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Bruh

2026-09-03T16:42:24Z

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Bruh

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2026-09-03T03:33:06Z

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Please keep the daily stoic going. I'm a big fan.

2026-09-02T22:02:01Z

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Please keep the daily stoic going. I'm a big fan.

CREATING A STRONG PASSPHRASE Here are some examples of how to ...

2026-08-02T19:14:35Z

CREATING A STRONG PASSPHRASE

Here are some examples of how to improve the strength of your passwords and passphrases. Look at how long it takes to crack each of the following passwords.

Let's start with 3 common words:

Not very strong. Let's add a number:

How about a second number:

Let's add a different kind of character. Here are the most commonly accepted characters:

We'll use a hyphen:

These words I've chosen are extremely common. Let's swap one out for a less common word.

The strongest way to choose words is to use dice, to ensure the words are completely random. Here is a process for creating strong passwords by choosing the words using dice: eff.org/dice

Now you know how to create strong passwords!

@nprofile…9cj3

2026-04-26T16:44:52Z

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TimTayshun (nprofile…9cj3)

Tell us about the hypocrisy. Did he make personal attacks? ...

2026-02-21T04:26:07Z

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Tell us about the hypocrisy. Did he make personal attacks? Against you?

Knots Dev team includes Core Dev team

2026-02-12T18:36:20Z

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Knots Dev team includes Core Dev team

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2026-01-07T06:29:32Z

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2025-12-12T16:20:38Z

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Yeah. I was really curious about TBD so I followed him. He's ...

2025-12-03T20:27:20Z

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Yeah. I was really curious about TBD so I followed him. He's the biggest midwit of all time.

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2025-12-03T15:08:12Z

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#nevent1q…yptz

2025-12-03T15:02:03Z

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quoting nevent1q…yptz
Fun fact about Mike Brock.

bradmillscan (nprofile…gdep) once asked him to come over to clubhouse and explain the work he was doing at TBD. He jumped into the room and
I began the conversation in good faith, but it soon became obvious he didn’t know much about bitcoin.

junseth (nprofile…zqh2) and waynevaughan (nprofile…6xsx) started tearing him to shreds about his lack of technical knowledge and social justice policies. He kind of stammered incoherent Silicon Valley shitcoiner platitudes in retort and the room turned on him.

It quickly became a circular firing squad. Mike was shook. It was one of the most brutal beat downs I’d ever seen (wish it had been recorded).

He had only planned to stay for 20 mins and ended up staying for 3 hours in an attempt to convince the room that he actually was very smart/knowledgeable. Nobody bought it. He even called Brad after to complain about being brought to the room in the first place.

Never saw an ego get crushed that bad in real time before or since.

Get a nice one, you can play Stairway on it

2025-11-27T01:12:37Z

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Get a nice one, you can play Stairway on it

I was gonna go with Rushmore but I still might have to accept ...

2025-11-23T05:18:03Z

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I was gonna go with Rushmore but I still might have to accept that Royal Tenenbaums beats it. Perhaps I gotta rewatch them.

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2025-11-21T17:57:16Z

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Feels odd but correct to react to this with 🤙

2025-11-20T17:51:40Z

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Feels odd but correct to react to this with 🤙

Thorn did not ask people if they are worried, or if they are ...

2025-11-19T16:47:10Z

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Thorn did not ask people if they are worried, or if they are trimming their positions. His poll is totally orthogonal to this issue.

With regard to 'where they stand,' 18% are pro core and 36% are ambivalent or do not know where they stand. That's 54% of the group who have some awareness. I have spoken to OGs who trimmed their positions in BTC over concerns that this issue could lead to price volatility.

Sure, it may not be the main driver, but your reasons for discounting it are not compelling.

Watch the vid: his answer is no. He's combatting FUD from ...

2025-11-17T16:43:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…aj0l
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Watch the vid: his answer is no. He's combatting FUD from "The Rage" which got a lot of traction yesterday.

Yeah I'm early 40s and I have no idea

2025-11-14T14:55:27Z

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Yeah I'm early 40s and I have no idea

#nevent1q…9gxx

2025-11-11T03:17:28Z

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quoting nevent1q…9gxx
I verified both the X thread and the linked issue from the Bitcoin repository, and he didn't dox himself in 2023.

He was actually complaining about Marco Falke doxing him in a comment of said issue. A comment that since then has been scrubbed from GitHub (his link is now partially broken).

Verdict: 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡

#nevent1q…k82y

2025-11-10T18:34:30Z

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quoting nevent1q…k82y
Real first name. It is a 100% dox.

Real first name. It is a 100% dox.

2025-11-10T18:33:52Z

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Real first name. It is a 100% dox.

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2025-11-06T20:52:37Z

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Fiat games on Bitcoin. So hot right now.

2025-11-06T17:37:15Z

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Fiat games on Bitcoin. So hot right now.

What's the deal with confiscation risk? Are coins gonna be ...

2025-10-30T20:10:08Z

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What's the deal with confiscation risk? Are coins gonna be frozen for a year?

More non-meat foods. What happened to you? 🤣

2025-10-28T21:19:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…3xqf
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More non-meat foods. What happened to you? 🤣

@nprofile…uf96 Look who was forced onto a more censorship ...

2025-10-28T20:51:01Z

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ODELL (nprofile…uf96) Look who was forced onto a more censorship resistant platform. (Many such cases.)

Was there ever a video posted of that talk you gave?

2025-10-21T22:19:03Z

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Was there ever a video posted of that talk you gave?

#privacy #nevent1q…x34x

2025-10-20T18:58:58Z

#privacy

quoting
nevent1q…x34x
Good morning.

running Chromium and using its password manager? It uses an unencrypted sqlite database for your secrets

```
$ file ".config/chromium/Profile 1/Login Data For Account"
.config/chromium/Profile 3/Login Data For Account: SQLite 3.x database, ...

sqlite3 ".config/chromium/Profile 1/Login Data For Account"

sqlite> .tables
insecure_credentials password_notes sync_model_metadata
logins stats
meta sync_entities_metadata

sqlite> SELECT * from logins;
...
```

if you're on Linux, Chromium integrates well with system keyrings like KDE wallet. that means it'll encrypt your secrets and unlock them when you log in. This can be especially nice if you restart a system frequently. I restart one of my systems once or twice daily, and unlocking Bitwarden is getting a bit tedious.

```
chromium --password-store=kwallet
chromium --password-store=gnome
```

if you use nix, you can set a policy to have Chromium use the system keyring (kwallet). Here's my NixOS policies for Chromium:

```
programs.chromium = {
enable = true;
extraOpts = {
# https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/
"SpellcheckEnabled" = false;
"DefaultSearchProviderEnabled" = true;
"DefaultSearchProviderName" = "Kagi";
"DefaultSearchProviderSearchURL" = "https://kagi.com/search?q={searchTerms}";
"SearchSuggestEnabled" = false;
"DefaultSearchProviderSuggestURL" = "";
# 1=Allow, 2=Block, 3=Ask
"DefaultGeolocationSetting" = 2;
"DefaultClipboardSetting" = 2;
#"DefaultNotificationsSetting" = 2;
# "PasswordManagerEnabled" = true;
"PasswordStore" = "kwallet6";
};
};
```

Is there a setting that you always toggle when you create a profile? you can declare it here has a policy, forever.

if you use nix home-manager, you can configure extensions that'll always be present in all your profiles

```
chromium = {
enable = true;
extensions = [
{ id = "nngceckbapebfimnlniiiahkandclblb"; } # Bitwarden
];
};
```

the home-manager module even supports doing that for other derivatives of chromium

```
chromium.package = pkgs.brave;
```

Bitwarden's UI got re-hauled last year and I haven't liked it as much ever since. Using it on my desktop which has long-lived boot sessions makes sense. Using it on my VR machine/workstation makes less sense these days.

But AI cannot act so there's nothing to worry about

2025-10-20T18:56:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…utpn
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But AI cannot act so there's nothing to worry about

Now they don't have to mine it, because of Libre Relay and ...

2025-10-20T14:29:44Z

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Now they don't have to mine it, because of Libre Relay and v30

I hate how a huge attack vector is treated as a distraction

2025-10-19T14:33:18Z

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I hate how a huge attack vector is treated as a distraction

#knots #nevent1q…np9m

2025-10-17T20:11:26Z

#knots

quoting
nevent1q…np9m
No, the Core maintainers also function as maintainers in Knots too. Saying I'm the sole maintainer because I roll the releases is like saying Gloria is the sole maintainer of Core 29.x.

You are the sole maintainer. Now, being maintainer doesn't ...

2025-10-17T18:46:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…ynsg
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You are the sole maintainer. Now, being maintainer doesn't mean you have full control because the code is open source. All the other knots devs could leave or fork off. Is that why you're saying it was never "just a Luke project?"

"Knots could be one of those alternatives if Luke was more ...

2025-10-17T18:37:56Z

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"Knots could be one of those alternatives if Luke was more open to making it not just a Luke project."

If Luke Dashjr (nprofile…rp72) did that then it could contribute to centralization of Bitcoin development.

It's good that knots is "just a Luke project" because we need more than two popular implementations, and I think Luke is setting an example that more devs need to express their opinions in open source code.

A baby is pretty NPC ish. A half-built car doesn't drive. ...

2025-10-15T06:13:07Z

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A baby is pretty NPC ish. A half-built car doesn't drive. Things that are developing don't stay the same forever.

I was referring to playing Russian Roulette, usually done with a ...

2025-10-15T05:47:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…2sks
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I was referring to playing Russian Roulette, usually done with a revolver that holds 6 bullets. What the exact odds are for AI disaster, I do not know. But even if the odds are small, it's still a big deal.

Core dev: "Am I making enough changes to justify my grant ...

2025-10-14T22:35:48Z

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Core dev: "Am I making enough changes to justify my grant money?"

One way I think about it is akin to Russian roulette: 1/6 chance ...

2025-10-14T22:34:32Z

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One way I think about it is akin to Russian roulette: 1/6 chance you die. Not a big chance. Most likely you won't. Overwhelmingly likely you won't. Therefore, just go for it. Right?

We don't have to get further. I don't want to spend all ...

2025-10-14T22:00:17Z

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We don't have to get further. I don't want to spend all my time on this. Thanks for the discussion.

Be well. 🤙

You added soooo many things in this new post. Anyway, I disagree. ...

2025-10-14T20:57:55Z

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You added soooo many things in this new post.

Anyway, I disagree. I think human action is a type of action, animal action is a different type, and AI action is (or will be) even more different. It may not have consciousness, or be able to own things (although in some sense they will be able to exclusively control some Bitcoin, so maybe that is a type of ownership). But I don't think an entity needs consciousness or ownership in order to act.

To further discussion, what if we agree to disagree regarding action and instead talk about whether it can "do stuff". Do you think it can do stuff?

So you're just asserting AI can't act, and the definition ...

2025-10-14T20:15:56Z

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So you're just asserting AI can't act, and the definition is not related to any argument supporting your assertion? That's fine if that's the case, I'm just wondering why you think an AI can't act.

Listening to users has always obviously been a critical part of ...

2025-10-14T20:06:28Z

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Listening to users has always obviously been a critical part of core's mission. The fact that they weren't doing it means they are bad stewards of the project, at best. Frankly, the fact that they stopped listening just long enough to sneak this in, and then express interest in listening, makes me suspect it's malicious.

Setting aside the theological section, which part of your post is ...

2025-10-14T20:02:16Z

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Setting aside the theological section, which part of your post is the part that AI will never be able to do? To me, they all look like something that an AI could develop some ability to do (albeit very weirdly).

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2025-10-14T18:04:26Z

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/10/jack-clark-on-ai.html

Co-founder of Anthropic:

And the bigger and more complicated you make these systems, the more they seem to display awareness that they are things...

…I am also deeply afraid. It would be extraordinarily arrogant to think working with a technology like this would be easy or simple...

My own experience is that as these AI systems get smarter and smarter, they develop more and more complicated goals. When these goals aren’t absolutely aligned with both our preferences and the right context, the AI systems will behave strangely.

...the system which is now beginning to design its successor is also increasingly self-aware and therefore will surely eventually be prone to thinking, independently of us, about how it might want to be designed.

#AI

#Knots Is signed by 3 devs. It's a myth that Luke is the only ...

2025-10-13T17:50:36Z

#Knots Is signed by 3 devs. It's a myth that Luke is the only dev. It's true that he is the only maintainer, but open source software can always be copied by other devs - so typically only one maintainer is needed. If the maintainer is a tyrant, the others will fork the project.

quoting
nevent1q…pvsp
3 signatures and counting, verified myself. Did you?

The discussion is changing... ...

2025-10-13T17:18:51Z

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The discussion is changing...

I decided to remove the word "directly" from my initial ...

2025-10-13T16:49:28Z

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I decided to remove the word "directly" from my initial definition, to make it more up to the reader.

I debated exactly how I wanted to include the last part, about ...

2025-10-13T16:45:52Z

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I debated exactly how I wanted to include the last part, about relaying and filtering. Technically it is involved economically, but in an indirect way. The "economic node" thing has been used to argue against filter supporters, and I don't think that's a good argument. However, I decided not to put my opinion about that in my original post. It's actually kind of up to you how you interpret the economic contribution of a node that is only relaying and filtering.

Some people have asked me recently: What is an "economic ...

2025-10-13T16:28:09Z

Some people have asked me recently: What is an "economic node?" It's a #Bitcoin #node that is directly involved in a monetary transaction. Here are four ways that a node can be directly involved in a transaction:

1. Creating a transaction. This is often called "transaction coordination." You need to know if you've got money in your wallet before you can send.
2. Broadcasting the transaction to the bitcoin network. (You can add some privacy by doing this with your own node.)
3. Verifying that you actually received funds. For the average bitcoin user, this is by far the most important thing you can do with your node. If you rely on others to tell if you received anything, they could trick you.
4. Mining. Miners need to see the previous blocks, and if they want to earn fees then they need to see the pool of new transactions (AKA mempool).

A node can also be indirectly involved in a transaction by distributing new transactions to other nodes, and filtering out bad transactions. This filtering is the main issue between #core v30 and #knots.

"If you are a user of LLM systems that use tools (you can ...

2025-10-13T16:25:36Z

"If you are a user of LLM systems that use tools (you can call them “#AI agents” if you like) it is critically important that you understand the risk of combining tools with the following three characteristics. Failing to understand this can let an attacker steal your data.

"The lethal trifecta of capabilities is:

"1. Access to your private data—one of the most common purposes of tools in the first place!
2. Exposure to untrusted content—any mechanism by which text (or images) controlled by a malicious attacker could become available to your LLM
3. The ability to externally communicate in a way that could be used to steal your data"

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/

ANSWER

2025-10-10T17:59:35Z

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ANSWER

Ouija board

2025-10-10T17:43:06Z

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Ouija board

It varies between different node distributions. @nprofile…d6j2 ...

2025-10-09T16:32:45Z

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It varies between different node distributions. Start9 (nprofile…d6j2) will give you the choice. I don't know about the others, but I think most nodes should give you some way to choose.

There are lots of people involved, so different factors are ...

2025-10-09T16:28:31Z

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There are lots of people involved, so different factors are probably affecting different people:

1. Ego.

2. The core maintainers feel like they have power, because they control what can go into the most important Bitcoin software. If they have to listen to other peoples' input, it diminishes their feeling of power.

3. Possibly because they are compromised. (If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.) Maybe they're compromised by gov/bankers, maybe by shitcoiner money, maybe both. I think it's both. (Shitcoinery is probably an attack by gov/bankers, so it's the same thing.)

4. They believe they are technically correct, and they cannot understand factors outside of their deeply well-informed technical opinions:

quoting nevent1q…9xh5
Really good software devs can become arrogant. If they're totally confident that they are technically correct, then they can become cemented into their beliefs. However, because they're geeks, they can struggle with interpersonal things: they can't read the room, they can't handle debates gracefully, they can't tell when they are being manipulated by bad actors, and they can't understand the incentives of regular people like plebs, node runners, miners, investors, journalists, lawyers, and "normies" who just discovered bitcoin.
So if some of you think "I'm not technical enough to understand this debate," that's not totally right. Because you can understand PEOPLE better than core devs, and that's a big part of the equation. If core is gonna act all weird about this, silence debate, and ignore dire warnings from people like Nick Szabo and Luke Jr, then something is wrong. This is how an 80 IQ pleb can see the problem more easily than a 120 IQ blue-haired San Francisco core developer.

The (supposed) benefits of running v30, as best I can tell: -V30 ...

2025-10-09T16:16:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…tpmg
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The (supposed) benefits of running v30, as best I can tell:

-V30 removes a mempool filter. The network would just route around the filter, so it's (supposedly) pointless.
-You get better fee estimation on your node.
-Your node would use more bandwidth if you're not running v30. (I think because it's re-downloading the same transactions which you rejected already?)
-Your mempool will better match what is allowed to go into blocks. (This is held up as a good reason, but I do not agree. If you can't figure out why this matters, it's because it doesn't.)
-It "encourages" spammers to put their crud in a place that won't pollute the utxo set. Making the utxo set too large can impede node running in the long run. (The encouragement is weak because it's still cheaper to contribute polluting the utxo set.)

Overall I think none of these reasons are good enough to go ahead with the change. I may have missed something; this list isn't perfect.

The attached article explains the debate in general, partly answers your question, and links to a detailed post that answers your question in depth (where it says "nuanced detriments").

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/bitcoin-core-or-bitcoin-knots-what-the-op_return-debate-is-actually-about

He will get flooded with midwit responses. Fiat economists are ...

2025-10-08T22:56:34Z

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He will get flooded with midwit responses. Fiat economists are the most erudite midwits in the world.

#nevent1q…qddd

2025-10-08T22:52:08Z

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quoting nevent1q…qddd
Satoshi was not the best coder, but he was an amazing "Bitcoin architect," applying knowledge from other disciplines. I think in the future, Bitcoin development needs a formal process to get input from non-coders who understand economics, law, etc.
nevent1q…v2th

Really good software devs can become arrogant. If they're ...

2025-10-08T16:40:14Z

Really good software devs can become arrogant. If they're totally confident that they are technically correct, then they can become cemented into their beliefs. However, because they're geeks, they can struggle with interpersonal things: they can't read the room, they can't handle debates gracefully, they can't tell when they are being manipulated by bad actors, and they can't understand the incentives of regular people like plebs, node runners, miners, investors, journalists, lawyers, and "normies" who just discovered bitcoin.
So if some of you think "I'm not technical enough to understand this debate," that's not totally right. Because you can understand PEOPLE better than core devs, and that's a big part of the equation. If core is gonna act all weird about this, silence debate, and ignore dire warnings from people like Nick Szabo and Luke Jr, then something is wrong. This is how an 80 IQ pleb can see the problem more easily than a 120 IQ blue-haired San Francisco core developer.

1400 slow chess. 2kyu Go.

2025-10-07T05:39:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…ukce
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1400 slow chess. 2kyu Go.

It's not meat, how dare you

2025-10-05T16:52:13Z

In reply to nevent1q…rcur
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It's not meat, how dare you

F2pool has started mining large op_returns. They're probably ...

2025-10-04T20:19:06Z

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F2pool has started mining large op_returns. They're probably running v30. So maybe Bitcoin did begin to die yesterday.

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2025-10-02T15:20:11Z

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Satoshi was not the best coder, but he was an amazing ...

2025-10-02T01:59:35Z

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Satoshi was not the best coder, but he was an amazing "Bitcoin architect," applying knowledge from other disciplines. I think in the future, Bitcoin development needs a formal process to get input from non-coders who understand economics, law, etc.

Satoshi was not the best coder, but he was an amazing ...

2025-10-02T01:39:48Z

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Satoshi was not the best coder, but he was an amazing "Bitcoin architect," applying knowledge from other disciplines. I think in the future, Bitcoin development needs a formal process to get input from non-coders who understand economics, law, etc.

quoting
nevent1q…v2th
Bitcoin didn’t succeed because of code. It succeeded because of design. Satoshi wasn’t a great programmer. His C++ was clunky and criticized, but that never mattered. The genius was in the incentive structures that keep the system in balance: miners securing for rewards, users verifying for self-interest, developers constrained by social consensus. The game theory is what makes Bitcoin work, not the elegance of the code. What’s overlooked is that most changes today are argued by people who can write code, but Bitcoin’s real oversight has always come from outside of that circle. Economists, philosophers, and everyday users. Satoshi himself belonged more to this other group. He was a systems thinker who used code as a tool, not as the essence of Bitcoin. At its core, Bitcoin is not software. It’s a social contract expressed through rules. The code simply enforces the design.

I hope you're right

2025-10-01T05:42:05Z

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I hope you're right

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2025-10-01T04:52:42Z

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Nuts

2025-09-30T17:58:12Z

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Nuts

And yes, she is a very important core dev. She's a ...

2025-09-30T14:22:33Z

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And yes, she is a very important core dev. She's a maintainer. One of the 6 most powerful core devs.

This is one of the most powerful people on the #Bitcoin core ...

2025-09-30T14:08:12Z

This is one of the most powerful people on the #Bitcoin core team.

Run #Knots.

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nevent1q…79jv
This person is not a Bitcoiner.

Dang I created the formula wrong. I think it should be 2025 minus ...

2025-09-30T02:02:02Z

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Dang I created the formula wrong. I think it should be 2025 minus year you bought

How to figure out your #Bitcoin IQ: ((Year you bought - ...

2025-09-29T23:31:54Z

How to figure out your #Bitcoin IQ:
((Year you bought - 2009)*7)±100
You choose plus or minus based on honest self assessment, but you gain higher social status the farther you are from 100, in either direction.

Ok, man. I guess we'll see what happens when v30 comes out, ...

2025-09-29T19:44:06Z

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Ok, man. I guess we'll see what happens when v30 comes out, man.

Your line is gibberish to a lawyer. Would an Op_Return extraction ...

2025-09-29T19:38:50Z

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Your line is gibberish to a lawyer.

Would an Op_Return extraction be simpler? Yes. Would it require fewer Linux utilities to extract? Yes. Is it easier for less technical person to accomplish? Yes. Case closed.

A lot of very complex software can be put into one line

2025-09-29T19:25:32Z

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A lot of very complex software can be put into one line

I guess my argument from authority didn't work

2025-09-29T19:22:40Z

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I guess my argument from authority didn't work

Szabo has a degree in computer science and a degree in law. He ...

2025-09-29T19:03:48Z

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Szabo has a degree in computer science and a degree in law. He says:

"illegal content in a contiguous standard format, thus readily viewable by standard software, is more likely to impress lawyers, judges, and jurors, and thus is legally more risky, than data that has been broken up or hidden and thus requires specialized software to reconstruct. Such demos would be part of convincing these legal decision-makers that a defendant node operator had knowledge of the content."

https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1972505731095306459

And remember, this issue is not 100% technical and cannot be fully understood using technical arguments only.

They need a way to describe higher levels of spiciness. A lot of ...

2025-09-29T14:54:16Z

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They need a way to describe higher levels of spiciness. A lot of people can't handle legit spice action. They don't want to ambush regular people with brutal intensity.

lol

2025-09-29T14:50:21Z

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lol

Since you like arguments from authority, you should be aware that ...

2025-09-29T14:12:07Z

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Since you like arguments from authority, you should be aware that Nick Szabo disagrees. https://x.com/NickSzabo4/status/1972458907412103359

Not all one liners are the same.

2025-09-29T14:09:27Z

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Not all one liners are the same.

Oh, my nostr client didn't show me the content nesting ...

2025-09-28T17:26:43Z

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Oh, my nostr client didn't show me the content nesting properly. I thought you were responding to OP

It's from 2015. I think OP is just sharing the point that ...

2025-09-28T17:14:58Z

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It's from 2015. I think OP is just sharing the point that Szabo made.

They're gonna build a prison

2025-09-28T15:49:34Z

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They're gonna build a prison

Do you distribute an audio format? (With or without RSS feed?)

2025-09-25T16:00:07Z

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Do you distribute an audio format? (With or without RSS feed?)

A broken clock is right twice a day

2025-09-25T15:56:25Z

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A broken clock is right twice a day

https://privacc.org/

2025-09-25T04:56:47Z

https://privacc.org/

How about another P word from Rome: Patricians

2025-09-25T00:54:32Z

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How about another P word from Rome: Patricians

I should also acknowledge that I'm probably wrong about being ...

2025-09-23T20:03:06Z

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I should also acknowledge that I'm probably wrong about being able to transform the data without CLI. I'm not trying to weasel out of that. Score 1 for jb55 (nprofile…wa92) on that point.

"It doesn't really matter if the data is contiguous or ...

2025-09-23T19:18:39Z

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"It doesn't really matter if the data is contiguous or not, because it needs to be transformed regardless."

I disagree. Ease of transformation matters. Being contiguous seems like a HUGE difference. From a programmer's perspective I can see why one would think it doesn't matter, but from a lawyer's perspective, I think it would matter a lot. Obviously I'm just offering a fuzzy conjecture and I'm not a lawyer, but I do not consider this question to be settled AT ALL and I don't think you should either.

@nprofile…yyv9 It is already there and it indeed is less of an ...

2025-09-23T18:52:15Z

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Weatherall (nprofile…yyv9) It is already there and it indeed is less of an issue because it requires jumping through hoops to display the data that was scrambled and hacked onto my node. Whether it truly "doesn't matter" to the law is a legal question that hasn't been tested in court, but it certainly helps that the software was not intended for this use and does nothing to facilitate it... Until v30.

My concern is that there will be fewer hoops to jump through, and that core is making it easier to store arbitrary contiguous data for no monetary reason.

jb55 (nprofile…wa92) I may be wrong, but I thought the Bitcoin core desktop software will display op return, without xor. I may be wrong. I don't have time to check right now. But either way, I think the distinction between different "one liners" is very important and should not be flippantly ignored.

"a one-liner" Not all one-liners are created equal. I ...

2025-09-23T18:26:37Z

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"a one-liner"

Not all one-liners are created equal. I think one could pull an image out of op return on a desktop without using the command line or any custom software at all.

We are all throwing around our opinions about this, but lawyers need to be consulted. This is a legal question.

What about the fact that an op return can display non-encoded ...

2025-09-23T18:14:28Z

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What about the fact that an op return can display non-encoded data directly in the Bitcoin core software? This makes it appear that the INTENT of Bitcoin is to distribute arbitrary information, rather having that information "hacked" onto my node against my will. This seems to be an important legal distinction.

Will video be available?

2025-09-23T17:00:53Z

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Will video be available?

nsecretary of my Treasury

2025-09-21T06:24:16Z

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nsecretary of my Treasury

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2025-09-19T21:08:12Z

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It's cool. It auto created a coin OS account and displayed ...

2025-09-16T18:38:32Z

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It's cool. It auto created a coin OS account and displayed username and password.

I sent it to my minibits wallet but I have 2 sats left in coin OS because I didn't estimate the fees right.

Damn, it's empty

2025-09-16T17:00:02Z

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Damn, it's empty

🌎👩‍🚀🔫👩‍🚀

2025-09-16T15:32:45Z

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🌎👩‍🚀🔫👩‍🚀

I respect yours as well. (I'm tempted to just write a super ...

2025-09-15T18:16:44Z

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I respect yours as well.

(I'm tempted to just write a super long refutation of your original post 😂)