Diet Coke.

No need to apologize. Everyone loves the insane guy. Unless he’s violent. Or a cannibal. Or worse, a woke liberal.

I’ve thought the same thing as long as I can remember, but such a change would require, you guessed it, a vote. There’s no way the entitlement class will vote away their own handouts. The best solution for people like us is to extract everything we can from the system and contribute as little as possible via the tax system. Let the state collapse under its own weight.

An “amazing trading opportunity,” she said.

No one has ever flirted with me, but I was once approached by a beautiful woman online who had a lucrative crypto investment opportunity for me. She said I was handsome. I should give her a chance.

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They voted for this. No sympathy. My only reaction to Western Europe’s self-inflicted destruction is schadenfreude. I don’t believe I’ve ever used that word before, but it’s use here seems apropos.

This is so true. I really have to examine myself daily to make sure I don’t fall into this trap.

Once the next Bitcoin Core update goes live, it’ll be a lot easier to post those types of pics in mass quantities on-chain! Looking forward to it.

Didn’t realize he called the FBI. Thought he just wanted to create a paper trail to legitimize his claim the keys were “lost” in case he were ever audited.

I’m “knot” going to dispute the power move claim, but pretty much everyone knows (well, assumes) this bit was nothing more than a “boating accident” charade on his part. Dudes like Rev. Dashing Luke Jr III don’t just lose private keys.

For me the process was reversed. The decision to skip the wife and family bit allowed me to invest in Bitcoin. Although I took the alternate path, I agree 💯 percent that Bitcoin brings hope. Without Bitcoin, I’d still be doing the daily fiat grind, which at my age (52) would’ve been a rather bleak prospect.

Honestly, that’s one of the most frustrating things about women. It’s like, why even tell me about your problem if you’re not interested in a solution?

And after a morning shower, perhaps a luxury bathroom towel — The Bath-Sheba. We offer the Absalom lowest prices. Saul good for our customers.

Is it the friends we meet along the way?

Lyn’s a macroeconomic wiz but not necessarily in a position to understand the ripple effects of these seemingly small protocol changes. Nor does he claim to be. Nor do I, for that matter.

I’m a pretty simple minded guy with only a surface level understanding of how these BTC transactions are crafted. From my perspective, I’m just asking myself, “Does this make things easier for spammers , or harder? Does it further Bitcoin’s primary purpose as money, or just it make it easier to crowd out monetary transactions with garbage? Do the people pushing the proposal receive outsized financial benefits from the change due to their own business interests?”

The only response I’ve seen so far is, “No worries. Spammers probably won’t make use of this exploit we’re introducing because, guess what, we’ve already introduced a *prior* attack vector that’s even *more* effective for supporting spam transactions.” Meh, ok. Maybe that’s true, but not exactly a compelling narrative. Why take the risk when no one is really certain what the side effects will be?

Even if turns out the change is a non-issue from a technical standpoint, if there’s enough acrimony over it to cause a split or hard fork, either on the chain itself or in terms developer mindshare, that truly is a problem. No way institutions or government agencies will want to stay onboard if there’s a debate over which branch is the real Bitcoin. I don’t think it’ll come to that, but I already see rumblings of people digging in, running alternate Bitcoin implementations, trying to poach devs from the core group, etc.

It’ll be interesting to see how it plays out.

Wait… where’s Ripple?

I wish I had some inside information on what’s going on with the Bitcoin core devs, but I’m just an outside observer reading the same stuff you are.

From what I can tell, one of the key guys trying to obsolete Bitcoin’s original mission as a medium of exchange and store of value and transform into a less capable Ethereum knockoff, is a partner in a company that promotes this garbage. It’s just greed.

I wouldn’t say it’s the end of Bitcoin, but when I see that those in control are banning dissenting opinions, deleting comments, and ramming through harmful proposals that mainstream Bitcoiners don’t want, I’d say it might be the *beginning* of the end. It’s just too soon to say.

At the end of the day, maybe it’s just inevitable that the control of money, be it fiat or Bitcoin, eventually finds its way into the hands of a small group intent on using it for their own ends at the expense of everyone else. Maybe that’s just the nature of money.

Agreed. We really need Peter Schiff and Jim Cramer in here.

There are a lot of vocal anti-Bitcoin idiots out there and typically their views are based solely on jealousy and resentment. See /r/buttcoin on Reddit, for example. Their bleak futures are inevitable and well deserved. No sympathy.

But more frequently, I encounter otherwise successful, intelligent people (sometimes VERY INTELLIGENT) who dismiss Bitcoin. Here’s a great article that explains why:

https://www.onceinaspecies.com/p/why-the-yuppie-elite-dismiss-bitcoin

Yeah, but at least he admits the kid was a victim of the “woke mind-virus.” He doesn’t endorse these types of perversions and I’m sure he’s devastated to see what’s become of his kid.