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The BUIDL day of Bitcoin Japan is here! At 11:20 AM local time, nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqpqzfytz6ktce3av2svlfpl0e79e44tnskxmvlpkcmc7q0xct3qa49sx0v5ym and I will debate the recent OP_RETURN changes and Core v30 release at Tokyo Bitcoin Base.

Even though I care deeply about preserving Bitcoin as money, I mostly refrained from debating these topics online. The discourse just wasn't productive, as evidenced by how nostr:nprofile1qqs8dzjwlrgdzltmgmmzg50l3jpr3hxv357hj03rjut5jsfm5ugtv9gn0vuws, nostr:nprofile1qyvhwumn8ghj7ctyw4k8gt338pcxcatn9eek7cmfv9kqz9nhwden5te0v96xcctn9ehx7um5wghxcctwvsqzpmc4r3arsr6q5awh69yn4s68kemh48vmt7s250xak3lu0ratdx5tz27l4q, nostr:nprofile1qyx8wumn8ghj7cnjvghxjmcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqqgxfkx0le4p7df0j8v7jwyrvux0y45kl3xapqvwagctlrdv3uyyfv5lgpykq, nostr:nprofile1qy28wumn8ghj7et0wd6xzemjv9kjucm0d5hsz8thwden5te0dehhxarj95crztnev94kj6r0dehx2tnrdakj7qpqjt97tpsul3fp8hvf7zn0vzzysmu9umcrel4hpgflg4vnsytyxwuqxt3hw8, nostr:nprofile1qyx8wumn8ghj7cnjvghxjmcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqqgxchnavlnv8t5vky5dsa87ddye0jc8z9eza8ekvfryf3yt649mytvhadgpe and many other great Bitcoiners were being treated. Vilified for focusing on long-standing points of monetary maximalism and not blindly agreeing with the changes.

Thus, I'm thankful to have this chance to present views that I think many in the Bitcoin community share. It's the best possible setup, really - having a knowledgeable friend like Nicolas represent the opposing side, and nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8xetdd9ek7mpwv3jhvtcqyqvlaltl88yk6tlhd7rlwcn6u7g5t0yhrk9tyvs9qpvnnfdfzw7z7uxh02q moderating.

While I believe that the consensus of - Bitcoin is money - is still shared by the vast majority (especially now, with recent trendy developments) - there's an increasing gap between the words and the actions.

I'm sure we can do better than accepting excuses of "we can't do anything, other than continuing to relax policy limits", labeling people (filteroors, Knotzis, podcasters, etc), and forking community into camps where you have to blindly parrot certain talking points.

Luckily, besides the spam of attacking individuals and trying to destroy people's reputations, the debate that has been raging for months has also produced interesting technical proposals that I believe are better alternatives to the current direction. Hopefully, Nicolas and I do a good job of covering those from different angles and build a foundation that's useful for future development.

See you in a few hours!

Anywhere we can watch a recording unc?

A reboot of the old Vine app, but I believe it's built on Nostr

Square displays Satoshi's with the โ‚ฟ, which was proposed as renaming Satoshi's as bitcoin, which I think is retarded

No, I sat this one out, wanted to give someone else the opportunity. This time it was a lot easier to find the clues, but wouldn't be fair to go at it week after week!

Also it looks like the person who claimed it sent it to an exchange ๐Ÿคข I would never do that

This new phone is still said to take 1.5 years. And Pixels are still supported, so don't worry

Ha, didn't expect to be covered in your article ๐Ÿ˜…

I love that you wrote:

"It might sound corny, but I feel a real connection with each weekโ€™s winner."

I thought I was being corny about it, but apparently not! Let's just call it wholesome instead. ๐Ÿ˜Š

Oops, sorry for not being clear enough. I learned about UTXO's some time ago, when someone posted 'consolidare your UTXO's while fees are low' . And I was so confused.

I since went down the rabbit hole.

But I that moment was also the first time I opened mempool.space and for the first time I understood what Blockchain actually meant.

My feedback was trying to say, please keep putting the bitcoin address in there and show people a link to a mempool/blockchain explorer. That has been my biggest tool to study Bitcoin in the past ๐Ÿ˜Š

And that it will motivate other people as well to start digging down that rabbit hole, who haven't done so yet

You did just incentivice me to start writing more, because that's one thing I apparently suck at nowadays! ๐Ÿ˜…

That's another good one, sharing the addresses. It just so happened that this 8th wallet didn't update the past UTXO's properly (my fault). But I did check addresses and recognised one of them!

Also the ability to check if the sats were still there helped to motivate me to try again after a couple hour break ๐Ÿ˜…

Even having to look up words on the bip39 word list could lead you down a rabbit hole if you've never heard of a seed phrase before. Depends a bit on the target audience of course, not sure if your audience is people who don't know about self custody. But even checking a bitcoin address on mempool.space is already very interesting if you never did that! (That's actually how I learned about UTXO's!). It took me quite a while to go from self-custody to understanding what a UTXO is for example.

For me, it was just a very exciting treasure hunt. And actually a meaningful prize (I'll share why in a DM if you like ๐Ÿ˜Š). It's weird maybe, but you and uncle will be living in a strangers head for a long time with a warm feeling ๐Ÿงก

Yes, it took more time than I'd like to confess though! If you want some feedback, let me know. ๐Ÿ˜Š

Sats found by a human, using proof of work ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ˜Š

Thank you nostr:nprofile1qqsfrjd9ux5hgsg5cmlz6cdwfh5zv2024g8m2t6g9zqf83l8uqm0svspp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmqqzqhqe and nostr:nprofile1qqsfp8h6venm9p387yrhvn8rc2yft3r0llgczxm5zhw2kql533ztt9cprpmhxw309akk7mnpvshx5c34x5hxxmmd8gurqwpsqy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgejs97p, I always love listening to Uncle! Thank you for being a calm voice in all these Bitcoin wars and arguments!

But you don't know the receiver's pubkey before you leave the house...

I'm just saying that securing with a receiver pubkey and paper ecash don't seem to go hand in hand ๐Ÿ˜