Jackthemimic
JackTheMimic

Hoch die anarchie. I do stuff, I make stuff, I am funny, but also, the CTO at Sovreign.io

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2026-07-07 21:18:08 UTC

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Orbot is for mobile payments, usually rich dudes taking client fees. Terminals use TOR clients at retail locations. The customers have 1 app Zeus, Strike, Cash App, or Phoenix usually. Every once in a while Muun or breez. I would say I do a lot of the heavy lifting during setup (that's why they pay me) so reverse proxies or TOR bridges can work for plebs paying using Cash App.

2026-07-07 21:01:04 UTC

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I dunno man, I have setup an LND node, CLN Node, LDK, whatever Zeus is using all over Tor/orbot, All routed fine. The only time I had issues is when the guy I was trying to pay literally didn't have inbound liquidity to recieve (which I ended up just opening a channel to him)
People make it out like they are hacking the Pentagon by opening channels or circular rebalancing.

2026-07-07 14:58:36 UTC

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Isn't this a dramatic re-reading of a radio broadcast from like the 70s or something?

2026-07-07 14:57:31 UTC

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Who is they? It's almost like you've created a fictional Bitcoiner in your mind and superimposed that on anybody who uses the shit.

2026-07-07 14:52:51 UTC

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But then your page is an all day Bitcoin is stupid and Bitcoiners are stupid cavalcade. Make it make sense man.

2026-07-07 04:11:52 UTC

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Yes, literally attack. People have no idea how fragile a centralized mining paradigm is.

2026-07-06 21:52:29 UTC

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The same as when any federal agent knocks on your door. Be glad they had the courtesy to knock. (No-knocks are still a thing)

2026-07-06 15:53:13 UTC

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Yeah, I have repeatedly said Monero is neat. But the same way the cypherpunks in Bitcoin don't understand economics, that is WAY more prevalent in Monero. Too many people focusing on perfect privacy, anonymity, and technical solutions. PEOPLE use money and most people are retarded.
People trying to Jam data into every OP_code have no idea why the network they are using is valuable enough to write graffiti all over in the first place.
Either way, these stupid generalizations are stupid.

2026-07-06 15:29:34 UTC

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Yeah, and Monero users are criminals. Do you like minority controlled generalizations for your tribe too?

2026-07-06 03:44:03 UTC

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Oh no, the zionism is coursing through me, what with all the Anti-semitism! 😂🤣

2026-07-06 01:14:05 UTC

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So insane! Pre 2023 bitcoin was FUCKING INSANE! Grow up, Vlad.

2026-07-05 19:16:23 UTC

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Pride is a useful to for continuing tradition. Why do what your forefathers had established? Why not completely reinvent society every generation? Pride in that very chain you speak of. No one claims they single handedly made western society, that is a strawman. They simply look around at the ends of each of these preceeding cultures and see that western culture builds a coherent structure where others fail at: freedom of association, presumption of innocence, meritocratic reward, and so many other faults.
This pride is not some mockery of other cultural failures. It is a message to those around the world that western culture has put many of humanity's achievements into a single framework and it works. The deviation from which is done at our own peril.
This blueprint on how to achieve must be inhabited to be fulfilled. The separation of your race or culture, birthplace, etc, is to say "I could have been born anywhere, any race, or in any lineage and had the same principles. This is simply not true. You are the bext in the chain but you are not interchangeable with any other link. Humans are not gray interchangeable blobs. They are products of all of the things that you seem to conclude are unearned. No one "earns" or deserves their place but they must know where they came from to know where the course of history was headed.

2026-07-05 14:28:35 UTC

Yo, @nprofile…2sgp is the latest version of Zap.cooking for android v1.1.1 from 4.2? Also was it a for of @nprofile…tkue 's wisp? The certs don't match on Zapstore so you might want to check your Git credentials.

2026-07-05 05:21:41 UTC

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That's what they were trying to tell me on my last trip. Thanks Zen Teaching!

2026-07-05 01:06:37 UTC

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Who said podcasters? I said people asking direct technical questions and all I get is "well the alternative is worse" I've personally talked with Murch and that's all he gave me just this wishy-washy "we are doing the least bad thing."
I brought up removing the witness discount, I brought up OP_RETURN being a testing code being repurposed, I brought up how pre 2015 nodes have no signature validation for taproot or segwit transactions. Still, NO FUCKING ANSWERS.
I'm no novice, I just don't contribute code because I am not confident that my C programming can hold up the whole financial system. But, obviously THEY do so they should probably be able to answer some basic questions.
I know you know you are making a strawman argument so, I guess I will wait for you to rephrase your rebuttal.

2026-07-05 00:16:57 UTC

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Fucking no it's not. It's like a dude asking valid questions and you "the expert" saying: We know what's best.
Falsehoods.

2026-07-05 00:14:10 UTC

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The articles of Confederation were made in the founding, the constitution was the first step toward the state as it is today.
The celebration is the first revolution to actually succeed. The fact that it lasted for about 15 years is beyond the point.
The Declaration of Independence is actually a beautiful document. Which is what Americans celebrate but of course everyone takes the "How do we feel today?" approach. That's retarded, celebration of all kinds are technically stupid, you people living today didn't do anything and are celebrating dead People's accomplishments.
So fuck off with this over intellectualizing bullshit.

2026-07-04 13:56:09 UTC

This is why Segwit needed 95% social consensus, if not it would be VERY obvious when any invalid segregated witness data was invalid. It would look like some kind of chainsplit. More and more I come to the conclusion that SegWit really borked bitcoin.
#naddr1qq…cp7u

2026-07-04 00:41:07 UTC

Lesbian Nazi hookers abducted by UFOs and forced into weight loss programs. All this week on Town Talk.

2026-07-02 20:03:33 UTC

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Censorship how? Do you know what censorship is?

2026-07-02 11:22:53 UTC

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Just send out of Nostr band or use CLINK

2026-07-02 11:20:54 UTC

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I know when something is really popular it's easy to think of things as a monolith but, every conference I have been to Saylor spoke and only financebro suitcoiners went to watch him.
The real Bitcoiners were listening to technical workshops, cypherpunk presentations, and new hardware demos.

2026-07-01 16:12:13 UTC

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I am saying that what code you run on your node is your opinion on the Bitcoin network. So if a bunch of people have blocks that do not conform with your opinion on the Bitcoin network consensus, you disregard them.
This is not a democracy. This is nodes imposing their will. And the only way that a BIP110 chain split scenario happens is if a URSF client is made and run. Core is neutral on BIP110. BIP110 imposes more restrictive rules. Apathy is compliance.

2026-07-01 14:53:45 UTC

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The BIP110 compliant miners would continue mining on the last valid block. And again, if non-compliant blocks stack up to seven, there's no mathematical way that there's enough hash power to re-org that amount of blocks. But if you're a giant corporate miner, are you really going to trust that your competition isn't going to flip the version bit and basically make you mine on a dead chain? We're talking about going from mining 30 to 40 percent of the blocks down to zero. I don't know if anybody's taking that risk.

2026-07-01 14:40:41 UTC

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When the other miners realize the financial risk of mining rejected blocks so, it could be about 7 blocks or so. I would imagine major mining pools have a contingency plan for BIP110.

2026-07-01 14:32:57 UTC

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No, they will build on n+2 because it is consensus valid and has a PoW hash under diff.

2026-07-01 14:17:03 UTC

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That's not how it works though.
The new compliant blocks ALSO have valid proof of work under legacy rules. Meaning new blocks are built ONTOP of those compliant blocks. And those rejected are not built on. Meaning if "valid"(by legacy standards) blocks are being rejected you must not only continue to find non-compliant blocks consecutively, but also no other miner can find a compliant block, or you will be reorged.
I know people think it's two competing chains but it's not. It is one chain and one client is trying to insert invalid blocks (the same as if your client allows double spending). If miners don't capitulate they risk mining a dead chain. (Massive revenue loss).

2026-07-01 11:43:38 UTC

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It literally won't though. That's not how chain height works with Soft forks.

2026-06-30 21:25:47 UTC

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No NGU until the suitcoiners think Bitcoin is dead again.

2026-06-30 21:05:30 UTC

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I dunn understand, how many podcasts do you need to tell you it's accumulation time.

2026-06-29 20:49:27 UTC

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Which part is wrong? I said two different scenarios, didn't assign probabilities.

2026-06-29 17:35:37 UTC

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My wife is pretty good. But she was always trad minded(pretty rare find). So, I got kinda lucky. But it was a late start for us, she was 26.

2026-06-29 16:01:52 UTC

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Both talks are pretty milk-brain, to be honest.
James O'beirne: Don't worry about centralization risks because you can just trust cores, assumevalidUTXO, plus, who runs a full node anyway, Pleb? Then, trust miners to broadcast weak blocks for mempool diffs (totally small change and not a way to DDoS the Peer Gossip Network.🙄)
Jamison Lopp: But the miners money. Money miners. We need miner money. Please bro, you gotta trust me. This is about miners making money. Let me put shitcoins on Bitcoin, man.
Honestly, the through line in both of their talks is that we should care more about miners than the node runners. And honestly, fuck miners. If mining isn't a profitable business looks like they're just going to have to collapse then.
All of these extra mental gymnastics and mealy mouth rationale all to say "help me keep my ad hoc industry alive." No.

2026-06-29 13:56:27 UTC

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There is no more increased risk of reorg than any other time. Either Bit110 has enough hash power to produce the longest chain or it doesn't. That is a one block, maybe two block, reorg at the max.
Here are the two scenarios. Within an hour and 10 minutes you will know if BIP110 is dead after Flag Day activation
or everyone follows the BIP110 chain. There are no other scenarios.
There won't be a two block reorg and then another two block reorg and then another two block reorg. The game theory doesn't allow for that.

2026-06-29 12:33:38 UTC

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Nah, there are two paths.
-A young woman you marry when you are young (before becoming established). This is the most risky for both parties. She bares your children and cares for them primarily. This makes bringing you peace much more difficult.
-A young woman you marry when you are ~40 (after you are established) This is more risky for the man in modern times because of divorce courts. She bares your children and cares for them primarily. Her comfort (because you are established) allows her to bring you peace more easily.
Delayed relationships are difficult for men but very worth it.
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2026-06-29 12:11:40 UTC

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Assuming that OCEAN runs a BIP-110 node (fair assumption) for broadcasting, it would view the block as invalid. But because of the way that DATUM works, you would still broadcast your own block and if POW is correct, it would be accepted by all NON-BIP110 nodes.
As far as "Offical Announcements" OCEAN is simply organizing hash. Shares are not tied to transactions on DATUM(how could they be?) So, you still get shares for POW and still get block rewards. You building blocks, and the transactions you include are your business but, if you don't mine a valid block, a pool can't really DO anything about that.
For a STRATUM connection, yeah, that's the whole point of a pool. A collective building a shared template together (which wouldn't allow invalid transactions) so if your mempool tried to include an invalid transaction, it would be rejected.
As for Profitability, the subsidy is orders of magnitude higher than all fees combined for inscriptions, large OP_RETURNs, and taproot tapscript transactions. So this is just burning dollars to pick up pennies, logic.

2026-06-28 23:18:52 UTC

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Start my reading that site I linked. Ypu don't fix core you fix the governance problem of code maintainers.
You are so confrontational you seem like controlled opposition to make people who are against Core look like unhinged morons.

2026-06-27 14:25:55 UTC

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We've already described what it solves and the harm is actually not that large at all. It's paying for the block space that you're using.
I mean, if we're just going to misrepresent each other's positions, I'll just say that you love spam because you want it at a discount. And no matter how you reply, I'll just repeat that as if you haven't said anything.

2026-06-26 19:39:44 UTC

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Probably. But I think that happens when people are focused on other things.

2026-06-26 14:49:14 UTC

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You are ascribing a lot of unstated motives here.

2026-06-26 10:06:05 UTC

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Does Assigning a list as private and not public have the same behavior on Jumble?

2026-06-26 10:00:59 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/8o5-0VlG24MAAAAC/i-beg-your-pudding-dark-place.gif

2026-06-26 01:35:58 UTC

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I think BIP-110 is fine. Not great, not bad, fine.
I am much more interested in projects like thebitcoincommons.org
It seeks to solve the governance problem with Core and modularize the code base so you don't need to have expertise over 300k lines of code just to make a minor change.
This seems like the way forward.

2026-06-25 16:15:33 UTC

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It is technically alchemy to turn gold into lead...

2026-06-25 09:46:48 UTC

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Having an OP_RETURN of over 83 bytes is not a consensus rule, smart guy.

2026-06-24 18:50:58 UTC

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Everyone wanted segwit? Is that why only ~500 nodes ran BIP148 at the time? You are having some normalcy bias washing over your perspective.
"And it never actually activated" LOL!!! Because the miners capitulated and ran it under a different name (basically using a different signal for the same thing).
What you fail to account for is that a large number of Bitcoin nodes are running on inertia and apathy to a Soft fork IS compliance.

2026-06-24 18:36:45 UTC

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To clarify, BIP110 is just pre-2023 Bitcoin. Shocking, I know. but I guess you didn't think Bitcoin was that cool prior to that year.

2026-06-24 17:42:10 UTC

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What do you mean solution? Is dust a problem?

2026-06-24 17:39:52 UTC

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Who validates the proof of work?

2026-06-24 17:38:35 UTC

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Bullseye? PLEASE explain why we have SegWit then.
I feel like everybody who just joined Bitcoin five minutes ago is so sure of themselves and have no idea why things succeeded or failed in the past.

2026-06-24 14:34:29 UTC

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Insane how few understand this.

2026-06-24 14:03:30 UTC

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You obviously are not technically equipped for this conversation, so you might want to check your premise. Maybe do a little historical research on the SegWit activation.

2026-06-24 13:54:04 UTC

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I still don't understand your position. Start 9 is literally saying, if you want to use core and you get forked, you can easily switch to knots. If you're using knots and you get forked, you can easily switch to core. I don't see that as taking a side or putting their thumb on the scale whatsoever.
And it is a fact that if there is no active URSF, a UASF is more likely to succeed.
So nothing in that tweet seems to correspond to anything you wrote. Hence the confusion.

2026-06-24 13:03:55 UTC

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Did you read the tweet or are you just reactively and reflexively responding to something you don't understand?

2026-06-24 13:03:00 UTC

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This is the most milquetoast approach to the whole debate, especially if you offer a node in a box product.
It's a demonstrable fact that if there is no existing URSF, then a UASF is more likely to succeed. And also he's saying that if you want to switch between implementations, they're making it super easy. How is this a contemptible stance?

2026-06-24 12:34:14 UTC

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Truuuu

2026-06-23 21:45:07 UTC

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I am not demanding anything. I am telling you technical details about how Bitcoin works.

2026-06-23 21:31:14 UTC

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That's just not true. Prior to the block height of activation all transactions currently within consensus are valid. It is only once RDTS is activated that blocks will be thrown out by other nodes.
OP_RETURN was originally intended to be a testing opcode and wasn't meant to be used on chain.

2026-06-23 21:00:28 UTC

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Cool write up! Now do BIP 148 and what does the math tell you there? ~500 nodes? That thing has no chance.

2026-06-23 20:43:00 UTC

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NEW VERSION: One compliant with all previous versions...What a dramatic change!

2026-06-23 20:35:42 UTC

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Read more. This is not true.

2026-06-23 20:35:05 UTC

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Yes, that is ALWAYS a threat that Node runners should be ready to act upon. If you aren't willing to change the POW in respose to a centralized mining cabal, Bitcoin is undefended.

2026-06-22 20:53:46 UTC

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That's why I am helping with the Bitcoin Commons, man. Thebitcoincommons.org
A bitcoin spec and a way to spread out the implementations without the fear of being out of consensus.

2026-06-22 20:04:06 UTC

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All else being equal, yes it is. Your point is that closed source has a better security budget, that's not a feature of closed source software. This is like saying red cars go faster. It has no correlation to speed BUT a red car IS more visible and thus easier to detect and skews toward being clocked at higher speeds. All else being equal, red cars are faster if only because they are more measured and there is more data to analyze.

2026-06-22 19:05:25 UTC

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Okay, my point is these things aren't mutually exclusive. So, all things being equal Open Source is better for security.
But yeah, if a super secret society has way more funding and resources it will beat the Open transparent society with far fewer resources and funding. But the Opposite is true as well, so I mean what are we talking about here?

2026-06-22 17:36:58 UTC

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It does in the way that security flaws are visible to those outside of the project. Code visibility changes a lot about a piece of software.
I can just as easily proclaim that code secrecy doesn't make a software more secure.
More secure than what? What is the nebulus open source being compared to? and which open source project is it.

2026-06-22 17:14:53 UTC

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Than what?

2026-06-22 02:24:42 UTC

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Doesn't change *programmatically* not in literal seconds. Even if a program executes precisely on a specific second there is variance on the fractions, come on man.

2026-06-22 02:22:26 UTC

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Only if you literally think "a block is every 10 minutes" sure.
The anticipated inflation is in chunks of 2016 blocks which is accurate and thus predictable.
Human perogative is definitely less predictable than hash computing though, so I am not sure how this is a point that Monero stands taller on.

2026-06-22 02:07:45 UTC

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Blocktime doesn't change. Also the halvings are predictable. I am not sure you understand what point I am making.
Monero has had SEVERAL changes to its issuance since inception. And it is not foregone to conclude more changes will happen. That makes its supply unpredictable.
Bitcoin has had precisely zero changes to issuance. (Spare me the inflation bug rabbithole because it was caught and fixed immediately, also never intended).
This is my point.
Again Monero is private and neat and all that good stuff. Just when it comes to economics it needs a bit more scrutiny.

2026-06-22 02:00:23 UTC

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I think this is in response to my response here:
#nevent1q…6wx9
It seems this was posted as a standalone note (or my client is doing something weird)

2026-06-22 01:58:17 UTC

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*currently* is the operative word there.

2026-06-22 01:54:54 UTC

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I guess there's also the predictability question. Since the inflation is variable, one can never know what the supply will be at any given FUTURE time will be. This disallows supply based predictions and rational economic decisions. (The same way you can't predict fiat supply inflation so mamy just act irrationally.)

2026-06-22 00:03:35 UTC

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It's more about mining pool structure and block template construction and propagation. But, sparing you a deep in the weeds point, it takes more than that. I have more hope for StratumV2 and DATUM adoption than new pools or a restructuring of percentage of market share.

2026-06-22 00:01:00 UTC

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I guess it would be possible but it would be odd given how outspoken he has been just to create a pseudonym to write a BIP? Not sure I see the logic.

2026-06-21 23:41:58 UTC

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No, he didn't even write the BIP, he just agrees with it. Also, the BIP doesn't have a governance prescription. Just limits some taproot OP_codes, and OP_RETURN size.
I encourage people to actually read the proposal and not just get the info second hand.

2026-06-21 23:38:11 UTC

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If mining is truly centralized Bitcoin must adapt (by changing the hashing algo) or die. Centralized Bitcoin mining is a central bank with extra steps.

2026-06-21 23:33:57 UTC

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Wut? People are running open source software. He has no more power than any Bitcoin Core contributor or dev.

2026-06-21 16:34:16 UTC

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One car, one pickup. Optimal setup. The car- electric, the truck- Diesel.
Most uses of cars are A to B and need very minimal load capacity. Electric cars shine there. Most uses of a Truck are hauling, towing, and heavy loads, diesel is best here.
SUVs are just worse at both uses.

2026-06-21 14:54:01 UTC

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Black swan is Fight Club for chicks.

2026-06-21 14:23:19 UTC

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Right, so that's kinda my point.

2026-06-21 14:10:50 UTC

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Hope is just fear in reverse. The assumption that something good will happen.

2026-06-21 14:06:39 UTC

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Everything emits EMFs, we are electromagnetic beings. This is like saying "people emit radio waves" yeah we do, but not in a way decipherable by a standard tuner.
EMFs aren't flatly a bad thing. You just need to know the frequency.

2026-06-21 14:04:27 UTC

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The free market? Oil barrons in the 20's crushed electric cars because they were were threatening profits. Electric motors are more efficient, period. The power of oil is wasted on cars. Oil is for trucks, haulers, and heavy machinery. I'm tired of people looking at a tool as a team sport. Use the tool for the job it's best at. Passenger cars? Electric. Big trucks? Diesel.

2026-06-20 17:40:14 UTC

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Doesn't that seem self-fulfilling? I'm not sure of all of the differences between the two but maybe more exposure causes more use.

2026-06-20 17:00:53 UTC

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Isn't that the developer's choice? You can't select the release @nprofile…gsu4 shows?

2026-06-19 15:16:16 UTC

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Technically it was rapid but we were moving pretty fast so it could have fit into a blitz framework of about three minutes, no increment.

2026-06-19 15:09:07 UTC

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Dang, I might have to play you at some point, I'm about 1300-1500. I played Tidwell in a set once and he destroyed me. He's like a 2100-2300.

2026-06-19 15:07:14 UTC

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I wouldn't be so confident against Tidwell, he is pretty good at chess.

2026-06-19 15:06:17 UTC

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What are you rated?

2026-06-16 19:47:54 UTC

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I think every 30 minutes they create a new benchmark of "what you owe them" vs the fiat price. 2 hours had passed before I checked back in. 4 emails.

2026-06-16 17:44:35 UTC

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Sorry?

2026-06-16 16:56:48 UTC

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To be honest, that might be my end because I recently tried to migrate from LND to Core Lightning. (I need to open some more channels for some inbound.)

2026-06-16 16:53:09 UTC

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To be clear, that's 1,400 billion dollars, and to be even clearer, that's 1.4 million million dollars.

2026-06-16 15:53:59 UTC

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Yes, I got four separate emails telling me that I owed somewhere between 1,000 to 1,600 sats because the fiat price of the Bitcoin I paid them must have gone down a little.
They're squabbling about an amount of Bitcoin valued in fiat between $0.80 and $1.50... I just paid $26 in shipping. Like wtf is going on?

2026-06-16 10:47:15 UTC

Hey Coinkite, you know people paying invoices in Bitcoin have no control over when a block confirms, right?
Yesterday a single block confirmation took about 45 minutes and the fiat price went up in that time even though I signed and broadcasted a transaction when you asked. And let's not pretend for a second that if the bitcoin price went up you were going to give me a refund on the Sats based on the fiat price.
Are you a Bitcoin company or a fiat company? Kindly make your decision.

2026-06-15 11:45:10 UTC

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It's not "non-custodial" when there is temporary custody. There are timelocks, escrows, and conditionals but that is programmatic not custody.
Just making an observation.

2026-06-15 11:06:55 UTC

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I was just thinking a temporary punch to the face was a great non-violent solution for getting people to see inconsistencies. 🤔

2026-06-11 10:43:03 UTC

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Gitcha. I see what you mean now.

2026-06-11 10:21:35 UTC

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I will say having a low body fat enough to see abdominal muscle form is not impossible but I think it might be a body form thing. I certainly cannot have that with my body type. But, I have friends who don't eat much and do rock climbing that have very visible abs.