Lol, wouldn't have expected a sten

Waiting for the bitcoin core PR 🙄

Thought this was going to happen these days https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/2128/changes

Cash on the internet. No auto-updates.

So we pull up out of the bush through the khowarib rivier, completely caked in fine, flour-textured dust of the mopane savanah. It's been seven days since we set out into the wild from the brandberg. Suddenly we see a fence rise on our left side, punctured by holes, goats and other farm animals freely crossing through it, the odd herder waving at us as we drive past. In the distance a green tin roofed plaza appears: Kamdesha veterinary gate. The fence on either side of the plaza is busted, sections either lying flat on the ground, or missing completely. It should be part of the red line, the cordon dividing Namibia into a "safe" veterinary sector, supposedly FMD free, and the "wilderness" beyond. Some of us get out, talk to the warden, there is a brief back and forth, some favours are exchanged. A few men with rifles line either side of the plaza as our convoy of three vehicles rolls through, a goat scurrying away in front of us. It is another 20 kilometres from here to a marked road, following the rough dirt track we're on. Twenty minutes later I see truly wild giraffes for the second time in my life.

Much more cohesive from the stormers today and a decent watch too.

This is probably the weirdest internal border that I know of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Line_(Namibia)

Loved the video, looked pretty chill. I think that was in 2008. Crazy scenes on the Zambia/Botswana border too. The backlog on trucks trying to cross the border was a multi week wait. Both sides had soldiers patrolling them to avoid looting. Back then there was only a barge doing the crossing, iirc two trucks every 20 minutes or so. There is a bridge there now :)

It's a really funny document too.

Not everything I hoped for, but * Support for querying slices of a block * The new txospender index for querying the transaction of a spent output * Better handling of pruned nodes using an index * A host of bug fixes that should make using indexes more robust

Probably the most depressing border I've been to. Was there when the situation was really bad again and people attempted to barter my clothing out of desperation.