As the article states, they did this in mainland China, not in Hong Kong.

There's no censorship in Hong Kong and thus no reason to use airdrop to circumvent it.

Example: PoW + OTS account age + economic activity + WoT + reputation (or endorsements) + posting activity + ...

the only ‘great men’ archetype we’re missing in society right now is the socrates/george-orwell type that leave indelible marks on human thought.

BITCOIN CONSENSUS IS NOT DICTATED BY TWITTER.

WILL NOT UPDATE ANY OF MY NODES TO SUPPORT OP_CAT.

WILL TREAT ANY ATTEMPT TO PUSH THROUGH ACTIVATION AS HOSTILE.

BIP-300, a soft-fork that introduces "slow and steady" sidechain pegouts on Bitcoin.

ECashers are scum

Smash ECashers

Destroy ECashers

Roundhouse kick a ECashers into the concrete

Slam dunk a ECashersr into a trash can

Banish filthy ECashers

Launch ECashers into the sun

Trap ECashers in quicksand

Vaporize ECashers with a space laser

I get people hating on lightning labs but lnd is the only node implementation that reliably runs on openbsd.

Bitcoin core would be way more suspect if it was really difficult to compile for openbsd. Why isn't c-lightning in ports?

yeah it definitely takes some time to get used to the strictness of the compiler. i came from doing Go full-time. so i understand the frustration. Go also has the benefit of a well-developed, mostly comprehensive standard lib. rust takes a more lego-like approach which adds to the learning curve, for sure.

does anybody still use simplex regularly? curious how big the drop off has been

Actually, it's not a failure of Bitcoin or its users that adoption is still low. It's a failure of the 99.9% who trust in a centralized, manipulable monetary system that Bitcoin aims to replace.

In both cases, it is about personal freedom and self-determination, not acceptance by the masses.

If you have ever attempted to build a distributed system that maintains state across a pool of unknown participants - even on a small scale - you would know said cock is just a mechanism for the transfer of information.

Synchronization in nature is bigger than we can conceptualize.

Yes, a failure of the remaining 99.9%. 🤭

Is that supposed to be a negative?

The fact that anyone uses it as money is a miracle.