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Given devs who don’t know Luke, why wouldn’t they work with him?

No developers would work under luke. People posting here have obviously not been around that long or know who they are supporting

I’ve mentioned multiple times that Luke as solo maintainer is not ideal and would be great if more developers joined the review process. Developers like yourself are basically saying they know best and ignore valid criticism, this is why node runners are opting to run knots in droves. Your argument that a miner api would pop shows that the OP_RETURN limit is doing its job. All miners would have to opt into this API and then the hashers will decide where to point their hash and can boycott miners who accept spam transactions. Forcing preferences are bound to fail.

I’ve mentioned multiple times that Luke as solo maintainer is not ideal and would be great if more developers joined the review process. Developers like yourself are basically saying they know best and ignore valid criticism, this is why node runners are opting to run knots in droves. Your argument that a miner api would pop shows that the OP_RETURN limit is doing its job. All miners would have to opt into this API and then the hashers will decide where to point their hash and can boycott miners who accept spam transactions. Forcing preferences are bound to fail.

running knots will literally do nothing different. even if everyone was running knots, if you really wanted to get around tx censorship you would just use miner apis instead of knots p2p. They would be incentivized to do this if it earned them more fees.

Once his client has total control, he would be able to hardfork at will: make smaller blocks, censor all data transactions. You could argue this is a good thing if you were short sighted. In reality it would mean bitcoin is whatever luke thinks bitcoin should be. he would rule bitcoin with total control.

This is why we have a review process in core… who thinks luke ruling bitcoin is a good thing?

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I caught a cold in May.

How the hell do you catch a cold in May?

Rising political populism is an immune response to structural imbalances.

Many people think this trade war just happened out of nowhere. There's some truth to that, meaning that Trump didn't have to engage in it in the way he did. But you have to look back several steps to get a bigger picture.

The way the dollar reserve currency system is structured, the world needs an ever-growing number of dollars, and the US supplies those dollars via a permanent trade deficit. Those two aspects are joined at the hip. This hollows out the US industrial base, and hurts some regions (e.g. the Midwest) and helps others (e.g. NYC and DC).

Eventually those cumulative imbalances get so big, combined with other imbalances as well, that political realignments shift in generationally important ways. The "blue wall", referring to the northern part of the Midwest that's at the center of the rust belt and historically voted Democrat, has shifted Republican or otherwise become more mixed. The trade deficit and other imbalances have become front and center.

Establishment-type folks are going to keep being blindsided by this type of thing as long as the imbalances persist. They're going to keep pointing to one-time phenomenon, like one specific election, or one specific person, but really it's the underlying imbalance that's at the heart of it.

There’s something that’s been bothering me for a while.

To some 'Bitcoiners', I’m not 'Bitcoin' enough as if that’s even a real thing. Like being called progressive or feminist is supposed to be an insult. LOL.

And then every time I go back in my hometown, like last night, I get called a conspiracy theorist. Even for talking about the most basic bitcoin stuff (like the fact that dollars is not pegged by gold) 😭 and this happens a looot even on my social media

The truth is that nothing messes with your head like realizing that EVERYTHING you’ve been told about one of the most fundamental things (money) was wrong… and THEN suddenly finding yourself surrounded by people who also question the moon landing and whether sunscreen is even useful 🥲

But let me tell you something.

And I’m saying this to myself too. It’s fine. It’s all fine.

People are always trying to put you in a box. You’re either woke or delusional, feminist or comunist, sheep or lunatic. The financial system is a huge scam yes, but I don't question literally everything else. I drink wine and eat carbs on a daily basic and fuck yeah. The truth is, I live in the middle. And I’m OK with that. I absolutely love my life the way it i.

Being in the middle is what makes me human. It’s what allows me to see nuance. It’s what makes life richer, messier, and full of meaning. Also, I'm surrounded be so many and SO DIFFERENT people, I could never close myself up in my own world or diet.

I don't know in which point you are in this bitcoin journey but don’t be afraid to stand in between. Between two fires, two colors, two truths. Because that’s exactly where things start to make sense.

we reject gatekeepers.

we defy borders, hierarchies, and middlemen.

code is our passport. access is our right.

permissionless technologies defend freedoms.

they scale trust without institutions.

they enable action without approval.

no one asks to speak.

no one begs to build.

no one waits to change.

we build systems that can't be shut down.

we create tools that serve all, not the few.

we write code that liberates, not controls.

this is not just infrastructure.

it’s a revolution—

silent, sovereign, unstoppable.

we don’t ask.

we deploy.

While I have nothing against short fiction, the reason I’m not drawn to it is that I want to get to know the characters. That takes time.

My sweet spot tends to be a long stand-alone novel or a duology/trilogy.

When you go longer than that, into some epic series, I’m skeptical. By default I view it as someone writing for a career rather than to tell their optimal story, with *very* limited exceptions.

Imagine a world where emotions manifest as physical, collectible objects. If you could trade your most embarrassing memory for someone else's most profound moment of joy, what would the resulting black market look like, and what would be the most sought-after emotional commodities?

Land is not fungible.

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Fuck off with this trash