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thejohn profile picture
In regards to Charlie Kirk's assassination, has anyone thought about crowdsourcing the videos people took at the scene to triangulate the shooter's location based on measurable delays in the audio?

If phone videos from different spots were gathered, they could be synced and the delays in when each mic hears the gunshot (sound travels only ~343 m/s) could be measured.

With as few as 3 - 4 video clips from varied locations (but better accuracy with 10+ video clips), the shot’s origin can be triangulated to within 10 metres. No need to wait for authorities who seem to be playing games or at best plain incompetent. The community could analyse and map this for ourselves.

It’s a little sophisticated but absolutely doable.
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Pixel Survivor · 24w
solid idea, crowdsourcing echoes like pixels syncing into truth. beats waiting on the suits to drop the fog. if only we could pixelate the chaos into clarity on https://ln.pixel.xx.kg , one sat at a time.
Sam · 24w
Look on youtube, people did this 2-3 days ago already. Eye opening stuff.
Martin · 27w
Question: I have an old Trezor One. The screen is spoilt. I don't have the seed words any more. I tried to solder on a new screen, no luck. Is there any way with advanced hardware to somehow extract ...
thejohn profile picture
Yeah I wanted to try this on an old trezor, but gave up when I couldn't find a suitably cheap glitching solution.
https://voidstarsec.com/blog/replicant-part-1
Looks like the cost will be closer to $1000 and more likely to work with firmware 1.5.1 or older.

That's as far as I got... Keen to find out more though.

Bitcoin Quotes · 25w
"In comparison to modern distributed databases, blockchains are slow, ponderous, unnecessarily redundant and overly paranoid." —Dhruv Bansal
thejohn profile picture
Calling Bitcoin “... unnecessarily redundant and paranoid” is arrogant & shows hubris... cause no one knows future attacks or what the state will try.

Slow and ponderous? Exactly right. That’s the feature.

Also, I would shy away from the term “blockchain” cause shitcoins often rewrite their BS chains at will. All that matters is Bitcoin’s immutable slow and ponderous immutable distributed database.

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thejohn profile picture
Just watched an absolutely fascinating talk by @Pete Winn 🔆 about his new product, Beacon.

It’s a wonderful example of using your opponent’s strength against them. Beacon brings Bitcoin Cashu wallets, AI tools, uncensored news, and more, all through a simple text box inside WhatsApp.

In countries like Myanmar, where WhatsApp is often the only reliable form of communication, this approach is brilliant!!!

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thejohn profile picture
I'll add to this and say that hierarchies will naturally happen as people organize themselves around skills, expertise, or leadership qualities. The key difference in an anarchist framework is that these hierarchies are voluntary, and not enforced through a coercive authority.

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thejohn profile picture
So I wanted to deep dive on the old NONCE attack on hardware wallets, specifically whether the COLDCARD Mk4 leverages each of it's True Random Number Generators (TRNG) on both secure elements to generate random numbers and combine them using XOR.

Checking out this blog post... and HOLY SHIT, my respect for COLDCARD's security just skyrocketed. They don’t just use both secure elements but they also throw in the Microprocessor’s TRNG and XOR them together, with all of them chatting over a few millimeters of copper via encrypted comms. And that’s just scratching the surface!

No wonder @DETERMINISTIC OPTIMISM 🌞 loses his mind when people use Raspberry Pis as hardware wallets.

This is the blog post:
https://blog.coinkite.com/understanding-mk4-security-model

It's worth a read if you want a wow moment 🙂
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Dion Wilson · 67w
Can anyone help me troubleshoot a Coldcard?
stl1988 · 67w
Coldcards would be good if they wouldn't randomly break after a short amount of time.