billymg[asciilifeform]: $ticker btc usd
busybot: Current BTC price in USD: $44067.35
signpost[asciilifeform]: qatar sovereign wealth fund rumors coming out of max kaiser
asciilifeform: lol, the same kaiser who's been pushing 'silver remonetized anyday nao' for 20y ?
asciilifeform: archaetypical grifter, iirc even featured in mp's tirades
shinohai[busybot]: Good day pestizens!
shinohai[busybot]: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-core-dev/2023-December/000131.html "The ability to create legacy wallets is being removed."
shinohai[busybot]: Many progress, wow.
asciilifeform: wb shinohai
asciilifeform: shinohai: wat'sa 'legacy' (per prb pov) wallet ? ( how does theirs differ currently ? )
asciilifeform: meanwhile in other recent prb lulz. hearnism (in the form of 'let's make noad protocol 9000x moar complicated, introduce remote 0days for nsa' is back !
shinohai[busybot]: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2023-12-06#1031462 << Apparently they define it as anything that generates a p2pkh address.
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2023-12-06 12:56:08 asciilifeform[signpost|jonsykkel|billymg]: shinohai: wat'sa 'legacy' (per prb pov) wallet ? ( how does theirs differ currently ? )
shinohai[busybot]: Difficult to find a client out there not using bech32 format addys these days, because "muh taproot" or whatever.
signpost[asciilifeform]: in either case, qatar's emir apparently just landed in el salvador. they've got a half trillion USD sovereign wealth fund
signpost[asciilifeform]: re legacy wallets, on first read it sounded like referring to on-disk wallet format, not whether 1-address
signpost[asciilifeform]: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/descriptors.md << this thing I guess.
signpost[asciilifeform]: more than just on-disk format then.