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2026-03-24 19:01:08 UTC

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Lol, wouldn't have expected a sten

2026-03-21 17:54:49 UTC

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Waiting for the bitcoin core PR 🙄

2026-03-21 17:34:20 UTC

Thought this was going to happen these days
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/2128/changes

2026-03-19 18:52:30 UTC

Cash on the internet.
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2026-03-15 22:13:27 UTC

So we pull up out of the bush through the khowarib rivier, completely caked in fine, flour-textured dust of the mopane savanah. It's been seven days since we set out into the wild from the brandberg. Suddenly we see a fence rise on our left side, punctured by holes, goats and other farm animals freely crossing through it, the odd herder waving at us as we drive past. In the distance a green tin roofed plaza appears: Kamdesha veterinary gate. The fence on either side of the plaza is busted, sections either lying flat on the ground, or missing completely. It should be part of the red line, the cordon dividing Namibia into a "safe" veterinary sector, supposedly FMD free, and the "wilderness" beyond. Some of us get out, talk to the warden, there is a brief back and forth, some favours are exchanged. A few men with rifles line either side of the plaza as our convoy of three vehicles rolls through, a goat scurrying away in front of us. It is another 20 kilometres from here to a marked road, following the rough dirt track we're on. Twenty minutes later I see truly wild giraffes for the second time in my life.
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2026-03-14 17:22:26 UTC

Much more cohesive from the stormers today and a decent watch too.

2026-03-13 16:40:16 UTC

This is probably the weirdest internal border that I know of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Line_(Namibia)

2026-03-13 13:27:34 UTC

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Loved the video, looked pretty chill.
I think that was in 2008. Crazy scenes on the Zambia/Botswana border too. The backlog on trucks trying to cross the border was a multi week wait. Both sides had soldiers patrolling them to avoid looting. Back then there was only a barge doing the crossing, iirc two trucks every 20 minutes or so. There is a bridge there now :)

2026-03-09 07:43:30 UTC

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It's a really funny document too.

2026-03-09 07:20:51 UTC

Not everything I hoped for, but
* Support for querying slices of a block
* The new txospender index for querying the transaction of a spent output
* Better handling of pruned nodes using an index
* A host of bug fixes that should make using indexes more robust
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2026-03-07 19:58:28 UTC

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Probably the most depressing border I've been to. Was there when the situation was really bad again and people attempted to barter my clothing out of desperation.

2026-03-02 16:43:46 UTC

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This was with most of your patches applied :)
It's really cool to see though that it takes about the same time now that it took me when I benched it back in 2019.

2026-03-02 12:16:24 UTC

Synced bitcoin core on a seven year old rock pro 64 in 34 hours.

2026-03-01 07:07:58 UTC

The coverage of this by european newspapers is atrocious.

2026-02-27 18:27:13 UTC

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Exactly.

2026-02-25 10:10:21 UTC

Wow, hetzner hiking their prices by over 30 percent for their boxes.

2026-02-24 07:20:31 UTC

Some people seem confused about section eleven of the whitepaper.

2026-02-21 15:00:15 UTC

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2026-02-15 09:54:36 UTC

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Or now again.

2026-02-13 07:15:46 UTC

I still think so.
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2026-02-12 10:22:06 UTC

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Indeed that would be bad.

2026-02-10 21:45:29 UTC

https://explained-from-first-principles.com/internet/

2026-02-07 10:29:11 UTC

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The issue is that with guidelines like
https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography
and
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/pqc-migration-roadmap-unveiled
these institutions might be spooked to enact the migration in order to retain their licenses.
Nuts.

2026-02-06 18:08:22 UTC

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> Its increasing
There's not been a significant increase in usage of large op returns over the past half year. The utxo set has been steadily shrinking in the same time frame.
The chart you showed seems to be measuring small op_returns too, which bip110 does not stop.

2026-02-06 13:00:48 UTC

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Not against stopping spam, strongly disagree with the method.

2026-02-02 06:31:40 UTC

I wonder how many people still self host their own lightning node without the help of a third party.

2026-01-31 08:24:37 UTC

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2026-01-30 14:18:01 UTC

Bitcoin Core while reading UTXOs from disk
https://blossom.primal.net/d54d96b6d0760d2fec43c278899743f284eb74b3a470b12cdcb1382ea8b961f0.mp4

2026-01-26 21:19:01 UTC

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Maybe file an issue? I've looked at it on amethyst and primal. Amethyst also renders it a bit weirdly, but primal gets it right.
To calm your nerves "driebuffelsmeteenskotmorsdoodgeskietfontein" is an afrikaans hyperbole sometimes used to refer to the middle of nowhere, or some outlandish place. It also a real place and the longest afrikaans word :)

2026-01-26 19:51:40 UTC

https://maps.app.goo.gl/g7LhrSYEjt6PQGEPA

2026-01-24 19:22:59 UTC

Sacha's fancy stuff not working today, but seems like stuff is not gelling in general.

2026-01-23 15:36:26 UTC

First proper work week in the new role.

2026-01-22 21:45:15 UTC

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It is south :)
It's in my home town's area.

2026-01-22 16:59:39 UTC

Can't wait to be going back here again soon. https://image.nostr.build/15fe805ee35dc870e04b094a62dbaad4263187990a7ec1f150644da5cc022a0e.jpg

2026-01-19 12:22:00 UTC

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In short: The gpg version I had running back then still used sha1 has a default digest to generate the base signature attesting to the first subkey generated automatically during key generation. Like a good citizen, I changed the default digest algorithm to something strong, generated the remaining [a]uth and [e]ncrypt subkeys with this configuration, and changed the expiry on all of them. Turns out, gpg never refreshes the base signature even you tell it to update a subkey, or change its configuration. So when the Bitcoin Core commit signature verifier ran with a strict no weak algos policy it tripped over this weak base signature.

2025-11-28 07:07:58 UTC

I was a bit hopeful the last few months that the proposed soft fork will change this dynamic, but I no longer think so. One side needs people to run with their vision, while the other side is content with doing nothing. That's why I think its militancy will not die down. In all likelihood it will be a schism present for years to come.
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2025-11-14 13:24:59 UTC

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That's some nice tooling, had to slightly tweak your example to include the correct imports, but ran all of them. Nix is magic in the sense that this would have been really annoying to setup by myself and now it just works .

2025-11-14 07:55:50 UTC

We've run into this problem where the same code built through our reproducible builds infrastructure has these weird registry switchups between running the build environment on an x86 machine and an aarch64 machine. At this point I would pay for someone to explain what is going on here. It doesn't make sense to me. https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33775#issuecomment-3523047473

2025-11-04 16:27:04 UTC

Didn't expect this today: The bitcoin kernel API is now in Bitcoin Core's master branch! A decade of effort for various contributors and three years from myself: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/30595
Looking forward to an ecosystem of implementations, full nodes, and tools being developed around it!

2025-10-26 08:33:00 UTC

Well, if there is going to be a soft fork, which seems increasingly likely now, this conflict might be resolved after all.

2025-10-09 17:14:03 UTC

Missed the asmap launch again 🫣

2025-09-12 08:12:32 UTC

Running bitaxe+sv2translator+sv2pool+sv2template provider+mining interface+bitcoin-node v30rc1.

2025-09-10 13:39:03 UTC

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Then they'll patch and carry on.

2025-09-10 12:25:55 UTC

There is no resolution mechanism for the relay policy dispute. My hunch is this fight will persist for a long time. It is likely in my view that the share of knots nodes running on the network will keep growing as a result.