Just because someone makes more noise than you doesn't mean they're right
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RileySirus retweeted
Walker: "I nearly bought a wool jumper in town. £140. Nice work if you can get it."
Farmer: "I got about £2 for the fleece."
Walker: "£2?"
Farmer: "Per sheep, per year. Clipped it off her in two minutes, rolled it, bagged it, drove it to the depot. The cheque for the whole flock didn't cover the diesel."
Walker: "Then who's getting the £140?"
Farmer: "Not me, not the shearer. He costs me more per sheep than the wool fetches. I pay to have it taken off."
Walker: "So you lose money shearing."
Farmer: "Every year. And I can't not shear, or she cooks in July and the flies eat her alive. The wool's a welfare job that used to be an income."
Walker: "Sell it yourself, then. Cut out the middleman."
Farmer: "Not allowed. By law it goes through the board. Has done since 1950. I can keep a fleece for the wife to knit with, and that's about the extent of my freedom."
Walker: "So where does it go?"
Farmer: "Washed in Bradford, if we're lucky. Shipped to China, spun, knitted, shipped back, and sold to you with a label about heritage. By the time it's in the window there are eleven people between us and I'm the only one who met the sheep."
Walker: "That's mad."
Farmer: "My grandfather paid the rent on the wool cheque. I pay a man to take it away. Same sheep, same hill, same jumper in the window. Only the price of the farmer went down."
Walker: "What would fix it?"
Farmer: "You buying the jumper. And asking them where the other £138 went."
RileySirus retweeted
craig wright has argued this for years
bitcoins deepest function is not payments but timestamping and evidence
an energy backed record of what happened and in what order
that is why satoshi called it a timechain
clocks drift institutions dream the ledger does not
RileySirus retweeted
I have all the bits up.
Now I am doing the ugly part: getting the bugs out.
My wife is over in Singapore for family matters and she gets back tomorrow, so it is probably going to be a late night. That is fine. The code does not care about sleep, marriage, time zones, or human weakness. It just sits there, broken in quiet little places, waiting to be beaten into shape.
I want this running standalone.
That means wallet functionality, seed saving, the whole thing. Electrum-grade, not some toy with a pretty interface and the structural integrity of wet cardboard.
And yes, it takes longer than one wants.
I am also going back to .NET.
I do not give a fuck about the fashionable little parade of Go and whatever else everyone is pretending is the future this week. I am old. I like C++. I like C#.
So I am going back to my old way of coding.
It worked before the children arrived with stickers on their laptops, and it will work now.
RileySirus retweeted
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RileySirus retweeted
Hi @cryptorebel_SV what would be the best laptop to store @ElectrumSV on ?
i currently have a macbook air and i cant download it....the 🍏people seam to think that it could be because of its new software(golden gate)and that its not compatible with the app?
many thanks
🆓Dom
RileySirus retweeted
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RileySirus retweeted
Tabellarius
Bitcoin Radio payments - where it stands today.
The PHP news is a reminder of how much of our money and messages hangs on web servers. I've been building another option. Tabellarius lets small radios send Bitcoin payments and messages hand to hand, with no internet, and the radio that receives a payment checks it itself against its own copy of the block headers. Here's where it stands today, including what isn't done yet. Not for sale, and the software will be published on the blockchain first. Anyone asking you for money for it is not me.
#BSV
RileySirus retweeted
If ever you see someone say they can't buy BSV anywhere, tag me in, let me show them a globally accessible market.
That can't be shut down. No website to hack or shut down, no business bank accounts to shut down, no retirement hack possible, and the magic word: decentralised (it actually is).
Thank you @WuTao2023 for your armchair critique of the radio car article. Some of it is fair and yes it is a garage experiment, true.
But the relay is not the weak point, it is the point. A payment has to reach the chain somewhere, and that is the relay's job. Look at the order. The handset signs the payment and sends it by radio to the car. The car checks it on its own chip and decides, move or refuse. Only after that does the relay take it to the internet. The car did its work with no internet at all. The internet only comes in at the end, to put it on chain.
The car keeping the 130 sats was not a bug either. It was the rule we chose. We built that test the week hackers turned the freezers in over 400 French supermarkets up to 50 degrees and millions of euros of food went in the bin. A machine that checks its own rules on its own chip cannot be talked into breaking them, not by a hacker, not by a rogue AI, not for money. They can pay, and the car still will not move. And their payment sits on chain for anyone to trace. We could just as easily have set it so the payment never goes through and the relay tells the handset no. That is a setting, not a flaw.
However, every fair point you made goes into Tabellarius. You in the armchair, us in the garage, getting better every day.
RileySirus retweeted
Thank you @WuTao2023 for your armchair critique of the radio car article. Some of it is fair and yes it is a garage experiment, true.
But the relay is not the weak point, it is the point. A payment has to reach the chain somewhere, and that is the relay's job. Look at the order. The handset signs the payment and sends it by radio to the car. The car checks it on its own chip and decides, move or refuse. Only after that does the relay take it to the internet. The car did its work with no internet at all. The internet only comes in at the end, to put it on chain.
The car keeping the 130 sats was not a bug either. It was the rule we chose. We built that test the week hackers turned the freezers in over 400 French supermarkets up to 50 degrees and millions of euros of food went in the bin. A machine that checks its own rules on its own chip cannot be talked into breaking them, not by a hacker, not by a rogue AI, not for money. They can pay, and the car still will not move. And their payment sits on chain for anyone to trace. We could just as easily have set it so the payment never goes through and the relay tells the handset no. That is a setting, not a flaw.
However, every fair point you made goes into Tabellarius. You in the armchair, us in the garage, getting better every day.
