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mathiasrw··on Bitcoincore.org removes Satoshi's whitepaper from website after threats from CSW
You can get it directly from data stored in the BSV blockchain:

https://bico.media/42d44c395904e6743f67011b4198d8bcc07de21c6...

mathiasrw··on Bitcoincore.org removes Satoshi's whitepaper from website after threats from CSW
Yes it is. He is wanting to get into a situation where he can provide proof in a legal setting so that any outcome can be used in other legal battles.
mathiasrw··on Pg-Emoji
This is genius.

Data encoded in base1024 (here using the 1024 safe chars represented by emojis) gives much more efficient storage usage.

16 kB raw data encoded in base64

    ceil(16*1024/3)*4 = 21848 bytes long ~= 21.8kB.
16 kB raw data encoded in base1024

    ceil(16*1024/9)*10 = 18210 bytes long ~= 18.21kB.
So base64 needs about 19.7% more data storage than base1024 and both can be used anywhere utf8 is supported.

Let the baseEmoji revolution begin...

mathiasrw··on Deno in 2020
You can use all of npm in deno if you link to them via www.skypack.dev
mathiasrw··on Run is a platform to build apps and tokens on Bitcoin
The platform is built on BSV, not BTC.
mathiasrw··on Digital Money Across Borders: Macro-Financial Implications
It is going to be interesting in a few years to see how mush they will push the digital wallet for every person.
mathiasrw··on From fluffy to valuable: How the brain recognises objects
Have you noticed how your brain will be able to "tell" you exactly how it would feel to lick any thing you look at? Try...
mathiasrw··on First Bitcoin “mixer” penalized for violating anti-money laundering laws
This is exactly what the people behind the initiative to preserve the original bitcoin protocol has been saying: You need to be able to prove where you money came from.
mathiasrw··on Ask HN: Why is the US so vulnerable to disinformation from abroad?
Most disinformation comes from within the US.
mathiasrw··on Ask HN: Do you hate your parents? If so, why?
Kind reminder: Parents are just kids that are older than you.
mathiasrw··on Ask HN: Do you feel that CNN is still valuable? relevant?
Every single story and personelle is selected and shaped to convey the desired narrative.

If in doubt go get some inputs on the same story from "We are change", the corbett report and zerohedge. There is always more to the story than CNN lets you know.

So is it relevant? Well - I guess it depends on what you mean with relevant.

mathiasrw··on Ask HN: HN Invaded by Mass Media?
HN is for sure used to gain a specific audience. It takes about 10-20 managed accounts to get a thing on the frontpage if you distribute the votes right. This is why I in 2016 made the "no noise hacker news" chrome plugin. I could link directly but I think its bad practice - so search on your preferred search engine. From the description:

    This extension will filter stories from domains that - per november 2015 - had more than than 2500 submitted stories but less than 40% had more than 3 votes. Domains with usergenerated content (as github.com or youtube.com) are not included.
    
    Is this censoring? 
    - No, this is a way of limiting domains with a high amount of noise.
mathiasrw··on Show HN: OrgStack - a complete data validation platform for engineering teams
I strongly suggest you get rid of the stock images and add the menu item "Pricing"
mathiasrw··on Reinventing the Wheel: Discovering the Optimal Rolling Shape with PyTorch (2019)
Would be interesting to see the same in a 3D space
mathiasrw··on Show HN: Lockdown.sh Simple shell script for locking down new linux installs
Would love to see this as an interactive informing and asking leaving you with the parts you want.
mathiasrw··on Show HN: XP.css – Windows XP CSS file and framework for building GUIs
If we could get a windows 2000 version of this I would 100% use it for real projects...
mathiasrw··on Ask HN: Dark mode for HN please?
Website with no images? Easy, this is all thats needed:

    @media (prefers-color-scheme:dark) {
      html{
        filter: invert(1) hue-rotate(.5turn);
      }
    }
Its works so well because it keeps the balance of contrast between elements.
mathiasrw··on Ask HN: Most creative and/or effective use of a domain name?
The domain bico.media serves media files from the Bitcoin SV blockchain
mathiasrw··on Deno 1.0
Yes
mathiasrw··on Vitamin D Insufficiency is Prevalent in Severe Covid-19
Vitamin D is not absorbed instantly when exposed to the sun. Soap and hot showers removes what is left so levels are also affected by personal hygiene habits.
mathiasrw··on Libra still needs more baking
Some might, but it is really a misunderstanding. What it "immunises" against is some of the consequences of monetary policy - like interest rates and (hyper)inflation from adjusting the money supply.
mathiasrw··on Private client-side-only PWAs are hard, but now Apple made them impossible
Why not let users give access to that one site use data older than 7 days? So data stays but its only being deleted if you click that it can access (first time only - next time it remembers)
mathiasrw··on US Threatens ICC Staff Families With Consequences in response to war crime probe
This is outrages
mathiasrw··on Building a static serverless website using S3 and CloudFront
For static websites nothing beats the CLI experience of surge.sh - one (simple) command and its deployed. Its so smooth that I forget its there.

The way the API has been designed to make the usage natural/guessable has inspired me a lot when I have made other CLI projects.

mathiasrw··on Old CSS, New CSS
What a great trip down memory lane...
mathiasrw··on A Simplified Jira Clone Built with React/Babel and Node/TypeScript
I agree.

What we need is Jira and Trello to have a baby

mathiasrw··on Responsive Pixel Art
This is blowing my mind.
mathiasrw··on The senatorial governance of Bitcoin: making (de)centralized money
I love the main business proposition from BSV: that the protocol is set in stone. Its makes sense to invest time and development power into something that is aware of not changing the logic that I'm building a business around.

This liberates me from having to focus on who initiated the project - because it is meant to be frozen whoever initiated it can not change the setup at will.

To me it's not important who made visa or who runs it. I use it anyway because it got utility letting me pay at the bakery on a tiny island on the other side of the world.

I don't care about who made the HTTP protocol. I use it every day without knowing.

Utility is the real value of a technology.

mathiasrw··on The senatorial governance of Bitcoin: making (de)centralized money
The limitations are not just the block size. It's all the little things stripping the usability crippling the ecosystem. Amongst other elements:

- Abandoning instant payment by introducing replace-by-fee where you can "undo" a transaction not in a block yet.

- The limitation of what can be done with the scripting language by disabling OP codes needed for (even basic) math operations.

- Forcing transactions to be formatted after specific templates limiting how transactions are used.

Bonus story: As I understand it, Vitalik tried to build on bitcoin but the limitations in the script languarge and transaction format made a globally distributed computer impossible so he went off and created Etherium.

mathiasrw··on The senatorial governance of Bitcoin: making (de)centralized money
Yes, your private key will give access to the same amount of bitcoin, bitcoin cash and bitcoin SV
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