Sjors Provoost
Sjors Provoost
sjors@sprovoost.nl
Physicist turned bitcoin developer aka "shadowy super-coder", author of Bitcoin: A Work In Progress
"The dollar is king, we're gonna keep it that way. Just saying, if people wanna challenge it, they can, but they're going to pay a big price. And I don't think any of them are willing to pay that price." - Donald Trump Now you know. To be fair, it was in reference to BRICS and you can't accuse the fountain.fm/episode/gzfxBKiY94NTCUKySPQ2
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Looks like there's interesting times ahead for Chainalysis again. Full story at the end of this post, which is well worth the read if you're interested in blockchain surveillance or, you know, justice or whatever. Alexey Pertsev, the Tornado Cash developer convicted last year for money launderingSjors Provoost, who attended the hearing this morning. The court will decide on Oct 2 whether it will grant the defense’s requests. Zap if u like this (and bc I am poor). ty ⚡ Full story: www.therage.co/pertsev-defense-challenges-chainalysis
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Still can't believe X users have their (eye) balls scanned. fountain.fm/episode/rgEmfe8E7ivWuORiUdA1
Whaha, I've been in DC more often than Odell and I'm a foreigner. fountain.fm/episode/0SwABFKl22JmThk9ARlz
Removals after removal are my favorite type of removal. And I have a PR on top of this that removes even more :-) #MakeBitcoinCoreMaintainableAgain
[bitcoin] Merged PR from maflcko: refactor: Removals after bdb removal github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32438
There seems to be genuine confusion about how open source works. In particular some people believe that Bitcoin Core developers have a fiduciary duty, either towards them personally or towards some general notion of the Bitcoin network. They are surprised that I and some others respond to this rathe
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Ja, ik ben een van de (daadwerkelijke) reviewers van de pull request(s) die de op_return limiet verwijderen. Mijn ack heeft aanzienlijk meer gewicht dan een drive-by commenter. Daarnaast heb ik een vrij uitgesproken en geïnformeerde (toch?) mening over dit onderwerp hier op nostr en mijn podcast. I
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If youre still upset or not understanding why op_return limits are being removed, then listen to Sjors Provoost and Whispering Bison break it down on fountain.fm/episode/EyMpDXlQIL1W51z5y566 Or Delicious Louse , Immense Chinchilla and Faithful Hornet on fountain.fm/episode/Ps7D4nv3ayskv3CMz01Q I now agree its not better for out of band txs to make it into blocks and distort every node's fee estimation and view of the mempool. Also, the history of repe
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Someone, probably a US based catholic young male, subscribed my email to a bunch of lists in order to spam me. I can't be bothered to trace the IP they used for this. But Luke, control your herd.