drgo
Quantoshi.xyz

Bitcoin OG since 2010, former laptop solo miner - which makes me (amongst) the first obsolete Bitcoin miner(s), blockstream satellite node runner, #2A rights user, radiologist

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2026-09-03 03:27:25 UTC

Not gonna lie: #Omarchy is really nice…
But realistically any Linux distro would be much nicer with Omarchy’s auto AI diagnosis of a crash and key binding to ask AI to configure something or write a script or whatever.

2026-08-31 15:41:25 UTC

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And that’s why I am a scammer.
That said, it is somewhat understandable…the 3D printing leaves some cosmetic issues, like the leg of the “p” is kinda short when printed on the up side…
But to conclude I must be a scammer based on so little info is beyond me…
I kinda thought selling entropia seeds would be fairly easy for kids to do as a mini-intro to entrepreneurship…and I still think it would be at the right price, but 16 hours of printing with having to stop 8 times to remove a sheet probably isn’t the best fit for kids…because it ends up taking 2-3 days because of course they’d forget mid-print or wouldn’t be available to remove a sheet and it ends up being a marathon…

2026-08-31 05:09:48 UTC

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I don’t think he will respond. Thinking isn’t always desirable.

2026-08-31 04:31:49 UTC

This is hilarious. And sad at the same time.
#nevent1q…27r7

2026-08-31 04:30:19 UTC

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Please feel free to advertise for me. But you’ll be announcing to anyone you know on Nostr your lack of insight.
I’m sorry if $80 seems like scam money to you…it’s literally the market price I paid for my set before the coldcard fiasco drove price to $100 and also a dollar amount I though appropriate FOR CHILDREN to charge grownups for something easy they could do to teach entrepreneurship.
I apologize if I offended your opinion of the value of dollars.

2026-08-31 04:19:04 UTC

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Oh, I didn’t know I was fake. A fake radiologist who has been in bitcoin since July 2020. Or maybe I’m a refrigerator.
Anyhow, you’re free to have these for $80 like anyone else. $80 is what I gave to a friend for no good reason…and I think there is a market because people spend $80-100 for these…but generally people who are moderately well off who don’t mind spending a little fake money for convenience

2026-08-31 04:09:28 UTC

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Well, maybe you could be correct, in a way. I did not print them but maybe the idea was so simple someone asked AI to make a 3D stl file of the bip39 seed phrase list.

2026-08-31 04:07:40 UTC

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Good thought, but not quite thought through well enough. Think about how these get printed and consider gravity and the surface.

2026-08-31 04:07:04 UTC

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lol…look closer…each side shows printing errors that have to do with one side being up and the other side being down. Thats beyond AI ability to date.

2026-08-30 22:00:30 UTC

I have a set of unbroken entropia seeds…all 2048 of them. I gave a family friend $80 to print them for me (mostly because they have 5 kids and homeschool and are awesome people), but I don’t need them. But if anyone wants to send me $80 in bitcoin I’d be happy to send them along…and request another set of entropia seeds. My understanding is that these don’t take too much trial and error to get right but can take 16 hours of print time between the 8 plates of double sided 128 tablets…
https://image.nostr.build/8e7d7cbea35e79fe2f4b551fd621fbc11bc46503f4a6b9eff60c4a90413053a2.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/f06e90bd89759273465eef0d6df7be5ea89f571bed7c3824b56e81e77aa2f8a0.jpg

2026-08-26 19:02:40 UTC

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I think people are being dumb about this. People chose trust and got burned, not because someone was trying to harm them, but because someone made a mistake that will surely happen again and has definitely happened before.
At least coinkite gave people the option to remove trust.

2026-08-24 03:17:56 UTC

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What a difficult place to live. There is nothing more difficult to settle than a land dispute. And a lot of innocent people will be harmed in the crossfire.
Not that I have a pulpit to preach from. We stole the land for our country from people who were here first, but everyone neglects to mention that uneasy fact of US history because the people we stole the land from were so busy killing each other that they never quite got to the written language stage…but stealing is still stealing and this doesn’t make the US’s stealing of land any better than how Israel was established.
Establishing a nation on contested property rights was always going to go badly for everyone. I’m sorry you got caught in the crossfire.

2026-08-24 03:01:36 UTC

Ok, I’ve found my next os…https://omarchy.org
And then I want the nixos version of it :)

2026-08-21 16:40:27 UTC

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Breaking even is not commercial activity

2026-08-21 03:51:54 UTC

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Educational noncommercial use has broad freedom under fair use

2026-08-18 04:19:54 UTC

I would not pay more than $550,000 for a bitcoin today. I also wouldn’t pay more than $125,000, but for different reasons.

2026-08-09 00:37:37 UTC

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There is no market yet, afaik

2026-08-04 03:52:25 UTC

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While I 100% agree that the top 1% control the overwhelming majority of capital, that’s a very very different subset than the top 1% of bitcoin holders. Price being as low as it is is good evidence for this split too: the real wealth in the world…the wealth that doesn’t even bother with small markets like gold…hasn’t put any substantial percentage of their capital in bitcoin…if they had, the price would be much much higher.

2026-08-04 03:39:44 UTC

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That’s a good insight and I think I agree, or will agree after i think about it more…marginal price…

2026-08-04 03:39:10 UTC

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Pretend for a moment we are talking about stolen bicycles. When someone is in possession of such stolen property and the owner finds out who it is, law enforcement confiscates the property so the courts can return it to whoever is found to be the lawful owner…the bicycle itself gets returned to the owner, regardless of how much the current possessor then bicycle may have paid for it. Nobody refunds the purchaser…the legal redress for the guy who “bought” a bike that wasn’t lawfully sold now has to go to the seller to seek reimbursement…
This is very different from how stolen money would work. If you got paid for labor and the payment was stolen dollar bills, and you had no idea the dollar bills were stolen, that money is yours…this is the exact opposite of the bicycle example. In the dollar example, the victim must find the bad guy and seek legal redress from the bad guy directly.

2026-08-04 03:33:22 UTC

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Bitcoin price will remain low until stuff like this becomes easy to do correctly, easy to verify.

2026-08-04 03:32:34 UTC

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Consider the lawsuits that will come seeking to reclaim stolen bitcoin…there are now two classes of non-fungible bitcoin tokens: stolen cold card bitcoin tokens and the rest. The legal system will differentiate between the two. Don’t get caught holding the wrong kind because the law is clear: you give those up and seek redress from the bad guy.

2026-08-04 03:28:05 UTC

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Yup. You had the opportunity to view the code and reason about it…but you didn’t. This applies to all hardware wallets. Well, all source available wallets

2026-08-04 03:11:02 UTC

The coldcard fiasco has a very very important and probably not good side effect: bitcoin is not fungible. When stolen cold card coins move into circulation, the first identifiable holder of said stolen coin will be sued in real life to return the coin…this could have massively disruptive effects on bitcoin as money.
🍿

2026-07-29 21:00:29 UTC

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Can’t mess up Claude code right now. It’s been down for an hour.

2026-07-29 17:32:30 UTC

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When it works, it’s great. I suspect it would work much better if integrated into an IDE…but I’m literally not looking at any code and it can do a surprising amount of things as long as you have tests that can prove code functioned correctly.

2026-07-29 16:52:09 UTC

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Beyond adorable!

2026-07-29 16:44:41 UTC

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When Claude starts going haywire, it really goes haywire. Have to be careful with long unattended workflows. I just had to throw away days worth of “work” on something as simple as filling out tax forms…like the simplest Iine line 7 minus line 5 is greater than zero, enter the amount on line 8 kinda stuff…and there are even instruction booklets.

2026-07-26 03:38:14 UTC

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lol

2026-07-26 03:33:23 UTC

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I’m sorry to hear of your mental impairment

2026-07-26 02:14:32 UTC

Oh, have you heard? Did you know? There are only so many bitcoin. Better get some just in case it catches on!

2026-07-26 00:00:14 UTC

Because we all need to try out new things to keep our bitcoin skills sharp, you have got ti check out:
https://walletplayground.com
Fake bitcoin, real bitcoin hardware wallet firmware.

2026-07-25 23:59:00 UTC

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Claude set up https://quantoshi.xyz/ all by itself…nginx, the caching layers, cache update scheduling in cron, ramdisk…it even told me how to get hetzner configured

2026-07-25 18:47:18 UTC

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I love your heart Kratter. I really do. I think on a technical level you are way off base, but I’d rather know people failing in the heart positive direction than the alternative.
At the end of the day, BIP110 is little more than a thinly veiled power grab running off of the beautiful and ferocious hearts of good people who hate injustice…BIP110 harnesses that righteous energy into a technically meaningless software deployment that serves the interests of a surprisingly small number of people (and most certainly not the average pleb).
When BIP110 goes nowhere, please don’t abandon bitcoin. The only way to stop spam is to price it out and right now blockspace isn’t expensive enough to do that…BIP110 doesn’t make SPAM/CSAM meaningfully more expensive. CSAM is irrelevant and if CSAMming bitcoin is all it would take to shut it down, it would have happened by now or bitcoin is already doomed.
If you want spam to go away, make block space expensive. The amount of data you need to store is the same.

2026-07-25 18:19:48 UTC

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As a hobbyist programmer, I’ve only ever used Claude. I wouldn’t say I’m happy with it…it complicates things and parses things so finely that it never seems to finish a software feature. It has gotten better at properly abstracting things to the right degree (since February).
That said, I’d never be able to some things without it (reproducible builds, for example).

2026-07-24 02:39:47 UTC

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Rule of thumb: buy 6 months before halving, sell 18 months after.

2026-07-15 19:18:13 UTC

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I see @npub1nvf…e7zd !

2026-07-15 19:17:04 UTC

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Even more reason to not care about bip110and relay policies in general.

2026-07-15 19:14:20 UTC

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But i thought you were a dog?

2026-07-15 19:13:48 UTC

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You probably believe you help the network by relaying transactions or bringing up new nodes.

2026-07-15 19:06:37 UTC

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Totally agree. Blocksonly=1
If you get that, let me know.

2026-07-15 19:02:20 UTC

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🛫

2026-07-15 19:01:58 UTC

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Because you are arguing for censorship of Legitimate monetary bitcoin transactions unashamedly

2026-07-15 18:57:19 UTC

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Your feelings are clearly getting in the way of your thinking. Sorry to have wasted your time.

2026-07-15 18:56:33 UTC

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My starting point was that only people with good hearts and poor technical understanding are willing to engage in this topic. And you have proven me to be correct.
Ask yourself: why do you ::feel:: the need to address spam beyond how it is already successfully addressed? Your feelings are a problem and your lack of understanding is a problem.
What I’ve learned from conversations like these, there are plenty of people out there who can not be persuaded by facts. Ask yourself if that’s true for you.

2026-07-15 18:53:35 UTC

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Spam is addressed by fees

2026-07-15 18:52:47 UTC

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It is true that pruned nodes can’t use electrum. But what you said was that tx with large op returns won’t work with electrum.

2026-07-15 18:51:48 UTC

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Spam makes you feel bad is not the same as spam is bad. Full bitcoin blocks is a tradeoff: fees & security vs. cost of storage forever.
Prunable UTXOs does keep ram usage lower for longer which will allow devs more time before they have to come up with a clever caching strategy…bip110 UTXOs with spam will stay in Utxo set and are not provably unspendable like op return spam.

2026-07-15 18:48:06 UTC

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That’s simply untrue. Like objectively false. If you mean you do not want to prune, I hear ya. But whether you store spam or morally righteous numbers in your chain is irrelevant to running electrum.

2026-07-15 18:45:27 UTC

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If you’re unaware of why stuffing spam in prunable transactions is preferable to where spammers will place spam otherwise (either on bitcoin or bip110coin), then you don’t have a good technical grasp of the heart of the discussion.

2026-07-15 18:42:43 UTC

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You realize your argument is vacuous: you’ve changed the direction of the required proof. I am arguing that bip110 makes bitcoin technically worse and you are now requiring discussion of how spam makes bitcoin better…bypassing the discussion of how 110 doesn’t stop spam/ordinals.

2026-07-15 18:39:06 UTC

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I’m glad you don’t believe the censorship bip110 is insisting to apply on legitimate financial transactions is real. It would mean your heart is bad.
But my claim still stands. I can send bitcoin scripts later. Boarding a plane now. ✈️

2026-07-15 18:36:05 UTC

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I’m glad you agree with me about censorship.

2026-07-15 18:34:27 UTC

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Except that I can’t spend my coins because of my shunned bitcoin script. My complex security needs can’t be adddressed on bip110-coin due to script limitations. I am censored on that chain.

2026-07-15 18:07:53 UTC

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—dangerously-allow-skip-permissions or something like that

2026-07-15 18:04:55 UTC

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Bip110 is well intentioned but technically retarded…ordinals is already bip110 compliant. Everyone hates spam but only fools believe they can control spam without hurting censorship resistance by any means other than transaction fees.
Shocking how few people are willing to engage sensibly on this topic on a technical level.

2026-07-15 18:00:08 UTC

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Gains in bitcoin will be less over next 10 years than last 10 years. Last 10 has been roughly 100x return. Next ten will be roughly 10x (rounded to nearest power of ten).

2026-07-15 17:58:09 UTC

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Fact check: true.
Also, PTSD is actually a thing. But to my knowledge it has nothing to do with mean words but rather with genuine expectation of death or severe bodily harm from acute external circumstances beyond personal control.

2026-07-14 02:50:41 UTC

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Non-Christian’s, some of them, for sure.
I’m not sure what exactly non-Protestant would be, but I think this is a definitional view of Christianity…without this, it isn’t Christianity.

2026-07-07 23:46:34 UTC

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Nobody likes spam. It’s bad. It’s wasteful. It makes bitcoin cost more to use as money. Before the blocksize limit, spam/dust attacks could have brought down the network. If CSAM could bring down bitcoin, it would have happened already.

2026-07-07 23:38:42 UTC

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I can’t imagine many life altering decisions of eternal consequence actually happen in under 90 seconds.

2026-07-07 23:35:22 UTC

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Main point: don’t let better be the enemy of good enough, especially when it comes to forcing people off your network.

2026-07-07 23:33:25 UTC

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That man is a friggin genius. Not a great communicator but way over my head…I can’t keep up with him, but he’s always right once you grok what he is saying.

2026-07-07 23:30:46 UTC

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Just remember: if full blocks breaks bitcoin, we need smaller blocks or bitcoin can’t succeed. The pro 110 position requires the bitcoin is broken hypothesis to be true. Luke has argued in the past for 300 kB blocks.

2026-07-07 22:17:02 UTC

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From the article: “By failing to bring developers under its fold, the Gopher project fell victim to what is often referred to as forking, i.e. splintering into many options instead of settling on one standard approach. Forking can be effective, but only after enough support has been created that the forked technology can stand on its own, without the help of those working on the technology from which it forked. Netscape is a significant case of later breaking from standards leading to forking, in the form of HTML extensions. [Newman] Microsoft's Internet Explorer also jumped in with its own nonstandard extensions. But this happened after the Web had already gained enough inertia to have a strong user and developer base.”

2026-07-07 22:14:02 UTC

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Main lesson: don’t kick nodes off your network everytime a user upgrades their client.

2026-07-07 22:09:01 UTC

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“In order for complex systems (like Gopher or the Web) to perpetuate themselves, they must strike the right balance between exploring new options and exploiting their past success. [Axelrod and Cohen] That is, they must make new advances to fill new niches that arise without changing so radically that they can no longer take advantage of their successful track record. The short answer to the questions the questions posed in this paper is that the Web did this right, and Gopher did it wrong. Of course, claiming this is far different from being able to say exactly why Gopher failed, just as saying someone got checkmated does not provide the most fulfilling explanation for why someone lost a game of chess.”
See https://www.ils.unc.edu/callee/gopherpaper.htm

2026-07-07 19:34:20 UTC

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Changing how people are allowed to use bitcoin is as bad as what happened to gopher protocol. Haven’t heard of gopher://? There’s a reason and it has to do with breaking people’s use cases.

2026-07-07 19:10:05 UTC

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You also assume op return has no legitimate financial use cases, but that’s not true. It could be useful in zero knowledge proofs and verifying multiparty computation results and other self-constructed contracts without requiring protocol changes to support them.

2026-07-07 19:06:55 UTC

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Cat and mousing spam also discourages more advanced financial security applications (covenants someday or scripts today like: nobody can spend my coins for 1 year, after that, it takes 3 keys unless it’s been more than 2 years in which case any two of these 3 keys will work. Also, if it’s been more than 4 years, this key and the magic word opensessame can unlock the funds).

2026-07-07 17:53:55 UTC

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Yes

2026-07-07 17:53:18 UTC

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US Amazon. CAD makes sense. Don’t get screwed on memory…prices will fall in a few years.

2026-07-07 17:51:34 UTC

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A better patch analogy would be the fundamental cryptographic functions. These have a security shelf life.
I don’t really care at all about op_return as far as relay policy: that doesn’t change the consensus in any meaningful way. But disabling op codes which are already used for monetary transactions seems like an over reaction to the magnitude of the spam problem.
CSAM is obviously a red herring. Anyone conceding that it matters must then explain why it doesn’t after finding CSAM on chain.

2026-07-05 23:31:06 UTC

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You live in a good place.

2026-07-05 23:09:29 UTC

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Beautiful background too!

2026-07-05 23:03:42 UTC

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Is that a joke? Cheaper cooler (less heat) and faster devices available for half that price.
https://image.nostr.build/68670b2e1e73a0b42005b76c2b4829e2451a51f7158595eb3fd2a30773866126.jpg

2026-07-03 20:51:30 UTC

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What is the humidity? 99 could be perfect or awful and I’m guess awful.

2026-07-03 15:05:50 UTC

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This checks out!

2026-07-02 01:27:04 UTC

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These bips are a slippery slope. And for what? To make sure only moral use of bitcoin exists (spam doesn’t harm bitcoin any more than genuine use).
But many are willing to submit to the moral authorities because of fear and technical non-understanding and brainstem reflexive universal hate for CP.

2026-07-01 20:57:11 UTC

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I am a little bit worried about what BIP-112 has in store but I’m downright terrified of BIP-113.

2026-07-01 20:44:22 UTC

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But lightning allows spam too and must be shut down. The 300 kb block size limit luke promotes makes more sense. BIP-111 is staged to require BIP-110 first, so arguing it before BIP-110 deploys is moot.

2026-06-29 04:13:40 UTC

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Why are you looking to trust anyone? This is by definition failure at step 0.

2026-06-29 04:06:09 UTC

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I don’t hold a significant percentage of my wealth in anything other than Bitcoin. But I’ve been around since July 2010, so that isn’t saying much.

2026-06-29 04:02:48 UTC

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FTFY: facts > feelings

2026-06-29 03:59:43 UTC

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I do admire your heart. It is in the right place. Just need a little course correction by allowing facts to be persuasive.

2026-06-29 03:53:51 UTC

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I think it fitting your a BIP-110 tard. All feelings and no brain.

2026-06-29 03:50:25 UTC

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Only you can know for certain…but the proof so far is above.

2026-06-29 03:48:06 UTC

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Then you don’t think about much either.

2026-06-29 03:41:28 UTC

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You haven’t made an argument. You’re just slopped your feelings without any reason attached.

2026-06-29 03:40:45 UTC

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It’s no different than preventing creating of legit taproot outputs like anti-kidnapping wallets that BIP-110 does. At the end of the day, removing other people’s rights to support and enforce bitcoin as only simple money is wholly justified. It doesn’t matter who we hurt or if the future of bitcoin as programmable money is discarded: our beliefs matter more than market forces.

2026-06-29 03:22:01 UTC

Saylor has been a net good for bitcoin, convince me otherwise?
Also, those that think Saylor has been a net negative, did you feel this way when he was temporarily in positive return territory? Should being temporarily negative mean anything other than being appropriately aggressive? If he was never negative, that means he left something on the table.

2026-06-29 03:19:53 UTC

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You know more people than I have ever met!

2026-06-28 04:52:40 UTC

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BIP-111 is better than 110. Far stricter. 300 kb block size limit. Segwit addresses get one chance to send funds to approved address types that are less spammable and no new segwit outputs can be created. This of course means lightning channels can only be closed, not opened, but it’s only temporary.

2026-06-26 18:49:27 UTC

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I finished undergrad astrophysics and math in 2002…and eventually went to medical school…I’m glad to hear I wasn’t way off base!

2026-06-26 17:03:29 UTC

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If I’m reading eq 1 correctly, the math they cite says magnetic field strength increases sharply as distance increases…which is false. AI slop? Or am I making a mistake.

2026-06-22 00:28:24 UTC

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Boobs are about 50% of the reason I use this protocol. Ok, that’s tongue in cheek but still…

2026-06-22 00:27:06 UTC

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I thought it was only me!

2026-06-22 00:05:57 UTC

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The size invariant desirability is supported by non-correlation of size and substance, fibroglandularly speaking, by xray. But this assume desirablilty is based on productive capacity, which is a guess.

2026-06-22 00:04:01 UTC

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Have you ever thought about why? It doesn’t make sense, if you think about it.

2026-06-21 23:29:59 UTC

I am today years old and it is still unclear to me why men like boobs. I don’t deny that all men do, universally, without exception... It’s more about the why…
Zooming out, how could it make sense? Is it somehow reproductive success related?
But that doesn’t explain, I suppose, the undeniable universal desirability of all sizes. Or maybe there is some hierarchy of desirability I’m unaware of. I dunno, I am an N of 1.
Interestingly, the external appearance vs. the amount of fibroglandular tissue actually present as evident by xray and ultrasound have almost no correlation. So it doesn’t make too much sense from a reproductive point of view to be too picky, especially regarding sheer size.
Humans are strange creatures…but very reproductively successful…and a surprising amount of society can be explained through the reproductive lens.
But as I leave the conventional reproductive years, I am only left with more unanswered questions about attraction…
Ok, that’s probably my deepest thought for the day. Cheers all!