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Russia for a thousand years has attacked all of its neighbors continuously which is why they all want to join NATO

what a shock

This makes them poor because nobody wants to trade with them and they get sanctioned all over the place

Now they have a GDP that's less than Texas

And a little baby country like Ukraine has been kicking their ass for 5 years

Russia is both evil and pathetic

Inflation shmation

My New Year's resolutions

1. Get a haircut

2. Don't die

2.25%

Settle down Larry on that big print thing

https://truflation.com/marketplace

Otoh, look at what metals are doing!

https://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=METALS&p=d

Did you know? In 1935, Hitler renamed Germany's "Ministry of Defense" (Reichswehrministerium) to "Ministry of War" (Reichskriegsministerium) — openly signaling the shift from pretend defense to preparing for aggression. History's not subtle.

Piney woods

East tx

I'm in Austin

Performance for one, two, three, four years respectively

Odds are we doubled from here at least over the next 12 months if the power law is right

It's been right for 16 years

The upcoming green cloud is resistance

It'll take a while to get through this

Nothing stops this train

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I don't know what you're talking about

But it seems like to me everyday is a good day to buy Bitcoin

I was thinking about borrowing against my Bitcoin and I did some modeling with ChatGPT

I decided that if you borrow one percent of your Bitcoin anytime the mvrv is below 2

And anytime your LTV is below 30%

Once a month but there will be many months where you don't meet those criteria

Then you can get free money forever and never pay it back including not pay the interest back as long as it keeps going up every year like 20% at least which is kind of a gimme

Replying to Avatar Diyana

🧭 1. Preserving Bitcoin’s Role as Money

Bitcoin is not a general-purpose blockchain like Ethereum. Its value proposition is precision:

Scarcity.

Simplicity.

Predictability.

Unbreakable monetary policy.

Allowing bigger OP_RETURN data creates a slippery slope where:

Bitcoin becomes a data storage layer, not a monetary layer.

Block space gets used up by NFTs, shitcoin metadata, memes, and vanity tokens.

The cost of running a full node increases… which directly affects decentralization.

That’s not neutral. That’s a vector of subtle capture.

Neutrality without discernment is passive collapse.

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🛡️ 2. Mempool Policy Is Governance

Core devs love to say:

> "It’s just a policy change, not consensus."

But let’s be honest: Bitcoin Core sets the tone for the whole network.

Most node operators run Bitcoin Core.

Most miners follow Core’s policies by default.

Changing Core’s mempool relay policies affects what gets propagated and prioritized.

So when Core lifts a restriction like this — especially one with historical importance (remember, this limit literally deterred Ethereum from building on Bitcoin) — it’s not a neutral act.

It signals permission, and that affects what people build.

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🧨 3. It Weakens Bitcoin's Immune System

Bitcoin is resilient, yes. But it’s not invincible.

Every time Core softens a boundary, it introduces:

New attack surfaces

More disk bloat

More justification for “just a little more space”

More people trying to co-opt the network for non-monetary purposes

This creates entropy, not order.

When your protocol is the global defense against inflation, tyranny, and surveillance?

You don't open the door for toys. You protect it like sacred fire.

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🤷🏽‍♀️ 4. "It Doesn’t Matter If Users Pay Fees" — Really?

The most common argument for lifting the cap is:

> “If users pay the fee, they can use block space however they want.”

But this is a trap.

Fees only reflect market dynamics, not values.

The market doesn’t always know what’s sacred.

People will pay to upload porn, propaganda, spam, NFTs, and worse — because they can.

Bitcoin wasn’t built to be a decentralized Dropbox.

So just because you can pay for it, doesn’t mean Bitcoin should relay it.

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đź’ˇ 5. Bitcoin Knots Proves a Better Path Was Possible

Knots maintained the OP_RETURN cap.

And guess what?

It’s still compatible with consensus.

It’s more selective, not censoring — just filtering what it relays.

It empowers node operators to protect the network from abuse.

If Core had aligned more with that posture — default minimalism, optional flexibility — it would’ve served both sides:

Builders who need larger OP_RETURNs could manually adjust config flags.

The default relay policy would have remained tight, sovereign, and hard to abuse.

That’s maturity. That’s coherence. That’s sovereign stewardship.

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✨ In Summary:

Yes — it would’ve been better for Bitcoin’s long-term integrity if Core had not moved forward with this.

Not because innovation is bad.

Not because code shouldn’t evolve.

But because protecting the monetary layer is a sacred task. And policy choices shape the field more than we like to admit.

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Replying to Avatar jakub

100%

This looks like some kind of voodoo s***

You must live somewhere cold

In Austin summer is like this dangerous hell zone

Although this year was reasonable

BTC crashed

Buy now

Who's building nukes?

If you zoom out over the last decade, nuclear new-builds cluster in a few hot spots: China, Russia, India, Korea, UAE. Here’s a timeline of the biggest ones:

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2014–2015

Fuqing 3 & 4 (China) – CPR-1000 units.

Shin Kori 3 (South Korea) – first APR-1400.

2016–2017

Novovoronezh II-1 (Russia) – first VVER-1200 Gen III+.

Tianwan 3 & 4 (China) – VVER-1000 units.

Shin Kori 4 (Korea) – APR-1400.

2018–2019

Barakah 1 (UAE) – first Arab world nuclear plant.

Novovoronezh II-2 (Russia).

Tianwan 5 & 6 (China).

Rostov 4 (Russia).

2020–2021

Olkiluoto 3 (Finland) – EPR, Europe’s first new reactor in decades (finally online in 2021/2022 after years of delay).

Kudankulam 3 (India) – VVER-1000.

Barakah 2 (UAE) – 2021.

2022–2023

Barakah 3 (UAE) – 2022.

Xudapu 6 (China) and other new Chinese builds.

Ruppur 1 (Bangladesh) under construction; still not online yet.

2024–2025

Barakah 4 (UAE) – Sept 2024.

Zhangzhou 1 (China) – Jan 2025.

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Patterns

China dominates: 20+ reactors brought online in 10 years, usually CPR-1000, Hualong One, or VVER imports.

Russia: steady buildout of VVER-1200 units, plus exports (Turkey’s Akkuyu, Bangladesh’s Ruppur).

Middle East breakthrough: UAE’s Barakah plant = 4 units from 2020–2024.

Western world: only Olkiluoto 3 (Finland, 2022) and Vogtle 3 & 4 (USA, 2023/2024) — the first new U.S. reactors in 30+ years.

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👉 Do you want me to lay this out in a clean table with country, plant name, reactor type, and year (2014–2025)? It’d be easy to scan.

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