JonathanBeuys

What is a good tool to use Bitcoin on the (Linux) command line? I would like to do only 3 things: 1: Import an existing seed 2: Show the addresses for that seed 3: Sign a transaction

Elon Musk announced that from April on, only paying users will be included in the posts the Twitter algorithm suggests to users. Isn't it a bit of a strange idea to build a public townsquare where one has to "pay to…

I used GitLab in the (not so distant) past, and it always was like GitHub. A web based collaborative software version control system on top of Git. Today I visited gitlab.com and it now redirects to about.gitlab.com…

Isn't that like saying "Chrome" when you mean the World Wide Web?

I am currently in the market for a new Linux distro and I would like to hear the HN community's take on it. I have been thinking about choosing Kuduntu or Debian+KDE. I find it really hard to come up with any pros and…

The idea to define i^2=-1 brought up a lot of interesting math. Could it be similarly useful to define a number j so that j/0=1?

Both FF and Thunderbird suddenly take 30s to start on my linux machine. "firefox -safe-mode" does no speed it up. When I run "strace firefox", the first time it hangs after this line: restart_syscall(<... resuming…

One main strength of Bitcoin is that it is supposed to be limited to 21 million. Which would make it a good store of value and an inflation hedge. But what will prevent banks from creating it out of thin air, just like…

We had a great discussion here on HN a few days ago about the question whether it is possible to use Bitcoin in a trustless way. So that you control your Bitcoin yourself and don't have to trust any privileged party to…

I'm still trying to figure out, if it is possible to use Bitcoin in a trustless way. So that no matter which parts of your tech stack are faulty or malicious, you keep control over your funds. The following is what I…

Hello HN! I mainly write text and code. I have a few photos. Any opinions on what I should use for daily incremental backups? The simplest approach seems to be a thumbdrive. These can store giant amounts of data these…

Offering Bitcoin seems such an easy model to make money for Paypal. Why don't they expand this service to Europe? Is the reason that it is that hard (or even impossible?) to do this legally in Europe?

I find it quite useful to put my thoughts on Twitter as it nicely enables you to host a mix of text and images. But it seems when I do so these days, the posts get shadow banned right away. What is a good way to deal…