The Core / Knots drama makes soooooo much more sense when you realize the sole Knots developer truly believes that his life savings of several hundred BTC was stolen by a Core developer. His life savings for which he was managing the keys on an internet connected laptop...

🟣I just orange-pilled a deaf man at a kid’s birthday party. Here’s how it went down.

I was at a kid’s birthday party today.

Sitting in front of a gentleman. he was deaf.

We were having a simple, casual convo… until he points at my T-shirt: #Bitcoin?

Part of me wanted to orange pill him on the spot.

Another part hesitated. I’ve never done this before.

I’ve explained Bitcoin to blind people before. it was easier.

But this? Different challenge.

I thought: Let’s move this to WhatsApp.

Typed out the basics.

Orange pilled him right there, mid-party.

It worked.

It actually worked.

Let this be your reminder:

Don’t let anything: language, fear, or circumstance stop you from sharing the orange hope.

Have a strong Sunday, notrichs. The mission never ends.

GM GA #Nostr

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A recap of the OP_RETURN "debate"

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Core: Filters don't work.

Bitcoiners: They obviously do, otherwise you wouldn't need to remove them.

Core: We don't have the technical means, so we're removing the limit.

Bitcoiners: We gave you the technical means in a PR two years ago, Core rejected it, it was implemented in Knots and it works.

Core: We can't stop all spam reliably, so why bother?

Bitcoiners: Because life is not black or white, and fastening your seatbelt when driving a car is safer even though some people die in car crashes.

Core: Here's 7 transactions that even your precious filters didn't catch.

Bitcoiners: Here's 2 million transactions that were caught.

Core: You can't censor valid transactions just because you don't like them. They paid a fee!

Bitcoiners: There's millions of Nigerian princes contacting people through email every day. These are "valid transactions" too, yet you send those to spam. This is obviously not censorship, so that argument is deceitful and intellectually dishonest.

Core: What is spam objectively anyway?

Bitcoiners: The receiver - not the sender - gets to decide what's useful to them. You're removing the ability of nodes to decide that, implying you know best.

Core: These transactions will end up in blocks anyway, and we can't incentivize profit-seeking miners to go out-of-band.

Bitcoiners: It's not your job to incentivize or deter miners. Your job is to work on the Bitcoin client while prioritizing the one thing that makes Bitcoin unique and truly decentralized: nodes.

Core: But we want better fee estimation and block propagation.

Bitcoiners: So do we, but never at the expense of decentralization and self-sovereignty. Nodes run the show.

Core: This is a technical discussion. Stop philosophying and using analogies, you plebs!

Bitcoiners: We gave you a technical solution that works, the philosophic rationale and the logical arguments. Stop turning Bitcoin into a shitcoin.

Am I missing anything here?

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If you're seeing bias here, it's because you're too stubborn to admit that one side is clearly more informed, rational and morally calibrated than the other.

This is why there's distrust in Core. It's got nothing to do with technical competency and rational discourse. It's just pure and simple political shenanigans, whataboutisms, strawman arguments and in some cases sheer lies.

- Hodling like i mean it

After seeing all the anti-core hate and propaganda on here, its made me think I should be working on bitcoin core more again.

my node, my choice

run a node

use it

My plan from 2021 to today is to buy and keep. Everything I save in fiat I put in bitcoin and pretend I don't have it... I bought at 20k/40k/60k/80k and something even at 100k. I would like to accumulate as much as possible and leave them with my daughter tomorrow when I'm not there anymore. Obviously I spend some but little stuff. I think my daughter needs it more in 30 years than me today than ₿ 🤷‍♂️

Just staying humble and stacking sats no matter the fiat price. I don't sleep well holding dollars, but I sleep like a baby with bitcoin in cold storage.

Weak people are easier to rule.

Make them believe weakness is a virtue, that everyone else is like them and that becoming strong is abnormal. You'll never have an uprising.

The Chinese glorified the peasant farmer. The Soviets glorified the factory worker. Americans are glorifying the marginalized consumer.

It's okay to be fat. It's okay to be sick. It's okay to feel powerless.

DEI points the finger at the strong white man as the problem.

The solution: rules to uplift minority races and increasing state benefits for the poor. A double edged sword of increasing dependency where both your upward mobility and daily sustenance are reliant on the state.

The more dependent people become, the more power shifts upward. Demoralized citizens will continue to vote for more handouts and will never bite the hand that feeds.

The only way forward is to opt out.

Build strength. Build resilience. Build a strong family and community. Do not use their money. Starve them. Ignore them. Let their system rot.

A lot of idealistic coders think that by explaining the technical reasoning, they can get people on their side of the argument.

I get why. In technical circles, there really is often one best practice and you can arrive at consensus through explaining the nuances of the issue, though that happens far less often than is believed.

But this current argument really isn't a technical one. It's a social, monetary and economic one and no amount of technical nuance-splaining is going to get consensus. I applaud the effort, but the higher level question that we're all really fighting about is this:

What is Bitcoin?

Is it money? Or is it money and ...?

we need to replace github with an open alternative

nostr seems like an ideal fit

Truthfully tell me which you are currently eating:

1. Carnivore

2. Ketovore

3. Keto

4. Low-carb

5, Vegan

6. Vegetarian

7. I'm an idiot and don't think about food*

*If you're not thinking about your diet then big-food is doing your thinking for you, which means big-pharma is in your near future...

Need new sneakers for gym and/or out and about town. Nikes most likely, but stores here have jack and all the ones I like online can't be bought retail.

Can someone with good taste recommend pair? If I get them I'll zap ya

Don't use Windows. NEVER.

i think calle means street in spanish 🤔