💥 NEWS! In a landmark ruling, the UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal found “very serious failings” by MI5 breaching the right to privacy from at least 2016, and that successive Home Secretaries didn't enquire into & resolve this rule breaking, despite the red flags 🚩
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@meeDamian https://t.co/n0tXviwBqB
One of the first books recommended to me as a kid by my dad. Favourite for sentimental reasons but a great story none the less
@fiatjaf I work with a lowcode product and it is great for rapid development. You get to a point though where you wonder if building framework on top of framework, ontop of framework, ontop of ... Is a good idea. How secure and robust can a system be with so many dependencies?
Our first paper from RWOT11 has arrived: "Taking Out the CRUD: Five Fabulous DID Attacks". Led by Kate Sills (@kate_sills) with Shannon Appelcline (@Appelcline), Cihan Saglam (@cihanszz), and Carsten Stöcker (@CarstenStoecker). [1/10] https://t.co/Y6INottkWr
@valkenburgh There's quite a lot about the history of legislation against cryptography in the book 'Crypto' by Steven Levy. It's a great read if you haven't already
Cwtch Beta 1.7.1 is now available for download!
This release contains minor UX improvements around file sharing and message loading, in addition to performance improvements and bugfixes for Android clients.
Download: https://t.co/EQ53qzkr2F
The International Monetary Fund published a report detailing how Bitcoin disrupts the world order, enables sovereignty amid sanctions, and demands regulatory action.
@Fall_Of_Fiat covers the news:
https://t.co/i0LfWMRs0o
@morphomedia@notgrubles Thanks for the link! I suppose it still doesn't address @notgrubles point of sending hashes though. IMHO If you're creating hashes at home then you are home mining. Solo mining is generally used to describe not sending those hashes to a pool
1/As the debate over PoW vs. PoS ignites again, one argument you'll hear from the PoS camp is that PoW creates and ensures an oligarchy just like PoS does.
History tells us otherwise.
Here is @btccom_official going from 26.5% -> 3.8% in hashrate distribution over 4 yrs.