The bitcoin block size was increased

It will happen again

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Between Keonne Rodriguez, Changpeng Zhao, and now Roger Ver... it's been a very bad week for OG Blockchain dot info crew.

This is true, but houses are also becoming larger, at the same time that they have fewer occupants. Housing is actually getting cheaper, by square foot.

These “Bitcoiners” are more fragile than shitcoiners. Can’t imagine a world where they have a horrible take and their ego can’t handle being called out for it.

My star 💫 will only continue to rise while they are stuck in their ego chambers.

Did you ever stop and *really* think about what it means to "do a Satoshi Nakamoto"?

Context for my weird question: I have met many, many bitcoiners over the years. Many of them take a stab at keeping privacy by doing some combo of: not revealing name, not revealing location, not revealing face. Etc. So often, if I happen to meet them in person, they end up revealing the things that they were hiding online. Quite literally a mask came off (pre covid!) once we started drinking - a simple, funny anecdotal example of what I mean. Many complain about photos being taken, many focus on always using a pseudonym. I'm sure most people reading recognize these patterns of behaviour.

I can see the purpose, up to a point, so this is not criticism. It's a little like me doing coinjoin "here and there" - you don't expect to defend yourself against a hyper powerful aggressor, only against a casual criminal looking for an easy score.

But if you do want *real* defence against *strong* attackers, you have a huge problem. These half-measures will be useless, perhaps worse than that, if you get overconfident, because the determined investigator only needs *one* strand to pull on, and the measures I describe above, which are almost always rules only half-stuck to anyway, don't cut it, at all.

Which brings me to my point: is it even possible to "go all the way"? Clearly it is; Satoshi Nakamoto is not the only person who's ever done it, but it's pretty damn rare at the very least.

Imagine what it would mean. If you are engaged in a serious project, that takes let's say at least a year's worth of full time work, then you are going to do that for no reward. Not just, no money, people do that quite often when it comes to things they genuinely enjoy, but no recognition, no social context, not even "oh I won't bother you because I know you're busy with that project". Nobody will say that because nobody will know. Imagine doing a full, intense 8 hour day of work (more likely, split over many days) and knowing that there will *never* be a direct reward of any form, for that. And then doing it again, and again.

What's more, you don't just "not get a reward". You have to do almost double the work, to ensure that at every step, every pushed commit or technical discussion, does not expose anything at the network trace level, or the language, vocabulary etc. Managing tricky pseudonym accounts, handling the headaches of Tor etc. I'm not trying to say it needs super-genius level tech skills, I'm trying to say it's a massive amount of effort.

Could you do that? I daren't even ask the question of myself, because I'm almost sure it's a no. But to *imagine* where that kind of motivation would come from, that's what fascinates me.

Cheers nostr, see you all on the new nym 🫡

Yes of course. If their money transfer restrictions and ridiculous rules allow it

"Confiscation of bitcoin miners and 100x fine for their owners"

Ladies and gentlemen. This is the hell I live in. A country where property rights are meaningless. The government uses different tricks to steal people's money, confiscate their property and extort them. Mullah's dictatorship regime, which is now on the verge of acquiring a nuclear bomb. A terrible disaster in the world that you will soon hear about...

#Iran #IRGCterrorist #Persian #mullah

Thanks for your reply. Yes this is the simplest way I know of, but I guess heirs are just going to have to do some reading and hopefully resist the temptation of trusting some random coiner to help them. A foresee a lot of people in the coming years sacrificing security and sharing keys with the wrong people rather than undergoing the discomfort of learning something about how exchanges even work and how to process and broadcast partially signed transactions without making an error and sending sats into the void.

Has anyone solved the problem of secure inheritance planning for Bitcoin for the multitude of hodlers whose heirs don’t possess the technical knowledge (or the motivation to acquire it) that would permit them to initiate on chain transactions using the PINS, hardware and seed plates that get left behind? I see a lot of coins disappearing into the void in the next 3 decades. And a demand for honest consultants that won’t rug people completely or siphon funds to a degree when they’re asked to help liquidate a late hodler’s stack, or at least a portion of it for final expenses. Every time I think about my eventual end, I picture that scene from 2001 a Space Odyssey where the apes are gathered around the monolith. That’ll be my family looking at my PC, phone, hardware wallets, SD card readers and seed plates when I die.

Much in the same way you can lead a horse to water but not make it drink, the motivation to learn the basics of interacting with Bitcoin must come from within. It cannot be imposed with any hope of it being retained.

Has anyone solved the problem of secure inheritance planning for Bitcoin for the multitude of hodlers whose heirs don’t possess the technical knowledge (or the motivation to acquire it) that would permit them to initiate on chain transactions using the PINS, hardware and seed plates that get left behind? I see a lot of coins disappearing into the void in the next 3 decades. And a demand for honest consultants that won’t rug people completely or siphon funds to a degree when they’re asked to help liquidate a late hodler’s stack, or at least a portion of it for final expenses. Every time I think about my eventual end, I picture that scene from 2001 a Space Odyssey where the apes are gathered around the monolith. That’ll be my family looking at my PC, phone, hardware wallets, SD card readers and seed plates when I die.

Much in the same way you can lead a horse to water but not make it drink, the motivation to learn the basics of interacting with Bitcoin must come from within. It cannot be imposed with any hope of it being retained.

Someone recently asked if I was happy.

Sure, I'm grateful to be so privileged that I'm likely in the top 0.1% of humans with regard to quality of life.

But I'm not satisfied. I can not relax until I see the authoritarians driven before me and I delight in the lamentations of their sycophants.

How Madagascar isn't the obvious choice for Bitcoin country is beyond me?

Look at it, it's huge and has a bunch of untapped hydro about 180,000 GWh. Its got a population desperate for work and a bunch of resources and places for ports to be set up

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