I think it's safer that everyone runs the exact same protocol, and the definition of the Bitcoin protocol is the source code in core. I'm also intensely skeptical of anything that lukedashjr is involved with.

Sold my house today.

To stack more days spent with my daughter.

To protect her future.

Because Bitcoin is eating the world.

If you’re a dad without Bitcoin and not adapting…

I’m here to tell & show you…

You’re failing your family.

This move was for you, my little princess.👸🏼

Your legendary dad from the past.

Maybe a granddad when you read this.

But I did it all for you. 🧡

This also means we’re relocating away from Germany. 🌍🛫

Timestamp of freedom 900,804

You've responded to me in multiple ways (comments, zaps, boosts - they all count). Even if you hadn't, you're a lot busier than I am. Lol I can promise I wouldn't spend nearly as much time responding to people as you do. I wouldn't be able to while remaining sane. Especially if I had kids and multiple businesses, podcasts, etc.

Ak'chamel , The Giver of Illness - Rawskulled

I know it’s popular to be all-in on moral panic these days, but I think Bitcoin is in a good technical place right now. I’m bullish.

I think Core devs are doing good work. And I’m glad that people can run Knots or otherwise fork if they don’t like Core. That’s part of what makes Bitcoin robust, and gives useful market/adoption signals.

Mining pool centralization isn’t great, but there are plenty of optional tools to use more if it interferes more with the network, and economic signals (eg the possibility of high fees for censored transactions) exist for precisely that context, to help it get unstuck if it gets stuck.

I think current functionality is great, but I also think CTV+CSFS is a sensible upgrade on top of that if folks end up coalescing around it.

Sometimes the sun is out. ☀️

yeah they are still very dumb. sometimes they give completely contradicting answers just based on the past context. if AI understands you having a certain culture it answers YES. if it understands you have other types of culture it answers NO to the same question. which shows two things:

1. AI doesn't have integrity, it is just a probability machine

2. certain cultures suck in certain ways. not every culture (or person) have the ultimate wisdom.

It’s quite fascinating to watch so many people trying to fix a system problem from within the system…..get so worked up about what the other guy is or isn’t doing.

#bitcoin

I am new here, so let me do a little #introduction . I am here because a friend nostr:nprofile1qqsqqx9hacelkffcgd3ecchzjtlvwq9xn2fmprhrwnzmm2t3exee2eqppemhxue69uhhjctzw5hx6ef0qyd8wumn8ghj7ur4wfshv6tyvyhxummnw3ezumrpdejz78c2hlx advised me to join, after being shadowed few times on my instagram account where I am sharing my way to health through Carnivore lifestyle.

I remember seeing videos of Goldeneye speedrun history.

I hadn't played it myself, though (I'm a Zoomer who had played a few N64 games like WWF No Mercy, SM64, MK64 and even Smash 64). Granted, I'm into old consoles like the PS2, Wii and even PS3.

I think JPEGs on the timechain are stupid.

But the idea that they're going to hurt Bitcoin seems so weak to me. Like the US dollar can withstand people scribbling on it but Bitcoin can't?

In fact, the idea of Bitcoin as a glorious digital monument with some graffiti scribbled on it represents humanity pretty well. That's kind of us in a nutshell. Seems on-brand. Perfectionists trying to keep their little gardens tidy while trolls come in and find ways to mess with them anyway.

NFTs and memecoins already had their peak fad moments. People now know that they're non-scarce gambling toys rather than investments. It's just echoes of that peak now. The only thing that concerned me about the ordinals/runes period was the rapid UTXO bloat, not the blockspace usage, since the latter already has a consensus limit on it.

And if Bitcoin transactions can't outprice JPEGs in the long run, then it's just not that valuable. Bitcoin currently does about 1% of the gross settlement volume of Fedwire. That's peanuts. Imagine if it reaches a point where it does even like 10% of Fedwire. What would you pay to move a full bitcoin globally, permissionlessly, in 10 minutes, in a world where it's no longer a niche thing?

We know some things for sure: Much of the gang activity, wars, and elections in Central America was/is financed by 3 letter word agencies in the US in the name of nation building or protecting interests. That activity has created untold pain. It’s hard to even imagine how much. I ask myself, “if” someone really cared about making a change (rather than be a puppet like so many others in countries with dictators that serve those interests) it would mean going up against that power. Drastically and dramatically ripping it out. (Otherwise the public and that person would be at the same risk as always and nothing would change) ie - The narrative and story and media including psyops and false flags is all part of the current control structure (this is not a guess for me and I would not be saying it without evidenced personally at the highest level)

What the future brings is unknown, and I can’t promise that he doesn’t take power, and then turn it into further abuses. That being said, I “think” he understands the game at play here and bitcoin as a protocol removes his power by redistributing it to his population. We will see, but that’s why I went to see him.

To try to see for myself - to look deeper in the hopes I could get through the biases on both sides of a complicated transition.

And most people are measuring him through a control structure that has an insane amount of power - and not realizing that they themselves are being manipulated by it.

Hope that helps.