Luke is an OG and arrogant enough to think he is smarter than everyone else combined. Ocean only uses it cause Luke is a founding part of the team. Most developers are not willing to burn their reputation by trying to go solo when they know almost no one will use it. But I guess they could try. They’ve decided their efforts are better spent trying to convince people through the normal process where everyone else helps ensure they aren’t making mistakes. Seems like the smart decision to me but then again I’m not a software guy, so just a simple outsider observation.

Day one for Trump is still 18days away unfortunately.

I don’t know. Maybe they have but who’s going to use it? I’d never trust my node to something other than a widely adopted, open source project with a rigorous review process. I’m a decent pilot but have zero ability to review lines of code.

Yes! 🚁😎

I think that’s accurate. Luke used to be a Core contributor. Core didn’t make some of the changes he wanted or made some changes he didn’t want so he published knots. They are not the same instance of Bitcoin software but have the same rules and both update the same shared UTXO ledger. BCH and BSV would be examples of hard forks as they no longer share the same UTXO ledger as BTC.

We hard forked that OS in 1776. No need to pay attention to the old version😂

Most people run Bitcoin Core bitcoin software and those developers have a very rigorous process to implement software updates.

Convinced when this happens people with Bitcoin are gonna be shocked that nobody is willing to accept the newly borrowed fiat for their goods and services. Spending the sats will be required.

I think of it as a soft fork maintains the original UTXO set and updated software is not needed to interact. A hard fork creates a new duplicate UTXO set and you must update your software to interact with the new fork. Consensus from the developer side determines what software updates are published and Consensus from the user side determines what chain/software you choose to interact with.

Infinite degital rebirth

💯 Your capacity for righteous violence is what determines if you’re peaceful or just harmless.

Definitely part of it. However, you can pour your life into building, but if others don’t deem your work worthy of value it’s just a personal art project.

At 30+ years with the Mrs and wouldn’t trade her for 50 bitcoin, so I guess it’s #1

It’s hard to appreciate something that you didn’t work to obtain.

With the power of the mute button you never have to see stuff you don’t like more than once.

GM & HNY to you as well 🚁😎

💯 Let freedom ring indeed!

I’ll have to put that on the 2025 goals list. Amazing I’m already a bitcoiner on nostr because for everything else, an early adopter I am not😂

I look forward to bitcoin causing the death of advertising in public spaces.

I traditions, but this year it’s ribeye.