contensious hard forks can lower the value or increase it.

If half the security hash power or half the user base goes to a different chain, for example, it is not that the coin is now worth half, it is that investors and market have less total confidence in both chains, so a price discovery period takes place.

Either the main chain that didn't change anything wins, they both "win" and recover price or the new fork wins.

Historically, forks from bitcoin have all suffered huge price loss. This has created a creature of excessive conservatism, like Dan.

To them, any change short of an immediate security threat to bitcoin, is bad. Even a small change that isolates future changes to those who want them ( he doesn't understand this. Its not a simple meme, like the phrase: hardest money on earth, so his brain shuts down)

Mev is that thing that's ok when Riot does it, because Blockstream likes them, but not if others do it in a way that shinobubu does not like.

Why not just upload it to imgur? this asks me to download a file.

A Miner activated Soft fork is still a soft fork.

Maybe the real fiat, is the friends we screwed over on the way.

Drivechain is probably the only thing that could ever make me touch New York.

Still....pass.

I did not know that about BCH. Interesting. The blocksize wars was the most damaging thing to bitcoin ever.

Bitcoin development is centralized. Decisions and the political marketing for them, are made by core devs whom other non technical people trust. Many of these devs have historic ties to Blockstream or other large institutional investors. This are the institutions with the funding to back research into and maintain bitcoin.

The only proof you need is seeing who stands to lose the most from bip300, Liquid, and how those connected to blockstream argue against it. But there is other proof too.

So i ask you, how are decisions to improve bitcoin made ? and how is this different than the college of bishops in Rome ?

Drivechain allows the free market to decide what bitcoin does, each user gets to decide, on a seperate layer fromncore bitcoin that remains mostly the same going forwards in time.

*oddly specific*

Dan is troll. But like Shinobubu, if one draws them out they have something useful to say every a quarter moon or so.

I don't know about that BCH stuff is, but everything else the said is true.

X5 is pretty recent, and research is underway to make it as profitable as any other CPU and remove its advantage. X5 happens to be using specific chipset technology that is only maginally better than a desktop cpus. Its an arms race between 1 cpu 1 vote, as satoshi envisioned and manufacturers trying to inch out an extra buck. It's not really an Asic by the way. Its an optimized series of desktop CPU's. A very dense desktop/server with regular archeture and instruction sets at the processor level. You could run regular software on them. Asics are very different, they only hash 256.

Compared to Bitcoin, the X5 outlier is an incredibly small portion of hash. Most hash is provided by regular people, as satoshi intended. Bitcoin has given up on small miners. Bitcoin has centralized around a few pools and companies and power grids. The whole point of Bitcoin is to be independant from governments, if the majority of security hash is provoded by government infrastructure and not anomymous every day users indistiguishable from anyonenelse using a computer, it can and will eventually be censored. It might take decades, but the difference between home gun ownership and keeping all your guns in a local depot, should be obvious.

You are scared of hardforks, but hardforks for the right reasons are a good thing. Even bitcoin will have to hardfork one day for Quantum resistance. Hardforks for bad reasons just mean one will win and become stronger. Several side monero's have already forked.

Forking is peace.

Well, you've finally said more than two snarky words about your point, at least

So monero is decentralized and this is a bad thing.

Not only that, but not understanding why centralization is a good thing, is poor design.

Right.....

Or do you mean, the fact hard forks are a centralized decision, is the weakness. (The fact the team can decide to hard fork)

Gputopia launch

Foutain.app has some nostr integration. Zaps and such, but yes, email sign up is cringe and probably a deal breaker for me at tge moment.

I was wondering why you weren't boosting Gputopia launch.

Its right in line with your Dvm project !!!!

Fasting/breaks from tech is very healthy.

JUST BE READY FOR THE BITCOIN BREAKAWAY CIVILIZATION WHEN YOU COME BACK

Do you know about fountain app ? Earn sats for podcasts.

With gputopia i feel the bitcoin breakaway civilization is starting.

He means the early adopter whales.

What he doesn't know is this also applies to Bitcoin.

Is this one of those things where its 90% private against surveilance if you use new addreses ?