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Micah541

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2024-09-01 15:16:45

People are claiming that “not a single serious journalist” thinks doxxing @npub180c…h6w6 was unethical. Is this true? Certainly there must have been at least one “serious” journalist who has weighed in… help me out here https://image.nostr.build/2550ded9f4f60f49dc7f5e17e1a6c2d78205bd0f5a795b5322729f0ef2015227.jpg

2024-08-19 04:42:16

Personhood credentials
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.07892

2024-08-18 18:55:46

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I’m no applied mathematician but don’t you get 10x as much when the price is cheaper?

2024-07-17 14:45:52

To explain it in bitcoin terms some of you might understand:
the deep state is the nodes who maintain the ledger
The deep state is what prevents someone who temporary acquires a 51% majority from rewriting everything to their liking
The deep state prevent dictators and tyrannical majorities alike from cleaning house and installing stooges
If a nation has fallen into tyranny it’s because the deep state has failed #note13js…nrtp

2024-07-17 01:16:27

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I’d love to have the 10 seconds before and after his offer to exchange aid for Ukraine for political dirt, also For 10 seconds before and after all of the tweets where he said that millions of votes had been stolen… what about the phone call to the Georgia Secretary of State do we have a 10 seconds before and after there?

2024-07-17 00:56:32

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So because the system held when he took his first shot at it, and it wasn’t as bad as people were originally saying we should let him take another shot? The deep state can’t hold forever.

2024-07-16 01:34:52

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Many things but probably most of all the fact that the guy in the middle of it is claiming that he’s solved free speech, which is the most 1984 thing we have going outside of the book itself. Which would be one thing if he was a crazy person ranting on the street but there’s millions of people who believe him - that’s the most excruciating part to watch.

2024-07-14 16:00:58

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This is what we knew had happened at the time and this is the way that media reports things; it’s literally their job.
Why is everybody so triggered?

2024-07-14 15:08:14

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Based. I’m done with X for a while. Elon and friends are gaslighting, claiming to promote free speech when they are just trying to promote chaos so they can mold their own truths.

2024-03-03 18:37:40

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Can I pipe the output of listunspebt into a data file?

2024-03-03 18:36:47

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If I’m running a full node on windows is there a quick way to count the number of UTXOs that have less than .001 in output?

2024-02-09 18:18:39

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Wait so is nlock time Not Related to check sequence verify

2024-02-09 18:17:22

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I guess I would have thought naïvely that the n Lock is part of the locking script for example in a lightning transaction The locking script has various pads and some of these paths involve n locks

2024-02-09 18:13:53

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In the bitcoin software is the data structure of outputs considered differently than the nlock times? I’m confused reading a description of CTV because it refers to the outlets and also the nlock I would think that the N lock is contained in the outputs

2023-12-23 17:46:22

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Thanks

2023-12-23 17:30:42

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Is she here? My nostr search functionality is not effective

2023-12-07 21:22:41

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Wow this is really wow

2023-12-07 17:42:06

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Right the free market is great until you get smacked by the invisible hand and then it’s cruel
FUCK YOU INVISIBLE HAND

2023-12-07 17:41:07

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What the holy hell did Elon smoke before going on stage?

2023-12-07 17:38:40

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Limpwar is better and it’s only 3.58 or free if you download it

2023-12-07 17:35:19

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That was actually a clever thing he did, blocking people who liked posts that disparaged him so that people would get pissed they were blocked and retweet the screencap of the block, and also preempt them from chiming in with inane comments like “Gosh what a dumbshit”
It’s a great technique for BlueSky.
His softwar arguments are horrible, but credit were credit is due, he’s a clever guy who knows who to ride the crowd

2023-12-07 17:26:48

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How about you just give us your Spotify handle and we can decide whether we want this or not

2023-12-05 23:06:36

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That would mean it has gone to zero, so probably not.

2023-11-28 22:11:46

Charlie Munger - Feeling Like a Victim is Perfectly Disastrous
https://www.butwhatfor.com/p/takeaway-tuesday-facing-adversity-charlie-munger

2023-11-27 23:42:00

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Would be sparse unless you followed a ton of people or you're all looking at the same house. Is there something fancier than "just show comments from people I follow?" What I think would eventually happen is you would have to get whitelist stamping organizations.
I guess maybe you could think of two tiers - people I follow and people who satisfy some criteria that allows me to see their stuff in broader settings

2023-11-27 23:20:26

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Red Team here: Who is going to stop SEO management corporations from flooding every commonly hit url with astroturf ads?

2023-11-27 23:18:27

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Hey it solved racism and transphobia I think anonymous internet yelling should at least be given a shot to fix inflation too

2023-11-27 22:11:22

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We were all younger in the past, so hard to tell, but I remember it being glorious.

2023-11-27 22:09:38

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It's nice that there is a network whose bread and butter is something other than who is calling whom racist/sexist/transphobic/anti-semitic today

2023-11-27 19:10:32

"Trump hints at expanded role for the military within the US. A legacy law gives him few guardrails"
https://apnews.com/article/trump-military-insurrection-act-2024-election-03858b6291e4721991b5a18c2dfb3c36

2023-11-27 18:40:57

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I was for a minute, but I just went ahead and went with satellite.earth and it seems fine... thanks

2023-11-27 18:25:48

Is there a good way to interact with nostr from a windows desktop that doesn’t require being diverted to GitHub and installing from source code?

2023-10-12 22:46:23

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What are the most common opcodes in bitcoin

2023-10-12 22:26:56

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What is nIn ?!

2023-10-12 22:18:07

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What objects or classes have .context.nIn as methods or variables?

2023-10-12 22:11:43

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What’s the notation for defining a method of a class in C++?

2023-10-12 22:07:12

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Would you be able to tell me where in the bitcoin core GitHub I could see any of the above objects?

2023-10-12 22:05:14

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What objects have stack as an attribute?

2023-10-12 22:03:59

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OK so with in the bitcoin code base what object would this be referring to what object would have execute_bip-119 as a method?

2023-10-12 22:02:07

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OK so looking at this code it begins with
def execute_bip_119(self)
What is self here?

2023-10-12 16:46:51

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Ok so for this BIP 119 what other classes are used?

2023-10-12 15:47:55

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OK so to be clear, this part of the code is involving an instance of CTXin?

2023-10-12 15:46:34

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Thanks! So what does “self” refer to? Like what class or object is being used when this part of the code is being run?

2023-10-12 15:43:42

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Hey cyborg. Long time no talk to.
Anyways do you know much about the code base in bitcoin? What about the BIPs? In BIP 119 the code refers to something self.vin what object or class is being referred to here?

2023-09-26 16:25:24

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they do tho and it’s so quuute and hilarious

2023-09-26 04:45:09

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markets trade on rumors every single day, what’s the issue?

2023-09-25 16:30:19

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“ As a result, a coalition of ES-miners is not stable. In short, a coalition of ES-miners cannot form and will not survive.”
Not a thorough analysis…. This idea comes up a lot that somehow coalitions won’t form because people could break them and form other coalitions. 1) Actual coalitional game theory has notions of kernel and nucleus and stable set etc that take further horse trading into consideration 2) Empirically in the real world coalitions do form and tend to have cohesion, the real world is not zero viscosity

2023-09-25 15:17:46

MicroStrategy owns 158425 Bitcoins.
The entire security subsidy for 2025 is 164250 Bitcoins.

2023-09-20 03:52:01

So with #spiderchain can one set of orchestrators steal? And if they do, does that muck up the whole stack of LIFO pegged coins?

2023-09-11 15:53:44

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https://youtu.be/nSc0GoVRqtE
“Competition is for losers”
As soon as it becomes feasible miners will start to engage in anti competitive behavior.

2023-09-11 15:48:48

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1. Validate his concern with Saylor. He has had legal issues and there’s no reason anybody should be turning a blind eye or going full whataboutism to defend him just because he’s bullish. Ignore Saylor, he’s just a loud voice.
2. Bitcoin is a unique Schelling point, there’s 10000 smart Ivy dudes working on other projects that are competing but only one clear Schelling point.

2023-09-11 15:00:15

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Basically, Bitcoin nodes, then

2023-09-11 01:49:30

We don’t need decentralized Amazon we need the absence of centralized behemoths like Amazon. #note1kek…eevt

2023-09-10 16:25:03

Think for yourself and think critically.
Is it a conspiracy theory to suggest Mr Snowden is a simply a Russian asset trying to distract us from the fact that Elon Musk is unilaterally making decisions about which nations attack which nations? (Russia)
The real danger isn’t sprawling inefficient bureaucracy trying to minimizing impacts of a pandemic it’s with centi-billionaires who have no rules and answer to nobody, control the flow of speech and other information, and are free to partner with dictators across the globe. #note148d…l2wx

2023-09-10 15:30:07

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Now do Elon Musk

2023-09-10 00:48:31

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It could set up a path. One day, some miners are struggling so they decide to collude and mess around with a drivechain. Drivechain go south. A year or so later, the same miners are struggling, now they’ve already grooved the road to collusion. People often overestimate the speed at which miner collusion would destroy the value. It wouldn’t be overnight. Plenty of time to take their profits and go do something else.

2023-09-10 00:32:58

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Majority miners if they existed could not make such choices without nuking the entire L1. A problem with DC is It gives miners who might be willing to collude a little playground where they have fun doing reorgs and few sniping and other shenanigans without hurting the main chain.

2023-09-10 00:29:07

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The drivechain folks are promising people get whatever they want. Why not? Publicity stunt might pay off

2023-09-10 00:25:52

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Just the place where Ye holds his coin so he doesn’t have to remember his keys

2023-09-09 22:05:51

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Who/what is the scam? Maybe DC bad idea, but who is scamming whom?

2023-09-09 18:41:47

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If a miner included a Kanye Weat drivechain proposal in a block, would other miners ack it? It’s a legit question. What if Kanye bribed miners for two weeks ?

2023-09-09 18:39:52

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It’s 100% political among the miners. If there are situations in which it’s appropriate to steal a lockbox, the process will be controversial, hence political.

2023-09-09 16:55:37

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Just like the Wisconsin Republicans are hoping to impeach a judge they don’t like before even before hearing a case. Political nuclear options often become acceptable when they shouldn’t be.

2023-09-09 16:54:08

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Right. I’ve suggested the Kanye West is a good candidate. Well known, maybe paranoid to have other people keep his keys, maybe doesn’t trust himself to keep his keys … why not just trust hashrate escrow? No key hygiene required.

2023-09-08 19:13:55

If Elon Musk is your idea of a sovereign individual, then our goal as a society should be to eradicate all sovereign individuals.

2023-09-08 01:32:31

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Ah yes, disdain for experts. Always a healthy play.

2023-09-08 00:55:29

Bitcoin security model is not a ”budget”
https://youtu.be/0bUpF0wJrxo?si=X-UZXCJkee5Gfx3v

2023-09-08 00:49:14

Injeera bread with dinner
This is a massively under appreciated delicious healthy meal https://image.nostr.build/76b8ecf7f6d86fd0585ca2ea1974e0c3b1cb540586fb4b7616239368989d50c2.jpg

2023-09-06 23:42:52

“BuT FiRSt HanD AcCounT”.
Really? Tucker Carlson can fuck a hedge trimmer https://image.nostr.build/e303a20cb3840f06958072d663a34c564e2ba67e8cb9e3362b1d40ba227581ec.jpg

2023-09-06 22:18:59

Security budget

2023-09-06 16:25:01

The problem with relying on the private jet class paying for proof of work is that the private jet class does not need or care about proof of work. #note1l0d…se0d

2023-09-06 16:22:15

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Where are people suddenly getting this “hurried and contentious” thing? Paul has been talking about this for well over half of Bitcoin’s existence.
I think people are just turning away from any uncomfortable discussion of security budget by saying “well nobody knows”

2023-09-06 15:52:02

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I have some objections to this analysis.
The "wildly contradictory" arguments that you point to are precisely the problem: Fees could be so high that only rich people can use L1 (plebs sure aren't going to spending $50 every transaction) while at the same time even these higher fees could represent a such a small fraction of total market cap that it doesn't keep things secure.
My understanding of the drivechain idea is that it's aiming to aggregate huge volumes of lows fees up to main chain. It's not clear that it would work exactly as planned, but it does represent a possible Goldilocks arrangements that doesn't fall back onto Saylor's silly "oh but rich people pay to transport art and pay real estate agents 3%" argument. I'm having trouble picturing high value investors needing to settle $10 million a few times a second.
Certainly, we're not relying on high value investors constantly making L1 transaction to keep Bitcoin running?
If Bitcoin where to obtain this sort of global store-of-value status such that trillions of dollars was changing hands every day, handling transactions off L1 would have become the norm. If I'm a rich folk settling $10 million in a single transaction, it's not the security of PoW that I'm most interested to pay for, it would be the handling of keys and this sort of thing that your average Walmart heiress isn't going to be confident with - so this will be handled by boutique Swiss bankers, who would devise their own ways to skimp paying the billions of on-chain fees.
The problem with putting the security assumption on high net worth investors is that they are the easiest to capture, they don't care about censorship resistance. If the blockchain is captured by a monopoly miner or a cabal of corporations, it need not cease to be a store of value, as long as these high net worth investors continue to believe it's a store of value.
Also, no need to pile on to this "VC-backed" ad hominem: Either it's a well-thought out idea (since 2015) or it's not

2023-09-05 17:47:02

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That’s called free speech

2023-09-05 17:36:45

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Elon musk has just discovered that free speech has this funny property that sometimes what other people say has effects on other people, now he’s mad so he does things like suppress views on Twitter that are critical and suing people off Twitter. He has an 8th grade understanding of free speech

2023-09-05 17:28:06

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Retract

2023-09-05 17:26:41

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https://t.co/S9HxnNLejv

2023-09-05 17:18:38

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Elon is the biggest censor in the business

2023-09-05 16:44:00

Elon Musk is that seventh grade kid who’s been on a “free-speech“ grind ever since last week when he got detention for calling the fourth period teacher a “f—-t”

2023-09-05 16:41:12

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So did you give them the website?

2023-09-05 15:31:32

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No. This is moronic. He sues and mutes his critics. That’s the opposite of free speech.

2023-09-05 15:30:37

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Note just a joke https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/06/01/pentagon-awards-spacex-with-ukraine-contract-for-starlink-satellite-internet.html

2023-09-05 02:11:06

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Yeah I’m hoping that was it I cleaned with paper towel and vinegar real good and then tightened it. Hope it doesn’t start a fire.

2023-09-04 20:18:14

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I hope there’s still that guy responding with “Why do you want to do it this way?” Instead of answering the damn question

2023-09-04 20:16:23

Been hitting the email a lot lately and it’s great #note1jg0…c6pq

2023-09-04 18:23:44

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Could you give me an easy marinade for zucchini or that I’m going to grill later today?

2023-09-04 16:40:25

Anyone know why this connection inside my oven is burning/melting and how to stop it? https://cdn.nostr.build/i/7b6346f0b58988879cfa72656f293c46478b92fc7d4e218cb19429c1336bfb31.jpg

2023-09-03 20:36:24

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Friend, what’s the German word for “burning man stuck in mud”?

2023-09-03 19:47:44

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Fair and honest

2023-09-03 17:41:35

I remain quite unconvinced that #drivechains will steal any significant fee revenue from Ethereum. (This seems to be behind the argument that the miners WANT it).
Just because there’s a $100 billion rideshare industry doesn’t mean I can get even 1% of that by making a new app and being slightly less douchey than Uber.

2023-09-03 17:28:27

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? Which part?

2023-09-03 17:28:00

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Is the old “gay marriage devalues my straight marriage” argument?

2023-09-03 00:11:23

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L1 miners can win sidechain blocks the old fashioned way, by inserting the side chain blocks into the block they find. Or they can use the auction if they want.
It’s good to separate the two BIPs I think 300 might have some decent use scenarios that don’t rely on the shoddy game theory in 301

2023-09-02 20:06:28

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Yeah I gotta be honest in the last week I’ve inched toward drivechains based on the horribly left of the bell curve takes virtue signaling against it.

2023-09-02 19:59:50

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The video was basically an ad hominem on paul, suggesting he’s some sort of VC corporate actor, when he’s on Twitter Spaces talking to plebs all the time, and he’s been at this for like eight years. There’s no way that you would characterize this as a “move fast and break things” scenario. completely dishonest. Just an attempt at virtue signaling jumping on the anti-Paul bandwagon.
$3 million is nothing compared to the money being spent trying to promote ETFs and other corporate involvement.

2023-09-02 19:38:40

Quick comments and summary on the #drivechain discussion between Paul and Shinobi yesterday
Shinobi's argument: It's easy and riskless to reorg the sidechain, so this will happen, perhaps frequently. This is not disruptive to the L1 chain. Therefore there will be a significant discount between the bids for the sidechain block and the nominal value of the sidechain block. This induces L1 miners to obtain the blocks directly, instead of accepting bids from sidechain miners, which are deeply discounted.
Paul: OK, fine, but the discounted value of the block should be near the opportunity cost, so not a huge difference.
My comment: Actually, the discounts and risk of reorg are quite different depending on whether you are an L1 miner or a sidechain miner, have more hashrate than other miners, are willing to collude with other miners, or have deep pockets in to destroy opponents in a dollar auction or war of attrition. Larger corporate miners or coordinated pools have a distinct advantage and can be more aggressive and less defensive in reorging the sidechain.
Shinobi: Now L1 miners who mine the sidechains get a premium over those who are accepting bids. This gives these miners a distinct advantage. In particular small-time miners are unable to run a sidechain node will be left out economically speaking, which tends mining towards centralization.
I didn't quite follow Paul's response, it seemed to me like he was saying, "well that's just how it works" and not recognizing that this would be pushing smaller miners underwater, and that this is a bad thing.

2023-09-02 17:35:05

https://cdn.nostr.build/i/cc648f4339a05c56da4658e843994163f47a42889a579f13f701618acf9c45f0.jpg

2023-09-01 22:10:49

The “essay by professor Warner” Paul mentions
https://achimwarner.medium.com/thoughts-on-drivechain-ii-how-bad-is-mev-75da73969cef

2023-09-01 20:55:20

Shinobi now on spaces with Paul getting good

2023-09-01 17:53:25

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Which miners will?