leadbyexample

A father who does his best to be peaceful, in a world afflicted by violent states.
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Un padre che fa del suo meglio per essere pacifico, in un mondo dominato da stati violenti.

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leadbyexample@zaps.lol

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2026-03-15 20:32:14 UTC

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That's also the place where a zombie apocalypse will arrive last.

2026-03-14 13:20:00 UTC

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This game looks like the shite.

2026-03-12 07:43:02 UTC

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Not getting over it means getting anyone who disrespected your personal freedoms and human value the fuck out of your life.

2026-03-11 14:14:45 UTC

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One of my isa red's was doing the same, I discovered their mobile house was really close to the net, and even if I regularly clip their wings, it was climbing the roof and making its escape.
I would leave them roam free, by any means, issue is that local predators would like for me to do the same.

2026-03-11 13:48:22 UTC

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Right, I hope Iran won't start spreading lies about military targets hidden under the bombed buildings, or something ludicrous like that.

2026-03-11 08:21:23 UTC

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Not even that, acschually.
A private key is but a very big number.
Can you own numbers like you own a bicycle?
Exactly.

2026-03-01 20:36:33 UTC

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What is this about?

2026-03-01 20:23:26 UTC

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How do they explain the locals manifesting their hate for the US after the killing of Khomenei?

2026-03-01 19:18:44 UTC

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nevent1qqsv50ke2gwjcajjp0cc66t8l0xx3lw298x3v608xvzmu40kexr6vtgdt7c2y

2026-03-01 19:17:30 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/3bf8bbdc1baaa4318306420b60cd1fac7646195227d5e5234fd72a87d7f284e3.png
When you try to affirm the existence of a god, there are probably just two ways to go about it.
One is an insta-defeat: trying to use mock-logic.
Example: "this thing that happens in the real world looks impossible (to me, at least), so it couldn't have come about simply by itself... hence god must have done it"
If it was for logic, we should first focus on the properties of any "god", being all-knowing and all-powerful. The two are impossible to occur at the same time though.
If god was all-knowing, he would know exactly what will happen at any time in the future. But this in turn would mean that he wouldn't be able to change it (making him not all powerful).
On the contrary, if he could change any event of the future thanks to his omnipotence, he couldn't be all-knowing, missing the ability to fixate in time something that could be changed at any time before its occurence.
The concept of god is one of self-contradiction.
Moreover, if god has ever made his presence palpable (and going by the bible, or any other sacred scripture, any god has achieved his godly acts in history) it means he can interact with reality in a way that one can witness, hence there should be a way to document his presence with indisputable proof of supernatural events.
No such thing has happened in the age of color pictures, HD videos, and high-sensitivity equipment of every sort.
Logically, god is an impossibility.
Ok then, let's assume instead that god exists outside of the dominion of the logic of us puny humans, that he cannot be either experienced with our senses and our technology, or postulated with our reason.
The above means that nobody, nowhere, at no time whatsoever, could detect, prove, or explain god, being left with the only option of blindly believing in it nonetheless.
The existence of god would rely on faith alone, which means believing that something is true in the absence of any proof.
This consequently means that anyone wanting to convince me that "their" god is the real one, would be utterly unable to actually do that, because I could have the same "authority" to maintain that "god" is not what they say it is, but is instead what I say it is, and nobody would be the wiser missing any capability of debating the topic.
Well I say that god is a flying spaghetti monster.
You can't do shit about it, because I have faith that I'm right.
Sue though, believes that god is a huge translucent otter.
Bob on the other hand, has faith in a non-existing god.
I see checkmates wherever you try to bring this, but I would love to hear more arguments that are not a variation of the two above.

2026-02-28 19:37:21 UTC

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Where did you read any hate mate? Are you serious?
You always post pictures with one blonde kid.
This time you posted a picture with two blonde kids.
I decided to be funny and wrote "hey you did copy/paste!"
That was a innocuous joke and nothing more.

2026-02-28 18:42:17 UTC

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It's chill man :-) I was used to seeing just one blonde little princess in your pictures and this time I saw two of them, hence the copy/paste :-P

2026-02-28 12:13:25 UTC

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did you copy paste or something?

2026-02-16 14:46:36 UTC

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Squinted really hard while looking for it, not disappointed.

2026-02-13 09:55:50 UTC

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well I distrust cats but I have complete trust of my breathing acts, so there's that 😎

2026-02-12 15:19:16 UTC

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are you whipping the llama's ass?

2026-02-12 12:04:47 UTC

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Out of the several posted comments, only one dared to doubt the veracity of this quote... this is the second time I see it cited, and went checking around, but could not find any proof that Bondi actually said that, not to my surprise.

2026-02-10 22:09:23 UTC

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You walked into a very hard frame because you were looking backward while moving forward, and you turned around just in time to have your face planted on the corner.

2026-01-25 12:53:14 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/00dad604accbc6a068994348f84e8db13d77425d8547240fd91059424cc4b1f9.png

2026-01-24 17:27:10 UTC

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I've never been to Kenya, and not intending to go, but I did my best to describe the scene both to chatgpt and gemini, and both confirmed that it's absolutely fake.

2026-01-24 17:02:53 UTC

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Oh it totally is, unless you think it is normal that a lioness would attack, alone, a huge fanged elephant, in front of god knows how many tourists, and after being brucelee'd to the ground like that (because, you know, martial arts elephant) will just idle on the spot cringily looking at the camera and hugging the elephant's trunk, while the elephant towers over the lioness to humiliate it further.
It is AI.
Be wary my friend, because if you don't spot stuff like this now, you're in for a very bad time, very soon.

2026-01-24 15:04:20 UTC

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AI is wild.

2026-01-22 08:19:56 UTC

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that sounds great as it is! She's aiming at her potential 100x better this way than with any public school.

2026-01-21 21:02:55 UTC

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I notice that you frequently go out in nature with your tiny jewel, which is nice, would you care to post a note about how you deal with her socialization with other kids/adults, if any, and her education?

2026-01-20 09:05:35 UTC

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I notice many typos in these memes getting posted to nostr, and I can't decide whether this is intentional to fuck with people's autocorrection algos, or someone is being very, unrelentingly, outrageously, shamefully sloppy.

2026-01-14 20:41:12 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/b30b4769048b6bdd4295e15edb40a6dd4a1e76cc19ccf95cb32f0fa86c1c541d.png

2026-01-14 20:06:03 UTC

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I honestly thought you were 10 years younger.

2026-01-13 10:24:09 UTC

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I need to know the song that plays in the background, for reasons

2026-01-11 17:20:06 UTC

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What is your stance with respect to this quote?
Because you know, with credit, it's not money that generates other money, even if that could be made as a silly conclusion, but actually it's forfeiting the immediate use of your money in the present, to postpone it into the future, that generates money.
You are selling your restriction of immediate desires as a service.

2026-01-09 13:07:35 UTC

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gonna set my alarm clock to this shit right now

2026-01-09 11:46:58 UTC

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get what? that they like them dance moves while sporting cool disco hairstyles?

2026-01-06 17:26:06 UTC

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You have published a long post drawing praises to the place with the most cancerously large, most aggressive, most gaslightning state ever, as being the place where you can get freedom and liberty.
Hence the dissonance.

2026-01-06 16:41:32 UTC

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There is nothing wrong about being proud of stuff.
I mean if it's something that you earned for yourself.
You can't really be proud of being intelligent, or beautiful, or born in a rich family, because those are things that came to you as a gift from good luck.
You can't even be proud of your nation, much like you cannot be proud of ironman or captain america, not because you didn't earn them, but because they are things that don't exist in reality.

2026-01-06 15:52:25 UTC

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My eyes hurt after being exposed to the dissonance in this post.

2026-01-02 09:32:04 UTC

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Okay Shlomo, okay.
Here is a rock.
https://blossom.primal.net/304d0df28d42edb59fb48ee43e03afb51938d3fe3b42735f78344a70539d51a7.png

2026-01-02 09:24:01 UTC

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Context or it didn't happen 😇

2025-12-30 19:52:11 UTC

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Cool!
I feel claustrophobic by looking at the inside video but it's just me, the concept is very interesting, but I myself would feel buried in large capsules with no exit, because of those long and narrow corridors occluding my perception, and god forbid I'm 3 tunnels away from the nearest actual exist, it's hard to breath already.

2025-12-30 17:13:23 UTC

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best leadership is no mandated leadership.

2025-12-28 18:42:18 UTC

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well at least you're not initiating violence against anyone else by smoking 100$ instead of stacking sats with them

2025-12-27 22:59:04 UTC

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it's good to notice how they are all fine lads and lasses managing them daycares though

2025-12-27 19:48:23 UTC

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This argument is moot to say the least.
How are benefits paid?
Do people actually paying them have any choice about subsidizing immigrants?
Are, or are not, violence (taxes) and fraud (counterfeiting, as in inflation) used to make sure the state has enough to spend on immigrants?
That once in a while the imported human material turns out to be a good investment is marginal and inconsequential, what does happen 100% of the time is productive individuals being extorted and defrauded of their wealth for choices they did not make.

2025-12-26 20:27:59 UTC

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quantum computers be like
https://blossom.primal.net/540c916f76562bbe34c22d9b5bdd3c1eadb303a1a51a7ef41939c764e023ff8a.png

2025-12-25 19:30:30 UTC

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BENKIO BENKIO BENKIO!

2025-12-23 20:46:14 UTC

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Paul Saladino indise Starbucks: "STARBUCKS' EGGNOG IS GARBAGE GUYS"

2025-12-21 21:33:06 UTC

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Letting AI go through all the stuff on your disk, what could ever go wrong.
BTW a disk space analyzer tool, like windirstat for windows or ncdu for linux, can help you do the same with human brain processing power and no leaks.

2025-12-19 11:15:58 UTC

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I was gonna say IBM but yeah all's good.

2025-12-04 18:53:15 UTC

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I thought it was going to end with "...so they can work like very tiny fins to make them ever so faster"

2025-12-02 20:18:35 UTC

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I hope this is staged.
Because as a peaceful parent, I have no idea how I would react to this.
I mean, even not being personally involved, it still got me a good minute to convince myself that whacking him to the point of bleeding is not really necessary, and I could instead devise a restitution plan with 50% interest out of every future activity and gifts.

2025-12-01 12:09:50 UTC

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I think you kinda have to search for love, you first should know how to recognize a person that's good enough, then check that she's good enough for you specifically, and then well, love would come if it's to come.

2025-11-30 22:17:56 UTC

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Pushing creation because there is no provable change of kinds (so far), is like, for prehistoric men, to firmly believe that a god just had a quarrel with his wife because nobody could explain volcano eruptions.

2025-11-30 20:03:43 UTC

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yeah I don't know, I was interested in the ingredients, but it's not pizza, it's "pizza". I am carnivore, but I might indulge once in a long while, and if I'm going to eat pizza I'm sure getting a certified italian one, not a yogurt hybrid.

2025-11-30 10:06:18 UTC

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Does this mean that you like things only when they're small?
Sorry, I'll see myself out now.

2025-11-29 20:46:39 UTC

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coffin?

2025-11-29 13:05:13 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/eb182b3a78af93bca132d16dd936a7e685cd2ab7bd2a7d9c8776e18b577c21b2.png
this is not the pussy I was looking for

2025-11-28 19:30:48 UTC

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Yes, I very much hope to find a beautiful pussy to be grateful for

2025-11-28 13:00:18 UTC

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I wouldn't buy that yacht if I was a measly multimillionaire.

2025-11-21 16:01:20 UTC

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wait, you mean to tell me that you have any fiat left?

2025-11-19 16:42:30 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/017c1a3b45bf00aaea791b9a7106d4aa2d339955919cb587f8b85ee1b40af1ff.png

2025-11-19 13:37:11 UTC

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"QUICK HE'S ONTO US SHUT HIM UP!"

2025-11-17 20:53:05 UTC

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was this real life?

2025-11-17 10:11:25 UTC

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Depends on which energy you're measuring, for example kinetic energy is (mv²)/2
Also, trying to invalidate physics because we're still unable to verify stuff at a nanoscopic level is like trying to say that birds don't actually fly because "it's all atoms moving around maaaaaan" 😉
Let's discuss about things we have an effect on and can be affected by, which are in the macroscopic scale.

2025-11-16 22:20:43 UTC

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how dare you write the words I intended the write before I could write them

2025-11-15 18:23:48 UTC

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Thumbs down on maximalism
Thumbs up on nft
No surprises there

2025-11-11 08:44:09 UTC

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you're probably the luckier one here, who knows

2025-11-05 11:12:43 UTC

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Theft of garden gnomes is just a political excuse to keep strange people out of your lawn and limit free circulation of individuals, and is currently being used by dangerous nazis as a pathetic excuse to propose many other liberticide rules:
- DISABLE ingress of strange people in your garden through a fence
- LIMIT offensive capability of thieves by keeping guns on the premises
- REJECT taxation by removing arbitrary central authorities that always screw things up
- INVALIDATE any claim to "inclusiveness" by defending the sovereignty of people to decide who can enter their territory
- DISABLE state ability to spy on people by introducing privacy enhancing technologies

2025-11-03 22:57:43 UTC

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I'd be curious to hear what the missus has to say, still as long as it works more power to you (like, literally)

2025-11-03 22:55:10 UTC

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Amen.
Bitcoin will go on though, a little dirty but still.
Maybe drivechans will save the day, and there will be one just for sociopaths and deviants.

2025-11-03 21:15:53 UTC

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That is a false dichotomy.
Education and prior selection avoids ending up with someone who is not compatible with you, negotiation fixes surprises along the way.
Do you think that any woman would ever accept the role of "do whatever I say because I am the man"? I think that did not happen even 100 years ago.

2025-11-03 21:14:22 UTC

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You meant to say "why would you need negotiation"? Well negotiation is what avoids violence or depression when a conflict arises, and conflicts always arise.

2025-11-03 20:06:42 UTC

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Supposing what you say is true about spammers preferring rarity tied to higher expenses, even offering them a cleaner and cheaper way to spam will not convince them to forfeit the luxurious way of doing it, that is, with fake pubkeys.
So if that premise is valid, it contradicts your conclusion.
And if it is not valid, it does validate my point of only leaving the most expensive loopholes accessible.
No, people are not angels, people are a gross sum of praxeological individuals that work by profits and incentives.
More options to send spam inevitably means more spam.

2025-11-03 19:57:41 UTC

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That is a romantically sound reply, just not logically so.
Unless you have access to a repeatable higher tool of perception that goes beyond the reason and the senses, all that you said is still wishful thinking, because you have no means of distributedly verify any of that.
The way a man believes the truth, is by ascertaining that what he thinks has an experimental counterpart in factual reality. A belief that doesn't allow any kind of verification is faith, and that's what you probably are referring to.
I believe in my reason and senses.
I cannot believe in god since, even if it exists, there is no way for me to biologically perceive it, and psychologically process it. Nor there is for you, and if you mean to say otherwise, you are implying that you reject biology, or that you are not a human but some kind of elevated alien.

2025-11-03 19:50:18 UTC

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You have some unusual definitions, but you are at least giving definitions 😉
Physics is rather the way the universe behaves, translated into mathematical formulas for our own understanding.
Whatever we (still) don't understand of physics, is not god, is rather a failure of our intellect.
You could say that god is "whatever we cannot understand of the universe", but then remember that once humans thought that rain, thunder, earthquakes and volcanoes were god. Nowadays all those things are not god. This makes the definition of god flaky at best.
Let's consequently say that unless we want to dismissively call god whatever it is that we still don't get of the universe, god just doesn't exist.
Let's define a common ethics and let's stick to that, god is unneeded.
Bitcoin is still based on math, that any practical application of math requires time and energy is a given, no?

2025-11-03 17:34:54 UTC

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Yes, fake pubkeys increase the utxo set, which means that other than taking space in the blockchain, they also increase the space needed in the utxo DB. Not in RAM, as they will be pretty soon placed in disk cache never to be fetched again, since they cannot be spent, but still.
Storing the same amount of data in fake pubkeys costs (depending on feerate) up to 30 times (if you consider 1sat/vB as feerate floor, even more for lower feerates) the cost of OP_RETURN, and way more than that compared to witness if you consider the 75% discount.
So yes, fake pubkeys increase the space requirement for full nodes, but are much more expensive than that for spammers.
Game theory says that if you do not give the possibility to store garbage in huge multiple OP_RETURNs, and maybe patch the possibility to do that in witness, spammers will have a much harder time spamming.

2025-11-03 17:17:36 UTC

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I have to be blunt, this sounds like word salad, no doubt I wouldn't have been able to produce such heights of elaborate sentencing in my high school years when I liked to meddle with word salads, but nonetheless it doesn't make sense, I hope you see that.
Physics is not the physics of god, it's just physics. And if a god indeed created it, it's an unnecessary ingredient, since we seem to understand it without having to place god in the equation.
Bitcoin is math, and math is probably the most universally acknowledgeable and verifiable truth.

2025-11-03 13:56:28 UTC

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Should anyone believe in anything that is not verifiable by the reason applied to the senses?
If that is true, belief in any mainstream divinity can't be any more dignified than believing in the spaghetti monster.

2025-11-03 13:35:18 UTC

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"but... arbitrary data in output pubkeys! we must open MOAR spam channels so they don't use fake pubkeys!"

2025-11-03 13:33:57 UTC

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"but... but... but... arbitrary data in output pubkeys! we must open more spam channels so they don't use fake pubkeys! think about the babies!"

2025-11-02 20:27:28 UTC

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Someone else made this argument to me already.
Yes, shitcoiners are not above wasting good money to store garbage, yet that is still not a reason to not make them spend more anyway.
On the same page, and maybe you have a good argument for it because I haven't seen one yet: considering that any downside, resource-wise, coming from filtering transactions that are later included in a block anyway, is an issue exclusively for the filtering node, and does not involve other nodes on the network, what is the pressing reason to remove the filters? They don't work, right? The official narrative is that filters are useless.
So why remove the choice of node runners to use them in the first place? Shouldn't make a difference either way.
Moreover, "you can't stop people from spamming" but it seems that they are very intent on stopping people from filtering.

2025-11-02 18:41:54 UTC

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False dichotomy, I just don't want to see garbage on the blockchain, and knots is the only thing that allows me to do my minuscule part in both filtering as much garbage as possible and in signaling to the rest of the network that I am against it.
But I don't care for the rest of the politics behind the schism.

2025-11-02 18:29:13 UTC

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Of course you can't, either, that's also another thing that I never wrote nor implied.
You can make it as uneconomical as possible, which means disincentivizing spammers.
That's what the free market is about.
Adding new backdoors for spam while while keeping the old ones operational is an incentive, and that's just bad planning.

2025-11-02 18:12:25 UTC

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Please point me to where I wrote that I want to stop other people from using bitcoin as they want.
Since you seem to like analogies, it's like saying that I want to stop other people from topping pizza as they want, if I intentionally avoid selling pineapple in my pizza shop.

2025-11-01 19:40:59 UTC

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There is this propaganda about op_return being good because it's a UTXO that can be ignored by the utxo set.
Which is true, because every garbage is garbage and it takes space just as much as in witness, but if with other means you might get unspendable UTXOs that still need to become part of the utxo set, with OP_RETURN you can avoid that additional load in the database.
Which is like saying that if your daughter tries to resist a migrant, she might get a few teeth broken on top of being violated, but if you teach your daughter to never resist a migrant, she will still get violated but at least she gets to keep all her teeth.

2025-11-01 19:34:12 UTC

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It's the capitalists' fault.
Whoever talks about IQ is a nazi.

2025-11-01 19:16:28 UTC

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Yes, I did not say that you're a communist nor that you willingly used that trick, just that you did say something inherently wrong 😉
Let's define the terms: "profit" means getting something back in exchange for your work, that you value more than not doing that work in the first place.
So it can be money, or even just the warm fuzzy feeling of having helped someone for free.
It's still profit, the individual decides on its merit.
Regarding the banks, they could do nothing, as in literally nothing, if the state did not exist, which is like saying, if the people were free at heart and decided not to obey arbitrary laws made by corrupt politicians and enforced by a puny army, which is puny when you consider that every single guy wearing a costume and waving a gun would have to face 200 normal people, if it came to open confrontation.
And that's why if people simply stopped obeying, governments would disappear tomorrow, and central banks with them.

2025-11-01 18:15:59 UTC

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I stopped reading at "X are evil because they only think of profits" which is the mantra of communist propagandists, and not saying that you are one nor that you're doing it consciously.
Guess what, humans have been putting "profits" before anything else since forever, and that's how we got the internet, airplanes, and to the moon (maybe). "Profits" are anything that the individual considers better than what he currently has, be it money, love, self-accomplishment, garbage on the blockchain.
The grand sum of everyone's profits is what makes humanity tick and flourish.
The issue with banks is not that they only care about profits, because if that was the only gist of it, they would offer outstanding service to people IN ORDER to make as much profit as possible.
The issue with banks, as with anything else that exists, is THE STATE that allows them to do whatever the fuck they please without consequences.
And the issue with the state is that people have this sick religion in their head where they replaced god and jesus christ (and I am an atheist myself) with "the social contract" and "the common good", hence allowing the garbage of the earth which are politicians, to rule over them and by association compelling the small minority of mentally sane people to comply or be destroyed.

2025-11-01 17:55:23 UTC

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either this is old or your ring is set to 5 years ago

2025-11-01 17:39:16 UTC

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lol really? it's two paragraphs man

2025-11-01 17:34:25 UTC

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Sorry, the one before was a wrong paste 🤦‍♂️
#nevent1q…epen

2025-11-01 17:32:54 UTC

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It wouldn't be censorship... censorship is when you would normally have the right to say something (for example printing "it's good to be white" on your owned newspaper) and someone else violently prevents you from doing that (for example the government threatening you with jail time).
When you reject a transaction from your own node, it is called discrimination, and it's very healthy. Like discriminating ugly women from being your girlfriend, or communists from being your friends.

2025-10-30 22:55:20 UTC

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have you come late to the party or what 😅

2025-10-29 21:04:57 UTC

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I can produce another analogy 😊
Just kidding.
I played with AI to make some simulations.
So let's assume one could either store garbage at 1sat/vB, or at 10sat/vB (let's say it will be uneconomical to go beyond10 for sick shitcoinining spammers).
Let's also consider that while OP_RETURN has basically just its storage costs, using fake pubkeys carries larger overhead per unit of shitcoinery size, plus each fake pubkey output requires its dust limit 546sats to be locked forever, same thing as paying a fee.
Long story short, no matter the total garbage size (I queried for 1kb, 20kb and 100kb) at 10sat/vB, using fake pubkeys instead of OP_RETURN means spending about 3x the cost per shitcoin size unit, but other than that you're also paying 10sat/vB which is not cheap.
At 1sat/vB (more realistic at current feerates), using fake pubkeys costs a whopping 18x OP_RETURN.
I understand shitcoiners do not care about messing with the UTXO set, but they do care about spending as little as possible.
Are we sure it's a good idea to give them a cheaper, better alternative to do that, which was not available before?
Do you know what the cobra effect was?

2025-10-29 13:47:07 UTC

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UTXO set doesn't need to be stored in RAM.
RAM is used to cache UTXOs that are actually used, so they must be actually spendable (hence no fake pubkeys) and then get spent at some point in time, because a UTXO that is not moved, will after a while be removed from the RAM cache and relegated to disk storage forever, never needing to be fetched again.

2025-10-29 13:35:34 UTC

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see, if you are debating something, and you do not agree with the other person, saying "I am smarter than you so your argument is invalid" is not a valid argument, it's just rude.

2025-10-29 12:01:52 UTC

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this is the argument that goes "hey a thief could just come with a bulldozer to crash your bullet proof windows and tear down the safe from your walls, you are a big idiot if you don't leave the windows open and your credit card+pin on the table"

2025-10-27 22:30:20 UTC

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Ah well, if we want to analyze the arguments that the people at core are using to bring forward this change, all hell could just break lose lol
Even trying to call them "arguments" is an offense to logic.
The way Gloria Zhao explained herself on that podcast was cringe, "whateverrrrr".
Trying to comment on the logical debate is like trying to make sense of Santa.
Btw, Santa may be a figment of children's imagination, but it's still much more serious than Lopp.
So yeah, we do not need to bring in the moral/economical/logical side of the debate, because there is no difference between us there.
That's why my original argument has always been technical, I had nothing to add or expand on the rest.

2025-10-27 13:51:02 UTC

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I'd rather use english so that other people can follow and chime in if they want 😉
You know you are the king of caveats, don't you? 😝
You can't not take into account the technical aspect, because bitcoin is first and foremost technology. It would be like discussing about a painter without commenting on his paint strokes.
See I'm not even contesting that there is "too much" ado about OP_RETURN, as probably there is never too much ado when it's about putting garbage in the blockchain.
I am complaining there wasn't more rioting in the streets when people knew what taproot was going to bring on the table.

2025-10-27 12:36:49 UTC

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you keep throwing in these hypotheticals though, "well but if you think that, then we have no business talking yadda yadda" 🤣
I have stated like 25 times that I despise spam and anything it entails, nor have I ever said that this new low blow to bitcoin is to be ignored.
I am, and rightly so I maintain, showing perplexity at the difference in magnitude between taproot scripts, on one side, allowing for huge bloating and pollution of the blockchain, and OP_RETURN on the other, which is disgusting still, but on a much smaller scale, technically speaking.

2025-10-25 23:06:06 UTC

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I naturally stand on the side of the reasonable man who hates garbage on the blockchain and also any technical means that will lead to it.
And I still refuse your argument 😁
It's like if a law is passed allowing the government to imprison people for no apparent reason (but we know THAT would never happen for real...) and nobody bats an eye, but when an additional law permits the government to also spit on the face of said unjustly imprisoned individuals, everyone loses their minds.

2025-10-24 20:46:49 UTC

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Your reply is a more elaborated version of "using witness means hacking a tool which has a declared different scope, while OP_RETURN was originally meant for non financial data, so its contents would be considered as intentional file hosting in the first place".
To which I can point out that also OP_FALSE in taproot is reserved for non-financial, non-scripting data, so that is somewhat the same as OP_RETURN in scope, and it's been going on for years already.
Regarding the rest, nothing to object but still doesn't address OP_RETURN in a way that sets it ontologically apart from what has been going on since 2023.

2025-10-24 19:38:19 UTC

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and that is true, just like it's true that any sensible man should heavily criticize any and all means, old and new, to add garbage to the blockchain, yet this reason alone cannot possibly cover for the massive drama of the last months, especially if compared to the lack thereof when taproot was still to come.