mel @melik@himk.am

@stephanlivera @pox @ibz @lukedashjr @Mandrik @verretor @TallTim @zlok @nvk FYI, if you have a personal website that people might know (e.g. like Stephan), you can put a rel="me" link on it that points to your Mastodon profile, which the default Mastodon software will verify for people viewing your profile. E.g., here's mine.

Birdsite blue checks never let the facts get in the way of 102k endorphin hits.

Parler has a static status page up. Not the whole site. And the page resolves to an IP address in Belize. Last I checked, that's in South America.

"I WANT TO BELIEVE!"

I'm finishing the development of a new #LightningNetwork explorer. Are you missing something in the current explorers? Send me the idea so I can implement it too!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OkQgTY5_cF0&feature=youtu.be

Project Veritas released a new video today exposing a senior executive at Twitter, Vijaya Gadde, detailing plans to replicate censorship measures around the world.

I made a new app called xSATS, a bitcoin to fiat converter.

🍉 Live currency conversion.
🍒 SAT/BTC to 27 fiat pairs.
🍕 Mobile friendly.
🥑 Simple, yet powerful.

https://xsats.net

"A Washington nonprofit group sued Apple in federal court Sunday, demanding that it remove Telegram, a chat and social media app, from its app store for failing to crack down on violent, extremist conversation in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol."

😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/17/apple-capitol-siege-telegram/

Just deleted my Twitter account after 7 years. Unplugging myself from Silicon Valley. I won't contribute to my own demise.

new script to make verifying gitian deterministic build signatures less painful:

https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoin-maintainer-tools/pull/71

Published in nature: Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°C. -->>
https://cyber.sci-hub.st/MTAuMTAzOC9zNDE1NTgtMDE4LTAzMjEtOA==/mora2018.pdf
It is an embarrassment that this was published! They scaled energy with number of transactions: "At each time step, CO2 emissions for the given number of transactions were estimated based on the emissions generated to mine that number of transactions in 2017."

Bitcoin network does not work that way. Energy is spent securing the blockchain, not per transaction.

I think one of the best way to learn something is to try to write the doc.

Reading a doc somehow does not print that much long term in memory.

Old Soviet Joke:

This is Radio Yerevan; our listeners asked us: “What is the difference between capitalist and socialist trade?”

We’re answering: “Capitalist trade means everything is to be sold. Socialist trade means everything is to be bought.”

The accuracy and aptitude of these jokes is simply brilliant 🙂

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-imf-idUSKBN29K1XJ