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Pinned thread of threads so they are easier to find. As I make more I'll add them here. BIP85 & ColdCard:
1/19 A thread on BIP85, setting up a @COLDCARDwallet from scratch, & using a primary seed to derive entropy for @bluewalletio & Bitcoin Core. "One seed to rule them all, One Key to find them, One Path to bring them all, And in cryptography bind them."
Schrödinger's Software: Samourai Wallet is simultaneously both an unlicensed money transmitting business and not an unlicensed money transmitting business according to judge Cote & the quantum physicists at the SDNY. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
I once bypassed the main power panel on my home, connecting a secondary panel in the basement to run six miners, resulting in the overhead power lines catching on fire. x.com/econoalchemist…
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Congratulations to the 2nd solo block solver 35mU~8hK7 in 2 days for solving the 304th solo block at solo.ckpool.org! This was a huge miner with 270PH at the time of solving the block. mempool.space/block/00000000… A miner of this size has about a 1 in 20 chance of solving a…
Congratulations to the 2nd solo block solver 35mU~8hK7 in 2 days for solving the 304th solo block at solo.ckpool.org! This was a huge miner with 270PH at the time of solving the block. mempool.space/block/00000000… A miner of this size has about a 1 in 20 chance of solving a…
Our three Land Rovers rolled over the African savannah. We had just finished a morning safari and the sun was beginning to beat down with ferocity. The group prepared breakfast on a hilltop overlooking the Maasai Mara conservancy. @ouagawalton and @whiteafrican pulled out a…
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Day 459 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested. Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare. Details: freesamourai.com Support: p2prights.org/donate.html
🚨SOLO BLOCK FOUND!! Someone with 48.3 TH/s just mined a Bitcoin block and took home 3.09098963 BTC. 🔥
🚨SOLO BLOCK FOUND!! Someone with 48.3 TH/s just mined a Bitcoin block and took home 3.09098963 BTC. 🔥
The really crazy part about this is the judge is saying Samourai Wallet is considered an unlicensed money transmitting business under one sub-section but not under another sub-section of the same statute.
It's easy to forget that there are two more developers currently being prosecuted by SDNY for writing open source privacy code. In the case against Samourai Wallet developers, Judge Cote just decided that William Hill and Keonne Rodriguez may not get separate trials, and…
Day 458 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested. Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare. Details: freesamourai.com Support: p2prights.org/donate.html
It looks like bitcoin developers could actually be jailed for writing code. The motion to dismiss the case has been denied. Freedom for bitcoiners is now in critical danger. #FreeSamourai
Judge Cote: The motiins to dismiss and for a Franks hearing, I deny. Adjourned. Story later
Open Source Developers Scared "America should be the place that is unequivocally the best place to live and build open source software." - Matt Odell
🚨JUST IN: Judge denies motion for separate trials in the criminal proceedings against Samourai Wallet developers William Hill and Keonne Rodriguez, defendant's can't appear as exculpatory witnesses
Day 457 since the Samourai Wallet developers were indicted, raided, & arrested. Non-custodial wallets are not money transmitters. CoinJoins are not money laundering. Drop the charges. Stop the lawfare. Details: freesamourai.com Support: p2prights.org/donate.html
One of the few companies who get it. Shout out to all the people making it happen. And thank you @econoalchemist for putting together the curated newsletter.
July’s issue of the @256FOUNDATION newsletter supported by @protomining is here: 📈 Why open mining systems are on the rise 🌐 Ashigaru’s Whirlpool coordinator goes live ⚙️ Mujina firmware now supports hot-swappable hashboards 🧱 Ember One & Libre Board moving toward field…
There's an estimated 30-50,000 Bitaxes distributed globally. There's no way to know exactly how many. There's no way to track them. There's no way to shut them down. That's the way Bitcoin mining is supposed to be.
.@IRS_CI sending their best & brightest.
🚨JUST IN: IRS Special Agent George, tasked with tracing the Government's first witness' funds to Tornado Cash, testifies that he does not know what crypto[.]com is, doesn't know the difference between ERC-20 and ETH
Here’s a recap of the testimony from the defense’s first witness as well as the Rule 29 process (reviewing the counts before all of the evidence is submitted to the jury for review): Re: @TornadoCash trial
July’s issue of the @256FOUNDATION newsletter supported by @protomining is here: 📈 Why open mining systems are on the rise 🌐 Ashigaru’s Whirlpool coordinator goes live ⚙️ Mujina firmware now supports hot-swappable hashboards 🧱 Ember One & Libre Board moving toward field…
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July’s issue of the @256FOUNDATION newsletter supported by @protomining is here: 📈 Why open mining systems are on the rise 🌐 Ashigaru’s Whirlpool coordinator goes live ⚙️ Mujina firmware now supports hot-swappable hashboards 🧱 Ember One & Libre Board moving toward field…
We still cant believe this is real... We changed the course of Bitcoin mining forever Next one is due soon, and we will only accelerate from here Tick Tock Next Block...