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2026-03-30 17:44:49 UTC

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There are basically three camps at the moment: Knots, CoreV30+, and Core29-, but on legacy sites like bitref.com/nodes, coin.dance/nodes etc. the latter two are counted as one and this give the impression that there are only two camps with a large core share. This however, does not reflect reality. So, if #ProductionReady delivers soon and people running Core29- are changing to this implementation then the fact that there are three camps will be reflected as such everywhere. That would be a good thing in the medium term.
#nevent1q…lrhy

2026-03-29 18:24:18 UTC

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Yes, I guess that multiple options that involves more people may make this movement for less spam more probable.

2026-03-29 07:29:22 UTC

With #ProductionReady in place, it will potentially be more difficult for the progressive people in core to softly force people to upgrade to the newest versions of their software as older versions of bitcoin core software are no longer patched. As a result, you will probably have three major players in the market, with progressives in the minority, and ossification will accelerate further. #BIP110

2026-03-28 14:44:46 UTC

If users who have not yet updated to >=v30 or changed to Knots switch to #ProductionReady, then the loss of market share for Core would be correctly reflected even on legacy node statistics sites. The loss is, in fact, far more than 50%. I mean, how can you count the people who refuse to update to the Core camp? That seems like a classic instance of lying with statistics. #BIP110

2026-03-28 07:13:12 UTC

Getting accustomed to an existing codebase is a time-consuming endeavor in software development. The fact that the girls hired for DEI purposes struggled to produce anything useful for a long time underlines this point. Developing in the open (book recommendations: "Producing Open Source Software" by Karl Fogel, "Working in Public" by Nadia Eghbal) cannot hide politics or mediocre performance for a long time. In the end, everything will be revealed rather quickly, and forking the codebase is the result. #BIP110

2026-03-26 19:19:46 UTC

If a miner is relying on the additional fee currently generated by spam, then such a company is doomed soon anyway. The market gets more competitive with every halving, and these companies are the weakest link and are therefore eliminated first. Why should node runners subsidize such a dying business? #BIP110

2026-03-23 20:48:20 UTC

Just to say "#BIP110 will fail" is not a real argument. At least you need to provide an explanation of why you think so — only then a debate is possible. Until now, I have not heard any real arguments from the opponents; just confused statements or ones that were refuted long ago. Is it just laziness or is it escapism?

2026-03-22 08:00:06 UTC

Are you using the remaining time effectively? I could imagine that a lot of shaky and scammy crypto businesses will be eliminated by uncertainty and price volatility in the fall. As an end user, you have to ensure that all your funds are in self-custody. Avoid centralized services like the devil shuns holy water. #BIP110

2026-03-19 16:02:22 UTC

If you are against spam and against #BIP110, you can always propose a better solution. However, complaining and doing nothing is more of an obstruction than a constructive option.

2026-03-18 18:52:09 UTC

Kicking the can down the road and doubling down on exponentially growing money printing or bailouts without solving the underlying problem is fiat mentality. So, yes, there is urgency in #BIP110 in fixing the issue with spam as bitcoin is not fiat.

2026-03-17 17:31:36 UTC

Calling everyone who disagrees with you a "Nazi" is just an expression of having no argument at all. Therefore, the term "Knotzi" can only have been coined by a retard. ;-) #BIP110

2026-03-16 18:04:12 UTC

Calling the proponents of #BIP110 a mob is quite un-American for an American to say, as the American Revolutionary War was precisely won by not following traditional "rules of engagement". For example, during the Revolutionary War, the Americans intentionally targeted British officers on the battlefield, which clearly contradicted European conventions at that time.

2026-03-15 13:22:56 UTC

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Well, I never considered Coinbase an institution inside the community :->

2026-03-15 09:58:21 UTC

The podcast appearance of Giacomo looks like a smoke screen maneuver: a long-term maxi is openly criticizing #BIP110 and then later the host sarcastically asks if he is now a shitcoiner as well. But there are connections here: Todd. Older Twitter posts and shared appearances at meetups hint at a personal friendship beyond their professional interactions. //cc @nprofile…mycd

2026-03-15 07:36:38 UTC

In the current bitcoin crisis, not only are some corrupted and incompetent core devs the issue, but also some podcast hosts as well as some conference organizers, as they sacrifice the long-term future of bitcoin for short-term gains (high time preference) to produce regular content about unimportant sideshows. Business as usual is more important to them than thinking about the consequences of their ignorance. #BIP110

2026-03-14 09:44:39 UTC

Do not feel compelled to participate in any centralized prediction market concerning #BIP110. Do not accept the battlefield the enemy tries to force on you (Sun Tzu). Let the battle be decentralized and the "Fog of War" confuse the enemy.

2026-03-14 09:15:40 UTC

Hm, Adam Jonas, the little Epstein that actively corrupted bitcoin.
#naddr1qq…20rz

2026-03-14 08:08:50 UTC

Sad, another maxi turned soft, but probably not the last :-(
#nevent1q…0uak

2026-03-12 17:54:32 UTC

In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA4T-66itoA @nprofile…m78m, @nprofile…rrsm and @nprofile…07hm made fun of the unusability and impracticality of running nodes of other chains, but I did not hear any thoughts about the fact that this could happen to bitcoin, too. Why do they not say the obvious and come to the only possible conclusion? #BIP110

2026-03-05 19:28:23 UTC

Being against spam and against #BIP110 is still being pro spam. It’s like: -1 * -1 = 1, which is effectively pro spam.

2026-03-04 17:57:13 UTC

Bitcoin is not a given. It is only as strong as the people protecting and fighting for it. Unfortunately, there are some bad actors in the space and many naive individuals who think that nothing needs to be done to keep it alive. #BIP110

2026-03-03 15:51:48 UTC

In bitcoin, you should not pick a team based on the popularity of persons aka influencers. Doing so is like the terminal stage of the fiat disease. In Roman times that was called panem et circenses (“bread and circuses”). You should not choose your money based on the fanciness of the paper it is printed on. Instead, select your money according to its monetary properties. #BIP110

2026-03-02 17:54:22 UTC

If you cannot run a node anymore, then self‑custody dies, and with that Bitcoin will die as well. Bloating the chain with spam and converting it into an Ethereum-like platform in which you can not run a node anymore without special knowledge and expensive hardware is exactly the thing that should be averted. #BIP110

2026-03-01 15:07:37 UTC

The block‑size war was only a battle in an ever‑ongoing war against control. If you want a permissionless and decentralized network, you have to fight every day. Bitcoin won’t die in a single blow; it will fade slowly and gradually over time. If maximalism dies, so will Bitcoin. #BIP110

2026-02-28 07:46:22 UTC

Saying that home nodes do not matter is like claiming we do not need customers and can still sell our product. #BIP110

2026-02-26 18:46:36 UTC

#BIP110 is not a precedent. Rather it is an answer to the precedent that happened before with not fixing the bug that enabled the whole disaster in the first place and with merging the controversial changes with v30.x.
#nevent1q…hla0

2026-02-25 19:48:20 UTC

Are there any "bitaxers" out there that would be eager to mine a possible spam chain in September? #bitaxe #BIP110 #asknostr

2026-02-25 19:35:38 UTC

Amusing the color choice on https://thebitcoinportal.com/nodes/
Orange for Knots and green for CoreV30.x.
Green was the color for Btrash (Bitcoin Cash) as well ;-)
#BIP110 #knots

2026-02-23 18:13:37 UTC

The argument that transaction fees will eventually price out spam is worn out, because until then the blockchain will eventually become unusable. Using this argument in 2026 is just lazy or hides another agenda.

2026-02-22 08:34:02 UTC

"Slay your heroes". Currently you can observe a changing of the guards: Many fighters of the 2017 block size war who fought for decentralization now hold their cozy VC backed job or similar and therefore have a conflict of interest. Do not blindly follow these influencers. Think for yourself and make your own decisions.

2026-02-22 08:32:57 UTC

What would be the conclusion of applying the following quote often attributed to Voltaire "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." to the current spam debate in bitcoin in the sense that filtering is censorship and should be defended therefore? Since any action has opportunity costs it seems irrational to waste your time for such an endeavor solely for the sake of principle. I think preserving bitcoin’s survival and preventing its enshitification is more important.

2026-02-17 19:50:12 UTC

It is not a question of being for or against BIP‑110. It is a personal risk assessment if you want to risk your stack of sats and your stake in bitcoin. You can live well with less spam, but less so with a forked network. Bitcoin is not a democracy. We are not voting here with other people’s money; it is your own.

2026-02-09 18:55:34 UTC

The danger of the hype-industrial complex feeding perpetual change into bitcoin is real. We need maintainers with a low time preference and not a lot of careerist junior developers using bitcoin as a "career springboard".

2026-02-09 18:28:11 UTC

Although written in 1985 in "The Sachertorte algorithm and other antidotes to computer" by John Shore, the following sentence "The computer is important not because it allows us to do less, but because it helps us to do more." is still valid today. "Artificial Intelligence" is a powerful tool helping us to do more and not to replace humans. Reject any neo-Malthusian and neo-Luddite ideology.

2026-02-09 18:21:56 UTC

As recent event shows us, bitcoin developer do not necessarily have to be bitcoiners themselves. Some are just collecting a CV item that they can put into their résumé and a lazy HR agent will not and can not verify whether that work was wanted or was sustainable for the user base.
#nevent1q…7wk4

2026-02-05 19:38:19 UTC

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-1 😀

2026-02-02 18:49:39 UTC

Will the "neutral majority" aka the users that have not yet updated to v30 or changed to Knots really risk increased price volatility for a long time or a fork because of spam which many of them dislike, too? Therefore it seems safer for them to ally with the anti-spam side.
Playbook à la "The Intolerant Minority" from "Skin in the Game" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

2026-02-02 18:24:59 UTC

Even if it takes several years, bitcoin maximalists will probably sit out the current crisis, whereas all those venture‑capital‑financed shitcoin companies will run out of money because they do not deliver anything useful.

2026-01-15 18:32:52 UTC

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Read 35 of them. "Crime and Punishment" is certainty a good one.

2026-01-14 18:30:05 UTC

The question of what happens to interest rates in a hyperbitcoinized world is an intriguing one. As bitcoin has a terminal money growth of zero and can basically be stored for zero cost in your head makes this question a novel one. We have never encountered an inherently deflationary monetary system like this before, so there is no precedent for comparison. It will reshape both investing and the corporate landscape. Applying historical and conventional wisdom to such a world does not seem adequate.
My guess is that real interest rates will rise, since lenders must be compensated for risk and for the natural appreciation of money that occurs simply by holding it. This could benefit small businesses that invest predominantly their own capital. Today a lot of investing is done because the money is loosing too much purchasing power if it is not invested. That behavior would diminish, which may not be a bad thing. In the future, you might even be able to purchase a house outright with cash again.

2026-01-08 19:34:25 UTC

To strengthen your readiness for self‑defense, you should periodically reread this book: "The art of War" by Sun Tzu.

2026-01-07 18:28:56 UTC

To "impose severe physical costs on adversaries" taken from "Softwar" by Jason P. Lowery is really a nice expression to explain the importance of "proof of work": We best defend our money by making it costly for the inflationist to produce more of it in a shorter time as planned and impossible to produce more of it than originally designed.

2025-12-15 18:56:22 UTC

@nprofile…73v7 The subscription model means that one has to trust someone to deliver in the future. There are scalability and trust issues involved here. Money and microtransactions solves this problem.

2025-12-14 08:55:39 UTC

Found some new inputs about privacy in "Das Privacy Handbuch" by Timo Volkov from @nprofile…9xkm. Sad is the part about privacy in cars. Yeah, we really need something like a open source car ;-) https://image.nostr.build/bfe98a76a4a2bbd33b1ef38552c0e83d6aa6332678951014e0934abc49a15a7d.jpg

2025-12-09 17:56:08 UTC

"Virtus Digitalis" by @nprofile…k94j is certainly the Best book - pun intended - about bitcoin and stoicism. A lot of dots have been connected in this book: Bitcoin, stoicism, low time preference and decentralized structures really match perfectly. So, remember if the price crashes the next time, be stoic and calm as you can not control when other people panic. https://image.nostr.build/84de52888005e1d1689f480539ee659f973c3234a8558223817f678497cdd092.jpg

2025-12-09 17:53:26 UTC

In reference to "It is easier to port a shell than a shell script" one may also conclude that it's easier to change a runtime system than to get millions of programmers to change their programming paradigm and tooling. Therefore virtual threads in Java will prevail over reactive programming using RxJava, Spring WebFlux etc.

2025-12-02 18:21:45 UTC

Enjoyed reading "Bitcoin ist Freiheit" by @nprofile…pwey. Liked the analogy between bitcoin transaction hardening like cement over time and the comparison between Bitcoin’s "security budget" and that of the Swiss army. Spoiler alert: the former is now way higher.
https://image.nostr.build/de5537086d125e620f46f9212fc3a8aa249774d7153ed36907809657d896307a.jpg

2025-12-01 18:23:05 UTC

Published a tutorial how to setup a private nostr home relay: https://stacker.news/items/1297484

2025-11-29 16:01:27 UTC

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✷✷✷✷✷

2025-11-29 15:59:35 UTC

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Added a tutorial here https://stacker.news/items/1295637

2025-11-29 15:58:25 UTC

Added a tutorial here https://stacker.news/items/1295637
#nevent1q…gq8a

2025-11-27 18:56:30 UTC

Finished reading "Praxeology" by @nprofile…73v7 that Knut kindly signed for me in Lugano. It's a book about the foundations of bitcoin as Austrian economics, natural law etc. but without mentioned bitcoin directly. For the latter you can only find hints as the twenty-one chapters, the orange disk on the cover picture etc. You have to do the work yourself and you will find the orange future on your own. https://image.nostr.build/fc26c472744ae5b8de183ce491becfe96cc7fb0fb268297a51cb7729cd034919.jpg

2025-11-26 19:32:47 UTC

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Or the reverse taken from "Elective Affinities" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
"Nothing reveals a man’s character more than what he finds ridiculous."

2025-11-22 11:28:24 UTC

Created my own version of a Bitcoin block clock showing the stats of my own node and services including forwarded lightning payments, found mining shares by the Bitaxe etc. https://image.nostr.build/9f4bd757777ef6e870e7b3a3071d31a3dd160dd83e90d66a31a6250646dfb6b0.jpg

2025-11-16 12:49:38 UTC

"The Man Without Qualities" written by Robert Musil describes a society in which people possess expertise only in their square millimeter of knowledge. That is exactly what we see with some bitcoin core developer and their groupies. There we encounter single‑track minds that refuse to abstract beyond their narrow expertise and to view the bigger picture. Their argumentation only reflects their square millimeter of knowledge and any other input from outside that area is vehemently rejected.

2025-11-13 17:51:58 UTC

Not fixing the bugs that are enabling the abuse of the Bitcoin time chain and rewriting the documentation is the dangerous precedent here. Framing it the other way around is just Orwellian newspeak. Hackers do not have rights to abuse the system that have to be protected by the community.

2025-11-08 12:20:21 UTC

Being able to set up your own Nostr relay for storing your posts is a powerful expression of your digital sovereignty.

2025-11-02 12:10:08 UTC

The datum gateway from Ocean was really the missing part that brings together mining equipment and your full node in an easy and modern fashion.

2025-11-02 12:09:12 UTC

Solo mining without constructing your own block template somehow misses the point. Configure datum gateway for solo mining to be a real sovereign solo miner.

2025-11-02 12:08:20 UTC

"Four Horsemen" is a documentary movie with a collectivist mindset and therefore it seems not appropriate to cite it positively in an anarcho‑capitalist bitcoin context.

2025-10-25 11:43:25 UTC

On the ground, the Knots vs Core debate is clearer. The applause during the Lugano panel — and if you talk to people — suggests that support for Knots is stronger than what the internet discourse implies.

2025-10-24 11:43:55 UTC

@nprofile…axjn The canton of Bern could also deinvest from some of its company like BLS, BKW to buy bitcoin. Those companies do need some competion as they are not really costumer friendly and efficient anyway.

2025-10-24 09:44:58 UTC

Why is Stephan Livera moderating the Knots vs. Core debate in Lugano? He is clearly not neutral and independet on this topic.

2025-10-23 16:49:15 UTC

Paying the stay at the hotel in Lugano with Aqua wallet with a liquid Boltz lightning swap almost timeout out, but finally finished just in time. In terms of amout it was certainly a higher one I did so far.

2025-10-23 11:38:18 UTC

I have chosen my seat carefully for my travel to plan B forum in Lugano https://image.nostr.build/41065864887528b63a7b1bb00f2951408ba2e109dfebb9429c1842c8ebee741b.jpg

2025-10-19 10:00:28 UTC

Bitcoin only endures when its community follows the mantra “Slay your hero”. If the bitcoin social layers bows to the authoritarian technocrats bitcoin has failed. Think for yourself and unfollow corrupted people. We already have lost many once leading people on the path and more may fall in the future.

2025-10-19 08:26:21 UTC

Joined forces https://image.nostr.build/3b72520375a5508858f13bdb340a0c10deaff6818fc5e34bc6ccf503b5eee375.jpg

2025-10-12 08:46:50 UTC

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Yes, I do

2025-10-12 08:15:47 UTC

A zap is a microtransaction and somewhat a better appreciation than a like. As @nprofile…ezp2 still denies the usefulness of microtransactions he should consequently not have a zapping address on his nostr profile. 😉

2025-10-12 08:06:10 UTC

With more than 20% running an alternative client this pipe dream about an homogeneous mempool has failed.

2025-10-12 08:03:48 UTC

What will be next major version number of Bitcoin Knots? 30 seems to be a tainted number now. From now on only minor numbers? That would also reflect the ossification process.

2025-10-12 07:58:09 UTC

Taproot may well turn out to have been the last soft‑fork on Bitcoin. The way the core developers handled the release of version 30 — and that was not even a consensus change — could effectively have closed forever the window on future soft‑fork proposals.

2025-10-12 07:43:23 UTC

These books printed by Amazon with large margin and fine print font size are a disgrace and basically wastepaper. It is a shame that such books are also sold outside of the Amazon website.

2025-09-13 15:13:44 UTC

Not many have upgraded to Core 29.1 yet. So far only 332 did. Will Core 30.0 be even worse? Somehow reminds me of SegWit2x.

2025-09-13 10:25:33 UTC

Bitcoin as a whole is larger than the ego of any of its developer. Long forgotten are Gavin Andresen, Mike Hearn etc. So will be the current ones that still resist to listen to the community and still doubling done with their narrow-minded technical arguments not seeing the social economic dimension of Bitcoin.

2025-09-12 18:02:13 UTC

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Sure, it is just one of the several heads of the Hydra you talked about earlier. You still have to burn off that one.

2025-09-10 16:47:45 UTC

It’s somewhat short‑sighted of some Bitcoiner to claim that the ongoing debate is not important and that Bitcoin will be fine anyway. In fact, the very people who care enough to point out the current issues and put in the work are the ones ensuring that Bitcoin stays fine.

2025-09-07 10:00:13 UTC

It is somehow disturbing that at @nprofile…2llr spam free blocks are declared as less healthy.

2025-09-07 06:21:28 UTC

Running /Satoshi:29.1.0/Knots:20250903/

2025-09-04 17:13:58 UTC

Including considerations of hard‑forking, the “Knots vs. Core” debate increasingly resembles a game of chicken. As the block‑size wars taught us, the party that either loses its composure or dramatically overestimates its own strength—and therefore forks first—ends up on the losing side.

2025-08-24 09:35:07 UTC

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Another question is: Would the Swiss e-ID app "swiyu" be open source according to EMBAG§9 and be installable on a degoogled phone?

2025-08-21 18:41:04 UTC

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Unfortunately it crashes on startup and downgrade is not possible with complete removal 🙁

2025-08-14 17:29:05 UTC

I guess that the usage of Lombok's @SneakyThrows annotation in a code base indicates that Java developers do not appreciate checked exceptions anymore or never did.

2025-08-12 18:21:02 UTC

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GitHub goes the way as anything else that Microsoft has digested in the past like Hotmail, Skype etc. At the end only shit remains.

2025-08-11 14:53:29 UTC

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Frühzeitiger Bitcoin-Ruhestand ? :-)

2025-08-09 11:25:46 UTC

Humanity should be careful not to implement an Orwellian thought crime regime with kycing everything. Privacy is a corner stone of a free society.

2025-08-09 11:25:09 UTC

In the end utilitarianism will also immolate its strongest advocates.

2025-07-20 18:19:25 UTC

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Is a P2P exchange to physical cash considered cheating in this challenge? No direct bank involvement in such a case.

2025-07-17 18:12:46 UTC

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Donation by lighting⚡

2025-07-13 16:29:46 UTC

I missed a citation of Revelation 13:16-18 in "The Gospel According To Bitcoin" by Daniel Sherman and J.M. Bush in the sections talking about CBDC and Covid. Are these not examples of the "mark" in our time?

2025-07-13 16:29:01 UTC

"You shall not steal". Printing money including taking a loan is stealing because you dilute the value of others holding fiat money. You can read all about this in "The Gospel According To Bitcoin" by Daniel Sherman and J.M. Bush https://image.nostr.build/0fb93e4570c563820d3fb5ec0f4cbdca53b0d69a48f8b386c36bb29fbaf0e6ed.jpg

2025-07-07 19:42:40 UTC

Hodling does not imply that one should refrain from using bitcoin as a means of payment. Instead, it means not to sell it in order to have more fiat aka realizing some gains. If you do not use the lightning network for payments, you miss out on benefits such as lower fees, reduced surveillance, and uncensorable transactions. It is really unfortunate that, even in 2025, some keynote speakers still claim that Bitcoin payments are unimportant.

2025-07-07 19:08:55 UTC

Everybody pays the fees they deserve. Instead of complaining about high fees using the Twint payment app the "swiss retail federation" could promote payments with lightning.
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/anzeige-gegen-twint-das-muesse-sie-wissen-229818778320

2025-07-07 18:34:36 UTC

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Well, I would like to buy the train tickets with lightning. Bitcoin will only be successful if you can use it for daily purchases. On and off ramps are choke points.

2025-06-27 09:02:00 UTC

Open source projects as for instance gnome, debian, f-droid etc. should maintain strict neutrality on topics unrelated to their core mission, rather than seeking favor with unrelated movements. This approach would help to ensure that they do not alienate supporters who may disagree with these unrelated issues.

2025-06-26 17:56:04 UTC

"The Bitcoin Enlightenment" by Ricardo Salinas, @nprofile…f7jd and Daniel Jungen delves into some aspects of monetary history that are not yet broadly covered in other Bitcoin focused books, such as the founding of the Bank of England and the inflation in Mexico. It also addresses recent developments, including the growing influence of Bitcoin on political events, and offers some forecasts where the journey may go in the future.
https://image.nostr.build/d48cd886176da31cd3213f4c7c7584568b79c619e2860fa0e11a19e6d97de287.jpg

2025-06-26 14:43:28 UTC

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Yes and change back the logo. It looks too woke.

2025-06-15 08:54:40 UTC

In the long run the concept of bailing out the hashers by spam is not sustainable. The trend is rather one hodler=one bitaxe.

2025-06-15 08:54:00 UTC

According to my full node the share of Knots is 12%.

2025-06-15 08:53:22 UTC

Sometimes I have the feeling that AI is like a child. If it does not know the answer it just makes something up.