Interesting article about creating transactions and ECDSA on ethereum. And how a bot can discover your private key if you reuse a nonce
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Happy New Year to all! … and may 2022 see the Maidsafe team reach many great successes - in all areas of their lives, but also with you know what. 
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Simple engineering. Put ‘pending prosecutions’ into a (premium subscribable) queue and have tokens that can boot them out of queue at cost. Distribute tokens from the top. Now the elite are in line and dependent on token distribution. Brave new world for the top, and 1984 for the rest of us.
I hope for a better world.
Hmmm… apparently this link is being shadow banned on reddit.
Probably worth a read.
Snippet from the article…
The most puzzling part of this news blackout is that the majority of the reporters who covered this Fed story at the time it was happening in 2019, are still employed at the same news outlets. We emailed a number of them and asked why they were not covering this important story. Silence prevailed. We then emailed the media relations contacts for the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Financial Times and the Washington Post, inquiring as to why there was a news blackout on this story. Again, silence.
Next, we emailed a number of reporters who had covered this story in 2019 but were no longer employed at a major news outlet. We asked their opinion on what could explain this bizarre news blackout on such a major financial story. We received emails praising our reporting but advising that they “can’t comment.”
The phrase “ can’t comment” as opposed to “ don’t wish to comment” raised a major alarm bell. Wall Street megabanks are notorious for demanding that their staff sign non-disclosure agreements and non-disparagement agreements in order to get severance pay and other benefits when they are terminated. Are the newsrooms covering Wall Street megabanks now demanding similar gag orders from journalists? If they are, we’re looking at a form of corporate tyranny previously unseen in America.
If the media were now to focus on yet another scandal at the Fed – such as it bailing out the banks in 2019 because of their own hubris once again – there might be legislation introduced in Congress to strip the Fed of its supervisory role over the megabanks and a restoration of the Glass-Steagall Act to separate the federally-insured commercial banks from the trading casinos on Wall Street.
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https://twitter.com/mcshane_writes/status/1477829612474404869 awesome bitcoin facts
this really made me get into bitcoin for realz, to make some money to the side and watch it keep and grow in value!
Want a phone Ed Snowden might approve of?
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Next they’ll be installing Safe Network nodes…
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Maybe it stops other malware from crypto jacking 
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The absurd side of crypto.
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i heard of web 0 where someone is claiming that a decetralized web is web 0! https://web0.small-web.org/ many has signed! @dimitar maybe sign as Safe Network?
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Web4: Unlock
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for web4.0
The Internet is transparent; all actions are
traceable.
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Aral Balkan is behind the Web0 thing and the small web initiative and he’s a very good guy. We’ve interacted many times over the years so he’s aware of SN (and liked my reply yesterday pointing out that SN meets the criteria he tweeted for Web0) although he’s yet to join in the fun.
Once we have stable test networks I’ll be prodding him again. Whether he gets on board with SN or not he’s someone to follow, support and learn from:
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That is barf.
Point was that the next iteration is unlocking our Safes! 
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One step beyond art as money laundry?
Print too much money and then spin up illusions.
“There’s far too much money sloshing around and far too few places to put it”
Hopefully at some point the idiocracy will start thinking more about real utility and sound money but the obvious seems to take a generation and necessarily suffer the downsides of each error. Still better a NFT than a dollar?
I just thought this was a good story, so here is a link.
I experienced something similar during that genius Modi’s demonetization scheme in India. Not good!
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Really interesting article about Axie Infinity, a game where you can pay other people to do the boring bits for you in return for crypto. Is this the future of work? The author is not convinced.
In Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, David Graeber makes the case that a sizable chunk of the labour economy is essentially people performing useless work…
I’ve recently been exploring the themes around web3 to see if there’s a “there” there, and Graeber’s book has been on my mind again. One of the most apparently successful examples of web3 that people point to, aside from art NFTs, is so-called play-to-earn games. The most successful of these is Axie Infinity, a trade-and-battle game reminiscent of Pokemon.
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