Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

@waxwing Also surprising: since traffic can be seen as an advantage, due to privacy - and the evil twin of surveillance data collection - the supply side of the market has people willing to lose money offering liquidity.

@lucash_dev CAD, for the Canadian figure.

@121 No reason to do anything different with them with what I'm proposing that I can see. We already have incentives for people to plead guilty in the form of reduces sentences, etc.

Main thing is to find some way of funding vigorous defenses. Treating it as a cost savings might just be politically viable.

In criminal cases, prosecutors should have to request a sentence up front, at the start of the case.

Then, if the defence wins the government should pay the defence lawyers a % of the cost of incarceration for every year requested. Let's say 50%

Why? Think about it: by winning, your lawyers just saved the government a _ton_ of money. The US spends an average of $31,000/inmate year. Canada is even higher: $114,000/inmate year.

Heck, do it for reduced sentences too...

https://globalnews.ca/news/4099115/cost-prisons-incarceration-canada-pbo/

@NunyaBidness h/t https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=current+time+delay+between+earth+and+mars

@NunyaBidness

https://spacex.mars/bitcoin.pdf

Note: with current orbital configuration, expect 18.2 minutes of round-trip delay.

With Trump gone, a fresh new angle lets the media sell the same story all over again! Twice the profit!

"Critics have said the CDC fumbled key decisions on COVID because the Trump administration meddled in the agency’s operations. But @Reuters has found evidence that the response was marred by actions – or inaction – by career scientists and frontline staff"

https://web.archive.org/web/20210123001258/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-cdc-response-speci/special-report-how-u-s-cdc-missed-chances-to-spot-covids-silent-spread-idUSKBN29R1E7

@JuergenStrobel FWIW I've done exactly that kind of consulting, and in that exact scenario, would probably have charged them ~$300 for a half-hour phone call to explain what the news actually meant.

Wouldn't take much price movement for that $300 phone call to be really good value for the money...

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."

@harding Nah, gold at least has a limit to how many times you can divide it.

Well, at least, that's what the friendly radiation safety officer told me...

Seriously though, this is a concrete example of the harms that come from fraudulent journalism. The journalists at Cointelegraph who spread this misinfo are parasites, gaining a small financial benefit for themselves at the expense of a much larger harm to society.

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.

@kristapsk @vladcostea @jackeveritt @XBT @BTCparadigm @ciprian @SanakTony @jeremy@bitcoinhackers.org @djbooth007 @criptobastardo @javier @bitcoinization @alyssa I'm increasing my bid to 20,999 sats, which will put me above both @djbooth007 and you.

@Andrew_B@bitcoinhackers.org We have enough Peter's in Bitcoin that the hash tag really should be #poorpoorschiff

Or #ppschiff for short.

@Andrew_B@bitcoinhackers.org Surely Mastodon has the ability to filter out hashtags... I'll just tag every idiotic thing I post in the future with #schiff

@mir_btc Based on available evidence, shirt > hat > rabid dogs > Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision.

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