Jameson Lopp

Looking at buying a new laptop.
Company offers a CPU upgrade to a newer generation for $200.
Look up the CPU benchmark comparisons.
The new generation is 4% slower with the same power draw.
WTF?

2025-01-12 08:48:26 GMT

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The latter

2025-01-10 14:34:43 GMT

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In some cases providers already dropped coverage. In other cases it looks likely that some providers will become insolvent.

2025-01-10 13:24:10 GMT

If you live in an area prone to natural disasters, you have a few options:
1. Build a robust house that is engineered to withstand the expected disasters. This has a high up front cost.
2. Build a cheap fragile house and hope to socialize the replacement cost with insurance coverage. This works until the danger becomes so high that it's not financially prudent for insurance providers to offer coverage.
3. Build a cheap fragile house, pay cash, and have enough liquid assets in reserve to pay for a replacement if it's destroyed.

2025-01-09 18:10:25 GMT

Well that prediction was wrong! 😬
#nevent1q…grs5

2025-01-07 12:37:03 GMT

Still early.
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2025-01-05 20:51:01 GMT

Shouldn't Bitcoin Maximalists be upset that Saylor & Microstrategy are making it harder for us to stack as many sats?

2025-01-05 14:43:35 GMT

Presenting my 2024 Bitcoin Annual Review in which I track dozens of metrics across the years to gauge our progress.
https://blog.lopp.net/bitcoin-2024-annual-review/

2025-01-04 20:11:00 GMT

If you wanna fuck with some Coinbase social engineers, try texting "N" to (701) 425-6742 and see if they'll give you a call 😈

2025-01-02 15:19:31 GMT

Just generated a visualization of Bitcoin Core development in 2024:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=SSbgVHQrGjg

2025-01-02 14:47:40 GMT

7 years ago today, Mr. Money Mustache published his article entitled "Why Bitcoin is Stupid." BTC was trading at $15,000.
Last year he added some fresh cope.
https://image.nostr.build/8dad85c285bfda9a5d7c02ac0e5dc1d5340545550397a427bf8eb17d9a68a9e5.png
https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2018/01/02/why-bitcoin-is-stupid/

2025-01-02 03:22:36 GMT

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No frills.
Only fans.

2025-01-01 22:49:32 GMT

What if it's a sustainable Ponzi scheme 🤯
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2025-01-01 18:43:57 GMT

Pet peeve that I can't comprehend how it happens: sinks with faucets that barely extend out over the bowl, resulting in you knocking your hands against the edges of the bowl while trying to get them under the stream of water.
I encounter this in houses, public restrooms, and even fancy hotels. Are bathroom designers really this lacking in foresight?

2024-12-30 15:27:55 GMT

Not a fan of how much BTC Microstrategy is accumulating, but they seem to be doing it legitimately soooo whatcha gonna do?
Will certainly be interesting to see if Saylor takes a full hero-to-villain arc a la Roger Ver.

2024-12-29 21:16:48 GMT

The BSV fork managed to lose another 75% against BTC in 2024. It's now worth a mere 0.05% of the real Bitcoin. RIP Calvin Ayre & everyone who was dumb enough to fall for Craig Wright's lies.
Surprisingly there are still a few active BSV supporters left on X who were quite upset when I posted this chart.
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2024-12-29 02:30:18 GMT

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2024-12-28 17:01:34 GMT

We're in a bull market for trading bitcoin IOUs.
We're in a bear market for self custody and permissionless use of block space.
#nevent1q…usjm

2024-12-27 18:54:56 GMT

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Fellas, is it gay to suck Saylor's dick?

2024-12-26 19:28:29 GMT

140 million posts containing the word "bitcoin" were published on X in 2024, an increase of 65% year over year.
I wonder what % of nostr notes are about Bitcoin ☺️
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2024-12-24 20:01:18 GMT

Not a fan of the holidays because it means I have to hang out with family.
I've always been the black sheep of the family and the disparity only grows wider as time passes.

2024-12-23 15:07:23 GMT

Prolific Buttcoiner has been deplatformed from Bluesky 🤡
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2024-12-22 20:23:37 GMT

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Derp, I self host BTCPay server... all systems report nominal.

2024-12-22 01:01:46 GMT

Notorious spam kingpin and crypto scammer Richard "Heart" Schuler is wanted for assaulting a 16 year old and for evading hundreds of millions of Euros in taxes.
https://eumostwanted.eu/#/schueler-richard-james
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2024-12-21 12:19:18 GMT

Block One strikes again.
I was also affected by this group because they bought the exchange rate API provider we use for Casa and decided to 10X the price. Naturally, I surveyed the market and we migrated to a new API that was a quarter of the cost of what we had been paying.
https://davidzmorris.substack.com/p/breaking-coindesk-is-dead-heres-who

2024-12-18 00:32:57 GMT

Never trust a fartcoin.

2024-12-17 20:17:50 GMT

It has been said that cyber society would be far more well behaved it was possible to punch someone in the face through their screen.
Perhaps assassination markets are going too far, but it certainly seems like an ass beating market could be beneficial.

2024-12-16 23:29:27 GMT

Is this art?
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2024-12-11 12:33:01 GMT

Buttcoiner can't figure out why we would create such a user unfriendly Ponzi scheme 😂 https://image.nostr.build/983cd3e6d66a566a647a7f19eb965423ad8e348a8bc3bd0c38f715fc53582bc9.jpg

2024-12-08 21:38:22 GMT

One aspect of the enshittification of technology is that by turning lots of items into smart devices, we speed up their obsolescence.
I hate that my 6 year old TV, which is in perfect condition, is now relatively"slow" to load streaming apps and it regularly crashes.

2024-12-03 17:09:54 GMT

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2024-11-29 15:13:11 GMT

When we finally supass $100K all bets are off.
MSM gonna lose their minds. Retail will ape info. FOMO will hit new levels.
#nevent1q…fgm8

2024-11-26 23:41:17 GMT

I want an AI agent that analyzes how much time I spend performing various tasks and determines which high time cost tasks can be outsourced to AI agents.

2024-11-24 15:54:40 GMT

New guide for node operators: how to speed up initial node sync time by an order of magnitude with UTXO snapshots!
https://blog.lopp.net/bitcoin-node-sync-with-utxo-snapshots/

2024-11-20 14:38:05 GMT

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2024-11-17 14:31:54 GMT

Few folks are aware of one of my behind the scenes janitorial jobs. I'm somewhat responsible for ensuring that a lot of amatuer-run Bitcoin web sites remain online.
How so? I have scripts that check the liveness of every one of the thousands of links on my Bitcoin Resources site.
When a site goes down, it alerts me, then I reach out to the site's operator.
It's amazing how few people monitor their own sites given that there are plenty of services that will do it for free.

2024-11-15 23:59:52 GMT

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2024-11-12 00:20:22 GMT

We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy, but because the haters said we couldn't.

2024-11-11 09:43:30 GMT

I'm increasing my bounty for automating the Bitcoin Politicians Project to $4,000 worth of sats. Easy money for a developer familiar with OCR!
https://github.com/jlopp/bitcoin-politicians/issues/36

2024-11-10 22:03:28 GMT

What kills me is these posts are 6 hours apart. 🤡
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2024-11-10 21:14:08 GMT

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You want a form of covenants known as vaults.
https://blog.casa.io/why-bitcoin-needs-covenants/

2024-11-10 16:20:23 GMT

There used to be 50,000 pay toilets in cities across America until a group of college students in 1970 decided it wasn't fair to have to pay for a natural bodily function and successfully lobbied to get them banned.
Now you can't find public toilets in many US cities and if you want to use a restroom you'll need to use one inside a business that, you guessed it, will require you to be a paying customer.
Capitalism always seems to find a way.
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2024-11-10 14:00:13 GMT

Oh no, not again...
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2024-11-09 22:19:55 GMT

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Yep. I always order rare and only seem to get a 5% hit rate.

2024-11-09 21:52:56 GMT

Another "rare" steak ruined. 😡
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2024-11-09 15:06:06 GMT

This should be called the Trump Embarrassment Gap.
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2024-11-09 07:25:33 GMT

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2024-11-07 08:34:51 GMT

The salt mines on Reddit right now...
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2024-11-06 06:08:25 GMT

LOL
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2024-11-04 23:25:11 GMT

"It ain't gay if it's TSA" I muttered to myself after the backscatter machine lit up my crotch with a big 🍊 blob.

2024-11-02 21:04:42 GMT

Gonna be a big week!
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2024-11-02 14:59:04 GMT

Without government, who would raid your animal rescue and murder the healthy and happy furry friends you had saved?

2024-10-30 13:26:31 GMT

New York City just legalized jaywalking.
Pedestrians should note that the laws of physics still apply.

2024-10-28 10:10:40 GMT

If you're a hot sleeper like I am OR if you sleep with a partner who has very different temperature requirements, you'll likely benefit from an Eight Sleep mattress topper.

2024-10-28 07:18:32 GMT

Bitcoin is Hope
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2024-10-27 20:44:07 GMT

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Presentation likely won't be published for a month or two. 🫠

2024-10-27 19:58:04 GMT

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2024-10-27 14:30:11 GMT

Paid 25 CHF for a 1.1 mile taxi ride in Lugano. 😱

2024-10-26 09:09:35 GMT

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2024-10-23 14:02:47 GMT

My latest talk, on the threat of quantum computing advancements to Bitcoin, is now available.
Key takeaway: one way or another, whether we do something or do nothing, inviolable properties of Bitcoin will eventually be violated.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MTUzpR_mxAg

2024-10-23 00:57:06 GMT

👀
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2024-10-22 22:08:34 GMT

Saylor's greatest trick was convincing the world that he owns bitcoin.
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2024-10-22 12:00:57 GMT

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So? I don't see how that requires casting aspersions upon self custody as being for paranoid crypto anarchists. He could simply focus on how it's easier to hold regulated securities.

2024-10-21 10:28:09 GMT

Saylor's going to gaslight folks into believing that self custody is bad and we shouldn't continue improving the protocol because he wants you to buy $MSTR and regulated ETF products.
https://video.nostr.build/f65d7319f8e8197664aa647c7a86f6f3b3e1ab0754459b85727025ac53ae5a53.mp4
As I've been warning
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2024-10-21 10:16:01 GMT

I identify as a paranoid crypto anarchist.

2024-10-20 17:24:41 GMT

In my latest technical deep dive I ruminate upon a theoretical attack scenario that could be performed by an adversarial miner in order to give themselves a competitive advantage.
https://blog.lopp.net/slow-block-validation-attacks/

2024-10-18 12:11:46 GMT

My long-term Bitcoin concerns mostly revolve around apathy.
What if not enough people care to self custody?
What if not enough people care to enforce the rules by running nodes?
What if not enough people care to put in the hard work seeking consensus for improving Bitcoin?
The most important thing is that we continue discussing Bitcoin. The exchange rate is merely a SIGNAL that we have done well SO FAR.

2024-10-17 19:05:36 GMT

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2024-10-17 12:43:45 GMT

Widespread reports that BlueSky is down, presumably unable to handle the latest influx of refugees from X after the latest announcement of changes to blocking functionality.

2024-10-16 14:19:37 GMT

So bullshit on penis butter
#NostrOG

2024-10-15 19:00:41 GMT

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System76 FTW

2024-10-15 15:09:15 GMT

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2024-10-13 13:41:21 GMT

20 years ago The Pirate Bay went hard
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2024-10-12 17:28:53 GMT

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2024-10-11 12:39:18 GMT

There are numerous clues to Satoshi's identity that are unpublished and closely held secrets by those who have stumbled across them.
Even those of us who have researched Satoshi deeply dare not share them with each other lest they be leaked.
#nevent1q…xrfn

2024-10-11 12:13:25 GMT

If you've got to get up early for a commitment and don't want to get stuck somewhere away from home base with a restroom emergency, coffee + nicotine is a hack to get the bowels moving ASAP!

2024-10-10 14:56:53 GMT

Thoughts on Trezor Safe 5 and Ledger Flex:
I like the UX improvements on both devices.
Nice improvements to Trezor's security model with Safe 3 and Safe 5. The addition of a secure element mitigates the old physical seed extraction vulnerability. Also, the chip in the Safe 5 mitigates glitching attacks and has additional anti-tamper features.
Safe 5 screen is slick and touchscreen + haptic feedback work exactly as I'd expect.
Ledger flex e-ink screen is also nice and I really hope the longevity of it is better than what we saw on Nano S devices with many experiencing screen failure after a few years.
On the complex bitcoin transaction signing performance side, Safe 5 is the fastest Trezor yet and is only exceeded by BitBox02.
Ledger, on the other hand, is looking to have worse signing performance than the Nano S Plus. SAD!
Props to both Ledger and Trezor for shipping new hardware that is compatible with existing APIs and SDKs. As a result, these devices were automatically usable with Casa's software!

2024-10-09 20:42:55 GMT

FBI be shitcoining, y'all 😈
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2024-10-09 14:43:59 GMT

MFW I ask someone for their bitcoin address and they send me a P2PKH address. 😑

2024-10-07 13:41:14 GMT

I've tried pretty much every form of milk over the years for my protein smoothies and eventually settled on Silk Cashew milk for the following reasons:
1. 0 cholesterol
2. 0 sugar
3. 0 carbs
4. No seed oils (many plant based milks have them)
5. No lecithin emulsifiers (also common in plant based milks)

2024-10-07 11:50:01 GMT

Ever fuck up your coffee because you haven't had your coffee yet?
This morning while operating in the dark on autopilot I out the coffee mug in the machine... upside down. What a mess.

2024-10-06 12:44:22 GMT

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Exactly - we don't have much data on this defensive measure and you can't predict how an attacker will react to being given a decoy wallet. I'm not a big fan of speculative security measures. 🤷🏻‍♂️

2024-10-06 12:40:38 GMT

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What I believe absolutely matters with regard to what I decide to say in public.
What we collectively believe is what matters with regard to the evolution of Bitcoin.

2024-10-06 12:04:37 GMT

In the coming months I expect to make a lot of people upset by discussing controversial changes to the Bitcoin protocol.
Mind you, I will be bringing these issues up because I believe that it's more important to address them while there's no current crisis than it is to avoid triggering the ossifiers.