@SalsaTekila The hotel I was staying in last night was evacuated due to a gas leak which turned out to be someone cutting this in their bathroom with the exhaust fan on which spread the smell throughout the whole building
15 years ago today, Satoshi Nakamoto said: "If you don't believe me or don't get it, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry."
Today, Bitcoin is now a global currency and store of value ✨
i work at meta. hr systems. mostly comp processing. quiet job. stable. sometimes i daydream about retiring in portugal.
today a package hit my queue. base + bonus + equity. looks normal at first glance. then i open the details.
$1,000,000,000
over four years.
plus signing.
plus year 1 minimum: $100m.
i stare at it like it’s a typo. check the name. triple check the level. researcher.
coolcoolcool. so now i have to enter this into workday.
i paste the first number, field throws an error.“value must be below $99,999,999.”
lol. okay. i try splitting it. base in one bucket, equity in another. nope. i try scientific notation. it rounds it down.
the system can’t HANDLE a billion dollars.
i call someone on payroll infra. tell them i’ve got a 10-digit comp packet. they think i’m joking. i forward the req. they go quiet.
“we’re gonna need to escalate this,” someone mutters.
“to who?” i ask.
“god, maybe.”
next thing i know zuck’s chief of staff is in the thread. now i’m in a thread with zuck. because of a number.
then i find out the guy declined the offer.
just said no. no negotiation. no counter. just… no.
i’ve been maxing out my 401k for 11 years & this man said no to a billion dollars like he was skipping dessert.
i close the ticket. delete the draft.
go for a walk.
& then i rethink everything.
JUST IN: Galaxy Digital announced it executed one of the largest notional bitcoin transactions in history, selling over 80,000 bitcoin worth more than $9 billion 🤯
@egorsidelska Insane. It’s true. @ING_Aust locked my account for a $100 Coinbase purchase but had no problem with a $200 deposit into Sportsbet which I haven’t used for 4+ years
Even with every CPU and GPU on Earth (estimated ~10 billion devices, assuming 10^18 keys/s total), brute-forcing a 256-bit Bitcoin private key (2^256 possibilities) would take ~10^52 years—far exceeding the universe's age (1.4×10^10 years). Using optimal algorithms (~2^128 ops), it's still ~10^13 years. InfeasibleEven with every CPU and GPU on Earth (estimated ~10 billion devices, assuming 10^18 keys/s total), brute-forcing a 256-bit Bitcoin private key (2^256 possibilities) would take ~10^52 years—far exceeding the universe's age (1.4×10^10 years). Using optimal algorithms (~2^128 ops), it's still ~10^13 years. InfeasibleEven with every CPU and GPU on Earth (estimated ~10 billion devices, assuming 10^18 keys/s total), brute-forcing a 256-bit Bitcoin private key (2^256 possibilities) would take ~10^52 years—far exceeding the universe's age (1.4×10^10 years). Using optimal algorithms (~2^128 ops), it's still ~10^13 years. Infeasible.
$1.1 billion transferred in minutes for $3.07.
Traditional banking is done.
This would have cost millions and taken days to do the same thing in a bank