I use art and crafts to teach people how to use Bitcoin: a peer-to-peer electronic cash system online and in the real world. ⚡https://teapaw.org/t.co/kDe0FyPgG3 ⚡
Joined April 2009
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Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
We need more Data Centers. Microsoft should have redundant servers that sit in idle Data centers. Why have UPS and redundant utilities if the servers can just shutdown? We need redundant data centers.
Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
People who do math for at least 15 minutes a day are far more resistant to Chinese sex honeytraps.
Quantum resistant cryptography is fun to talk about, but the bigger risk right now seems to be poor key management and bad entropy in a world where quantum computers do not yet exist.
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Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
so now the casino is a bank. really makes you think
Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
Most of the conversation about stablecoins versus bitcoin for payments is very spender-centric and (likely purposefully) ignores the biggest component IMO.
If bitcoin is good for saving, then it's only logical to accept it if you are offering goods and services.
No one talks about the benefits of the receiver-side of payments. It's always how <person> is missing out on getting rich if they spend their bitcoin.
What about the workers and merchants missing out on getting rich by not accepting bitcoin?
Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
I know multiple people who basically quit working on Bitcoin because of how stressful it is to maintain software that handles money nowadays.
I tell them all the same thing: What do you think will happen if we all quit and become gardeners? Are we just going to give up on the internet? Do we just accept fiat as the end game? Are we just going to let go of the dream of an internet that doesn't exploit your humanity and take away your rights to privacy and self-determination?
I know, fuck, it is hard. But you're not alone.
We must fix this. Nobody else is there to do the necessary work. If we stop doing this, we're 100% doomed. I can guarantee it.
But if we continue, we have a chance.
Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
🚨 We are receiving reports of hot wallets on BTCPay Servers being swept by unauthorized attackers.
If you're running an instance, please shut it down (./btcpay-down.sh) until we complete the investigation.
Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
yet ubuntu didn't patch it still
ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026…
It's weird how people opinions change depending on how the wind blows. Good to see some people still base their ideas on first principles.
After the past several months of folks claiming self custody is dead / too risky, a single exchange hack results in more losses than all the self custody failures this year combined.
teapaw.org/lopp/status/2087892465…
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Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
For people who are new here, check out these old eps here:
stephanlivera.com/97
stephanlivera.com/215
Obviously these are older podcasts, but the concepts are very much relevant.
Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
At midday yesterday, I kicked off an initial blockchain download using the newly released Bitcoin Core v32.1. I woke up this morning and it was done.
It took ~18 hours all up.
Specs:
Dell Optiplex 7050
i5-7500T
8GB RAM
2TB Samsung 870 EVO
1000mbps connection
Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
Sparrow v2.5.6 has been released, removing the eMudhra root certificates and upgrading the bundled Tor to meet the client protocols now required by the Tor network.
It also brings extensive screen reader and keyboard accessibility improvements.
Changelog: github.com/sparrowwallet/spa…
Download: sparrowwallet.com/download
Sparrow v2.5.0 released with:
Silent Payments (SP) wallets
SP-capable Frigate public server @2140_dev
bitview.space fee rates source
sparrowwallet.com/download
"Digital signatures provide part of the solution, but the main benefits are lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent double spending. We propose a solution to the double spending problem."
-Satoshi Nakamoto
#Bitcoin: A Peer To Peer Electronic Cash System
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Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
There might be a lot of weak RSA targets à la Coldcard - imagine the FUD when these get broken
Fun With Freedom Tech(Marc) retweeted
So even if every merchant accepts Bitcoin, most people still will not use it without a reason to switch.
The most reliable pattern we have seen is
earn Bitcoin → learn → then eventually spend it
Starting with incentives works. Starting with payments alone usually does not.