Thankfully I don't pay them.

Not in the last month or so. But yeah I'm a huge influencer and engament farmer using every trick in the book! :-)

This is exactly why I rarely buy nice cloths. First need to get in the right shape. Which I then procrastinate on for a decade or so.

No idea what triggered that, but our AI overlords are infallible, so it must be right.

Well, most most accumulated karats, not length, would be the more accurate analogy.

BIP62 is partially implemented, but the remainder is withdrawn. Afaik it wouldn't be enough to be safe for Lightning, but you'd have to ask (Sipa on) the Bitcoin Stack Exchangs.

The list is here: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev

Changing policy rules is relevant for all Bitcoin software, not just Bitcoin Core.

That said, the mailinglist should be limited to technical arguments. In the sense of RFC 7282.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7282

For full on political takes like "let's sue x", social media is a better place.

Do you understand what the term "Concept NACK" means?

Policy discussions belong on the mailinglist imo.

Everytime we *ran* out. Our ancenstors, who survived to produce us, never ran out. This is called survivorship bias.

A discount with a 4x decrease for non-witness stuff would also work. That would have been a "bit" controversial though.

Without the discount it would still be cheaper to create a new change output than to spend an existing UTXO.

That may be one way to deal with the recent onset of ghost tap on my device...

One reason I get annoyed when contactless fails and I have to enter a pin. More so for pick pockets / robbery risk than the camera though.

There's also the UTXO set growth to consider, a problem that takes a bit longer to manifest than block size. SegWit improved the incentive there.

Hard to say without knowing the counter factual, e.g. if SegWit was deployed with no discount and the witness data included in the 1 MB limit.

We don't know what part of that 50℅ was due to slower sync vs. e.g. just more user friendly wallets (that don't use a full node).

Without knowing which of these nodes actually controlled funds vs just astroturfing it's not even clear if the trend is really down.

I can't control other people's inflamation. It's perfectly reasonable question to answer for anyone who believes the American standard is good and should be the global standard. You could also do it for European standards of living, it's probably not even that big a difference.

Here I'll get you started with a very conservative example.

"In 2006, there were about 4 million tons of conventional resources.[53] In 2011, this increased to 7 million tonnes."

If I assume 4 million MJ/kg, or 4 peta joule / ton, that's 28 peta joules.

Assuming world energy consumption of 600 eta joules, mulitply by 10 to make everyone American.

So then if we only used nuclear and didn't bother to find more uranium, we'd have a whopping 0.028 / 600 * 365 * 24 * 60 = 25 seconds worth of global reserves.

Oops. Anyway, I probably made a mistake here somewhere, but this should illustrate the methodology. Repeat for all known fuel sources, allow for some supplies that we haven't yet, adjust for whatever world population size and consumption level you think it good.

No handwaving about future magic. Always hope for the best, but count on the worst.

Fwiw what I vaguely remember is fossil plus nuclear reserves are in the order of decades to centuries, which means years or decades at American standard of living for everyone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining

Still haven't gotten an answer to this. I looked at these number twenty years ago, but we probably found more reserves since then.

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Do you have actual numbers? This sounds rather new-age.