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Bitcoin Runners
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Permission-less, borderless, open-source running club at the intersection of two social movements enabling sovereignty of one’s wealth, while improving one’s health.

Happy UASF Bitcoin Independence Day ✊

#RunningBitcoin #NodeRunners #No2X

Kudos to everyone who joined the @TheBitcoinConf #RunForHal Nashville this morning! We hit an ATH by running to the top of Tennessee State Capitol Hill. Here’s our PoW 💥💪🏃‍♂️

Big shoutout to those who completed their first 5k or haven’t run in a while—you did amazing!

A limited number of Run For Hal shirts are now available in the official Bitcoin2024 store. All proceeds go to the @ALSAssociation #HalFinneyALSResearchFund. https://alsnetwork.org

We’re deeply grateful for the support from Green Hills Software https://www.ghs.com and Bitcoin2024 https://bitcoin2024.b.tc for supporting this initiative.

Special thanks to Sean, founder of www.drinksote.com, for bringing water and sharing his fantastic electrolytes. They were much appreciated, especially given the heat and hills.

One more sleep until @TheBitcoinConf #RunForHal at 8am tomorrow, Nashville.

https://www.bitcoinrunners.org/nashville24

#HalFinneyALSResearchFund #ALSNetwork

@TheBitcoinConf #RunForHal Nashville provisional route teaser…

Music City Centre, The Johnny Cash Museum, Riverfront Park, Cumberland River, Printers Alley, Nashville Public Library, and Broadstreet.

Any locals suggest changes/additions?

https://www.bitcoinrunners.org/nashville24

Run For Hal Nashville 2024 @TheBitcoinConf

What to Expect Teaser…

Amazing bitcoiners, great sights and a quality morning workout. We’re brining raw #bitcoin energy to downtown Nashville! 🏃🏿‍♂️🏃‍♀️‍💪

For more info and the signup link 👇

https://www.bitcoinrunners.org/nashville24

Blimey! #Bitcoin time flies. We’re just one week away from the inaugural #RunForHal Nashville. We couldn’t be more excited to kickstart @TheBitcoinConf in the best possible way.

Please visit our landing page for further details. https://www.bitcoinrunners.org/nashville24

#bitcoin2024 #ALSNetwork

If the upcoming @BitcoinRetreat couldn't get any better, a few of us will be taking over Hafan Pwllheli Parkrun 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 this Saturday. All welcome!

#BitcoinRetreat #ProofOfWork #Parkrun

📣 Mark your calendars for July 26th at 8am and kick off #bitcoin2024 in an energising way with a social run around beautiful Nashville, honoring @halfin by raising funds for @youralsnetwork.

Further details to follow.

H/t @TheBitcoinConf for supporting this initiative 🧡

#RunForHal #Nashville #HalFinneyALSResearchFund

https://www.bitcoinrunners.org/nashville24

@arcbtc in the house @BTCPrague 🔥

Bitcoin Runners turns 5 today!! 🥳

Kudos to everyone who has put in the proof-of-work to promote self sovereignty of one’s health & wealth in a digital age 🙌

🎥 @barekevnu 🧡

🎶 @OrangePillJam 🧡

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Last night we #RunForHal on the eve of #BTCPrague in this amazing city. Here’s our POW! What a crew 🤩

A BIG thank you to @btcprague @satoshilabs @youralsnetwork for making it happen.

Kudos to @Esther21 nostr:npub1a8us7vr738n7cvdxh0gdtnt5qzrk4qe3qklhmsrs45llq2k48agqjkrvn3 Jiri Godefroid nostr:npub1dwekunm9w9agazkwcq88ymxmj0j3qgxcu4mwfqnjqvyusa9cuxrs0wsqel for leading.

#HalFinneyASLResearchFund #runningbitcoin

Tomorrow evening we #RunForHal around Prague Old Town 🥳

We’re thrilled to have 5 amazing volunteers to lead & cover all paces.

If you’d like to reserve a limited edition shirt & support the cause 👉 https://geyser.fund/project/runforhal

See you at U Vlčáka shortly before 7pm 💪

The #RunForHal route on Wednesday evening will take in some of Prague’s most historic sights.

Starting at the Bitcoin Bar “U Vlčáka”, we’ll head down to the Old Town Square, where we’ll see the Astronomical Clock. From there, we’ll make our way to Charles Bridge, offering stunning views of the Vltava River and Prague Castle. We’ll then swing through a Gothic medieval city gate to the Central Bank of the Czech Republic before returning to the bar for a well-earned Czech beer or coffee.

Hope to see you there! 🍻

https://www.bitcoinrunners.org/prague24/

Replying to Avatar Rusty Russell

I listened to the What Bitcoin Did Saylor podcast, and I really want to respond, though that may be unwise. But I want thoughtful, fearless content in my feed, so I should start making some, right?

Firstly, while analogies can provide useful guide rails for understanding, listening to people *arguing* using analogies makes you stupider. Debate the thing itself, not the words about the thing: it hurts my head to even think about doing this, so I won't.

Let's set my priors first: I assume we're talking about technically solid, well-vetted, backward compatible protocol changes: this is the minimum bar.

I don't wholesale agree with Saylor's "don't threaten anyone's investment" hard limit. This has happened multiple times in the past, from the dust limit breaking SatoshiDice, enabling Lightning threatening miner fees (real or not), and segwit breaking stealth ASICBoost. These interests can, and will, stand up for themselves and will compete against other benefits of changes.

To be explicit: I consider any protocol change which makes block space usage more efficient to be a win!

Obviously Saylor is invested in Bitcoin the asset, and can afford to do all his business onchain in any conceivable scenario. His projection of a Bitcoin world in which there are 100,000 companies and governments who use Bitcoin as the base layer is interesting:

1. This does not need "smart contracts", just signatures. By this model, Bitcoin Script was a mistake.

2. It can work if Bitcoin does not scale and is incredibly expensive to spend and hold. By this model, the consumer hardware wallet industry is a dead-end and needs to pivot to something else (nostr keys, ecash?)

3. You could do this with gold, today? Bitcoin here is simply an incremental, not fundamental, improvement. I think this is suggestive, though: that such a network would not be long-term stable, and very much subject to capture.

4. In this view, Saylor is simply a gold bug with first mover advantage, shilling his bags. That's fine, but it's important to understand people's motivations.

5. This vision does not excite me. I wouldn't have left Linux development to work on making B2B commerce more efficient. I wouldn't get up at 5:30am for spec calls, and I sure as hell wouldn't be working this cheap.

I believe we can make people's UTXOs more powerful, and thus feel a moral responsibility to do so. This gives them more control over their own money, and allows more people to share that control. I assume that more people will do good things than stupid things, because assuming the other way implies that someone should be able to stop them, and that's usually worse.

I believe the result will be a more stable, thus useful, Bitcoin network. I am aware that this will certainly benefit people with very different motivations than me (Saylor).

Thanks for reading, and sorry for the length!

737 max engineers also argued their efficiency improvements were technically solid, well-vetted, and backward compatible. We all know what happened after years of development, testing and certification.

Why risk adding new features and efficiency tweaks to the base layer when you can build on it?

For example: Silent Payments and Chaumian ecash projects are going to drastically improve Bitcoin’s reach and privacy without modifying and risking the base layer.

Thanks to the wonders of Nostr tech, it’s now possible to RSVP for our upcoming #RunForHal @BTCPrague. Local communities platform nostr:npub15xd2mmjnh3caykh77djsv73e0zkrp42jp5mwerx8f4m6su40wdvss7t3l3 has made it super easy.

Join us & check out all the cool events happening in Prague here 👇

https://www.satlantis.io/place/cz/prague/events

Last year’s @BTCPrague run was epic and we’re excited to be doing it again next week, only even bigger thanks to the extra collaboration with the awesome team at @SatoshiLabs.

Join us and #RunForHal through the streets of Prague at 7pm Wednesday evening.

https://www.bitcoinrunners.org/prague24/