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"Bitcoin: Yet Another SPAM attack"
Subhead 1: "Why I will never, ever be on board for Inscriptions and Ordinals"
Subhead 2: "Pro Filter"
Protect the Bitcoin Timechain from GIGO/SPAM
Outside of Bitcoin, it is all about the data for Technical Analysis, Data Scientists, Mathematicians but what is happening behind the scenes to get you the result sets? The data is so massive on the queries where you only see the output/result sets.
SPAM/JUNK/Garbage inside companies databases is a huge issue. Sometimes, because there was no foresight, the databases are crammed with Garbage. The industry knows it as GIGO - "Garbage In, Garbage Out", it was one of the worst parts of my job. Why? The Business (aka The Freds) demand Perfection and GIPO (Garbage In, Perfection Out) is impossible.
I tried and tried to tell the higher ups to add in 'edits' or 'filters' or anything to help. No one listened and we had to code around it, millions of lines of codes so the result sets were as good as we could get. Of course The Freds would say we are idiots as they spun up some stupid Pivot Table showing us what we already knew. Never helping us stop the three-headed fish at Lake Itasca and complaining where the Mississippi emptied into the Gulf of Mexico. CEOs/CIOs never listened no ROI, just live with with the noise.
With Bitcoin, we do not need to follow what FIAT has allowed in every aspect of our lives...we just need consensus.
SPAM EMAIL
Some of you don't remember the early days of email, it was awful, how much of your email was SPAM. But guess what, it still is a terrible amount but there are thankfully filters/edits in place.
"The percentage of total email traffic that is identified as spam, has consistently decreased (from 56.63% in 2017 to 48.63% in 2022)." - emailtooltester.com
Incentive: Spammers worldwide take in $200 Million a year
SPAM MAIL
"Direct mail marketing is a $10 billion industry in the US. 33% of all mail delivered worldwide is junk mail.Dec 15, 2023." - Healtheplanet.com
SPAM PHONE CALLS
Most of you don't remember landlines, before caller ID, during dinner, spam calls. We'd sometimes answer, Dad swearing. It wasn't good. Today, at least there are filters out there you setup to protect your peace of mind or time or have been pre-filtered to your pain point thresholds.
Today: Nearly 25% of all phone calls are spam or fraud.
"Fraudulent Robocalls to Cost Mobile Subscribers a Record $58 Billion Globally" - JuniperResearch.com
(See graph)
SPAM BITCOIN
Incentive: Make money off Garbage in Bitcoin
Any of you who support Ordinals or Inscriptions are supporting garbage into the data, junk, spam. At the end of the day, Bitcoin is a not so wide (columns) and not so long (rows) of data. Think Excel spreadsheet.
A Result set. It matters because this data has to propagate all over the world for Bitcoin nodes to verify, to run the Lightning Network etc. It's annoying and it needs to be ULTRA filtered out at all costs and let these SPAMMERS go back onto other blockchains where they failed. Bitcoin has never been and wasn't built to be cool or fun.
Go be cool on ADA and ETH, I heard that is where all the cool cats and frogs hang out?
People who support Spam on Bitcoin are the lowest of the low, just like the spammer/scammers on email, snail mail, and phone calls.
Bitcoin needs to do it right since FIAT world never was able to get it right. Further, Satoshi started out by going after email SPAM and it turned into Bitcoin. Let's prove Satoshi right (forced hand) by his vision of people will not (be able to) spend 1000 Sats for 1 Sat of space, as they are doing today. Today these guys are well funded by many bad actors who publicly are trying to break Bitcoin. We can shut them down, being true to Bitcoin being an open sourced Financial system and stopping attacks (aka SPAM) on Bitcoin can't be labeled as 'censorship.'
Incentive: There is money being made, by miners too but it isn't worth it for the Bitcoin Timechain Publci Open Sourced Ledger. Listen to Mechanic/Ocean.
A sucker is born every minute, there are people who think they JPG is invaluable for its permanent place in the Bitcoin Timechain. It's isn't and let's work together to simply filter out the noise from the signal. Anyone ever hear that one?
PRO FILTERS, OP_Return, smaller blocksize? Ocean, whatever it takes.
It's the future. Early days of the Internet there were millions of websites with a simple "Under Construction" message as people were developing like crazy. No different but everyone gets to still interact as the awesome developers build. I was a young developer...once. I am too old school to keep up now.
Is the Sun REALLY Going To KILL You? ☀️👀
Full Sun Documentary Out Now: https://youtu.be/uAFrDrLaso8 https://v.nostr.build/wG34O.mp4
I have spent a couple decades with cancer researchers as an advocate. One thing people know for sure is how important the sun is, especially with cancer diagnoses. The closer you get to the equator, the less cancer, other than skin.
In cold weather states, there is a high level of Lymphoma. There is a thought it is because of the lack of Vitamin D. Similar, in these cold weather states/climates, there is a higher incidence of MS too.
We humans are 60% water, could we be more plant based than we realize (we share 40-50% of our DNA with a head of cabbage.
If you follow American politics, politicians share about 90% of their DNA with cabbage.
We think we know so much, we don't have a clue, no one understands how our brains work or what the Mechanism of Action is for aspirin.
Aspirin wouldn't eve be 'approved' today because of all the rules.
We are messed up.
I am only 6'3" and it is brutal for me, but also me.
Can someone explain how a money losing social platform, formed a handful of years ago, has 5 million people on it, is being merged with a shell company for $5.7 Billion?
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/trumps-truth-social-only-5-191344189.html
Truth Social?
More like:
As a former BBS junkie, using the same Majordomo MLM as Satoshi way back when, I never thought I would have the opportunity to see something as cool as the beginning of the Internet.
I fondly remember my buddy, in those early days, as he worked for CSCO explaining things to people. Three decades later he is still there. My favorite story he told, circa 1995, AOL and Dial up was all the rage, before 56K modems.
In exasperation, to his own mother who was not understanding what the Internet was or what he did at Cisco:
Him: "Mom, we make porn go faster."
His mom: "Oh...okay."
The way he told it in person still makes me laugh. At the time, I was buying four stocks: INTC, EMC, SUN, CSCO.
INTC - Chips
EMC - Storage
SUN - Software
CSCO - Networking
I was really young, I didn't have much money but I let it all ride on these. Exactly like so many of you complaining about the old boomers buying Bitcoin or have all the money.
Guess what, back then the OLD guys were not buying those Internet stocks and they all went on to 10x for me. Whatever you are buying in Bitcoin now, you are way ahead.
In those days it was called a "10 bagger" and I was 4/4.
I invested in what I knew is all. I am grateful for NOSTR and Bitcoin.
I see the vision, I had a lot more energy back in the 1990s, before most of you were born, just keep pushing. Like I did back then and buying Bitcoin now, so in 29 years you will be the old man telling stories of the early days of Bitcoin.
Always remember the "The Starfish Story."
Respect to you all.
I just was able to witness the process last week, in NW Wisconsin. My buddy has been doing it for years. It's so much work, so much sap as you note for so little yield.
Your way of making Maple Syrup is nature's Bitcoin. Compared to the FIAT store brand versions of Maple Syrup which can legally be cut with sugar and water.
"Fountain.fm"
This is a simple note to say thank you for Fountain. I have listened to 100s of hours of podcasts on Fountain. I love it, not because I earn sats but because I love the UI/UX.
- If you walk and listen it remembers where I left off
- If you get a call you answer and when the call is done it goes back to where you left off (automatically)
- It isn't like the dreadful YouTube app where if you step off a curb it switches to another video or dreadful ad
Thank you developers, developers who have one foot in the real world.
Fountain: Open Source, low budget, fantastic
YouTube: Closed Source, Billions, lame
Generous, I will make sure to give them back to various people.
Incredible. My favorite part, it's eerie how much the actor reminds me of Schiff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAl5-lKyb5o
FIAT, around the world, will not be able to contain a growing in power, Bitcoin.
** I posted this on Xter after tapping out trying to listen to developers scream at each other. It's frustrating but we can work through this and I know i can help
Christ...this is awful. As a developer, can you guys communicate what you need? From coding to money to timing.
Without saying F*ck or R*t
ard, you all sound like complete idiots. Use your words. Like mom taught you. Maybe not dad, mom. Step back. Think. Work together. Show the world Bitcoin is not on the FIAT standard by leading by example. There needs to be a starting point.
I will start.
1) Altcoins and Ordinals need to be 'organically' pushed out, perhaps it will be fees? For now, yes, they will have the ability to trash the LAST 1.5M BTC. Who cares. Build and go forward for what Bitcoin was designed for.
2) I have high level looked into OPT-CAT, Liquid, etc. and my conclusion is the best of the best or the best of the worst is CTV. Sure, it can't do everything, who cares, we are in the Caveman (look at you guys) era of coding for the future.
3) Of course no to increase Blocksize or perhaps make it smaller
4) Of course not to increase Blocktime
5) What is the timing? If anyone puts pressure on 'this has to be done now, without being able to intelligently explain why' that is a problem.
Open Source is awesome but Good God, man, it's terrible to get consensus. Thank God Satoshi was a Lone Wolf.
But those days are over, so is trying to stop ordinals via fees and all filters, or I am wrong. Please tell me.
I want to help, in 35 years I knew of one good BA or Project Manager, but could I help organize thoughts.
It is a pipe dream to get consensus, we can't please everyone.
I am ZERO intimidated, I took on Cancer, knowing nothing. That subject was a lot tougher 27 years ago and now I can go toe to toe with any expert cancer researcher. But I am a total HACK.
Please. I just want a starting point. Can I help or is it impossible?
What if Saylor grew up in a different household, would he be more like you guys?
I LOVE IT...my grew up, dad is a journalist, he corrected me constantly. Met my wife, corrected her constantly, at first she was totally put off until I said:
"You are a teacher, you of all people should understand the one language you are using to teach the next generation of children."
(Now my daughter, 20, French major, she always says, "Me and Sam" or "Like" a million times. )
I correct her every time. But now, I am learning French and I do the Male/Female all wrong and say the French word for Like all over the place randomly.
Yeah, I am that kind of DAD/Person.
I love my life.
Not to be a total dink, but I can't find any reference to 'Grammer' being a police squad anywhere other than an obscure reference on the movie 'Airplane' that was a typo.
Yeah, I am that kind of guy, developer, who loves language and 1s and 0s. Life is binary, alive or dead.
Peace.