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by Dr. The Daniel 🖖

Nostr Forever

If your web client uses the nostr-tools relay pool, it’s been silently breaking your browser for years. Nobody could figure out why. We solved it last night with a single line of code.

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by Daniel Pfeifer · Edited

Making CTransaction a Regular Type

It's one of the most fundamental types in Bitcoin Core - and it's not a Regular C++ type. It can't be assigned and the comment explaining it is wrong. Here's how to fix it, one refactoring step at a time.

by Daniella ✨

The Prison Door is Open

Last weekend I spoke at a practical preparedness event, and to my surprise, many participants already owned Bitcoin. Their questions were sharp, but the mood around the topic was mostly frustration and anger. Their sentiment was Bitcoin had been captured and compromised.

by Daniella ✨ · Edited

Five States of Bitcoin Awakening

Why do so many of our friends and loved ones seem hesitant to look at Bitcoin? This article explores different states of understanding and interaction with the protocol.

by Daniella ✨ · Edited

How to Receive Bitcoin Without Money

You can receive Bitcoin without converting any fiat currency because Bitcoin operates as a monetary network independent of traditional financial systems. This article explores a few ways how.

by Daniella ✨ · Edited

Bitcoin’s Uncomfortable Truth

Bitcoin creates cognitive dissonance because it challenges a layer of programming that most personal development spaces never address: The fiat-based beliefs which we all subconsciously learned. Most inner work addresses childhood and societal conditioning. Bitcoin surfaces something deeper: The operating system beneath it all.

by Daniella ✨ · Edited

The Cult of Fiat Money

The fiat monetary system shares every structural definition of a cult: A central authority that demands loyalty, controlled information, suppression of dissent, required labour, debt as a tether, and an illusion of choice. This article maps the parallels and asks why we never question the one system were were all born into.

by Daniella ✨ · Edited

Why Bitcoin is Not an "-ism"

Most of us encounter Bitcoin through a lens we already have, but there is something odd about a technology that fits so neatly into every opposing worldview at once. What if that tells us less about the protocol and more about the frameworks we are using to interpret it?

by Danny the Cyber Guy

Your Fonts Can Run Doom

TrueType fonts contain a Turing-complete virtual machine that has been exploited to run everything from Doom to large language models, and your system has hundreds of these arbitrary code execution environments installed right now.

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