CashApp blacklists GrapheneOS.

I guess we're still cheering any adoption no matter how anti freedom and privacy a path it takes us down.

the last 15-20% of initial block download is just brutally slow now, huh?

75% ~12 hours

85% ~17 hours

90% - 22 hours

- 8 cores (ryzen 5900x)

- 16 gb ram (ddr4 3600mhz)

- pcie gen4 nvme ssd

was hoping to complete in <24 hours. maybe ill give it more cpu next time

That’s a weird cope, but sure. No accountability for the people that kept saying everything is going to zero against bitcoin I guess

Up ~1,500% in 5 years

Zoom out, right? Like we say to Goldbugs when they point out the YTD performance

I thought this shitcoin was supposed to go to zero against bitcoin?

AI is the bane of my wife's professional life. To recruit new medical staff for the services she runs (GP surgeries and care homes), she receives hundreds of application letters and CV's.

About 90% of them have been written by AI 😂

They now have their own AI (Copilot), which detects and rejects them.

It's an AI arms race.

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For years, there has been FUD that Bitcoin's blockchain could be criminalised by storing CSAM on it.

For years, the answer has always been that Bitcoin doesn't support data storage, and the offending content is not the blockchain itself, but the additional software used to transform the blockchain into CSAM.

By sanctioning data storage, Core 30 is eliminating that argument. There will no longer be any additional software required, your Bitcoin node itself will provide CSAM on demand, using a well-defined and officially supported format.

The very reason "CSAM on the chain" was FUD, is being _destroyed_ by Core 30. They are making it a _true_ accusation. No amount of obfuscation will change this fact.

This is not the _only_ reason to reject Core 30. But even if it was, it would _still_ be strong reason to do so.

The too-good-to-be-true stories go back decades if you take the time to look

And I am saying, yes, they’re fake

Great question.

Maybe because you dont want to download the whole chain again? I dunno .. I went from no node to Knots.

Finer question ... why go from 29 to 30?

Whats the incentive?

There's a theory banksy is an asset.

Something about the Palestine and c0vid stuff.

"after Core is out of the picture"

You are talking about consensus with Core out of the picture?

As far as I can see, most serious Bitcoin devs are organized in Core now. You're talking like Knots was the new reference client already.

Bitcoin's exchange rate expressed in gold follows a power law trend almost as closely as when expressed in usd (95% vs 96% r-squared)

In past bull/bear cycles bitcoin's behaviour around the power trend line is nearly identical for both measures (green circles).

This relationship has noticeably decoupled in the current cycle:

- the usd exchange rate has risen from long-term support trend line to the power trend line (red circles)

- the gold exchange rate has remained anchored to the long-term support trend line (red circles)

If gold is a more accurate measure of purchasing power, it can be argued bitcoin has not yet entered a bull-run in purchasing power terms

In gold terms, the power law trend line indicates, if a purchasing power bull-run occurs, bitcoin's price may:

- 2x from here to the power trend line (reversion to trend / no bull-run)

- 5x from here to to 1sd-up line (conservative base case bull-run)

- 10x from here to to 2sd-up line (up-side bull-run)

In usd terms, that's an exchange rate of US$500,000 to US$1,000,000 per bitcoin in a bull-run this cycle

This seems unlikely to say the least ... something is broken ... can someone tell me what it is?

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Of course an individual transaction can. But most bitcoin transactions are still NOT data storage. So what’s the problem exactly?

The Core vs. Knots debate is economic, and the Knots side is self-defeating. They believe that data storage will outbid monetary #bitcoin transactions in the long run, and thus must be censored in order to preserve bitcoin as money. If this were true, users would abandon their bitcoin money network for the top altcoin data network.

GM 🌞

#meme

#memestr

Please, Bitcoiners, stop being so naive.

Do you think the system will give up the goose that lays the golden eggs, which is the fiat system?

Bitcoin is attacked every day by three-letter agencies.

Do you remember why Satoshi disappeared?

Do you remember who Gavin Andresen was?

Do you believe Craig Wright acted alone?

Do you think the block size war was started by mere idiots?

Please, don't be so naive. Where do you think spam is financed from? Do you know how many millions have been spent?

Stop being a child, they are state actors, grow up and take action.

Its not the ultimate solution. Its only a step in hopefully the right direction. The ultimate solution isn't even the client we use - its decentralization of the mining. Even if 100% of nodes run knots, and all of them filter appropriately, the garbage will still get on chain because they just do what they've been doing, which is going directly to the big mining companies and paying "out of band" (more/not in the same block as the image). This is only possible because big mining companies can be sure they'll get a block. Decentralization is the only true fix - plus filters. If Core 30 happens, even if we decentralize perfectly, we still lose. If Knots wins perfectly, but mining stays centralized, we lose. Its high stakes. We haven't been nearly focused enough on fixing the mining.

Knots becoming the majority of nodes isn't the ideal. There should be a bunch of options. This is just the necessary first step.

Personally, this is what I'm here for. Its easy to be a low effort bitcoiner, but I'm not here for that. I post spiritual shit when I'm bored. But I'm here to fight the right fights so that Bitcoin wins. I'll physically show up when the time is right, too. There's a lot of work to do.

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How do I upload a vlog on nostr without it being a huge file?

Compress? I've seen this.

But how.

#asknostr

neither knots nor core can force changes that you don’t want on you if you check the changes before you upgrade your node.

The change is for 100kbytes I believe

because you have to manually write the code to do it, not that it is hard relay wise.

Agree, I follow because I want to see what they (shit)post. That doesn't make them a contact. It also doesn't mean that I trust them to be in my WoT.

I just like their posts.

I'm not sure that is completely true. In the Washington DC area people were happy to move further out during the pandemic because they could work remotely.

But now that return to office mandates are back, people have to live closer to their offices. Or they get fired.

They are forced into a limited housing market that they would otherwise not want. And the housing market continues to be artificially inflated because of these mandates.

🇦🇺 Respecta. Should be more of it. 🇨🇦🍁

Too motivated to standout. There should be a reverse button to zaps. Like demand zaps for reading an unworthy post.

I demand 2 zaps for your post.