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Micah541

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2025-09-15 04:06:57 UTC

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Are you referring to JD Vance or RFK?

2025-09-15 04:00:09 UTC

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What exactly did you say? Are you blaming it on me because I support single payer healthcare? Are you blaming it on my neighbor who supports the EPA? Are you blaming it on my mailman who supports same sex marriage?
Are you blaming it on Liz Cheney for calling out autocratic behavior?

2025-09-15 03:49:07 UTC

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It’s really weird and bizarre the persecution complex. Dude went on bluesky and found some anon with 8k followers yapping and concluded that everybody “on the left” wants kids to grow up without fathers.

2025-09-11 04:37:16 UTC

There’s a very distinct moment in recent history where we took a turn towards political violence.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/granting-pardons-and-commutation-of-sentences-for-certain-offenses-relating-to-the-events-at-or-near-the-united-states-capitol-on-january-6-2021/

2025-09-11 04:14:21 UTC

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He’s leaving out parts, there are people pushing back https://image.nostr.build/0205145791a167c4d5f0dacfa44bab290074491e2c527a24e8ef1acbb2d5b367.jpg

2025-09-11 04:04:48 UTC

Trust nostr to have even less self-awareness than BlueSky #note1kc2…j0gy

2025-09-11 03:58:14 UTC

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lol I can’t tell if folks here are being ironic

2025-09-03 04:18:14 UTC

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The $48 fee was massive might sustain things for a few weeks

2025-01-05 23:58:32 UTC

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Dude using finance tricks with a public corporation is not “adoption” it’s an old man without ideas on how to run a business

2024-12-19 00:08:32 UTC

El Salvador becomes first nation in history to un-adopt Bitcoin https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2024/12/18/pr-24485-el-salvador-imf-reaches-staff-level-agreement-on-an-eff-arrangement

2024-12-13 18:42:47 UTC

Update: Jesse not banned. Bluesky says users are empowered to control their online spaces. #note1u4l…w50t

2024-12-13 17:56:02 UTC

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Explain

2024-12-12 23:32:16 UTC

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It looks like Jesse posted there one hour ago. Are you saying it’s a done deal that he will be permanently banned because 13,000 people signed a petition?

2024-12-12 23:25:27 UTC

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Also how many million users didn’t sign the petition?

2024-11-15 17:11:29 UTC

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“If a protocol upgrade makes Bitcoin (say) more scalable or more private, there is actually good reason to think this would make Bitcoin more valuable”
This would make bitcoin more useful to many people but not valuable to Harold who just wants to hodl IBIT. It becomes less interesting to the financial institutions who would prefer to keep themselves as the intermediaries. Privacy and scalability also open bitcoin up to political attack by Elizabeth Warren etc, something that could hold price down. There is a relationship between privacy/ scalability and institutional interest, and I don’t think it’s clear at all that it’s a positive correlation.

2024-11-07 20:28:00 UTC

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Alternatively the median voter is eternally malcontented and there’s nothing we can do to fix that

2024-11-06 17:06:25 UTC

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But neoliberalism is not dead. This is a brand new coalition of Musk, All In folks et al, just doing a worse version of anything the Democrats ever did. Musk is the poster child for neoliberalism.

2024-09-01 17:50:29 UTC

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Actually I have not seen Mike demonstrate any sort of serious tech chops, he’s been a tech journalist for decades. (And a very influential one).

2024-09-01 15:16:45 UTC

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

2024-09-01 14:16:16 UTC

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There’s been quite an influx the last 24 hours, at least that’s what the bluesky folks are saying

2024-08-19 04:42:16 UTC

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

2024-08-18 18:55:46 UTC

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

2024-08-18 05:25:59 UTC

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Ok but Gerard has been poking at the Basilisk cult sense well before crypto was a thing. They’re mocking tech fanboys always trying to pivot, hence the word.

2024-08-10 17:28:51 UTC

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Based

2024-08-07 04:09:43 UTC

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I just got mobhandled over on Bsky for “white knighting for the New York Times”

2024-08-06 17:37:29 UTC

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I gotcha

2024-07-30 15:48:57 UTC

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Implausibly self-serving proposal. Good luck with that.

2024-07-30 15:46:28 UTC

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Example of “weird”

2024-07-18 22:09:45 UTC

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And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is nostr?”

2024-07-18 21:45:25 UTC

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That’s what I’ve been saying

2024-07-18 21:21:52 UTC

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Speaking of what happens in public:
Chapter 6 of your book would like word
https://www.wired.com/story/jd-vance-venmo/

2024-07-17 16:13:46 UTC

Didn’t realize JDV was lan Alex Jones fanboi
https://youtu.be/OJCrs0Do4IM

2024-07-17 15:26:06 UTC

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Nonetheless it’s still better for institutions to hold power than for individuals.

2024-07-17 14:45:52 UTC

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 04:46:04 UTC

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NYT saying at Trump Vance going to print so much money so bullish https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/16/us/politics/trump-vance-us-dollar.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

2024-07-17 03:09:43 UTC

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Cool we’re in a situation where one of the candidates is actually incentivized to act like Hitler because it’s literally a win-win for him.

2024-07-17 01:23:36 UTC

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Sane people Who were just going about their business being sane and all, got annoyed with how stridently you oppose Trump and decided to throw the country away. That’s exactly what happened.

2024-07-17 01:20:21 UTC

Anyone who platformed Kyle Rittenhouse is 1000 times more responsible for any of the Hitloooors

2024-07-17 01:16:27 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 14:57:53 UTC

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You’re basically arguing against the first amendment which is close enough to Fascism that I have no compunctions about suggesting you’re probably a fascist.
The complete otherization of “the left” and “they” also a tell.

2024-07-16 14:55:57 UTC

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If I try to describe a society without aspiring trillionaires who control the communication systems and throw power around like a sledgehammer and you immediately think “murder” that’s on you dude not me.

2024-07-16 05:02:26 UTC

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I have no idea what you’re talking about that Press his job is to call what they see. You can’t not report the news because somebody might get mad.

2024-07-16 01:58:46 UTC

Concerning
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/make-america-hungary-again

2024-07-16 01:57:10 UTC

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Thanks How about this one https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/make-america-hungary-again?utm_campaign=post&triedRedirect=true

2024-07-16 00:25:02 UTC

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Faith of a child, a very very young child

2024-07-16 00:04:02 UTC

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx-cDMNdFXSUWr9HulQHDSmOaAE4LRoRpe?si=GxxCXUt6NoRUfqgQ
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/10/15/archives/nixons-own-expert-criticizes-cutbacks-in-school-lunches-expert.html #note1c3h…qye5

2024-07-16 00:03:41 UTC

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https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkx-cDMNdFXSUWr9HulQHDSmOaAE4LRoRpe?si=GxxCXUt6NoRUfqgQ
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/10/15/archives/nixons-own-expert-criticizes-cutbacks-in-school-lunches-expert.html

2024-07-15 23:56:38 UTC

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This was addressed in Hubermans podcast with Robert Lustig about 2:13:00 I.

2024-07-15 19:32:59 UTC

It was always intended to be a tool for Elon to gaslight people while stirring up chaos. Not broke, functioning as designed.
Elon is trying to dunk on the media for not blurting out “assassination attempt omg” without apologizing for all the misinformation that he amplified. It’s gross. #note133d…cf0y

2024-07-14 18:15:10 UTC

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And there are times in the past when journalists have failed to do this and ended up being humiliated, a headline that’s up for 2 minutes that turns out to be wrong will hound them for a long time

2024-07-14 18:10:49 UTC

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100%. I’m not a formally trained journalist but I would imagine that rule number one is, “in the middle of a crazy developing situation, only report what you know”.
It might look obvious from 2000 miles away but when you are at the scene of a crowd where gunfire is happening it is very confusing and everybody’s describing different things happening and so you just report what you can confirm. I’m not really sure what the other motivation would be, like they were going to cover this up or something, I’m not really following the logic there.

2024-07-14 16:24:57 UTC

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Great work on “collective sense making” :
https://www.cip.uw.edu/2023/12/06/rumors-collective-sensemaking-kate-starbird/

2024-07-14 16:05:12 UTC

For those of you who haven’t witnessed a shooting - it’s not like in the movies; The camera does not pan to the shooter, who pulls the trigger, and we all watch in slow motion and the bullet flies toward the target.
It’s more like, you hear sone unexpected sounds and people just start going apeshit

2024-07-14 16:00:58 UTC

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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 15:46:11 UTC

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Why is it hard to comprehend that they have protocols for this type of event that don’t involve just blurting out whatever other people are screaming?
Their job is to not report speculation or false information.
Are they reporting false information?

2024-07-14 15:42:31 UTC

“ everybody else is lying to you, you need to think for yourself. Now let me tell you how to think for yourself“
-Every con man or cult leader going back to The Garden

2024-07-14 15:08:14 UTC

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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 UTC

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

2024-03-03 18:36:47 UTC

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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 UTC

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Wait so is nlock time Not Related to check sequence verify

2024-02-09 18:17:22 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 17:30:42 UTC

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Is she here? My nostr search functionality is not effective

2023-12-07 21:22:41 UTC

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Wow this is really wow

2023-12-07 17:41:07 UTC

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

2023-12-07 17:38:40 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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

2023-11-28 22:11:46 UTC

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

2023-11-27 23:20:26 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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

2023-11-27 19:10:32 UTC

"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 UTC

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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 UTC

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 UTC

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What are the most common opcodes in bitcoin

2023-10-12 22:26:56 UTC

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What is nIn ?!

2023-10-12 22:18:07 UTC

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

2023-10-12 22:11:43 UTC

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

2023-10-12 22:07:12 UTC

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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 UTC

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What objects have stack as an attribute?

2023-10-12 22:03:59 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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

2023-10-12 15:47:55 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 UTC

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they do tho and it’s so quuute and hilarious

2023-09-06 22:18:59 UTC

Security budget

2023-09-06 16:25:01 UTC

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 UTC

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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 UTC

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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 17:36:45 UTC

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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 17:18:38 UTC

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Elon is the biggest censor in the business

2023-09-04 18:23:44 UTC

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

2023-09-03 20:36:24 UTC

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

2023-09-03 00:11:23 UTC

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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 UTC

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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.