Nostr notes by brightmindsco

While I agree it's best to avoid debt in many aspects of ...

2026-10-27T23:42:58Z

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While I agree it's best to avoid debt in many aspects of life.

It is my understanding that, in the Thomistic tradition, usury arises in the mutuum, which is a loan the borrower is personally bound to repay. A non-recourse loan, such as one where only bitcoin is the collateral that can be pursued, is not usury.

There is so much wisdom to harvest from our past. We neglect it ...

2026-10-26T21:30:01Z

There is so much wisdom to harvest from our past.

We neglect it to our detriment.

Foundation Passport phishing email going around. Don't click ...

2026-10-26T04:07:00Z

Foundation Passport phishing email going around.

Don't click on the links.

Be safe out there.

I must be late to the game. What is this? And how does it replace ...

2026-10-20T02:30:55Z

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I must be late to the game. What is this? And how does it replace plex/jellyfin?

The Greeks called it kleos aphthiton: fame that never wilts. ...

2026-10-16T03:23:28Z

The Greeks called it kleos aphthiton: fame that never wilts. Achilles at Troy was offered two fates: sail home and live long and be forgotten, or die young and become a story sung forever. He chose the story. The body dies, but the tale walks on its own.

Sun Wukong (孫悟空) guided a monk west to bring the sutras to China and fought every demon on the road. When it ended, the Buddha gave him the name Victorious in Strife. Not for the battles he won, but for the enemy he finally beat: the anger and hunger in his own mind. He awakened and became enlightened.

Centuries on, the story chose a new body. Akira Toriyama called him Son Goku, 孫悟空, the same name. The tail and the staff and the cloud went with him. Here, Goku is a tale of a simple lesson: train the body, train the mind, love while you do it. When Goku reaches Ultra Instinct, he stops thinking and lets go. That is the place the monkey also reached.

The name says it in two characters. 悟 is to awaken. 空 is the void. Awake to emptiness.

Testing @npub17fe…nzuc

2026-10-13T00:56:55Z

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Testing nostrich (npub17fe…nzuc)

I foresee this engineered world brining us back to the biological ...

2026-10-11T15:18:16Z

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I foresee this engineered world brining us back to the biological world where our bodies were shaped.

I don’t entirely agree about the laptop comment, but I do agree ...

2026-10-10T16:36:30Z

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I don’t entirely agree about the laptop comment, but I do agree that how we advocate custody has gotten out of hand.

I think recommending a Bitkey is a great thing to do for most.

I saw this too and also found it interesting. I personally loved ...

2026-10-08T19:37:49Z

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I saw this too and also found it interesting. I personally loved reading Softwar and consider it one of my favorite books about Bitcoin.

I find it to be a very misunderstood work.

Hey everyone, please help my wife and me support our friends from ...

2026-10-02T21:39:26Z

Hey everyone, please help my wife and me support our friends from Ecuador.

Would love to show them the power of peer to peer electronic cash.

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Hi Nostr!

I want to introduce you to an animal shelter in Ecuador, run by my dear friend. She rescues animals from the streets, often in very poor condition, then nurses them back to health and finds them loving homes through adoption.

In the meantime, she personally covers their food and medicine.

Every donation keeps these animals fed, treated, and healthy while they wait for their forever homes. If you can, zap or donate to the LNURL below.

I would love to show my friends and family back home the power of borderless payments: how a community with no borders comes together to support one another.

Thank you for your generosity.

wastepickle406@walletofsatoshi.com

Amphion built the walls of Thebes with a lyre. His brother Zethus ...

2026-10-02T00:50:37Z

Amphion built the walls of Thebes with a lyre. His brother Zethus hauled stone on his back; Amphion walked ahead and played, and the stones followed the music into place like magic. A city is something you can sing into order.

To spell a word and to cast a spell come from one root, the old word for story. A story does work on the world.

The work cuts both ways. Take the beauty out of order and you get glamour: the word is grammar without the beauty, sister to grimoire, the book of spells that coerce. Plato put manipulative speech in that same family, cosmetics, adornment impersonating order. He also said the soul is cured by charms, and charms are beautiful words.

Be measured. Be beautiful with your words. Build, don't coerce.

Gn! Let’s keep being the way we are, they way we are meant to ...

2026-10-01T00:02:51Z

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Gn! Let’s keep being the way we are, they way we are meant to be.

Trying out @npub17fe…nzuc store front for the first time and ...

2026-09-30T23:21:49Z

Trying out nostrich (npub17fe…nzuc) store front for the first time and this is super cool!

We weather through the storm

2026-09-30T23:17:53Z

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We weather through the storm

To be free, we most learn to no longer voluntarily submit to the ...

2026-09-30T23:14:48Z

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To be free, we most learn to no longer voluntarily submit to the serfdom.

Got a go to for Confidential Interference?

2026-09-28T23:19:15Z

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Got a go to for Confidential Interference?

Discovering new people and content is difficult on Nostr. It is ...

2026-09-25T17:17:23Z

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Discovering new people and content is difficult on Nostr.

It is why reposting is an important thing to do.

I recommend the deodorant of @npub1zzm…w5wy

2026-09-25T17:15:37Z

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I recommend the deodorant of SoapMiner (npub1zzm…w5wy)

When one fasts, especially in the modern age, it is a practice of ...

2026-09-25T16:55:22Z

When one fasts, especially in the modern age, it is a practice of learning to not follow the impulses of the mind. With our modern fridges, it is so easy to open one up and indulge, to satisfy the feelings of hunger. The practice of fasting teaches one to be aware of the mind, yet to pursue discipline in resisting the urges, so that one forms a different relationship with the mind.

One thing we all indulge in constantly is our thinking mind itself. Our modern society glorifies it, and indeed it was built because of our ability to perform logic and reason. However, all things require balance, and it is important that we also practice mindfulness: to have a single pointed awareness of the present moment, our body and our breath, so that we can calm the mind in the manner where we can hear the true song of our world.

Modern technology makes this even harder. Social media and now AI are akin to the refrigerator: they provide us a constant outlet to indulge our mind and to feed our ego. However, the computer, which includes both AI and Bitcoin, can be viewed as a tool that can equally liberate us.

For the extent of recorded history, we have been using our intellectual mind to build an ivory tower, this amazing civilization all around us, but the overuse of our mind in this manner is making us sick. AI and Bitcoin can be a means to liberate us from that burden, as they can take the weight of thinking off of our shoulders, to continue to build this ivory tower on our behalf while we return to a more natural way of being.

We all are in a kind of prison, and many of us carry it everywhere we go. We can either use technology to free us from it, or it can enslave us more. What will you choose?

Same!

2026-09-24T14:47:48Z

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Same!

Prometheus made us. He stole fire from the gods and gave it to ...

2026-09-21T19:05:15Z

Prometheus made us. He stole fire from the gods and gave it to us. That fire is our ability to reason. Reason made us the dominant species on earth. Zeus chained him to a rock for it, and an eagle forever eats his liver.

While the punishment seems cruel on the surface, it was wisdom. Zeus knew the fire would sever us from the gods. Every other creature experiences the holy directly. Our thinking clouds us from it.

The gift made us powerful. It cost us the divine.

There is beauty in this world, if we choose to look for it and ...

2026-09-20T23:31:16Z

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There is beauty in this world, if we choose to look for it and have the appropriate relationship with our own mind.

We all must choose to point our time and energy to what we feel is good. The collective decision making process of us all will, hopefully, lead us all to prosperity.

If you feel what you advocate will help the world, then more power to you.

Wishing you both the best.

Respectfully, there is a pattern I have noticed in people who ...

2026-09-20T15:03:18Z

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Respectfully, there is a pattern I have noticed in people who advocate for a different coin:

Someone will point out a flaw in Bitcoin, argue that their coin does it better, and then finds a way of describing Bitcoin as an absolute failure based upon a narrow set of observations.

I respect your interest in optimizing privacy. But privacy is not the only thing that makes good money.

Is Bitcoin perfect? No.

Is lightning perfect? No.

Will there be more layers built upon Bitcoin that make it better? Surely, yes. Do we know what they will look like? No.

Bitcoin is a humility test. We are simply one human, and we cannot know all the factors of why one coin gains more transaction than the others. Follow the energy, the chain with the most of it.

I focus only on Bitcoin not because of some grand explanation of its technical properties. I seek nature and am looking for the chain with the most nature inside of it.

I’m searching for the real word, and trying not to follow what my mind tells me is true.

Free markets allocate resources stemming from all collective human action. Ask not “which technology is the best money” but “why is Bitcoin money”?

With all due respect, this is not a fair statement. I use bitcoin ...

2026-09-19T14:51:22Z

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With all due respect, this is not a fair statement.

I use bitcoin all the time to buy stuff. It has become a normal part of my everyday life, and I do not have to use an exchange.

99% of these transactions are done through lightning, which is private. You can also move bitcoin off of an exchange into a lightning wallet directly, which leads to my bitcoin not being traceable thereafter.

In the ancient Chinese text, the Yijing (《易經》), the first ...

2026-09-15T23:48:25Z

In the ancient Chinese text, the Yijing (《易經》), the first hexagram (gua 卦) is Qian (乾), representing Heaven; the second is Kun (Kun, 坤), representing Earth. In traditional commentaries, the phonetic component 倝 (gàn) has been interpreted to evoke the sun with grass and roots below it, suggesting generative growth under divine light. This connection to vitality is made explicit in the Shuogua zhuan (《說卦傳》, Explaining the Trigrams), which glosses the line: 「乾，健也」, relating Qian to jian (健), meaning vigorous, robust, and healthy.

A parallel structure appears in the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European pantheon. The divine father is reconstructed as *Dyēus ph₂tḗr, the root that yields both Zeus (Greek Zeus, gen. Dios) and Jupiter (Latin Iuppiter). As the Sky Father, he represents the luminous life-giving realm above, and is paired with the Earth Mother (*Dʰéǵʰōm).

Later, Apollo, son of Zeus, becomes identified with the Sun in subsequent Hellenistic tradition and is venerated as the deity of healing, truth, and oracular divination.

Across these traditions we see a striking similarity. Sacred teachings in both East and West preserve an apparent understanding of a divine synergy among the sky, the Sun, and the Earth: one that is generative and, most importantly, healing.

@npub13k5…mtgc

2026-09-11T18:31:06Z

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Dr. Saenz (npub13k5…mtgc)

I would be very interested to hear more about your thoughts about ...

2026-09-11T18:27:35Z

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I would be very interested to hear more about your thoughts about how time and spirituality intersect.

Would you be so kind as to expand on that a little?

Good morning!

2026-09-11T15:09:09Z

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Good morning!

I grew up speaking Chinese and was immersed in eastern culture ...

2026-09-11T01:35:25Z

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I grew up speaking Chinese and was immersed in eastern culture from a young age.

In my book, where I explore a lot of these ideas, I borrow heavily from eastern ideas and texts.

My advice for a similarly brainy western thinker: give space and time to cultivating the other side of the mind. The one that is absent of thought, focused on the present, and mindful.

It seems many answers are found there.

I also like using @nprofile…7nhr

2026-09-10T22:11:27Z

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I also like using MapleAI (nprofile…7nhr)

There is so much I love about the work being done here and about ...

2026-09-10T21:49:04Z

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There is so much I love about the work being done here and about the very existence of this discussion.

One point I want to call out is the idea that there is something about modernity that has cut us off from the ancient ideas that laid the groundwork for our modern era. Yet there is this sense that some knowledge is being gatekept today. We are in some sense being cut off from the source, and are supposed to receive our understanding from those who seek control.

It is reminiscent of the tension between the palace and the polis, and of the Reformation.

It lives in the idea that when there is corruption in Moneta, there is a corruption in memory.

There is something calling out for remembrance. There is a way that aligns us with the cosmic flow and leads to true understanding.

Appreciate you all. Jackk (nprofile…0jvx) PlebNick (nprofile…hqcc) Efrat Fenigson (nprofile…7akc)

Ordered a copy of the 易经.

By its very nature, the mind's trains of thought are ...

2026-09-10T13:40:04Z

By its very nature, the mind's trains of thought are vulnerable to being hijacked by those who seek to manipulate and control.

What cannot be hijacked arises from a truth discovered only in the absence of thought.

Exactly right!

2026-09-09T20:38:08Z

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Exactly right!

We often discuss #Bitcoin and #AI as two different things, but ...

2026-09-07T17:02:59Z

We often discuss #Bitcoin and #AI as two different things, but they are both manifestations of the same underlying invention: the computer, Alan Turing's thinking machine. When we think about where this technology is taking us and how we should wield it for good, it is important we keep this unification in mind.

AI is here to potentially free us from the burden of labor to a degree never before seen in human history. Bitcoin is here to make sure that the wealth generated and the energy utilized is properly managed, and is done so fairly, honestly, without manipulation, central control, or extraction from one group to the other.

AI will bring about wealth generation, but this will only be experienced fairly and equally across all people if we have sound money through Bitcoin. These two heads of the same dragon are working synergistically with each other. We are actively watching AI harden Bitcoin and make the software stack more resilient to cybersecurity threats. Bitcoin will help seek out stranded energy, making it cheaper for the consumer despite the ongoing data center needs of AI.

The computer can either be used as a tool of enslavement or one that brings freedom and abundance. In order for us to wield the sword correctly, let us be sure that we are properly analyzing this tool as a holistic machine.

You pay a subscription and can pay per token once over the normal ...

2026-09-04T23:06:24Z

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You pay a subscription and can pay per token once over the normal limit.

I like MapleAI (nprofile…yt8u) because the communication with their servers are encrypted and private.

A book about human psychology could be written about fork wars.

2026-09-03T20:38:43Z

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A book about human psychology could be written about fork wars.

I use a local Maple Proxy to connect to my systems. Not sure if ...

2026-09-03T17:53:49Z

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I use a local Maple Proxy to connect to my systems. Not sure if that is uncensored and fits your needs though.

It has Kimi v3. Not sure if it has the most up to date Qwen.

Alfred North Whitehead once said: “it is a profoundly erroneous ...

2026-09-03T15:45:20Z

Alfred North Whitehead once said:

“it is a profoundly erroneous truism that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.”

Artificial intelligence is that principle extended to a new level. Many raise the concern that it will take away jobs. Serious reflection is needed regarding the degree to which those jobs provide true meaning. Most of us focus on work that feeds and nurtures the intellectual and rational side of the mind. That focus is antithetical to attention directed toward the present moment, the breath, and the whole of experience.

Attention is akin to worship. What we focus our mind, our time, and our energy upon transforms the world around us. The modern world has largely demanded that we worship what feeds the ego rather than that which feeds the soul.

Bitcoin and artificial intelligence, the computer itself, can be used as a tool to enslave or to free. If we are more welcoming and wise to the technology that frees our time, it can lead to a kind of abundance long forgotten. Then we may worship again that which is most good.

Love is at the root of existence

2026-09-03T12:37:50Z

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Love is at the root of existence

Pain does not signify death. It signifies life.

2026-09-02T15:36:35Z

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Pain does not signify death.

It signifies life.

I know what you mean. I think it may partly be because it is ...

2026-08-31T14:24:19Z

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I know what you mean.

I think it may partly be because it is helping us go back.

I also think it speaks to the profound nature of what it feels like to have your energy stolen (through information and money), or not.

This is why we fight the good fight

2026-08-30T19:05:45Z

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This is why we fight the good fight

Technology is a double edge sword. It can be used to enslave us, ...

2026-08-30T19:02:42Z

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Technology is a double edge sword. It can be used to enslave us, or it can be a tool for freedom.

I believe that if we wield this weapon correctly, it can lead to our emancipation from the rat race, and allow us to return to a life of balance where we are more synchronized with nature once again.

But, we have to direct our energy this way, and wield the sword with this intention.

I am so glad you enjoyed it!

2026-08-28T18:41:23Z

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I am so glad you enjoyed it!

I’d be curious about this as well. Been watching that project ...

2026-08-28T18:31:24Z

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I’d be curious about this as well. Been watching that project but haven’t installed yet.

Biological life is a dissipative structure, constantly working to ...

2026-08-26T23:40:20Z

Biological life is a dissipative structure, constantly working to achieve alignment with the cosmic flow of energy, and this truly is what life is all about. This is true both at the cellular level, and at the individual human level. Life is centered around the pursuit of that proper energy flow, that alignment with what is most efficient, that balance that optimizes the flourishing of life. This we experience as good, meaningful, and love. It is a kind of journey that involves self-realization through constant discipline and devotion. That self-realization is achieved by constantly reiterating upon our relationships, whether those relationships be with nature, with ourselves, with our family, with our friends, or society: all of which culminate in a relationship with the holy.

Most of the grand questions regarding this holy subject, and the discussions that have happened throughout time, come down to how one should pursue this path. How does one find that self-realization? How do we properly align ourselves with the flow of the divine? What is the proper relationship?

In meditation, which can be articulated as the practice of altering one's relationship with the mind, one works on having a single pointed focus, usually upon the breath, that aims to adjust the relationship one has with their interpretation of their thoughts. Typically, we see the mind as us: all the thoughts that bounce around and present themselves in front of our living experience are interpreted to be our thoughts, but that is the maya. Through attention towards the breath, or some other kind of focal point, one can learn to recognize that the thoughts that appear are simply thoughts. One learns to dereify these thoughts, and slowly but surely a different relationship with the mind forms, a different relationship with the self appears, and the identification of the true Self begins to emerge. Through attention to our own mind-body, we not only help align ourselves with the cosmic order, but in doing so realize who we are. We achieve health, wellness, well-being, and greater clarity all at the same time. Proper alignment and self-realization go hand in hand, and they are achieved through the time and energy of our attention.

In this way, one can notice that attention is akin to worship. What we give our attention and energy to is what becomes of us. Are we attending to our indulgences of the narrative self, or are we attending to our breath and finding the Self underneath it all. Are we attending to our bodies and spending time outside, or are we feeding our desires by being indoors on our devices? Are we giving our attention to aligning ourselves with the flow, or to that which takes us away from it? The disciplinary worship that demands our attention helps us stay on the path. What we pay attention to, day by day, is what we give our energy and time to, and that energy is either directed properly or improperly. Proper worship can lead one towards the light, health, freedom, and prosperity, and improper attention can lead one astray towards disease, disaster, and dismay.

Hey @nprofile…3a2l , is this from a book? Where did you find ...

2026-08-25T20:34:54Z

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Hey peruvian_bull (nprofile…3a2l) , is this from a book? Where did you find this?

You can verify with websites like this ...

2026-08-21T22:56:08Z

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You can verify with websites like this

https://iancoleman.io/bip39/

https://iancoleman.io/bip39/

2026-08-21T22:54:53Z

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https://iancoleman.io/bip39/

Biological life is a dissipative structure, absorbing the energy ...

2026-08-21T22:30:57Z

Biological life is a dissipative structure, absorbing the energy of the Sun and transforming it in accordance with the laws of thermodynamics. When we hone our minds and heal our bodies, we are aligning ourselves with that cosmic flow. This is why we feel joy in doing so, and when done properly, it can lead to a holy experience.

Our pursuit of alignment is not limited to our bodies. We find it in our social relationships, in our society, and in our economy. Bitcoin and free markets help us properly manage the resources and energy of our Earth, helping us be better aligned. Bitcoin mining helps us be more efficient with our processing of energy, helping us align further.

There is a divine aspect to what we find important. Spending bitcoin, mining bitcoin, loving one another, speaking truth, and pursuing mental and physical health all play a role in us acting in accordance with the divine.

Safest app for IOS? Mac?

2026-08-20T16:27:19Z

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Safest app for IOS? Mac?

What happened to us building great cathedrals? What happened to ...

2026-08-20T14:51:05Z

What happened to us building great cathedrals? What happened to us devoting ourselves to something greater?

There does seem to be a spiritual aspect to money.

I wish you the best and all the peace. Thanks for sharing your ...

2026-08-18T14:53:43Z

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I wish you the best and all the peace. Thanks for sharing your perspective.

I appreciate the civil discussion, but I would kindly encourage ...

2026-08-18T14:27:10Z

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I appreciate the civil discussion, but I would kindly encourage you to consider how your perspective may too be misplaced. What ends up being consensus is determined by a complex interaction between economic nodes and miners.

I am a Bitcoin miner, and one at a hosting company. We at Abundant Mines allowed our clients, who are everyday people like you and me, to decide if they wanted to signal or not signal. I work 1-on-1 with every single client, and had an inside view of the decision making process of everyone. Both those that supported BIP-110 and those that didn't.

This idea that there was "no refusal to bip110 from inside the network" is simply not true. At least, it was not at all what I experienced in the real world from people I know who were into Bitcoin. Both from inside and outside my work.

There was no corruption, collusion, conspiracy, or anything. Just normal people freely making their own decision, and most people decided against BIP-110. I saw this at my work, at my local meetups, and amongst my friends.

From my experience, working with real people everyday, and by observing the quantitative data of the network, refusal of BIP-110 was overwhelming.

Please kindly consider that this event is more of a testament to the dangers of social media. It creates an echo chamber where people inside believe everyone agrees with them. It is leading you all to create your own coin, rather than us all working together to find a real solution that helps fix the money. There is only Bitcoin.

This is a discussion about the mind, and the illusion it creates in front of our eyes. Not a discussion on whether or not Bitcoin is corrupt. Bitcoin is one of the least corruptible systems on Earth. Our minds are one of the easiest to corrupt.

I could be the one that is full of illusion, of course. But this is why we must stick together and work together. Help one another.

With all due respect, the analysis that this “proves” all of ...

2026-08-18T13:56:42Z

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With all due respect, the analysis that this “proves” all of these things is quite a strong claim.

It is, at least, equally as possible that BIP-110 was simply not a good enough of an idea for most of the network to want to adopt it.

Just because BIP-110 didn’t pass, doesn’t mean that somehow that Bitcoin is too centralized. It could also just be a humility test that a better idea is needed.

There are so many better ideas to solve these issues than BIP-110. Such as removing the witness discount.

Leaving for what? There is only one

2026-08-18T04:42:21Z

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Leaving for what? There is only one

This is the way #nevent1q…hn2t

2026-08-18T00:21:31Z

This is the way

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Building a legacy #Bitcoin stack means thinking past your own lifetime. Not just stacking for you, but stacking so your name is talked about long after you're gone.

Most people spend everything and leave nothing but stories. Plant trees you'll never sit under.

That's how real wealth moves through bloodlines.

I am confused why so many well intentioned people who were trying ...

2026-08-17T23:43:24Z

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I am confused why so many well intentioned people who were trying to help Bitcoin are now leaving to make their own coin.

BIP-110 was one possible solution out of many. The network rejecting it simply suggests that a better proposal is warrented.

But after one failed attempt, so many are giving up on Bitcoin. It’s sad to watch.

Peace be with us all.

Zeus is simply amazing. It works really well if you want to ...

2026-08-17T21:47:35Z

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Zeus is simply amazing. It works really well if you want to connect it to your own node, but they also offer a great LSP service and are developing ecash wallets.

It really is an all-in-one bitcoin spending app.

@nprofile…8nr9 and @nprofile…e80h !

2026-08-17T16:30:43Z

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BTC Map (nprofile…8nr9) and ZEUS (nprofile…e80h) !

Ancient societies did not build religious and spiritual systems ...

2026-08-17T15:27:12Z

Ancient societies did not build religious and spiritual systems because they lacked scientific understanding. They did so to help us remember a truth about our world that becomes harder to directly experience as our minds fill with intellectual thought and reason, the mental activities that uphold the modern world. What was once a default experience for ancient peoples, as it is for the rest of life on Earth, began to fade from memory as society advanced, so they built ritualistic practices and teachings to help bring us back to that more ancient wisdom.

We are using our minds to construct an ivory tower, but in doing so we are becoming mentally, physically, and spiritually unwell. The computer is an opportunity to free us from this burden. Bitcoin and A.I. are part of this thinking machine so that it can continue to build this tower for us, so we can return to our more ancient way of being.

The more I learn, the more devout I become. #nevent1q…3fuc ...

2026-08-16T21:56:38Z

The more I learn, the more devout I become.

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In summary, our increasingly advanced scientific understanding in modern times may be helping us rediscover an ancient wisdom. These findings suggest that health, which encompasses not only the physical and mental but also the divine, is connected to both our ability to tend the garden of the mind and our devotion to sunlight, nature, and the world that formed us

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Embrace the sun Embrace the creation of life Embrace love.

2026-08-14T14:09:33Z

Embrace the sun

Embrace the creation of life

Embrace love.

I really appreciate these words.

2026-08-12T20:54:51Z

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I really appreciate these words.

Meditation is not simply stress reduction; it is an inquiry into ...

2026-08-12T15:01:39Z

Meditation is not simply stress reduction; it is an inquiry into the true Self.

The self you habitually claim is a fiction woven from memory and social identity. Beneath it flows a signal older than language, which cannot be heard while you are busy telling narratives about yourself.

Stillness lets the fiction settle so something prior can be felt.

Agamemnon is the representation of human hubris. Ten years of war ...

2026-08-12T01:20:39Z

Agamemnon is the representation of human hubris. Ten years of war had convinced him he was great: a king of kings, a conqueror of the world, and a man no mortal enemy could touch. His wife, Clytemnestra, laid purple cloth across his path into the palace, an honor owed only to gods, and he walked over it anyway, certain he had earned it. That single walk revealed the whole of his character: a mind so blinded by his ego that he had stopped checking the ground beneath it.

We continue to see this kind of hubris today.

The Greeks warned us against this kind of mind. That night, after returning home, he was killed by his own wife in his bath: the most undignified way a self-proclaimed conqueror of the world could die. This is a warning: hubris, and the refusal to stay humble, invites some of the worst kinds of fate.

Why not just remove the witness discount? That would be a ...

2026-08-12T00:08:53Z

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Why not just remove the witness discount? That would be a solution that addresses the situation at its core.

Nah man, I’m here. Bitcoin is a beautiful discovery and it will ...

2026-08-11T01:37:28Z

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Nah man, I’m here. Bitcoin is a beautiful discovery and it will lead us to great prosperity and greater peace!

“We can’t see the patterns once we’re in them”. I think ...

2026-08-11T01:13:11Z

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“We can’t see the patterns once we’re in them”. I think there is something to this.

To me this is a humbling recognition to how powerful and dangerous the ego can be.

I couldn’t agree more and it’s well put. Divide and conquer ...

2026-08-11T00:00:47Z

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I couldn’t agree more and it’s well put. Divide and conquer is an old strategy, and we should be wise to it.

I also have been wondering what this repeating patterns teaches us about human nature.

“If you want to see bitcoin used as money, use the damn thing ...

2026-08-10T03:03:25Z

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“If you want to see bitcoin used as money, use the damn thing as money. “. Well said!

Took the words out of my mouth!

2026-08-09T21:21:17Z

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Took the words out of my mouth!

Perhaps we can now explore the feasibility of a soft fork that ...

2026-08-09T21:20:33Z

Perhaps we can now explore the feasibility of a soft fork that removes the witness discount.

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To the BIP110ers who are demoralized.

A proof of work change is not the answer. That will be the ultimate death by deception.

Find another consensus valid path.

We brought nature into the digital world with Bitcoin. Nature is ...

2026-08-09T21:19:01Z

We brought nature into the digital world with Bitcoin. Nature is a humbling force.

We don’t tell nature what it is, it tells us who we are.

Bitcoin is a discovery, and through it we may discover ourselves.

I don’t agree with this. It is important we stay humble and ...

2026-08-09T15:11:19Z

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I don’t agree with this. It is important we stay humble and remember that we cannot turn back time.

We most have humility, fix our mistake, and move forward.

Wabisabi. There is beauty in imperfection.

The misallocation of resources stems from the witness discount. ...

2026-08-08T13:58:13Z

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The misallocation of resources stems from the witness discount.

Rather than demonizing people, we should consider removing the subsidy.

This is the danger of a lot of our dialogue being held on X. It ...

2026-08-08T13:45:17Z

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This is the danger of a lot of our dialogue being held on X. It brings forth the possibility of this kind of manipulation.

As the winds of time propel our sails forward, the cultures that ...

2026-08-07T01:49:09Z

As the winds of time propel our sails forward, the cultures that endured were those that tied themselves to the mast. They knew the siren song was never a creature upon the rocks, but the pollution of the mind itself, promising truth while scattering the signal. Meditation, ritual, and sacred practice were not ornaments. They were ballast against the amnesia that follows prosperity.

A civilization is not refined by what it builds, but by what it remembers to preserve in the quiet between the waves. The work of culture is to make the stillness repeat, so the vessel does not lose its way.

The Dao that can be spoken is not the eternal Dao. This warning ...

2026-08-06T15:01:51Z

The Dao that can be spoken is not the eternal Dao. This warning opens the foundational text of Daoism because its author understood that language corrupts the subject it tries to capture. The same understanding appears in the tetragrammaton, where the name of the divine is deliberately a placeholder, and in the Zen insistence that the Buddha nature is already present, not earned.

In my book, I trace a common arc across cultures. The original instruction was always interior: quiet the mind, dissolve the experienced self, and know the true Self through direct encounter. The rituals, whether incubation in Greek caves or the carefully measured kykeon at Eleusis, were not pageants. They were calibrated alterations of consciousness designed to make the individual feel the wholeness that underlies all reality.

When a civilization must transmit wisdom through text and sermon, the ineffable hardens into doctrine. The kingdom of heaven, once described as within you and before your eyes, becomes a destination after death. Jihad, once the internal struggle of self-knowing, becomes a call to external conquest. The pursuit of immortality shifts from an altered attitude toward death to a medical project of bodily preservation.

The experienced self is a creature of language; it builds identity from story. When the story replaces the silence, we inevitably mistake the map for the territory.

The quiet that ancient practices cultivated was the condition under which the mind could stop manufacturing the self and begin perceiving what is underneath. That perception has no need of belief. It only needs a pond calm enough to receive the signal.

The brain constructs our mental experience through predictive ...

2026-08-05T13:22:00Z

The brain constructs our mental experience through predictive modeling. It does not perceive the world directly; it interprets a deluge of internal and external signals and generates a helpful fiction of what is occurring.

The problem is that the Default Mode Network, largely responsible for self-referential narrative and temporal abstraction, generates continuous activity that can act as interference with these signals if overused. The more the mind ruminates, the more the predictive model must operate through noise.

In my book I frame this as the Calm Pond Hypothesis. A single raindrop upon still water produces a clear ripple; in a rainstorm, the ripples collide and the signal becomes illegible. A calm mind does not imply an empty mind. It implies a mind whose surface is sufficiently still so that signals are coherent and the information it receives is received with fidelity.

Ancient meditative practices understood this not as a pursuit of happiness, but as a prerequisite for understanding what is true. The neuroscience now shows they were correct: stillness enhances interoception, reduces sympathetic overload, and restores the accuracy of the brain's models. We do not need less thought. We need the quiet that allows thought to correspond to reality.

PortlandHODl did some tests ...

2026-08-05T02:42:04Z

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PortlandHODl did some tests

https://x.com/PortlandHODL/status/2084428567077900563

Allodial title / property rights

2026-08-04T20:20:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…8keh
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Allodial title / property rights

Good morning!

2026-08-04T14:23:46Z

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Good morning!

"Bitcoin, beans, bibles, bovines, bullets, land, love, and ...

2026-08-03T04:20:09Z

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"Bitcoin, beans, bibles, bovines, bullets, land, love, and family." Well said!

Exactly, this was always a known issue, but I didn’t expect ...

2026-08-01T13:21:08Z

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Exactly, this was always a known issue, but I didn’t expect this day to come so soon.

I’ve also been wondering this. I feel the lesson to this event ...

2026-08-01T13:20:33Z

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I’ve also been wondering this.

I feel the lesson to this event is that we need different ways of producing seed phrases independently, where the addition of real world entropy is implicit.

Where we don’t have to trust the device, but only the seed generation process. But creating the check sum is the hard part.

I do the same most of the time. For those who wish to go the ...

2026-08-01T13:17:07Z

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I do the same most of the time.

For those who wish to go the extra mile though, I wish there was an easier way where someone could generate a seed using some other kind of method, where real world entropy was added, without trusting any device product.

Good morning!

2026-08-01T13:15:19Z

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Good morning!

I couldn’t agree more, and I’m with you. I’m here to ...

2026-08-01T04:24:16Z

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I couldn’t agree more, and I’m with you. I’m here to continue the discussion and to keep it alive.

It is very important we continue healthy and civil discussion, and do our best to make Nostr the true agora and get bitcoin conversations off of X. Because you are right, it’s a ripe opportunity for capture.

Thanks for sharing this extension. I think it’s a good thing to ...

2026-07-30T14:48:18Z

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Thanks for sharing this extension. I think it’s a good thing to explore.

As for how to proceed, it’s a difficult question. I for one, am a man of peace and want to bring people together. This BIP-110 war is causing divide and it’s a shame to see.

Whether it succeeds or fails, one question will remain: what is a sound and permanent solution to the topic at hand? To me, the energy behind this movement should be channeled into this question about the witness discount. This way, the larger community can investigate whether or not it’s a viable path forward.

We are also stuck between a rock and a hard place. We prefer to keep these discussion on nostr: the true agora.

However, most people are on X and that’s where ideas get more attention. Simultaneously, that place is dangerous due to the algorithm that can cause manipulation and control.

So, I’m not sure I have an answer, as much as questions. How do we get the energy of the current movement to focus on the reasonable questions? How do we get more of the community to discuss this on a platform that will allow free discussion with no manipulation?

Well, I can’t speak for everyone on the team. However, many ...

2026-07-29T22:52:15Z

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Well, I can’t speak for everyone on the team. However, many people considered it a good idea worth giving voice to.

I’m sorry. Not really sure what you mean by that question. ...

2026-07-28T23:00:25Z

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I’m sorry. Not really sure what you mean by that question. Could you clarify? I work for Abundant Mines as the Customer Success Lead. So I wrote it internally.

Good morning!

2026-07-28T16:52:45Z

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Good morning!

@nprofile…wf5n, I wanted to loop you in here also. I hope this ...

2026-07-27T19:44:50Z

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Artel21 (nprofile…wf5n), I wanted to loop you in here also. I hope this article helps with the discussion.

I wrote this article when reflecting on the work of ...

2026-07-27T18:29:05Z

I wrote this article when reflecting on the work of Jackk (nprofile…mfr9).

Hopefully it can stimulate discussion that leads to more peace, civility, harmony, cohesion, and resolution in the Bitcoin community.

How many blocks does it take?

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Introduction

Nature holds within it fundamental laws that we humans, no matter how hard we try, cannot ignore. Sometimes we invent technologies that are in harmony with such an order, and sometimes we invent technologies, or make changes to existing ones, that violate that order. Often we do this unknowingly, only later discovering the consequence of our mistakes. In turn, those mistakes deepen our appreciation for the fabric of reality we exist within.

Bitcoin, this entropy engine, is not exempt from this pattern of human action. Bitcoin is an incredibly complex and beautiful invention, exhibiting properties that align human incentives and behavior in ways that orient us toward a more efficient utilization, movement, storage, and transmission of energy and information. Yet, we have made changes to it in the past that may have contained an oversight, one whose consequences are only now becoming apparent. In witnessing them, we gain a clearer understanding of what Bitcoin truly is and how we ought to steward it.

The Landauer Attack

A conversation is unfolding across the Bitcoin community over the network's use for non-financial data. Images, text, and arbitrary files are inscribed onto the timechain through inscriptions and ordinals, burdening node runners with data unrelated to the movement of money. Most discourse treats this as a matter of personal preference, spam, or node policy. This article argues that the issue is more fundamental: a mispricing of the true thermodynamic cost of permanent memory, made possible by a decision nearly a decade ago. We will call this a Landauer attack.

Before applying this idea to Bitcoin, let us review the relevant physics.

The Laws of Thermodynamics

The first law of thermodynamics holds that energy is never created or destroyed, only transformed. The second holds that entropy in an isolated system never decreases. Entropy is a measure of the number of configurations a system can occupy; more particles mean more possible arrangements, and therefore more entropy. The universe trends toward its most probable state: maximal entropy. This is why heat flows from hot to cold, why a dropped glass never reassembles, and why every engine ever built loses energy to friction and waste heat. This loss is not an engineering flaw. It is structural to the universe.

Information and Energy

Less appreciated is the fact that information and energy are not separate domains, but two expressions of one reality. Claude Shannon formalized information as a measurable quantity using a formulation nearly identical to the entropy equations of statistical thermodynamics[1]. Information obeys the same conservation laws that govern heat and motion, including when it is remembered or forgotten.

Information Has a Physical Cost

In 1961, Landauer introduced a concept fundamental to the physics of computation: erasing a bit of information is not free[2]. It requires a minimum amount of energy to be dissipated as heat. This is Landauer's principle. Any operation that destroys information, collapsing two possibilities into one, must shed entropy somewhere, and that shedding has an energetic floor that no engineering can escape. It is woven into the second law itself.

For decades, the principle remained largely theoretical, confirmed only at small scales. In 2025, physicists led by Stefan Aimet and Mohammadamin Tajik experimentally probed Landauer's principle in the quantum many-body regime, publishing their findings in Nature Physics. Using a quantum field simulator of ultracold Bose gases, they tracked a quantum field through a mass quench and measured the entropy production tied to its information changes[3]. Their results confirmed, for the first time in a complex quantum system, what Landauer proposed over sixty years earlier: the link between information and energy is not a metaphor. It is real, measurable, and binding.

Why This Matters for Bitcoin

This gives us a powerful lens through which to reconsider what Bitcoin is. Every byte written to the chain was purchased with irreversible computation: trillions of discarded hashes, each one information destroyed, each destruction paid for in dissipated heat. Once written, that byte imposes a standing obligation, replicated and defended against entropy by every node, forever. The chain is not merely a record: it is a physical commitment, paid for in energy at its creation and maintained by energy for as long as it exists.

Bidding for Permanence

It is tempting to view mining as merely the process of finding a winning hash, but it is better understood as a competitive process for inscribing information into permanent memory, a record that will persist far into the future.

There is only one Bitcoin ledger. Just as the supply of satoshis is finite, so too is the block space available at any moment. Every node must store this data forever. There is no opt-out, no deletion, no changing the rules, no altering history, no turning back the clock. Permanence is the entire point of the invention. Like human time, and like entropy itself, the timechain flows in one direction only. Every bit committed to it is therefore not merely data, but a permanent energetic burden borne on every node operator: disk space, bandwidth, and the electricity required to maintain it.

The Economics of Block Space

This is why mining functions, in part, as a bidding process. A transaction fee is an economic signal. It is the expression that a piece of data is worth its permanent inscription because someone chose to spend their precious sats to compensate the network for the burden it imposes. In a well-functioning fee market, that signal is honest, reflecting the true cost each byte imposes on every node that carries it forward. Because every byte shares an identical thermodynamic burden, every byte of a transaction should therefore be priced identically.

What happens, then, when that signal is distorted because one class of bits is different from another? This is exactly what occurred with Segregated Witness.

A Brief History: The Block Size Wars and SegWit

To understand how we arrived here, recall the block size wars of 2015–2017, the pivotal conflict over Bitcoin’s scaling. The debate was whether to raise the 1 MB block limit via a hard fork or preserve the status quo in the interest of decentralization. Large miners and businesses favored bigger blocks, lower fees, higher throughput. Node operators, developers, and users favored smaller blocks so anyone could keep running a full node and keep the network decentralized.

The case for smaller blocks was simple: bigger blocks mean greater storage and bandwidth costs, and because blocks are produced at roughly ten-minute intervals with a fixed size limit, that growth is predictable. Larger blocks burden every node, and this burden falls hardest on those with the least access to hardware and bandwidth, concentrating influence in fewer, wealthier hands.

Node operators won this war, but not without cost. The compromise was SegWit, activated in 2017, which separated signature data, or witness data, from base transaction data. The 1 MB base limit remained, but witness data gained roughly three additional megabytes of allowance, raising the practical block size limit to around 4 MB.

The Witness Discount

The justification seemed reasonable at the time: signatures validate a transaction once but are not strictly needed to verify the UTXO set thereafter, so witness data could theoretically be pruned more aggressively. On this presumption, witness data was weighted at one quarter the fee cost of base data. As a result, a witness byte costs roughly 75% less than a base byte, despite occupying the same physical storage on every full node.

This upgrade also solved transaction malleability, the ability to alter a signature without changing a transaction's validity. By segregating signatures from the transaction identifier, SegWit enabled commitment transactions whose validity could be guaranteed in advance, the foundational requirement for the Lightning Network. In solving malleability, SegWit unlocked a genuinely transformative scaling solution.

It is worth being clear regarding two separate features of Segwit. The malleability fix, which made Lightning possible, follows from segregating signature data from the transaction identifier. The fee discount applied to that data was a separate decision.

Defining the Landauer Attack

Prices, properly understood, are not arbitrary numbers attached to goods by sellers. They are signals, condensed from the voluntary exchange of countless individuals acting on knowledge no central authority could ever fully gather. In a free market, a price tells us, in a single figure, how scarce a resource is relative to demand, directing it toward its most valued use without requiring anyone to grasp the system as a whole.

A Landauer attack is what occurs when that calculation breaks. It is the gap between the price charged for permanently inscribing a bit and the true thermodynamic cost that bit imposes on every node forever. It requires no malicious intent, no more than a shortage under a price ceiling requires malice from a shopper who buys more simply because the goods are so cheap. It requires only mispricing. Rational actors faced with an artificially cheap resource will use more of it. This is not a flaw in human behavior; it is the correct, predictable response to a false signal, which is precisely why integrity of that signal matters.

Why Mispricing Matters

It is worth being precise about the actual attack surface. A discount alone is not catastrophic, no more than a single subsidized good collapses an economy. The danger lies in what subsidies always produce over time: a misallocation that compounds the longer it persists. The fee is paid once. The storage cost is permanent and recurring. When a one-time price fails to capture an ongoing cost, the market is not pricing the good at all; it is pricing only the moment of sale, while the true cost is quietly shifted onto a third party with no say in the transaction: the node operator, who bears it long after the fee is spent. This is the signature of every subsidy: benefit concentrated on the chooser, cost diffused onto everyone who must live with it.

Beyond the Block Size Debate

This differs meaningfully from the centralization concern of the block size wars, which was a question of affordability: could the average person still afford to run a node as blocks grew, a question technology could, in principle, ameliorate? The Landauer attack is a question technology cannot solve because it does not originate in technology. Strip away hardware cost, Moore's Law, the falling price of storage, and one fact remains: a bit is physical, and physics does not distinguish a witness bit from a base bit. Landauer's principle establishes that information carries real energetic cost, and that cost attaches to the bit itself, not to the category a protocol assigns it. Hardware improvement lowers the burden for every byte equally. It cannot make one class of physically identical bytes cheaper than another. Only a pricing rule can do that.

Discounting witness data relative to base data, despite an identical thermodynamic burden, is a subsidy of one category over another. Subsidies do not simply make things cheaper; they distort market signals so that economic actors do not make the decisions that properly reflect the healthy allocation of resources. Capital, here in the form of block space, no longer flows to its most valued use; it flows to whatever sits on the subsidized side of the ledger. This is not a moral failing of those who exploit the discount. It is the same rational response that drives any actor toward an underpriced good, whether housing, credit, or a permanent inscription on the most secure ledger in history. The fault lies with the incentive, not the actor responding to it. An incentive structure that rewards witness inscription over base inscription, despite identical cost to the network, is not a neutral feature of the protocol. It is a standing invitation for capital to misallocate itself until the price signal is repaired.

Ordinals, Inscriptions, and the Filter Debate

This is not hypothetical. It is the proximate cause of the debate now roiling the node-running community.

In 2023, a developer discovered a method for inscribing arbitrary data, including images, directly into Bitcoin transactions, giving rise to Ordinals: Bitcoin-native NFTs. The technique relies on witness space introduced by SegWit and made further accessible by Taproot.

The result has been a measurable acceleration in chain growth, driven by data unrelated to monetary flow. Following the introduction of Ordinals, average block sizes increased. Node operators now absorb a burden that is being mispriced in the fee market by 75%.

The Search for a Solution

The community's response has centered on node software. Many have migrated from Bitcoin Core to Bitcoin Knots, which maintains stricter relay filters and greater configurability. This is an understandable choice, but it does not address the underlying mispricing. Filtering what a node relays does not change the user’s incentive to pay a miner to include a transaction that uses cheap witness data. Node-level filtering patches a problem whose root cause lies upstream in the protocol's pricing structure.

More recently, this tension gave rise to BIP-110, a proposed fork that restricts certain methods of embedding non-monetary data through limits on specific Taproot and witness script structures. Its mechanics and activation method merit their own discussion elsewhere. What matters here is that BIP-110, whatever its merits, is another downstream patch. It restricts particular exploitation methods without correcting the discount itself. Furthermore, it is a temporary rule change, and is not designed to be a permanent solution. As demonstrated by a user who embedded an image within BIP-110's own constraints, restricting specific techniques tends to produce a technical game of whack-a-mole rather than a lasting solution, because the economic incentive to exploit discounted witness space remains fully intact.

Conservation as the Missing Principle

If this diagnosis is correct, the right frame is not spam, personal preference, or even decentralization narrowly construed. It is conservation.

Bitcoin's original protocol enforced a clean symmetry: every byte of block space competed under identical economic rules, regardless of content. 1 byte = 1 byte. This symmetry allowed the fee market to function with honest price discovery. Whatever made it onto the chain had, by definition, paid a price that the market determined was commensurate with the permanent burden it imposed on the network.

Bitcoin Through the Lens of Physics

Recent work viewing Bitcoin through the lens of physics argues this symmetry is not merely good design, but is analogous to a conservation law. In their 2026 paper, Bitcoin: The Architecture of Time, researchers Jack and Nick treat Bitcoin as a system in which time itself is computable and quantized, each block representing a discrete, irreversible unit of inscription rather than a point on a smooth continuum[4].

Within that frame, one could argue that the protocol's original constants, the 21 million supply, the 1 MB block limit, and the relationship between satoshis and bits, are not arbitrary, but expressions of an underlying physical symmetry: 1 sat = 1 sat, 1 bit = 1 bit. Bitcoin's legitimacy as a ledger of permanent memory, in their view, depends on that symmetry holding, much as a physical theory depends on its conservation laws. Whether or not one accepts the full scope of their argument, the intuition is useful: a protocol that claims to price permanence honestly cannot do so while treating two physically identical bits as different categories of cost.

SegWit, in solving malleability and unlocking Lightning, introduced an asymmetry into this otherwise clean system. It created two classes of data, identical in physical reality and thermodynamic burden, but priced as though fundamentally different in kind. This is no different than any economic subsidy: a distortion of price signals that misallocates resources.

Restoring Honest Price Discovery

A return to symmetric pricing would not require reverting to a strict 1 MB block, nor would it end the Lightning Network. It requires only recognizing that the thermodynamic cost of permanent inscription does not discriminate by category. To the node that must store them forever, a signature and an output are identical in cost. They should not be distinguishable in price.

When pricing reflects this honestly, the fee market resumes its function as an arbiter of value. Data reaches the chain only when its worth to the payer exceeds the true cost of permanent inscription. Spam becomes self-limiting, not through an ever-expanding set of rules that define and exclude it after the fact, but because the incentive to exploit a subsidized resource disappears once pricing is honest. Accordingly, node operators are fairly compensated for the burden they carry. The conservation law that gave Bitcoin's original design its integrity, one bit equals one bit, just as one satoshi equals one satoshi, is restored.

Conclusion

We return to where we began. Bitcoin is an entropy engine, converting physical energy into an immutable record, bound by the same thermodynamic laws that govern every process in the observable universe. The realization that information itself carries an inescapable energetic cost, proposed by Landauer over sixty years ago and now confirmed by recent research, gives us a sharper understanding of what we have built, and what we may have unintentionally broken.

SegWit was not a mistake in conception. It solved a real problem and enabled scaling the network surely needed. However, bundling that solution with an unexamined discount on one category of data may simply reflect that we did not yet appreciate how fully Bitcoin mirrors the physical order from which it was born from. Nearly a decade later, we are watching the consequences unfold, as the community fractures over node implementations, relay filters, and increasingly aggressive soft forks, each patching a symptom while leaving the cause untouched.

If Bitcoin is truly governed by conservation laws as fundamental as those governing energy and mass, the path forward lies not in more elaborate filters or endless debates over legitimate use. It lies in asking what the physics requires and having the discipline to restore it. Bit by bit.

References

Shannon CE. A mathematical theory of communication. Bell Syst Tech J. 1948;27(3):379-423.

Landauer R. Irreversibility and heat generation in the computing process. IBM J Res Dev. 1961;5(3):183-191.

Aimet S, Tajik M, Tournaire G, et al. Experimentally probing Landauer’s principle in the quantum many-body regime. Nat Phys. 2025;21(8):1326-1331.

Jack & Nick. Bitcoin: The architecture of time. Published online February 2026. https://bitcoinlens.net/

I couldn’t agree more! That is exactly how it feels. It’s ...

2026-07-26T21:24:22Z

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I couldn’t agree more! That is exactly how it feels. It’s shameful how we congregate there more than here, and let algorithms manipulate minds.

Just listened to “The Last Honest Market” Much respect to you ...

2026-07-24T21:14:32Z

Just listened to “The Last Honest Market”

Much respect to you jack mallers (npub1cn4…3vle)

Good morning! I would differentiate mythology and religion. ...

2026-07-23T14:55:53Z

Good morning!

I would differentiate mythology and religion.

Mythology are stories we create to help propagate cultural memory: concepts, lessons, teachings, etc.

Religion is our attempt to describe the ineffable truth of our existence. Words always fail to do so. Yet we try to articulate these concepts through words nonetheless because that is easier and more scalable than teaching everyone the necessary mental/physical practices to return to that way of being which grants awareness of it.

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Almost all cultures seem to independently develop a form of mythology (religion)

Why is it so? Is it because humans are aware of death and so to cope we make afterlife myths?

Is it because we sense a greater power and all attempt to articulate it in some way?

Or we find patterns, attribute to God, then get fooled by randomness?

Why is the belief so powerful it leads people to both the most beautiful and despicable acts?

Gm btw

Good morning and well said!

2026-07-23T14:49:37Z

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Good morning and well said!

Ancient wisdom is the cure for the modern disease. ...

2026-07-23T14:49:17Z

Ancient wisdom is the cure for the modern disease.

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nevent1q…rg7z
A man who reads old books cannot be fully captured by modern stupidity.

He has dead kings, prophets, poets, killers, saints, drunks, generals, and madmen whispering in his bloodstream.

The algorithm has no chance against this