Peter Todd

@peterktodd

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Peter Todd
@peterktodd
Jun 24, 2023
The hardest part about being a contrarian is knowing when not to be.
Pedro L. Gonzalez
@emeriticus
Jun 24, 2023
The mind virus of conspiratorial thinking has been devastating. It completely paralyzes analysis and reduces everything to entertainment, fodder for clicks, traffic, and attention. It’s like a caricature of the Straussian close reading of texts: the “real” meaning is always
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Peter Todd
@peterktodd
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tl;dr: in the interests of maintaining a functioning economy, the Ukrainian government has introduced a system of yellow and red air raid alerts. Yellow: businesses stay open because drones aren't a serious risk, and that risk lasts for a significant amount of time. Res: bigger
Мапа тривог 🇺🇦 / Air Raid Alert Map of Ukraine
@alerts_in_ua
19h
Червоно/жовта система загроз вже на мапах тривог: загальній та спрощеній.
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Peter Todd
@peterktodd
15h
mempool.space/tx/a6d697a2526… Yeah, if someone was returning 3400BTC to me I would accelerate the transaction too. Interesting to know what's the deal with the other 600BTC...
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Peter Todd
@peterktodd
16h
“proof | amount | asset | scriptpubkey" But this unfortunately made the key easier to manipulate and exploit: The four fields are concatenated without separators or length indicators.” This is exactly why my Rust proofmarshal project had a Commit trait, meant to securely and
mononaut
@mononautical
19h
There's some confusion about what, exactly, was exploited here. I've seen claims that this was a long-standing bug, exploited after the "fix" was pushed to the open source repo but before that fix could be rolled out in production. That does not appear to be true. Instead, it
Peter Todd
@peterktodd
Sep 7
😂😂😂
mononaut
@mononautical
Sep 7
If you make a sidechain pegged to real BTC, and the BTC itself gets drained by a bug tomorrow, you still have the same asset. Because the token still exists in limited supply just as before. Nothing has changed. What sidechain is doing to the concept of asset, few understand.
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