BitcoinTalk banning CoinJoins. Miners censoring privacy transactions. Spaceboi wanting to classify mining as a WMD and give control to the military. Government approved ETF will begin the cypherpunk revolution.
#asknostr what the fuck is actually going on?
nostr:npub1ej493cmun8y9h3082spg5uvt63jgtewneve526g7e2urca2afrxqm3ndrm is 💯 right about this 
Yes - censorship is not the answer & not something that should be encouraged.
Changing Bitcoin as soon as it's used for something other than P2P e-cash, is also not on.
I respect people's right to try & have their way with Bitcoin. It's not a democracy though. Fuck around & find out.
It's always good for Bitcoin.
Is Spaceboi back?
spaceboy isn't here, so, who cares. most of the dumbass influencoors aren't here, i hope they stay away a while longer. Especially Breedlove and Udi and that stupid "pretty" woman one whatever her name is. Complete wankers.
I didn't know who the stupid pretty woman was & then I did. 😆 I've always been a sucker for a pretty girl with a brain. 🤷
Nostr is Galt's Gulch
Some are called to speak to the normies still & the normies are not here yet. The influencers go where the normies go.
Nostr's eternal September is coming & so will the influencers. Enjoy the peace while it lasts.
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most of those that speak to the normies are just taking the normies money, or getting the engagement fee from the advertisers. their appreciation of bitcoin is mainly based on the fact that they can hold an audience and get paid for it, and they are used to doing that.
notice that all the people who are serious and actually believe in it are already on nostr? they are all self-funded, that's why.
We've all made sacrifices without knowing their cost until much later.
Fiat usually comes with sacrifice.
They're no better than you or I.
I’ve been seeing his book passed around, and decided to listen to his latest interview with Breedlove. According to Lowery, he has a lot of support in the government 🙄
We know lizardbeast "native 'murican" warren is trying to make herself into the bitcoin czar. That's not an ally he should be happy about.
Mining; Discrimination and censorship come with freedom.
I say let all of these people use bitcoin as they want to. We should not be ranting and raving about the freedom and sovereignty of bitcoin, but then tell others how they have to use bitcoin.
Hashing power war weapons might save some human lives? 🤔
Word.
Some say its equivalent to a ddos attack. If it is, isnt the surest way to bring Bitcoin down to motivate permissioning and censoring behavior.
If its censored or permissioned its not Bitcoin. Picking winners and losers is why ethereum is losing.
Bitcoin will survive and get stronger if we resist such knee jerk reactions. It already is. Layer 2 devs hard at work.
Sorry to burst your bubble...
Bitcoin is censorship RESISTANT.
Not censorship PROOF.
Freedom means people are free to censor.
Doesn't mean I have to partake in it though and use my Freedom as such.
fair play. it being censorship resistant is an attribute of the network, like saying nothing is guaranteed and dont become complacent. it is not censorship proof.
it being censored makes it not bitcoin. the irony is folks who presumable care about bitcoin want to censor others, to your point they can, making bitcoin not bitcoin
There isn't a "normal block template" standard I don't know what peter is talking about. Even satoshi talked many times about how miners have full discretion about what they want to mine.
The only way there could be a standard template is if somehow there was a causality protocol that not just selected the set of them but also dictated the ordering. Such a standard would also allow users to spend received coins before the old one gets into a block because it would be by default in precedence order.
also, just a little point about Peter Todd's argument, he's saying first "miner centralisation" and then "transaction censorship" which one comes first. Which one is enabling the other, and not the other way around.
Which is exactly how ocean is helping here. it's called ocean, right, I forget exactly. I say it's a good thing that NOT ONLY the big miners are writing custom template generators.
There is no such thing as a "normal block template". Even Bitcoin Core vs BTCD make a different block out of the same set.
