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2026-02-28 07:17:57 UTC

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Hey be are you doing no more new podcast episodes? I checked on fountain and last one is from 2025?

2026-02-27 17:41:54 UTC

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You think they couldn't fake photos back then?

2026-02-27 17:41:02 UTC

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😂

2026-02-22 11:11:27 UTC

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I didn't look into it yet,but you have the power to do so.

2026-02-22 10:30:20 UTC

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How is your exo, I plan to try the same.

2026-02-22 10:20:56 UTC

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Lol discord 😅

2026-02-22 10:20:19 UTC

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It's open source.

2026-02-13 16:25:15 UTC

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It will be a wild ride and bitcoin is the only constant in it.

2026-02-07 08:23:48 UTC

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She won't be missed

2025-11-19 19:30:25 UTC

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Cold Card is an amazing HW Wallet.

2025-11-05 06:36:36 UTC

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Half Life 1 & 2
Gothic
Starcraft
Warcraft
Total War Rome / Shogun 2
Battlefield 1942 / 2
Red Baron
Il2
Civilization
Command and Conquer Generals
Far Cry
World of Warcraft

2025-11-05 06:28:27 UTC

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Oh yeah!

2025-11-04 15:21:42 UTC

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🤚

2025-10-30 06:48:28 UTC

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Good setup, have a similar one

2025-10-28 17:34:11 UTC

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Is this from the Rob Skiba days?

2025-10-25 11:55:21 UTC

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Super Brokys 😂😂😂

2025-10-25 07:59:40 UTC

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I would never give that ungrateful bitch a dime.

2025-10-25 07:51:24 UTC

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Can you link the full source, if possible?

2025-10-25 07:50:20 UTC

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No, we will use bitcoin like it's intended, and keep the commons clean and be stewards of it.

2025-10-23 16:58:09 UTC

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Great feature, thank you.

2025-10-19 08:16:38 UTC

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We have the same stance of most developers in my ORG. And well they are just wrong, intellectually lazy and no effort trying the real workflows, midwit people.
My team is adopting Cursor now and will run laps and laps around the other teams, that still thing gemini or copilot is the current state of Ai Dev tools.

2025-10-18 16:05:39 UTC

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Well it's not default mempool policy yet. It's just the default in Core V30 which is an important difference.

2025-10-18 07:02:33 UTC

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So 5g in a topical country is fine? 😁

2025-10-14 15:45:16 UTC

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Zentralbanken kaufen Gold aber kein Bitcoin?

2025-10-13 21:30:55 UTC

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Who is John Galt?

2025-10-10 11:52:14 UTC

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She did not really say this, did she?

2025-10-10 10:41:00 UTC

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And then you will be stuck in que 😅

2025-10-10 10:40:26 UTC

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🤣

2025-10-09 21:09:35 UTC

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Same, do we squad up? 😁

2025-10-08 09:37:03 UTC

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Nailed it, had a good laugh! Now lets get back to work plebs :D

2025-10-08 09:28:52 UTC

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I would be interested!

2025-10-05 19:48:12 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/47001e89294550507bbd84e74e2374449e326ffc7a774d906d71db6bc3b26924.png

2025-10-05 18:43:08 UTC

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Otherwise Google Ai Studio can transcribe mp3s.

2025-10-05 18:42:25 UTC

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The fountain podcast app has this integrated.

2025-10-05 10:54:40 UTC

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I was more interested in the technical aspect behind it but thank you.

2025-10-05 09:41:03 UTC

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How exactly, I am not on X so I don't have the context?

2025-10-05 09:08:47 UTC

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Our nodes matter! Keep up the sprit brothers. Bitcoin is money, let's use it like that and be stewards of the networks.

2025-10-05 08:26:03 UTC

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Was sind Strategien sich dagegen zu wehren, begrenzt oder?

2025-10-05 08:19:10 UTC

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50% ist ja wie Würfel werfen, Demokratie ist so ein lächerliches Konzept...

2025-10-05 08:16:17 UTC

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I wish we had already someone in Germany. I guess it's forbidden so we don't uprise again 😁

2025-10-05 06:44:50 UTC

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Can you explain?

2025-10-02 22:12:45 UTC

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Knots is just the Status Quo.

2025-10-02 19:21:13 UTC

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Corrected it

2025-10-02 19:20:41 UTC

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Sorry had an error l, corrected numbers:
Knots only 24 36.4%
Core v29 or older only 19 28.8%
Core v30 only 11 16.7%
Mixed / ambiguous (named ≥2 options or only negatives) 12 18.2%
Total 66 100.0%

2025-10-02 16:19:19 UTC

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It's worth listing to every minute!

2025-10-02 15:56:02 UTC

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Please share hodlonauts post and I will update the result, once more people voiced their oppinion.

2025-10-02 15:51:54 UTC

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Results so far as of 2nd Oct 25:
Plurality for #Knots.
Among the 66 clear replies, 53% mention support for Knots (35/66).
Large “stay on older Core” bloc.
45% support Core v29 or older (30/66).
Smaller group for Core v30.
20% support #Core v30 (13/66).
#nevent1q…htsz

2025-10-02 15:42:58 UTC

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Knots or V29 and older.

2025-10-02 11:32:41 UTC

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I came exactly to the same conclusion. Since one year no big leaps anymore. I am very happy about that 😁

2025-10-02 05:37:55 UTC

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Also noticed it!
Early computer games hat the same effect for everything you could interact with, purely artistic in that case.

2025-10-02 05:26:23 UTC

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I still have hope that people get it and atleast don't update.

2025-09-30 14:16:13 UTC

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Unbelievable she can't even formulate a coherent thought...

2025-09-30 06:32:22 UTC

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Listen to your heart 😁

2025-09-29 19:34:42 UTC

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Hard to watch 🤮

2025-09-29 17:55:59 UTC

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Knots has a bug fix that extends datacarriersize to the witness data, which filters out inscriptions as a result.

2025-09-29 06:24:50 UTC

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Even a normal pleb can understand this TBH.

2025-09-29 06:13:22 UTC

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For what? Free speech?

2025-09-28 20:54:35 UTC

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You can't make this shit up

2025-09-28 20:49:05 UTC

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What an amazing RIP! Great rehearsal to get up to speed with the lay of the world or as a refresher. From the controllers to bitcoin, the big picture.
https://fountain.fm/episode/RhAeIYJ0FRB2yQ7BJJ5g
#nevent1q…yu5n

2025-09-28 13:00:33 UTC

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😂

2025-09-28 12:57:19 UTC

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Great post explaining cores reasoning without any non related attacks or accusations!
Even though I disagree with the point that it's not worth playing the cat and mouse game. I think we can define very well, what's a monetary tx and what not
and in the cases where we can't, the friction is so high and the data rate to low, that we can ignore it. It worked good until taproot.
In the long run, fees will solve most of this problem agreed 🤝 but we are not there yet.

2025-09-27 16:57:39 UTC

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True, quality advice 😂

2025-09-27 16:51:13 UTC

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Completly lost the plot and wants to enforce his rules on other people's property. Good luck in a decentralized network.

2025-09-27 16:38:38 UTC

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💯 We don't want to change anything, we want the status quo. That's it.

2025-09-27 16:11:43 UTC

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He has no shame, no dignity. Just lies in your face.

2025-09-27 16:03:36 UTC

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This guy is a complete joke

2025-09-27 11:20:55 UTC

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That's fine, but I don't need to facilitate getting stupid stuff in the chain in the first place. It's a conscious decision most of the network is doing currently.

2025-09-27 07:38:14 UTC

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It's an completly unnecessary change and hill to die on. I cannot, at all, wrap my head around why we should do this.
As an individual I have zero benefit in dropping the filter.

2025-09-27 06:10:56 UTC

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If there would be demand for this change, nodes could already change that. But on the contrary a significant portion of the network even changed proactively their node implementation.

2025-09-26 12:33:11 UTC

Why the Spammers Are Uniting Against KNOTS – and What’s Really Behind It?
As I see many personal attacks against KNOTS proponents and crazy stories, I think it’s time to put forward my own “crazy” story of why those attacks are made and move the discussion away from the obvious. I’ve been watching the same choreography for weeks: personal attacks, absurd distractions, zero interest in technical details. So fine, here’s my theory:
1) The lever is template control
Once miners build their own block templates (e.g. via DATUM or Stratum v2 Job Negotiation) and apply stricter policies, the inclusion probability of non-monetary data blobs drops significantly. No “censorship” of consensus, just policy hygiene at the selection layer. This is what they fear!
2) Propagation latency is a real cost center
TXs that are not widely relayed slow down block propagation. Result: higher orphan risk. That risk is an implicit cost premium that miners will either price into fees (or drop such TXs). For spammers, that means they must pay much higher fees , suddenly their business errodes.
3) Why the counter-campaign is so shrill
Here’s the motive stack:
* Revenue protection: As more templates adopt policy hygiene, the cheap inclusion pipeline collapses. Margins shrink.
* Narrative protection: As long as “everything that pays gets in” is dogma, the path stays open for future monetization tricks at the expense of block space and relaying nodes.
* Bargaining power: Centralized template building makes it easy to pressure a few pools. Decentralized template control (DATUM/Stratum v2) removes that leverage. You will be forced to relay through the filtering peer-to-peer network, instead of circumventing it via out of band services.
* Cheapest defense: It’s far easier to attack people than arguments , so maintainers and Knots users get smeared, to make others afraid of tightening policies. This is not about Knots, you can just not update to Core v30 with the same effect (less the oridnals filters though).
4) “Censorship!” is a smoke word
KNOTS doesn’t make any consensus-valid transaction invalid. It changes relay and selection policy, not the rules of the chain. If someone insists on mining exotic TXs, they can ,but they must pay the orphan premium. That’s a price signal, not censorship.
5) The tipping point they fear
It doesn’t take 100% hashrate. Once policy hygiene reaches a critical mass, the economics flip: either miners demand much higher fee premiums (volume drops), or they leave such TXs out (volume drops too). This is the threshold that noise, threats, and personal attacks are meant to prevent.
6) “Send directly to the miner” doesn’t save it
Yes, you can hand non-relayed but consensus-valid TXs directly to miners. But the finished block must still propagate, without peers knowing those TXs, you get extra round-trips, i.e. latency, i.e. risk. That’s no free ride, it’s an expensive gamble.
Conclusion:
KNOTS + miner-side templates price in externalities that were previously free. Anyone profiting from flooding block space with data-heavy junk must mobilize against it, preferably through personal attacks. But the technical-economic equation stays simple: the broader policy hygiene spreads, the higher the required fee premium and the less “spam” is worth it to the miners.

2025-09-26 11:31:22 UTC

How does this change anything about blowing the OP-Return filters up in a couple of days? Looks like a typical diversion tactic to me.

2025-09-25 16:31:31 UTC

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Chill man, run knots than you will be save from the emdiate backlash after v30 goes online. The hope is that most nodes will just not update including the big mining pools.
Trust into bitcoins immune system kicking in. Bitcoin will survive and get stronger as always, just act based on your beliefs.

2025-09-25 05:50:08 UTC

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It's anyway just a scapegoat, it's the vaccines after birth that do the damage. This is just a story for NPCs.

2025-09-24 21:28:42 UTC

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Yeah Core Simps would for sure bring this up.

2025-09-24 17:45:20 UTC

If people ask me if my kids are vaxxed. Oh Yeah! Sure they are, on a frequent booster schedule. 🤣
https://blossom.primal.net/75bb84664c089a3d0235b937c63e4f6619fa85dc7b6e15ed0b1b7ee514d51ec5.mp4

2025-09-24 17:41:08 UTC

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🤣

2025-09-24 16:06:38 UTC

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That's a good point, OpenAi is certainly a 3 letter agency play and investors in the know, seem to be aware of it.

2025-09-24 15:52:13 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/8a2d3d60f3adb06e80b21abf5941d671034875a78a6be3ec8898d3d02f805acf.jpg

2025-09-24 08:50:17 UTC

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I was actually looking into using relay feeds. So this feature is not yet active?

2025-09-24 08:21:08 UTC

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Lol, I'm not on Twitter anymore. That's the point. 😉

2025-09-24 06:40:37 UTC

Is there already a gaming niche on nostr? I would like to recrute a maxi squad for the upcoming Battlefield 6, please don't let me hanging and play with NPCs.
Reshare if you know someone, who might be interested. 😁🤣

2025-09-24 06:20:14 UTC

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Why can't we zap you for your work here?

2025-09-24 06:19:38 UTC

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But will he? 😁
#nevent1q…45s9

2025-09-24 06:05:12 UTC

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Does your client also have a those global (filtered for garbage) trending views like primal 1h, 4h, 24h, top zapped? I want to switch, but I am overwhelmed with all the features you have 😅

2025-09-23 21:30:56 UTC

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From Giacomo (X) :
> Luke sent the FBI after his fellow Bitcoin Core contributors
False statement. You provided no source to verify it, and I know the opposite to be true.
>Knots is a dangerous "solo dev" project that does not have the necessary level of peer review
Misleading statement, unless the same is also said about LibreRelay and Bitcoin Knobs, and much more emphasis is put on Btcd.
> He became much more vitriolic toward Bitcoin Core and now makes outrageous claims that it's compromised and trying to destroy Bitcoin
Qualified as your personal opinion, but logically contradicted by your own examples of him being *way* more vitriolic in the past with many (cf the Voorhes and Silk Road cases you listed, contrast them with his tolerance of libertarian claims more recently): by any metric I can think of, Luke has gotten way less vitriolic over time. In general, I'm not sure using dev political opinions to dismiss software (which is 99% of your pamphlet) is the game you want to play, in order to defend Core. Be my guest in case.
> abused his position of maintainer of the Gentoo Bitcoin Core package to enable his custom blacklist rules by default
This statement is contradicted by the following claim by Luke's own statement "it did not occur to me at the time that the spam filter was even included". You provided no source to verify otherwise.
> There is also controversy around Ocean's Datum protocol which is a competitor to Stratum V2
Misleading statement. DATUM *will be* a competing protocol to Stratum V2, once the latter will actually realize the miner-side-template-production. I think as of now OCEAN/DATUM is literally the only case of minin-side-template-production active on any pool. Even then, it will be a competing protocol, but not competition to his pool: Luke confirmed OCEAN will support SV2 as well once it gets traction.
> When you get into Luke's personal opinions on bitcoin mixing (further down) this particular decision will make more sense. [...] This is relevant to my earlier point about Knots breaking the Whirlpool mixing protocol. He doesn't care because he thinks mixing is wrong and people shouldn't do it.
False statement. Luke publicly stated support for coinjoin transactions in many occasions, and you provided no source of him saying otherwise, even if you claim you do in the first part of the mention. Indeed, Knots has always been relaying *all* coinjoin tx by Whirpool. It just happened that, for no good reason that I know of to this very day, some weird type of NON-coinjoin txs by Whirpool (tx0s) contained Op_returns uselessly larger than Core's historical limit (which was still Knot's limit).
> Luke appears to be a geocentrist. "By the way, the Sun really orbits the Earth, not vice-versa."
Misleading statement, since it insinuates this view is as unpopular as the others listed below (monarchy, masturbation, sedevacantism, etc.), at least among scientifically literate people. It's not. This seems to me to be a honest mistake based on your own parroting of the common "midwit-science" pop-view, naively misinterpreting pre-Einstein (but actually pre-Mach) Galilean relativity. In modern General Relativity, geocentrism is *literally* just as valid as any other reference frame choice (you just adjust the curvature and/or metric). Even if Newtonian physics, geocentrism is a valid choice as long as the Earth rotates to account for centrifugal forces.
> Where has a large portion of the social and technical community's time and attention been spent? I tend to agree that Luke & Co have been rather poisonous as of late.
False statement, offered without evidence, but also clear logical contradiction in the context of the panphlet. As explained (and paradoxically very well illustrated by your STASI-like dossier), Luke has been significantly *less* vitriolic and controversial than ever in the recent years and months. If large portion of the social and technical community's time and attention been spent supporting or attacking the claims of somebody with very low people-skills, who was traditionally ignored by most due to his unpopular opinions and eccentric personality, that's clearly caused by something else. I have theories.
Sep 23, 2025 · 5:23 PM UTC

2025-09-23 21:17:01 UTC

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That's their argument. But they are missing that culture does, look Japan.

2025-09-23 21:10:53 UTC

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And he has more children than all of the core devs combined. That's some proof of work and commitment for the future!

2025-09-23 17:34:58 UTC

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Then don't run it, meet you at 50%.

2025-09-23 17:22:11 UTC

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Than surely you can point us to questionable parts in the Knots repository?

2025-09-23 17:02:30 UTC

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It clearly doenst stop us to run Knots, everyone knows Luke is an autist. It just seems like a helpless attack TBH, which will just increase the devide.

2025-09-23 16:37:43 UTC

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How does this piece advance bitcoin or bridge the devide of the community?

2025-09-22 16:59:28 UTC

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😁

2025-09-22 16:58:40 UTC

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Knots proposed and has implemented a solution to rate limited Ordinals. Spam is a cat and mouse game you have to fight on the mempool level, to not drift towards censorship.
I think it's valid to say that the quantity of spam on the chain is a relevant factor and if we can reduce 99% of that it's a good outcome. It makes a difference if the network makes an effort to reduce this behavior or if it opens itself up to it with all guards down.

2025-09-22 11:22:14 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/6113446dfaae070c46532e35252a9faced53f3b4802667b9f5efd9184349cd66.jpg

2025-09-21 20:54:36 UTC

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Let's see how many will upgrade, interesting month ahead

2025-09-21 19:26:17 UTC

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It would be good to learn the difference between qualitative and quantitative. Obviously a miner can mine non standard tx, but in the majority of cases they don't because it's to risky and not worth it.

2025-09-21 18:22:54 UTC

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The point is that you talk BS and on chain data easily proves it. Which is why we see an exodus from core in disagreement. You can repeat your hollow words as much as you want, without data they mean nothing.

2025-09-21 18:17:17 UTC

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Then explain what the reason is that the supermajority of transactions conform to this filter. We love our useless filters, leave us in peace 😁

2025-09-21 18:05:46 UTC

Eine weitere Stimme im deutschen Bitcoin Space äußert sich zum am 3ten Oktober anstehenden Core v30 update.
Gutes Einsteigervideo, langsam wachen sie auf.
https://youtu.be/rZY4m_xzVns

2025-09-21 16:09:48 UTC

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Okay dann lass ich es besser sein.