Rob Hamilton

Thank you! The hell money podcast was my first in-person interview post Red Team kicking off, I encourage giving it a listen!

Nostr Peeps, I know I’m very late to update everyone, but the meat was delivered and it was quickly consumed.

Thank you so much

and all of you for contributed, I felt the love from all of you, and it tasted amazing.

lol called it

Nostr peeps.

I was moved to tears by this. Truly thank you so much for the thought, I'll make sure to enjoy it and think of all your love and kindness for sending this my way.

THANK YOU OPEN SATS

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We are working on this at AnchorWatch if you want to learn more.

The 2 weeks prior to the BIP 148 flag day, the network had 71.4% of blocks signaling for Segwit (BIP 141).

The 2 weeks prior to the flag day of BIP 110, the network has ~1% of blocks signaling for RDTS.

To compare BIP 110 to BIP 148 is deceitful at best, a lie at worst.

What will the POW algo be after Luke fires the miners?

Join us!

Today, AnchorWatch is launching Multi-Institution Custody.

Built on our Trident Vault infrastructure, it lets individuals and companies secure bitcoin without managing keys themselves. We’ve partnered with CoinCorner and BitGo as institutional custody providers.

Our YubiKey integration adds phishing-resistant authentication and stronger protection against deepfake-enabled social engineering.

Available with optional 1:1 insurance coverage through Lloyd’s of London, bringing institutional-grade custody and comprehensive bitcoin protection together in one product.

Learn more: https://www.anchorwatch.com/blog/introducing-anchorwatch-multi-institution-custody-available-globally

I recently got to catch up with a friend of 20 years. Back in 2013 I gave him some bitcoin, and out of all the people who I gave Bitcoin to back then, he was the only one who managed to not lose it.

He never sold. That gift seeded his interest and he has been buying regularly since 2017. He told me, “my horizon is 20 years, it’s a growing part of my portfolio, but most of the time I don’t even think about it.”

He also was a lifelong agnostic, but recently converted to Catholicism and it renewed his love for life and is now having another kid when he thought he was past that stage of his life.

We chatted for 2 hours mostly about theology and family, and a little about bitcoin.

At one point a woman who overheard us walked over, to tell us she was so happy to hear these kind of conversations were happening for our generation. She was recently married, and is finishing her medical degree, strategizing when she should start having kids. She told me that her overhearing me say one of my biggest regrets in life was putting off having kids, that she may start her family sooner.

This is the revolution. Not day to day price swings, but low time preference investment in not just our portfolios, but our families.

Happy Killdozer Day to those who celebrate https://blossom.primal.net/8fc3cf6306e9c8fe4c548d872c4f24f8aa5c37e633564619be612765b237dee0.png

Just like software, with AI the bar for memes has gone up not down.

Bitcoin Culture is down in real terms on meme quality over the past 4 & 8 years.

I'm going to say it.

The memes have SUCKED this cycle. We deserve lower.

No pump until memes don't suck.

The price crashes.

I feel nothing. When I feel bearish, it will be the time to buy.

If you were paid X for a grant 2 years ago, and especially for FOSS, an AI agent is able to do more and more software, why wouldn't you expect grant size/amounts to decrease?

This is good for the FOSS ecosystem. The same amount of grant dollars can get more work done.

This is creative destruction playing out.

This is content you will only get at Magic Internet Math with

and I, we had

on for 90 minutes and didn’t mention bitcoin once.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/magic-internet-math/id1868224151?i=1000767848948

This may be the most important address in bitcoin.

35Snmmy3uhaer2gTboc81ayCip4m9DT4ko

Arrived in Vegas for BTC++ and the Bitcoin conference, hope to see some of you soon!

and I talk about the math used in bitcoin cryptography. We are now 6 episodes in and just about got through the basics of elliptic curves.

Check it out on fountain!

https://magicinternetmath.com

I’ve met multiple people this week who are using margin (bitcoin backed loan, Robinhood etc) to buy STRC

What stage of the cycle is this?

So with the wild success auto translate of tweets has had over on X, when does that get added to Nostr clients?

Had an incredible time in Bedford UK at Cheat Code!

The nicest attendees of a conference I’ve ever been to.

arrive in Bedford UK for Cheat Code see polish grocery store look inside it’s just alcohol https://blossom.primal.net/da77297bf16a9b163605e0bc28c37b03ce02f583004c35521312eb9f4706d8f7.jpg

RHR was going to be today, but they pushed it a day to give

time to recover from #maximadness

Congrats to

on winning his bet on Predyx!

Contribute to your local journalist today and vote.

Steady lads deploying more capital

#maximadness

oops 😂

One day I'll get the KFC issued Faraday cage https://blossom.primal.net/36a7e8092973af98f214acf57bf05df5228aa2c7ace010bb8ffaee35c9a14aef.png

Random thoughts I’m having as it relates to AI because it’s the topic dujor anywhere you go.

A thing I’m observing in AI discourse is a divergence how engineers vs non engineers think about and use these tools. That is ok! There is no one “right way” to think about it.

Inherently, engineers are ahead of the power curve because the frontier of these tools have poor UX. If you’re not willing to touch a command line, you will be using less efficient tools. Have no fear, anything the engineers are using today will be usable in some form 3 months later for everyone with a good UX. A perfect example is Claude cowork, not a full feature parity, but close enough!

The application of these tools have different margins of error if you’re using it for linguistics vs code. It’s much easier to “slop cannon” (h/t Zack Shapiro) if you’re in a word document vs a code editor, because code is deterministic and is less tolerant of fluff or outright wrong statements.

Engineers are familiar with code review as a concept, now non engineers need to introduce code review into documents they generate with these tools.

The dopamine hits of seeing “completed” documents on a screen is intoxicating, but you need to ride that high and comprehend and edit the output.

Recursively putting an output into more LLMs is not review, if anything it’ll compound the slop. In code, we’d call this tech debt. For the first time, non engineers are now incurring their own tech debt.

Non engineers are having a 0 to 1 moment. A year from now, it’ll be hard to find someone who isn’t an engineer in some form.

Previously non engineers had to plead a case to developers to make something, now non engineers who are highly motivated and have deep understanding of their needs can become junior engineers.

We are already seeing this at AnchorWatch, where Chris on our team spent 2 days and built maybe half of a software suite we could leverage internally. Chris has never written a line of code in his life, but it’s an impressive proof of concept. As is we’d never ship it, but working with our engineering team, it can get to 100% quickly.

This is a natural evolution as the roles start to blend across an org. Chris was the main person who knew the pain points of current processes, and was in a strong position to build a product requirement doc and build something that will save him weeks of work across the year.

Speaking for AnchorWatch, we are SOC-2 which requires a higher duty of care for managing data. So our existing engineering team will be in the loop (maybe that changes in a year, we will see).

Strong engineering teams are able to act as scaffolding to support non engineers write code that has high impact to the organization. Further, our engineers are now better able to have a deeper appreciation for how our marketing, operations, and compliance works outside of what lives in their GitHub repository today.

This extends to even me. These tools are giving me more time to focus on parts of our business outside of custody infrastructure.

We don’t use LLMs for our custody software. The nuances are too mission critical to outsource the execution. AI is very helpful for prototypes and battle testing product specs, I’m often finding I’ll get deeper appreciation of edge cases I had not considered when using AI for proofs of concept, but that code then goes into the garbage to be written by hand with an increased learning.

A word of caution: non engineers are less likely to understand permissions management. I can almost guarantee that if you’ve been playing around with all of these tools, it’s very likely you connected a tool to resources (like email/shared drives/local file storage), and it has way more access than you realize. This is critically important to understand for security and compliance.

In 90 days, we will see a whole turnover and the meta will change again. Having high agency and metacognition will be how you can compound an edge.

Finally, have fun shipping!

Looks like

removed me from the fountain splits

Is this a good recipie

?

Circular economy

https://fountain.fm/episode/TbqdHbb6wyTqJuBbFrtc

Twice a month

and I will talk about Math and how it is a tool for better understanding bitcoin and other technology.

It’s a good venue for me to brush up on my math background and learn new ways to apply it at work and life through discussions and interviews!

Life the past week

The ultimate ride or die bitcoin believers are our wives, how they hell did I manage to find my wife while bitcoin was at $200 each 😂

Santa Deniers down bad this morning

Merry Christmas!

Everyone should know about

, it’s great Ghee!

Someone please let

and

that there has been a PR submitted which fixes all of the functional tests and CI tests failing for the Release Candidate version 0.1 for their soft fork:

https://github.com/dathonohm/bitcoin/pull/2

The current activation client that has been promoted fails tests written to verify the fork works as intended as well as Continuous Integration testing.