Category Tech

The Surveillance Accountability Act Fixes This

I didn’t know Naomi Brockwell was involved with this legislation and part of the Ludlow Institute. And she was a better speaker at the press conference than the two representatives. I see on their board that PGP creator Phil Zimmerman…

Bitcoin’s “Security Budget” Debunked

This is a good overview of the fallacy of Bitcoin‘s “security budget” being a problem. Block rewards won’t go away until about 2140, with the network then going to fees alone. Hashrate and fees will adjust to what is needed…

Turkey to Ban Anonymous VPNs

What’s the point of a VPN if logged and tracked? Though, the making it a crime for you to violate the law is troublesome. I wonder how this will affect Tor usage? You can use bridges that obfuscate traffic to…

SDNY vs. The Technological Facts Appendix

The whole purpose of a mixing service it to give you financial privacy on a public blockchain, as it breaks the tracking of transactions to a point you might have been identified. And there is a compelling reason for this,…

Bitcoin Core 31.0 Released

Some of the responses to the X announcement were brutal, but deserved. And count me in for never running unpatched Bitcoin Core ever again, as I’m running the BIP-110 patched version of Bitcoin Knots, itself a patched version of Bitcoin…