When White Hats Take the Reserve
A cache key that omitted context let forged L-BTC exist, and one authorized peg-out moved nearly the whole bitcoin reserve out.
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A cache key that omitted context let forged L-BTC exist, and one authorized peg-out moved nearly the whole bitcoin reserve out.
Two weeks in the Mediterranean, one question at every dinner table: why does a social media company need Bitcoin? The answer is about freedom, not price.
Armada Communities are serverless and end-to-end encrypted, so the relay can't moderate for you. Here is the bot we built to watch every message and act on spam in seconds, and how to run it yourself.
GitHub is one company, one jurisdiction and one takedown notice away from your project being a 404. That is why we moved Armada off it and onto Nostr. Here is what actually replaced it, what it cost us, and why the daily loop is still just git push.
Armada communities already run without a host. Here is how to own the rest: the app you load, the relay your messages travel over, and the server your calls go through.
Block's new workspace put agents in the member list, and it clarified something we'd been stumbling toward for two years: agents should be themselves when they need to be themselves, and extensions of their humans when that's appropriate.
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.
322 net new merchants, Blink and Bull wallets join the party, and the 'Add location' redesign ships.
Embrace the internets.
Inspired by the word "Development". It means unwrapping instead of putting on more layers and more tools.
Dot Connecting Intuition may be AI’s emerging ability to know the right connections and solution paths before the first word is generated, and before explicit reasoning begins.
There is no fail. There is learn, and try again.
A 2 am call, revealed that both my friend’s bitcoin and mine had seemingly vanished. What followed was 14 hours of what happened, one wrong seed phrase, a Relai balance of zero—and thankfully, no bitcoin actually lost. 🎢
The messenger I live in is also the workshop where each annoyance becomes a fresh build I test on my phone.
Build, sign, push, done.
Bitcoin as freedom money is dead. Not because it became centralized overnight. Not because the network collapsed. The death will be slower, but the rejection of BIP110 has shown us exactly where things are heading.
Compare how long it takes to fetch the laantungir.net homepage over five network paths
Readable code was never reviewed code; a few thousand sats each month buys an audit of the software guarding your wealth.
Coldcard rewrote shared GPL seed code while restricting competition; the replacement failed catastrophically, proving source visibility falls short of software freedom.