Everyone who knows @boye_g recognizes the Spanish police's "search" for what it is: political repression. It should alarm us that even in democracies lawyers, publishers, and ordinary people are facing retaliation for work involving political principles. https://t.co/q7qWmAnz65
Three @Blockstream engineers set out to strip down #Bitcoin programming language #Script to its bare essentials, making #programming easier and safer with Miniscript. https://t.co/npoK5haikO
It only took 3 commands and ~5 minutes of installation to get connected to the Libra testnet via https://t.co/rGac6SbBqs but it doesn't actually run a node, it just provides an interface for you to make requests to Libra nodes. Libra will basically be an API standard for devs.
The Bitcoin mempool is empty and still people are paying way too much for a tx.
Yes this is an issue that comes up every time but I think it's important to keep pointing this out as long as there are people overpaying like this.
The best advice I’ve ever received:
1. Surround yourself with winners
2. Constantly seek more knowledge
3. Know arguments from all sides
4. Clearly articulate every goal
5. Give praise, take blame
6. People follow leaders, not orders
7. Be first, be the best, or be forgotten
One thing that needs to be a major priority of the crypto community is increasing usability and security of self-sovereign authentication models.
That is, we need to work much harder to design wallets that are secure for regular users without introducing centralized keyholders.
Reasons why the status quo is inadequate are best summarized in my article from 2013: https://t.co/3YXUqGUG10
For reasons why centralization sucks, see: MtGox, Coincheck, Equifax, Ashley Madison hack.....
For more reasons why bad UX sucks, see: Cambridge Analytica
Current directions to improve on the status quo include:
* Multisig wallets https://t.co/HKtOgBaJ1S
* Scorched earth vaults https://t.co/ZQWVlJDg1S
* Multisig social recovery https://t.co/RUhWMiM6Hb
(Regarding the latter, it's worth noting Wechat already does something similar)
Although @fluffypony was kidding here, I think it would be good for Litecoin and Monero (2 of the top non-scam coins 😄) to work together. A while back, I proposed to him that we work on making it easy for people to do on-chain atomic swaps of LTC and XMR in a decentralized way. https://t.co/idDn7Dmzf7
I believe this to be a win-win as it makes LTC/XMR interoperable: it gives XMR users access to LTC's liquidity (LTC is on close to all exchanges) and gives LTC users easy access to anonymity and fungibility of Monero.
If naysayers point out #bitcoin value is backed by nothing. Gold is backed by 10% industrial use. Here's the intangible value of our most respected companies.