Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Alex Winter 0/21m=0 retweeted
"Aren't you afraid of AI being unreliable?"
HAVE YOU EVER WORKED WITH HUMANS BEFORE???
Alex Winter 0/21m=0 retweeted
AI writes better code than me.
In the past, making more code changes naturally meant I had to fix more bugs found in production.
Now it's flipped. More code changes, fewer hotfixes.
The chart shows my main project.
AI writes better code than me.
In the past, making more code changes naturally meant I had to fix more bugs found in production.
Now it's flipped. More code changes, fewer hotfixes.
The chart shows my main project.
The blindest people are those with laser eyes.
To those responsible for the theft of bitcoin from the Liquid Network:
Blockstream will not pay a ransom for the return of stolen funds. Taking assets without authorization and withholding their return is a crime, not responsible disclosure. It is not white-hat activity. It is theft.
We have engaged in good faith in an effort to secure the return of stolen user funds and protect the broader Bitcoin community. That effort should not be mistaken for acceptance of the actions taken nor of the terms being demanded.
We will not be a party to the precedent that open-source software developed for the good of the Bitcoin community should subject its developers to paying a ransom that far exceeds their economic participation.
Bitcoin is hard money and can’t be minted without costs, Bitcoin doesn’t haircut users to pay a ransom.
To the Bitcoin community:
We are fighting for what we believe in, for the users whose funds were taken, and for the principles on which Bitcoin was built.
The community has demonstrated incredible resolve with teams of people dedicating their time in support of each other to identify and patch vulnerabilities in each other's products and systems. We are all driven by the mission that Bitcoin is the single best asset, for every person, company, and institution on the planet to invest, use, and build on. The world is a different place with the advancements of AI, and the Bitcoin community has responded with force to combat that threat.
Damage has been done, battles have been lost, but on the whole the Bitcoin community is gaining ground in the war with bad actors.
We want to thank the community for those efforts, for your support in hardening the network, helping users recover funds, and for your support in our assertion that crime does not deserve rewards.
To those holding the stolen bitcoin:
There is still an opportunity to resolve this responsibly. The bitcoin can be returned and we can revert to the standard of white-hat principals.
However, if the funds are not returned, we will pursue every lawful avenue available to us. We will work with law enforcement, exchanges, service providers, forensic specialists, and other relevant parties to trace and recover the assets and identify those responsible.
More importantly, Bitcoin is transparent by design and the community is made up of the most sophisticated engineers, cryptographers, and white-hat hackers globally. Transactions do not disappear, and neither does the evidence they leave behind.
We will not pay for the return of stolen property. We will not abandon our users. The Bitcoin community will not stop pursuing the funds.
Return the bitcoin.
Alex Winter 0/21m=0 retweeted
No one uses Bitcoin. Bitcoins biggest advocates actively discourage people from using it. When you've given up on a decentralized payment network for HODL/ETF/speculation-only chain, the entire economic model collapses.
Security has to be funded somehow. Bitcoin sitting in your ETF or hardware wallet untouched forever is not funding it. This is what you guys asked for by embracing people like Saylor. Congrats.
JUST IN: CORE DEVELOPER PETER TODD JUST SAID #BITCOIN SHOULD ELIMINATE THE 21,000,000 SUPPLY LIMIT
"IF BTC HAD TAIL EMISSIONS TO BEGIN WITH, NO ONE WOULD CARE"
"ECONOMICALLY, IT'S SIMILAR TO GOLD"
"WE HAVE THIS TYPE OF SYSTEM THAT SEEMS TO WORK, BUT WE KEEP MARCHING TO A KIND OF SYSTEM THAT WE DON'T KNOW WORKS"
OTHER CRYPTO COINS "DO NOT HAVE NON TRIVIAL TRANSACTION FEES AFTER ALL THESE YEARS"
"IT WOULD BE A LOT MORE CLEAR IF WE ALWAYS HAD A REASON TO CREATE NEW BLOCKS" 👀
#Bitcoin: Number of unique sending addresses per day.
This number has been stagnant since 2017.
Your little Bitcoin node has no say whatsoever on the network. Never had.
#BIP110
Alex Winter 0/21m=0 retweeted
Instead of secure seed generation you received this sticker with your Coldcard.
Alex Winter 0/21m=0 retweeted
For the record, I don’t view the Bitcoin whitepaper as some kind of religious book that must be followed strictly
But I do think that the whitepaper is aspirational: it explains why this money system was created and what it ought to accomplish
The “how” part can change when better tech emerges. But the goal was never to create an institutional asset, a Wall Street tech stock, or a “store of value”
Bitcoin is payments tech. And if the original chain does not pursue the goal, then the forks will.
Alex Winter 0/21m=0 retweeted
People often use this Satoshi quote:
"If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry."
But what was Satoshi actually referring to? Bitcoin in general?
Not at all. He was referring to the fact that users DON'T NEED TO RUN A NODE.
Phones (and other imports) are heavily taxed in Brazil, making them 2-3x more expensive than necessary.
Reducing import taxes would decrease thefts, as it would diminish the incentive for thieves.
Instead a new government program is layered on top of another.
