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Vlad, Bitcoin Takeover Podcast
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Today I signed a new contract with my ISP.

2100 megabits per second internet for only 11 euro a month 🤯

Say what you will about Romanians, but fast internet is up there with food, shelter, and home-made alcohol 🍷

How fast is your internet and how much do you pay?

Medium of exchange is a distraction!

Pass it on so your favorite “replacing the dollar to defund the government and make wars unaffordable” OG can facepalm and possibly get a stroke.

The “spend & replace” homeboys might also feel like they failed, while the layer 2 devs will suddenly realize that the funding for their pet project vanishes because Saylor said so 🫡

It feels kind of sad to scoop the Bitcoin mempool and see no CoinJoins queued up for the next block 🥲

What have they done to privacy?

Also, you can’t call yourself a bitcoiner in the year 2024 if you don’t learn about BitVM from @robin_linus

This stuff is truly revolutionary!

https://youtu.be/Defp4sX7eEc?si=2qh48y3AWtgws712

Super bullish on the new generation of Bitcoin developers.

They are creative, smart, cypherpunk af, and not rich enough to have become complacent about the status quo or argue that ossification is preferable.

They also build without asking for permission, so better watch out!

https://youtu.be/N2AR0mMJMho?si=LZOcypvWSbHMiDXz

It’s funny how the price bounced back up after a wave of erosion to privacy and self-custody.

Don’t be sad about the state of Bitcoin, anon. Here’s some NGU to make you feel better!

Now stop thinking about scaling or privacy. We have the right solution, buy ETFs!

The Supra Cycle price model predicted $60k in May.

Still undefeated!

This MONSTROUS nostr:npub167hmfzj38hkumks4wxny89797la0sf7wnwfrw4enlmcl82msp0cs78schc CoinJoin has just been mined.

For the total price of $589, almost 202 bitcoins have been made fungible!

12 inputs >= 10 BTC.

30 inputs >= 1 BTC.

It seems like the whales are taking advantage of the low fees to CJ before the ZK Snacks coordinator shuts down next month!

Weird coincidence: Coinbase announces Lightning Network support just days after the biggest LSP in the world (Phoenix) leaves the US.

… and a few months after Wallet of Satoshi, the biggest custodial wallet for Lightning, had left the US.

Some of you guys would be so much smarter if you spent an hour a week listening to Bitcoin Takeover podcast.

You’d understand what’s going on beyond the circlejerking and the petty tribalism.

But you do you, I guess…

After this week, does anyone still believe Bitcoin should ossify?

Final sync time: 7 hours, 40 minutes.

I expected a slowdown around halving time (4/20), but Mr. Overkill just ate up those blocks and completed the task without any hiccups 💪🏻

I can probably optimize for 7 hours or 6:30 hours if I allocate more RAM and processing threads from the get-go, but so far I’m happy with the result!

7 hours later, Mr. Overkill entered the year 2024 and estimates it would complete the sync in only 22 minutes 😍

The ordinal inscriptions of 2023 didn’t cause the expected slowdown 💪🏻

I wonder what happens when it runs into Runes?

6 hours later, Mr. Overkill started validating the ordinal inscriptions.

Does anyone want to bet how long it’s going to take to complete the last year of Bitcoin transactions?

The ETA is 90 minutes, which would make a total sync time of 7 1/2 hours!