Nostr notes by George Vaccaro

What a argument.

2026-10-10T06:27:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…wsrq
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What a argument.

How much hashpower has your chain taken from "spam ...

2026-09-23T07:01:34Z

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How much hashpower has your chain taken from "spam chain"?

How'd your predictions work out?

2026-09-05T04:52:15Z

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How'd your predictions work out?

🦗 🦗🦗

2026-08-16T13:09:15Z

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🦗 🦗🦗

If you truly feared a miner centralization attack would a higher ...

2026-08-10T13:03:37Z

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If you truly feared a miner centralization attack would a higher or lower miner threshold make more sense to reduce the possibility?

Doubling down on stupid.

2026-08-10T10:09:46Z

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Doubling down on stupid.

BIP-110 supporters are the Don Quixote and Sancho Panzas of ...

2026-08-10T10:07:50Z

BIP-110 supporters are the Don Quixote and Sancho Panzas of Bitcoin.

Use this opportunity to reflect on your strongly held beliefs, characterizations and bold predictions and refine your bitcoin world view.

This sort of feedback is invaluable. Ignore it and repeat the same mistakes or heed it, learn and grow. Ego is not your friend in this moment.

Consider yourselves lucky that it failed so badly it couldn't steal your coins. You were saved from yourselves this time. There are many in Bitcoin's relatively short history who made similar mistakes and paid dearly for it.

Low "consensus" threshold proposals are attacks. It's ...

2026-08-10T09:52:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…092g
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Low "consensus" threshold proposals are attacks. It's as simple as that. If you don't understand, I don't have time to convince you.

How'd your prediction age? Bip-110 failed spectacularly. ...

2026-08-10T09:23:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…ylvh
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How'd your prediction age?

Bip-110 failed spectacularly. I'm sorry for your psychological loss. You should be thankful the minority fork was way too short to even garner the capacity to facilitate separating you from your bitcoin, thereby also leading to a financial loss.

Bitcoin has proven it can thwart yet another obvious attack despite your opinion and confidence to the contrary. The low "consensus" threshold turned out to be a really bad idea. Imagine that.

Reflect and correct, then move on wiser for it. Or ignore the valuable feedback, rationalize for the sake of your ego then double down and join the ranks of BCH, BSV and hapless nocoiners like the r/Buttcoin hoardes. The choice is yours. Bitcoin doesn't care.

Good luck!

Thanks. Now I at least understand what you're saying. They ...

2026-08-03T19:14:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…3rwu
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Thanks. Now I at least understand what you're saying. They did get the price they desereved but that is of course a brutal way to lose it. My heart goes out to all affected.

My statement was obviously not referring to people in that category. The statement has always been for nocoiners (intentionally) and those with weak hands.

🥱

2026-08-03T19:06:52Z

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Who said that?

2026-08-03T14:55:53Z

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Who said that?

It'll probably be at least a year. They'll have to lower ...

2026-08-03T14:13:09Z

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It'll probably be at least a year. They'll have to lower their time preference or watch it move on without them. Everyone gets the price they deserve.

55% is self evidently not consensus and is unprecedented. There ...

2026-08-03T14:07:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…daw2
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55% is self evidently not consensus and is unprecedented.

There has always been and will always be spam on bitcoin and nothing that's being proposed by this divisive bip will prevent it. What it would do, if successful, which it won't be, is set a precedent for hasty, contentious forks that introduce new rules and limits with a low threshold that's sure to create a minority fork. This is a great way for low information "bitcoiners" to lose their value on, just like every other minority fork in bitcoin's history. The lower threshold only ensures it will turn out worse than the others. Watch your fork pump and then dump to be worth a tiny % of the value (usage, exchange rate, users, hashrate, etc.) just like BCH and BSV, as holders dump their minority bonus shitcoin dividend and swap them for bitcoin.

Also, stop "arguing" like a little girl. Making cute mean names for people you oppose and throwing unsubstantiated claims around is not an argument. Your not winning anyone of value over with that tactic, only emotional tribal morons.

Learn history or repeat it. Your choice.

You're trying to make a point relative to a specific highly ...

2026-07-26T03:31:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…wwge
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You're trying to make a point relative to a specific highly technical conversation involving a breakthrough distributed consensus protocol with very complex design, that is massively disruptive (thereby having many enemies) and has a very complex attack surface by conjuring some sort of metaphor to everyday "rules"?

You're going to have to do better to consider yourself an your opinions to be informed and valuable.

Exactly. It's like just the woke defending big pharma jabs ...

2026-07-26T03:26:32Z

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Exactly. It's like just the woke defending big pharma jabs and forced masking. I'd argue that more heart and less brains is not something to be envied at any level. For this highly technicsl code and game theory there is no place for emotion.

For me the 55% "consensus" threshold, absolutely divisive vilificarion of dedicated cypherpunks and flippantly and impatiently rushing into a fork is an attack. Some are innocently getting swept up in it because they are nervous new holders and think they are smarter than they really are, and some are very likely bad actors that want to weaken bitcoin - state actors, "competing" Shitcoiners and butthurt /r/buttcoiners.

They can't argue the merits so they focus on slandering long dedicated developers.

And none seem to want to confirm they will be selling all of their bitcoin to buy their future shitcoin to show their conviction.

Low information high time preference people always have to learn the hard way. See BSV and BCH.

You're "defending freedom money" with censorship and ...

2026-07-26T03:03:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…cvry
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You're "defending freedom money" with censorship and low threshold supposed consensus? Yeah, no.

Electronic cash requires privacy. "Temporarily" limiting ...

2026-07-21T13:41:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…zkjh
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Electronic cash requires privacy. "Temporarily" limiting underlying features that improve privacy is an attack. Simple majority low threshold consensus is an attack.

You'll learn, or the people you influence to sacrifice their bitcoin will learn and you'll collect your paycheck for undermining the good works of others.

We've had over a decade of "I'm new to bitcoin and ...

2026-07-19T18:08:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…grym
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We've had over a decade of "I'm new to bitcoin and here to save it".

Nobody is falling for your low value takes except morons. I sense either the same extreme and immature hubris or an alternative motive. Fed? Shitcoiner? Doesn't matter. Irrelevant. You'll learn the easy way or the hard way. If it does manage to fork and survive more than a block, be sure to put your money where your mouth is by selling all of your bitcoin and investing it all in your new shitcoin fork.

Shitcoiners never learn.

Try harder shit-lib.

2026-07-19T17:57:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…kted
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Try harder shit-lib.

If you're going to make a claim like that, you'll need to ...

2026-07-19T17:56:15Z

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If you're going to make a claim like that, you'll need to provide some sort of source. I can't find anything even close to your "tens of thousands" claim.

"I'm not a developer but I'm going to weigh in on a ...

2026-07-18T17:36:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…mcay
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"I'm not a developer but I'm going to weigh in on a highly technical modifications to the first ever distributed governance protocol governing the first ever true freedom money because I have an opinion."

Good stuff. Good luck with that.

"iT's eXaCtLy tHe sAmE aS tHe rEd bLuE gAmE ...

2026-07-18T17:32:38Z

In reply to nevent1q…6g4k
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"iT's eXaCtLy tHe sAmE aS tHe rEd bLuE gAmE tHeOrY!!!" yeah, sure it is, IF choosing red also signals your consent to on demand anal probes and surveillance.

It sets a dangerous precedent for random governance and disabling/limiting privacy features, limiting bitcoin based smart contracts and future impulsive chain splits/forks. All in an attempt to limit spam that will still be possible and has been possible for ages via many different mechanisms.

If you still don't get it, justify the 55% "consensus" threshold.

This smells a lot more like a shitcoiner motivated attack than a purist "bitcoin is solely money" principled stand. Bitcoin Script was there from the very beginning and taproot has been in the works for ages.

You want a better bitcoin than what is being maintained by core for over a decade? Chose from one of the 50 million shitcoins or roll your own. Reducing the "consensus" threshold proves this is a contentious attack against real consensus by definition and is against the well established bitcoin ethos.

Retards are here to "fix" bitcoin. Enjoy your hastily implemented minority fork and uniting with your malcontent comrades in the BCH and BSV crowds.

I understand why US adoption is slow, current lack of necessity, ...

2026-07-13T04:58:49Z

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I understand why US adoption is slow, current lack of necessity, but I'd think UK adoption would be kicking into gear.

It would be a real shame if a movement started, using open source ...

2026-07-12T04:45:40Z

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It would be a real shame if a movement started, using open source 3d printed drones equipped with those lasers to disable the cameras remotely without any chance of being caught.

https://3dprinting.com/news/student-nonprofit-releases-open-source-3d-printed-drone-design-for-researchers/

All of them.

2026-06-18T04:07:29Z

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All of them.

Democracy is mob rule and easily eventually corrupted despite the ...

2026-05-18T00:19:54Z

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Democracy is mob rule and easily eventually corrupted despite the explicit controls and wisdom imparted by our founding fathers, as we see here in the USA. And Harvard is now a liberal elite shithole passing out liberal elite shithead memberships. But I wish you luck in helping Venezuela return to sanity and prosperity.

Yep. Everything starts to make more sense when you think of the ...

2026-05-08T13:44:12Z

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Yep. Everything starts to make more sense when you think of the everyman as livestock that some farmer needs to get to do something. We're a bit more complicated than your average farm animal so the steering routines have to be similarly more complex.

The craziest part is they generally practice for this shit. See Event 201 on YouTube. It's all there, pre-rehearsed. Right down to the social media "misinformation" and how they would deal with it. All just months before Fauci's predicted "surprise pandemic".

Want to really blow your mind? Look at the coordination in all western countries culminating in the ridiculous tribal war going on in Eastern Europe between 2 factions of the same tribe. Young men are literally being ripped from the arms of their mothers and being thrown into the meat-grinder, senselessly. There's no prospect of winning, just less Western men with their liberty-mindedness, to interfere with elite/globalist aspirations. Murder in plain sight with a meticulously crafted cover story narrated over decades by propaganda. The end result is the same: a continued decline in the number of western, liberty-minded people.

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2026-05-08T13:17:51Z

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That was my point about BIP177. There's always something we ...

2026-05-08T09:49:19Z

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That was my point about BIP177. There's always something we can do. We are the network.

You're only helping to solidify my point. This is not some ...

2026-05-08T09:47:17Z

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You're only helping to solidify my point. This is not some shitcoin. He's not pump and dumping. He's accelerating bitcoin adoption and some have too shallow of an understanding to realize it. "hE gOnNa sElL bItCoIn!!!"

Who's he going to dump on and what is he dumping? MSTR owns ...

2026-05-07T07:18:13Z

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Who's he going to dump on and what is he dumping? MSTR owns $66B of bitcoin, not some shitcoin. Explain your confidently expressed position. Be specific.

Just watch the earnings call instead of falling for ...

2026-05-07T02:10:03Z

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Just watch the earnings call instead of falling for sensationalism. He's only suggesting that if a situation emerges where there is a unique arbitrage opportunity where selling a little bitcoin is the best way to increase bitcoin per share, for example to buy back undervalued MSTR shares, the option is on the table. He's not talking about pumping and dumping.

It's impossible for me to do the subject justice. Just watch the call and verify for yourself.

Of course bitcoin and MSTR haters are jumping on his statements and pulling them out of context. Please don't help them by amplifying their underhanded tactics.

Nope. He is simply announcing that in certain rare arbitrage ...

2026-05-07T01:49:38Z

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Nope. He is simply announcing that in certain rare arbitrage situations, selling some BTC is consistent with MSTR's overall goals.

You can be a maxi and have a trading bot that buys AND sells bitcoin while still being consistent.

Very nice, Druri! Loving my physical #BTClock!

2026-05-07T01:46:51Z

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Very nice, Druri! Loving my physical #BTClock!

Like the internet, it's yet another digital battleground in ...

2026-05-07T01:44:22Z

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Like the internet, it's yet another digital battleground in the perpetual cold war between freedom and tyranny.

bip110 is about 5% as retarded as BIP177 but, you know, nothing ...

2026-05-07T01:21:33Z

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bip110 is about 5% as retarded as BIP177 but, you know, nothing we can do about it, right?

quoting nevent1q…0t7t

yea i don’t disagree, but people can ultimately do what they want

better to focus on things we can control, life is short

I'm fairly confident that @Wisp ate my follows so I just ...

2026-05-02T12:33:32Z

I'm fairly confident that @Wisp ate my follows so I just followed back my followers.

Hello to anyone I hadn't followed back prior. 😊

I installed wisp yesterday or the day before now I have 1 follow, ...

2026-04-28T03:28:30Z

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I installed wisp yesterday or the day before now I have 1 follow, my most recent follow, but my followers seem intact. My finger is pointing at them. Hopefully not permanent? Is that wishful thinking?

These people are insidious.

2026-03-23T10:34:19Z

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These people are insidious.

Good thing they didn't charge interest!

2026-03-14T03:18:32Z

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Good thing they didn't charge interest!

Jefferson was amazing. Where are all the great thinkers? Even our ...

2026-02-28T14:02:15Z

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Jefferson was amazing. Where are all the great thinkers? Even our best of the present day seem to pale by comparison. Fiat education is clearly taking its toll.

I was just talking to a friend about how Fuentes might have ...

2026-02-28T13:58:03Z

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I was just talking to a friend about how Fuentes might have helped Charlie break through a blindspot about Isreal by opening new forbidden thought space. Charlie is giving Ron Paul the same sort of credit in this clip. Thanks for forwarding it. Very relevant and timely.

This is also another example of Charlie, perhaps dangerously, taking a position that put him at odds with the Israeli, neocon and MIC orthodoxy. I thought most of those sort of clips had emerged back when Charlie was assassinated. It's amazing there are so many examples. He will truly be missed. He was destined to be president and was taken way too early, likely because he was so powerful and had so much influence over the latest generation.

Spaghetti hands...

2026-02-18T07:23:04Z

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Spaghetti hands...

This seems like a great idea and a perfect fit for bitcoin. It ...

2026-01-18T17:28:02Z

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This seems like a great idea and a perfect fit for bitcoin. It reminds me of early demonstrations of remote payments by sharing a bitcoin "invoice" qr code with a willing payer via livestream or just text. I think Roger Ver demoed that use case back in the early days.

Since this 33me to involve payment via credit or debit card, I'm curious about how charge-backs are dealt with.

I think in-person transactions generally are "insured" so to speak by the payer being present and maybe even on camera. It seems like the remote payer could potentially game a system like this because they are anonymous, off camera, and could just accept the bitcoin and then do a charge-back at some point afterwards.

Maybe the protection is that their credit/debit card company would flag this sort of activity if it happened too frequently?

United States and El Salvador agree to create a Framework for a ...

2025-11-16T11:20:58Z

United States and El Salvador agree to create a Framework for a Reciprocal Trade Agreement - U.S. Embassy in El Salvador https://share.google/XAtNMwlFZY3vrygQt

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2025-11-15T20:14:06Z

BIP177

Just think, now that Dorsey unilaterally adopted BIP177 for his ...

2025-11-15T10:54:47Z

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Just think, now that Dorsey unilaterally adopted BIP177 for his many thousands of centralized properties there are now arguably "only" 2.1 quadrillion Bitcoin.

But at least now bitcoiners can spend their bitcoin because we all know there was no way to do that before he popped in to rescue us all.

Such a huge asset to this space.

🙄

Just what nostr needs, a massive influx of human created shallow ...

2025-11-15T10:36:01Z

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Just what nostr needs, a massive influx of human created shallow dopamine hits (brainrot) and those who consume it, to counter all the intellectual discussion and content.

I'll predict what happens next: splintering.

Definitely not a bad actor. smh

It's beautiful! Teatro Nacional San Salvador, one of two ...

2025-11-14T20:24:07Z

In reply to nevent1q…3l85
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It's beautiful! Teatro Nacional
San Salvador, one of two stages for the Bitcoin Histórico conference (bitcoinhistorico.com). The other being this amazing location, the Palacio Nacional:

Money influences freedom and slowly erodes liberty. One small ...

2025-11-14T07:41:00Z

Money influences freedom and slowly erodes liberty.

One small compromise at a time...

Yes, unless someone's already designed one for you. ...

2025-11-14T07:35:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…rphk
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Yes, unless someone's already designed one for you.

https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=Refrigerator+tray&page=1

But if there are accented characters where non-accented should ...

2025-11-14T07:25:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…nxfe
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But if there are accented characters where non-accented should be, it's phishing!

Perfect! Just add units confusion+2.1 quadrillion ...

2025-11-14T07:06:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…c75j
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Perfect! Just add units confusion+2.1 quadrillion "scarce" "₿" for the win!

It's about time people start considering that whatever the state used to leverage Jack into infringing free speech and openly lying about it, they might still be using to get him to "support" bitcoin and "influencers" so they won't call out this bullshit.

Don't trust, verify - motherfuckers.

The one and only @nprofile…u090 moderating a talk at Bitcoin ...

2025-11-13T17:33:58Z

The one and only giacomozucco (nprofile…u090) moderating a talk at Bitcoin Historico.

3D print them? That's usually my solution for such things.

2025-11-13T17:25:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…lmyh
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3D print them? That's usually my solution for such things.

"when people say 10,000 bitcoin they will know what you mean ...

2025-11-13T12:58:35Z

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"when people say 10,000 bitcoin they will know what you mean anyways unless you’re saylor."

How about when it's 1?

"But maybe he should eventually just say 1 trillion bitcoin which properly describes the enormity of it."

Try 2.1 quadrillion.

Why use decimals for msats if you can once again use the ₿ ...

2025-11-13T12:52:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…3wvf
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Why use decimals for msats if you can once again use the ₿ again because "unicode!"? Who cares about orders of magnitude? They obviously don't matter.

BTW, I walked 1,000,000,000 m today! Just figure it out from the magnitude. Am I extremely physically fit or 110 years old? Who cares! Users will just have to guess. Hell, why bother with the whole imperial vs. metric debate, just put a number. If units don't matter why should that matter either.

Hell, let's just say bitcoin and ripple are the same while we're at it. Now there are googolplex "stuffs" that don't even need names!

Nothing like simplicity and clarity to help increase adoption.

Other than overpaying by about ₿ 59,999.9997 sounds great. You ...

2025-11-13T08:58:33Z

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Other than overpaying by about ₿ 59,999.9997 sounds great. You must be making a killing in donations.

We can most definitely have impact on someone unilaterally ...

2025-11-12T13:50:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…xamn
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We can most definitely have impact on someone unilaterally attempting to confuse bitcoin users, by:

1. Sending clear feedback
2. Not using or supporting people/wallets/services who use this invalid, confusing and dangerous terminology
3. Spreading awareness of the problems with the community

This is well within the power of even an individual to help remedy.

I'll dare to say that packaging this with the otherwise very positive (and overdue) enablement of square's customer base to accept bitcoin, would be seen as an attack by many OG bitcoiners. To me, it's like a form of poison pill.

"Officer, I use nautical miles per hour." 😂 Imagine ...

2025-11-12T13:32:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…zrgm
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"Officer, I use nautical miles per hour." 😂

Imagine millions of people scanning invoices to pay for streams for ₿2/minute or second. This is not an improvement nor does it help. In fact it most definitely adds confusion and there is no good reason to use the same exact symbol. Just use a lightning bolt, sats, ₿s or anything other than an existing symbol that represents 100,000,000 as much.

Then consider the attack surface created by conditioning normie users to pay whole numbers of bitcoin for things. What could possibly go wrong?

Education materials will have to be updated to somehow explain the difference while already tackling a complex subject.

"oh yeah, and ₿ can mean $100,000 or 1/10th of a cent."

Totally ridiculous.

1. Complying with illegal governmental infringement of free ...

2025-11-12T13:05:09Z

1. Complying with illegal governmental infringement of free speech.

2. Lying about it to the public.

3. "Solving the censorship problem" with BlueSky.

4. Lopping off 8 decimal places but keeping the same ₿ symbol.

Nothing to see here.

Is this true? @nprofile…gwy9 If my math is correct, according ...

2025-11-12T12:52:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…glgj
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Is this true? ODELL (nprofile…gwy9)

If my math is correct, according to BIP177, "₿" stands at $0.00103106.

Please make it make sense.

Hey, what's a factor of 100,000,000 anyway? 😂

This move is the most retarded act of anyone "on behalf ...

2025-11-12T12:22:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…zh7y
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This move is the most retarded act of anyone "on behalf of" bitcoin. Units matter. Present your best argumenrs.

quoting
nevent1q…362d
It's self evidently a horrible idea. Units matter.

"bItCoIn iS sCaRcE! tHeRE wIlL oNlY eVeR bE 2.1 qUaDrIlLiOn!"

"cEnTs aNd dOlLaRs aRe tHe sAmE!"

I became somewhat internet famous for almost exactly this sort of units confusion. See "VerizonMath". https://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2007/08/original-recording-of-verizon-customer.html

What could possibly go wrong?

Didn't we lose a $300 million Mars orbiter due to units of measure being mismatched?

Imagine scanning an article/stream/video paywall invoice for 5 "₿"? Totally insane. Is this guy going for broke in terms of being a bad actor or just high on his own supply?

It's self evidently a horrible idea. Units matter. ...

2025-11-12T12:07:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…p2es
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It's self evidently a horrible idea. Units matter.

"bItCoIn iS sCaRcE! tHeRE wIlL oNlY eVeR bE 2.1 qUaDrIlLiOn!"

"cEnTs aNd dOlLaRs aRe tHe sAmE!"

I became somewhat internet famous for almost exactly this sort of units confusion. See "VerizonMath". https://verizonmath.blogspot.com/2007/08/original-recording-of-verizon-customer.html

What could possibly go wrong?

Didn't we lose a $300 million Mars orbiter due to units of measure being mismatched?

Imagine scanning an article/stream/video paywall invoice for 5 "₿"? Totally insane. Is this guy going for broke in terms of being a bad actor or just high on his own supply?

How about no? ...

2025-11-11T08:15:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…g6nr
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How about no?

Try again without straw-manning. The price quote for a 26TB drive ...

2025-10-13T22:52:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…ndw3
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Try again without straw-manning. The price quote for a 26TB drive was clearly intended as a cost metric not a requirement.
Your node will not be immune from illicit content no matter which software you run. In fact the mindless tribalism is likely to lead to both sides getting a dose of it to prove a point.

I just found a great video you might be interested in. This guy ...

2025-10-13T08:43:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…mj03
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I just found a great video you might be interested in. This guy does an excellent job of digging into the technical details and then the larger issue, the toxicity of the debate. I highly recommend it. Also, watch it and then read the comments and notice that despite his clear attempt to be as impartial as seems possible, he gets flamed by tribal dimwits that just want to cheer for their own team, villify their opposition while dismissing logic and reason.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smSCQ0RyFZg

How'd that work out in 2017? Back then big blockers similarly ...

2025-10-12T18:08:39Z

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How'd that work out in 2017?

Back then big blockers similarly vilified and slandered the core developers and wound up bagholding "the real bitcoin" worth 1/100th of the *real* bitcoin.

The safest approach is not to amp up the division and to calmly address differences of opinion about how to address spam in all its forms.

That's the narrative but the truth is more complex.

2025-10-12T17:59:16Z

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That's the narrative but the truth is more complex.

You really need to touch grass. There are no enemies in this. ...

2025-10-12T17:57:14Z

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You really need to touch grass. There are no enemies in this. Just differences of opinion about very complicated technical issues, governance questions and game theoretical scenarios.

Not talking is not going to take us anywhere. It's literally the worst possible approach.

More talking and hashing through and reconciling these complex issues is the only productive path forward.

Also, if history is any precedent, during the block size wars similarly irrational vilificiation led those perpetrating it and hopping aboard that narrative to sell their bitcoin and becoming BCH and BSV bagholders. Think it through.

We all have an interest in bitcoin's success. Vilifying and slandering long time contributors is not the right way to go about this. Calm and rational discussion is required.

"Everyone who disagrees with me is a shill!" Is this ...

2025-10-12T17:46:43Z

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"Everyone who disagrees with me is a shill!"

Is this really the level you want to operate at? Ask more of yourself. It will produce better outcomes.

There always was spam and likely always will be. The question is ...

2025-10-12T17:45:03Z

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There always was spam and likely always will be. The question is how to deal with it in the most effectively while limiting negative impacts. Both sides have valid concerns. It's not black and white, good vs. evil. We need a rational plan and respectful discussions.

Nothing in your response contradicts Jameson's statement. ...

2025-10-12T17:41:17Z

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Nothing in your response contradicts Jameson's statement. Both can be true.

It's hard to manage changes, updates, security patches etc. ...

2025-10-12T17:39:25Z

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It's hard to manage changes, updates, security patches etc. on a 24/7 decentralized monetary network. Litecoin was used during the block size wars to help test LN and it's required changes. Your point is not wrong, but it's no trivial task.

My advice is to try to stay calm and not assume long time contributors to bitcoin are bad actors. Don't trust, verify - yes, but that doesn't mean to assume any change is a conspiracy.

We can run any node software we want and shouldn't be assumed to be bad actors. Choice is good and multiple implementations is positive. I think we just need to stop short of confidently assigning negative motivations to people who have been doing amazing work for years.

Open and respectful discussion between people who understand all these dynamics is what's needed. Not emotional libelous flame wars.

A 26 TB disk costs $550 USD. Disk space is the least of the ...

2025-10-12T17:32:25Z

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A 26 TB disk costs $550 USD. Disk space is the least of the concerns. Do more research into the topic. It has more to do with game theory, incentives amd the ability to control the data on your node.

Imo both sides have valid perspectives but somehow this has devolved into flame wars rather than what should be a respectful dialog. Novices jumping down the throats of long time devs with low resolution takes and accusations is most definitely not helping.

You just instantly devolved a technical discussion into comments ...

2025-10-12T17:26:37Z

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You just instantly devolved a technical discussion into comments on personal appearance. Probably time to take a break and ensure your opinion is more than an emotional response and is actually based in reality.

If you bring insults instead of arguments you are not helping.

How exactly would that be done ("pushing the changes into ...

2025-10-12T12:29:15Z

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How exactly would that be done ("pushing the changes into 29")? If you can't explain how or have not done the research on whether that's even possible, now would be a good time to reflect on the possibility you might be propagandized and are reacting emotionally to a difference of opinion and approach to very complex technical matters.

You owe to yourself and your followers to at least do some basic research before spreading more hysteria. We need more rational voices, not inflamation and vilificiation.

I should have tagged @nprofile…9yn7.

2025-10-12T12:21:33Z

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I should have tagged Excellion (nprofile…9yn7).

Apparently, and unfortunately, it looks like many of your nostr ...

2025-10-12T12:20:57Z

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Apparently, and unfortunately, it looks like many of your nostr followers have gone bitcoin woke, mustering mostly emotional reactions and reciting spoon-fed narratives. Im seeing this everywhere, unfortunately.

I'd love to see a thoughtful discussion between you and Samson about the topic. Might help bridge the divide.

Or maybe Samson and Greg since they have had a working relationship dating back ages (a decade iirc).

This whole thing reminds me a bit of the block size wars. Many getting caught up in emotional and irrational vilification and even hysteria instead of thoughtful and respectful discussion over differences of opinion on complex technical matters including game theory, which is likely too complex for most (including me) to wrap their heads around.

There also seems to be a fair amount of confusion over default settings vs. removed options. I'd think at the least such a discussion could clear some of that up.

My 2c fwiw.

Just a 4x to $.5 million! Bitcoin did a 16x from Jan 1, 2017 ...

2025-10-05T05:08:20Z

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Just a 4x to $.5 million!

Bitcoin did a 16x from Jan 1, 2017 before the end of that year. HODL!

Blowing away all our collective expectations. What a time line!

That's not the whole story. As I understand it, you will ...

2025-08-30T13:18:42Z

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That's not the whole story. As I understand it, you will still relay spam, just in a way that is more costly to node runners since it stays in the UTXO set. Imo both sides have reasonable technical and governance perspectives but some "in the community" are turning this into a political battle, slandering the other side, as you just did. Ironically, the people trying to frame this as "core is evil/stupid/corrupt/shitcoiners" may be more likely to be shitcoiners trying to fracture the community of the top dog. It's simply a philisophical difference of opinion on how to deal with spam.
Just my opinion.

Jameson with the sane perspective. Thank you for lending your ...

2025-05-13T09:44:37Z

Jameson with the sane perspective. Thank you for lending your time and intelligence to clarify the situation.

It's become clear to me recently that we are at new heights of uninformed yet authoritatively presented shit talking on the bitcoin subreddit. No surprise really as that's the norm for reddit in general. I can't even justify wasting my time in there anymore.

It's nice to hear a voice of reason on this subject and sad that he has to waste his time countering these B.S. narratives.

As expected, this opreturn limit outrage is a nothing-burger.

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Greg Maxwell's take:

There isn't anything unusual or bad going on *with* Bitcoin Core.

In my opinion there does appear to be a dishonest and inauthentic social media campaign *against* Bitcon Core. There have been a dozen threads on reddit on the matter, which is pretty sad because it's mostly a nothing burger... I've wasted tens of hours writing responses only to find that generally the opponents just vanish.

Back in 2014 the average block size was only around 160 kilobytes, as a result there was no real pressure to drive up transaction fees and it was extremely cheap to stuff whatever garbage data you wanted in Bitcoin's chain. Some people were storing data by paying to fake addresses which were really just data instead of an address. This is maximally bad because it bloats up the UTXO database with unprunable data, directly increasing the minimum cost to run a node.

To address this core devs introduced a 'data carrier' output type also called an OP_RETURN. This is a kind of output which provably can't be spent so it doesn't have to go into the utxo database and can be pruned. Additionally, they limited the size of the data to 40 bytes in order to encourage applications which can just store a hash instead of the data to do that. Later this limit was increased to 80 bytes.

The world has changed a lot since 2014: Fees are now not just meaningful but significant, no one is dumping data in Bitcoin because it's *cheap*. People dumping data in have almost entirely moved to dumping data in the witness portion of transactions. Major miners no longer enforce this limit, because it turns out they like money (and have denied requests to limit themselves), and if you are willing to directly connect to one its easy to get them mined. There are some users who are still creating 'fake outputs' but have said they would change to opreturn if not for the limit (particularly some payment channel thing). Finally, use of hashes for commitments is now well understood and there are over 2 commitments per second flowing into open-timestamps which can aggregate an unlimited number of commitments into a single transaction.

The limit also causes some harm to all users of Bitcoin, particularly since multiple significant miners ignore it. When you don't already know a transaction (because it never reached you or you discarded it) it takes *much* longer to relay a block to you (at least 3x the delay if you knew everything but potentially much more depending on how much data you are missing), this harms small miners at the expense of big miners increasing a centralization pressure on mining (because when miners aren't on the same chaintip, one one bigger miners are on will tend to win). It also contributes to mining centralization by encouraging direct transaction submission since no one will bother submitting to a 1% miner, allowing the bigger miners to make more money. An inaccurate mempool also harms users ability to accurately estimate what transactions are pending for the next block so that they can optimally bid against them.

So it was proposed that the limit be removed. There are two proposals, one that just removes the limit completely, which is the first and simpler proposal. Then there is another proposal which makes the default unlimited but retains the ability to adjust it. At this time neither of the proposals have been merged, descriptions of this as having been done are just untruthful.

Arguments against it don't seem to hold up.

The first category of opposition is basically just accusing Bitcoin Core devs of being in favor of shitcoins or monkey jpegs, having talked to many I am confident that few or even none of them like that stuff (no one I've talked to was in favor of it). But no matter how much they don't like that stuff, that doesn't change that this proposal should have no significant effect on it-- it's unrelated. That stuff doesn't use opreturn today and would cost more in transaction fees if it did.

The next category of opposition is just general opposition to 'spam'-- again this proposal is largely unrelated because spammers won't use this, and to whatever extent they do it'll be good news (either moving from utxo bloating fake outputs or increasing their costs). It's an incidious argument because most contributors to Bitcoin core believe there isn't much meaningfully more that can be done about spam: Miners have bypassed the filters that were there, fees have excluded all price sensitive spam. Bitcoin was designed to be censorship resistant and depends on censorship resistance to work-- and a fact of free speech is that it means it allows both speech you like and speech you oppose. Arguments are made that blocking this traffic isn't morally equivalent to censorship. Perhaps! but it's still substantially *technically* equivalent. But, again, this is all a distraction in that the proposed change shouldn't meaningfully facilitate any new spam.

Ultimately the subject is deep in the minutia. It won't make a difference to your usage of Bitcoin. The only really concerning thing I see in the subject is the degree that people have successfully weaponized misinformation to direct a lot of entirely undeserved abuse at contributors to Bitcoin Core. ... who had only just started discussing a proposal when they were waylaid by a flood of disproportionate comments and falsehoods.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/s/elIDdPaQhL

Just curious. Is Saylor doing enough to accellerate the adoption ...

2024-12-17T01:31:02Z

Just curious. Is Saylor doing enough to accellerate the adoption of Bitcoin yet?

How's BlueSky going?

Am I a bit bitter? Yes. My Twitter account was deactivated under Jack's management shortly after he kicked the President of the United States off his platform.

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Says the guy who was overseeing the tweep state. Oh man, where to start... While you where lying to the public and covering up state sponsored censorship and corruption, Michael was spreading awareness and empowering the masses with a censorship resistant technology that offers individuals new tools for wresting their freedoms and sanity back from out of control governments and central bankers. The irony. It might be time to step down from your ivory tower and acknowledge the ranks of people that have been working towards restoring freedom while you were doing the bidding of tyrants.

$100k sell wall defeated. Who would try to sell at $100k anyway? ...

2024-12-05T03:45:56Z

$100k sell wall defeated.

Who would try to sell at $100k anyway? If you're going to sell you can't sell at $99k?

HFSP noodle hands. 😁

Pumping! It's happening! ...

2024-11-11T16:23:47Z

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Pumping! It's happening!

Lol, he rugged himself. Garbage for garbage. Welcome to the new ...

2024-10-13T14:14:26Z

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Lol, he rugged himself.
Garbage for garbage.
Welcome to the new renaissance.
Nothing's stopping this train.

Brazil is becoming rather Brazil-like, isn't it? Trying to ...

2024-09-04T18:38:09Z

Brazil is becoming rather Brazil-like, isn't it?

Trying to shut down X and SpaceX now complying...

Someone should probably tell them about nostr.

I was just wondering when you'd adapt one of your LN ...

2024-08-23T06:32:40Z

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I was just wondering when you'd adapt one of your LN automations to Nostr, for example to blow bubbles when you received a new DM. Does this library facilitate that?

It's not often in life you'll see a humble genius like ...

2024-07-29T08:14:37Z

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It's not often in life you'll see a humble genius like Ben Arc (nprofile…4x38) investing his time and effort, and sacrificing time away from his family just sitting waiting for anyone to stroll up and be enlightened. This man is a treasure to bitcoin and should have his own conference. He's a builder factory, facilitating future innovators. There has to be a way we can flip the script from pumping shitcoins, paid services and shallow talking heads to actually educating and enabling new users and use cases thereby seeding innovation and broadening our base. Ben has been rather quietly but substantially helping bitcoin and lightning via his many lightning enablement projects, including the amazing/powerful LNbits, and had a hand in the creation of nostr as well. I would love to support, volunteer and attend a conference where current builders, including the many who've been motivated, spawned and supported by Ben could meet, collaborate, share and pay forward his investment to future generations.

Says the guy who was overseeing the tweep state. Oh man, where to ...

2023-04-14T07:56:44Z

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Says the guy who was overseeing the tweep state. Oh man, where to start... While you where lying to the public and covering up state sponsored censorship and corruption, Michael was spreading awareness and empowering the masses with a censorship resistant technology that offers individuals new tools for wresting their freedoms and sanity back from out of control governments and central bankers. The irony. It might be time to step down from your ivory tower and acknowledge the ranks of people that have been working towards restoring freedom while you were doing the bidding of tyrants.