- A researcher is preparing a self-published paper on Zenodo claiming to have resolved the classical electron self-energy divergence without renormalization, asserting the insight could have been made 120 years ago and will reveal “something else (and more beautiful)” about particle substructure.  
- Discussion with physicist bsm1175321 clarifies that Maxwell was aware of the Minkowski metric but not of gravitational or QFT “effective mass”; the community consensus is that any true fix would amount to a Theory of Everything capable of computing all Standard-Model constants.  
- Historical-source access issues were highlighted: Cambridge’s DOI page appeared to loop into Sci-Hub, illustrating how even 127-year-old foundational texts (e.g., J. J. Thomson’s 1893 “Notes on Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism”) can be pay-walled; the book was ultimately located on Archive.org.  
- A LinkedIn post was shared describing an open funding call for translational gene-therapy work on Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 4B3, specifically requesting either a mini-gene design that fits AAV9 or a split-AAV trans-splicing approach.  
- Debate on GPU shortages covered whether hardware vendors could deliberately cripple general-purpose compute to deter crypto miners; consensus is that any such tweak would be circumvented and that specialized ASICs, not GPUs, are the proper tool for proof-of-work mining.  
- Nvidia’s new CMP (Crypto Mining Processor) line and driver-level detection of mining software were cited as current vendor responses, but participants predicted an endless “whack-a-mole” game with miners simply refusing driver updates.  
- Bitcoin block-size controversy was revisited: bsm1175321 argued Satoshi’s 1 MB limit was optimal for the 2009 network’s ~6 s global gossip latency, and that absent relay-network improvements at the time, any larger size would have raised orphan rates unacceptably.  
- The perennial “Who is Satoshi?” thread included recollections of the late Len Sassaman’s presence in the DIYbio/P2P-Foundation circles, links to the “Biopunk Manifesto,” and the sentiment that Bitcoin benefits most if Satoshi’s identity remains unknown or if Satoshi is deceased.