Decentralisation in Bitcoin's codebase comes from the ability of anyone to release their own reference client, that enforces the consensus rules, as they see fit.
Users are divided, at this time, over the legitimacy of 'inscription' transactions.
All Bitcoin Knots is doing, is giving users a simple way to vote with their feet.
This is the free market, in action.
If you do not agree with the consensus implementation, don't run the code.
This applies equally to all Bitcoin reference clients. Be it Core, Knots, or otherwise...
The idea in Bitcoin is that anyone is free to write and release their own reference client, implementing the consensus rules, as they see fit. It is up to the users to decide whether or not to use that client.
That's all that's happening here....
Free market operating perfectly. Make your choices. No drama.
Perhaps extend nostr:npub1sy70twa0vadtk8hjs6wt2hmfszduj04tw78ccs3ktmr9u99mfmqsj62srx 's example, by referencing attachments, in the context of email / the SMTP protocol...
Sending attachments is something the SMTP protocol supports, but emails are not obliged to contain attachments. As a matter of fact, the majority of emails probably don't include attachments...
Similarly, Nostr supports Bitcoin, as a feature, at the protocol level, but sending Bitcoin is entirely optional, and in the majority of use cases, it's probably not relevant...
I'm monitoring, to see what others post.
In the meantime, i'll kick in this one...
If I had to pick one, i'd say it ticks the quirky subculture box... albeit that the subject matter has much broader consequences...
https://fmoviesz.to/movie/death-athletic-a-dissident-architecture-51kw0/1-1
I was just thinking that Mutiny should release an SDK...
It seems like their wallet better serves as a reference implementation, while the SDK should be used to build out Lightning payment enabled apps like E2EE messengers, etc.
I believe they did the same thing in the 70's....
"In less than 10 years time, all vehicles will run on ethanol"...
The hucksters took the subsidies, and the whole thing never happened....
One aspect of electric vehicles that I don't think gets talked about enough is the amount of EMF radiation the passengers are exposed to.
I'm not sure what voltage the batteries operate at, but between the navigation systems, entertainment systems, built in hotspots, etc, most of which cannot be turned off [likely due to the fact that this connectivity is used to monitor the vehicles activity, remotely], people are driving around with the equivilant of a radio mast on their heads.
Only time will tell the long term consequences of this.
My money says it doesn't do much to help folks calm down, and make better life choices...
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On a slight tangent, if those pushing EVs are truly committed to cleaning up the envrionment, pushing innovation, etc, why are we debating a new class of vehicles which require a scarse metal ion to function (most of which is owned by China), as opposed to hydrogen powered vehicles, which run on abundant H2O? and have been a possiblity for decades now....
there's an unrecognised feedback loop here....
time spent poorly can reduce the overall availability of one's time...
time spent wisely can, in the same way, be used to extend one's available 'slice' or 'quota' of time...
this probes the notion of irreversibility, but compunds the call for maximum economisation...
It depends what sort of stuff you want to work on.
If it's the hardware side, C/Rust/C++ would probably be a good start.
If you're more interesting in building applications on top of Bitcoin, I don't think you could go wrong with Javascript or Python.
it's good to think about the people you're supporting, when you purchase a gift... e.g. craft makers, good causes, etc.
a lot of the crafty types rely on the holidays for a significant portion of their income.
if it's well enough understood that this has been a consideration, often the gift recipient will take heart in knowing that others have benefited, as a by-product of your giving.
Can y’all stop shitting on nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg for like one day and just realize that if you already have a way to stack sats and send #zaps, that the in-app purchasing, built-in wallet, and automatic #Lightning address are not for you, but rather to help onboard your friends and other newbies who have never sent or received a single satoshi in their lives, and that instant monetization for content creators is actually really awesome?
Do we want more adoption, or don’t we?
So much ingratitude, all around the world.
If you see a project and it's not for you, move on.
If you're taking time out of your day to pour unconstructive scorn on it, it might be worth examining your deeper motiviations...
just zapped the artist, direct from the embedded player, right in my nostr feed.
how cool is that.
They publish a representation of it here
https://ocean.xyz/blocktemplate
However I'm not sure whether the final block ends up being a 100% match, to what's indicated in the preview....
I would imagine, as it stands, the template is constantly changing, as higher value transactions enter the mempool... but can't say for sure.
I have a fair bit more to learn about mining myself
I might be wrong but I believe they're the first pool to pay miners out directly from the coinbase transaction, so they never actually take personal custody of the block reward. it goes directly to the miners.
[the caveat to this is miners who have earned less than a given threshold, where paying them an onchain transaction wouldn't make economic sense. my understanding is that they plan to implement lightning soon, so sub threshold payouts can happen over LN, as opposed to on chain].
beyond that, the only requirement they have to mine with them is that you provide a bitcoin address, where payouts should be sent. there's no kyc or any other personal info required.
further, they publish the block template they're working on, upfront, so miners can get a sense of what the final mined block will look like.
in contrast, with other existing pools, my understanding is that in many cases, miners can be working on a block, and have no idea what transactions are to be included in it.
so for example if a miner was strongly in opposition to ordinals, they would have no say in whether or not the work they were contributing would be used to mine (or exclude) ordinals.
[I believe the long term strategy with Ocean (and other pools that implement Stratum V2) is to give miners 100% control over which transactions are included in the block they're working on. This will be a massive win for decentralisation in mining.]
The final caveat to point out, in terms of full disclosure, is that AFAIK, Ocean is currently using Bitcoin Knots as it's reference client, as opposed to Bitcoin Core.
I'm not sure that there are any meaningful diferences between these two clients, in terms of their consensus rules, but might be something to look in to.
Some people are saying this is a bad thing, however it's equally possible to make the case that the choice to mine with Ocean is a voluntary one, and having variation in the base reference clients may actually add to decentralisation, as opposed to detract from it
sometimes it feels like China is the West's testnet...
think it was more of a self funded effort...
been a while since I watched it, but from memory the guy doing the analysis was fairly well respected.. pretty sure they put people in prison, based on his work...
here's a link to the doc
did you ever see the film where they interviewed the statement analysis guy about Madeleine Mccann ?