GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has chosen the first group of encryption tools that are designed to withstand the assault of a future quantum computer, which could potentially crack the security used to protect privacy in the digital systems we rely on every day — such as online banking and email software. The four selected encryption algorithms will become part of NIST’s post-quantum cryptographic standard, expected to be finalized in about two years.

This whole situation is funny AF

I sold my Monero for 0xMonero around the time that Fluffy Pedo was arrested the first time. I'm done with Monero. Think about it. They are putting in a South African prison, one of the most dangerous ones in the world. Don't you think that he would tell the authorities how to track transactions and who the team members are etc. to get a lighter sentence? I'm certain he would. The entire chain is compromised now.

Peter Schiff's bank being shut down by regulators in Puerto Rico, and the irony of this happening to someone who is so anti-Bitcoin.

As Satoshi pointed out, Bitcoin allows us not to have to trust banks anymore.

Peter Schiff’s bank closure strengthens Bitcoin case for financial freedom

well sanity has its downsides anyhow. overrated.

 are we sane?

Is anyone watching the Super Bowl today...umm pardon me, the USFL Championship game?

Billionaire Jeff Bezos is now facing a dilemma as his new $500 million super yacht is reportedly stuck in Rotterdam as it's too big to fit past a historic bridge.

Oceanco, the Dutch firm building the impressive 421ft Y721 sailing yacht, had originally planned to dismantle the bridge but changed its plans after a public backlash.

ICE is now able to track transactions made through nearly a dozen different digital currencies, including Bitcoin, Ether, and Tether.

Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, is selling Immigrations and Customs Enforcement a suite of features used to track and identify cryptocurrency users, according to contract documents shared with The Intercept.

Stay frosty, and keep your powder dry.

Monday morning, the chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, said on CNBC's Squawk Box that the only token he would lump in with commodities was bitcoin.

3AC has entered liquidation, apparently.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/crypto-hedge-fund-three-arrows-capital-has-entered-liquidation-source-says-2022-06-29/
Considering this, we are doing better than expected (so far).

Sounds awful..and just painkillers are not the worst outcome, perhaps, all things considered.

Hm?

You are blaming some kinds of lens fogging for your M/c accident?

I spent quite a bit of time in my youth (and even into my middle age driving motorcycles - not so much recently, but not really opposed to the idea. and surely in some locations, driving MC/scooters can be quite practical, convenient and surely fun).. .when I was really young, fuck I was a risk taker and overall just have to say that there was some luck to get through that period without any major life-diminishing encounters with either moving or stationary objects.

By the way, I know about lenses fogging too, so I would not even have had been questioning your rendition of blame (at least in part).  

I recall that frequently I would drive with my helmet visor up (especially at night.. and part of the reason did have to do with some of the fogging that would happen if I put it down), and I would just use the plastic windshield on the motorcycle as a means to block the vast majority of the road wind, and I was on a somewhat country highway and going about 50mph/80kmh.. and in some miraculous kind of a way, some kind of bug ended up hitting me between the eyes, very close to my right eye, and did not even hit the eye, but that impact was so painful and debilitating to my eyesight.  It was like all of a sudden going blind but still being able to force a wee bit of eyesight (but not easy because both eyes were tearing and really wanting to close).. I was so fucking lucky that I was able to stop. .and in a kind of almost blind state in the middle of nowhere, and I did not even fall of the motorcycle.. another lucky thing that I was barely able to do and to muster enough muscle movement to accomplish.

Once I stopped, I did recover within about 5-10 minutes and I was even able to open both eyes and stop them from continuing to tear.  Luck sometimes.. and surely I did not stop riding motorcycle from that, and I did not even stop putting my visor up either, but it only happened once in my many thousands of hours of overall ride time.

Pretending that Zcash doesn’t have the best and only yet-seen practical way to apply ZKP here is a disingenuous argument.  Especially since I want to copy their open-source technology—research and development of which was paid for by their “dev tax”.  (Thanks.)

There does not exist any other decentralized privacy solution that reveals zero information.  In one of the posts that you said you did not bother to read, I explained why.

All other existing privacy solutions either are copies of Zcash, or are centralized (with blind signatures, as Digicash), or rely on decoy obfuscation of leaked information to try to cover up the trail of transactions (Monero mixins).  (Or are ridiculous outright scams, such DASH.  Or rely on trusted hardware enclaves, like some new shitcoins—literally “Intel inside!”)  Monero (or Blockstream’s Liquid) technically use “zero-knowledge proofs” to keep transaction amounts confidential, but they are not overall “zero-knowledge”.  Your claim that “ZKP has been used forever and it is essential to any privacy algorithm” is hypertechnical hairsplitting to avoid an obvious point.

As things now stand, it is practically impossible to discuss zero-knowledge proofs for Bitcoin without discussing the technologies and the real-world experiences from the premier ZK proof privacy altcoin.  I will not self-censor to avoid knee-jerk reactions:  That would prevent me from discussing my longtime dream of having ZK proof privacy in Bitcoin.  I have been wanting that since around 2013, according to my recollection of when I first heard of Zerocoin.

By the way, cAPSLOCK:  When Richy_T civilly disagreed with me based on his outdated information about Blockstream Satellite, and I corrected him, he kinda-sorta acknowledged his mistake; and he continued with a constructive discussion.  Why do you dodge the factual correction of your very rude misinformation?


You also have not answered my point about a “dev tax”.  cAPSLOCK, you hate the idea of a “dev tax”; and you insult altcoins that have a “dev tax”.  So, over all these years that you have enjoyed Bitcoin, have you donated any nontrivial amounts to support Bitcoin Core development?  Developers need to be paid somehow.  I know that some big BTC HODLers are very good about this; they tend not to be the ones who sneer at little altcoins for having a “dev tax”, for they understand that developers need to be paid somehow.

Hey Bros, i'm in a hurry, so here's that promised photo from NGC7000 (North America Nebula). Seond try, because my lens fogged in the humid air of the night.
Details: 200mm lens on a H-Alpha modified DSLR, 100x25 sec frames for the stars, 20x60 sec frames for the nebula.