Aaron Parecki

that's it, that's the tweet

it's seriously infuriating any time people talk about bitcoin while glossing over the fact that it's intentionally designed to take approximately constant wall-clock time to do the same amount of work, no matter how many computers are on the network

bitcoin is the final form of an inefficient system: it is literally impossible to scale it up, because it is carefully designed to be immune to being scaled up

Open source alternative to Clubhouse 👏

Great for audio-centric events and group people...

https://jam.systems

Ping @EnrolYourself @danielyep @LornaPrescott_ @unevendistrib @solarpunk_girl

The storm has caused numerous power outages in the area. Some quick numbers.

From PGE:
Transmission lines out: 15
Miles of transmission lines to be repaired: 206
Substations out: 7
Feeders out: 106
Number of wires down: 4,408
No. of people working to restore power: ~2,500

1/2

The Bitcoin apologists have turned my mentions into a trashfire, so I gotta turn off any further notifications.

the one good blockchain is the one that blocks these people for you

I woke up to hundreds of mentions calling me poor this morning, so I’m glad this website is free

And now for our annual Valentine:

Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
Singular they is older
Than singular you.

I particularly enjoyed the one about the fact that there's a *lot* of solar energy (and if we just harnessed all of that, the oceans would freeze and all photoautotrophs would die but we could run bitcoin servers for at least another thousand years)

One of my snarky tweets about bitcoin has been amplified into the bitcoin enthusiast areas of Twitter. Having to consult Urban Dictionary to decipher acronyms in my mentions now ("HFSP")

"Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere — while still paying San Francisco and New York salaries" 😍. This is making Twitter and Facebook look awful with their if-you-move-we'll-dunk-your-pay policy. Same remote-capable work, same pay 👏 https://www.businessinsider.com/spotify-unveils-new-remote-work-option-for-all-employees-2021-2?r=US&IR=T

It honestly feels like an important step towards saving the planet is to either carry out a successful 51% attack against Bitcoin or work some kind of cryptographic flaw into Bitcoin core and break the whole thing that way

jesus christ https://twitter.com/vogon/status/1361056624316571648

Tokyo now seems to have craft beer vending machines. First time I've seen one

It costs the haters so many keystrokes to hate. I wonder if they know it takes just a single keystroke for me to delete their comment 🤔

Roses are red,
Violets are blue.
If you're not paying,
The product is you.

How us PNW* folks feel rn 😛

Product owners outside of security have spent the longest time prioritizing easy over secure. Even after a breach convincing them to adopt existing best practice is a challenge.

So since the issue really seems to be a need to change minds, not product, how would you go about driving this fundamental change in thinking in product owners across a multitude of verticals?