I would also recommend:

Go spam on another chain. Bitcoin is money, not a digital scrap book.

You should also hear your community when they tell you they don't support Core v30. Who do you think uses hardware wallets? Node runners, just in case. The ones moving the scale to Knots being at 21% of the network. If Blockstream is going to be running Core v30 and facilitating spam? If so, I will retract all my support. I will no longer recommend the jade when on boarding new bitcoiners to self-custody.

On the latest episode of "What Bitcoin Did" nostr:npub16le69k9hwapnjfhz89wnzkvf96z8n6r34qqwgq0sglas3tgh7v4sp9ffxj had Pete Rizzo and they touched on the Knots movement. Pete is either completely missing the real argument of the Knots camp or he is being obtuse and incoherent on purpose to straw man and downplay. Knots is a monetary maximalist movement. We do not want to relay non-monetary data. All monetary data is valid. We are not looking to censor monetary data. We ARE looking to censor non-monetary data. Core is looking to facilitate non-monetary data. Knots wants bitcoin to grow based on its monetary properties and function ONLY and not with a fiat mindset of let's do whatever we need to do to accelerate our "number go up" technology. Knots is willing to be patient and methodical to get to hyperbiconization in the right way. Bitcoin needs stewards. Bitcoin is not a divine entity that just "IS". Bitcoin is a tool, a great feat of civilization but nonetheless still a creation of humanity and therefor it needs human guidance.

Yea, yea, everyday. Please focus on the regulatory attack on privacy from the Trump admin to bitcoin self-custody, as well as the Core Spam attack on bitcoin. These things are more important than number go up in a captured system.

I think the battle is lost with KYC. KYC is only forced when you exchange fiat for bitcoin. If you only earn and spend in bitcoin in self-custody the privacy fight gets a big boost back. There is still the question of being able to track you once your address is pinpointed but that is where features like coinjoin becomes very useful. I think that creating the circular economy, never touching fiat, will help a lot. And all this that is happening might be the awakening moment we all need to actually start using bitcoin and only bitcoin as much as possible.

Yeah. A lot of the arguments from Core apologist are very reminiscent of Covid era elite logic. "Shut up and take the jab as the experts tell you too" = "Shut up and run Core as the experts tell you too".

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nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a Don't know if you have heard the CSAM argument against the filter elimination that is been discussed. Curious to know if this change your mind on the subject?

The v30+ Core update allowing 100k of arbitrary data would essentially permit imagery and low quality video/audio to be uploaded to mempools and mined in a block. This data could be something immoral and illegal, like explicit child sexual abuse material (CSAM). This would effectively turn every node and every node runner into a holder of illegal material and the network itself too, if it ever gets mined. This would eliminate and de-incentivize people from running nodes. Less nodes, less decentralization. One of the fundamental tenants of Bitcoin is destroyed at worst, greatly inhibited at best.

This would give governments a clear and clean line of attack to Bitcoin, one that becomes very difficult to morally and socially defend in the eye of the public. A line of attack that I consider to have the potential to be lethal to Bitcoin.

Interested in your thoughts.

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Haha. Touché. Great way of putting it.

Never saw it this way but it does track. Interesting viewpoint.

Agree to some extent. Adam's comments/perspective might be the push I needed to switch to Coldcard from the Jade as my goto.

nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak had an episode a few months ago where he and Saylor discussed equity being the future of investment in a bitcoin-based economy instead of the credit-based system we have now. Saylor went bananas basically but to me it makes perfect sense. We now have an asset that can measure the equity value gained by an investment, why would I go into debt when I now have the same mechanism of value aggregation available in an equity-based asset?

Correction. Everyone is buying paper bitcoin.

Yes, because all of a sudden he is an expert on it.

I see a lot of people forgetting this.

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I feel like you guys lost your way and all you do is talk about NGU. No real substance like before, no ethos of the bitcoin core. Just noise. Can you all revert back to the content I started to follow you for?

Not of they keep papering over it.

Yeah, but people are missing that stable coins are just a different take on CBDCs.

White Tailed Deer. Would love to work my way up to Elk. What about you?

On my journey to self-sufficiency, I am learning how to hunt. Last Winter was my first experience hunting, in general for the first time ever, on private land with a mentor. But I don't want to rely on people to be able to practice and learn or outright be able to hunt at all. I decided to try and hunt on public land this upcoming season. Yesterday was my first scouting trial run and I happen to encounter a very busy corridor in the woods used by deer, hogs and bears.

I am scouting in summer and planning on hunting in fall/winter, so the environment will be different and so will be the location and behavior of my prey. But I thoroughly enjoyed the thrill of being able to apply everything I have been learning through the internet in relation to tracking. This trip de-mystified the whole tracking thing. Also, being alone in the woods, off pre-made trials, was extremely refreshing and exciting. Even though I am physically exhausted, I find myself emotionally recharged (yes, I am an introvert at my core).

Planning on another scouting trip in 3-4 weeks or so.

Anything that gives people more sovereignty is always the righteous path.

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