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BSV’s been bouncing around the $18 to $20 mark. My Phone in one hand, kettle on in the van, and I’m sitting there wondering if the dollar figure actually matters once we start properly dealing in BSV.

On Treechat the upvalue is already a real micropayment in sats. Twetch is the same idea, small exchanges that stay in BSV rather than converting back to £££, €€€, or $$$ every time.
Between people who are using the network for what it’s built for, the unit is just the unit. The chart becomes a bit of a spectator sport I guess...

The campsite i stay at and the diesel pump still want FIAT, of course. My wife is more practical about that than I am. Still, if the value’s moving between people who want to use it, maybe the fluctuating number is secondary.

Or am I just talking myself into it while the price does its usual dance?

You don't need to crack a 256-bit encryption key if you can starve a microchip of power for 20 nanoseconds.

This is Voltage Glitching (Fault Injection), and it is how hardware hackers bypass Secure Boot on locked silicon:

1. The Silicon Vulnerability
   When a secure microcontroller boots, it reads cryptographic signatures from flash memory. In assembly, that check comes down to a conditional branch instruction:
   CMP R0, #1 (compare password result)
   BEQ authenticated (branch to unlocked state if equal)
   B lock_down (halt system if invalid)

2. The Hardware Attack
   Instead of attacking the cryptography, you solder a fast N-channel MOSFET directly to the chip's internal core voltage rail (VDD core). The gate of the MOSFET is wired to a high-speed FPGA or dedicated hardware timer like a ChipWhisperer.

3. The Nanosecond Drop
   At the exact microsecond the CPU executes the branch instruction, you pulse the MOSFET gate high for 20 nanoseconds. This briefly pulls the chip's core rail to Ground.

4. The Physical Glitch
   Starving the silicon of voltage during clock cycle transition deprives the instruction decoder of charge. The processor cannot resolve the opcode. Instead of executing the lock_down instruction, the decoder misinterprets the corrupt state as a NOP (No Operation).

5. Root Access
   The CPU simply steps past the security check into the next memory address: the fully authenticated bootloader.