Huge milestone for Cashu.
After 3 years of work, we finally have unruggable mints.
I'm testing the first on-chain Cashu mint running inside a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), where the mint keys are generated entirely within the enclave and remain unknown to the operator.
That means the operator cannot inflate the ecash supply and cannot access the Bitcoin reserves backing it.
We've moved from trusting operators to relying on hardware-enforced cryptographic guarantees.
There's still work to do, but the path forward is clear. This is an incredibly exciting step toward trust-minimized ecash.
Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers.
When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it.
They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long.
In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it.
The flowers attract a standing army to our fields.
We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.
@RonSwanonson Stealing this context for my evangelism. Starting with the captcha example is better than starting with pizza. Dollar menu, all of it, perfect relatable anchor points. Well done.
Here's a rabbit hole I bet you haven't gone down yet...
PEARL HARBOR.
I'm sure you've heard the *approved* conspiracy theory of: "USA knew Japan was coming to bomb Pearl Harbor, but the higher-ups let it happen because they wanted war."
But what if I told you...the real truth is far more insane:
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor NEVER EVEN HAPPENED.
The whole thing was a staged false flag ,which is why Japanese officials outright DENIED that they ever attacked us for over 30 years, until they finally caved into the "official narrative" in the 70s.
Buckle up for this one, it's a doozy 🐇🕳️👇