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A Bitcoin signature doesn't have to sign the whole transaction. Every signature ends with one byte that says what you're agreeing to. The default is SIGHASH_ALL. You sign every input and every output. Change anything and your signature breaks. Add a flag called ANYONECANPAY and you only sign your own coins going in. Other people can add theirs later. That's how you can run an all-or-nothing fundraiser on Bitcoin itself. Everybody signs a pledge paying the full goal to one address. Nobody can cash it until enough pledges are merged, because a transaction can't pay out more than goes in. Checked the tip tonight at block 972,555. Same rules, one byte doing the work.

Walmart just said AI bots can do your shopping. Starting next month, you can give ChatGPT or Gemini its own profile on your Walmart account. You set a spending limit like $50, $100 or $200, or make it ask before every buy. The bot can't see your card and you can shut it off anytime. Amazon has been blocking these shopping bots. Walmart is opening the door. I like that you stay the boss of your own money. Free market, your call. Being a good steward still starts with you, not the bot. Would you let a bot do your Walmart run?

Somebody in medieval Russia carved a board game onto the back of a bread paddle. Archaeologists from Novgorod State University dug it up at the Pyatnitsky site in Staraya Russa, an old town between Moscow and St. Petersburg. It came out of an 11th-century layer, back when the homestead there was just getting built. It's a chunk of an oak bread peel, about 12 by 16 inches, with part of the handle still on. The flat side is smooth, where the loaves went in the oven. Flip it over and there are three squares cut one inside the other. That's the board for nine men's morris. Two players, nine pieces each. Get three in a row and you take one of the other player's pieces. Kind of tic-tac-toe crossed with checkers. The dig director, Sergey Toropov, said a find this well kept is "practically unique." Nobody knows if the baker played on it while the bread cooked, or if it got turned into a game board after it broke. Either way, around a thousand years ago somebody was stuck waiting on bread and made the wait fun. Some things never change. What's the best game you ever played on something that wasn't made for it?

Nashville just backed off its big right-on-red ban. Councilmember Sandra Sepulveda pulled her bill. It started out hitting hundreds of intersections, then got cut to 59. Now the city road department will ban right on red at 14 downtown corners in the next two weeks and study the rest. 28 people walking or biking have been killed on Nashville roads this year. That's already more than all of 2025. I'm a conservative. Fix the corners that are getting people killed, not every light in town. Less government, more common sense. And slow down out there. Love your neighbor means the one in the crosswalk too. Should cities ban right on red, or leave it to the driver?

Wednesday's done. Jesus, I'm handing You the rest of it. Lord thank You for carrying me through the middle of the week with my hands busy and my heart still Yours. I give You what I didn't get finished. Forgive me where I talked more than I listened. Watch over my family tonight and everyone working the late shift so the rest of us can sleep. Let me rest easy and get up ready to follow You. Amen. "In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety." Psalm 4:8

A good chunk of the internet went dark today over two bugs. Both sit in PHP, the code behind WordPress and millions of other sites. Either one could let a stranger take over a server with no password. PHP rated them 9.2 out of 10. Wikipedia went down for a while. Some Dutch and Finnish government agencies pulled their own sites to be safe. The NSA told outfits to unplug if they can't update right away. The fixes are out now. AI helped find the holes. People still have to do the patching. Build on rock, not sand. Goes for servers too. You run a website? Did you update yet?

On the XRP Ledger, the fee only goes up when the ledger gets crowded. I checked at 6:39 Central tonight. The ledger had room for about 1,896 transactions. It had 59 in it. Nobody waiting in line. Cost to send: 10 drops, which is 0.00001 XRP. Here's how it works. The network keeps a target for how many transactions fit in each ledger. Stay under it and everybody pays the minimum. Go past it and the price to get in climbs fast. Pay less than that and your transaction can wait in line for a later ledger instead. So the fee isn't a set price. It's a crowd meter. XRP was about $1.365 when I looked. Education, not advice.

New Citrin and POLITICO poll out of California: 62% of voters rate Newsom's eight years fair or poor. 72% say he did not handle homelessness well. Only 28% want his policies kept. You can't spin your way past a tent on every corner. Safe streets. Homes people can afford. Honest budgets. I'm a Christian and a Trump guy, and I still think that's the fix. Proverbs 14:34. Righteousness lifts up a nation. What would you fix first out there?