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Why are folks stuck in this weird mental loop where they hate spam, want it blocked, and die on a hill for something comically ineffective, all while refusing to just add a protocol rule to *actually block it*? Of all options, this is the most nonsensical, logical incoherent one.

UPDATE: Disney is now building a theme park in a country that beheads people for being gay.

In all seriousness: why not pursue a compromise like this? I don't care much about OP_RETURN limits either way, so if that's some big deal for folks, and they'd be willing to add covenants in exchange, this seems like a win win for both of those groups 🤷‍♂️

Energy Star Program. Outlets like CNN, Washington Post, TechCrunch, Fast Company, etc are running headlines saying Trump is killing a program that saves Americans $40B per year. This number comes from the program's own 2024 annual report. The claim is not so much a lie as

We call on every representative, regardless of party, to support the repeal of the “Patriot Act” and begin dismantling the surveillance leviathan piece by piece.

It cannot be stressed enough how much the public health policy response to the George Floyd protests shredded institutional trust (link in replies)

Can I decide how it's invested? No Can I withdraw it when I want? No Can my family have the balance when I die? No It's not your money, it's a lossy, unsustainable, population pyramid scheme that's *worse* than a Ponzi, because at least Ponzi didn't force people to participate

I'd be more in favor of making the 80 byte OP_RETURN limit a protocol rule that was actually enforced, vs doing filter policy rain dancing that adds more technical/system complexity and creates negative Nth order effects. Why are filter folks not advancing a protocol rule option?

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Good, but 20-Life would have been more just. Scammers deserve murder-level punishment, because a financial scam at scale that hits hundreds of thousands of people almost always results in suicides, which the scammer should be held responsible for.

The NY Times spent a decade telling you Bitcoin was worthless, backed by nothing, a Ponzi scheme. It’s now the 5th most valuable asset on planet Earth. Do you still subscribe to their periodical?

As a libertarian, I don't care whether he speaks or not (I don't vote for Rs/Ds), but because he is, I do wonder if the Democrats will continue committing electoral suicide by refusing to compete for votes among a group that may regularly swinging major elections going forward 🤔

Americans will pay higher tariffs on imports from the U.K. than they did before Trump arrived in office. How is this a good deal? reason.com/2025/05/09/the…

Depends what you mean by fragile. For example, I'm pretty sure if I domed this thing in the face (vision sensor area) with a solid core metal bat, it would be out of commission in one hit. When they start mounting guns on them, you'd need to engage at a distance with a rifle,

OP_CHECKCONTRACTVERIFY is BIP-443. When I presented MATT at the first BTCAzores Unconference - See you in 2026 🏝️ in September 2022, it was just a concept: a minimal covenant with maximal power. While the covenant was straightforward, what a good implementation would look like was far from clear. Then came

"They're coming to get the payments you agreed to make - pure evil!" - I will never understand how these goofballs think their ridiculous hyperbole will ever resonate with the vast majority of people who responsibly pay back loans.

Steve jokes, but I had been genuinely wondering if filter folks will double down on whack-a-mole commitment by proposing a mechanism to automatically stream in new dragon-chasing filter code that's dynamically executed without compilation.