Protests are primarily performative. The young people in this video are the same as the BLM/Antifa/No Kings clown shows that we see today. They’re attended by a mix of astroturfed organizers, wealthy white retirees, and clueless young folk who have zero idea about how the world works.
I refuse to be guilted by the assertion that any type of participation in the adoption of Bitcoin — by individual or corporation — is bad.
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The original agorists of the 1970s would be very psyched to know that people of 2025 use open-source apps that natively handle self-sovereign digital money.
Libertarian on Earth
Anarchocapitalist on Mars
Agorist on the Internet
Feels like a solid path to me.
Just did a little sleuthing on the OP_RETURN > 83 bytes from @oomahq
's post (https://x.com/oomahq/status/1916793928025596338).
There were 30 such transactions in the ~4 month period:
8 had reasonable fees (< 2x the median for the block)
11 had around double fees
7 had around triple fees
4 had 5x-8x fees
9 were mined by F2Pool (10-11%)
21 were mined by Mara (6-7%)
So in general, the OP_RETURN filter means the non-standard transactions were on average paying a good deal more than normal transactions to get into a block. And since only about 18% of the hashing power seems to mine them, they had to wait 5-6x longer to confirm.
If the point of filters is to make spamming cumbersome and costly, I'd say that they're doing their job. TX IDs in the first comment so you can look for yourself.
Are you sure they paid extra fees in order to get into the block vs it being down to sub-optimal fee estimation?
I mostly detest the TV show Black Mirror these days because it’s so relentlessly cynical about the tech industry, but occasionally I’m reminded that they are inspired by real world dystopian shit like Worldcoin. 😔
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I think that’s a fake account for PeterMcC.
Should be nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx
Everyone is catching up on their podcasts today and smash buying.
Antoine addressed this at btc++. Not sure if it was recorded but I’ll try to dig it up.
My recollection of what he said:
He had a discussion with one of the jpegoors at a recent conference, was shocked at the extent to which the protocol was being abused to store data in the utxo set and came to the conclusion that a) core and spammers need more open communication lines and b) removing the limit was a concrete step that could be taken now.
It’s kinda orthogonal I think - you would want human readable names which couldn’t come from elliptic curve keys. So the question is how do you come up with these names and do so in a way that aligns incentives during growth of the network? Bitcoin didn’t have to deal with this type of challenge.
Mining as it relates to asics is about generating SHA256 hashes, so I don’t think they would be repurposable for generating vanity keys.
Centralized systems do seem to provide a variety of extra ways to monetize the product. I think Microsoft struggled to monetize Skype when it was a p2p architecture and moved to a more centralized architecture at least partially for that reason.
If your contention is that because the bulk of this money goes to specific areas of the university, the letter should say it’s only those labs that should adopt the specified policies (and fix the overly broad mask thing), then I can only conclude you’re not debating in good faith and we’re done here.
They *are* free to do so.
The government is saying if they want to get tax payer money, they need to do a better job of providing access to jobs and education for tax payers of all colors and creeds.
Nobody is demanding them to improve that, though adhering to the requests for more balanced hiring practices will no doubt improve the quality of their humanities courses.
Again, the letter is about their objective failure to provide a top-class education to America’s best and brightest, irrespective of their race, religious beliefs or background.
So what specifically is the issue beyond masks?
Specifically, what?
Aside from the mask one which is overly specific, I see one other that I’d change.
This is about federal funding to a university that is there to provide a top class education to the country’s best. They are objectively failing in that regard and should be responsible for some level of qualification for that federal funding, right?
That's fine, but that is not what the gov is asking. One of the mandates is a ban on ALL masks on campus. Which means nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg will never be able to attend Harvard.
Is that your main issue with what the letter is requesting?
If they changed it to say that N95 masks should be the only permitted type of mask, would you then have any issue with the letter?
It’s effectively a rating system that indicates the number of bureaucrats, lobbyists and politicians involved in bringing the product to market and getting a piece of the action.
An understanding and expectation of societal rewiring.
LOL.
The devil is in the details on the ICANN replacement. E.g. how to mine names, stop hoarders and squatters and probably tons of other stuff.
Handshake already tried a lot of this and failed, but Nostr provides some nice bedrock for another attempt, maybe.
A collaborative multisig based replacement for ICANN would be awesome.