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Travel Retail Norway introduces BTC payments for Click & Collect upon arrival
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Travel Retail Norway introduces bitcoin payments for Click & Collect upon arrival
Travel Retail Norway (TRN) has introduced bitcoin payments for customers using Click & Collect upon arrival at Oslo Airport, marking the first step...
 > The payment solution is provided by Satoshi Consult, which TRN states has developed ‘a secure and user-friendly system tailored to Norwegian regulations’. > Customers can simple place their order via Click & Collect at www.tax-free.no. Upon pickup at Oslo Airport, the customer needs to selects bitcoin as the payment method. > Next, a QR code is generated, and the customer confirms payment via their own bitcoin wallet that supports the Lightning Network. The amount is displayed in NOK (Norwegian Kroner) and settled in real time. A receipt is issued as usual. > This option currently applies only to Click & Collect upon arrival at Oslo, though TRN says it’s considering expanding to other stores and payment formats.
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Travel Retail Norway introduces BTC payments for Click & Collect upon arrival \ stacker news
The payment solution is provided by Satoshi Consult, which TRN states has developed ‘a secure and user-friendly system tailored to Norwegian regu...
prediction markets aren't just gambling I kinda get his point, most of the participants on prediction markets are in essence just gambling, yet, I do believe that it _in theory_, it can be more than that. I think I've only once joined one of the sports markets on Predyx, as I do believe I'm truly just betting there. But when I put some money on the impeachment of the former Korean president or the prosecution of his wife, I felt like I was doing so by adding knowledge to the market. So, the ones that put money on the sports markets, do you feel like you are gambling? Or financializing some of your knowledge? If it is gambling, do you agree with CZ that prediction markets are just gambling? If it is financializing, do you think it is fair to equate it with insider trading, akin to Pelosi making money playing the stock market as a politician based on knowledge not available to the general public?
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prediction markets aren't just gambling \ stacker news
I kinda get his point, most of the participants on prediction markets are in essence just gambling, yet, I do believe that it in theory, it can be ...
Trump Got His Hair Done - impersonation by godfreycomic One of the better Trump impersonations... too many awful ones, especially by late-night comedians. Ended up clicking through to this skit, too:
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Trump Got His Hair Done - impersonation by godfreycomic \ stacker news
One of the better Trump impersonations... too many awful ones, especially by late-night comedians. Ended up clicking through to this skit, too: htt...
Hash-based Signature Schemes for Bitcoin (Blockstream research) 📄.pdf > Abstract > Hash-based signature schemes offer a promising post-quantum alternative for Bitcoin, as their security relies solely on hash function assumptions similar to those already underpinning Bitcoin’s design. We provide a comprehensive overview of these schemes, from basic primitives to SPHINCS+ and its variants, and investigate parameter selection tailored to Bitcoin’s specific requirements. By applying recent optimizations such as SPHINCS+C, TL-WOTS-TW, and PORS+FP, and by reducing the allowed number of signatures per public key, we achieve significant size improvements over the standardized SPHINCS+ (SLHDSA). We provide public scripts for reproducibility and discuss limitations regarding key derivation, multi-signatures, and threshold signatures. Also:
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We just published "Hash-based signatures for Bitcoin," a new analysis of post-quantum schemes by @kudinov_mikhail and myself at @blksresearch. Thi...
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Hash-based Signature Schemes for Bitcoin (Blockstream research) \ stacker news
Abstract Hash-based signature schemes offer a promising post-quantum alternative for Bitcoin, as their security relies solely on hash function assu...
Draft BIP: Non-monetary UTXO cleanup (“The Cat”) and related materials.
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GitHub - ostromcode/The-Cat: Draft BIP: Non-monetary UTXO cleanup (“The Cat”) and related materials.
Draft BIP: Non-monetary UTXO cleanup (“The Cat”) and related materials. - ostromcode/The-Cat
 > It documents a soft-fork consensus change and new spending rules intended to remove an existing, snapshot-based set of non-monetary UTXOs (NMUs) created by protocols such as Ordinals and Stamps, by making those UTXOs permanently unspendable and eligible for removal from the UTXO set. So, basically, confiscating UTXOs I disagree with? Are we still talking about Bitcoin? Maybe this is not even worth sharing or discussing...
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Draft BIP: Non-monetary UTXO cleanup (“The Cat”) and related materials. \ stacker news
It documents a soft-fork consensus change and new spending rules intended to remove an existing, snapshot-based set of non-monetary UTXOs (NMUs) cr...
3Blue1Brown : "Recruiting, both for myself and for other companies"
Recruiting, both for myself and for other companies (potentially yours)
I have two small requests, both of which I’ll elaborate on further down in this post.
 3Blue1Brown is hiring: both mathematical and non-mathematical positions. Look through the post for more details.
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3Blue1Brown : "Recruiting, both for myself and for other companies" \ stacker news
3Blue1Brown is hiring: both mathematical and non-mathematical positions. Look through the post for more details. [2 comments]
"we are not enron" says nvidia I've kinda cut out the AI news in terms of company valuation, stock market, etc, as I've made up my mind it's all VC bullshit. So, stumbling on this Coffeezilla piece brought me a bit up to date on what seems to be going on at the moment, at a more nuanced level. Maybe CZ is all wrong (he has been before, and this is for sure not his field of expertise), but I usually give him the benefit of the doubt when it's about spotting scams and grifts. So, do you think Nvidia is like Enron? Or more like Cisco?
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"we are not enron" says nvidia \ stacker news
I've kinda cut out the AI news in terms of company valuation, stock market, etc, as I've made up my mind it's all VC bullshit. So, stumbling on thi...
Bailey, Lubka, Klipsten, Held, Saylor, etc - good or bad for Bitcoin? What's your take on the David Baileys, Steven Lubkas, Cory Klipstens, Dan Helds, Saylors, etc, of the online Bitcoin scene? To me, they seem like people who just care about playing the Wall Street game on top of Bitcoin. I probably shouldn’t call them grifters/scammers; that’s too harsh when you compare them with some of the actual ones (if you know, you know), because they aren’t committing any crime (that we know of). To me, they just have too much of a fiat mindset that is incompatible with what I think Bitcoin is trying to achieve. Or maybe they are just mirrors of what we'd all become in case we were running the companies they are? My first instinct is to judge them harshly, so I'd be happy to have someone giving me some counterweight to my knee-jerk reaction, to help me judge them more generously. Feel free to comment if you think they don't belong on the same list. Reading myself, this sounds like a Bitcoin maxi purity test. Well, I wrote it, so I should just post it now.
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Bailey, Lubka, Klipsten, Held, Saylor, etc - good or bad for Bitcoin? \ stacker news
What's your take on the David Baileys, Steven Lubkas, Cory Klipstens, Dan Helds, Saylors, etc, of the online Bitcoin scene? To me, they seem like p...
S. Korea logs world's longest commute, which studies say may fuel loneliness
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S. Korea logs world's longest commute, which studies say may fuel loneliness
Lee Han-soo, 34, spends nearly 2 1/2 hours a day traveling between his home near Namhansanseong Station on Subway Line No. 8 and his job at an IT f...
 > Lee Han-soo, 34, spends nearly 2 1/2 hours a day traveling between his home near Namhansanseong Station on Subway Line No. 8 and his job at an IT firm near Hongik University Station on Subway Line No. 2 in Seoul. > “Although I’m used to it now, I’m completely drained by the time I get home,” he said. “I just grab something to eat and go straight to bed.” > For many South Koreans, Lee’s routine is far from unusual — it may even be typical. > A recent study published in Environmental Research Letters found that South Korea recorded the longest average daily travel time among 43 countries surveyed, at 1 hour and 48 minutes. > The global average was 1 hour and 8 minutes, meaning South Koreans, on average, spend an additional 40 minutes of their daily life commuting. A few years back, I commuted about 1 hour in the morning and 1h30 minutes in the evening, so a total of about 2h30 minutes. +/- 30 minutes, depending on traffic. This was with my 2-year-old son at the time. I got used to it, and my son didn't know any better, so he didn't complain. But now that I've moved near my workplace, commuting 2 minutes every day, I can't imagine ever going back to that old regime. And my now 6-year-old would probably also not agree so easily anymore. So, how long do you commute to work?
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S. Korea logs world's longest commute, which studies say may fuel loneliness \ stacker news
Lee Han-soo, 34, spends nearly 2 1/2 hours a day traveling between his home near Namhansanseong Station on Subway Line No. 8 and his job at an IT f...