I don't even know what drivechains are besides a vehicle part.

Deleted my Twitter account. Incredibly thankful for #nostr

The Internet is not a parasite. It's a free protocol. The problem is more with the content that most people consume.

Collectibles are cool. They are not good investments (not even close) but they are cool.

If the NFT people got their shit together and moved away from investment pitches, It would have been another story.

I wasted $1000s of dollars in Magic the Gathering. But I had fun nevertheless.

It would have to be in a round about way. Government attacks DC token project because it runs on Bitcoin, puts pressure on it to switch to a captured token like ETH.

If the DC project fees accounted for the majority of Bitcoin mining revenue, miners would have to choose between a compliant Bitcoin fork in order to keep receiving revenue from the project or loosing revenue.

I sure hope it's better than Strange New Worlds.

Strange Planet on Apple TV is really cute. It's like landing on a Vulcan-esque planet where every being practices radical candor.

I suspect it will be a big hit amongst the autists.

Have any of you tried an NAD+ IV treatment and, if so, was it worth it?

There are many many words for Island as well.

There is a Gaelic word "taise" (pronounced "tash") , which means damp, but I've heard Gaelic speakers (especially from a fishing background) frequently use it to describe the lightest type of drizzly rain , the kind that just hangs in the air , almost like a fog .

App stores are solutions to problems created by abstractions.

Remove the abstraction: Kill the app store.

That simple.

Drivechains

Alright people, we are playing a game of chess here. The one thing, the absolute one thing, we can't do is give up the king. To give up the king, in my humble opinion, is to mess up the base layer. This mistake would disrupt the delicate incentive structure that ensures sound money. That sound money pegs the extremely fragile credit markets and out-of-control G7 policymakers that are creating clown world with their CB fiat policies.

We don’t need the sound, pegged, money to move fast, we don’t need the money to do smart swoopty things, we just need it to be pegged, immutable, and digitally sailable to actually stop the madness of clown world.

By introducing a whole lot of technical complexity to the base layer and potentially screwing with the incentives all so we can connect to a bunch of centralized shitcoin projects is like playing offense with the king when you’re down 7 pieces and the other player still has their entire back row at their disposal.

A. Why the rush!?

B. Why not just go use Monero if you need that level of anominity in your transactions. Why do you have to have it in a wrapper via drivechains?

C. Why risk the king without deep understanding and testing of the technical risk and potential change to incentives?

The beauty of Bitcoin is you can build it and softfork it, and we’ll let the community vote with their nodes. BUT, I for one, have no use for drivechains (that doesn’t mean everyone is like me). And as a result, I will not be updating my node and running any attempted “secret” softfork updates by the miners.

Preston, with all due respect, if you dont know the difference between a soft and hard fork, i dont see any point in you weighin on such technical topics, you dont know what you are talking about.(but everyone is free to share their opinion ofc)

That being said i absolutely agree with you on this point. Dont do shit that fucks up bitcoin, and make stupid trade-offs, but this is a very nuanced thing.

Not sure you know, but bitcoin looked way different a few years ago it changed quite a bit.

Some of those changes bought risk and complexity, but also allowed us to do a lot of interesting things.

FWIW SegWit was such a change, but it payed of, we fixed maleability enabled LN and other stuffs.

I am not 100% sure drivechains is the best thing, but also i dont have a hate them, but non-technical arguments, dont really convience me.

These kind of remarks just sound like whataboutisms(its a thing).

Also nodes do not vote, that is technically incorrect.