Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

...and they're stepping in to stop people buying GameStop.

Looks like I got in just in time. 😂

Yes, this is real.

They're finally admitting to the facts on masks, and why they just don't work well enough to matter.

https://rationalground.com/after-nine-months-we-still-know-masks-dont-work/

One layer: 50%
Two layers: 75%
Three layers: 90%
Plastic bag: 100%

Don't kill grandma. Make the right choice.

If you look at these stats objectively, even Israel's vaccination program is going badly.

Think about it: Israel is reporting 0.09% of the population is getting infected every day. The actual rate is likely 10x that: 0.9% infected/day.

Meanwhile, they're giving 2% of the population one dose per day.

A natural infection gets you ~100% immunity. A single dose, ~50%

So _even Israel_ is struggling to vaccinate people faster than they're becoming immune naturally. The US and UK aren't even close.

https://braiins.com/blog/stratum-v2-bitcoin-decentralization

Neat: Slush pool's "pick your own block to mine" scheme rewards miners proportionally to the value of the block they're mining.

What is hope, in the face of all this uncertainty?

What is love? What is meaning?

If anything could happen, at any moment, anything at all, why do I still feel?

Siri, is existence pain?

Whatever it takes to win an election...

Shocking video obtained by CSW's legal team showing Bitcoin developer Gregory Maxwell engaging in MATERIAL SUPPORT OF TERRACE!!!

https://www.reddit.com/r/bsv/comments/l3peo2/punishment_of_god_wright_court_filings_expose/

How it started: "Two weeks to flatten the curve."

How it's going: "There is nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months."

Example #2: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/01/22/2162801/0/en/NexTech-Sells-Its-Treasury-Bitcoin-Holdings-and-Books-a-Profit.html

The one reassuring thing about this widespread outbreak of dementia is at least we know it's not from the covid vaccines.

I'm getting increasingly worried that medical science is about to find a new, widespread, and terrifying cause of dementia.

😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

I'm not sure which one is dumber.

Photos taken yesterday of the 458 new quarantine centres for COVID-19 that are being built in Shijiazhuang, China.

Currently they're claiming 180cases/day, out of a 1.4 billion population.

I personally don't trust that number.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2021-01/21/c_139687460.htm

Re user's being confused, here's an example.

Even with control of no hashing power at all, you can very occasionally do double spends of confirmed transactions. You just have to be lucky enough for a stale block to get mined at the right time.

Stale blocks are pretty rare these days. I don't have stats handy. But looks like the % is something like 1 in 1000 blocks or less. So that'd be a sub 0.1% chance of success per attempt.

Andreas is incorrect here. A double spend _did_ happen.

Bitcoin's double-spend protection is probabilistic: after one confirmation, if the sender is attempting to double spend, the probability of success is extremely low. But it's still non-zero.

California just passed Florida in cumulative reported cases per capita.

Florida has about twice as many elderly per-capita as California. Adjusting for demographics, CA passed FL in terms of cumulative deaths about a month ago.

After almost a year of hard lockdown all they've achieved is a ruined economy, and thousands of non-covid excess deaths among younger demographics.

The tyrants pushing unscientific lockdowns have young blood on their hands.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

https://www.entropyseal.com/

Neat tamper-evidence packaging concept: a random pattern of beads that's modified when you open the package, along with a smartphone app to automatically verify the pattern is correct.

Reusable glitter basically: to fake a seal, you need to make the significant effort of positioning each bead in the right place. Possible. But very time consuming.

I'd buy one!

"provide a photo that proves it really is your [Bitcoin] address"

I'm really curious what type of photo Bitstamp thinks constitutes proof that a given Bitcoin address belongs to you...

https://twitter.com/plan_marcus/status/1350951664258322439

So Biden is going to have 200,000 flags instead of people at the inauguration.

Interesting question: how far in advance do you have to order 200,000 flags? Because I'm guessing they've been planning on no-one attending in person for months.