I've just heard about this project, Akon City.
So this musician Akon wants to build a city that runs on his own currency called AKOIN? That sounds... crazy.

https://www.prweb.com/releases/ke_international_awarded_us_6_billion_construction_contract_for_akon_city_senegal/prweb17165260.htm

Akon City Phase 2 will run from 2024 to 2029 and will end with a complete cryptocurrency City running exclusively on AKOIN cryptocurrency.

Has someone looked into this?

"We're having a problem sending email out of the department."

"What's the problem?" I asked.

"We can't send mail more than 500 miles," the chairman explained.

I choked on my latte.  "Come again?"

"We can't send mail farther than 500 miles from here," he repeated.  "A
little bit more, actually.  Call it 520 miles.  But no farther."

http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

Found this on hn. It's a very funny story imo.
Also, it's the first time I saw the units tool, which I'll use again!

you have: 10 kilometer
you want: miles
        * 6.21371

Here you see the ZapRead Stats from /Home/About/.
As you can clearly see from these totally not random red lines, spending here is going down.
This is proof that all LN apps are failing, and I know the solution: BCH!
I've ran multiple mathematical simulations and I've come to the cereal conclusion that BCH would have the following positive impact on our stats:

You can clearly see that BCH performs much better on this forum and that the only reason we are not facebook yet is, that we stick to this stupid BTC LN stuff.
Wake up Zelgada!!!

The NFC/RFID Theremin is the new instrument!

https://forum.dangerousthings.com/t/rfid-theremin-turn-your-implant-into-a-crap-musical-instrument/7033

Around 2 weeks ago, after this post, I really got interested in bio hacking, especially implants.
I kinda wanted a magnet, to gain a new sense, but I didn't find a magnet that fits my requirements: to be a round, well tested, small, magnet implant with thin and biosafe coating.
There are plenty of magnets out there, I'm sure after some time, there will be a nice sensing magnet for me.

So, I had to get something else. When looking for implants (incl. magnets), you'll quickly find 'Dangerous Things', I trust them, so I preferred something from them for my first implant.
There is a lot of info on their biohacking forum, I took my time and around a week after reading posts about people who think they have been chipped by someone I decided to get a NExT.
Like most people, I'll use my implant for convinient access control. Opening doors and stuff like that.

I got the package yesterday, got it implanted today.
I also started taking vitamins yesterday, it's recommened for faster healing, but I should have started sooner.

The Installation

The installation should be easy, even alone, but I let a professional do it.
It shouldn't be too painful, but since I had the chance, I numbed the area. I hate big needles.
It works like shown in this video and is described in detail in this 10 page guide.

I'll probably make another post about this, but I'll just let my hand heal and hope everything stays clean. I think the positioning is ok, but I'll see where it ends up in about 2-4 weeks afaik.

Today is Pizza day. Some time ago I wrote a python program to visualize pizza transaction. 

You can find it here

https://qxzlog.blogspot.com/2020/04/visualization-of-bitcoin-transaction.html

The visualization traces back all the inputs until their coinbases. There are few coins used in pizza tx witch were mined in 2009. 

You can see them here, although the text is in Polish, sorry for that.

https://qxzlog.blogspot.com/2020/04/najstarsze-transakcje-coinbase-zakup.html

The problem with community payouts at 0:00  is, that some have an advantage over others because time of posting impacts the payout (afaik).

If there was a random delay of up to 24h on each payout, this would be cancelled out

The Thought Emporium is probably my new favourite yt channel.

I don't know if I'd do something like this if I had the chance. If anything I'd probably get a RFID/NFC implant to unlock doors and stuff like that.
Tho' feeling/hearing electromagnetic waves does sound interesting and is probably easier to do... I'll guess I'll decide what to implant when it's time to do so.

To share some other awesome stuff from this channel:
- Meat Berry
- Growing Human Neurons Connected to a Computer
- Sonoluminescence

Zero Width Shortener [...] is a URL shortener that shortens URLs using spaces that have zero width, making them invisible to humans.



It seems like this url shortener doesn't store your url, but encodes it into an invisible path in its url. I think this is a very interesting application of zero width / invisible chars, which itself is an interesting topic. I've read about zero width spaces being inserted into posts to detect and track copy pasting.
Back to the topic, I think this is a nice idea, but it's not usable on all services, because some just show the url encoded version of those chars.

Don't know about you, but to me stuff like a twitter bot that wins giveaways was very inspiring. When I saw this some years back I was amazed and motivated to do some cool stuff!

In this talk, I'll share how I won 4 Twitter contests per day, every day, for 9 months straight.

I don't know how many nights I spent listening to DEF CON and Black Hat talks trying to fall asleep, but it's probably in the hundrets. This is one I remember, because it wouldn't let me sleep.