Peter Todd

Pedro L. Gonzalez Verified account @emeriticus · Jun 24, 2023

The mind virus of conspiratorial thinking has been devastating. It completely paralyzes analysis and reduces everything to entertainment, fodder for clicks, traffic, and attention. It’s like a caricature of the Straussian close reading of texts: the “real” meaning is always hidden from view, and being unable to see it means you don’t have access to esoteric insights and knowledge. In reality, you’re just reading it wrong.

In the case of Russia right now, nobody really knows what’s happening. But that doesn’t matter; all you have to do is come up with the most absurd theory, and the more absurd it is, the truer it must be.

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Whyvert Verified account @whyvert · 21h

Russian leaders now speak of "the biological death" and "extinction" of Ukraine.

Eradicate and replace with Russians.

Some advocate a policy of surrender or major concessions. That will risk accelerating this aim.

From The Economist:

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Daily Mail Verified account @DailyMail · 8h

'No evidence' Polish killer was far-Right, prosecutors admit as it is revealed he executed parents and sister with two shots to the head each as they slept… and even killed their two cats trib.al/m1mkNm5

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@em ⚡ Nuri.com ⚡ ʇɹɥɐW uıɯƎ Verified account @em · 2d

this is an attack on bitcoin i never thought could exist. first of all you can create unsafe addresses - best example all @COLDCARDwallet addresses are unsafe

it is something i just in this moment realised fully

unsafe means in simple words someone has the private key, or can “guess” it, because it’s not random enough (it was not created random).

if that’s the case, you can just do a RBF attack once it’s sent, meaning you can change the fee to a point it never goes through, like burning the complete action to a miner / op return

now this opens up a lot of attack scenarios because anything from receiver through swap services could potentially run on unsafe addresses.

is there any way to know upfront if an address is unsafe? i guess not, only spending tons of compute checking every single address you spend to.

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