make it happen. Printing unlimited money would not change that.
The fact is _all_ systems make mistakes. Due process doesn't entirely stop innocent people from being harmed either.

2025-04-15 10:56:36

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You realize how _high_ that ratio is if taken literally: almost 10% of people found guilty will be innocent.
In practice, the west probably does more like 1% or 0.1%; El Salvador has released ~6% of those arrested. Though that figure also includes plea deals, and cases where people argued for clemency. And they're probably incorrectly releasing people who are in fact gang members too.
These kinds of numbers are easily justified when you take into account the fact that criminals repeatedly commit crimes. In the case of El Salvador, literally hundreds of lives per year are being saved, and an entire country is being transformed for the better.

2025-04-15 09:53:16

Due process costs money, a lot of money.
El Salvador had to compromise on due process when they rounded up the gang members. When 1% of your population are murderous , violent, criminals who need to be locked up, there simply aren't enough judges or lawyers to give everyone full due process.
The West faces the exact same problem with illegals. We've allowed in literally tens of millions of violent, unproductive, people who need to be forced out, and fast. There aren't enough judges or lawyers on the planet to give every one of those people trials.
The compromise is some innocent people will be wronged. But overall it's the right compromise to make. Fighting violence and criminality at this scale is closer to fighting a war than it is a policing action.
#nevent1q…sknp

2025-04-13 18:01:27

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Yup. Fiber drones are a relatively new thing. But Russia and Ukraine are both using them extensively already.
Frontline areas are getting covered in fiber... Gonna be a huge mess to clean up when Russia is finally defeated.

2025-04-13 11:51:29

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I've yet to see any Ukrainian made drones in person. But Wild Hornets is one of many entities mass producing them. Photos here: https://linktr.ee/wildhornets
As well as a on-chain Bitcoin donation address.

2025-04-13 11:46:47

Downed Russian suicide drone on display at an outdoor sports store in Kyiv, IIRC a Molniya-2 model.
Notable how cheaply made they are. Just balsa wood, vacuum molded plastic, tape, and hobby-grade servos and other electronics. Still, these kill people.
https://image.nostr.build/96fb097ccaae73219e8b257066678a8e21c07858be369fbe6078724f28fa8990.jpg
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https://image.nostr.build/4b6c816edb883fdef11c5b8c0f55f809e0d15b0f1d73a872f1160b6add3264e2.jpg

2025-04-12 02:28:20

https://image.nostr.build/07949b83fc07cd8b33f781db2052930f9431e1d83cd1383ea4144cc9c5c22756.jpg
https://x.com/ApostateProphet/status/1910321521907716220
https://image.nostr.build/18596f704170bfd6b26ba3bd46327abfaa99b23fa499c302336078f2459359c6.jpg
https://x.com/ApostateProphet/status/1910768024338018476
At some point the EU will go after nostr image hosts and relays. That'll be interesting!

2025-04-07 08:14:13

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Stoppable bombs for drones like this are actually quite a nice innovation. That plane can carry a ~100kg bomb, so the additional damage from the plane itself is insignificant. Also, a streamlined bomb can penetrate further into a building than an entire plane, doing a lot more damage for the same amount of explosives.
Meanwhile, there's usually weaker targets nearby – like electrical switchgear – that can be usefully damaged by a Cessna-scale plane without any explosives at all.
So dropping a bomb and then crashing the drone gets twice as many attacks for about the same cost.

2025-04-07 08:09:50

This is the sort of drone that Ukraine is successfully using to attack Russian targets, in this case a fiber optic plant in Saransk, about 1000km from the border.
Basically a cheap Cessna-like small plane, built in Ukraine, fitted with a droppable bomb. This particular plane already dropped its bomb elsewhere, and was using the airframe itself to crash into the electrical switchgear outside the facility to destroy it. (Ukraine has actually developed automated bomb dropping software for its drones)
Russian anti-aircraft defense is in a sorry state... Ukraine could absolutely win this war by destroying more economic targets in Russia like this and crashing their economy. The main issue is the psychopathic "anti-war" "peaceniks" who care more about Russian "civilians" than Ukrainians.
https://video.nostr.build/d20f19bc26542353c22578bc0a4860f872a76e8d2d626e8791fc64fc59acd630.mp4

2025-04-05 10:38:54

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Indeed. The Iron Dome saves lives in the short run. But it allows politicians to ignore the root causes of the problem – e.g. the fact that Hamas still exists – and punt the solution until later.
Israeli lives are still collectively lost too despite the Iron Dome: if the population of Tel Aviv, 500,000 people, hide in bunkers for 15 minutes collectively they've spent 14 years wasting their precious time on earth in bunkers. Just in terms of time lost, a few air alerts is equivalent to a human life.
...also, that math is exactly why so many people ignore air raids in Ukraine. The raids go on for much longer, and not enough people die per raid to be worth hiding.

2025-04-05 08:43:45

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Actually it would be fine! The creation of timestamp proofs is both very cheap, and scalable. The hashing of the data is done client side, so all that the servers have to do is build a merkle tree of all requests. That part scales well as we have aggregator software that can build different parts of the merkle tree on different servers.
At the moment demand is low enough that I only need a single aggregator per calendar. But if load increases we'll just spin up more.