Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 2d
If anyone at btc++ wants to try out real world payjoin with the new Bull Bitcoin wallet, I'll happily sell you some ₿ for USD (maybe buy too).
Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 5d
https://www.lee.senate.gov/2025/2/lee-introduces-the-saving-privacy-act-for-119th-congress This looks good! In particular: “Institutes penalties for federal employees who illegally seek constitutionally protected financial information.”
It's a combat zone where active fighting was happening. Of course there are going to be Hamas forces in every building. They move around to try to avoid being killed, and in the process of killing them, Israel is going to end up flattening basically every building.
Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 8d
“Need a tattoo? A piercing?” “I need a piercing like I need a hole in my head.”
FWIW I did suggest that to them. They said they didn't want to rely on just MARA and F2Pool to mine the transactions, so they'd prefer to stick to creating unpeunable outputs. Their system has time constraints so there is a deadline to get the transaction published or theft can happen.
Gonna use this for some free advertising. These guys could use your ₿ donations to kill some more Russian scumbags: https://www.sternenkofund.org/donate Russia just tried to assassinate their founder: nostr:nevent1qqsw58qjv3v07qh6zusr2sq9tvwaydnvqqdvq7lplxw6vzrzp9cdqpqpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qgsve2jcud7fnjzmchn4gq52wx9agey9uhfukv69dy0v4wpuw4w53nqrqsqqqqqpl8l6p2
Video of a failed assassination attempt on Serhiy Sternenko, a Ukrainian who founded a notable charity organization that, among other things, supplies drones to the military: https://video.nostr.build/1d892ec55fad8445ab41174a0fc038f8e2583042f37ff0fcffbb04efa4c49fd7.mp4 The assassin: https://image.nostr.build/30cbb39150d5d48dc956093cb1cf36b30dd954f294f18fecebb2e13f54843f96.jpg Apparently Russia is running out of hot female spies. So much for the movies... 😂 Like most Ukrainian charities, they accept Bitcoin: https://www.sternenkofund.org/donate Looks like their ₿ address just got another 60k sats. Interestingly, their Paypal donation link can only be used for non-lethal aid. Bitcoin fixes that!
Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 10d
War is not inherently genocide. Israel has every right to defeat Hamas, and if Hamas chooses to fight in the middle of a city, Israel gets to flatten it. Israel of course has gone well beyond what it is required to do by giving people living in these cities plenty of opportunities to move to safety.
A literal steamroller would invade Ukraine significantly faster than Russia is advancing.
Politicizing the ICC by going after Israel was an enormous failure for the free world. Big win for Russia. The ICC was able to legitimately go after Putin, and had some practical impact on his travels. Going after Israel for aburd charges of genocide is both effective at harassing Jews, while also helping solve Putin's travel problems. No surprise that the ICC has Russian judges and staff who went along with this nonsense... Anyway, regrettable, Hungary is doing the right thing here. As is the US by sanctioning the ICC. nostr:nevent1qqs0zvheestq594aj0acn4t4jdx549f0j0kek7uk3tdk8en7k7m0vzgpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsyg9er9ayem7j5ywgnpqxaukcj0ce06nuzx40ke40qul5cfnchz9reqpsgqqqqqqs8qg8mz
My favorite is left wing Canadians arguing vehemently that voter ID is the work of the devil... when Canada has voter ID.
Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 11d
Dec '23?
Note that it is believed that the chemicals in question were rocket fuel precursors, meant to be turned into missiles to attack Israel and Ukraine with. Either a remarkable bit of luck, or sabotage. nostr:nevent1qqs8hsqhzfzcvahfn3tdtr3dulr4wc9edyzt87h058a43gy9tm9yc9gpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsyg9er9ayem7j5ywgnpqxaukcj0ce06nuzx40ke40qul5cfnchz9reqpsgqqqqqqs8uenyu
Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 13d
Yeah, good chance I don't get to visit Russia again in my lifetime...
Until the aggression is over it'd be unethical of you to go back.
My 12th grade comp-sci teacher would have loved a problem with a source like that actually. Nice.
This feels like a 12th grade comp-sci challenge... 😂
Ukrainians (most likely) assassinated a Russian Major General at his home near Moscow yesterday, yet another in a long list of assassinations of Russians (e.g. the EW warfare expert, Yevgeny Rytikov, killed with a car bomb earlier this week). https://video.nostr.build/704010ad864830f584cc6608ec58e537e07921e56cc3fbc00819feab058d20a9.mp4 https://image.nostr.build/c3b1cf99e1a3e266fa754fe602404559fb8926db5ea510a6aebc8a67c0e7b21d.jpg One interesting detail: the assassination seems to have been done with an IED made of grenades planted in car they parked on the street outside his apartment, probably triggered remotely with a webcam. Not all of the grenades exploded at once, which meant that after the first explosion, additional secondaries kept on happening. Now think about it: suppose the general had only been wounded, not killed. A stream of secondary explosions would discourage anyone from getting close enough to help, maximizing the chances they he does in fact die. Smart. https://video.nostr.build/88fb9144d589a0ad281008e25cc23f323022c509a9e16f7a2fbc94e422adf010.mp4 Russia does follow-up "double-tap" air strikes all the time on Ukrainian civilians to try to kill rescue crews. Using a similar tactic on Russia for assassinations is more than fair.
Peter Todd @Peter Todd - 14d
😂😂😂 Google's AI Overview completely hallucinated the existence of "unsafe" for the Zig language. Grok 3 correctly says that Zig doesn't have unsafe blocks.
Accidentally orange-pilled a sticker vendor in Mexico. I only had 500 peso notes, and he didn't have change. So I had him install Wallet of Satoshi and sent him 100 pesos (~$5 USD) via Lightning. He was actually pretty clueful. He seemed to understand that this was like digital gold. He also seemed to understand me when I explained how Bitcoin was a protocol – kinda like email – and that's why I was able to use different software to send him Bitcoin than Wallet of Satoshi. And he seemed to understand that since the amount was so small, Wallet of Satoshi was the one who actually had his Bitcoin, not him. Second time I found someone who was willing to accept ₿, but normally didn't. First time was a t-shirt vendor who knew all about Bitcoin, but didn't himself have a wallet, and just got his friend to accept it for him. Bitcoin is getting to the point where so many people know about it that you don't have to convince people its valuable. They already basically know what it is even if they've never personally used it.
