The opposition needs to first learn to unshackle itself from its GAE neoliberal and neoconservative handlers in the US State Department. That will be very difficult with Marco Rubio at the helm.

I have come to realize something important about marriage. So long as the husband wants to stay married, the woman always has escalation dominance. I don’t make up the rules, I just observe them.

I have gradually come to the view that consensus changes only through soft forks are not an unalloyed win. As this discussion illustrates, we are relying on miners to stick with the new rules. Another issue with soft forks I don’t often hear about: with Segwit and Taproot, developers have created very flexible upgrade paths for future upgrades.

They are not dumb, they just have a job to do, and that job is not to inform the public but to propagandize it.

💯 I found myself with a large MSTR position only because I had significant retirement savings before I found bitcoin, withdrawing to buy proper bitcoin would be a huge tax event, and ETFs weren’t available at the time. I have been gradually rebalancing my retirement portfolio towards ETFs while redirecting all new savings to real, self-custody bitcoin.

Playing with fire just so they can box in Trump.

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The feeling when you load up your cold storage wallet backup and have to wait a minute or two while Sparrow connects to your node and scans months worth of blocks, just so you can confirm your coins are still there.

It doesn’t matter how confident you get with your setup, that combination of excitement and fear never goes away.

It’s entertaining watching him play with words to appease the rest of the suits. He can’t bring himself to say Bitcoin is money - the best ever discovered - so he has to invent the nonsense term “digital capital”, which sounds shitcoin-adjacent. Anyhow, I don’t have a grudge against him, I got in early on MSTR for tax reasons. I also believe he is a wolf in sheep’s clothing but of the good kind. If I’m wrong, it’s fine, Bitcoin doesn’t care.

Obviously because the show is for the audience, overwhelmingly male, not the fighters.

and the nagging wife begging you to sell part of your stack with every pump.

because they are good at two things: propaganda and democide.

And yet, the pipe bomber is nowhere to be found and instigators on tape are free

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His take understates the power of the intolerant and ideologically motivated minority to push through or resist, as the case may be, a proposed soft fork. It is also much more likely that institutions will try to push a fork that compromises Bitcoin values, rather than one that adds truly valuable features. History rhymes.

But don’t wait until you have stacked enough to be rich to start a family.

GM. WEN SUPERCYCLE IF NOT NOW?

I don’t understand the focus on Bitcoin Core. Node runners like myself would pay attention If a large enough coalition of technically competent Bitcoiners like you and James converged on a specific proposal. What I see from the outside is a lack of consensus in the technical community.

In addition to being a shitcoiner, Trump is incredibly naive and ignorant. Centralizing election oversight with the Feds even more will not play out as Republicans think it will.

I don’t have a problem with competing implementations, but the ones that already exist (btcd, libbitcoin) have a rough time staying in consensus and gaining any traction. Not their fault, just a function of Satoshi not releasing a formal specification with the code and white paper.

In any case, I don’t see that as an impediment to proposing a soft fork. A patched version of Bitcoin Core with CTV has existed for years. You just have to convince economic nodes to run it.

There is nothing wrong with Bitcoin Core maintainers focusing on non-consensus features and maintenance and let forked clients lead consensus changes. There is a historical precedent, with the initial Segwit client.

FWIW, I don’t see a technical consensus on which direction to go. If an interesting group of graybeards and economic nodes have a concrete proposal and a client, I would give it serious consideration.

I bet all that other stuff could get resolved if RFK lights a fire under pharma and corporate medicine asses. Not holding my breath but he has done the research and says the right things. The problem is there must be some Epstein kompromat on him or he wouldn’t have torpedoed his own presidential campaign.