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]

I used this recently in Nashville. I saw a ₿ logo on the payment screen, pressed it, and immediately got a lightning QR code. Which I paid, and a few seconds later the transaction was done.

The cashier had no idea I was paying with Bitcoin.

[TFTC @TFTC21]

Bitcoin is now on by default at Square checkouts across the U.S.

Sellers don't have to apply. Square switched it on for every eligible business, whether the owner has ever thought about bitcoin or not.

The customer scans a QR code with any Lightning wallet and the payment settles in seconds. The seller gets dollars by default or can choose to keep the bitcoin, and there are no chargebacks. Sellers can also auto-convert up to 50% of their daily card sales into bitcoin.

The limits: $600 max per payment, $20,000 a day, and sellers in New York are left out.

The fee is 0% through Dec. 31, then a flat 1%. A card tap on Square's free plan costs the merchant 2.6% plus 15 cents.

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

@CK_Cryptoklepto Thanks! But there's a whole team at slipstream who deserve the credit for this; I'm involved in just one part, Slipstream.

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

Stratum V2 even has advantages for private pools like MARA. Among other things, by allowing block templates to be created physically closer to hash power, reducing latency.

Bandwidth reduction is useful too: lots of hash power is near stranded energy sources with slow internet.

[MARA Foundation @MARAFoundation_]

Proud to share that @MARA has mined its first Stratum V2 block 💪💪

SV2 improves mining efficiency, reduces bandwidth usage, and strengthens security through encrypted, authenticated connections. It also enables miners to select their own transactions rather than relying on pools, strengthening Bitcoin’s decentralization and censorship resistance.

This was a major lift for the @MARA mining operations team. Congratulations to everyone involved with this milestone and for leading the way in a major industry transition!

Additional thanks to @spiral_xyz @pavlenex and everyone involved in the Stratum V2 Working Group for their support 🙏

[schrammi @ogschrammi]

Diesen Männern wenigstens nicht in den Rücken zu fallen, ist das mindeste was ein rechter Europäer tun sollte.

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Great data analysis here.

Per capita, people ‘born on 1st January’ are significantly more aggressive and sexually criminal than those born on 2nd January.

Why? Turns out for lots of illegal migrants - when the state can’t determine their precise birthday - the default becomes 01/01.

An interesting way to decipher migrant crime statistics even though the government refuses to publish migrant crime statistics.

[マキシマム ザ おでん @MAXIMUM_ODEN]

【現代の"草摺（くさずり）"】戦場の進化がたどり着いた答えは、まさかの「戦国甲冑」だった！？

見た目はまるでスカートや古代ローマの防具、あるいは日本の鎧の「草摺（くさずり）」。

実はこれ、ウクライナのアーマーメーカー（Balistyka社など）が最前線のリアルな戦訓から開発した「バリスティック・キルト（腰回り用防弾アーマー）」です。

■ なぜ今、スカート型アーマーなのか？

これまでの対テロ戦争（非対称戦）では、機動力重視の「軽量なプレートキャリア」が主流でした。
しかし、現在のウクライナ戦線のような大規模な砲撃戦・ドローン戦では状況が一変。最大の脅威は小銃弾よりも「砲弾やFPVドローンの破片（フラグメンテーション）」になりました。

■ 守るべきは「大腿動脈」と「骨盤」
破片が下半身、特に太ももの付け根（大腿動脈）や骨盤・鼠径部に直撃すると、止血帯（ターニケット）すら巻けず数分で致命傷になります。
かといってガチガチの重装甲にすると歩兵が動けない……。
「機動力（歩幅・しゃがみ動作）を殺さず、腰回りと大腿動脈を360度破片から守る」
この矛盾を解決するために導き出されたのが、パネルを分割して重ねる「スカート構造」でした。

人間の急所（動脈や関節）は数千年前から変わらないため、防御と機動性を突き詰めた結果、最先端の超高分子量ポリエチレン（UHMWPE）装甲が「日本の大鎧」や「ローマ軍団のプテリゲス」と同じ形に先祖返りしたのです。
最先端テクノロジーが導き出した"機能美の極致"。ロマンが詰まりすぎていませんか……？
#ミリタリー #タクティカルギア #ボディーアーマー #ウクライナ #現代戦 #サバゲー #軍事

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

@TheSoloMiningCo 😂😂😂

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

@mir_btc @giacomozucco Clearly he loves you so much that he wanted to respond with a fire tweet about the El Salvador Bitcoin Volcano. But he's staying silent like a good monkey for diplomatic reasons.

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

@YoYorwfo It was being used to distribute humanitarian aid. That's well documented.

Besides, Russia has zero right to even be attacking Ukraine in the first place. You are a psychopath for making excuses for this evil.

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

Russia intentionally attacked a school that was specifically built underground to protect children. They double-tapped it minutes later to kill rescuers. Then they published footage from their drones to brag.

Now they're attacking the body recovery effort.

They're just evil.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

🚨 Russian troops launched a repeated strike on rescuers working at the site of a November 2 attack in Komyshuvakha that claimed 55 lives.

Two State Emergency Service dogs, Mria and Targan, were injured in the attack and taken for veterinary care.

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

@auonsson I used to wear Casio F-91W's while doing cave exploration. Durable enough to survive caves; cheap enough to just buy a new one every time I inevitably cracked the front glass.

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

@1basemoney Dunno about that. The crew of the truck deserves a medal for their heroic actions in taking out 80 Russian soldiers.

[NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @NOELreports]

CNN has released new police bodycam footage showing the moments before a Russian bomb hit an underground school shelter in Komyshuvakha on November 2. At least 55 people were killed. CNN's investigation found evidence of a second strike after people sought refuge. #Ukraine

[LeonIsGarbage @LeonSandoTXMN]

Was a super duper good idea to allow in hordes of undocumented with no medical history

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

@olegkutkov @Starlink Grok must have gotten that wrong then. Thanks!

[Ania_In_UA @Ania_In_UA]

I'm surprised by the casual hypocrisy of some Canadian hockey fans.
They criticize American players vaguely associated with MAGA because Trump threatened their country, yet turn around and tear into people protesting Ovechkin, who supports someone currently bombing another nation

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

@blind_via Fusion is only 8.3 minutes away.

Light-minutes.

[Tim W. 🇪🇺 @Tim_AveEuropa]

A pro-Russian AfD is bad.
A pro-Russian & soft-on-migration AfD will be worse.

Turning Germany into a multi-ethnic (vassal) state in Russia’s political sphere seems to be very appealing to some leading members of the AfD. It is no coincidence that many of these members belong to the most pro-Russian and “pacifist” parts of the party.

Pro-Russian sentiment will always result in third-worldism and therefore a hatred of everything Western and European. And since they do not want to preserve a home they hate, they will try to destroy it one way or another.

Let’s hope these people get removed soon. The good news is that if these members succeed, the AfD will implode under their leadership, since the party is held together internally by its shared migration policy. With a softer migration approach, the AfD would further fragment and die, since nobody will vote for a pro-Russian version of the CDU.

In any case, Ave Europa will aim for a Germany that is part of a strong, united Europe, to fix our demographic situation and prevent hostile powers from snatching up European countries one by one. If that sounds like a better alternative to you, join us!

[Veresen 🇺🇦🌲ꑭ @Providnik1]

The AfD is willing to abandon their most popular policy, remigration, before abandoning Putin.

At this point. Why vote for them if they are gonna have the same policies as the CDU + Russophilia?