Luke de Wolf announced a new Bitcoin book, Defending Bitcoin: Industrial-Grade Cybersecurity for the Financial Grid and has spun up a little website for it.
The website features blurbs by all the usual suspects (Jeff Booth, Lyn Alden, Lawrence Lepard, etc) and let's you have a look at a few pages in the book, such as these:
de Wolf also has a little threat model quiz. I put in answers as if I were a certain famous large-scale miner, and here are some of the things it output:
I'm listening to Knut and Luke now, from the outset their podcast is very heavy on we must stop arbitrary data
And to be fair Knut correctly calls him out by saying, what is and isn't acceptable to be added to blocks is difficult to define, and imo it's an unwinnable game to start being judgemental *imo
But then LdW goes on to say he doesn't support bip110
So I'm confused as to where he stands and that for me highlights the difficulty of deciding what is and isn't acceptable for addition to blocks
Maybe he thinks we can sell more copies of his book if he is now against it :-(
sigh
Congrats to Luke and I'm always happy to see more Bitcoin books out there... but jezus christ what a useless, unnecessary piece of crap. Why are all the Bitcoiners' brains focused on COMPLETELY the wrong things...?
update: OK, I take that back... the book wasn't just an "anti-spam/ordinals"/BIP-110 manifesto
I didn't catch any spam discussion at all from the website. Seems more focused on the cyber security angle...but I'm not sure that such an angle really adds a lot.
also yeah... it does feel like yet another mirror-mirror-on-the-wall... "oh, my background is x; here is how x and bitcoin overlap plus you get my personal story for free"
what, we're gonna have 8 billion Bitcoin books...? (I do respect peeps for carving out their own niche... but also, fucksake)
chapter 11
OK, fine:
We need to take this to its logical conclusion:
"Bitcoin in Silence: A professional mime's account of how Bitcoin changes everything"
there's someone, somewhere, working their pinstripped ass off on this
12 years of school. 4/+ years of university.
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