Security Considerations - Discouraging, ignoring, or encouraging actions related to security all send signals, regardless of their actual effectiveness [1] - Physical security measures, like door locks, deter most opportunistic threats, even if they don't stop determined attackers [1] - The focus is often on "locked-door" security or traffic signs, rather than absolute security, especially in areas like mempool and relay policy [2] - The inability to stop all attackers shouldn't prevent efforts to mitigate common behaviors that could harm node operators or the network [2] Network Policy - Discussions around mempool and relay policy are more about guiding behavior than ensuring strong security [2] - Alternative methods, even if weak, can send a signal and deter unwanted behavior [2]

RT Ryan Rozbiani (@RyanRozbiani)They LEVELED Everything https://t.co/xfQdQxjaOD ...

RT Lori Singer Meyer (@Loriss65)If any of those arguing for a liberal content allowance on any aspect of the blockchain find themselves prosecuted for any of a number of criminal offenses, one of my best friends is a criminal defense lawyer particularly adept at representing those accused of sex crimes. You can DM me, and I'll give you the referral. His kid is in college, and he'd love to boost his income. He's handled cases that have large amounts of press coverage before. ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)The libraries full of existing laws against a vast variety of content (CSAM being only one example) are about as far away as one can get from being "unprecedented." There are probably, to conservatively estimate, tens to hundreds of thousands of legal cases around the world each year involving dozens of different legal categories when it comes to the many varieties of illegal content: state secrets, trade secrets, intellectual property, obscenity of a wide variety of kinds, and th ...

RT Chicago Contrarian (@ChicagoContrar1)Today, @ChicagosMayor said the solution to a man setting a woman on fire on the CTA is found in additional state money for housing and mental health services.You can’t make this up….. https://t.co/pI0hU7OAyo ...

RT Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra)Gardaí turned up at Enoch Burke’s home in the dead of night, demanding his father hand over his son so he could be dragged back to prison.All this started as the young schoolteacher wouldn't call a pupil "they".He's spent over 500 days in jail.https://t.co/K8ukP2wlv0 ...

RT Nahed hajjaj (@nahed_hajjaj99)Today, my cousin who is also a journalist, Ebrahim Hajjaj, who works for Reuters, was injured in an airstrike. Not a single word from Reuters. The occupation continues to target us as we document the murder of our children. We need this to stop! https://t.co/gwTwLiUyns ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)@MensHumor Perhaps instead of days off we should get twice as many half-days off, and the half day is just to recover. ...

RT Cryptape (@Cryptape)🍨Scooping up some fresh insights from Bitcoin and beyond:- OP_CIV: a new attempt at post-quantum signature aggregation for Bitcoin- Discussion on introducing OP_STARK_VERIFY in Tapscript- Nick Szabo: Bitcoin is not magical anarcho-capitalism; arbitrary data is risky @NickSzabo4- Starknet: dual-staked rollup model for a sustainable Bitcoin DeFi domain @Starknet- BATTLE for Bitcoin: DoS-resilient cross-chain bridge protocol based on UTXO- Vega: low-latency, transparent ZK proofs built o ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Debunking silly "contract theory" of the state: courts would call citizen trying that an "officious intermeddler": http://t.co/Nzzus7nVE5 ...