😂😂

Yeah, that’s how I connect my Core to my Sparrow - through setting up the Electrum server.

That was not what I actually meant. I meant, it would have been a good idea for Sparrow to include Knots nodes as its public nodes. That was the point of my feature request.

I actually don't. I find him honestly ignorant. He's a great Austrian and he has practiced what he's preached. He was wrong on Bitcoin, but even that he's fixing.

Hate to break it to you, but he's just a commie. I'm not optimistic anything good comes out of his presidency.

He can very well try. But nothing can stop me from making a lightning transaction for a cup of coffee.

I didn't find it as such. It came off as he always wanted to say it at his face and he finally did. What's more, Peter is not poor at all. I'd cojecture to say that he might be way wealthier than Saif himself - and he might remain as such, cause now he has Bitcoin in his portfolio, of course, along with some other shitcoins.

Inviting Peter to the Bitcoin conf was a wrong move from the beginning and what contributed to the shit-show atmosphere of the catasrophe this conf was. Why invite him in the first place? It's a fucking Bitcoin conf. Not a place to gather celebs and politicians.

Open discussion is what sets us apart from the legacy social media users.

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Well, it doesn't mean he can now retire and go back to being an asshole.

Hi Mike,

Appreciate your comment. Here are the answers I have for your questions:

1. These are the reasons in favor of removing OP_RETURN:

a) It avoids endless debates over byte limits (120, 200, etc.), letting devs focus on more critical improvements.

b) It simplifies the codebase.

c) It reduces incentives for out-of-band miner payments for non-relayed transactions, promoting a more transparent network.

2. I don’t support a single-node implementation approach. While I agree with removing the OP_RETURN cap, anyone can choose to stay on an older version, switch to Knots, or re-enable the function in v30, since it’s gonna be only marked as deprecated, not removed.

That said, I haven’t fully weighed the coordination trade-offs of using different implementations, especially in the context of a UASF. For now, I’m simply stating that I plan to upgrade (only months after the release, not immediately). I'm not advocating that everyone should upgrade.

3. If there were strong technical reasons against this change, Core devs likely would’ve pushed back (based on the environment I know now, as I find most of them honest). The lack of convincing arguments to keep the limit justified the move. Again, migration or opting out of the upgrade is a valid stance for those who disagree. That's what I would have done if I was still in favor of keeping the limit and if Core ever implements something I strongly oppose—like hypothetical tail emissions proposed by our boy Peter Todd —I’d either stop upgrading or switch implementations.

4. I generally disagree with their approach and share your view—they often come off as elitist, which I find abhorrent. I do not vouch for their behavior. I just happen to be in favor of a change they are in favor of too.

Lastly, your point about Ocean is worth pondering. I haven’t dug deep enough to understand how they differ from other miners, and I’m skeptical of their marketing for now. From what I have learned so far, there is no guarantee they can fulfill their mining decentralization claims. But this is a point I'll keep an open mind to.

That motherfucker deserved it though 😂

Exactly!

Isn’t it incredible that our friends in Silicon Valley have found out that the emotions that divide us the most are what keep our eyeballs on the screen?

Dunno really. If they remove capital gains tax on Bitcoin, then that would be something. But am not very optimistic with these fuckers.

Oh, I see. What I am highly critical of when it comes to Todd is his advocacy for tail emissions.

I can say my culture and his have something in common. We have a respect for people who are older than us, even if we consider them wrong. It’s incredible to see he hasn’t got a shred of those traits in him.

Exactly! Peter Schiff is not poor and he’s not gonna die poor I’d say.

HFSP doesn’t sound like an argument to me and laughing at a fellow Austrian’s face and ridiculing them doesn’t help your arguments.

Yeah man. We created an episode then (though in Persian). We were like “you have tried to find the most unlikely candidate for being Satoshi and have introduced him as Satoshi!”

That was our main criticism, though I really don’t care he is and despite the fact that I used to voice my opinion on who he might be, I refrain from doing so anymore, as I don’t see it productive.

I think it was an HBO series though. Before I invested any time in watching, they proved they’re just full of it and saved my time :)))

Todd has really some nasty, unpopular opinions that makes me even think if he has even understood Bitcoin.

Though I can understand his reasoning for his PR and quote one of his demonstrations, naturally it doesn’t mean I agree with whatever comes out of his mouth and boy, has he got a mouth on him!

Sadly, true … And it doesn’t look good.

I have a lot of respect for Saifedean. I genuinely owe him for single-handedly orange pilling me.

But what I do NOT appreciate is his abrasive attitude.

He’s incredibly knowledgeable and presents strong arguments—but what he seems to take the most pride in is ridiculing Peter Schiff and saying “HFSP” at his face!

Maybe it feeds his ego. Maybe it’s entertaining. But it does nothing to help onboard more people to Bitcoin.

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