Peter Todd
Applied Cryptography Consultant (what the cool kids call 'blockchain tech')
PGP: 0x7FAB114267E4FA04, [email protected]
Last synced from Twitter 9m ago
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Peter Todd
web.archive.org/web/*/https://…*
Unclear if it was a technical fault, or an insider. But thousands of tweets vanished at one point, then AFAICT were restored a few months later. Others have vanished more recently too; quite a few broken links on and off at github.com/Enegnei/JacobA…
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Websites change. Perma Links don't.
Perma.cc helps scholars, journals, courts, and others create permanent records of the web sources they cite.
Peter Todd
Interestingly, Twitter has recently made it much harder to archive Tweets via third parties like archive.org and perma.cc. The fact that insider attacks like this can happen isn't good for the historical record.
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Squirrel tests positive for bubonic plague in United States
MORRISON, Colo. (WHDH) — A squirrel that was found in Morrison, Colorado on Saturday tested positive for the bubonic plague, making it the first case...
Fisher's principle - Wikipedia
Peter Todd
@giacomozucco @janeygak Remember that overall, there's usually strong evolutionary pressures to have the male/female ratio balance out and be 1:1
But within a population, you can "allocate" that 1:1 ratio in very uneven ways.
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How Sweden Screwed Up
The European country thought it could get away with a more lenient COVID response. It thought very, very wrong.
Desperate Business Owners Reeling From Latest Closure Order
Small business owners around San Diego County are considering all options, even if it means breaking the rules.
Peter Todd
"The sheriff’s department would come down, and we would let them know we’re going to stay open."
“They say three weeks, but that’s what was said last time -- three weeks to slow the spread turned into three months”
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'Jaw-dropping' world fertility rate crash expected
Nearly every country will see their populations fall as the world has fewer babies.
Random Cake Generator - Springhole.net
Instantly create random descriptions of cakes.
Peter Todd
@AlyssaHertig TIL there are so many random cake generators on the internet that you could make a random random cake generator list generator.
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Version Control Can Help the Media Win Back Reader Trust - CoinDesk
By committing content to a blockchain, news outlets can reassure readers that what they are reading is what the outlet originally published, says our columnist.
Coronavirus: 6,300 COVID-19 patients in New York were sent to nursing homes
The directive was intended to help free up hospital beds for the sickest patients as cases surged.
Peter Todd
NYC's policy of sending people with COVID-19 to nursing homes probably meant a lot of vulnerable people died early on
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isislovecruft/patternsinthevoid
Source code for patternsinthevoid.net. Contribute to isislovecruft/patternsinthevoid development by creating an account on GitHub.
Peter Todd
Incidentally, here's what Isis had to say about that conference and their interactions with Nadim at the time on their blog.
github.com/isislovecruft/… pic.twitter.com/q2CtveUFUL
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isis agora lovecruft on Twitter
Peter Todd
I'm kinda curious if they have a good reason to be lying about their age actually. Here they make a big deal about how they were twenty-one... but Nadim is younger than Isis. (his version of events is rather different as you can see)
web.archive.org/web/2019021116… pic.twitter.com/BnH5Eo267a
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Enegnei/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor
:mag: An investigation into Jacob Appelbaum leaving the Tor Project - Enegnei/JacobAppelbaumLeavesTor
Peter Todd
Why does this happens? Eventually people look at the evidence, and realize it doesn't support the claims: github.com/Enegnei/JacobA…
Isis lies about even the dumbest things: they turned 31, not 30, and unless they perjuried themselves in CA court, those sites are right. pic.twitter.com/bSXnuru4dj
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ECC Transparency Report for Q4 2019 - Electric Coin Company
Why release a transparency report? Electric Coin Co. (ECC) is committed to openness and transparency — as we help evolve […]
NBC News Spent Weeks Reporting On A Contributor’s Journey Battling Coronavirus – But He Never Had It
NBC News spent weeks documenting its science contributor's battle with COVID-19, but now he says that he never had it.
Peter Todd
NBC spent weeks documenting its science contributors "battle with COVID-19". But now admits that not only did he never test positive for it, he tested negative multiple times, including antibodies.
Insane that mainstream media would do victim hoaxes.
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ECC Transparency Report for Q4 2019 - Electric Coin Company
Why release a transparency report? Electric Coin Co. (ECC) is committed to openness and transparency — as we help evolve […]
Peter Todd
Source re deficit: electriccoin.co/blog/ecc-trans…
The June 2020 transparency report only covers Q4 2019; more recent figures don't seem to be available.
(oddly, I can't seem to get @internetarchive to archive that URL)
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Paycheck Protection Program
An SBA loan that helps businesses keep their workforce employed during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.
Former BTC Dev Peter Todd Questions Zcash Getting PPP Loan, Standing in Line with Max Keiser and Peter Schiff
Peter Todd has questions for Electric Coin Company as to why it needed the PPP cash assistance and whether the pandemic could have affected its Zcash coin