Supervillain-level strategy: steal coins, then burn them, extracting value from your other coins for ultimate anonymity.
Plausibly deniable supervillain: promote things like bad wallet encryption standards to cause others to lose coins, skipping the pesky illegal theft part.
FYI I've confirmed that this is real and not a Twitter hack via a mutual friend.
IIUC he used Gentoo as his desktop and didn't keep different activities separated. So backdoored software is one of many ways this could happen; he may not have been targeted.
Also, everyone can get complacent. It happens, even to experts. It takes concentrated long-term effort to fight complacency and do the extra work to do security right.
As I keep having to tell clients, computer security is a mess and isolation is one of the few tools we have.
Solutions like @QubesOS are annoying to use. But necessary. Personally I use disposable VMs for all my web browsing, and I keep my Bitcoin wallets on separate VMs not used for anything else at minimum; some on dedicated machines.
Because devs are trying to remove this option from the upcoming Bitcoin Core v24.0 release. Even in testnet!
What's full-rbf? Accepting the tx with the highest fee into mempools and blocks. It's the obvious, profit-maximizing behavior.
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The mempoolfullrbf option defaults to off, so unless you choose to enable it, it does nothing.
The three businesses trying to fight this are scared that if users and miners can easily choose to enable it, they will.
So they want the option taken away from Bitcoin Core v24.0.
I think it's incredibly paternalistic and presumptuous for a handful of devs - on behalf of literally just three businesses - to take away an obvious, incentive compatible, option that's widely supported by wallets and the wider community.
Protests DO NOT change the world directly. Protests are costly honest signals. Protests are symbolic.
The Ottawa protest is not blocking any essential services. All those soup kitchens, trash collection, and hot tubs the protesters are running achieve nothing directly.
But...
...all those protest actions are enormously symbolic: they prove that thousands of good hearted, ethical, people exist, who believe that Trudeau's mandates are wrong.
Notably, all those activities have been done _in the open_ without any real attempt at hiding identities.
As banks try to reduce the use of cash as much as possible, they have less of it on hand.
While there aren't any real limits any more on how much digital money you can spend - your funds are backed by nothing - there are very real limits on physical cash.
Fact check: the US does not have a significantly higher covid death rate than other first world countries. Possibly a bit lower if you adjust for age distribution and pre-existing health: the US is younger than the EU (16.3%>65 vs 20.8%), but a _lot_ fatter (36% obese vs 17%).