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2026-02-15 20:14:13 UTC

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sry but i don't even know what ur advertising here. no context, just "check here" and a website that doesnt work and from there only insults.
is that a reddit alternative? or why did you want to promote it?

2026-02-15 18:09:00 UTC

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scam? website buggy on ff

2026-02-14 21:16:32 UTC

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Very good post. I feel the same. A lot of content is very valuable and deep, but it's mostly about the same topics. And a lot of people share memes and paintings/photos.... I'm just not interested in images of nature here or in art, I can go to debianart or whatever if I really cared but I don't need it here. I would love it if nostr were an alternative to reddit and not an alternative to twitter. I follow Gigi for instance (Bitcoiner), but he posts so many uninteresting things (amongst very interesting things), that it's annoying 80% of the time and very nice 5% of the time maybe. I don't want to miss those 5% but I have to accept the other 95% of his posts here (not to bash, it's just not for me).

2026-01-17 10:36:57 UTC

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I have 2 of this exact model and intend to buy 3 more. Still waiting for sales though, as they are extremely expensive, but by far the best out there. And the battery lasts 1-2 years I believe, never had to replace so far and I'm probably one year in at this point. But rn it's 170 USD, which is ridiculous. I think first time I noticed these was at around 110 (which is probably already ridiculous as well?).

2025-12-19 15:38:28 UTC

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From a guy who filters legit youtube comments.

2025-09-24 07:09:17 UTC

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"But you should be informed of what you're getting into."
Bro, Bitcoin-Core could just revert that change and you wouldn't have to write such articles. But they didn't. It's all being a conscious decision.

2025-06-01 09:17:00 UTC

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damn, this belongs to the frontpage of nostr.org

2025-05-18 07:14:32 UTC

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if we all stood anonymous (and not use our "followers" as thing to give our argument more weight, therefore also moving to new profiles/keys here and there, would be an option. but yeah i have no clear opinion either. the "public person on nostr" usecase is still an important usecase. but the fact remains: it's probably what got wiped from the history books and other sources, that is most interesting or most relevant. i hate delete buttons, i only like them for myself, if you catch my meaning.

2025-05-13 11:23:05 UTC

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1) But such a thing that you desire, can never exists, as long as you have any property that allows for custom data to be attached? IMHO us removing the limit anyways won't do anything and it's worth the risk, BECAUSE we can always come together again and decide that this was a bad idea and we should roll back. It's like when you dig a pond for you to bath in, you also have to live with the birds that will find this pond and drink from it and maybe shit in. It's just something that is there and what is there gets being used. It's the most natural thing. There is no pool/pond in the world, that is only used by humans, even though the sole purpose it was being built, is to bath in it. Other animals and species find other use cases that do not get in the way. Bitcoin knots is - apart from merging what they should not merge just like that - the chemicals you would throw into that pond to keep others from using it. I myself like a natural pond, I don't like pools with chlorine and so and I don't care if a ducks takes a dump into it. This is not my world, it is OUR world and we can and have to live alongside each other. A bird will not come to the pond if a human is in it. The economical incentive is not worth the risk. But if no humans are there, it will take a bath and take a sip.
2) Nothing is forever. Initially, there was no OP_RETURN limit, then it got implemented and now it is being removed again. If we find that this was a bad idea, we aren't fucked, we can just remove that part from the code again.

2025-05-12 21:40:15 UTC

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But isn't he on a heavy leverage? Like if BTC would go to 50k again, it would all bust? After all, he could become such a target at 500k Bitcoins that could be liquidated.

2025-05-12 15:34:23 UTC

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But why would he invest in irregular steps? Why not all at once or something? Or why not OTC (maybe he does but I don't know). And he did in fact take loans, he said that over and over. I think he also did stock splits to buy more. Either a tanking bitcoin price or people selling his stock for some reason, could potentially blow his company. But what the heck to I know. I would never buy that stock, because I have many questions but find no answers. Unlike raw bitcoin, where I have lots of answers to all kinds of critics.

2025-05-12 14:35:53 UTC

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No, you also need to participate in lots of interviews and convince everyone that you are a true maxi. I'm thankful for Saylors inputs and world views, as they are indeed extremely interesting. But my uneducated self fears that if he is sucking the whole market empty while his company is in decline (apart from the bitcoin thing), I can't help but think he will blow up at some point (and he potentially he already is aware of that or that's even the plan). Just think about Strategy blowing up and the US getting his BTC... If he is just the puppet for the US to create a reserve already, without "officially buying in yet", they can buy more at a lower price. Seriously, how can such a company buy 13k bitcoin every here and there? If you take Saylor by his word, why didn't he take all his "loans" at once? I don't get it and when I tried to research it, I didn't find any info that would make sense to me. Saylor might be the next price bomb, we don't know. The fear of Strategy being overleveraged and about to blow exists since many years now, yet he still buys more and more. If anyone can explain this reasonably to me, I'd highly appreciate it.

2025-05-12 10:34:00 UTC

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I want to say that I'm not 100% sure that my perceived scenario will 100% be as written, as there might always emerge things that we do not see yet.
1) You also "run" a plug that sits in your wall, that allows for TCP traffic. That traffic does not care if you are watching porn or browsing wikipedia and also, it shouldn't. TCP CAN be used to stream porn, although it was never meant with that goal. Even with unlimited OP_RETURN, the consensus rules stay the same. And AFAIK (I'm not 100% sure): What your node filters does not matter at all, because miners will find a valid block and as long as this does not cause a hardfork, your node is going to accept the found block. Your filter basically is only for you and the users of your node. And for Matthew Kratter, so he can say "8% of nodes are Bitcoin-Knots nodes", which is a meaningless number, as of my current understanding.
2) Yes, monetary transactions will be more expensive IF THE BLOCKS ARE FULL, which is an important note. First thing is, that we want to have full blocks, for keeping the miners around long term and not put them into a stop and go mode. That would be the worst thing that could happen to BTC, because the 10 minute block time would become heavily volatile. Also, monetary transactions will move to a second layers solution, which is already the case now for small payments. Your spam concern is imho correct, I also am a bit afraid of that. Even if economical incentives speak against it, there is actor A which has 9999999x more financial power than actor B which also wants to use the mainlayer once a year. That being said: Spam is already possible and it doesn't seem to happen often. Having a bigger OP_RETURN does not automatically enable spam, it just opens the path to developers for easier NFT access, but it's not like the could not do that stuff already with multiple combined transactions. The block size limit remains, so your node doesn't suddenly have to get bigger SSDs and so, as you should anyways calculate with full blocks when you want to decide on how long long the capacity of your SSD will need to last.
>it's already so hard to make ppl understand what btc is
Nobody understands what bitcoin is. Not you and not me, but we have a vastly deeper understanding of it than the majority of people. But you see on this debate, that even the biggest experts on bitcoin have different approaches. Bitcoin is what democracy decides it to be, nothing more and nothing less. If you believe that YOU got it 100%, then clearly you should work on yourself, before you start on others. I can't count the times where I had an opinion but I wasn't aware of a simple additional fact that made me completely shift my opinion. Some of that stuff is already known but you don't know it yet, some of that stuff will emerge only in the future.
Thanks for writing back man, I appreciate such discussions and I don't claim to be right, I'm just not convinced otherwise yet. :)

2025-05-12 07:26:23 UTC

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why do i see this shit? i don't follow that guy and i didn't come here to see meme reposts.

2025-05-09 09:13:15 UTC

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Bitcoin is NOT a monetary network! That was the intention of it, but bitcoin is a simple database of transactions, that have the ability of an "attachment". Bitcoin is USED as monetary network, amongst other things. Obviously, these attachments can used in a non-monetary-transaction driven form, but that's simply the nature of such a protocol. The block limit remains, the financial incentives clearly go against spam, so I don't see why we would need to "filter" stuff out. Nothing neutral about that. If they removed the block limit, I would see it completely otherwise. Also they having merged it in the midst of the discussion is a poor fucking joke.

2025-05-07 18:25:11 UTC

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i'm split on the pull request. i see the benefits but not the drawbacks to the current implementation (block size limit is still unaffected). but i disagree with the idiot who just merged that shit without the discussion having been even close to over.

2025-05-06 16:11:03 UTC

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