Faisal Mirza

@Pseudo_Prophet_ flying saudia next week. will report back.

Pakistanis coming back home from their trip to Saudi Arabia. 😅 Every single one of them has stolen the blanket from the Saudi airline. 🙄😑

@chooserich elon knows something we don’t

Buying Cursor for $60 billion seems like the most overvalued acquisition ever This is more than Elon spent acquiring X

@danny_den_otter bedoel je zoiets? google Westermoskee.

Waarom moet een moskee er uitzien als de Fata Morgana uit de Efteling? Als je ze dan toch bouwt, waarom dan niet in traditioneel Nederlandse stijl?

@knowclarified agreed.

Lex Friedman would have asked Huang about what he thought about Bitcoin and Tesla’s Optimus program so he could post those clips on YouTube Shorts Dwarkesh’s courage to ask honest questions and not be afraid is admirable

@lopp @grok give outline how a better BIP would look like.

If you think you can do better than BIP-361, I encourage you to write your own BIP. Among the cacophany of vitriolic & often ignorant takes this week, a few thoughtful ideas have surfaced. Calm, rational discourse is how we improve Bitcoin. x.com/lopp/status/19…

@nic_carter salvage and no freeze is really the same thing. maybe the chinese government is preparing something similar.

@stephanlivera let people also have the freedom to believe their wallet won’t be hacked by quantum if that’s what they believe. no need for baby sitting.

I'm against the "Burn the old coins" idea anyway, but a lot of people are missing the nuance in BIP361. It's not a full confiscation of every pre-quantum coin. The actual BIP361 proposal is: disable ECDSA/Schnorr spends after a ~5-year migration window, in favor of letting people use a ZKP rescue if they still have their BIP-39 seed words on a BIP32 wallet. But here's the fly in the ointment: What about the 'Patoshi' coins and other pre-BIP32 coins? We're talking ~1.7M BTC in early P2PK outputs with exposed pubkeys. No seed phrase = no ZKP rescue. Those coins either get moved manually by their owners before the sunset, or they get frozen forever under the new rules. Some have floated pre-Q-day commitments or other workarounds, but that just raises the obvious question: If they're gonna have to do a pre-Q-day commitment anyway, why not just push the responsibility on the holders of these old coins to shift to a quantum-safe output (BIP-360 P2MR or whatever)? Why force a consensus rule change that effectively confiscates a large chunk of that 1.7M BTC for anyone who doesn't do the pre-Q-day commitment, or does not upgrade in time? For this reason I'm still firmly in the "introduce a quantum-safe output type, let people migrate voluntarily, and let the chips fall where they may" camp. Bitcoin's strength has always been opt-in upgrades and not changing the rules on people. Confiscating even a portion of old coins is the wrong precedent to set. No to BIP361.

@Mandrik @danheld x.com/faisalmirza/st…

If you recover gold coins from the bottom of the ocean, then you deserve them. If you figure out how to steal Satoshi's coins, then you deserve them. #NoFreeze

@FurqanShayk @BankAlfalahPAK @StateBank_Pak probably under scrutiny by central bank of pakistan.

@aikisteve @KRoelandschap @wholemars @TeslaOwnersNL @SawyerMerritt @teslaeurope @teslaownersSV have you tried parking next to the canal?

Went on a testing spree with @KRoelandschap in Amsterdam 🇳🇱. Crazy drivers, hundreds of cyclists and pedestrians and very narrow roads, and road works 😱 Perfect stress testing 😍 (uncut) @wholemars @TeslaOwnersNL @SawyerMerritt @teslaeurope @teslaownersSV youtu.be/vsmQrDqMwcI

@DeItaone x.com/faisalmirza/st…

$TSLA - DUTCH RDW: APPROVAL OF TESLA FSD IS VALID ON ALL ROADS IN THE NETHERLANDS DUTCH RDW: IF IT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE NETHERLANDS ITS GOOD ENOUGH FOR EUROPE DUTCH RDW SAYS IT HAS NOTIFIED EUROPEAN COMMISSION OF ITS PLAN TO SEEK EU-WIDE APPROVAL OF TESLA FSD

@MithuReborn islands can be made

Islands in Karachi

@Sandersmit83 amazing

Complex 🇳🇱 roundabout 💯

@elonmusk if it works here it will work anywhere in europe.

First (supervised) FSD approval in Europe! Congratulations to the Tesla team and thank you to the regulatory authorities in the Netherlands for all the hard work required to make this happen.

@cryptopunk7213 everyone is missing the social element around meta ai. you can have followers etc.

meta lit $75 billion on fire, sacked 600 people, spent $15B to hire ONE guy to create an ai model that... sucks (but theres a twist): it's pretty fucking good at any data-derived task... and meta owns the personal data of 3.4B DAILY users. this is intentional... zuck knows he can't win the scaling wars, anthropic + openai have a huge lead but he can win big in niches like multimodal perception, health tasks, visual reasoning - Muse Spark either beats or matches opus/gpt meta has enough data to build personal agi, a customized model that lives and breathes you entire life. it'll handle your personal finances, health goals, shopping.. everything $META added $100B to its market cap today :)

@iffiViews also the line that is being sung

Trump after ceasefire

defending against hostile government is just one of many narratives. quantum risk is real and serious, but bitcoin doesn’t care who uses it and we must keep it that way. real danger imo is the bitcoin protocol itself gaining the ability to lock or burn specific addresses. once we introduce that into consensus rules even if it starts with “just satoshi’s coins for safety” we’ve broken immutability and permissionlessness. that precedent destroys the anti-government, code-is-law foundation that gives bitcoin its long-term value. harden the protocol with migration incentives and post-quantum upgrades instead. dont touch the base rules.

Saw some people panicking or asking about quantum computing's impact on crypto. At a high level, all crypto has to do is to upgrade to Quantum-Resistant (Post-Quantum) Algorithms. So, no need to panic. 😂 In practice, there are some execution considerations. It's hard to organize upgrades in a decentralized world. There will likely be many debates on which algorithm(s) to use, resulting in some forks. And some dead project may not upgrade at all. Might be a good to cleanse out those projects anyway. New code may introduce other bugs or security issues in the short term. People who self custody will have to migrate their coins to new wallets. This brings to the question of Satoshi's bitcoins. If those coins move, then it means he/she is still around, which is interesting to know. If they don't move (in a certain period of time), it might be better to lock (or effectively burn) those addresses so that they don't go to the first hacker who cracks it. There is also the difficulty of identifying all his addresses, and not confuse with some old hodlers. Anyway, it's a different topic for later. Fundamentally: It's always easier to encrypt than decrypt. More computing power is always good. Crypto will stay, post quantum.

Contemporary Mosque designed by Yodezeen. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

most people use AI to confirm what they already believe. the real value is using it to stress-test your thinking, but you have to actively choose that. nobody naturally asks "now convince me I'm wrong."