Would the miscreant responsible for this like to come forward?!? (afaict, this is the first ever use of the taproot annex on mainnet, and they put a 3KB dickbutt in it 🙃) mempool.space/tx/b78748f2ee3…

If Bitcoin development had to go in a single direction, which one would you pick?

Bitcoin Eagle ⚔️ URSF Tomas S mononaut > how about the burden of proof of not confiscation were on BIP proposer Because it is impossible to prove a negative

Ability to convert credit card sales into BTC is awesome.

There will only ever be two quadrillion one hundred trillion Bitcoin.

Installing a Bitcoin wallet for merchant today with Bitcoin Jungle⚡️ "That amount you see here is in sats, which is like cents but for Bitcoin" "Oh yeah, I knew that already" "Cool, cool"

The "Reduced Data Temporary Softfork" BIP proposes temporarily disabling various Bitcoin features in consensus. I have surveyed the blockchain to quantify the potential impact, by identifying historic transactions that violate each of these rules. 🧵↓

From Store of Value to Store of JPEGs.

We are exactly one year away from impeachment. At the rate things are going, who cares? Democrats will sweep the midterms running the most radical candidates in American history while Republicans spend a year calling their base antisemitic. They’ll impeach Trump and charge

Salvatore Ingala If you explore the limits, the point I'm making is clear. Suppose for the next year, every block contained 1 transaction with a 1MB OP_RETURN. Bitcoin would cease to be money at that point, destroying it. Suppose for the next year, every block contained only monetary

Interesting how Dathon has continued to engage with the community regarding his proposal and gather feedback. So much negative propaganda out there about BIP 444.

Many don't seem to grasp that permissionlessness and the lack of a software warranty for Bitcoin means extreme edge cases and complex scripts shouldn't be relied upon, nor will they be supported indefinitely. People who stick to standard transaction templates and popular script

I have submitted an update to the ReducedData Temporary Softfork BIP PR. I updated the Abstract, Motivation, Specification, and Deployment sections: github.com/bitcoin/bips/p…

Wow.

How dare you attempt to build consensus for something that doesn't have consensus.

Stephan Livera Sasha Hodder The problem with OP_RETURN is that its intended use, and therefore its intended interpretation, is as intentional file storage.

I set up all the dependencies for developing Core/Knots and am begrudgingly coding c++ after a decade plus hiatus. I already miss instant compilation times, sane auto formatted code, great documentation, and instant easy testing that Go provides 😭.