But if humans find it a bit 100x harder, AI's "harder" might only be 3x. An AI can be trained to see the pattern in byte code quite reliably, so I expect the distinction to not be source availability soon enough.

What about ai finding bugs in closed source software?

"CLAUDE OPUS 4.8 SAYS BITCOIN DEVELOPER AND SECURITY RESEARCHER, FOUNDER OF WALLETSCRUTINY, A PROJECT THAT REVIEWS AND VERIFIES THE REPRODUCIBILITY OF CRYPTOCURRENCY WALLETS."

that's ok but boy do some of the models get things wrong:

KIMI K2 0905 : GERMAN-BORN SOFTWARE ENGINEER AND BITCOIN EDUCATOR, CREATOR OF THE OPEN-SOURCE WALLET "GNUWALLET" AND AUTHOR OF "LEARNING BITCOIN" (2021).

GNUWALLET? "LEARNING BITCOIN"?

DEEPSEEK V4: BITCOIN DEVELOPER AND CO-FOUNDER OF THE MYCELIUM WALLET PROJECT.

No! I was not a co-founder at all! I was a third generation developer.

MISTRAL 3.2 24B: ASSOCIATED WITH BLOCKCHAIN AND DECENTRALIZED FINANCE (DEFI) PROJECTS, INCLUDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO OPEN-SOURCE INITIATIVES.

OMG DEFI? Seriously??

He looked not very comfortable there, making sure not to nod.

Hmm... this might be the source of my Pokey telling me about a new mutelist all the time: Amethyst and Jumble fighting?

TIL: Not all Knots is BIP110. The above is not. Releases that are, are marked with "bip110" in the release binary file name.

Is Knots already configured to fork off the Bitcoin chain no matter what? At what point will we have to decide if it's Bitcoin or not? In a hypothetical world where BIP110 wins 55% of mining support there would be no split but with 0.3% as of now, ... KnotsCoin?

To keep this charade going is really sad.

I was tempted to ask you about hosting it as I would love to validate my idea about "sponsoring your follows" but I don't have the capacity to develop such a product right now. But there should be many angles by which a relay could be profitable. Think status, not features.

Right now, those running free relays are the heroes but sponsoring them doesn't give me status. They get the status and I can mostly silently give them a thank-you zap but that's it.

You could also give each paying customer a limited list of others they want to sponsor, with a promise to reward those who get multiple sponsorships with ways to give those on.

Make it relevant to users and people will want it.

Make the purple user publicly inform his sponsored accounts to get advertisement.

But it would get called out on day one. Pools colluding to try this would lose miners.

I'm paying for relays and love how Amethyst reminds me to do so. If my follows would be made aware that they are being sponsored by me, wouldn't that incentivize more people to sponsor their folliws? I bet it would.

Setting a "private DNS" on my graphene fixes it.

RT is blocked in Germany? Feindpropaganda? Ok. I see it's sanctioned EU wide. Wth?