Matt Corallo

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10th known contributor to Bitcoin Core. Full-Time Open-Source Bitcoin+Lightning Projects at Spiral (Part of Block).

I hate Bitcoin for all the same reasons you probably hate Bitcoin. I choose to improve it because I prefer for people to transact on open, decentralized systems rather than ones captured by big companies, just like everyone here prefers for people to speak on open, decentralized systems.

Bird Site (Professional)https://twitter.com/TheBlueMatt
Bird Site (Networking)https://twitter.com/AS397444
Show threadMatt CoralloDec 8, 2024
@curtmack But, of course, yes, I agree, mostly just don't use AGPL. I'm just saying for those who have strong "political" views on these things, at least do it in a way where people can *use* your software (in the OSS sense - tweak it and run it!)
Show threadMatt CoralloDec 8, 2024
@curtmack Sure, its trivial in Java, but most any compiled language can do the "cheating quine" and just compile the source in as a binary object. That would comply just fine with the license even if it doesn't win any quine programming competitions :)
Matt CoralloDec 8, 2024
@marcan I’ve never understood why people who license their software as AGPL don’t have a built in network-accessible “quine” command that dumps the source. I don’t like the license, but if you’re gonna use it, at least make it compliant by default!
Matt CoralloNov 29, 2024
Mathew IngramNov 28, 2024
In this week's edition of my newsletter The Torment Nexus, I tried to explore the question of whether Bluesky is truly decentralized or not. It is in some ways, but not in other ways that matter: https://torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/is-bluesky-decentralized-its-complicated/
Is Bluesky decentralized? It's complicated

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote at The Torment Nexus about whether Bluesky could become the new Twitter, and whether that would be a good thing or not. Since then, the network has just continued to ramp up its growth — it now has more than 23 million members, up

The Torment Nexus
Show threadMatt CoralloNov 29, 2024
@mjg59 the guy sued me and I’m just now learning this about him…what a twat.
Matt CoralloNov 12, 2024

Reminded me of a fun story. We’re pretty sure the CEO of T-Mobile called out our (startup) corporate cell plan explicitly when they announced (a decade+ ago) that they were killing the unlimited plan. At the time several people at the company were using the service as their primary home internet and I’d blown through 200GB on single nights.

So, yea, you can blame us for that.

From: @GossiTheDog
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Kevin Beaumont (@[email protected])

Used 16th of internet traffic in the past week, my ISPs will be happy 🤣

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Matt CoralloNov 2, 2024
@malwaretech you forgot about Robinhood kids now also gambling on the outcome of the election 😂
Show threadMatt CoralloOct 17, 2024
@bert_hubert not to be that guy, but please don’t use green/red as default colors in charts. My color blindness is killing me here.
Matt CoralloOct 5, 2024
Frédéric JacobsOct 5, 2024

China targeted and might have held for months access to the infrastructure used to do wiretaps on the AT&T and Verizon networks.

This is a huge "told you so" moment for the cryptographic community that has been saying that such infrastructure does present a huge risk to national security. China reportedly used this capability for intelligence collection, obviously without a warrant ...

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack-327fc63b?st=C5ywbp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Matt CoralloOct 4, 2024
@GossiTheDog wait is the IDF alleging that the hospital also houses Hezzbollah military or weapons (they don’t appear to be?)? Cause Hezzbollah also operate medical services as civilian infrastructure which is definitely not, by itself, a legitimate military target.