Rich Nost

Bitcoin hedge wizard. Do not consult me unless as a last resort.

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2026-07-06 16:49:40 UTC

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Bro it's cat meat. Therefore the argument is irrelevant. Doyyy!

2026-07-06 16:17:12 UTC

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This is where I stopped reading X last night, and it only took 5 minutes of scrolling. I should thank Arthur for being so absurd. https://npub1zw7ftkfpezmtym8n2j2fvnd0smunztl9pyjys0fxdqne08vq397s5yvpu5.blossom.band/3b68e3262775c4ad90291a1c5d4c42f2a8f44f80919cc6cc282278c98defbbc0.jpg

2026-07-04 23:12:43 UTC

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That would be just as crazy as assuming good faith in everyone, including people you disagree with.

2026-07-04 22:28:11 UTC

This 4th of July, the media really wants me to know that Donald Trump has been highly inappropriate with his denunciation of Communism.

2026-07-04 21:20:49 UTC

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I run a Core 29 full node that services a 5 year old lightning node with dozens of peers and non-insignificant liquidity. Maybe top 100 nodes.
Also I administrate your mom's Core v30 node since I owe her a favor.

2026-07-04 18:58:07 UTC

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That's just the market allocating capital to where it's needed most! I'm surprised all the LARPertarian claptrap on nostr hasn't gotten throught to you yet 🤪. Have you not yet guzzled the requisite 900 hours of indoctrination it apparently takes to be a Bitcoiner?

2026-07-03 22:53:47 UTC

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You guys love huffing your own farts. It's like bitcoin the software is incidental or ancillary to this ridiculous, teetering stack of philosophy you've constructed. You'd rather LARP in some fantasy world where bitcoin has already won.
None of that stuff is going to matter at scale. And now we are moving into the "at scale" phase where, to be a "bitcoiner", it's untenable to suggest you devote hundreds of hours of self-radicalization. A bitcoiner is someone who owns and uses bitcoin.

2026-07-03 20:16:13 UTC

Wow, doesnt this sound like a lovely afternoon? What else were you going to do with your precious time that isn't as important as sperging out about shit that has absolutely nothing to do with using bitcoin to buy things, which is its primary purpose.
#nevent1q…verg

2026-07-03 16:17:53 UTC

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Oh this basically IS inscriptions. It just wraps the inscription in a different script envelope

2026-07-03 16:15:50 UTC

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Finally we can add the Ordinals project to the BIP-110-ready list.
https://v0-bitcoin-companies-table.vercel.app/

2026-07-03 16:07:43 UTC

LOLOLOL
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2026-07-03 14:52:40 UTC

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Here's the sort of nonsense I'm talking about
https://x.com/AdamBLiv/status/2072538204343873832

2026-07-03 14:50:42 UTC

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My complaint is that the LARPertarians have convinced you that "bitcoining" is hard, because it necessarily involves converting the masses to an entire liturgy of libertarian self-radicalization talking points that have nothing to do with bitcoin.

2026-07-03 13:53:30 UTC

LARPertarians, cone on! You're getting smoked by the people who say that "bitcoining" is just owning and using bitcoin!
It can't be that simple! Don't they understand they have to do 900 requisite hours of self-radicalization? Do they not listen to podcasts!? Do they not world-build around extremely boring and heterodox economic theories?
#nevent1q…k2wq

2026-07-03 06:20:08 UTC

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Never heard of it https://npub1zw7ftkfpezmtym8n2j2fvnd0smunztl9pyjys0fxdqne08vq397s5yvpu5.blossom.band/642fdc722e7a079a97d5bdb1221e9bbb38188ec6effe2a725eee81fecf7e91b3.gif

2026-07-03 00:43:52 UTC

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In case it was obvious, you don't.
If you want a good test of whether an idea makes you a bitcoiner, try to spend the fucking idea and report back to me.

2026-07-02 23:36:24 UTC

This tweet is making the rounds, and it's absolutely infuriating me.
Listen very closely: the only thing that makes it hard to be a "bitcoiner" is your own retarded LARPatarian notions that you have to make more LARPatarians instead of more bitcoiners. That's it. You are playing this shit on hard mode unnecessarily.
All those people who turned on bitcoin on their Square point of sale systems? Those are bitcoiners, and they didn't have to read a single fucking page of Human Action or listen to a single minute of Jeff Booth droning ON AND ON about deflation.
Stop punching yourself in the face!
https://x.com/AdamBLiv/status/2072538204343873832

2026-07-02 22:21:08 UTC

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Is Shinobi wrong? How do YOU think the scenario will play out? Because what he's proposing will happen sounds entirely within reason.

2026-07-02 14:20:29 UTC

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As in all things with bitcoin, gathering and projecting cheap opinions without bringing economic weight is futile. They can spin up all the Little Nodes that Could they like, but if they don't clearly present support from major transaction oroginators or miners, it's just a bunch of wasted time and energy.

2026-07-02 14:10:21 UTC

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I think it's mostly non-technologists wishing on a star that the laziest interpretation of how a UASF works will somehow come true.
Bitcoin consensus being as easy to change as activating a yammering pack of hyenas has two possible explanations:
1) It can't, and they're all actually just as dumb as a bag of hair
2) It can, and bitcoin has a much wider, retarded attack surface than anyone, in 17 years of Bitcoin discourse, ever thought.

2026-07-02 14:01:03 UTC

What I love most about the BIP-110 drama is how willing people are to stake their reputations on it. There WILL come a time where all the confident saber-rattling will end on one side or another, and the opposite side will happily supply the screenshot and nevent receipts. You typically only get one Bitcoin reputation. Use it wisely.

2026-07-01 22:37:13 UTC

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I'm sorry I'm not familiar with that shitcoin. Has it been around very long?

2026-07-01 21:00:30 UTC

Terrible people: Nostr can't improve until there's something other than Bitcoin to talk about!
Nostr dutifully responds by expanding its popular set of topics:
https://npub1zw7ftkfpezmtym8n2j2fvnd0smunztl9pyjys0fxdqne08vq397s5yvpu5.blossom.band/ce303913f2b933ba662051ebe6a21489baaf61740b1c85dd208b7ea2a10056e4.jpg

2026-07-01 20:19:48 UTC

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That's retarded.

2026-07-01 20:12:39 UTC

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Have you seen all the exciting new slop they are producing over at #BCHNostr?

2026-07-01 18:11:47 UTC

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BIP-110 Node Runner: I WILL ENFORCE THESE RULES ON YOU
BIP-110 Fork Node Enjoyooors: NOOOOOO BLOCKTIME IS 9 HOURS NOT THAT WAY

2026-06-30 04:19:17 UTC

Feel bad for the one or two real people on #BCHNostr who have to make chitchat with paid astroturf.

2026-06-30 02:17:35 UTC

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I feel like there's a broader context that I'm not aware of. Like what's the history here. Who are the players. Why does it seem like there are in-crowd devs and out-group devs and what, if any, are the philosophical differences that led to that schism. What are the major software projects that help color in the picture better.

2026-06-29 22:54:42 UTC

Took 25 hours
#nevent1q…h2yk

2026-06-29 21:27:02 UTC

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I will pay someone 2000 sats to explain just what the hell is going on here.

2026-06-29 16:40:56 UTC

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You shouldn't talk about Bitcoin Nostr like that

2026-06-29 12:36:04 UTC

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"Bitcoiners and shitcoiners are natural enemies. Like Bitcoiners and bankers. And bitcoiners and suitcoiners. And bitcoiners and other bitcoiners. DAMN BITCOINERS THEY RUINED BITCOIN"

2026-06-29 12:25:54 UTC

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What purpose can an entire social network of retarded maxis serve without shitcoiners to fight? We've become indolent. Bloated on our own endless ideological claptrap.

2026-06-29 12:22:37 UTC

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Maybe shitcoiners are what we've been missing all along.

2026-06-29 00:10:00 UTC

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Weed.

2026-06-28 20:20:02 UTC

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On the ground, I don't get the impression at all that the % of non-node-runners who even know about bip-110 (much less those that have an opinion) track with the % of node runners that have taken a position.
This is a much different environment than 2017. Back then, huge overlap between purchasers and enthusiasts and node runners. Purchasers are now overwhelmingly casuals who barely even understand that bitcoin isn't just a "stonk". Most of them aren't on Twitter, so have no clue what BIP-110 is.
Hell, zoom in to the local meetups. Most of them are dumb as a bag of hair. Maybe in a room of 20, two of them might run a node, maybe one of them even cares about BIP-110, and they tend to be the non-influencing hardliner that people secretly hope would just stay home.

2026-06-28 19:17:55 UTC

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Yeah, but why would miners conflate 20% of node runners with 20% of their total addressable market?

2026-06-28 17:57:28 UTC

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If I'm reading what you are saying correctly, you think that miners will be incentivized by where the purchasing power on the exchanges goes. But where are you getting the 20%? Barely 20% of our little retarded corner of the internet even knows about the fork, and we are a drop in the bucket of total exchange volume.

2026-06-28 14:49:11 UTC

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The fact that miners don't think there is significant economic activity nor value locked up in BIP-110 should be apparent by the extremely low hashrate.
The fork activation isn't the signal that miners are waiting for -- it's a deadline. If you hit the UASF fork block with no hash rate, you will know the effort has failed and the wind-down of the remaining holdout minority miners and nodes will only last a few days.

2026-06-28 14:42:14 UTC

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The miners only care about the nodes that originate significant economic volume and value. Some shitty repurposed laptop or NUC in someone's basement has no bearing and poses no threat.

2026-06-28 13:38:08 UTC

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I'm not reading all that.

2026-06-28 13:31:56 UTC

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It will be dead in less than 3 days.

2026-06-28 13:31:24 UTC

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Its not becoming popular, and even if it was becoming popular, that's not how any of this works.

2026-06-28 13:05:50 UTC

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Given that this is game theory and computer science, it's a wonderful way to salvage some educational moments, so you guys don't www waste everyone's time with an u popular UASF again. It's polluted Bitcoin Twitter such that it actually makes nostr look like a nice, sane place to visit in comparison.

2026-06-28 12:35:12 UTC

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Number of nodes don't matter if they don't carry economic weight.

2026-06-28 04:18:08 UTC

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What led you to assume that wasn't an earnest question?

2026-06-28 01:02:37 UTC

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Seems like if the current hash rate 6 weeks from user activation is this low, it will pretty quickly die.

2026-06-28 00:33:07 UTC

Hey BIP-110 discussion addicts: I have a question about user activation.
How the the dofficulty for the fork be re-calculated? Will it somehow only adjust according to the emission rate of "valid" BIP-110 blocks in the last 2016 blocks? Or will it hit the ground running with the se difficulty rate as Core?
Won't that matter? If BIP-110 difficulty is that of Core on the fork activation, and BIP-110 has very low hash rate (currently way less than 1%) doesnt tha mean block time will be hours? Doesnt that mean transactions would take like a day or more to safely confirm? Doesnt that mean the next difficulty adjustment might take years?

2026-06-27 21:14:11 UTC

Today I fixed my clightning remote replication issue and killed a wasp and took a nap and just woke up and its 3pm.

2026-06-27 13:35:12 UTC

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If only you knew how bad things really were. https://npub1zw7ftkfpezmtym8n2j2fvnd0smunztl9pyjys0fxdqne08vq397s5yvpu5.blossom.band/22f23a36e167e864d32442b67058d9176fd027b735b9d5fdefab6b07679933a9.jpg

2026-06-27 03:00:35 UTC

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Nah I'm a Belieber https://npub1zw7ftkfpezmtym8n2j2fvnd0smunztl9pyjys0fxdqne08vq397s5yvpu5.blossom.band/6fdcf59e018a26eef9165bec068cfd28fff76f71faf9c49e001c7f3ae6f7e275.jpg

2026-06-27 02:00:38 UTC

What exotic Linux distribution should I try next?

2026-06-27 00:47:35 UTC

Yo BIP-110. I herd u like snowballing.
#nevent1q…6y36

2026-06-26 22:01:41 UTC

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My claude md had a strict no-tailwind rule. For some reason Claude loves Tailwind, and it generates a giant hairball of unmaintainable style.

2026-06-26 21:27:17 UTC

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Its true. Most bitcoiners are just LLM's that summarize podcast influencer talking points.

2026-06-26 21:19:17 UTC

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It's a waste of time that cranks like to discuss before they lose their minds and start/join a shitcoin fork.

2026-06-26 21:15:19 UTC

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Experience watching a radicalization funnel open up around the topic of SegWit. It's tradition at this point.

2026-06-26 21:10:40 UTC

They are starting to sound more and more like BCH/BSV by the day.
#nevent1q…4h57

2026-06-26 12:58:18 UTC

Christ almighty, it's like Europe is fine being treated by their leaders like an ant farm.
#nevent1q…sczy

2026-06-26 01:26:30 UTC

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Last I heard, he retracted his support. IDC, He's ideological signal; not technical.
https://npub1zw7ftkfpezmtym8n2j2fvnd0smunztl9pyjys0fxdqne08vq397s5yvpu5.blossom.band/ca80adbe3470968d836982984e9a2bbb84991e617e93e4b8ca110d353946d62b.jpg

2026-06-26 00:45:23 UTC

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Does hodlonaut still support BIP-110?

2026-06-26 00:40:15 UTC

What if we are all just trapped in here with each other.

2026-06-26 00:35:10 UTC

The OG's are tiiirrrred, boss. 2-3 cycles of massive corrections, with no guarantee that this isn't a massive speculative bubble will TEST YOU.
#nevent1q…5ytw

2026-06-26 00:06:11 UTC

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I have no idea what demand Primal was trying to meet. It just kind of strikes me as this weird Frankenstein abomination of VC fucksticks cutting every corner that makes nostr interesting.

2026-06-25 23:52:41 UTC

AI is probably the closest thing I am going to have in my lifetime to a talking spaceship that helps me get out of precarious jams, and I'm okay with that. What a time to be alive.

2026-06-25 20:45:18 UTC

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Time to blaze a J u mean

2026-06-25 17:00:38 UTC

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Yes, because that's exactly what happened to BCH and BSV. They didn't fall back and get weirder and more radicalized. At all.

2026-06-25 15:03:32 UTC

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Did you lose a bet?

2026-06-25 15:02:12 UTC

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What was the bet? Price gently kisses $58,XXX?

2026-06-25 14:53:02 UTC

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The minute you have to invoke a conspiracy that requires psychic powers to divine internal motivations, that's when I walk away from the discussion. We're in woo-woo territory at that point, and this is computer science.

2026-06-25 14:33:10 UTC

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You are right that people are an important component in this. The way people behave and the language they use when making their case all matter when trying to build consensus.
I haven't seen any concern for optics or rational discussion on the BIP-110 side; mostly just extreme language that invokes insults and language like "enemy of Bitcoin" and "pedophile" -- and that's from their very public and influential thought leaders. And if there is a rational case to be made, it's been obscured by this unnecessary "good vs evil" rhetoric about how bitcoin is going to die if an angry mob doesn't get their way. Perhaps this is why they have failed to make their case to any entity who matters.

2026-06-25 14:16:28 UTC

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I already did admit that I could be wrong. Anyone can be wrong about anything, and the point of rational discussion is to find truth. Speaking with BIP-110 advocates, I think they fail to make their case.
Consider the very real heuristics here: With the exception of Luke (a known outlier of opinions) not a single person responsible for the stewardship of the Bitcoin source code agrees that this is a viable strategy. Instead, it's an army of online characters in an outer sphere of Bitcoin influence -- writers of Bitcoin-dependent software at best, and influencer thinkboi at worst.
You seem to like asking pointed questions of "yes or no", so I'm turning it around -- do you think it's
1) mere coincidence or perhaps conspiracy that people of Luke's technical caliber don't think this is a viable solution?
or
2) a very telling hueristic that there is a fundamental misunderstanding about the chances of success?

2026-06-25 14:07:21 UTC

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I've already outlined why I think it's an online movement of miscalculated game theory and passion; not a credible way forward, IMO

2026-06-25 14:04:33 UTC

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Again, I can have nuanced opinions about Core and believe that their OP_RETURN limit is arbitrary and biased towards unpalatable use cases. But I don't see it as an existential threat, and Core doing something I disagree with shouldn't obligate me to join a children's crusade of people who have an overlap of opinion.

2026-06-25 13:48:30 UTC

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Bitcoin has not been about "angry randos get to push invested entities around". This is an economic system of non-coercion where people have to peacefully make their case to people that have invested their capital into making the system work.

2026-06-25 13:43:24 UTC

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Sure, I can be wrong, but I simply can't see my way to it through mechanics moon math. The idea that just a thin sliver of hash rate and the knots installation base of rando nodes is enough to scare miners to flip over to their side is
1) scary, because it means that bitcoin can be sybil'd with far more dangerous consensus changes any given time that conspiracy mongers can activate the plebs
2) not how BIP-148 achieved *game theoretical* success

2026-06-25 13:39:32 UTC

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I'm pretty bad at reading nix and flakes, but am I correct in that it only uses bitcoind and mempool.space from nix-bitcoin? Any other features like their hardened node configurations?

2026-06-25 13:24:16 UTC

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I like the LARPatarian variant myself.

2026-06-25 09:43:56 UTC

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In conclusion, BIP-110 advocacy camp hasn't done the important work, which is alliance-building with economic nodes and miners. Far from building bridges and making friends, they believe a ritual of a software install and screeching on the internet is going to bring them the same sort of victory as was won in 2017.

2026-06-25 09:27:15 UTC

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On top of that, I think there's a great amount of confusion about the activation of the fork being the big event in a UASF. But it's actually the industry concession BEFORE activation that is the event. BIP148 never activated before the industry conceded to BIP-9. Post activation is the head-on crash scenario in the game of chicken, and that game theory is just longest chain with most proof of work. Because BIP-110 is far more intolerant than the rest of the network, it, by definition, cannot achieve the longest chain at activation if it has minority hash rate.

2026-06-25 09:08:45 UTC

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Its dumb because it over-simplifies the game theory. The headline for BIP-148 was "nodes matter and pose a threat when in revolt". But BIP-110 advocates think that translates to "any node matters", which it doesnt. BIP-148 had a lot of political maneuvering behind the scenes in the run up to August 1 2017, such that they mounted a credible threat of nodes *with economic weight* (i.e. nodes from which significant transaction activity and value originate) and miners who signaled support. BIP-110 has none of that.

2026-06-25 08:16:31 UTC

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Nobody was here for the UASF. It never activated on August 1, 2017.
What's crazy to me is that BIP-110 advocates are acting like this is established game theory when it's not. They think all the success parameters are in place for a repeat of a fork that never happened, and when they are missing hash rate and nodes with economic weight.

2026-06-25 04:17:44 UTC

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I can have nuanced opinions about the direction of Bitcoin and simultaneously understand that BIP110 is patently dumb. It's a giant waste of time and an exploitation of pleb ignorance.

2026-06-25 03:34:46 UTC

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Day-by-day *more* like BSV lunatics
It has no shot. Its proponents just parrot a bunch of meaningless metrics, like saying them to each other often enough substitutes for the fact that they have built no support with miners or nodes with economic weight. The hash rate will be anemic day 1. Transactions will take days to get 6 confirmations deep, and the difficulty won't adjust for like two years. Its DOA, yet its proponents insist, like BSV advocates, that all their opponents are dumb Coretards who don't understand how bitcoin works.

2026-06-25 03:27:10 UTC

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That it's a massive waste of time and energy and its advocates look day-by-day like BSV lunatics

2026-06-25 03:05:52 UTC

110 people know their fork is so cooked, that they need to propagate copium about secret Chinese miners who are gonna swoop in and juice the hash rate
#nevent1q…vqfh

2026-06-25 02:36:50 UTC

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Let's not be conservative about how far 110 will fall behind. 110 will literally reject close to every single block that Core currently finds valid. So much that the 110 chain block time will be hours. Transactions will take whole days to get deep enough in the chain to be considered safely confirmed.

2026-06-25 01:40:35 UTC

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Is it using nix-bitcoin?

2026-06-25 01:34:59 UTC

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#nevent1q…uggy

2026-06-24 22:38:08 UTC

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I like the cut of your jib.

2026-06-24 22:06:06 UTC

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Yes and the majority of your content doesnt look like pig butchering scam accounts or bought engagement from the 3rd world, unlike #bchnostr

2026-06-24 21:59:33 UTC

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Its not interesting at all if you read their content.

2026-06-24 21:51:35 UTC

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BIP-110 is a LARP. It's 0.3% of the current hash rate and a bunch of defiant oppositional disorder loony birds maling a lot of noise on social media about how they are going to bully the ecosystem into a forced regression to the consensus rules of Bitcoin.

2026-06-24 20:48:55 UTC

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Personally, I would not feel comfortable with Bitcoin flipping over to a fork where only one of its advocates actually has meaningful commits in the bitcoin source code and all the other people who have meaningful commits to the bitcoin source code are sick of his shit.

2026-06-24 18:43:47 UTC

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Because everyone wanted segwit. The debate was about to what degree (2x vs 1x). BIP148 was a way to force a decision, and it never actually activated, but at least it had advocates that sought alliances with economic nodes.
A clear minority wants BIP110 and all they do is make enemies. It's gonna be so DOA, I doubt that by the time it activates, that Mechanic and Luke are even going to support it. They'll probably just kick the can with a new block height deadline release or a new BIP.

2026-06-24 17:42:43 UTC

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Sometimes I think you are serious people and then you remind me that you are not, more often than is reasonable.

2026-06-24 16:02:02 UTC

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They're catering to their audience

2026-06-24 14:40:38 UTC

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You know what doesnt support BIP-110? All the multisig wallets that nunchuk users had every right to believe was a valid and productive use of script.

2026-06-24 02:51:32 UTC

nostr is the social media platform where we talk about nostr.

2026-06-23 16:16:56 UTC

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"Exposure"