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Shitshow. "Targeted social engineering attack" to control her Twitter account as if she was famous enough to target it (and not her GitHub account in order to attempt serious supply chain attack with B'Core). I doubt it, drama queen.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @gregtonoski 18 Jan \ parent \ on: The Samourai Trap: How the State Engineered the End of Self-Custody privacy

I agree that the most important is the message not to be naive. Very good article, thanks.

The number is not hallucinated: "an order to forfeit $237,832,360.55" - https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-samourai-wallet-cryptocurrency-mixing-service-sentenced-five-and-four-years. Let us know if you know how they intend to collect it.

5 sats \ 2 replies \ @gregtonoski 18 Jan \ on: The Samourai Trap: How the State Engineered the End of Self-Custody privacy

Could you explain the $237 million in BTC, please? Had it been in possession of Rodriguez & Hill and they gave it to US? Or the amount is yet to be collected (how)?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @gregtonoski 16 Jan \ parent \ on: The asymmetric advantage of a BIP-110 fork bitcoin

You don't know what you are writing about. Or you are intentionally trolling.

212 sats \ 3 replies \ @gregtonoski 16 Jan \ parent \ on: The asymmetric advantage of a BIP-110 fork bitcoin

I can't imagine a spammer not being malicious. They shouldn't mine bulky spam, e.g. 100kB (or more) garbage in OP_RETURN. Bitcoin is money. BIP-110 makes it more secure.

It's ridiculous to apply double standards: promoting malicious miners choice (and free-riding) while disregarding choice of honest ones and nodes.

I base the low probability of chainsplit on the fact that malicious miners are greedy and so have strong incentive to follow the Bitcoin network with the BIP-110 security improvement rather than hardforking their own, short-lived chain to mine bulky spam.

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @gregtonoski 16 Jan \ parent \ on: The asymmetric advantage of a BIP-110 fork bitcoin

There could coexist 2 chains with 40% (A) and 60% (B) of the pre-split hashrate. Neither of the chains would probably sacrifice their hashrate to attack each other (reorg).

Anyway, chain split probability is low. Most probably malicious miners won't attempt a hardfork in the wake of the activation of the BIP-110.

102 sats \ 7 replies \ @gregtonoski 16 Jan \ on: The asymmetric advantage of a BIP-110 fork bitcoin

I don't understand your question. The wall of text looks like propaganda of miners/mining pools lobby. As a matter of fact, hashrate is not everything (especially temporary one). Honest nodes play important role too.