Cypherpunk Artist infusing software, math, art, tech, and chemistry into biological interfaces. #BitcoinOnly. No Shitcoins. No NFTs. https://xitter.cf/t.co/R0dsYMsF02

Miami Beach, FL
Joined December 2017
The Bitcoin Full Node Sculpture, A Cypherpunk Chronometer. #5 of 10 was hand delivered yesterday & I wanted to compile a GIGA-THREAD compiling photos, videos, explainers, and podcasts all into one place 👇 Let's go back into time and down the rabbit hole and see #1 -4
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Even if a company deletes customer order data, it still lives, usually forever, with the shipping provider they use... Always use a pseudonym and third-party shipping address such as a P.O. box for Bitcoin related orders!
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Wonderful to look back on this. Big love to everyone involved 🧡
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Super cool milestone coming up this weekend for Widespread Panic’s Lighting Director
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Just an FYI - to anyone who's used my site to purchase art...“We’re on it” Due to concerns about PHP2Shell and eMudhra's cryptographic keys issue, I took my site entirely offline last night around 16:00 UTC. I'd rather risk a few sales in an abundance of caution than try to stay live in a period of uncertainty. Please pardon our dust...we'll be back soon.
If hot wallets and exchanges can’t even post a simple “We’re on it” feedback during security incidents like today’s PHP2Shell and eMudhra's coldcard-like cryptographic keys issue, it raises serious questions about whether they’re ready for this AI driven world we’re entering. Be better. Communicate. It’s not that complicated.
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4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230, 237 is the new 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42
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Now this is SUPER COOL! Roll 100 dice, scan the results with your SeedSigner (and easily verify the scan matches reality), and VOILA; Seed.
Yowza, reading dice rolls w/@SeedSigner camera! What a formula: * Go to @tabconf (moar, please @miketwenty1). * Demo proposed feature to us in person. * Attend my workshop, get esp32-P4 hardware. * Build an even better version! I'm super impressed, @onedigitmoney!
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12 or 24 words anon? 👀
BIP-39 maps 11 bits per word. A 12-word seed encodes 128 bits of entropy. A 24-word seed encodes 256 bits. The extra 128 bits do not reach the private key in any meaningful way, because Bitcoin private keys have a security level of 128 bits regardless of seed length. The ECDSA curve order is 256 bits, but brute-forcing a Bitcoin address via RIPEMD-160 collapses that to 160-bit preimage space, and the actual attack surface against a secp256k1 key sits at roughly 128 bits of effective security.
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I totally get the offline laptop thing, I did exactly that for my earliest cold storage. But with what is coming to SeedSigner, SpecterDIY, Krux and Kern, these microcontroller projects are going to offer increasingly decisive advantages over the offline laptop approach. With support for dozens of development boards any association with bitcoin goes away so you sidestep all of the supply chain risk; you lose the attack surface of an entire microprocessor OS + app; you get better assurances wrt wireless comms being truly disabled; you can get something brand new still at a very low cost; the form factor is much easier to use and store; and the UX becomes much more intuitive and specialized like a HWW rather than a general purpose computer/OS. The advantages of FOSS + DIY are going to become undeniable.
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The @SeedSigner workshop at @tabconf was a success! About 25 people showed up, received their free esp32-P4 dev board, and nearly everyone had flashed my work-in-progress MicroPython port to their board by the end of the hour! Excited to see what they build!!
The @tabconf @SeedSigner workshop fundraiser is now OVER funded! Thank you, everyone! Workshop attendees will go home with this hardware. It'll help seed the next round of new devs for SeedSigner, #Kern, @selfcustodykrux, @SpecterDIY, and probably many new projects as well!
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Claude just solved a decade old cryptographic mystery in under 30 minutes. The NSA's unexplained NIST elliptic curve seeds weren't long believed secret humorous phrases. They came from a weak 1990s pseudorandom number generator seeded with Unix timestamps. This makes backdoors less plausible, not ECDSA less secure. Some mysteries remain.
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People spend way too much time bickering about what the “gold standard” is for #bitcoin self custody. Single sig vs multisig. This wallet vs that wallet. Meanwhile, most people still hold ZERO coins in self custody… If you're advocating for #bitcoin self custody, we're on the same team. Help people get started, then help them level up.
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Are songs written or discovered?
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THE WORLD WILL MAKE YOU THINK THAT EVERY BLESSING HAS TO BE FINANCIAL, SO YOU UNDERRATE THE GIFT OF LIFE, FAMILY, HEALTH, AND PEACE OF MIND.
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BoA gets fined 1% of their annual revenue & fraction of what was laundered. Zero executives arrested. Samourai Wallet never had custody of funds, & regulators said didn't need to do AML. Fined 100% of lifetime revenue plus some. CEO & CTO imprisoned for years. #FreeSamourai
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Live shot of the bitcoin ecosystem realigning itself after recent events.
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Diversity in self-custody helps Bitcoin thrive. Different niches and needs call for different solutions: commercial HWW, DIY signing devices, computers, phones. Backups on metal, paper or optical discs. Some solutions will fade, some evolve, while the shared mycelium grows.
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I’m STILL having a hard time finding the right thoughts, let alone words, to adequately express my shock at how quickly this MASSIVELY unlikely little stunt pulled off, and the huge gratitude that I and every member of my little family are experiencing as a consequence. But one thing I do want to say, which is close to me and my whole outlook on everything. Bitcoin (and with that I mean the entirety of what Bitcoin IS) saved me, and it probably saved you, and I FIRMLY believe that with time it will save humanity. And to me, the culture that has organically arisen around it as a consequence of that shared hope and vision is one of the BEST ambassadors, in a world where ‘culture’ has been contorted into the grotesque propaganda arm of nihilism that we are currently witnessing. This is where the human spirit can shine most visibly, and where it is most intuitively understood. The fact that someone should have THAT much belief in Bitcoin art that he should be willing to spend a good chunk of his precious sats on ultimately displaying that belief to the world around him (and, in the process, his GARGANTUAN gonads!!) should serve as a strong signal to all artists present and future, all collectors, and indeed everyone - both inside AND outside of the Bitcoin sphere. And it solidifies my firm belief that Bitcoin and its culture can very much become a virtuous cycle, allowing it to cast its light of truth, belief, and the so-direly-lacking HOPE onto those that need it the most. ___ I am deeply humbled by this experience. As are Maz and Montgomery. And I will continue to dedicate every fibre of my being into uplifting this, and US, to where it thoroughly deserves to be. Thank you. And LFG 🔥🧡🔥
THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO FOREVER BECOME A PART OF HISTORY. An estimated one billion artworks have been made and sold over the course of time, most of which in the last few centuries alone. And they all had one thing in common: the buyer was always playing it safe by knowing what he or she was buying. Even in the most extreme conceptually experimental cases, there was at least SOME indication of what the work would be. What has NEVER happened before, never ever, is an artwork being sold on the open market with no indication whatsoever of the outcome. Because, in short, no-one has ever been courageous enough to do so. Until now. And until you. My next work, which will be displayed as a finished work at Lugano’s Plan B conference on October 23rd, will be for sale at the simple price of 0.123 bitcoin as of now, and all that I’ll show of it for the next week is the blank canvas inside its wrapper. In a week’s time, I will start posting progress photos, but by then it will have lost its historical significance as the first ever blind purchase. If someone, like you, should buy it before I post the first photos, they will forever go down in history as the first EVER completely blind buyer of an artwork. We’ll get it documented, sealed and approved. And who knows. Maybe it will even appreciate in sat value. So. This is your chance to make history with me. It could be a very very cool thing indeed. First one to dare seals the deal 🔥 LFG.
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Last couple months have kind of been vindication season for all of the @SeedSigner maxis out there.
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