Hahaha haven’t heard that one in a long time. Cracked me up.

guy who doesn't know what peer-to-peer technology is, laughs at man who does!

please stop using the internet! it might be slow and expensive to run! it requires insanely big cell towers and submarine cables! it won't scale!!11!! kind of guy

The default question in my mind is jettison batteries in case of an emergency?

Author here. I built this once learning about front running the Bitcoin puzzles.

seems cool -- wasn't there that guy searching through a trash heap for years searching for his thumb drive? guessing he didn't have the public key, or if he did this would've fixed his situation?

You may have missed this part:

> What this does not show

> The attack above depends on conditions that ordinary Bitcoin keys do not meet.

> Ordinary Bitcoin keys are not affected by any of this

> A properly generated private key is spread across roughly 2 to the power of 256 possibilities. The square root of that is 2 to the power of 128, which is not attackable by anyone, with any budget, ever.

The app is simple (read: dumb). No pooling, because it computes everything offline.

I'm not a printer... What does that mean?

If the printer doesn't extrude sufficient volume for the speed it's moving at, the layer lines become thin and leave gaps. It's more apparent in this picture: https://qidi3d.com/cdn/shop/articles/under-extrusion.jpg

Lightning ain't slow though.

TIL DAI cannot be frozen. Perhaps the first stablecoins I might be a little interested in.

The merchant should send the funds (sweep the UTXO) back to you if the funds are flagged. So you should not be out of pocket.

You mean payment processing? BTCPay Server is the defacto standard I would argue.

Have used it for accepting LN transactions for years.

yep, but web ui for it is far from Stripe quality.

and C#, I would rather have something in Go/Rust.

it always stike me how whacky ETH dev community is (based on their slack). like you have ETH core written in Go, just make a nice open source ETH gateway with nice UI. nope. neither core team nor community don't care.

and BTC has some Windows XP era C# monstrosity

I have zero experience with C# and it all lives inside a docker container and just works.

Naturally, I would prefer a non-windows language, but it is literally a black box that works.

but you also got to have .NET runtime right? so it is bloat. I have allegeric reaction to bloat of any kind (especially oversized Docker containers)

Thought you wanted software that just works ?

interesting. maybe becauase I code all-day, every day, for couple decades, knowing what is inside software kind of important to me. what's under the hood.

Thanks for the tip!

Would love for Pine64 to thrive.

I don't own any of their products, but I am glad they exist.

Same. Well, I did buy the PinePhone Braveheart edition a few years ago, but never did much with it. I keep an eye on the PinePhone Pro and PineNote in particular, these could be fantastic but it seems the software ecosystem is quite slow to develop.

What I like about Pine64 is that they go for low price points. Most of their products seems to be priced in line with low- or mid-end proprietary alternatives. Yes you can still complain about the hardware you get for what you pay but IMO for this kind of stuff, it's better to have an accessible price point and limited hardware than to charge a premium price for mid-range hardware that is still limited by experimental software support.

> What I like about Pine64 is that they go for low price points.

Sometimes I wish they would charge a little more and use that extra $$$ to pay someone to make the things work. there are too many rough edges that a full time developer would just fix, but nobody in the community gets "a round touit". These are things I could fix, but after my day job and getting my kids to everything I don't have energy left to focus.

As an embedded engineer, I tend to agree. Their hardware looks good, but I am not going to spend my free time getting their software to work as well as I know it could if they hired someone like me.

Huh, maybe I should contact them, since I am freelancing now….

It sounds to me like you and people like gp could both be served by a bounty mechanism that doesn't have to include Pine64.

I have their Pinecil and PinePower Desktop. They're really great products, I use the PinePower daily to charge my stuff at my desk and the Pinecil made soldering a joy, now I no longer dread it and can enjoy tinkering with hobby electronics again.

I've got two Pinceils (because reasons) and a PinePower Desktop. They are, indeed, great.

Everyone I know who is vaguely-serious about soldering has their own favorite brand/method/voodoo, so they're not interested in the soldering irons even if we do a direct comparison and the Pinecil performs better. (There's no accounting for taste, I guess.)

But the PinePower box is different. I've helped them sell a few of those to various geeky friends. They do what they're supposed to do, handle all of the various fast-charging standards that small portable widgets tend to use, and they do it in a usefully-informative way.

So it's wonderful for charging stuff and can easily earn a permanent place in a household, and a person can very clearly see if a given charging cable is being difficult for whatever reason that it is without goofing around with extra parts like USB power analyzers.

I hope they stick around. They seem to be one of the good ones.