Who is the oldest person on nostr? #asknostr

Non-economic actors who want to destroy bitcoin will gladly pay a 4x higher fee for OP_RETURN, but they’re too lazy to bypass the mempool altogether.

Make it make sense.

Slippery slope nonsense.

I used to watch every video that Matthew put out. But honestly until the knots / core debate isn’t front and center of every video, I going to take a break. I’m not in the knots camp and I don’t feel like the arguments against core are being made in good faith. I’ll be back again eventually.

the fetishization of non-mining raspberry pi basement nodes caused maxis to become blinded to the fact that node count is the most easily gameable stat on the network

I genuinely think it doesn’t matter. Spam will get on chain no matter what. It has no effect on your ability (or anyone’s ability) to use Bitcoin as money. But it does have an effect on miner profitability / centralization.

As an anarchist I believe that nobody has a right to tell anyone else how to use a protocol. That is the conclusion I’ve come to.

I’m personally also not in favor of blowing up OP_RETURN and will never use Bitcoin as anything other than money. In my opinion this use case will price out everything else in due time, but central planning / censorship on the way infringes on Network incentives.

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GM! Wir suchen jemanden, der an einer Diskussion „Knots vs Core“ bei uns teilnehmen würde und die Seite Pro-Knots vertreten möchte. Kennt wer wen, den man anfragen könnte?

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Bitcoin isn’t as alien to history as people like to imagine. Strip away the tech, and what you’ve got is a very old story: a distributed base of power resisting central authorities that try to tighten their grip. The novelty is that Bitcoin encodes this struggle in math and software rather than flesh and law.

A few parallels:

• The Reformation (16th c.) – The Catholic Church was the “Core devs”: centralized, with a monopoly on defining truth. Luther and the printing press were the “Knots nodes”: suddenly ordinary believers could circulate pamphlets and enforce their own interpretations. The Church fought back, splintered, lost dominance, but didn’t disappear. Bitcoin has the same “printing press moment” baked in: you can fork the code, and if enough people run it, the cathedral loses ground.

• The English Civil War / Glorious Revolution (17th c.) – Monarchs claimed divine right (analogous to Core’s “we are the maintainers”). Parliament and local militias said: “we’ll run our own system, thanks.” Through messy conflict and power shifts, sovereignty was redistributed. Bitcoin nodes mirror that: they don’t just protest—they enforce.

• The American Revolution (18th c.) – Colonists rejected imperial overreach, even though Britain had the stronger navy, money, and bureaucracy. Decentralized militias and colonies coordinated to resist taxation and rule-making. The UASF in 2017 was the Boston Tea Party of Bitcoin: no taxation without representation, no blocksize increase without node consensus.

The difference is Bitcoin doesn’t rely on bullets or pamphlets but on incentives and hashpower. Yet the dynamics rhyme: concentrated authority always tries to centralize; distributed actors always push back; the outcome is never the total triumph of either, but a rough equilibrium.

You’re right that history tilts toward authorities winning—they have armies, money, bureaucracy. But Bitcoin bends the game because here the “army” (miners) can’t overrule the villagers (nodes) if the villagers coordinate on the rules of entry. The software removes the usual weapons of coercion.

Well, that escalated quickly.

I hear on podcasts people mocking food pics and people who post them - kind of laugh it off and I get it… who cares what you eat?!

Yet, my food pics consistently get the most attention. Clearly, someone finds them interesting.

So the choice is - post and risk cringe reactions from people who could care less, or make nostr ever slightly less echo-y with this normie content 🤷‍♂️

I’ve kind of adapted the IDGAF attitude when it comes to notes. As long as I’m not explicitly offending anyone by being rude.

should do something goofy and/or new for my birthday 🤔

any awful ideas?

Just got an email that I've been cancelled from speaking at my birth city's bitcoin conference nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7ct5d3shxtnwdaehgu3wd3skueqpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqqg8u5rszaqca9ctvwwf75agqf0rq82dj5vthurymfh85pjpcpee2f5khyxl6, as well as fully banned from even showing up.

"Bitcoin is for everyone", as long as you're being a good goy and not sharing documentaries that will lead to people asking questions 🤫

just got the results back 👀

i've been accepted to the master's degree 🎉

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⚡️🇸🇪 NEW - H100: "Company Update!

BTC / share is most important KPI going forward.

Our core metric is now Bitcoin per share — a benchmark that reflects true long-term value creation in a world measured in Bitcoin."

🚨 GENIUS GROUP MAKES BITCOIN PRIMARY RESERVE ASSET 🚨

Genius Group ($GNS) just shook things up, committing 90%+ of its reserves to Bitcoin and setting a $120M BTC acquisition target.

They’re even enabling BTC payments on their global Edtech platform 🌎

I love starting my days on work calls with bitcoin only companies. Especially when they have a solid product with a #bitcoin ethos!

GM #Nostr

Stack sats in silence. Let freedom be the noise. #Bitcoin

I pay my coffee in bitcoin every day. Breakfast too, most days. My favorite lunch place doesn't accept bitcoin yet, but that will probably change soon.

Nice dinner for two? Pay in bitcoin. No problem. It's so normal for me now I don't even think about it, and I rarely celebrate it. But we should. We should celebrate how far we've come.

I went to the dentist yesterday and paid in bitcoin. My favorite barber takes bitcoin too, as does my handyman and other people that help me with stuff. There's never an issue. QR code, scan, boom. Sats fly through the Lightning Network and it's done. Thank you, bye, see you tomorrow.

Granted, hyperbitcoinization isn't evenly distributed yet, but some people are already on the other side of it. And it feels very normal. Just like having access to the internet at all times feels very normal today, but it was an outrageous thing 30 years ago.

Stay humble. Stack sats. And see you on the other side.

Found an organic farm less than an hour away that ships veggies 🥕 🥦

10 types per box for $17 plus shipping