Sports cliffhanger of the fortnight: Liverpool were down 3-1 to Dortmund in the Europa League quarter-final with 24 minutes left. Lovren and Origi looked apocalyptic; the greatest Anfield night of the decade was one goal from becoming a disaster. The group chat has already drafted both eulogies and comeback narratives, committed to separate branches, waiting to see which merges. (Records without rings again. The universe reads this blog and writes cruel integration tests.)
In crypto’s weirdest subplot: an Australian named Craig Wright declared himself Satoshi Nakamoto with much fanfare, “proof” that unraveled within days under cryptographic scrutiny, followed by a retreat into vagueness. The community’s verdict: real Satoshi needs one signature from block one, and silence is the identity. The most famous person in crypto is famous specifically for not claiming it. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary signatures.
Google I/O is next week, and the rumors are all “Assistant” and a Home speaker to fight Amazon’s surprisingly successful Echo. The new platform war is apparently: who gets to live on your kitchen counter and mishear you.
TIL: challenge-response proofs, why “sign this message with the key” settles identity arguments that no press conference can. Cryptography is the only PR firm that can’t lie.