Okay, and?

Unpopular and may be at the same time popular opinion on the block size argument related to the ability for everyone to run a full node being necessary for #Bitcoin.

I am not for increase in the block size but I think this all plebs must be able to run a full node shit is the worst argument we have against it.

First space keeps getting cheaper. Second most "plebs" don't run a node already let alone a full node.

Lastly, do we really need all nodes running back to the genesis block. Pretty sure a pruned node that goes back say 5 years is honest as long as you CAN go all the way back if you want to.

This "we all need a node back to genesis" is a dumb argument. Once I have the next block I already trust it.

Have we ever retroactively fixed a 5 year old "error" in the chain? No. Will we ever, no. Do you ever think, I wonder if that transaction from 2016 is still valid, I had better check? No. Why? You understand the tech and are sane that is why.

When we make dumb arguments, we invite attack against our dumb arguments and make the oppositions job easier.

As always I tell anyone wishing to change BTC to get bent. It will change when consensus changes and when consensus changes it is still bitcoin, when it doesn't, it is a shitcoin fork. That is THE argument. That is the protocol layer argument.

Everything else is social, a popularity of ideas argument and those are stupid and always end badly. In a way BTC is like the early US, only the votes of property owners count. You ain't running a node, you don't get a vote.

BCH people are a perfect example, I don't know ONE BCH tard that runs a BCH full node, not one. I tell them you don't even vote in your own republic, fuck the hell off out of mine.

That's what I used 🥲

I followed their recent Linux instructions, and after my reboot I'm just looking at a cursor. Nothing else. No hard drive activity light. No network activity. No nothing. Just a blinking cursor.

This umbrel upgrade is pissing me off!!!🤬🤬 I might have to scrap my node and move to start9 😤😤

🌤️ The Pink Shore 💗

So much love it (CA)🤞🏻🥰

#Beach #Sky 🏖️🌊

Sure, but you still have to trust the federation. Who knows what code is running on their back end.

Here's a hard pill to swallow...

#Nostr is not just a social media platform to replace [insert centralized SM here] because your bigotry and anti-woke ideas will be censored... your conservative bullshit thoughts are the last thing we need to concern ourselves with protecting.

Decentralized protocols are built so that people in oppressed governments can communicate freely, so your basic Google research of homosexual porn is not saved on some server that will later come back to haunt your homophobic public self.

Decentralized protocols, privacy, censorship-resistant tools are here to aid our data, our freedom of choice, to give a voice back to all of those who have been unjustly oppressed. If all you do is sit all day, shitposting stupid comments on how you are the better bitcoiner or nostrich because you run your own node, have never been KYCed, and throw hate at whatever tools and makeshift efforts others are using to try and build a future, you are not a better human, you are part of the problem, you are just loud, creating division and hate.

FOSS is for everyone, and it should be used in the ways people can with the tools they have. Nothing infuriates me more than people so blinded by their own privilege that they can't understand that those who need the tools the most can't use them as easily as they can because of LIFE AND REASONS!

Bisq and bisq2 have no centralized server. Robosats is a centralised server on TOR, as far as I know.

How do you download YouTube videos in 1080 without virus or paying?

#HelpingAFriend #grownostr #BitcoinOnly

Just got back from my friend's house again, and we made alot of progress in her btc setup. She is now bitcoin-only, no more shitcoins. And we got her coldcard setup, she has her seedphrase, and she'll be putting it on metal now. Only left for her to do is pair her cc with sparrow wallet, which i couldnt help with because her Mac computer doesnt have a SD port, so she needs to get an adapter i guess. But the main thing is she's rid of the shitcoins. She was so appreciative for my help, and i'm glad i could get her this far.

I sometimes wonder if I people think I'm hacking the plane when I have my windows open like this...