I often get tongue tied despite rehearsing, thanks for the reminder to breathe 🥹
It is! I'm giving this presentation in Mandarin.
The next challenge will be to do a presentation in Taiwanese 😏
Sure! I'll post a copy of it later today 🤓
Giving a Bitcoin talk at a rotary club today. This will be my third time, I've gotten good feedback but still a bit nervous because explaining Bitcoin in Chinese is still challenging for me.
Send good vibes 🥹
Snippet:
"Bitcoin is only a side chick"
Then moments later he goes: "Bitcoin does things that gold can never do"
🤭🤭😏😏 Pretty sure he's going to leave gold for Bitcoin eventually
What are the changes?
Filters don't cause forks
The freedns domain friendship.tw expired. hope the guy who owns it renews it 🥹
I think he's saying that just because the current state of nodes on the network encourages spammy behavior (in this context, encoding arbitrary data in transactions) doesn't mean it's an open invitation to spam the network forever.
Do nodes want to encourage/discourage spammy behavior or quietly tolerate it (do nothing)? Not sure how permission fits into it
Computer Science with a Philosophy BA here from over a decade ago 🤓 can't say how the degree influenced me because I wasn't that great of a student and didn't engage much with my peers.
I always felt it was a useless degree for me since I had no intention to pursue academia. However studying philosophy gave me a decent reading habit 👍 grateful for it, probably even more so than my computer science education as time goes on
It's always been like that though, Bitcoin Magazine writes articles to get bitcoiners attention then push them toward their events where they get surrounded by shitcoiners 🤷
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From Alishan
Ver advocated for garbage and larger blocks by siding with stakeholders who benefit directly from it
Which vibes? The filters don't cause forks whereas Ver deliberately went towards forking Bitcoin from the get-go. The proposed filters (I think we're talking PR #28408 here?) discourage 'spammy' behavior by applying arbitrary data stored in witness data to the same datacarrier rules as OP_Return. It's not even a new rule, it's an existing one
Maybe I'm not entirely familiar with fixthefilters, but those who wish to normalize arbitrary data on Bitcoin are closer to advocating for a fork because arbitrary data on Bitcoin has ALWAYS and should continue to be discouraged. (note: yet remain always possible) Nodes engaging in discouraged behavior are who causes the forks, the filters don't do that; Nodes running filters ultimately validates spammy blocks just fine too The filters just nudges the network to discourage spammy behavior one node at a time.(the network at present is one that encourages spam 😅).
At present (v26) there is no set of configurations to give users control on whether or not to relay transactions witness data containing arbitrary data because the txs completely bypass datacarrier checks. Users are without the ability to make the decision for themselves whether or not to relay these sort of datacarrier-in-witness transactions.
I agree that Users ultimately should build implementation like Core on their own. (Applying the patch is great homework assignment to do as the drama plays out.)
However as you undoubtedly understand, that's a journey down the road for those aiming to achieve further sovereign usage, hard to nudge the network in any direction relying on only them. In the meantime, shouldn't giving more users better control and responsibility over how they wish to interact with the network, a good thing? (As opposed to no control)
Some feel that the filters are futile, bad actors will always discover ways to circumvent them. Maybe the fears and concerns over an endless cat and mouse game over arbitrary data are legitimate, but does anyone truly believe the game around arbitrary data stopped at OP_RETURN? Bitcoin is software, a part of it could run better by fixing something that was overlooked, why is fixing it controversial? Isn't it only contentious to those who prefers a network that encourages spam? Aren't they the ones giving off the Ver fork-vibes?
Mine does the same 😂 I got him to read Bitcoin standard in Chinese too
I haven't bought a physical book in awhile (I mostly download epubs), came across this gem browsing a bookstore in Taipei 🤓
This is a special anniversary edition (published 2018) of "Taiwan's 400 year history" by the late Su Beng, this is the abridged English version, the Chinese version is quite a tome.
This book has an interesting history written by a true badass. It was first published in 1962 in Japanese, got banned (Taiwan was under martial law between 1947 to 1987), then published in Chinese in 1980 and circulated underground as a banned text.
The content takes a Taiwanese-centric view using a lot of primary but unreliable first hand accounts, and places harsh criticism over the Republic of China. I grew up around a dinner table that would talk about this book -- the lengths that people go through to spread knowledge continues to fascinate me
Su Beng was a Taiwanese Independence Activist, and he smuggled himself out of Taiwan in a banana boat after being found out to have been plotting the assassination of the dictator Chiang Kai Shek. He lived in exile before returning to Taiwan to see direct elections take place, the guy has had quite a life. Some Taiwanese are just built different.
Su Beng is a father of the Taiwan Independence movement. Su Beng (史明) Taiwan-centric view shaped many, including those of influence and power like former president Lee Teng Hui, Chen Shui Bian, Tsai Ing wen (acted as advisor to the president), and president-elect Lai Ching-Te.
The Taiwan-centric view (as opposed to the Republic of China 🇹🇼 view) is not common even amongst locals, and completely absent on the world stage.
I think it's a great book for those who like visiting Taiwan! Add some historical context to sightseeing 🥳