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#Blizzard, hear me out! Here’s a proposal for #WoWForever to solve WoW’s gold inflation problem permanently! Almost every version of WoW eventually runs into the same problem: the gold supply keeps growing without any hard monetary limit. Over time, this inevitably creates inflation. Gold loses purchasing power, prices rise, and new or returning players enter an economy where veteran players have accumulated wealth for years. There is a simpler solution: Give every server a hard, fixed gold supply. For example: 100 million gold total. Forever. Think of it as the server’s monetary base. Gold dropped by mobs would no longer be newly created. Instead, mobs would distribute gold from a global server pool. The amount of gold mobs drop would dynamically depend on how much gold is currently available in that pool: • Lots of gold in the pool → mobs drop more • Little gold in the pool → mobs drop less Gold spent by players flows back into this pool and can then be redistributed through gameplay. NPC purchases such as skills, professions, repairs, mounts, etc. would return 100% of the spent gold to the server pool. Trading systems like the Auction House could also recycle part of the circulating gold back into the pool through transaction fees. This creates permanent circulation instead of permanent monetary expansion. NPC prices should also be dynamic. If a large percentage of the total gold supply is being held by players and very little gold is actively circulating, prices for essential services like skills and professions should decrease. That prevents new players from being priced out simply because veteran players are sitting on large gold reserves. The game economy would continuously adapt to the purchasing power and availability of gold. Over the very long term, the general price level might gradually decline, potentially resulting in mild persistent deflation. But that wouldn’t necessarily be a problem if the game world itself dynamically adjusts to the purchasing power of gold. One possible consequence of persistent deflation is that players may initially hoard gold. Imagine someone accumulates a large amount of gold, stops playing for three years, and then returns. Because prices have fallen in the meantime, their old savings could suddenly have significantly more purchasing power. But this effect is naturally self-correcting. The moment that player starts using that increased purchasing power, the saved gold begins circulating again. They get the benefit of having saved, as they should, but once they spend it, that purchasing power is transferred to other players and gradually redistributed throughout the economy. In other words: hoarding can temporarily concentrate purchasing power, but spending automatically starts reversing that concentration. The important part is: Gold would finally become truly scarce. No endless monetary expansion. No inevitable long-term inflation. No need for increasingly absurd gold sinks every expansion. Just a closed monetary system where the same gold continuously circulates between players, NPCs, and the game world. For a version of WoW designed to exist forever, its currency should be designed to exist forever too. @Warcraft @Blizzard_Ent @Warcraft_DE

New paper with @AlexRdgzG: We give polynomial-time (!) adaptive attacks against a number of threshold Schnorr signatures. At the core are the first polynomial-time attacks on LDVR, a problem whose solution yields adaptive attacks on several practical schemes.

“People imagine that in treating scapegoaters themselves as scapegoats they can transcend archaic religion; but, really, they only succeed in falling back into its clutches.” — René Girard

The RBA wants to put a speed limit on productivity growth!

First time WoW player. Played like 10 hours yesterday got to level 12. Now at work and can only think about playing. That’s my review

A kid who knows how to raid in WoW is unironically a better hire than 99% of non gamers. They develop team skills, coordination, leadership, how to master the respect of 40 people, how to share loot, maintaining a raid schedule, showing up on time, clear direct communication, how to get along with unique personalities, creating and executing on strategies, failing and trying again (perseverance), delayed gratification, etc. Invaluable skills are developed during raiding that are transferrable to the real world.

He's back @JulianAssange

I build an add-on in World of Warcraft to talk to your agents in Claude code or codex while you play. Can’t wait to grind levels and tokens

Coldcard data update! @SebastianvStaa pointed out that my last data dump seemed to be missing wallets he’d found. With his insight my clankers found 832 more vulnerable seeds and 1,229 more BTC. The reason we missed them before is that there are two different search spaces for vulnerable seeds, which correspond to whether the user generated their seed right after accepting the terms and conditions, or whether they already had the PIN set when they powered on the device. If you went straight to generating your seed after setting up your PIN, your funds were safer — most people who did this recovered their funds, it seems. If up until now you were thanking divine providence that yours weren’t stolen, I’ve put an address checker on the site (below) so you can see which cohort your seed was in. You may be in this camp which would have at least given you more time to recover your funds. See the image or the site for more info.