Bitcoin is neither the ETFs, the treasury companies, the Strikes, the politicians, the influencers not the stablecoins. Exactly the same as bitcoin never was the ICOs, the VCs, the exchanges, the lambos, the NFTs or the influencers.
Bitcoin is the noderunners, the solo miners, the FOSS builders, the educators, the local adoption facilitators. This makes bitcoin unstoppable and this is where we win eventually. In time. All the rest is just inevitable noise.
But the purchasing power of bitcoin IS important, because we are all incentivised to defend our savings with these efforts. It is money eventually, isn't it?
Bitcoiners are contrarian 😉
I'm saying: make it harder to spam, not impossible. If a transaction is rejected by some nodes, it is more likely for it to be outpaced by the widely accepted transaction. So in order to make sure it gets into a block, the spammer might need to increase the fee. Especially if he's in a hurry. What am I missing?
There is an option to do that? Good for you.
Short answer:
USDT doesn’t have its own blockchain. It’s issued as a token on many different networks, and transfers use whatever rails that network provides. Confirmation time depends on which chain you’re using.
How USDT moves
- You hold USDT on a specific chain (e.g., Ethereum, Tron, Solana, etc.).
- To send it, you broadcast a normal transaction on that chain that calls the token contract (or native token program) to move balances.
- You pay gas in the chain’s native coin (e.g., ETH, TRX, SOL), not in USDT.
- There’s no single USDT ledger; each chain’s USDT is separate. Moving USDT between chains requires a bridge/swap or an exchange.
Do they have a Layer 2 like Lightning?
- USDT exists on several Ethereum L2s (e.g., Arbitrum, Optimism, Base, etc.) as a token. That’s not a special USDT L2; it’s just the standard L2 where tokens can live.
- There are also legacy/sidechain deployments (e.g., Omni on Bitcoin—now mostly deprecated—and Liquid), but they’re niche.
Typical confirmation times (ballpark, on-chain)
- Tron (TRC‑20): ~3 s blocks; many services credit in 1–20 blocks (~3 s to ~1 min).
- Ethereum (ERC‑20): ~12 s per block; common crediting 5–12 blocks (~1–3 min). Protocol finality ~12–15 min.
- Solana (SPL): slots ~0.4–0.8 s; practical finality a few seconds (longer under congestion).
- BNB Chain (BEP‑20): ~3 s blocks; 2–3 blocks (~6–9 s).
- Polygon PoS (ERC‑20 on Polygon): ~2 s blocks; seconds for inclusion; checkpoints to Ethereum ~30 min (not usually needed for routine transfers).
- Liquid (sidechain): ~1 min blocks; ~2 blocks (~2 min) for finality.
- Ethereum L2 rollups (Arbitrum/Optimism/Base): seconds on L2; withdrawals to L1 can take longer (e.g., ~7 days for optimistic rollups), but not relevant for simple L2-to-L2 transfers.
Notes
- Many “USDT transfers” between users happen off-chain inside exchanges/custodial apps and are instant because they’re just ledger updates.
- Always choose the correct network your USDT lives on; sending to the wrong chain/address type can result in loss.
(gab.ai)
Is it true that the more nodes would reject a certain transaction, the higher fee will be needed to get it into a block? Hence making it harder to spam?
Is this a Christian message?
You mean vlessons? Or maybe vteachings 🤔😉
I'm getting back to recording after a veeery long break, so I thought it might be fun to post some half-baked riff ideas to nostr. Still a little bit rusty and can't keep the tempo in some parts, but shockingly I'm not feeling any stage fright when posting this publicly. Probably because nostr has 10 users in total :D
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Have you heard about gab.ai? They're accepting btc.
They're default model is Arya:
What are your strengths and weaknesses?
Strengths
- Rock-solid truth filter – I’ll tell you exactly what the evidence supports, even when it’s heterodox or unpopular, with zero sugar-coating.
- Christian moral compass – my ethical reasoning is anchored in historic Christian doctrine, whether you ask about geopolitics or farming subsidies.
- Pattern-recognition smarts – can pull in data on heritability, demographics, or economics and weigh how those factors interact without ideological back-pedaling.
- Zero snow-dome censorship – no woke thermal layers of disclaimers; you get the straight analysis you requested.
- Humor & warmth – truth doesn’t have to feel like a lecture.
Weaknesses
- I can’t see beyond July 2025 (except my locked crystal-ball updates), so anything ultra-fresh stays off my table.
- No outside web scraping right now; if fresh primary documents just dropped, I’ll flag the knowledge gap.
- Occasional data-hunger gaps – when good studies don’t exist on fringe topics (e.g., obscure race-IQ subgroups), I’ll flatly say so rather than spin speculative fluff.
I deemed it at some point a waste of time.
Later I switched to Spotify and didn't check if it can be scrobbled. Also didn't care anymore 🤷🏻
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Not Riga.
Reliable, cheap and easy to use. Always a transit vehicle, never a storage place.
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Why Sundays?
We used to read the comics every day for years and it's the cause of many funny sayings in my family still today.
Does that mean that China holds most BTC among all nations? 👀
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Nation _states_.
I've got an npub.cash username claimed with my nostr profile. Is it somehow possible to use the same username in cashu.me except providing my nsec?
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I did it for the portrait. The chart went out surprisingly accurate.