Peter Todd

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[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

The hardest part about being a contrarian is knowing when not to be.

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

The mind virus of conspiratorial thinking has been devastating. It completely paralyzes analysis and reduces everything to entertainment, fodder for clicks, traffic, and attention. It’s like a caricature of the Straussian close reading of texts: the “real” meaning is always hidden from view, and being unable to see it means you don’t have access to esoteric insights and knowledge. In reality, you’re just reading it wrong.

In the case of Russia right now, nobody really knows what’s happening. But that doesn’t matter; all you have to do is come up with the most absurd theory, and the more absurd it is, the truer it must be.

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

@PavolRusnak @Kruwed @wasabiwallet Roughnecks found their 4th block, so it now has two confirmations. 😂

[Josh Brooks @F530Josh]

Did a bit of research on this yesterday.

This shootout happened right in front of a Flock camera.

There are 17 other flock-style cameras within a one mile radius of this event. The police have zero suspects, and have made zero arrests almost four days later. Some are owned by Motorola, some are owned by Flock Safety, and some are owned by Axon.

@Flock_Safety and like-minded systems are not about protecting citizens or enforcing the law. They are an attempt to nationalize the HOA system to increase non-tax related revenue from minor infractions in complete violation of every American's 4th Ammendment right.

Your local government doesn't seek to take criminals off of the street. It seeks more money from your wallet now that taxation has reached its natural cap, and the "ALPR" system is how they've elected to increase revenue from fines.

This will become more insidious when city governments start selling off that revenue to foreign nations for fast budget bumps, like when Chicago sold their parking meter revenue over 75 years to Abu Dhabi in 2008.

With a government run surveillance system this large, it should be impossible for crime like this to go unpunished for longer than 12 hours. Since we are not seeing that level of security, we should all believe instead that the system is not about security at all. City and state officials pushing ALPR cameras need to be removed from their office by any means nessecary.

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

@1basemoney @jimmysong I wonder if Jimmy has any idea about the very successful Ukrainian attacks on Russian logistics... So many of these people are just clueless how the war is actually going.

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

@1basemoney @jimmysong Yeah, @jimmysong, that article is Russia whitewashing bullshit. "oh look how clever these mass murderers are"

No, they're fucking mass murderers who can barely keep their country functioning even with enormous oil and gas reserves to sell.

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

I know a few Bitcoiners who are very happy that their personal data won't get released. Beneficial ownership information is a serious problem if you trying to hide where you live.

This literally is going to prevent people from getting murdered.

[Treasury Department @USTreasury]

Today, @FinCENnews issued a final rule that permanently removes the requirement for U.S. companies and U.S. persons to report beneficial ownership information. FinCEN today also announced that it will delete previously reported information by U.S. persons from the beneficial ownership information database.

[Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ZarinaZabrisky]

During this interview with a lovely Khersonian lady, Russian drones made several appearances.

To anyone who has not been to Kherson in the last two years, this might seem impossible or insane.

Nothing about flying machines with explosives attached to them is sane or normal.

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

Good read. I agree 100%

[Turtlecute @turtlecute33]

A dump of ideas and personal thoughts on what happened these past years. https://t.co/wS8UFNNhMm

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

@Brethberie @ocean_mining If they come back we can reconsider.

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

Good response by @ocean_mining

IMO with Luke and Mechanic out of OCEAN, the community should consider this matter settled. Stealing hash power wasn't right. But the damage has been sufficiently undone and we should move on.

[Mark Artymko @MarkArtymko]

Update on BIP110 reimbursements:

The rebate we previously announced has now been paid at the best FPPS rate for the affected period.

Transaction ID: 1f83d838b17b43b5504aa7823d6e89cf662ff0d261f4326041f741c9294d17eb

Followup on BIP110 endpoint announcement:

A clarification seems necessary about the announcement above, which some interpreted as the disclosure of some novel issue with hashrate distribution among the two competing chains during the recent BIP110 controversy and chain-split. It's not.

The post is just a direct follow-up to the decision taken and publicly announced more than one month ago, about giving the few non-DATUM hashers (who still prefer to delegate block template creation to the pool operator, rather than taking control of it themselves, 4% of OCEAN’s hashrate) the same choice over BIP110 signaling as the DATUM miners (96% of OCEAN hashrate): https://t.co/vWQdtT28X0.

In that context, a choice was made to set the default Stratum endpoint to "pro-BIP". To be clear, this was not a statement of company advocacy for BIP110. At the time the decision was made, we were regularly hitting periods where more than 50% of OCEAN’s hashrate was actively signalling for BIP110, and we were fielding direct calls from customers telling us they were pro-BIP110 and asking how to signal. Setting the default accordingly was our attempt to have the endpoint at least resemble the expressed wishes of our own users at that moment. This choice of defaults was contested and somewhat controversial, but the main focus of the company was in giving all users a choice (which DATUM-wise was not a minor technical feat: some claimed it would have been impossible), and we were hopeful the number of users actually affected by the default would be minimal (even relative to the already small number of non-DATUM hashers).

The way BIP110 unfolded confirmed this default choice as unfortunate, and the fact that some hashrate kept coming to that default endpoint, even after the BIP110 chain stalled out, seemed to corroborate that some hashers may have kept pointing to it due to a lack of information. That is why we processed the rebate above (some users who intentionally directed hashrate to the stalled chain may have also benefited from this, but our priority was to protect the uninformed ones).

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

If any of these Russians actually wanted to leave Russia all they have to do is contact Ukrainian intelligence, do some sabotage missions for them, and they'll get them out of Russia.

Or just leave: Russia's borders aren't closed. Anyone with a few thousand, or even less, can get a visa in one of the many countries that still give them to Russians and just leave. That's why millions of Russians already left, permanently.

Reality is these people are just scammers who don't give a fuck about Ukraine or ethics. The war continues because the average Russian is a amoral psychopath.

[Mustafar Daetotak is waiting for the Sea of Sorrow @meowstafar]

Among many obvious things about this russian's thread I just wanna say how much I fucking HATE this type of russian "uwu smolbean" art- and writing style. And while I can tell why I hate the writing ("my country started a genocidal war against it's neighbor but the biggest —>

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

@Rob1Ham @OrangeSurfBTC @coinjoined @Jethroe111 Mainnet? You mean bpedo?

[Kruw | BIP459 @Kruwed]

I'm innocent. Case closed. Privacy is not a crime.

@PavelTheCoder @noosphere888x2 @kortik456585 @maxtannahill @e4pool_com @dammkewl @econoalchemist @Diverter_NoKYC @BTCxZelko @RoninDojoNode @aeonBTC @LaurentMT @leamuirleyn

#FreeSamourai #PardonSamourai

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

@Rob1Ham @OrangeSurfBTC @coinjoined @Jethroe111 That would still allow for manipulation, as you can still pick testnet4 blocks that influence the result.

The right solution is to use a hash chain, like Zcash did:

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

tl;dr: @lukedashjr decided to use a testnet4 block hash as the random beacon to pick BIP-110-chain's new PoW function.

An absolutely batshit decision. It's clearly possible to manipulate that by just mining blocks with the right hash. Mining a testnet4 block has a trivial cost. So mining one with a specific last byte in the block hash – thus forcing a particular PoW choice – also has a trivial cost.

When Zcash did something similar for a trusted setup, they picked a Bitcoin block in the future, and they specified that the block hash would in turn be re-hashed 2⁴² times¹ to ensure that absolutely no-one could possibly pick the value in advance (that's a 2-3 weeks of sequential computation).

There's two possibilities here:

1) Luke is incompetent.
2) Luke is malicious, and is trying to pick a specific PoW.

The possibilities are not exclusive.

1) https://t.co/N6Ic11yQ3E

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

tl;dr: @lukedashjr decided to use a testnet4 block hash as the random beacon to pick BIP-110-chain's new PoW function.

An absolutely batshit decision. It's clearly possible to manipulate that by just mining blocks with the right hash. Mining a testnet4 block has a trivial cost. So mining one with a specific last byte in the block hash – thus forcing a particular PoW choice – also has a trivial cost.

When Zcash did something similar for a trusted setup, they picked a Bitcoin block in the future, and they specified that the block hash would in turn be re-hashed 2⁴² times¹ to ensure that absolutely no-one could possibly pick the value in advance (that's a 2-3 weeks of sequential computation).

There's two possibilities here:

1) Luke is incompetent.
2) Luke is malicious, and is trying to pick a specific PoW.

The possibilities are not exclusive.

1) https://t.co/N6Ic11yQ3E

[orangesurf @OrangeSurfBTC]

Multiple branches, multiple possible blocks "first seen". No reason to use testnet4. No reason to use timestamp. Most rational explaination is that the "selection process" is a sham to force the desired algorithm (and possibly premine).

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

Occupied Ukraine is under more severe US sanctions than Russia itself believe it or not. And many banks are too lazy to figure out what is or isn't occupied Ukraine.

This has insane consequences: I've personally seen foreign volunteers from the US have their bank accounts frozen just for doing things like buying groceries or a coffee with their credit card in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk.

[Giacomo Zucco (Bear Market Edition) @giacomozucco]

Can't retweet directly since both blocked me. After many months of strong disagreements with both of them, I feel finally totally aligned: this is, indeed, in the best interest of Bitcoin, and of OCEAN.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Here is a small reminder for everyone spreading the pro-russian narrative about "revenge for Wildberries," as well as for any normal person who doesn't follow the war closely and feels confused. Pay attention to the dates!

​Russia struck the Amstor Shopping Mall in Kremenchuk on June 27, 2022, with cruise missiles in the middle of the day while up to 1,000 people were inside. 21 people died, and over 70 were injured.

​Russia struck the Epicentr Hypermarket in Kharkiv on May 25, 2024. It was a weekend afternoon, and around 200 civilians and staff were inside shopping for home supplies. The blast sparked a high-temperature chemical and building-material fire. We had to use DNA testing to identify victims. 19 were killed, including children, and 46 were injured.

​Russia struck the Kostiantynivka Central Market and surrounding shops at least twice: September 6, 2023, and August 9, 2024. Both strikes targeted dense retail zones crowded with shoppers during morning or early afternoon hours. 17 were killed and 32 injured in the September 2023 strike, and 14 were killed and 44 injured in the August 2024 strike on the Eko-Market.

​Russia struck the Nova Poshta Sorting Terminal in Korotych, Kharkiv region, on October 21, 2023. Late at night, while employees were unloading civilian mail, parcels, and humanitarian packages, two S-300 missiles hit a location where missiles arrive faster than they can be detected. The 8 people killed stood no chance, 15 people were injured.

​Russians continued to strike Nova Poshta in Korotych on January 13, 2026, killing 4 people and injuring 6; on July 19, 2026, killing 4 people and injuring 19; and on August 2, 2026, killing a driver. Among all the attacks listed, only the latest two occurred after the beginning of Ukrainian strikes on Wildberries.

​Russia struck the ATB Supermarket & Retail Square in Kherson on May 3, 2023. Hitting civilian shopping infrastructure during daytime hours, they trapped shoppers inside the burning grocery hall. 23 people were killed across Kherson that day: 4 inside the ATB supermarket, 1 inside the Epicentr store, and others at nearby transport stops and shops.

​Russia struck the Kherson Central City Market on October 1, 2024. Around 9:00 AM, artillery rounds landed directly in active outdoor market stalls. 7 were killed and 3 were injured.

​Finally, Russia struck Kramatorsk Central Station on April 8, 2022, during an active civilian evacuation. A Tochka-U ballistic missile hit packed evacuation platforms, killing 63 civilians, including 9 children, and injuring over 150.

They also struck Chaplyne Railway Station on August 24, 2022, where an Iskander missile hit passenger trains and adjacent cars, killing 25 civilians and burning passenger carriages.

​This is a tiny fraction of Russian strikes on Ukrainian retail chains, markets, and civilian transportation infrastructure during the full-scale invasion. A tiny, little fraction! So when you brain-dead amoebas write "revenge for Wildberries," think again. Russia was bombing Ukraine all these years, long before our attacks on Wildberries, and they will continue regardless.

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

@murchandamus Bitcoin political drama blast from the past!

I had to think for a second how I got my name attached to a bloom filters related BIP...

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

@Ania_In_UA He lied about miscarriage risks too:

[New York Post @nypost]

Fauci privately warned of miscarriage risk linked to COVID vaccine while publicly claiming no issues, newly released texts show https://t.co/AfpDs6lhZ9

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

Fauci said exactly that for any reasonable interpretations:

“So even though there are breakthrough infections with vaccinated people, almost always the people are asymptomatic, and the level of virus is so low, it makes it extremely unlikely, not impossible, but very, very low likelihood that they are going to transmit it.”

“When you get vaccinated, you not only protect your own health, that of the family, but also you contribute to the community health by preventing the spread of the virus throughout the community. In other words, you become a dead end to the virus. And when there are a lot of dead ends around, the virus is not going to go anywhere. And that’s when you get a point that you have a markedly diminished rate of infection in the community.”

https://t.co/sAyLmBUi5k

He lied. Hell, the vaccine trials simply didn't even try to answer that question anyway. Which means that vaccine mandates for a virus that simply wasn't very dangerous were deeply unethical.

Not the first example of a vaccine that fails to prevent transmission either. The safe, dead, version of the polio vaccine is a good example: it only prevents polio paralysis. Not transmission. That's why to actually wipe out polio you need the dangerous, live polio vaccine, that occasionally causes polio.

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

@alpacasw @francispouliot_ Exactly. That's a rate limit: how fast individual coins can be spent. It's not a wallet limit, which is what @francispouliot_ asked for.