Ceyhan River

Introductory threads ⬇️

@robin_linus @w_s_bitcoin haVoCS. Or perhaps CiVicS.

Alright, we need your help! ShieldedCSV is one of the coolest Bitcoin proposals in years: 100+ TPS onchain, strong privacy. Unfortunately, it was named by 3 autists, 2 of whom are German, so naturally it sounds like an enterprise spreadsheet plugin. Please suggest a better name

@nvk @brian_trollz e) on the Internet no one knows if you are a dog, so let's see more anonymous contributors paid in BTC, so they can't be cyber-bullied based on gender, race or other irrelevancies, nor pressured as no one knows who they are. Satoshi was anonymous, seems like that was a good idea.

Bitcoin had a feature in 2009 so dangerous Satoshi himself deleted it after one user pointed it out In the original version of Bitcoin you could send coins directly to someone's IP address There was no wallet address needed and even worse, your computer would connect to theirs to send the coins through That meant anyone could see your IP, locate your machine and try to attack it just by sending you Bitcoin On January 14, 2009 Satoshi decided to test it himself and emailed an early miner named Dustin Trammell asking for his IP Trammell replied and actually sent it to him A few minutes later Satoshi connected and sent him 25 BTC with a message that said "Hello" Trammell answered him with a warning that the feature was insecure and within weeks Satoshi deleted it from Bitcoin entirely Those 25 BTC would be worth $1.86 million today

@ndilsou @lukOlejnik Yes! It's the Sophon's work!

@lukOlejnik Isn't it one of the premise of the Sci-fi book The three body problem?

A 2005 state-designed worm designed to corrupt physics simulations sat undetected on VirusTotal for nearly a decade. Fast16, intercepted executable files at the kernel level and silently rewrote floating-point calculations to make them produce slightly wrong answers. Targets: high-precision engineering suites used for structural analysis, crash simulations, and physical process modeling, including LS-DYNA, a tool cited in reports on Iran's nuclear weapons research. The sabotage vector relied on deployment of the driver across a network via worm, corrupting calculations on every machine, and eliminating the possibility of cross-checking results against a clean system. Stuxnet got the documentary. Fast16 got twenty years of nothing. sentinelone.com/labs/fast16-my…

@0xJonnyDee @JoeNakamoto Yes, reporting on what happened.

@CeyhanRiver @JoeNakamoto That's CoinDesk though...

every article i ever wrote on cointelegraph over 3 years got nuked from the internet due to their incompetent and insane management why would any advertiser choose to pay to put content on their platform? no one trusts it and it's dead on google. RIP cointelegraph

@0xJonnyDee @JoeNakamoto coindesk.com/tech/2025/06/2…

@JoeNakamoto What happened?

@JoeNakamoto Not the whole internet - Archive has many. This from a URL you posted on Twitter

@itsgreeners @NoContextBrits Your name is Barnaby Grudge and I claim my five pounds

Claire’s closing down? Serves them right for accusing me of shoplifting in their Accrington Arndale store in 1996. Played the long game but I’ve had the last laugh.

@PaxAeterna @BenJustman Brilliant!

So here's a true story you can tell them. One of the ways America solved the IED problem in Iraq, is we mounted cameras on drones and just hovered for days. Bomb goes off, rewind the tape and track people to their house then take care of business. Well, ask the council who you have to sue to get footage for divorce cases etc. Towns hate having it track THEM. Hey, we see this footage of you driving to so and so place .....

My small town with absolutely minimal crime put up AI surveillance cameras. Tonight is the second town council meeting about them. The last one was intense afaik. I think I'm gonna go. Any advice?

@FrogstarWorld @A1an_M Ditto. Personally recommended candidates are substantially more productive and exhibit less churn in my experience too.

@A1an_M Virtually all my staff have been word of mouth, better the devil you know and all that.

It's ironic that technology took us away from companies hiring via the "old boys network" to being able to reach a massive talent pool via the internet and, in theory at least, being able to find and appoint the best candidate... ...but then... ...recruiters started using AI-driven CV sifting software, and applicants started using AI tools to sex up their CVs with AI-approved identikit language, resulting in all of the candidates looking exactly the same to the hiring company... ...causing job recruiters to abandon the technology and taking us full circle back to the bad old ways of seeking out applicants via the "old boys network". 🙄

The more widespread Bitcoin becomes, the smaller the proportion of cypherpunks among all Bitcoin users will become; this is inevitable and it’s because Bitcoin’s practical utility is far more evident at first sight, compared its founding principles. But every time Bitcoin gains a new segment of the population, a small proportion of that group goes on to discover and become passionate about the cypherpunk principles as well. This, in itself, is a massive win.

@HodlMarbella You're some way south of Sherwood, Mr HodlMarbella. And thank you for the tip!

@HodlMarbella My tipple right there, SCANDALOUS how that pint has been mistreated recently. BRB, inspired to work it out

Which pub am I in now?

Long-time Bitcoin developer, Paul Sztorc, is proposing a fork that would reassign part of Satoshi Nakamoto’s 1.1M BTC. The plan is to copy Bitcoin into a new chain called eCash with native eCash tokens. I remember back in 2017 when Bitcoin forked into Bitcoin Cash. I sold mine immediately and bought more Bitcoin with the earnings. But this time I recommend extreme caution when receiving this eCash, because the fork is not the same. Unlike the 2017 BCH fork (which was mostly about block size and kept a clean 1:1 airdrop with no coin reallocation), this proposal includes manually reassigning a chunk of Satoshi’s coins to “early investors” in the new project. That’s a massive red flag and a precedent that could erode trust in any fork claiming to be “Bitcoin-like.” Many are already calling it theft or a social attack. One big practical risk: once the eCash airdrop hits your wallet, actually moving or spending those coins could be dangerous. The new chain will likely launch with very low hash rate and weak security, making it vulnerable to 51% attacks, reorgs, or double-spend exploits, especially early on. Without proper replay protection setup (or if wallets/exchanges mess it up), you risk accidental cross-chain issues or losing funds. Best to let it sit untouched until the dust settles (if it ever does). I’ll be watching closely, but my default is to treat any claimed eCash as worthless . DYOR, don’t get rugged, and remember: if it touches Satoshi’s coins this way, it’s playing a dangerous game.

@cakewallet — 100/100 0 dns. 0 domains. 0 IPs. 0 packets on first launch. app opens, sits there, talks to nobody. this is what a non-custodial wallet should look like on the network layer. unmatched in the cohort.

Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available And now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot. It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles. But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer. I'm putting the link below so you know how to avoid it.

I see a lot of hand-wringing going on about Trump firing all 24 members of the National Science Foundation's governing board. A good time to raise the alarm about politicization would have been decades ago when Marxist long-marchers were capturing and corrupting entire scientific disciplines to the point where they have since become sour jokes. If you had nothing to say then, and still can't bring yourself to recognize the problem now, SHUT THE FUCK UP AND SIT DOWN. I love science and have identified with scientists and their work since I was old enough to talk. Watching activists corrupt the process was painful. But it was watching the quiet, cowardly acquiescence of the non-activists that made me *really* sick at heart. You cared more about defending your rice bowls than about the integrity of science? So be it. The bill for that was eventually going to come due. And now that it has, you're going to find you don't have many defenders outside your narrow clique. None of those defenders will be me. And that makes me very sad. It makes me long for my innocent youth.

@A1an_M Agreed! Plus there’s no point when other anons have already made any point I was about to.

I haven't been posting much about current affairs lately, not because there haven't been any comment-worthy things happening in the world, more that I can't believe that governments in the UK and the US can continue to get away with being so bad at, and dishonest about, so many things. I see something, get annoyed about it, start writing something and then think "there's really no point" and give up. Maybe I've arrived at end of the "demoralisation" phase Bezmenov talked about when he described how ideological subversion works. Everything is a self-evident lie but no-one can be bothered to point out the truth any more. Oh well, back to my fence repairs.