biohazel

bitcoin foss development educator

Public Key

npub16athe4eayrxth9ue6qclyfd0zcw45v8z976n37lea3yhzq00upgsjv9eze

NIP-57 Address

scalarschool@zeuspay.com

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relay.damus.io

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2024-10-15 18:27:26

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Hi! it says the site cannot be reached. :/

2024-10-11 19:17:56

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Thanks for offering that. There are actual organized hate groups against women in Bitcoin, bringing awareness to the underlying issues explaining the statistics is a great start: biohazel.github.io

2024-10-04 02:29:17

Same. That is why I am not scared if all the "Bitcoiners" decide to ostracize me. Their groupthink apelike enslaving behavior is not what Bitcoin is.
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2024-10-03 23:41:48

Places where it is dangerous advocating for feminism and women's rights: Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Sudan, Pakistan, the Bitcoin Developer Community.

2024-10-01 18:58:56

My job is of an immense scope. I have to build a loving caring environment in one side, and disrupt a shitty stale hateful structure in the other so we have a minimal chance to extend a loving caring ecosystem forward. The broken side doesn't speak nonviolent communication.

2024-10-01 14:09:14

When you realize that showing the evidence has no effect, and marches are the very last resort within your power to change the world.
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2024-10-01 10:32:49

My experience with Nostr is similar to my experience with Bitcoin in Brazil: an inner circle using the excuse of bootstrapping and scaling a technology essential for humanity, while in reality, they just run in circles kissing each other’s butts.

2024-09-22 03:34:45

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I've said something similar to @npub1trr…hdpu during his AMA. Check this out: https://stacker.news/items/683717?commentId=684076 —TLDR women have passed the blind bullishness and we are just aware that Bitcoin is inevitable and some serious enslavement of our kind is coming if we don't watch out and grab ours.

2024-09-20 16:17:30

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People complaining about Nostr clients have social media privilege. As a Brazilian, I am just glad it exists.

2024-09-20 00:43:36

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Also a lot more responsibility and drive to build. I work 24/7, leave my family in second plan, and still feel it is not enough to save Satoshi.

2024-09-14 07:54:55

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Embrace the sketchiness.

2024-09-13 18:48:05

Brazil's Minister of Human Rights is out, accused of sexual harassment. While the accused claims innocence, this scandal highlights the pervasive culture of misogyny and rape culture in Brazilian politics and decision-making.

2024-09-10 03:44:35

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This is badass. Thanks for sharing. I hope to create a lifelong impact for society and for women in Bitcoin FOSS development with the work of scalarschool.org

2024-09-09 17:57:29

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I am very interested in how we can use ML as a service so that users can tweak their own Nostr clients with full granularity—not the deceptive black box of illusory control we have today with filtered words and ‘hide these’ options. If I were wealthy, I would invest in Nostr apps focused on algorithmic sovereignty.

2024-09-08 03:38:39

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She was mean to you. Rest assured we don't care about these things in Brazil. And I also ran over a guy "in the wrong side" (both biking) at night on the road in the snow in Binghamton when I was in grad school, I didn't judge him at all. We were both glad to not have hurt ourselves too much.

2024-09-08 00:50:09

Speech censorship is terrible, and it will worsen over time. But what is happening in Brazil is nuanced. We have a thousand other ways to connect with the outside world, and one of them does not pass through the algorithmic king who manipulates humanity's willpower and attention at his whim—nurturing hate groups and driving humanity to a complete divide. Let that sink in.

2024-09-06 21:47:41

https://medium.com/@scalarbitcoin/the-onion-model-for-bitcoin-open-source-development-7d7dc07ce479

2024-09-06 14:37:39

I am so happy to start seeing the positive impact of my work in my local community. Brazil must become a global model for the inclusion of women in Bitcoin, women developers in Bitcoin FOSS development, and women beginner developers in the broader Bitcoin technical communities where learning occurs. I will accept nothing less.

2024-09-05 20:16:49

It’s ironic to experience the cruelest forms of oppression while pursuing Bitcoin development and education. Sometimes I wonder if it’s just an extinction burst—a desperate surge of resistance from a system on the brink of collapse—or if there’s a deeper message. Either way, it only strengthens my resolve to keep building, so future generations of women don’t have to endure what I do, and Bitcoin can fulfill its whole potential.

2024-09-05 17:16:26

The X platform has always been a hub for academics and scientists to keep each other informed—ever since I was in college and grad school, and later with Bitcoin. Entire careers are at stake for too many of us. Worse yet, I doubt that this measure will help extinguish the gangs and organized hate groups we have in Brazil. It might even make them stronger.

2024-09-05 02:48:11

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Just like in early childhood development, the technical and social mistakes we make now will carry on forever.

2024-09-04 23:00:05

And if we have social media tools at hand, it is our duty and obligation to yap society into freedom by persistently speaking the truth.

2024-09-04 21:19:09

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It is time for humanity to accept that, censorship-resistant or not, social media sucks.

2024-09-04 12:13:28

As the number of women holding private keys grows, so does the level of freedom for the entire humankind.

2024-09-03 13:57:52

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Life is simple.

2024-09-01 22:46:01

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Precisely. It is their right to not want the presence of women in their Bitcoin technical environments and communities, even if it sometimes brings consequences to meatspace, violating the principles of non-aggression and respect for women's private property. There are places where people with my profile can find peace—just not in certain communities that are, unfortunately, very important for Bitcoin development, which by design deprives us of free access to information. I just wanted to stay longer and become a frequent user of the platform, but it won't be possible. The toll of discrimination hinders my intellectual output, which is the most valuable asset I have to give back to Bitcoin. Thank you for exercising your free speech. I respect and appreciate it. It was nice to lurk and learn while it lasted. I like that this is permaware. For good or bad, the truth is permanent. If I ever need to return and leave an important message, I can, and that matters most. Kind regards from Brazil. Enjoy your freedom.

2024-09-01 19:12:47

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It is nice that you are having a positive experience and clearly feel safe. The Brazilian organized hate group against women and against feminism in Bitcoin development started to chase and harass women here as well. Freedom was great while it lasted.

2024-09-01 18:27:41

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Now that I entered your key that I saw. You are a member of the organized hate group against women and against feminism in Bitcoin. I knew you were coming to ruin Nostr as well. Freedom was nice while it lasted.

2024-09-01 18:27:15

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Now that I entered your key that I saw. You are a member of the Brazilian organized hate group against women and against feminism in Bitcoin. I knew you were coming to ruin Nostr as well. Freedom was nice while it lasted.

2024-09-01 14:28:28

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The state of Brazil.

2024-08-31 14:03:12

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Brazil has a lot of internal work to do. What we are going through now is a consequence of decisions and cultural buildup over the last 10 years. Bitcoin and freedom tech should have a much larger reach at this point, but the early communities of builders screwed everything up with their first-mover, inner-circle, and male supremacy fetishes. We need to flash mob to bring women into open-source development. This is a cyberwar. Their dreams of gaining from early-acquired Bitcoin are futile compared to the size of the challenge we have ahead of us. Women-led projects in Bitcoin development, like Scalar School — @npub1v79…qrup — are more important than ever. We need more of these efforts and greater moral support from the broader community to help us address our social problems in this field.

2024-08-24 20:16:59

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I’ve encountered firmware/driver integration issues with various distros, except for Ubuntu. Given my focus on efficiency and minimizing downtime, Ubuntu remains my go-to choice, at least on my X1 ThinkPad. Time spent on troubleshooting is time lost from more critical development tasks. When you’ve mastered your craft, any distro should suffice, but you choose the tools that let you stay at the top of your game. Trying to look smart might cost you money.

2024-08-23 16:05:42

I wonder if, after serving in the trenches of the Bitcoin development industry—where there is a war against women, adversarial thinking is a must, and you have to fight hard to get anything of substance done—we become unsuitable for traditional corporate jobs, where you have to be quiet and obey authority, and even arguments to clients are vetted by your PMs.
Bitcoin development is the Hotel California of professional fields. You can check in anytime you like, but you can never leave. Once you’re in, the commitment to its principles and the fight for change is something you carry with you indefinitely. It’s not just a job but a cause you can’t easily walk away from.
The relentless drive to question, challenge, and push for something better is what sets this field apart—and what makes it essential to keep advocating for inclusion, equity, and human rights within it.
This rabbit hole has no exit. And if you are an oppressed minority, it is like a war we have no option but to show up for. I wonder if there are other organizations genuinely concerned about what is being done to women in the dev communities that onboard beginners.

2024-08-21 05:41:28

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Thanks!

2024-08-20 23:51:20

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🔥

2024-08-20 14:06:09

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*this

2024-08-20 14:05:22

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It is a mess. Everyone will flock to Nostr after his mayhem. I've learned to appreciate and feel very grateful for this technology and its developers.

2024-08-19 20:29:00

Watching a Bitcoin Core Code Review live with achow101 and 9 other people. Moments like this make it feel as if there's a bug in this simulation. Why are we so niche? Where is everyone?—7 people online as I finish writing this.
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2024-08-19 16:26:03

Once, as a beginner dev and bitcoiner, I broke my Umbrel node by messing with the command line. I was sure that my channel funds were lost.
Then I recalled I had @npub1xnf…lpr5 on my phone, and I was able to close my channels through the mobile app and recover my funds. I will never forget all that you do for us. Zeus is freedom, self-sovereignty, and safety all at once.
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2024-08-19 04:38:59

Scalar School is a unique project with its own merits in the Bitcoin ecosystem. It is catering to Brazil. Although we adopt new tech well—we used to be Orkut's slaughterhouse and data provider guinea pigs, now Meta's, and so forth and so on—we develop slowly.
We are insulated by the Brazilian Portuguese language and the odd fact that we don't need English to make it inland—different from the reality of a European, for example. We are isolated, and we carry a very unique modus operandi.
Scalar School is entirely conceived by a woman who navigates the dream of becoming a Bitcoin Core/FOSS developer herself and has found several unfair, gender-based obstacles along the way.
Was I delusional from the very start? It doesn't matter. No one should go through the double standards that exist in the larger Bitcoin technical communities where the dreams start being nurtured and our future talents start being bred.
This is a project with a vision. I am the user, the product, and the ethnographic researcher. I am walking the walk, fixing the hurdles, and opening space for the women coming behind me, even though I am not there yet.
I am not using shortcuts for advantage. I like to carefully design solutions to difficult problems and work really hard to implement them, and I like freedom, and I like to be treated fairly and not receive differential and worse opportunities because I am a woman at the base. I have a strong sense of justice, an insatiable will to learn and teach, and a resilience that is larger than my sense of self.
I am not trying to build a meritless, bound-to-fail path for women. I never even agreed to make it 100% for women in the first place. I try, but I can't. I might do it, but it keeps not happening, especially when a man asks me, "Is that only for women?".
I can't pay them with the same currency of isolation, and I might contradict myself in my goals to increase the number of women in Bitcoin as fast as possible. And here comes another point: it is easy to sell promises and loose dreams to get people to flock to you. It is easy to make people users of Bitcoin by wrapping the code in ideology in such a way that it is difficult to unwrap. It is easy to cater to a community that has been there for over a decade by just agreeing with everything they do, no matter how unethical and wrong.
And if that is the KPI you're looking for, you won't find it. And people will judge, and will say it is a waste, and will claim it is a net negative for Bitcoin itself, and will ignore our efforts. But achieving the ambitious goal of Scalar School is hard. We have to fix history. We have to repair the lack of women confidently diving into bits and bytes and scrambled code and math and finding the meaning in it, and creating solutions, and solving problems, and opening meaningful PRs, and making a life out of open source by their own merits.
The open-source world is wild. And it won't divide the ocean in two just for women to pass. We'll have to figure out how to make it together. My role is to not let them fail at the base. My role is to lead by example. To be a mirror they can look at and ask questions, and get answers, without the overhead of discrimination. My role is to use my privilege to advocate for them.
My role is to make it myself, and by making it, to hand them the map. To show them the way. Most importantly, to be there for them. That is representation. That is how you inspire minorities to see themselves winning and go for it despite the adversities, the scrutiny, and the harassment of a local community that is offended by seeing a woman carving her path without giving them the possibility to make her stop. My role is to be the resistance, and by showing an alternative path, to put terrible ideas in check despite the retaliation by those profiting from them.
As a woman in Bitcoin development, I've had my time and my capacity wasted by teachers who abused their position with sheer negligence and deceit. By colleagues who couldn't respect the competition. By friends who extended a hand and guided me through traps only to ensure I would fail.
And this is the generational heritage that I am fixing and rebuilding. It is deeper than heated events full of sellers and enthusiasts. Scalar School is a quiet revolution. I am grateful to the @npub17xv…c9as for sharing this dream with the Brazilian women developers in Bitcoin, and its impact won't be limited to Brazil. I hope to make my sponsors @npub1szp…h3td and @npub1trr…hdpu speak proudly about Scalar School. You're the only people to whom I'll ever owe an explanation. Thank you. See you on the other side.

2024-08-18 22:49:14

This is the future.
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2024-08-18 22:11:43

Join Stallings and @npub1v79…qrup as we dive into the essential mathematical and cryptographic principles that underpin Bitcoin.
Before we explore the depths of Bitcoin technology, we’ll cover some foundational topics.
Prime Numbers (Chapter 8.1)
Fermat and Euler's Theorems (Chapter 8.2)
Primality Testing (Chapter 8.3)
Modular Arithmetic and Discrete Logarithms (Chapter 8.5)
Finite Fields in the Form GF(p) (Chapters 5.1 and 10.3)
Abelian Groups and Elliptic Curves (Chapter 10.3)
Elliptic Curve Arithmetic (Chapter 10.3)
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECDSA) (Chapter 10.4)
Random Number Generators and Pseudorandom Functions (PRFs):
Principles of Pseudorandom Number Generation (Chapter 7.1)
True Random Number Generators (Chapter 7.6)
SHA-256 (Secure Hash Algorithm) (Chapter 11.5)
Applications of Cryptographic Hash Functions (Chapter 11.1)
Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (Chapter 13.5)
Properties and Requirements of Digital Signatures (Chapter 13.1)
Hash-based MACs: HMAC (Chapter 12.5)
Public Key Distribution (Chapter 14.3)
At Scalar School, we are committed to never skipping any foundational steps and are not afraid to start small. This careful approach is designed to ensure that when we begin delivering code and content, it is of the highest quality.
The open-source landscape is competitive, and we aim to prepare our students to confidently stand among the best.
We are dedicated to building a robust foundation and increasing the representation of women in Bitcoin development and education, empowering a new generation of developers to innovate and excel in this dynamic field.
Success won’t happen overnight—we are here to walk the good walk and actively engage with and learn from the feedback of the global Bitcoin FOSS development community.
Is there anything else you’d like to see covered, or do you feel something important is missing? Let us know in the comments.
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