This is pretty cypherpunk to me.

Roll 50 dice, create a seed, add a passphrase and I can operate magic internet money outside of the fiat money system that is designed to steal my time and energy?

Fuck yeah AND FUCK THEM

Sorry you need to do 300 rolls just in case and hand draw a treasure map to the ark of the covenant with a cipher only viewable with acid swept gently across special parchment.

I'm repost #33 (with 333 likes). (39 comments) - the 3-6-9 is strong here.

Stephan Livera was across from me at a dinner and I was explaining my codex32 project...he tells me "not more than 20 people on the planet are ever gonna sit there and do that..."

Well, I'm one. I bet there's at least 21 of us out there...

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For those thinking about bitcoin seeds this weekend...here's a rabbit hole.

Here's one of many ways you can make sure your device is handling your dice rolls honorably...seems a lot of folk are confused about this. If you're not, A+

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NVK wasn't the problem here

The problem was bitcoin culture letting bad behavior slide for way too long

One of many stories: on Christmas Eve 2023, NVK tweeted that there was an entropy bug in our @FoundationHQ Passport for seed generation.

No responsible disclosure – just a tweet to his entire audience on Christmas Eve. He was wrong, thankfully.

On the destroyed devices: in this case, destroying them was correct.

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NVK is stepping down from the OpenSats board, effective immediately. OpenSats will continue to operate with an 8 person board until a replacement is made.

Update

At the end of my conventional software career, I do carry resentment. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/376d0f9f7602ab73d99a171c0cecfebae92b9e5a919e3ce9d52452b68008ea49.jpeg Not because I was underpaid. Because I was underused. Too many years wer