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Bitcoin's primary innovation is decentralized digital scarcity through cryptographic proofs, NGU is merely a welcome side effect of maintaining that core function successfully.

Miner centralization via filters.

The SegWit discount is 4x cause otherwise it'd be cheaper to create outputs than to spend them. It would bloat the UTXO set over time. Did you know this before proposing to abandon it? Have you thought it through? Or do you just repeat whatever an influencer tells you to?

the filter dorks can’t fork off. they don’t know how. they have to wait for umbrel to add a new app

"We want the mempool to work effectively and in our view removing the OP_Return limit is the better option... Those concerned about cheaper node operating costs have nothing to worry about from the removal of the OP_Return limit."

Yes, developers tend to be paid for their work. If you believe something has merit and lack the capability to produce said work, you hire a developer. It is like magic! You then bear the risk that it is rejected on technical merits (which a good developer will typically inform

The cool thing about a weapon that is reliable at "460 meters" is it can be made reliable at "five to seven yards". Having said that, "shall not be infringed" appears to be a very challenging phrase to comprehend.

Gm.HODL 👑 Heavily Armed Clown grubles Filterors: Spam shouldn't happen OP_RETURNers: But it does happen so we should mitigate it Filterooors: No it shouldn't happen OP_RETURNers: But it does, we can't stop it just reduce the harm is causes... Filterooors: So you want spam to happen?

Steak n Shake accepting Bitcoin payments at all locations starting May 16, making the cryptocurrency available to our more than 100 million customers. The movement is just beginning…. —Steaktoshi

shnotzi If people were looking at actual alternative clients (libbitcoin being a good example) then we could have a real conversation about how important and necessary client diversity and optionality is. Instead, people are hyper focused on librerelay and knots. I have a preference

The NFA is unconstitutional under Bruen. If a soldier or police officer can own it and carry it, so can a civilian. That’s not a loophole, it’s the core of the Second Amendment. The right to keep and bear arms isn’t about privilege. It’s about equality under the law and the

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The number of people who can't comprehend the flexibility of the word "may" and read it as "will" is astounding.

Matteo Pellegrini ⚡️ Bitcoin is many things and it functioning as a type of database (hash-linked block-based ledger) is pretty high on the list of things it must be if we want it to fix money. The only thing more important than that is that it must also be a peer-to-peer network to sync state

Unknown miners rolling nonstandard tx version numbers is only the beginning. I expect we will see more policy violations until either consensus contracts or policy expands. Time to check if your software makes policy assumptions

Pledditor Nakamoto Saylor established a play book that made shitcoins palatable to bitcoiners. Now we get to see all the same mechanics that shitcoins experimented with ran back at lightning speed, but with the market instead of an L2 and market hours as staking.

Teaching newcomers the term "sat" is a whole lot easier than trying to get them to unlearn what a bitcoin is. "I thought a bitcoin is worth like $100k?" "No no, ackchyually, all those price charts you saw were referencing the value of one hundred million bitcoins."

ottosch Knots nodes 50ms after getting a compact block:

I have reached the final stage of bitcoin discourse, fear my power!

Well this definitely isn't 58k.