are you using tor? Dunno about earlier in the day, but today, without tor, I'm connected to 10 relays rn and working quite well so far..

I think I killed my iPhone joining the room... lol

It‘s awesome to find one or two really interested people in a group you teach about #bitcoin

When they come up with follow up questions and when they ask for things that are simple and suddenly obviously logical but you never thought about it because you are used to clunky, slow and it-nerd focused development

… I love it. ❤️

Hello world.

Hello world.

I'm seeing nearly 50% less online users on Iris than a day or two ago. Did I break something, or maybe something wrong with the way I'm measuring users (gun-rs.iris.to connections)?

was there a specific episode that you can reference, would be very interested to listen to.

Yes, exactly

Objectively pretty dishonest

We are lucky Roger was so incompetent. 🚒

Anyone else could might have pulled it off

Bitcoin Cash itself is not a terrible idea. It was much more about control.

Even though segwit2x backed down

Roger Ver then swooped in with BCash

People dont realize how much of an existential threat that posed to bitcoin

The nature of difficultly adjustments would have meant that if Roger has got majority hashing power (he almost did) then the bitcoin chain would have frozen, all miners go to bcash (except slush at 4%) due to increased profitablility

Bitcoin would have frozen and the difficultly adjustment would not have helped, as it would go into famine and feast like testnet. Miners hold off until btc mining gets 4x cheaper. Then mine a cycle of blocks and freeze it again.

The bcash supporters, rick, kim dot com, craig, roger etc. really were trying to kill bitcoin. A hard fork would have been needed to change the difficulty algorithm, for it to survive

Block size war was an amazing thing. For the first time in history a group of volunteer open source developers stood up to billions of dollars venture capital, millions of users, most of the hashing power. It went to the market ...

And the developers won!

The reputation of developers in an open source project was worth more than 100mm, or even 1Bn, in VC money per person. That's why in bitcoin, reputation is more valuable than anything

It was a first in history, and it's why we still have open source bitcoin

Yeah it's basically a close race between Snort, Iris, and Astral where everyone wins! lol

iris.to is good 🟣