Peter Todd

https://petertodd.org

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2025-03-30 15:38:29

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"no noticable secondary explosions"
Dude, we have solid evidence there was a massive shockwave that damaged buildings hundreds of meters outside the base. Just look at the videos. Obviously, Ukraine blew up a lot of Russian explosives; nothing Ukraine can deliver has that much punch.

2025-03-30 03:30:06

https://image.nostr.build/6fe8e824f11ef59bce179b693e5eed56022dc4f02bd0f5c632caebc7421b7800.jpg

2025-03-28 09:21:14

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Huh? No-one uses escalators for air stairs. The purpose of the motor is just to raise the stairs into position to match the height of the plane.

2025-03-17 21:21:15

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Have you ever taken an IQ test? They're designed to test reasoning irrespective of education.

2025-03-09 22:11:22

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Of course it's taxable. It's income.

2025-03-09 14:59:08

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/announcement-2
SMBC comics parts ways with their ad provider, leaving them without any income.
I really wish I could just pay with lightning to see content. Are there any easy to use lightning paywalls? Surely someone could write some simple JavaScript to do this. It doesn't need to be completely secure.

2025-03-07 11:22:04

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A surprisingly common answe to the question "WTF did I just see in the sky‽” is it's a spaceship!

2025-03-06 23:58:56

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I think the main point is that you have a known company standing behind their work, and documenting it properly.

2025-03-05 18:26:16

Second time that OpenTimestamps has been used to secure election results in the US: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/bitcoin-blockchain-used-to-secure-results-of-tennessee-countys-republican-convention-vote

2025-03-04 12:18:20

OTOH making the signers private reduces risks of them being compromised by force.
Same as how Tether refusing to release details about their bank accounts was arguably a good thing.
#nevent1q…wrsl

2025-03-04 12:15:20

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That's an exceptionally hard problem without whitelisting.

2025-03-02 17:14:28

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It's politics. The crypto reserve including XRP doesn't mean they lobbying didn't work. It means that if we didn't lobby, BTC wouldn't have been included at all.
https://image.nostr.build/67ad98d481aaa9bd7465e57786c9c7a62c40b408a6994c94741b9f13f5d95ebc.jpg

2025-03-01 20:04:34

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"will you continue to suck Zelenskyy's cock"
What do you think Zelensky should be doing right now?

2025-02-28 16:31:06

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https://youtu.be/9Fr3oLZnmvc

2025-02-28 10:29:29

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That's still a bit assumption...
If old-timers are selling coins they could easily be selling from newer, hotter, wallets first.

2025-02-27 06:15:51

This hack reminds me of the audit I did on a Bitcoin custodian a while back.
They had a fancy multisig setup. But the source code for that setup was stored on AWS, and they didn't PGP sign it, let alone verify it.
#nevent1q…56fn

2025-02-26 09:59:20

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It's not genocide when a violent population kills themselves.
No-one owes Gaza food and water. They're the ones who destroyed their economy and infrastructure with war.

2025-02-26 08:33:55

...and?
Take the psychopaths out of Gaza and it easily could be a rich destination resort. Indeed, prior to Oct 7th the Gazan coastline was covered with exclusive high end resorts catering to Muslim tourists.
Gazans chose violence instead. Most of the Oct 7th killings and abductions were done by "ordinary" Gazans.
#nevent1q…wa30

2025-02-26 07:39:22

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/making-america-healthy-again-by-empowering-patients-with-clear-accurate-and-actionable-healthcare-pricing-information/
One of the most interesting executive orders so far: Trump is (again) forcing hospitals to advertise accurate pricing information.
I say again because he already tried doing this in 2019 with another executive order requiring the disclosure of pricing for 300 common services. But sounds like actual compliance isow.

2025-02-24 20:41:50

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Nuts
cashuBpGFteCJodHRwczovL21pbnQubWluaWJpdHMuY2FzaC9CaXRjb2luYXVjc2F0YXSBomFpSABQBVDwSUFGYXCBo2FhGCBhc3hAMTA0ZjcwOWRkNDMwNDJkMTg0NDI5ODY1ZjYwMDQ1OWEyOTAwNDY1Nzg0NjIzYWY1NWI5OWMzNTQ0ZjNmMjgzOWFjWCEDrBVSqF3h2FJEib0ZsTkuZ4moEFn8VK0kdPsm8jDajANhZHJTZW50IGZyb20gTWluaWJpdHM

2025-02-24 14:27:13

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It the service knows who you are it's not very important to give them a new bolt12 invoice. That's doubly true when they have a personal relationship with you, eg my consulting clients.

2025-02-24 12:42:20

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“wanks off over an imaginary war”
Tell me, how do you think this war is imaginary?

2025-02-20 16:40:19

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Ah! Yeah, give it a try. Lots of them on Amazon, eg: https://www.amazon.com/Rocky-Mountain-Goods-Chainmail-Scrubber/dp/B0D33T65L3/

2025-02-20 13:49:34

https://hotnews.ro/armata-va-putea-sa-doboare-dronele-ce-patrund-in-spatiul-aerian-al-tarii-lege-adoptata-de-camera-deputatilor-1905192
Russia has repeatedly flown attack drones full of explosives through Romania to attack Ukraine without permission. It's was just a matter of time before a Romanian was killed by one of these drones – a significant percentage fail and they've repeatedly crashed on Romanian soil.
Romania _finally_ changed the law to allow their air force to shoot these dangerous drones down. Which they can easily and safely do out at sea.
Absurdly, 99 Romanian politicians – all from a pro-Russian party - voted against the law. Just treasonous.

2025-02-19 21:45:06

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Stainless steel pans are awesome. You can clean them with aggressive scouring pads without any concerns, they require zero preparation or maintenance, they're relatively cheap, you can buy them anywhere, and they last close enough to forever.

2025-02-15 13:52:09

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Is the Ukrainian government just trying to raise the taxes of Ukrainians?
Was the Russian government just trying to raise the taxes of Russians?

2025-02-14 14:51:54

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Ukraine is quite capable of doing the exterminating for us, especially with Western support.
Just look at the long list of Russian oil infrastructure that they've blown up with Ukrainian made drones.
https://video.nostr.build/560c20f25d70dcb29fe78b344e2a5492f7ff86648f729b3222d3b9a2a290acd6.mp4

2025-02-14 14:29:03

https://video.nostr.build/e03eb36c6ea61c31794cadc129f1dfddfb3121772b8143e071b2fc970687c0b7.mp4
Direct attack on the Chernobyl containment shield by a Russian drone.
They're just evil. Negotiations are stupid. the only goal that makes sense is exterminating them.

2025-02-11 08:26:27

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I use amethyst myself.

2025-02-11 02:34:38

https://youtube.com/shorts/aNbzjwfpIfU
"If snakes had lips"

2025-02-10 19:40:41

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Assuming unicorn physiology is similar to typical ruminants, measuring unicorn farts would be a lot more objective...

2025-02-08 06:04:35

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Yup. I stayed with a friend for a few days in a suburb nearish Johannesburg. His entire neighborhood was pretty much all off grid. We only noticed the (daily) power outages by the street lights going out.

2025-02-08 05:51:32

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If someone can pay my expenses like last time I'd be glad to attend again and give a talk and/or panel.

2025-02-08 05:44:45

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Pro-tip: go to South Africa while you still can. I visited a year ago for two weeks or so.
Beautiful landscape. But it's obvious that the place is collapsing due to the mismanagement of their black led government.
It's absolutely mind boggling that big cities like Cape Town and Johannesburg have been experiencing constant load shedding blackouts for years. South Africa is more than rich enough to keep the lights on.
Hell, _Urkraine_ does a better job of keeping the lights on in the middle of a brutal war, in the face of constant Russia attacks on the power grid, and they have a _lower_ GDP/capita than South Africa!
https://www.ourpower.co.za/areas/jhb-city-power

2025-02-05 06:18:51

Strict AML & KYC compliance... Not a good sign...
#nevent1q…462p

2025-02-04 19:12:19

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"an un-elected secret group"
Yeah, that's how government works... You vote for the bosses and then they hire people to get stuff done.

2025-02-03 21:31:42

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Bitcoin Core nodes don't. But it's likely that people are rebroadcasting anyway.

2025-02-03 18:38:38

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To be clear, there is (currently) no such thing as transaction expiration. While individual mempools will drop transactions, anyone can re-broadcast them.

2025-02-03 18:34:39

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El Salvador will no longer allow citizens to pay taxes with Bitcoin.

2025-02-03 05:55:58

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Pretty much all caves are formed in limestone, and IIUC El Salvador doesn't have much limestone.
Some caves are formed by volcanic magma flows. But again, AFAIK El Salvador doesn't have the right kind of volcanic activity to form those either.

2025-02-03 04:26:49

Google and Wikipedia still are saying Bitcoin is one of the official currencies of El Salvador... For now.
https://image.nostr.build/659ba60cb4284e6bcdb2a5355b208b0d2600b8088b572c0299f439ffdab095e8.jpg

2025-02-01 21:12:25

First 1sat/vB OpenTimestamps calendar transaction in a long time: https://mempool.space/tx/fcef206cda213fb94f4b4ccf12d97e8daf59dbe0170d1ecfaf94228732e78fa5?mode=details

2025-01-29 13:37:18

Imagine comparing a bunch of disruptive vandals losing their tax exempt status to tax paying citizens and businesses losing their bank accounts... 🙄
#nevent1q…vnfz

2025-01-29 13:27:35

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Haha, yup. From Google Photos on Android.

2025-01-28 22:42:45

Guess what made it to YouTube Music...
https://image.nostr.build/d1e8472d0e75eebc3d4742b3db087a18b02ce5eb7749e862c2e9da1af75e33db.jpg

2025-01-28 17:59:33

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Yes, there's probably thousands of engineers across multiple companies that should be removed from society. That should not surprise you. A lot of people are evil.

2025-01-28 16:26:13

The engineers and managers responsible for this should spend the rest of their lives in prison, or be executed.
We do not want people willing to do this in society. It's obviously reckless and evil.
Quite likely this would mean the end of Subaru as a functioning company – good chance that knowledge and involvement of this goes all the way to the C-level management. That's fine. Fuck them.
#nevent1q…eue9

2025-01-27 21:12:39

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It's not civil infrastructure if it's paying for a genocidal invasion.
Since a double digit % of Russia's GDP is going to war, no economic infrastructure in Russia is civil. It's all valid military targets.

2025-01-27 20:21:36

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The point isn't that people will advertise channels based on CSV tokens that they don't actually own. The point is that clients don't have to care whether or not the channels are real: public routing works fine whether or not the channels are real, so validation is unnecessary.
Thus, the amount of bandwidth you need to successfully route, say, a USD token implemented on a CSV scheme like RGB is much less than you'd expect, as you don't need to fully validate every channel. (Remember that validating a single CSV token txout might require megabytes of proof data)

2025-01-27 20:15:38

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Saudi Arabia is believed to have about 3% of world oil demand in spare capacity that can be rapidly activated. UAE is another ~1%, and Iraq and Kuwait together another 1%. That alone would replace half of Russia's entire production. Which is exactly why convincing Saudi Arabia to produce more oil could do significant harm to Russia.
Russia disappearing tomorrow wouldn't be a big deal.
Anyway, if you're actually worried about that, you should have been preparing for it years ago. It was obvious to anyone with a brain that Ukraine can defeat Russia, and that Russian oil and gas production is highly vulnerable.
This is just one of dozens of videos of Russian oil infrastructure getting blown up that has come out in the past month:
https://video.nostr.build/ef1e4374383a47d83f18ef2a105bfcbbccea987dfd75297e87760c6f1829eaca.mp4
Sites all over Russia are getting successfully hit by Ukrainian drones.

2025-01-27 20:01:07

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Russia produces ~10% of world oil. That's not very significant.
Indeed, one possible way this war is ended is simply by Trump convincing the Saudis to pump more to push prices below the level at which Russian oil is profitable to export.

2025-01-27 19:50:06

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-ryzan-oil-refinery-halts-operations-after-drone-strikes-sources-say-2025-01-27/
One of Russia's largest oil refineries.
It's not hard to stop Russia. Blow up their economic infrastructure, and (ideally) kill the staff working at these plants, and their economy will collapse and the killing will stop.
War is expensive. Russia can't fight without a profitable economy.

2025-01-27 19:06:49

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Yeah, I think you don't understand my article at all.
It has nothing to do with exchange rate swaps; what my article proposes is completely orthogonal to that trick.
My point is that the sender doesn't need to validate whether or not any intermediary channel along the route is real at all, and that makes client side validated tokens much more feasible to use for lightning than people expect.

2025-01-27 15:35:48

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Don't feel bad. I'm talking about something a fair bit more obscure that might be apparent at first glance!

2025-01-27 04:25:18

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Yes and no. The mechanism I'm proposing to take advantage of it similar. The the reason why I think it's useful has nothing to do with Ghost Addresses.

2025-01-27 04:14:54

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To be clear, the (possible) innovation isn't fake channels. The innovation is taking advantage of them to implement Lightning on top of client side validated tokens.

2025-01-26 21:59:40

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Totally secure...

2025-01-26 13:43:29

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Exactly.

2025-01-26 05:15:03

https://youtube.com/shorts/okPG_VB8MAA
Particularly good explanation.

2025-01-26 02:24:57

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Not if Trump invades Canada!

2025-01-25 21:35:11

New blog post: https://petertodd.org/2025/fake-channels-and-rgb-lightning
tl;dr: the fact that you can route over fake channels on lightning, means implementing Lightning on top of client-side-validated tokens like RGB is much easier than you'd expect.
Probably not a new idea. But someone's gotta write it down...

2025-01-25 17:14:48

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Again, it's not sufficient for peoples' low density homes to be self sufficient to get rid of the electricity grid. You need decentralized power for the entire economy, which is a pipe dream in most places.
I've been to countries that are forced to do that due to incompetence, lack of investment, or in the case of Ukraine , a genocidal invasion. They use a hell of a lot of expensive diesel generators.
E.g. even though South Africa is very sunny,
businesses in the wealthy, white areas supplement their solar panels with diesel generators.
Finally, paying more for the grid than the electricity itself isn't a bad thing. It just means that the market price of power is cheaper than actually distributing it. Lots of commodities are like that: the majority of the cost of gravel, sand, concrete, water, etc. is often transport and distribution.

2025-01-25 16:59:18

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Yes, you have friends, who are powering their personal lives – their low density homes – with solar. That doesn't mean much.
I took a look at some stats, and it looks like a typical supermarket in a mild climate uses roughly 1000kWh/year of floor space. Meanwhile, in Ontario, a typical 20% efficient, high efficiency solar panel can produce just 277kWh/year. Parking needs for a supermarket are roughly twice as much parking as m² of floorspace (it is common to put in more).
Even if you covered the entire roof with solar panels, and the parking lot, you'd barely break even on energy in theory. In practice you'd do even worse than that as it's common to go without significant sunlight for days or even weeks.
...and that's just a low density, single story, supermarket! There are so many businesses, and residences, that use way more energy per m² than that.
Doing without an electricity grid is a pipe dream.

2025-01-25 16:01:32

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That's nonsense. Lots of electricity users use more power on their property than decentralized power sources like solar could ever hope to provide economically.
Peak sunlight is only ~1000W/m², and even the most exotic solar panels are at best 45% efficient. And obviously, production is a lot less taking daylight and weather into account.
You're always going to need a grid if you want an industrial economy.

2025-01-25 15:54:18

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The grid is an inherent monopoly. Having a grid makes a lot of sense. Having two is stupid.

2025-01-25 05:27:01

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Thanks for the info!
Hopefully they're able to do public tours in the future.

2025-01-24 17:37:13

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Do they offer public tours? Or was that specially arranged?

2025-01-23 21:10:04

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https://image.nostr.build/081e35bae666370f1790f036d7f255f32a1d5d987f32fc60a7ce1dabddfac861.jpg

2025-01-23 21:01:35

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/federal-recognition-of-the-lumbee-tribe-of-north-carolina/
After all the other stuff I'm curious what's the backstory here. 😂

2025-01-22 13:17:08

This is a fun one: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/keeping-americans-safe-in-aviation/
Trump specifically ended DEI at the FAA.
Pretty obvious that people die when you hire flight controllers on the basis of something other than competence.

2025-01-22 02:01:44

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I think we're in agreement.

2025-01-22 01:11:49

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Samorai being pardoned wouldn't be ideal. We want them to win their case.

2025-01-21 19:26:23

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Haha, yes, that was my second favorite too!

2025-01-21 18:20:05

Real world consequence of the international court system: Ukrainian special forces risking their life to get DNA samples of suspected North Koreans fighting for Russia.
https://video.nostr.build/ebe25fb477b034de9a170acccfa66b9c8a20f8faf00456f358bcf7ef0575c14b.mp4
Source: https://x.com/73centreuasof/status/1881703919065366541

2025-01-20 23:13:33

Coolest Bitcoin logo in the lot:
https://image.nostr.build/8ad7ee2531357904d47f3ec28ee8737baaa5466a1257a2c8d4ef0a29f9865d2f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/749a35c349936ceff15c06f3a392d1c7c32616672d34bc9124c52e1b3d70c02b.jpg

2025-01-20 15:57:41

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I don't think pardon power in general is crazy. It's not unlike jury nullification.
But the way it's been used by Biden is pretty lol.

2025-01-20 15:08:10

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Relevant: acceptance of a pardon is acknowledgement of guilt. This was adjudicated in Burdick v. United States in 1915.
https://image.nostr.build/708601d369c386dfbaa40a67025146679131169cca22df2ea9abef589ecd7f7b.jpg
Another fun thing is if you are pardoned for a crime, the 5th amendment no longer applies as your testimony is no longer incriminating; lying is still perjury.
Putting Fauci on the stand and forcing him to admit to his crimes would still be effective. And the pardon isn't for any of his staff, who are probably themselves guilty of various offenses too.

2025-01-20 15:01:12

inb4 a US president gives us a purge night via presidential pardon.

2025-01-19 02:53:37

https://youtu.be/a1hrqxFm1Ss
I'm probably not the only person who knows the last one because of Data...

2025-01-17 01:26:13

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Your kitchen should have enough ventilation to the outside that the smoke alarm doesn't go off... though a lot of builders cheap out.

2025-01-17 00:08:50

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Is coffee gay, or queer? https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/21b4d339a6299685dc3df99e047ca3c6041119e923a2fe455b3d30f215cfe5a7.png

2025-01-17 00:06:56

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Worth noting, they have a big exclusion zone for these tests, based on the physics. Nothing is likely to hit anyone if it blows up at any point in the flight.
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/63a8c1c76b8a16d897e5040eb1a7b4c806283fb82089f27645908e18eddb9a6b.png

2025-01-16 23:58:44

RIP Starship.
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/f3d3b003bb2793c90713024064bfe123fc68e924c6121918bf633df244b36baf.mp4
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/c7265472e99569798c1cd9e7d46fb45503c8e37a96c768c83b5d21cbe9bc5dea.mp4
https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/b6895996b6277df1998d50b5bd1ef7edcb30af1ce64fc35ca8578604bc8b075e.mp4
Nice landing of the booster though.

2025-01-16 15:52:56

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Actually rust-bitcoin has both Amount and SignedAmount!
But yeah, same logic would apply to cdk's Amount wrapper too.

2025-01-16 14:06:12

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Your new amount_to_index() function is a much better idea.
Basically all data types in Rust can go on either the array or the heap. There's some esoteric exceptions. But they're not important at your level of knowledge.
Rust was actually telling you something important with that apparently convoluted conversion: usize on many architectures is 32 bit. So you can't direct convert a u64 to a usize. You have to use a fallible conversion and deal with the potential error.
Also, Amount has a to_sats() method. So you could have used this instead:
usize.try_from(amount.to_sats()).unwrap_or(usize::MAX)
The rust-bitcoin library could also implement TryFrom to convert Amount into usize. But I suspect they won't as that's a really rare thing to do.

2025-01-15 23:15:25

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I uploaded an malformed version of it at one point, which some of my CDN's caches picked up. I think the bad version just needs to expire. It's looking ok on my end here.

2025-01-15 22:37:19

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Asshat. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/8ee1c34145ae634e7a8dcdaae0423d20b4aed6bf617ed5ac9687c0b15a4582b7.jpeg

2025-01-15 22:32:57

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Link to that code? I think I know what's wrong.

2025-01-15 15:12:33

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I've been in much more dangerous places than that!

2025-01-15 13:06:25

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Earth. 😁
I reached over a railing to take the photo.

2025-01-15 12:40:30

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😂
I will say it is a real photo captured on a Google Pixel phone. Didn't get much editing either. Just some minor filtering, cropping, vignette, and removed a distracting bit of trash in the corner.

2025-01-15 12:34:39

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Exactly what I've been told too. Peoples' friends and family either have already left Russia. Or, quite often, they're no longer talking to them because they support the invasion.
Of course, a lot of Russians have left, as least among the wealthier class.

2025-01-15 12:31:44

https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/f27a884110c5de2befee76e36d7229957bcde44077148be2d17c615a19344153.jpeg

2025-01-14 23:35:51

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This whole argument is idiotic. If I'm opening a lightning channel, I don't want my counterparty to know where my coins came from. Thus I use coinjoin+lightning.
Also, layer your security. Not everything works 100%

2025-01-14 23:01:07

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Thanks!

2025-01-14 22:12:42

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Oh fuck off psycho.
Incidentally, here's a video of some of the Russian oil infrastructure that Ukraine blew up this week:
https://video.nostr.build/b4a24099fbdd64b1fb49227a8bde927619e7109637f528d2d7c41609ac7eafcd.mp4

2025-01-14 21:33:42

I finally got around to setting up a fully self-hosted LNURL, pete@petertodd.org, with zaps support.
Credit goes to this guide: https://sebastix.nl/blog/ligess-your-personal-lightning-address-with-nostr-zaps-support/
The key sticking point was I didn't realize CloudFront didn't pass query parameters in my setup.

2025-01-14 16:07:44

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Looks like you can buy it off the website: https://www.hotshotmovie.com/

2025-01-14 00:44:52

Scene from the independent documentary Hotshot, re: climate change: https://video.nostr.build/e7d6e8b6f5528b028e6a808f6d8eb786521f9fdb60481c1af34732b127414ddc.mp4

2025-01-13 16:39:53

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😂😂😂😂 quite the typo.
Yeah, the firefighter thing is stupid. For starters, IIUC in long distance mutual aid situations the firefighters (or whatever) coming in from somewhere else are often paid (mutual aid with neighboring communities is IIUC usually not paid, as there's a reasonable expectation of reciprocity). I'm sure the US has the budget to pay for their transportation costs and salaries.
Second, Ukraine has ~60,000 first responders. I'm sure they can spare 150 woodland trained firefighters for a few weeks who don't have much work to do in the middle of winter. Ukraine is a lot colder than LA.