Pi Prime Pi

The best ideas I have ever heard came from people I disagreed with at the time. They were ahead of me. Plus #bitcoin

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@bitharington @100trillionUSD @nsquaredcrypto Good day to remind everyone that Bitcoin Solved Byzantine Generals

A lot of really smart people and technologists thought cancer would be cured before Byzantine Generals problem solved. Some thought it impossible

Bitcoin is new. Not just better

https://t.co/ga9UrG7l2R

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@SusieBdds Hubby is correct

Probably best for all the Mom's out there to never know the dumbest thing we ever did on one of these things before the street lights came on

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@jameslavish Look at France, Spain & now Brussels

Finance ministers +politicians giving speeches to bond holder/buyers while the citizens riot in the streets

The Problem: citizens don't speak "bonds", they don't even know there is a train, much less a bunch of them

It's literally the meme

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@TheGuySwann Why was Dana Bash allowed to moderate a debate, when her husband (Jeremy Bash) was one of the 51 former Intel officers that singed the Hunter Biden laptop is Russian disinformation letter?

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@jameslavish "France 10Y yield is going crazy the last few months"

The FR10Y chart

June 2019 was 8 months before Covid (Mar 2020), all of that is going to be refinanced at much higher rates in 3 yrs

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@bitcoinjack I just remember ice skating, sailing and pints amongst friends that have never met.

Great times.

TBH. Making a lot of money didn’t hurt the recalled memory.

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@jameslavish I’m a flyers fan, so I really wanted to see Torts and Hart get that cup last year.

Plus, the Canes goalies get Maholmes type treatment from the refs.

Hockey has spoiled me, makes the NFL hard to

I bet the games in LV are a crazy to see in person

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@jameslavish The purple line is the Covid Low ($100.03) for the Municipal Bond ETF (MUB). Low this month - $100.07

I don't know what happens below the purple line, I think I'd rather not find out.

Meredith Whitney finally being right should scare everyone.

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@jameslavish And we’re off…

[JFresh @JFreshHockey]

Who are the most hated teams in the NHL?

3043 of you voted.

1. Vegas Golden Knights
2. Florida Panthers
3. Toronto Maple Leafs
4. Montréal Canadiens
5. New York Rangers

⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

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@DefiantLs Eventually there will be an attempt by AI, with human assistance to register to vote, and do so via mail in ballot, obtain legal identity and apply for government benefits

I promise this woman genuinely believes her “family” should have equal rights. She will not be the last

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@paoloardoino Best business model ever.

Ever

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@MAV21210 @americanhodl8 Not true

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@jameslavish Exactly

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@WallStreetMav Where’d you think we would end up?

I mean seriously, what part of this do people not see?

Dems will blame not taxing the rich enough

Repub’s will blame spending

If man can print. Man WILL print. That’s the problem

No One should have the ability to print what others work for

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Fear not. The institutions will mess up again.

Canadian Truckers, Lebanese Bank closures, political debanking, war, bank malfunctions via cyber attack, etc.

And the self custody infrastructure will be more robust, better UI, waiting to onboard those that left plus the next wave of people that realize their money sits on someone else’s comp, and they don’t have admin privileges.

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@americanhodl8 @Crazymoonbull As tempting as it might be, I think he means don’t use these

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@Rob1Ham @BritishHodl @w_s_bitcoin You've been great. You need some rest & the ability to focus on what you can do, and do do, not this

Obviously there is a missing piece of info in this story. Welcome to consumer electronics

+ If you ever need to get motivated again, read Eric Hughes 1993 Manifesto - chills

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@BitPaine Agreed. I think one of the issues is that it's difficult to wrap the human mind around "entropy" and bits, and what that means.

Posted this as mental model, just for demonstration/educational purposes

https://t.co/zIXejZPeDQ

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Simplified Entropy: Humanized

1 bit of entropy = 2 possible outcomes
2 bits = 4
3 bits = 8
4 bits =16 etc

The issue with large numbers, like a raw 64 hex BTC private key might look like this:

(e9873d79c6d87dc0fb6a5778633389f4453213303da61f20bd67fc233aa33262)

I think an easier way to grasp this is instead of thinking numbers, think playing cards

A standard 52 card deck (52!) that has been shuffled at least 25 times, has ~ 225 bits of entropy

Imaging shuffling a deck, dealing one by one, and then creating a string of 52 entries

2 Hearts
4 Clubs
7 Spades
King Diamonds

2H4C7SKD etc (104 characters, but 52 entries) this is something we could look at an understand, we could read this.

I like this because you can show me your string, and I call tell you exactly what happened, and know each can only happen once.

Q) How long would it take the world's top 500 supercomputers to construct every single deck composition?

A) 1.7 x 10^29 times the age of the universe. It is highly improbably that there have ever been two shuffled decks with identical final composition in human history, nor will there ever be.

So what would a ~40bit entropy deck look like? ie Mk3 auto generated entropy bug estimates I've seen.

Remove all the 2-9 cards, leaving only A,K,Q,J of each suit (16 cards)

A single maxed out Mac Studio with external storage could probably do this locally in 2-3 days ish. An array of machines could be hours.

Before the cypherpunks point out logical discrepancies, rounding and estimates, this was meant to "humanize" bits of entropy, in something analogue, that makes more sense than 100 dice rolls. IMO

Take a deck of cards, shuffle them, write them down in order, and know that sequence never has, nor ever will happen again. If nothing else, it's a fun party fact.

My sincere condolences to all impacted by the CC entropy bug. No one deserved this.

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@FreeTaoist Cool. Thanks!

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Simplified Entropy: Humanized

1 bit of entropy = 2 possible outcomes
2 bits = 4
3 bits = 8
4 bits =16 etc

The issue with large numbers, like a raw 64 hex BTC private key might look like this:

(e9873d79c6d87dc0fb6a5778633389f4453213303da61f20bd67fc233aa33262)

I think an easier way to grasp this is instead of thinking numbers, think playing cards

A standard 52 card deck (52!) that has been shuffled at least 25 times, has ~ 225 bits of entropy

Imaging shuffling a deck, dealing one by one, and then creating a string of 52 entries

2 Hearts
4 Clubs
7 Spades
King Diamonds

2H4C7SKD etc (104 characters, but 52 entries) this is something we could look at an understand, we could read this.

I like this because you can show me your string, and I call tell you exactly what happened, and know each can only happen once.

Q) How long would it take the world's top 500 supercomputers to construct every single deck composition?

A) 1.7 x 10^29 times the age of the universe. It is highly improbably that there have ever been two shuffled decks with identical final composition in human history, nor will there ever be.

So what would a ~40bit entropy deck look like? ie Mk3 auto generated entropy bug estimates I've seen.

Remove all the 2-9 cards, leaving only A,K,Q,J of each suit (16 cards)

A single maxed out Mac Studio with external storage could probably do this locally in 2-3 days ish. An array of machines could be hours.

Before the cypherpunks point out logical discrepancies, rounding and estimates, this was meant to "humanize" bits of entropy, in something analogue, that makes more sense than 100 dice rolls. IMO

Take a deck of cards, shuffle them, write them down in order, and know that sequence never has, nor ever will happen again. If nothing else, it's a fun party fact.

My sincere condolences to all impacted by the CC entropy bug. No one deserved this.

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BTW. If you were to create and add 4 "suited" Jokers (Joker of Hearts, Joker of Clubs etc)

248 bits of entropy, just under 8 bits shy of 256

Who knows, maybe it will eventually be in the UI of a touchscreen HWW?

Shuffle a deck of cards and enter > 100 Dice for many?