Do you guys ever wonder what Satoshi’s day job was? I’ll bet we have all use other software he developed under his own name and we’ll never know it. He could have been a Google developer or worked for SalesForce or TurboTax. I like to think of him as a carpenter or a fisherman, but maybe I’m exposing my bias.

We've sent Bitcoin ecash via

- QR codes

- clipboards

- nostr

- Bluetooth

- NFC

- airdrop

- SMS

- emojis

- morse code

- http headers

- mesh networks

- onion packages

- space satellites

- audio spectrograms

- image steganography

- bank transfer subject fields

What's missing?

First impression count. #Bitcoin

every time I open X they shove the most stupid US culture war into my face. feels like that has become the main purpose of the app. every post in "for you" is some form of degenerate left vs. right propaganda and the comments are both sides dunking on each other in the meanest possible way. erosion of civilization.

this is not how the world works but an ever growing number of people experience reality exclusively through social media. when you feel upset consuming media, question the source of your anger. any information you absorb on X is filtered for maximum engagement. any emotional response you have is pre-programmed. you're not making your own decisions. you're a bot.

the Internet is designed to trigger you. In this game of humans vs machines, you lose if you get triggered.

I just zapped myself, its been a while 😅

i don't waste my time reading stuff from people who don't understand that pseudonymity is better than unauditable encrypted ledgers and there's a reason for why people use his favourite coin, being, to buy drugs, but anyone with serious money uses coinjoins to hide their stash.

i find monero fanatics extremely tedious. they are shitcoiners. the end.

Then you have to work on your reading comprehension

What's your go-to relaxation thing that doesn't involve a screen?

Maybe read your own link. All of those cases involve KYC exchanges, colluding with swap services when they swapped to transparent chains like Bitcoin, and opsec mistakes where they revealed their IP address. Nothing to do with transacting on Monero.

It upgrades and gets better over time. What a concept.

Still trusting banks with your life savings?

They don’t owe you anything.

And when the music stops, you’ll be last in line.

Hold your own keys.

#Bitcoin doesn’t beg.

💯🫡

deleted all facebook apps 10+ years ago

Narrative evolution in the political battle to undermine Bitcoin as a monetary network:

1. There's no such thing as "spam" in Bitcoin. Transactions are either valid or invalid.

2. OK spam exists and it's a problem but it'll get priced out by genuine monetary activity.

3. OK the trend in the opposite direction is clear, but the proposed solution of filtering spam at the mempool level does nothing at all as miners can still include this stuff in blocks regardless. (And despite the fact that spam filtration is something we've always done, it's somehow now "censorship" as of spring 2023).

4. OK filtering actually works extremely well and is basically forcing some BitVM schemes to use fake pubkeys instead of OP_RETURN which - for the sake of *maybe* preventing a few KBs of UTXO bloat a year - we need to aggressively resolve *now* by forcing nodes to relay giant OP_RETURNs by breaking the datacarriersize filter in the hopes that BitVMers use OP_RETURN instead.

5. OK yes, this is total and utter submission to the attempts to optimize Bitcoin for data storage as opposed to monetary activity as per every other meaningless crypto but hey, we are just Bitcoin Core and you can run something else if you don't like it - isn't open source wonderful?!

6. OK if large numbers of Bitcoiners actually start running something other than Core we'll simply ignore the message being sent loudly and clearly - that a growing % of people running nodes have no interest in becoming free relays for spammers and miners and that in a sane world, the default implementation puts the priorities of monetary users above scammers and even miners.

7. OK we will invoke disaster scenarios that must come from spam filtration - centralized mining, bad fee estimation, poor block propagation - combine with other fear tactics about "Knots being maintained by one guy".

8. Respond to all debunking of the above disaster scenarios with simple assertions that those who disagree "occupy something other than reality". Rest on laurels of deeply established trust of Core that it is extremely painful for people to question.

Contrast all this with the "filter-boi" side which have not needed to twist themselves into Knots trying to justify the unjustifiable -

1. Spam filters work, they optimize Bitcoin as a payment network rather than a generic database.

2. If you let filters fall into disrepair or maliciously break them then Bitcoin fails the same way cryptos always do - nodes become an abused and disregarded commons while we pretend we're decentralized.

Is that an oxymoron?

GM. You can just drink tea.

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Running Knots.

Another nice way to on ramp small amounts to bitty. Could become a nice bitty payment rail at some point

Teams next. 😆