If there isn't sufficient independent funding for developers (eg, OpenSats), devs are more likely to be tempted to accept funding by bad actors.
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Post something I can zap the fuck out of
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I don’t recall Satoshi asking for anything.
Satoshi didn’t stick around and help maintain the protocol.
Didn’t show up for its 5th, 10th, or 15th birthday.
Technically he’s the deadbeat dad of bitcoin.
If I was Satoshi I wouldn’t want to be around when the Feds first showed up either 🤷🏻♂️
Left Andresen as a single mom to raise a protocol when the heat came down. Just like the rest.
He did the right thing by not being around when the Feds started to realise what had happened. Hopefully he managed to have a spare wallet that nobody knew about and is living the good life on some beach somewhere! :)
Yeah with his new protocol. What’s her name!?
“I’ve moved on to other things.”
That is a slippery slope ..
THE CORE DEV DILEMMA: SATOSHI'S GHOST VS. MODERN PAYCHECK PATREON CULTURE—A TALE OF TWO BITCOIN ERAS.
1️⃣ SATOSHI’S WORLD (2009-2011):
No Grants, No Begging: Code was written by:
Cypherpunks (after their day jobs).
Anons who believed in the mission (not the ROI).
BBS Parallel: You paid to host your board because freedom wasn’t monetized.
2️⃣ 2024’S HUSTLE-CORE REALITY:
Devs Now Expect:
OpenSats donations → "Or else we’ll quit!"
Corporate sponsorships → Hello, Chaincode Labs-flavored "neutrality."
Unspoken Truth: Many aren’t cypherpunks—they’re career open-source mercenaries.
3️⃣ LUKE’S WARNING (DECODED):
Translation: "If you don’t pay us, we’ll get bribed by Blockstream (again)."
Irony: The very "decentralization" they preach relies on centralized funding.
Bitcoin was built by people who burned midnight oil, not by grant-chasing devs with GitHub sponsors. The second group works for Bitcoin. The first group was Bitcoin.
P.S. Next time a dev cries poverty, ask: "How many of you still mine with a GPU?" 😏
(The old guard built. The new guard bills.) ₿⚔️💻
BONUS HISTORY: Hal Finney ran Bitcoin nodes while dying of ALS. Today’s devs won’t code without a 401(k) match. Let that sink in.
Ain't nobody got time for glowdell and OpenSats. Just make up a lie about being hacked and get lemmings to send you donations. Problem solved.
I was just checking out the site and wanted to see if you accepted lightning, and it was so quick and simple that I had to donate 1k sats 😂 only a dollar, but it was so genuinely satisfying that I did 100 sats more and made a video of it https://video.nostr.build/6c52e1a2b303ece825473c157bf8c289b123d27de66763e7f2fb462c6a447ac1.mp4
Turns out I completely forgot how to use kdenlive and this took waaaay too long lol
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Lightning Network is a superb, lightning fast, robust way of strong privacy anonymity global payment system. And easy as pie. Soon enough the normies will undestand that too.
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I love Knots but the latest update crashed it. Running it on Umbrel ( I am a pleb without programming skills)
I had the Blockchain in a different Drive and am not finding how to fix it
I was able on Core with chat help to move the Blockchain to the other drive and the switch to Knots was easy. But struggling to fix it on the new version
Most likely will have to reinstall everything from scratch and on a single drive
Would be very helpful if one could select the storage device on the installation process. Specially thinking that many will have to upgrade de drive to larger ones at some point in time
The last update to Knots was in March... Sounds like this is an Umbrel-specific issue.
There is probably a bug. Every time I open the live transaction viewer it crashes after some short time.
But when I start Knots and do not open that live transaction viewer it runs like forever, months without problem.
At least thats my experience. I use Debian based Linux system and just use the qt binary from the latest release.
It probably is.
I will keep digging.
We’ll make it work …
Hard though for regular Plebs ..
