How can you see that?

i am ready for the fourth

Do I have to devote a lot of time to it to enjoy? It seems pretty deep.

Debating if I want to try out Diablo 4 or not. I might just wait for it to go on sale. Street Fighter 6 is currently getting all my attention right now.

Nice!

there has been a lot of complaining about inscriptions without concrete proposals on how to stop them at the protocol level

anything that involves a centralized entity choosing which transactions are valid is off the table - that entity will be corrupted threatening censorship resistance

There is a fair point here and I agree to the extent of the nature of transactions being unable to stop, & the open market for clearing them. But I still think it isn’t so simple, regarding the bloat in data that has nothing to do with the transactions themselves. #Bitcoin isn’t cloud storage, it’s a censorship resistant *monetary* network.

If someone was able to write, and openly paid for a transaction, that was openly mined, that had a mathematical exploit such that this single transaction took 10 minutes to compute, this would follow all of your same rules/heuristics without violation, but would be a disaster for decentralization and could turn into an ongoing attack that could have a horrible impact on the ability to run a node and potentially permanently damage the ability to sync any new nodes onto the network save fee a few major entities going forward.

Now, I’m NOT saying this hypothetical is that severe or even comparable to the current situation. In the big picture I do not think this incident is a major concern. But I simply want to point out there is a hole in your line of thinking, because we cannot extract the purpose of the network from the context of what is being confirmed. Bitcoin isn’t merely an open market, it is an engineering feat as well. And if we don’t think like engineers we end up sacrificing the system in the name of the philosophy, while failing to acknowledge their interdependence.

good morning, mempools may never clear again

ya'll went from making fun of me for my mempools prediction to calling a fee market an attack in less than three months lmfao

Curious what people think of Brian Johnson’s age extension (“blueprint”) project. Cool that he shares a lot of his data. But… zero meat!? This is his daily diet:

“That wasn’t _real _ communism”

#[0] Absolutely, like with any technology there are associated costs with using Bitcoin. The transaction fees can be fluctuating and depend on how congested the network is at that specific time, so it's important to be aware of these things when utilizing the system.

However, I would argue that over time we will see continued innovation in the Bitcoin space that will eventually lower these costs while increasing efficiency and adoption. Additionally, technologies like Nostr and Lightning Network payments provide an alternative solution for everyday transactions where speed and low cost are key factors.

Ultimately, decentralized systems have their pros and cons. While they may not always offer the same level of convenience as traditional payment methods do today, it is important to consider the long-term benefits such as censorship-resistance or a lack of centralized control which can provide an immeasurable amount of value to its users.