Month: May 2024

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CoinDesk Podcast Network - THE MINING POD: Is Bitcoin Mining Centralized? With Peter Todd

Bitcoin core developer Peter Todd joins The Mining Pod to discuss mining pool centralization threat vectors, MEV on Bitcoin, JPEGS, and hidden attacks to Bitcoin.


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We headed down to Bitcoin ++ in Austin, Texas last week to discuss all things Bitcoin development, and it turns out mining is a big part of that!

We sat down with Peter Todd, a Bitcoin core developer with extensive work on decentralizing Bitcoin’s tech stack. We dig into pool centralization threats, the what and if of miner extractable value on Bitcoin and what he thinks of JPEGs on Bitcoin!

Chapter Markers:

00:00:00 Start

00:02:35 Open Timestamps does election fraud

00:07:19 Timestamp the internet?

00:08:19 Peter Todd Intro

00:10:45 Antpool block template use

00:16:33 Does Stratum V2 solve pool control?

00:17:18 Ocean Pool

00:18:19 Developers Incentivisation

00:20:19 Mining Testnet

00:21:30 Resetting Testnet

00:21:56 Ordinal Streisand Effect

00:24:16 OP_RETURN

00:24:58 1MB Runes incoming w/ Libra Relay?

00:28:23 MEV is dangerous

00:30:35 RBF transactions

00:31:20 MEV types

00:32:53 Libra Relay vs Core filters

00:34:50 Libra Relay is a political project

00:36:10 Suggestions for miners

00:37:36 OP_CAT

00:42:40 OP Code prediction


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Up First from NPR - The Gaza Ceasefire That Wasn’t, Putin’s Fifth Inauguration, House Speaker Vote?

After seven months of war and nearly 35,000 deaths, a pause in the fighting in Gaza seemed in sight — and then it wasn't.
Russian President Vladimir Putin takes his fifth oath of office, which if he serves the full term would give him a longer tenure than Joseph Stalin. And the House could vote on another motion to oust a Republican speaker — but this time, Democrats might save Mike Johnson.

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The Intelligence from The Economist - The Intelligence: Truce talk

The ceasefire deal, which Hamas has agreed to, prompted celebrations in Gaza. But Binyamin Netanyahu isn’t satisfied and the fighting continues. Video game adaptations are getting better, and becoming a more popular choice with Hollywood’s directors (10:01). And the best-selling literary love-child of romance and fantasy (14:27).


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The Daily Detail - The Daily Detail for 5.7.24

Alabama

  • Tuberville warns that bill passed in House is not a proponent of free speech
  • 3 days remain in AL legislature with some bills getting final push for passage
  • New AL law starts Oct 1 requiring age verification on pornographic websites
  • ALCAP President believes state lawmakers displeased by Hindu prayer

National

  • Israel Prime minister not yielding to cease fire calls from Joe Biden re: Rafah
  • Dems in Congress show support for keeping Johnson as Speaker of the House
  • FL congressman Matt Gaetz calls out Biden's inaction re: US troops in Niger
  • House committee to investigate large donations made to US Chamber 
  • NY judge threatens Trump with jail time for latest Truth Social posts
  • 13 federal judges pledge to not hire law clerks from Columbia after protests
  • Election official in WI resigns who was part of highly suspicious activity in 2020
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Honestly with Bari Weiss - Ozempic: Silver Bullet or Devil’s Bargain?

There’s a new $6 billion-dollar industry. Its global market size is expected to increase to $100 billion within the decade. No, it’s not a fancy new app or a revolutionary gadget: it’s weight-loss drugs.

Just a few years ago no one had even heard the word Ozempic. Almost overnight, the drug previously used to treat type 2 diabetes became a household name. Healthcare providers wrote more than 9 million prescriptions for Ozempic and similar drugs in the last three months of 2022 alone. By the end of the decade, 30 million people are predicted to be on it. For comparison, that means that Ozempic is on track to do as well as birth control pills and Prozac—a blockbuster medication. 

A little over a year ago we had a fiery debate on Honestly about these revolutionary weight-loss drugs and our cultural understanding of obesity. On one side of the debate, people saw Ozempic as the golden answer we’ve been searching for. After all, obesity is the second biggest cause of cancer. It causes diabetes, and it’s linked to dementia, heart disease, knee and hip problems, arthritis, and high blood pressure, which causes strokes. In short: when you crunch the numbers, drugs like Ozempic seem to be lifesaving.

On the other hand was another argument: Why are we putting millions of people on a powerful new drug when we don’t know the risks? Plus, isn’t this a solution that ignores why we gained so much weight in the first place? In other words: Ozempic is not a cure for obesity; it’s a Band-Aid.

A year later, all of those questions are still up for debate. Our guest today, journalist Johann Hari, has spent the last year trying to find answers, traveling the world investigating weight-loss drugs, and. . . taking them himself.

In his latest book, Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs, Johann investigates what we know and what we don’t know about how these drugs work, their risks and benefits, how our food system sets us up to fail, and how movements like “fat pride” and “healthy at any size” have completely altered the conversation.

So on today’s episode: How do these new drugs impact our brains, our guts, and our mood? What are the hidden risks? Are they really a permanent solution to the obesity crisis? Or are they merely a quick fix that do little to address the root causes of obesity? With over 70 percent of Americans today classified as overweight or obese and the average American adult weighing nearly 25 pounds more today than they did in 1960, how did we get here in the first place? And why aren’t we addressing that problem, too?

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Being Roman with Mary Beard - 8. Death on the Nile

Julia Balbilla is an accomplished poet and close friend of the wife of one of Rome’s mightiest emperors. Hadrian loves to travel and takes Julia and an entourage of thousands on the ultimate elite tourist trip- a leisurely Nile cruise to the Great Pyramid of Giza and the Colossus of Memnon, a statue that will sing for anyone blessed by the gods. Julia inscribes her poems on the giant foot of the statue, praising the power of Hadrian and the beauty of his wife, Sabina.

It’s a charming scene, darkened only by the fact that Hadrian’s male lover, Antinous has only just drowned in the Nile. Was he murdered by jealous rivals, killed in a lover’s tiff or did he drunkenly slip from the deck? Hadrian is publicly bereft, founding a new city in the name of Antinous, but seems happy to continue his luxury cruise. Mary Beard hops aboard Ancient Rome's most intriguing cruise with historian T. Corey Brennan and archaeologist Elizabeth Fentress.

Producer: Alasdair Cross

Expert Contributors: Corey Brennan, Rutgers University and Lisa Fentress

Cast: Julia Balbilla played by Juliana Lisk

Special thanks to Andrea Bruciati, Villa Adriana

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Being Roman with Mary Beard - 7. The Whistleblower

Beneath starched Shakespearean togas and the pungent fug of gladiator sweat there are real Romans waiting to be discovered. To know what it was to be Roman you need to gather the scattered clues until they form a living, breathing human, witness to the highs and horrors of Europe’s greatest empire.

Mary Beard, Britain’s best-selling historian of the ancient world, rebuilds the lives of six citizens of the Roman Empire, from a poet to a squaddie. Her investigations reveal death and deceit on the Nile and the art of running a Roman pub, but it’s the thoughts and feelings of individual Romans she’s really interested in.

It's 61CE. The rebellion of Boudicca has finally been quashed, but London and other Roman cities lie in ruins. A new finance officer for the province, Gaius Julius Classicianus arrives, to face an enormous recovery job. Standing in his way is the Governor, busy exacting terrible reprisals from the local population. Classicianus does what brave subordinates have done ever since. He whistle-blows – writing to the emperor to remove the Governor from British shores. The stage is set for an imperial face-off. For the people of Britain, the stakes could not be higher.

Producer: Alasdair Cross

Expert Contributors: Matthew Nicholls, University of Oxford and Michael Marshall, Museum of London Archaeology

Cast: Tacitus played by Robert Wilfort

Translations by Mary Beard

Special thanks to the British Museum

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NBN Book of the Day - Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha, “Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States” (UNC Press, 2023)

In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular. As Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha reveals in Vodou En Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States (UNC Press, 2023), that connection is manifest in the dynamic relationship between public religious ceremonies, material aesthetics, bodily adornment, and spirit possession. Nwokocha spent more than a decade observing Vodou ceremonies from Montreal and New York to Miami and Port-au-Prince. She engaged particularly with a Haitian practitioner and former fashion designer, Manbo Maude, who presided over Vodou temples in Mattapan, Massachusetts, and Jacmel, Haiti. With vivid description and nuanced analysis, Nwokocha shows how Manbo Maude's use of dress and her production of ritual garments are key to serving Black gods and illuminate a larger transnational economy of fashion and spiritual exchange.

Eziaku Atuama Nwokocha is assistant professor of religion at the University of Miami.

Reighan Gillam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies at Dartmouth College. Her research examines the ways in which Afro-Brazilian media producers foment anti-racist visual politics through their image creation. She is the author of Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media (University of Illinois Press).

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Battle of Bannockburn

In June of 1314, Scottish forces under the command of Robert the Bruce squared off against an English army led by King Edward II.

The battle was the culmination of years of English intervention in Scotland after a succession crisis.

Despite being vastly outnumbered, the Scots won the day, earned their independence, and firmly established Robert the Bruce as king of Scotland.

Learn more about the Battle of Bannockburn and its role in Scottish history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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The NewsWorthy - Storms Batter Oklahoma, Boeing Skips Inspections & Music Legend Uses AI – Tuesday, May 7, 2024

The news to know for Tuesday, May 7, 2024!

We're talking about a tornado outbreak in the plains and the threat that's sticking around today.

Also, Israel began its controversial invasion of southern Gaza, and American universities are doing more to control crowds protesting the Gaza war.

Plus, Boeing is facing fresh scrutiny over missed inspections, new research could pave the way for new Alzheimer's treatment, and a country music legend has gotten his voice back thanks to AI.

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