Jay 'pro Sv2, anti-fpps' Beddict🧹(ctv+csfs) @JBeddict

Friendly reminder that fractional paper bitcoin is being sold by the fiat maximalists. The bitcoin bull market begins when you pull all of your coins off your favorite cuckodial exchange!

After working on Sv2 for more or less 5 years, we finally proved it with a block on bitcoin mainnet! Can't tell you how happy I am about it. 🔽 continue below

DMND has mined the first known Bitcoin block using Stratum V2 Job Declaration. Block 955,318, on mainnet, mined by @GoMining, who built and declared their own block template and included their GoBTC Pay transactions. mempool.space/block/00000000…

Woohoo @DMND_Sv2 just hit the first @StratumV2 block created by miner @GoMining ⛏️⛏️⛏️

Update: the App Review Board has confirmed that my Apple Developer account will not be terminated. Sparrow on macOS is safe. Thank you to everyone who shared and reached out in the past 24 hours - I'm grateful. And credit to @Apple for reviewing the appeal and reaching the right outcome. The deeper problem hasn't gone away: apps impersonating @SparrowWallet are still reaching users and putting their funds at risk. I'll keep working to protect people from those scams, and I hope to do so alongside @Apple. Thank you all.

Craig Raw 🐦 @craigraw

6 days ago

My attempt to protect users from scam apps on the @AppStore has gotten my Apple Developer account flagged for termination - ironically, for "dishonest activity". Unless it's reversed by June 30, all new installs of Sparrow Wallet will fail, and development on macOS will end.

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Unless @Apple's decision to terminate @craigraw's Apple Developer account is reversed by June 30, all new installs of Sparrow will fail, and development on macOS will end. If you value Sparrow, a repost would help. @AppleSupport

Craig Raw 🐦 @craigraw

6 days ago

My attempt to protect users from scam apps on the @AppStore has gotten my Apple Developer account flagged for termination - ironically, for "dishonest activity". Unless it's reversed by June 30, all new installs of Sparrow Wallet will fail, and development on macOS will end.

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Okay, let's talk "passkeys". Lots of sites are pushing them, to "make it easier to log in", so you don't have to use passwords. Problem is, lots of sites only allow passkeys in the form of biometrics: fingerprint or face. DO NOT DO THIS. You can be legally compelled to provide biometrics for access to things. If the "passkey" option allows the use of a hardware token (like a Yubikey, which I recommend), do that instead. If they allow use of a TOTP (the 6-digit number that changes about every 30 seconds, like that provided by google authenticator, microsoft authenticator, authy, or any of a number of other solutions -- they're all interchangeable, by the way, regardless of what vendors might say) as a passkey, use that. Do NOT use your face or fingerprint as your means of access to anything. Not a website, not a computer, not your phone.

Since it came up in private conversation, let's discuss GMail. It's a privacy nightmare. Did you know you agreed to let Google read the full content of every email you send and receive, for "advertising" purposes? Were you aware that they aggressively try to block emails that aren't from Google or other large providers (e.g., Microsoft), even when the email and the server sending it, and the domain hosting it, rigorously comply with every standard? So what can you do? Here's what you can do: Buy a domain. It doesn't have to be a .com; there are cheap top-level domains you can buy domains in, for as little as $3-5 a year. Once you buy a domain, you need DNS hosting. Cloudflare DNS hosting is free. So, pay for a Virtual Private Server (VPS) from one of the myriad VPS providers. The smallest one will do. That's about $5 or so a month. Set up sendmail or a sendmail equivalent on it (e.g., postfix). It's not that hard. Create an MX record for your domain pointed at the public IP address of your VPS. Read up on SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records, and create those DNS records as well. Bingo, you have a mailserver that can send and receive email. Now just configure a local IMAP mail client (e.g., the mail app on your phone, Thunderbird, etc.) to use that mail server to send and receive mail. You now have unlimited email addresses at the domain you purchased, you have significantly more privacy with respect to your email (and it'll be transmitted to/from your mail server via an encrypted TLS tunnel), and you can stop relying on GMail for your email. It'll cost you whatever the monthly charge is for your VPS, and whatever the annual renewal fee is for the domain you bought.

We have become aware of a privacy bug in the -privatebroadcast feature, newly introduced in Bitcoin Core 31.0, that may cause the originator’s IP address to be revealed to the receiving peer under certain network conditions. A fix is forthcoming and will be released with 31.1.

anthropic won't let you use fable for biology, chemistry, ai research, or anything that accelerates human progress. that makes it the perfect tool for developing blockchains

NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware. Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner. Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order safety alignment is risky. When closed (and open) models ship with aggressive refusals, they will be sprinkled with second-order blindspots that attackers will discover...and exploit. We are only in the earliest days of attackers leveraging these features, and it wouldn't surprise me if users systems that need to handle complex cybersecurity issues demand that models be less safety-blunted. In the weeds: @SocketSecurity's post also shows why intention matters in how you design a malware analysis pipeline to avoid prompt manipulation. H/T to colleagues that shared this with me socket.dev/blog/mini-shai…

The scary part about Anthorpic's Fable nerf is not that it refuses to answer biology or cryptography. It's that it foreshadows what's coming. A world where a couple companies decide what you can and cannot do. They're building a new ruling class and you're not in it...

🦔Leonardo is a $17 billion defense contractor. It built a system called SignalTrace that clips sensors onto the license plate readers already mounted on street poles, overpasses, and police cars across the US. Every time you drive past one, the sensor grabs the Bluetooth and WiFi signals from every device in your car, ties them to your plate, and logs the time and location. Your phone, your AirPods, your kid's tablet. All of it goes into the same file. A friend rides with you once and their devices are linked to your plate. Leonardo has sold this to police departments since at least 2023. There is no federal law covering it, no opt-out, and no warrant requirement. My Take None of the pieces here are new. Your phone has always broadcast a signal. The license plate cameras were already there. Leonardo just connected them and found a buyer. Nobody had to break a law or build anything from scratch. They assembled a surveillance system from parts already in place and sold it before anyone noticed. Most people found out this week from a 404 Media investigation. Leonardo received the patent in 2024. By the time you hear about something like this, the deals are done and the sensors are on the poles. That's how it works now. Hedgie🤗 404media.co/this-company-w…

I encounter a lot of confusion about Sv2 from the open source mining community. I usually talk about encryption, efficiency, template submission. People's eyes glaze over and I lose them. Let's back it up. Perhaps the most important property of Sv2 is that there is a spec. 🧵

I advanced BIP 54 status to Complete.

Murch @murchandamus

a month ago

BIP54: “Consensus Cleanup” was just advanced to Complete: github.com/bitcoin/bips/b… Let’s do this!

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Your almond milk latte uses like 1000x more water to produce than one AI-generated image fyi

More reason to support unlimited reliable dense nuclear energy or what some climate cultist and a degrowth/malthusian disciple referred to as 'giving an idiot child a machine gun'. We don't have to harm any tree.

Vril Nye @VrilNyeX

a month ago

Fuck your data centers

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What’s most fascinating about the water datacenter thing is that it requires you to misunderstand a lot of very fundamental things to get there. The average person just has an incredibly poor understanding of how the world works

Cera Gibson @CeraGibson

a month ago

I think for a very large percentage of people in their youth, this level of access to water will be a memory in old age.

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Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but data center usage is a VERY small percentage of electricity costs today. The surge in costs can be attributed to transmission and green energy mandates... Your utility bill should provide a breakdown of costs each month. If it doesn't, demand transparency...

Pew Research Center @pewresearch

a month ago

Among Americans who say their home energy costs have gone up over the last few years, 43% say a major reason is that #data centers are using more energy.

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Worth noting that the current datacenter backlash is what 40 years of anti-nuclear activism looks like in the present tense. The same movement that killed clean baseload is now mad that compute is straining the grid. Colossal self-own.

whimsy lohan (in NYC) @SexyLikeMeiosis

a month ago

Climate activists have spent decades shutting down nuclear, blocking clean energy transmission, and trying to ban research on cooling the planet... but the movement that wins the next century will be led by the people doing the work, not those protesting it. New essay out today👇

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