All these treasury companies feel like a race to remove as much bitcoin from circulation, trying to make sure its used only for NgU instead od permissionless payments.

At least we will see how many billions(trillions?) stopping p2p cash is worth.

OtherStuff is much more work and requires more and higher skill sets, that's why, and you need to have a deep understanding of the topic covered. You're not competing with cute little software widgets like X or WhatsApp, but with large, complex, specialized applications like Teams or GitHub or Jira or SAP or Turbotax or Amazon.

That's why just throwing a bunch of money at whoever you think is cool doesn't get that job done. You have to find the right team for the job and they have to be willing to work on the same damn thing for years. Because developing on Nostr is inherently faster, it attracts developers who want to get done quickly, which means they usually run out of energy after a couple of weeks or months because they're easily bored.

That's why they don't test or bug-fix or straighten out the DevOps: too tedious, too slow, too boring.

Even many of the people being paid to work on this stuff full-time don't have a serious attitude about it because the serious people already have jobs writing software for serious things, like calibrating motors, planning logistics tours, or back office management.

That's why we went straight to the OtherStuff.

If nobody knows who you are and/or nobody likes you, and you have no funds or attention, you have to do the hard stuff other people won't do. It's just like IRL.

You’re absolutely right - I should have taken more care to frame my post constructively instead of letting it turn into emotional slop.

Our energy should be directed where it has the most impact, not wasted by shouting about BTC on every street corner or outside Walmart.

Next month, I’ll be meeting with a political party whose leader is deeply committed to challenging the system, but rarely targets fiat itself. I don’t think it’s out of unwillingness - I suspect it’s more a matter of not fully understanding the role fiat plays or/and not having right tools to fight it. He is also 55+ yo and most of his advisors are old.

My goal is to just slightly help redirect that firepower toward the real issue. Let’s se how it goes.

you don't think too much implementation could be more source of bugs ?

and more security concern about block rules reject conditions ?

For the "stability" of the blockchain about long term vision ?

if you think devs can be under pressure, how to make them out of any pressure ?

Anonymity like nakamoto was ?

perhaps it is one of the tips

#asknostr

True, but individuals have to want to save themselves and put in the work to understand Bitcoin. I’m skeptical there are many more like us are out there, especially in a world of growing artificial scarcity and easy dopamine hits that soak up the masses’ attention span. There may be too much friction in grokking Bitcoin

My point is the amount of nodes is still a joke and there is still a lot of good people that would do the right thing but they don’t even know what a node is.

Unless you want to create remanant community of 100 anarchocapitalist living on an island, it won’t cut it. Bitcoin won’t become a global monetary network with you and me running Knots and mining on our Bitaxes at home.

This is a terrorist (angry) post too.

Don't be so extremist.

Yes they are not perfect, but if they really want to destroy BTC they would have done it a lot more before and in the right way !

I think they experiment things that can be dangerous, but no more and not less than that.

The Pope has a math degree.

Maybe it’s a bad analogy, but I think I understand exactly what you’re saying, because on a micro scale, I’m an IT Product Manager - a kind of low-profile state representative - and I live off the work of developers and actual experts. For a long time, I couldn’t understand why such a role even exists in an organization, until I realized it’s necessary, because very often, without someone like me, people just spin like a cog without a drive belt. You cannot build big organizations and civilization without it.

I hear same arguments from communist on the other side. It would work if only X Y Z. That said - we need state. For me preferably monarchy. It’s cheap, it steals way less than democracy governments.

Anarchy would work if criminal actors like the state didn’t co-opt its efforts. Somalia pre 1991 was propped up by western aid.1991 it no longer was of strategic importance and various factions backed by cia proxies fought in a vacuum over scraps. I recommend devils chessboard to get a feel for the cia playbook. As for why anarchy is our natural state, we are self organizing creatures that naturally adopt a hierarchy based on division of labor bc it’s more productive than going at it alone. This is the basis of civilization. The state produces nothing, everything it has is stolen from individuals. It’s only a drag on civilization

Just to be on safe side this meme is a joke.

This is how the game works now.

The mempool should represent what's being mined.