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86.1k sats \ 1 reply \ @NicolasFosterID3 28 Jul freebie \ on: Using LNsploit to Steal from LND nodes science

I've always wondered wtf this term meant. This is a great article about these issues. And if you think it's a boring tech issue:

Bitcoin, as a system and community, largely seeks to maximize censorship resistance through decentralized transaction selection over any other goals. Sadly, today, bitcoin’s transaction selection is also highly centralized in the form of pools. Luckily, there’s no strong financial incentive for this, only historical technical reasons. While this allows us to massively re-decentralize bitcoin with only technical tweaks to the mining software stack, any financial disincentives to adopting such technology would absolutely destroy bitcoin’s long-term censorship resistance. So much so, that I’d argue that if we end up in the same place as ethereum is today, we should simply give up on bitcoin’s censorship resistance axiom as we simply will not achieve it in any reasonable way.
218.7k sats \ 0 replies \ @MiguelLeonZ4G 28 Jul freebie
When a definition contains a list such as this, the terms within the list must be within the same class.

Who says? Suppose I define the term "mammal" like so:

The term mammal means any animal with warm blood, vertebrae, milk glands (in females), in utero gestation (in females), and fur

If someone said "fur must mean something else because everything else in the list is in the class 'things inside the body'" <-- I would think that's a silly statement

In any list of things, you can always find some principle of distinction by which one of its items isn't in the same class as the others. Therefore not every item in a list has to be in all of the same classes as the others. If this was a requirement, definitions could never contain lists while remaining true.

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