This post is a mess of "I spoke with confidence so you must believe me no matter how clear it is I didn't think at all"

Have you considered being a politician? I think you'd be perfect for the role.

Block size and block rate were unaffected by the proposed change to op_return. That means blockchain size is also unaffected.

There was never a way Bitcoin wins where blocks aren't basically always full.

I think JPEGs on the timechain are stupid.

But the idea that they're going to hurt Bitcoin seems so weak to me. Like the US dollar can withstand people scribbling on it but Bitcoin can't?

In fact, the idea of Bitcoin as a glorious digital monument with some graffiti scribbled on it represents humanity pretty well. That's kind of us in a nutshell. Seems on-brand. Perfectionists trying to keep their little gardens tidy while trolls come in and find ways to mess with them anyway.

NFTs and memecoins already had their peak fad moments. People now know that they're non-scarce gambling toys rather than investments. It's just echoes of that peak now. The only thing that concerned me about the ordinals/runes period was the rapid UTXO bloat, not the blockspace usage, since the latter already has a consensus limit on it.

And if Bitcoin transactions can't outprice JPEGs in the long run, then it's just not that valuable. Bitcoin currently does about 1% of the gross settlement volume of Fedwire. That's peanuts. Imagine if it reaches a point where it does even like 10% of Fedwire. What would you pay to move a full bitcoin globally, permissionlessly, in 10 minutes, in a world where it's no longer a niche thing?

I just tried to #zap 4 different people who requested a zap test and not a single one worked (i use muun wallet). Everyone had a wrong adress in their linked zap wallet - still a long way to go :/

Can someone help?

- downloaded #muun wallet

- loaded it up with #sats

- tried to #zap 5 different people

- i get error messages every single time (like wrong adress). It‘s clearly a problem on my end, but i dont know how to fix it.

Any guesses?

#help

Sent ⚡️⚡️

Does not work. Try installing Wallet of Satoshi and then connect that lightning address ⚡️

Does not work. Try installing Wallet of Satoshi and then connect that lightning address ⚡️

Who wants #zap ?⚡️⚡️⚡️🤙

#bitcoin #nostr