Periwinkle, PhD
@PeriwinkleID
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Builder, founder, cryptographer, researcher, CTO, scuba diver, pilates girlie $BTC since 2011 🧡 Go Pack 💚💛 @btcbaddiesxyz
Bangkok, Thailand
Joined March 2009
Introducing @Btcbaddiesxyz A community for Bitcoin's female founders, leaders, podcasters, CXOs, BD Angels, OGs, miners, investors, everyone! Tag ur fav btc girlies and lets bootstrap a Vegas Villa I am being so serious
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1st amendment means you have a right to be a Nazi and everyone else has a right to hate you for it One should not incur murder nor arrest for voicing either of these perspectives
Charlie was a racist. And not just the “has some biases” kind, but the “we must secure the existence of our future and a future for white children” kind. This makes him a bad person. I can respect “he didn’t deserve to be shot”, but I won’t accept “he wasn’t a bad guy.”
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Satoshi solved a 40-year-old computer science problem almost casually. His solution to the Byzantine Generals Problem wasn't just elegant, it was so different from traditional approaches that we're still developing mathematical frameworks to properly analyze it.
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During my PhD I did a study on the growing threat of violence towards public intellectuals We invested significant effort to include conservatives, and the ones we spoke to expressed surprise and gratitude that we were taking them seriously and doing real research The peer
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I believe, more than I believe anything else, that everyone should have the right to express their opinions without fear of violence or persecution, particularly if they are engaging in civil debate. You have a right to say offensive things without getting shot or arrested. Your
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It's for Bitcoiners
the orange iPhone is for the non performative males
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This was a hard learned lesson for me in corporate America Got feedback like "you speak too confidently when you don't know for sure" and I'd be like "I literally said 'I wonder if ...' I was stating a hypothesis my confidence is just that the hypothesis is well founded" But
it is a simple cultural misunderstanding when a nerd DMs w a disagreement abt your writing, this is a bid for a friendly back and forth where you exchange ideas and have a good time however for normies, this reads as an attack. "u are wrong and dumb." wtf why say to a stranger
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It's like people saw the EU chat control laws that use the CSAM straw man to make E2EE illegal and said "Great idea! Let's do that to Bitcoin" Guys you could not be more unserious and less cypher punk if you fucking tried You also clearly don't understand the technical
Knots and everyone associated with it is - I feel it is no longer an exaggeration to say this - the biggest threat to Bitcoin I have seen. Probably the biggest since the block size wars. There is zero current problem with spam. Blocks are clearing empty or with essentially zero
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What baffles me is that devs don't seem to realize OP_RETURN is already a compromise between utility and protection. There's probably a 100 opcodes you can use to commit to random data un an output. OP_RETURN is the only* prunable way so we make that one standard.
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There is an astounding difference between supporting actual diversity & equity versus the virtue signaling nonsense DEI seminars that were taught at places just vying for political brownie points. It was often white women lecturing people on racism in all of the worst ways
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So, prompt engineering
An underrated law? Kidlin's Law. That if you write down a problem clearly and specifically, you have already solved half of it. The act of clearly & specifically describing a problem on paper creates a deeper understanding of its components & makes it easier to find solutions.
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Technical founder here, looking for a technical co-founder. I have more ideas than I have time to build. You can take 90% equity, I will do product design, hiring, raising, and business stuff. This is a serious offer I have eight VS Code windows open rn plz help
Technical cofounder here, looking for a business cofounder. You can take 90% equity, I will do all the product, design, engineering, hiring, and marketing automation. I just really need ideas.
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There are 0 pictures on the bitcoin block chain. Bitcoin stores arrays of bytes in scripts, witnesses, and outputs (op return). For it to be in any other format (picture, video, gif etc), requires extra software to transform it. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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I have actually never related to anything more in my life
i may have a phd in computer science but at no point did we cover how to operate hotel showers and things are NOT looking good for me rn
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"User has a PhD in CS and wants to explore research tangential to her own. Respond as a peer with more specific domain expertise, in a tone as two professors might converse over coffee in the department lounge" Way better than ELI5 thanks Claude
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I have been saying "An MBA thought of this" As a derogatory statement for ~a decade
need a term for when an expensive, luxury experience is messed up by anomalous penny-pinching decisions like putting single-ply toilet paper in a $1000/night hotel bathroom "MBA brain" or "private equity smell" probably fit
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I woke up yesterday and started testing GPT 5 and said "wow this is so much better" It took me a bit to figure out what exactly it was that was better but this is what I came to - it will actually disagree with me. Much more helpful.
This is what I'd expect to see if OpenAI had made general progress on fighting sycophancy and manipulation. :/ If that's in fact what happened, OpenAI made that choice rightly.
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Roman Storm shouldn’t be prosecuted as a money transmitter. The only function his software and servers provided is broadcasting cryptographically signed user messages without any modification. These messages could have been printed on a t-shirt. They were copied and broadcast
@aeyakovenko @SolanaInstitute @aeyakovenko I dare you to tweet Roman Storm should not be prosecuted as a money transmitter
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Can we all agree on a new character to replace the em dash I'm sick of having to rework every sentence to use commas, semicolons, parentheses, or just split it into two. I want the rest of my punctuation options back. What's our new dash-but-it's-not-AI mark?
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