WITNESS DISCOUNT removal.

Keep in mind this is from uneducated non dev guy discussing with AI.

Lightning Network – channel‑funding and closing txs are almost all P2WSH/P2WPKH, so their bytes now enjoy the 75 % witness rebate; killing the discount would roughly 4× the on‑chain cost of every open/close, splice, or anchor.

Taproot Assets / Taro – each asset issue or transfer commits a Taproot tweak or script revealed in the witness; its fee advantage disappears if witness bytes are repriced, so asset mints/ burns and Lightning‑routed asset swaps get four‑times dearer.

RGB – anchors bind a Merkle‑root to Bitcoin inside SegWit (key‑tweak or signature‑to‑contract). The scheme counts on 4 MB‑equiv block room; without the rebate epoch anchors become pricier and block room shrinks to 1 MB, forcing rarer batching or bigger fees.

Ark payment pools – mass exit or rebalancing dumps huge Merkle branches into a single witness‑heavy tx; the design’s fee math assumes discounted bytes. Remove the rebate and one emergency exit can exceed the old 1 MB cap or cost 4× more.

Bitcoin rollups (Citrea, Rollkit‑bitcoin‑da, Sovryn, …) – batch calldata/state diffs are kept in witness for the cheap 1 WU/byte pricing. Repricing would quadruple data‑availability costs and cut usable block DA bandwidth to one quarter.

Fedimint & Cashu – gateways peg BTC in/out through native‑SegWit bc1 outputs and rely on Lightning swaps; removing the discount would raise every peg‑in/peg‑out and liquidity‑rebalancing tx about 4×.

sometimes I wonder. when a normie asks me anything about crypto and I tell that that it's a scam and they should cut the bullshit and buy Bitcoin, I do wonder, do they ever think of me five years later?

You can find it via Menu, Security Filters, Hidden Words

You can block GM and GN as keywords depending on your client - Amethyst supports this

I couldn’t find the author. Maybe some OGs could answer this one — it’s “hard” to navigate Bitcoin Talk, there are just too many messages.

i am working through some phone / internet separation acts and it feels like i am ripping a tentacle demon out of my being.

Market interventions create more problems than they solve. Let supply/demand dynamics resolve imbalances organically.

#mindstr what's the OP_RETURN debate about?

if power and internet went down for two weeks, how would you handle it?

is the world waking up to bitcoin as the ultimate safe haven asset or is this another pump fake?

Twitter is full of absolute retards

That would be cool. My concern would be the beauty of the wood distracting from what's supposed to be the focal point. (This is also considerably larger I think, about 4ft diameter.)

Got to spend the entire day making progress on farm work.

And looking at this beautiful thing.

TLDR:

- Consume loads of animal foods.

- Don't skip the most nutrient dense sources: oysters, liver.

- Eat plenty of connective tissue (collagen) too balance muscle meat (methionine).

- Sun maxxing (even your junk).

- Be extremely rigorous about circadian rhythm and EMF precautions.

- Milk is the perfect food; drink plenty, especially raw.

- Natural sugars are like rocket fuel for your metabolism; gradually increase fruit, honey, starches (esp potatoes).

- Prioritize saturated fat (tallow, coconut oil) to mono unsaturated fats (olive oil).

- Shun PUFAs, especially seed oils.

- Coconut oil is pro metabolic.

- Reign in total fat consumption to lose body fat.

- Low stress exercise; think Mentzer, but also fun activities like climbing.

- Reduce stress in all ways (mineral baths, baking soda, magnesium, etc).

- Get your thyroid under control.

Gold is going to lose its value as Jewelry if it loses its value as money. No one is talking about this.

People wore gold to show wealth.

I have too. And there's no shame in that

Yes, there is a wine ingredient called Mega Purple

And it's more common than you’d think.

Once you know how to spot it, you’ll taste it everywhere.

And you’ll never look at cheap red wine the same way again. 🧵🍷

Mega Purple is a thick, sweet, inky extract made from a grape called Rubired.

Just a small dose adds deep color, smooth texture, and a candied finish to otherwise forgettable wine.

It’s grape-derived—but that doesn’t mean it’s good.

It started as a way to rescue weak vintages. But now it’s everywhere.

If you’re drinking wine from a box, or paying under $15 a bottle, especially for jammy reds—there’s a good chance Mega Purple is in the mix.

Think of it as a type of pancake style makeup for wine.

You won’t find it on the label. Wine doesn’t have to list ingredients.

But there are signs:

- Over-the-top purple color

- Sticky sweetness

- Flavors like grape jelly, vanilla extract, and artificial chocolate

Mega Purple is often used to mask poor fruit—like overcropped vines, underripe grapes, or wine rushed through fermentation.

And if it’s in there, it probably came with friends:

Velcorin, powdered tannins, added sugar, oak flavoring, enzymes, coloring agents.

At that point, it’s more of a science experiment than wine.

Wine made with better grapes and fewer tricks costs more.

That wine tells a story. Real terroir, real flavors, real art.

But more importantly, Low Intervention wine will probably leave you feeling a hell of a lot better the day after drinking it.

What's that worth?

Most people have no idea what’s actually in their wine.

I’ll be posting more about how to find bottles worth drinking and how to see past the veil the industry hides behind.

If this helped you, it'd help me if you liked or reNOSTed the first post or followed along!

Cheers!

Will businesses now move manufacturing to the U.S.?

Pro-tariff people are an automatic "yes."

I don't know either way.

But I do know that the U.S. is still a big mess financially and politically.

In a few years we can have a President Harris, or President AOC.

We can return right back into leftist insanity.

Do businesses really want to have their assets here under those conditions?

I don't know. I guess we'll see.

deleting all my old exchange accounts

Hi! I'm interested in this bounty! I've developed a prototype of the bot, let me know if you're still interested.

Proof of keys day incoming. Coinmotion suspended transfers.

Why do I seem to know stuff while at the same time sounding like a noob in my notes?

Easy. I dropped out for a couple of years to focus on family and some brick-and-mortar things.

Now that I have more than doubled the size of my family and built some physical objects, I’m back to catch up. Skipping Xitter and going full on Nostr.

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my mind is ready

When do you tell kids the "truth" about Santa🧑‍🎄

What you do is STFU, let kids be kids, let them discover truth as they grow.

They will tell you when they need to know more.

I will guarantee you no one is in prison today or living on skid row because they believed in magic for "too long" as a child.

I have also noticed the people advocating for not telling kids that Santa is real, generally are pathetic people who are miserable and can't stand others being happy.

Lastly most also are childless. If you are childless you really can STFU about how parents do the work or raising kids. No one needs your opinion Karens.