Thomas Schypior

mostly talk about videogames, emulation and software development, sometimes I make stuff

[Captain Insight @CaptainInsightX]

the one software engineer who actually understands the legacy code.

[Thomas Schypior @pantra64]

Sign The Pulse Petition To Defend Blockchain Technology As Free Speech! #HEX #PulseChain https://t.co/uWUllRnrEm

[Richard Heart @RichardHeartWin]

While you're enjoying your weekend, thinking about your Halloween costume, I'm thinking of ways to protect your rights. While you're ready to say or do anything for a green candle, I'm watching the macro situation. If you don't understand why interest rates going up means bond holders are losing money, you're not qualified to do any macro analysis at all. Do you even know what macro means? I guess you're in good company though, as rather stupid people hold $130 trillion of bonds, because I mean, like hey, why would the interest rates ever go higher than near zero?

Can you imagine how stupid you would have had to have been to lend out your money for a decade for a return of, get this, 0.55% a year. And the very same people who did that, often banks and bankers, have the gall to tell you what you should do with your money. Also, a government, trillions of dollars in debt wants to tell you the same. And here's the worst part. After you wait a decade to get that fat 0.55% APR return, how much is the money worth that you're receiving at the end?

It's a mad world out there, and I only know one thing that might bring power back to the people. A people desperately in need of verifiable truth. #cryptocurrency.

Be the change you wish to see in the world. If you want to make something better, make it better. If you're sitting around criticizing others, you're a leech. Get to work. Get the word out.

[Richard Heart @RichardHeartWin]

Are you having fun on your weekend? You can stop that right now. What you need to be doing is submitting substantive and relevant comments to the proposed SEC rules. 2 days remain. If the government crushes what you love, and you did nothing, you should live forever in shame.

[Richard Heart @RichardHeartWin]

Lawyers. Everything you thought you knew about #cryptocurrency and the #blockchain is wrong. The laws regarding what you possess and what you know are wildly different, as they should be. You can't possess a cryptocurrency, it's not possessable. When someone steals your purse, you don't have it anymore, they do.

When someone steals your private key, you still have it. Because a private key isn't something you have, it's something you know. How many millions of people have written their seed words down somewhere. And how many of you millions have proof that no one else's eyes have seen the light reflected off that page?

Every law that treats cryptocurrency as something you have instead of something you know is deeply flawed. Blockchains are about knowledge, not possession. It is fact. It is provable. It is obvious if you do the math.

Here's 12 seed words from the BIP 39 word list that most "wallets" use to generate addresses:

like february unaware banana paddle excite vanish secret under lounge rich fan

If someone assigns value to an address derived from those, do you in fact have dominion and control, because you read those words? Do you not, in fact, have the same exact dominion and control as thousands of others now? Here's a funny one. What if someone assigned value to an address that is 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 deep in the derivation. Could you have possibly even known the value was there? It's computationally impossible to monitor a blockchain for all the possible addresses whose value your seed words might unlock.

Thus, you can't even actually know what value a seed word might have, for you can't actually know the near infinite addresses it could access that could have value. And good luck trying to check again every 10 seconds a new block hits. Here's another funny party. You can even derive new addresses from your seed words using different derivation paths, so there's not just one address set.

In summary. In cryptocurrency and the blockchain, there is no such thing as possession, there is only knowledge. Thus, the laws that best fit are not those concerning possession, or custody, but those that concern the creation and dissemination of knowledge.

If I see that someone has scratched your back, and you know feel obligated to scratch theirs, because you're a good human with the emotion of reciprocity, am I a money transmitter because I witnessed it and would testify to it? Was not value exchange or created? What rules should govern the witnessing and professing of truth?

I hope I can educate everyone about this world changing computer science breakthrough that makes truth and it's publication and verification more affordable, free and open than in any other time in the history of man.

I pity any man who would stand in the way of technological progress, or worse, attempt to harm those making the world a better place. History has not been kind to such small men. There's a brighter future in store for us all, because of technology and in spite of those that attempt to stifle its progress.

bip39 word list: https://t.co/cTvufljAmV

TLDR; Cryptocurrency is something you know, not something you have. A crypto wallet is a keychain, it doesn't hold money it hold's keys. When you "transfer" crypto, you didn't actually transfer anything, the things are still right where they always were. Years of wrong thinking about mathematical fact needs to be amended in the halls of power. The job of an educator is a wholesome one.

[Thomas Schypior @pantra64]

Did Nintendo lie to us? https://t.co/EAxmYyfPZr via @YouTube

Brings me back hard

[Thomas Schypior @pantra64]

Neues Video https://t.co/1HKe1It5EJ

[Richard Heart @RichardHeartWin]

Like if you think I try my hardest to make the world a better place. Retweet if you have hope for the future.

[Thomas Schypior @pantra64]

@thiliel mein Lieblingsding der letzten Tage is ja “entry and exit not possible”. Alle Leude im Zug gefangen. Für immer.

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

everything is wrong with this tweet

[Richard Heart @RichardHeartWin]

Life is a team sport. You are only here because you were loved instead if abandoned. You were taught by those who wanted you to learn. You speak a language you didn't invent and walk streets you didn't pave. Millions of people make millions of things to make you happy yearly. 🙏

[DHH @dhh]

"I still can't believe that this is the protest that would prove every Bitcoin crank a prophet. And for me to have to slice a piece of humble pie, and admit that I was wrong on crypto's fundamental necessity in Western democracies." https://t.co/9smNKyabm0

[Thomas Schypior @pantra64]

just encountered a #kevlinhenneyscreen at bremen airport

[Thomas Schypior @pantra64]

@whalesonly1 reminds me of this scene from Idiocracy

[Thomas Schypior @pantra64]

Mein Datenbestand legt zudem nahe, dass Menschen offenbar stets sehr begabt sind, mindestens die Zeitzone von Anfang an falsch einzustellen.

[Thomas Schypior @pantra64]

Oh boy! Armbanduhren, Turmuhren, Küchenuhren - all dies wissen wahrlich nur jene zu schätzen, die wochenlang die abenteuerich falschen Zeitstempel von Fotos und Videos der letzten 15 Jahre korrigieren.

[Thomas Schypior @pantra64]

Vielleicht ist das die größte Erleichterung für Digitalhistoriker, dass alle Leute heutzutage ihr Bildmaterial mit dem Telefon aufnehmen.