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greyface-on The day someone created 184 billion Bitcoin (2020)

> You can’t [...] update the protocol to work around the ability of someone to break elliptic curve cryptography

Have you reviewed any of the proposals to do exactly that? https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/quantum-resistance/

greyface-on Top DNS domains seen on the Quad9 recursive resolver array each day

Such surveillance is often done on a dragnet basis, so, yes.

greyface-on TSA expected to phase out shoe removal policy at airport security

Active discussion on this post from a few hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44500315

greyface-on TSA to end shoes-off policy for airport security screening

It's been a few years since I've flown (and opted out of the MMW), but I recall being directed through the magnetometer first, then receiving a pat down on the other side. Maybe that was nonstandard.

greyface-on TSA to end shoes-off policy for airport security screening

The article implies that passengers who opt out of the "raise your arms" millimeter wave scanner and go through the magnetometer instead will not have to take their shoes off unless the magnetometer alarms:

> Passengers who trigger the alarm at the scanners or magnetometers, however, will be required to take their shoes off for additional screening, according to the memo.

greyface-on Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks

The commits, viewed outside of GitHub, have:

  Author: jack <no@no.no>

He used a bogus `user.email` git config value, which GitHub matched to the nothankyou1 account.

greyface-on Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks

https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/wires

https://achdevguide.nacha.org/

greyface-on Are we the baddies?

If Steam itself goes bankrupt, that decision is not up to Steam, it's up to its creditors and the bankruptcy court. It's not a credible promise for any US corporation to make, regardless of its trustworthiness.

greyface-on Are we the baddies?

The comment you replied to is OP clarifying his description.

greyface-on Are we the baddies?

It's structured as a federal income tax deduction, capped at $25k, and does not reduce reportable payroll or gross income.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/te...

greyface-on The Rise of Whatever

Today, when blocks are empty, you're paying 1 sat/vB. Back then, when blocks were empty, you paid zero. That's the difference between "all about blockspace" and "only about blockspace when you care about next-block latency".

Here's a 2010 Satoshi post in a thread about transaction fees stating "we should always allow at least some free transactions": https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/bitcointalk/thre...

If you had said "2 dollars" instead of "2 cents", we would be in complete agreement. All I'm saying is that mandatory transaction fees were not baked in at 2 cents.

greyface-on The Rise of Whatever

> Its all about blockspace

> That was true when bitcoin was 2 cents

I largely agree with you, but to nitpick: when bitcoin was 2 cents, blockspace was free, and miners regularly accepted zero-fee transactions into blocks. Today, you're not getting a transaction into a block without paying at least a couple hundred sats. Your statement is true today, but it wasn't like this until April-May 2012 when Satoshi Dice started filling blocks up. See Fig 3 on page 9 of <https://maltemoeser.de/paper/transaction-fees.pdf> or look through some early blocks.

greyface-on Bitcoin's Security Budget Issue: Problems, Solutions and Myths Debunked

> sustain current miner revenue

Why should this be the goal?

I'm sure miners would love to see their revenue never decrease, but this isn't a problem for users or for the security of the network. Block reward does not need to remain at or above current levels forever; it just needs to remain predictable from block to block. Difficulty adjustment works both up and down, even if we've only seen it go up so far. The 51% risk is overblown - the network is significantly overprotected right now, and we could stand to lose a few orders of magnitude without jeopardizing security/availability. Plus, it might even placate the energy consumption doomsayers.

As GP notes, empty blocks are now common, which is in fact a bigger risk in a low-subsidy environment. Maybe we should instead reduce minrelaytxfee to 0.1 sat/vB to incentivize full blocks.

greyface-on Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls

I was (somewhat obliquely) quoting Arthur C. Clarke from 1969. It's been 56 years, and in that time the present system has yet to come close to destroying itself.

greyface-on Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls

That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.

greyface-on Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls

In addition to being frictionless, it needs to be anonymous - if the publisher ends up receiving my full name, email address, phone number, and/or postal address, then I'll continue to choose piracy.

greyface-on Airpass – Easily overcome WiFi time limits

This will generate a multicast MAC 50% of the time, which will usually work, but can theoretically cause problems if there's a multicast-aware Ethernet bridge in your path. Ideally, the LSB of the first octet should be fixed to 0 to indicate a unicast address.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address#Unicast_vs._multic...

greyface-on Infineon security microcontroller flaw enabled extraction of TPM secret keys

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41434500

greyface-on Ask HN: In 15 years, what will a gas station visit look like?

https://www.epa.gov/ust/petroleum-brownfields

greyface-on DNS traffic spiked as Musk–Trump clash boosted Truth Social (+268%) and X (+20%)

Thanks, Cloudflare, for the demonstration of the granularity of data collected by 1.1.1.1; this is your periodic reminder to run your own local recursive DNS resolver.

greyface-on CVE-2025-4143

greyface-on It Might Be 20 Times Easier for Quantum Computers to Break Bitcoin, Google Says

Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.15917

The focus on Bitcoin appears to be synthesis on Decrypt's part - it's not mentioned once in the paper.

greyface-on DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage

It's been weeks since the initial TeleMessage revelation... has the Signal Foundation responded in any way to the news? They condemn open source third-party clients and threaten trademark litigation when people use the "Signal" name in interop projects. Meanwhile, total silence when a defense contractor does the same thing.

greyface-on DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage

I don't disagree generally, but it should be noted that the TeleMessage federal contracts predate this administration.

> According to Padgett and government records reviewed by NBC News, government contracts (some of which are still current) involving TeleMessage go back years, predating the current Trump administration. One current contract that mentions TeleMessage allocated $2.1 million from the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA for “TELEMESSAGE MOBILE ELECTRONIC MESSAGE ARCHIVING,” beginning in February 2023, with an August 2025 end date.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/photo-appears-shows-mi...

https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70FA3123F00000028...

greyface-on People are losing loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies

  s/an existing/a latent predisposition for a/

greyface-on New ChatGPT Models Seem to Leave Watermarks on Text

I remember when $EMPLOYER was caught sending all-employee emails with individualized unicode homoglyph watermarks, to try to identify leaks.

greyface-on A new form of verification on Bluesky

> Bluesky’s moderation team reviews each verification to ensure authenticity.

How is this compatible with Bluesky's internal cultural vision of "The company is a future adversary"[1][2][3]? With Twitter, we've seen what happens with the bluecheck feature when there's a corporate power struggle.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35012757 [2]: https://bsky.app/profile/pfrazee.com/post/3jypidwokmu2m [3]: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/14/blueskys-quest...

greyface-on Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380

https://news.ycombinator.com/pool (specifically, this post can be found on page 8: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool?next=43673425)

greyface-on Why training AI can't be IP theft

It's reproduced in the memorizer's neural connectome.

greyface-on Open-Source Is Just That

I think you misunderstand my thesis. SQLite is open source, despite the fact that it fails to meet OSI's somewhat bizarre definition of "open source".