Once upon a time, someone exploited a bug and got 184 billion bitcoins. The VALID TRANSACTIONS were rugged by Satoshi to keep bitcoin going. Today, another exploit (that Core refuses to acknowledge or fix) is damaging Bitcoin. Similarly to the previous bug fix, where a malicious exploiter was rugged, should "valid transaction" be a reason to not fix Bitcoin? It requires consensus that fixing a life threatening bug overrides immutability. It's uncomfortable to talk about, but if you think about it, OF COURSE the survival of Bitcoin logically supercedes immutability. And so, the debate should be about if this is really going to destroy Bitcoin if left unchecked. That conversation is being drowned out by appealing to less important principles of money. I think we should first determine that, then encourage discussions about how to fix it, always remembering that the highest principle is Bitcoin surviving as digital sound money for the world. It's OK to entertain an idea, like rugging malicious spammers, perhaps deciding against it, or not, or finding an alternative. It was easier to fix when Satoshi was in charge and Bitcoin wasn't decentralised, now we all have to decide, all while the enemy is sending bots, and Adam Back, to muddy the waters and distract us from the most important conversations.

I have started a new service, ParmaDon. https://parman.org/parmadon

My learning/teaching/coding about securing Bitcoin has spilled over to trustlessly securing personal data. Do not lose that video of your kid's face-closeup eating popping candy for the first time ever, or when your toddler brother whipped it out and pee'd on the McDonald's playground at your 4th birthday party. Running a ParmaDrive would help you secure your data both offsite and onsite with redundant storage. Essay and link to get one here (blue button for the essay)... https://parman.org/parmadrive DM if you need help designing a particular system.

Can you explain what the time stamping will achieve I'm not quite sure

Only AI could have responded with this detail so fast

I spent the last 3 days intensely thinking to create something new for computer security, making ParmanodL computers safer, but applicable to others who would want to copy. It involved... 1) Aggressive whiteboard doodling with frizzy hair 2) Long battles with retarded AI to test and probe 3)5 hr insominia mind's eye designing 4) Code testing It's a way to solve the injection problem when making software patches that require restricted access. Normally you'd need to physically enter the sudo password to permit (a deal breaker for web GUI), and if triggering the patch remotely, it's dangerous to send the sudo pass via a browser, or have the browser trigger scripts run by root. It's solved with a restricted bucket directory, a sudoers.d-preapproved patch-running script, that enforces pgp signature checks before moving git pull patche files to the restricted area for running. This way, parman-approved patch scripts can't be modified once they are in the restricted area, and beforehand if they are modified, The signature will be invalidated. This makes the script safe to execute with root privileges triggered by a remote browser, as nothing but parman-signed code can run. It's super niche, but new, so maybe I'll do a publication somewhere. Of course this is dependent on trusting Parmanode software in the first place, which you imply when entering your sudo password when requested. The modification means you don't have to keep doing it, and no extra risk is added. Similar to how you PGP check a wallet once when you install it, not every time you do a transaction. The wallet you are running can actually maliciously change after you've PGP-approved and installed it, but Parmanode restricted bucket files can't. This is one more reason to get a clean transaction computer at the very least, for bitcoin transactions - don't use your regular computer.

Most people don't have $400 available to buy bitcoin in an emergency.

It's a nice feeling knowing you can't get fucked in the arse because you bitcoin is in self custody.

There are grateful women?

Not buying bitcoin during these stupid crazy cheap prices is wrong and gay.

People no longer saying "bingo card" was not on my bingo card for 2025.

No, don't say bewbz

On Twitter, apparently it's supposed to be a tree, or two people holding hands. Here, it can only look like one thing...

Do you think Parmanode is looking pretty?