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You should be able to opt out of advertising to people to send money to you there though.
https://blossom.primal.net/11177078e44dbb8145acf9e80d721e84a2d71f21d61d242ca9f9f8e0454e8612.mp4
This would be absolutely terrifying. What an awful tragedy.
Why can't governments just be normal.
https://substack.com/@freethinkr273162/note/c-284669361
I'm sure chat-gpt has it all under control.
That's what stratumv2 is for. No need to run a node implementation maintained by a single individual to achieve what you want there.
For real, the one weekend I missed and they hit it! Ugh, I've been participating in these block parties for so long, but was busy this weekend and forgot to point it to the pool.
The one weekend I was busy and didn't point my miner to the block party! 😭
https://antoinep.com/posts/relay_policy_drama/
You don't give them an alias for you to go by to make convo a little easier?
It is that time of day again where Peter Todd justifies war crimes.
Paying taxes isn't justification for being targeted in war. I remember you justifying killing children as well and they don't even pay taxes nor are they responsible in any way for the war crimes of their government. Insidious.
The pendulum will definitely swing more in favor of the attacker until AI tooling on the defensive side becomes more ubiquitous. More of the same ol' cat and mouse game that has taken place in security for decades.
What is going on in Venezuela is such a tragedy. The images are horrific. They need as much support as they can get. I love that platforms along with bitcoin can get funds directly to the people that need it most. Though sadly, usually what is most needed at times like this is simply more helping hands.
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That's why I specifically mentioned sustainable tree forestry.
That makes no sense. Unless you don't believe any of this:
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As a tennis player myself, it is really something to see pros play at ground level. You can't quite appreciate the power as much when watching from above on TV. At ground level, the power and speed is so much more apparent.
FYI, Burning trees, wood, paper etc doesn't really contribute to climate change anyway or add CO2 to the atmosphere. Trees aren't fossil fuels, which is what we should be worried about. Their carbon just comes from tree growth and those trees take carbon out of the atmosphere during their growth, while burning them just returns that same carbon back. So long as new trees take their place, it is pretty much carbon neutral. So burn away!
Cutting down and burning old growth forests is harmful, but otherwise burning sustainable wood is just fine.
It is why I prefer charcoal grilling. Better taste and more sustainable!
https://blockspace.media/insight/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-op_return-data-limit-debate/
Haha, I try not to play that game. Any market price driven by leverage will always be a short term price. That leverage will always come due and with it, the price. While it is mind-boggling that the price has come down $67k, I try not to think about my net worth coming down similarly.
For my own sanity, I focus on my net worth at times like this for future planning. My net worth in bear markets highlights true market conviction in what bitcoin is. There is a growing number of people year after year that are choosing to use and hold bitcoin even during the darkest bear markets. It actually brings me solace thinking about that in times like this. Sentiment is extremely bearish and yet here we are at ~$60k.
If there wasn't any collateral damage to keeping it at 83 bytes, I'd be fine with that. The problem is all about comparative harm and I feel there is far more harm in leaving the limit at 83 bytes than there is in effectively removing it.
It is a shame that the debate has fixated on the monetary use case of bitcoin rather than the technical reasonings for wanting the limit removed to avoid those harmful side effects of not doing so. After all, I don't think there are too many in this debate that don't want bitcoin's use case to be monetary.
I grew up in an Irish catholic family, married a catholic, and was married in a catholic church.
Your analogy is faulty and attempts to reframe things based on a strawman argument. v30 proponents never stated their argument was "well, people could already break in, so who cares, let's remove the fence."
It was/is all about comparative harm. This argument has been made countless times and to suggest you haven't heard it before means perhaps you haven't been paying attention. The "gate" wasn't just a leaky gate, it is actively directing activity to a far more harmful path. The entire existence of OP_RETURN came about to allow for provably unspendable outputs to avoid the UTXO set from becoming bloated. The OP_RETURN limit is actively harmful now due to the fact that it directs activity toward the UTXO set which increases the cost of running a bitcoin node (since every node must store the entirety of the set in memory). It also promotes the use of alternative relay networks such as Libre Relay (which is harmfully centralizing). Not to mention the fact that default relay policy should be as close to matching what actually ends up in a block or else it becomes difficult to determine what the fee market is and what the broader mempool looks like. Again, this has all been discussed before and pretending like v30 proponent's arguments were something otherwise is disingenuous.
A chain-split by any other name is still a chain-split.
That doesn't sound very catholic to me.
My wife isn't vegan. I hate the sin, not the sinner and I've always lived by that. You're free to make whatever decision you like. But frankly, you just sound insufferable at this point and I prefer to not engage with that. I'll debate the technical aspect based on its merit, but I'm not going to refrain from engaging in the rest of that.
Generally game theory is not a safe upgrade mechanism for a trillion+ dollar monetary network. Just ask BCashers how that went for them. But if you'd prefer not to learn lessons from past mistakes, but all means learn them the hard way in 43 days.
Ad hominems won't prevent you being forked off in 43 days.
You will be hardforked from bitcoin nodes running version 25 (the latest version on 10/9/23) in 43 days as well. Your argument is faulty.
Again, as I previously stated, big difference between relay policy and consensus rules.
You would have to ask Satoshi that. He was the one that put in the 100kb size limit, which is 1/10th of the block space to prevent any single txn from consuming an entire block.
The weight units introduced with Segwit are just a 4x multiple of both.
Again, it needs to be reiterated that this isn't consensus policy. This is relay policy.
That is factually incorrect. It is absolutely not the same. The introduction of v30+ running along-side nodes running pre-v30 never introduced the risk of a chain split, which is precisely what BIP-110 does. And it does so with an extremely dangerous activation method (only 55% signaling needed) and with no replay protection as well. It is reckless development, just like running knots is reckless.
Have fun with you're hard fork in 43 days. Tick tock.
https://blockspace.media/insight/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-op_return-data-limit-debate/
https://blog.lopp.net/a-laymans-guide-to-bip-110/
100,000 bytes is an effective removal of the limit since a transaction is capped by 400,000 weight units which would effectively be reached first before that OP_RETURN limit. While it is a limit value, it removes any arbitrary decisioning as far as what the limit should be (counter to your claim). It is effectively a value large enough to be irrelevant.
Keeping an actual limit value in place, however, means less complexity compared with removing it entirely since code paths such as IsStandardTx/IsStandard still function. Also, the -datacarriersize argument is still backward compatible with a limit in place since that argument was not removed either.
The removal of the limit makes technical sense. The drama in response to it is the virtue signaling theater.
lol, only cost $1.5b because it was built with slave labor.
Comments submitted by Greg Maxwell to the FCC in regards to their proposal to enforce KYC requirements for every telecom company. This would be a huge violation of privacy rights for Americans. These comments are extremely well written. Greg Maxwell continues to be on the right side of history and fight for our rights. Thank you!
https://nt4tn.net/FCC-17-59-gmaxwell.pdf
There is already a cap on data use with the block size limit. The bitcoin blockchain scales linearly and is controlled by that.
People point to the fraud in the "crypto" industry and think that the collapses can't/don't happen in TradFi either. But people put their fiat money in traditional or fintech companies that have nothing to do with "crypto" and lose their money there too. The problem is trusting third-parties altogether.
It is also striking to me that a heavy liberal outlet like this can't draw the connection between consumers losing their funds held with third-parties and the clear solution to this that bitcoin provides. Instead, their solution is to put their funds in "brick and mortar" institutions as if that were a solution, when it is all part of the same system. One victim in the video even said he's lost all trust in financial institutions, but can't see the solution to his problem in bitcoin.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hiE7NvONU5U
I like the idea of the blind oracle that Jade uses. You can host your own blind oracle server and not expose it to the public internet. This means that your hardware wallet is effectively a brick outside of your own home. Furthermore, if you ever lose your Jade, you can purge the keys for it on your blind oracle server which then acts like a remote deactivation of the hardware which will allow you to turn it into a brick without needing access to it. Something that no other hardware cold wallet that opts to use a secure element allows for. A very cool and secure technical implementation.
He's so delusional. Can't wait to watch their hardfork die in 44 days. I'll have my popcorn ready.
Thanks for being so kind. ✌
What natural cycle is that? Saying it is "natural" doesn't point to an actual cause, it simply absolves humans without a reason. So what is it?
It isn't just two weeks when there is no hash power. Bitcoin operates on block time, we just say two weeks because that's what it averages out to. But in reality, you're waiting for 2016 blocks to pass no matter how long that takes.
Yeah, it's getting out of hand. Every camera is a surveillance state waiting to happen.
Ya, ultimately that's just the situation of the market right now for PC gaming. It sucks for gamers for sure. Valve isn't really even making much of anything on these. They're just selling them at cost pretty much. I think they'll sell so long as sales expectations are set appropriately. My Steamdeck I got from the original release is still going strong, so I'll just be sticking with that for now.
This is crazy. Surveillance is about to get far far worse before it gets better.
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In about 47 days, there are going to be a lot of BIP-110 proponents, that when it ends up inevitably being a hardfork, will say that they were never in support of it. Just like how we have shitcoiners that deny ever being in support of a token that went to zero. Don't let them off easy.
You know all those subsidies pale in comparison to the $7 trillion in subsidies that fossil fuels receive globally each year, right? So ya, let's do the same, but also don't forget to get rid of those subsidies too.
https://blossom.primal.net/5074199d90e9a635e448c7e1f100524ddcef1124e5ee48323b7b8f29e4d2aef1.jpg
recently i have had to learn the hard truth that most parents don't really want to have kids, its just the next 'thing', 'trend', or 'societal obligation' they feel compelled to do socially.
which reminds me of tthe quote "the road to hell is paved with good intentions."
'only fans' was originally for content creators to monetize their audience. now its known as a porn site.
unfortunately, people are innately good, cartoons a no longer instilling good values, and hedonism is running rampant masquerading as liberalism.
'its about building tools for parents on a protocol that respects their decision to raise their kids how they see fit'
if the goal is to fight government tyranny, then i suggest encouraging local resources. as it stands you are just preparing the kids to interface with this platform in the future when they grow up. its like app grooming, and i don't mean that in a malicious way. its just a fact of life that all children must be groomed by someone, entity, or group (culture).
it is my belief, that kids should be fully involved in the real world and with their local communities. not online or on devices.
'the single focus of our work is to solve for scammers, violent, and sexual content better than any large corporation can do by themselves'
again, not trying to attack you, but if this is your mission statement? you should change it, or pivot.
this just sounds like your copying their business model on a lesser known platform. in an effort to get ahead of the competition that already has a foot hold. for example huggies, has a brand recognition. it would be very difficult for another company to occupy that space unless it was a different country or platfrom where huggies has no brand real estate.
this just sounds like your do the work for governments, and like many successful businesses, protocols, and etc. if you become too successful, government will simply co-opt/takeover your movement or business. like chicago is trying to do with bitcoin.
therefore i can not support your initiative or business, because it is rooted in the wrong principles and is a trojan horse for the fiat systems and Totalitarian governements using "protecting the kids" as a means/excuse for stealing more rights and liberties away from the citizens.
good day.
i dont think children should be online at all. it hinders their developement, and in most cases creates a dependencies on government backed services over local services.
respectfully, this concept of keeping kids safe with apps? i find ludacris, now in all fairness i have not looked into the ditto app, and im sure its a great app.
but nothing is a good replacement for fully present parents. parenting can not be replaced by an app.
modern day families do too much outsourcing in raising their kids.
second point, when children are young, it is the most important time to be unsafe. which is not to be confused with life threatening. Safety has rarely prepared children for the volatility of the life. give them a helmet and guide them, but don't lock them in a room with a tablet or the tv. this is a form of neglect.
which leads to my third point.
No more kids raising kids. we need more adults raising children, so that the children don't have to become adults, they just are, as soon as they can walk. NO more "big" girl and boy talk, instead we should bring back "young man" and "young lady".
apologies for the rant, i am just tired of being forced to co-parent by platforms, apps, and establishments that cultivate this culture of neglectful parents.
Please Raise your own kids, and stop forcing the 🌍 world to raise your kids for you. its not our responsibility. i get the "it take a village to raise a child" addage, but the current society is abusing this concept. parental controls are for the parents, not for the corporations, and they are a luxury, not a mandate.
