Why is Preston like this🫠

Bitcoin is sitting near all-time highs

Yet the Google searches are flat

That's how you know the pump is just getting started.

Even better, go see her and take some cookies

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A key point that I think is being overlooked in the debate it the difference between developers and maintainers of the project.

Developers are free to do as they please, write whatever code they want, and to submit whatever pull request they want.

Maintainers are supposed to only be stewards. They should not merge code that is has mot gained general consensus among users of the codebase.

If developers really really want to remove the OP_RETURN filters, they should be the ones forking bitcoin-core and pushing for its use. Only then after sufficient acceptance should it be considered for merging back into core.

tl;dr bitcoin-core should not be the bleeding edge of development but should be the slower, hardened and measured approach to change.

A recap of the OP_RETURN "debate"

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Core: Filters don't work.

Bitcoiners: They obviously do, otherwise you wouldn't need to remove them.

Core: We don't have the technical means, so we're removing the limit.

Bitcoiners: We gave you the technical means in a PR two years ago, Core rejected it, it was implemented in Knots and it works.

Core: We can't stop all spam reliably, so why bother?

Bitcoiners: Because life is not black or white, and fastening your seatbelt when driving a car is safer even though some people die in car crashes.

Core: Here's 7 transactions that even your precious filters didn't catch.

Bitcoiners: Here's 2 million transactions that were caught.

Core: You can't censor valid transactions just because you don't like them. They paid a fee!

Bitcoiners: There's millions of Nigerian princes contacting people through email every day. These are "valid transactions" too, yet you send those to spam. This is obviously not censorship, so that argument is deceitful and intellectually dishonest.

Core: What is spam objectively anyway?

Bitcoiners: The receiver - not the sender - gets to decide what's useful to them. You're removing the ability of nodes to decide that, implying you know best.

Core: These transactions will end up in blocks anyway, and we can't incentivize profit-seeking miners to go out-of-band.

Bitcoiners: It's not your job to incentivize or deter miners. Your job is to work on the Bitcoin client while prioritizing the one thing that makes Bitcoin unique and truly decentralized: nodes.

Core: But we want better fee estimation and block propagation.

Bitcoiners: So do we, but never at the expense of decentralization and self-sovereignty. Nodes run the show.

Core: This is a technical discussion. Stop philosophying and using analogies, you plebs!

Bitcoiners: We gave you a technical solution that works, the philosophic rationale and the logical arguments. Stop turning Bitcoin into a shitcoin.

Am I missing anything here?

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If you're seeing bias here, it's because you're too stubborn to admit that one side is clearly more informed, rational and morally calibrated than the other.

This is why there's distrust in Core. It's got nothing to do with technical competency and rational discourse. It's just pure and simple political shenanigans, whataboutisms, strawman arguments and in some cases sheer lies.

- Hodling like i mean it

No. It’s not. And yes, Ben Franklin HAD to be self taught, because he didn’t grow up in a rich aristocratic family.

Benjamin Franklin played a *critical* role in shaping early American public education through his advocacy, innovation, and institution-building. He emphasized instruction in English, modern languages, mathematics, science, history, and practical subjects like accounting and agriculture-preparing students for business, public service, and civic life, rather than solely for the clergy.

Franklin started the Academy of Philadelphia, which became the College of Philadelphia in 1755 and later evolved into the University of Pennsylvania. This institution was revolutionary in being independent of church and state, focused on preparing students for practical careers, and included innovative features such as teacher training and the nation’s first systematic instruction in medicine and botany.

Thomas Jefferson was a pioneering advocate for public education in the United States, believing that an informed and educated citizenry was essential for the success and preservation of democracy. He proposed a comprehensive system of free, publicly funded education for all (free) children, regardless of social class or wealth, as a means to equip citizens with the knowledge necessary to safeguard their rights and prevent tyranny.

The founding father’s effectively invented the idea of public education as we know it today.

The single most critical and important tool in creating a state that could operate independently of the church — rather than the church being the state, and arbiter of who would (or could) receive an education, and to what point.

And the creation of public educational institutions was not only one of their proudest accomplishments, it’s what created modern America.

Public education is what created a country where people came from all over the world to study at our schools, and many stay here and create everything from modern industrialization, to the internet, Apple, Microsoft, and Google.

To be against something that is such a *huge* part of the country and world we live in today is absurd.

Imagine a world where you can leave your doors unlocked and nobody steals from you. Where you carry a gun your whole life and never need to fire it. Where your kids can run out the front door and play all day without worry.

That is where I live.

you can just _not upgade bitcoin core_

Anyone know the answer?

How would Bitcoin handle the transactions of 8 billion people, when it can just do 2,000 every 10 minutes? And this number is declining, because transactions are getting longer and longer. Most transactions break apart bigger spendable transaction outputs and create smaller ones. Soon the Bitcoin network will only be able to handle 1,000 transactions in 10 minutes (1 block).

It’s illegal to come to the US without earning citizenship unless you have $5M

Would use different personal nsecs for Instagram and Linked apps because of the need to create different posts/notifications/"about me"/personas (one personal, one professional?)