It is not only your right as an American citizen to mistrust your government, but your obligation and solemn duty.

youtube algo crushes you if you do not enable their ads

pretty fucked up, we should fix that

Currently, my plan is to choose the opposite of whichever side Voorhees and shitcoiner friends choose.

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 31% of IRS tax auditors quit following DOGE downsizing.

Not having the tech to mine more gold isn’t real scarcity, it’s just a temporary limitation. the gold is still out there. it’s just sitting in places we can’t reach yet. that’s not finite, that’s delayed extraction. true scarcity means unreachable forever, like bitcoin’s hard cap.

So long as the money printer exists I'm afraid that's a losing bargain.

This is our best shot on goal at getting the Feds to dismiss the samourai case entirely.

Blatantly illegal behavior from Biden’s DOJ.

Share this as widely as you can and let’s get the social pressure up so we can get the current admin to do the right thing and drop the case.

Let this sink in guys .....

The pitch 🗣️ 👇

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#Bitcoin #dca #hodl #sats #stacksats #soundmoney #stayhumble #btc #zaps #zap #chart #nostr

I'll zap 1000 sats to anyone who gives me ONE reason/argument as to why we still can't have #bitcoin Core (or any other node implementation) on our phones in 2025.

🔹Smartphones are far more powerful than Raspberry Pi's or old laptops.

🔹Many of us already have cheap, unlimited 5G data plan and bandwidth.

🔹A 10GB pruned node is enough for 99.99% of people. You don't need all the block data from the past 15 years...

🔹Initial syncing speeds can already be dramatically increased with snapshots of pre-synced timechain data (see jaonoctus project).

🔹The node doesn't need to be always online, just when you're moving uxtos, it can quickly sync to the latest block, so battery is not an issue.

Can we go back to worrying about NGU … ?

Im annoyed AF right now. 100+ days since the ATH and even that was kinda late and pathetic based on historical standards.

Exponential means exponential. Not linear. Not diminishing returns.

How non-negotiable is the 21 million hard cap?

nostr:note1edjhrl5x80eghwwjf485zp9m8f0cn6try0xhrg937twyqumtcw9qctrd7k

now do we infiltrate X by sharing links to many different nostr follow packs?

Convert the 7% left into #bitcoin

Stack your Sats

GM. ☀️ A little mower maintenance... I'd say she's just a bit rich huh?

No way in hell you're building generational wealth being a pessimist.

Don't be naive, be a brutal realist, but for goodness sake carve out a thrilling vision for your future.

#RulesForReset

The older i get, the simpler i wish my life to be. I want for nothing . I actually just want to stack sats, love my family and walk my new dog. I don’t do social media so my life is very chilled and normal

Any younger folk, I recommend the above. Life is simple, we make it complicated. Take a step back, feel grateful for your health, use critical thinking and connect with life. Nature is everything, if you still your mind you will find all answers.

….. and Stack sats 🤙

GM,

It's 639am UK time, and I didn't sleep much last night. I got up to write this, then I'm going back to bed, I still won't sleep much.

First of all, thank you Will, for all you do, both on Core and on NOSTR. I don't do much myself, but I have done my fair share to change the world in my life. I am mostly a passenger now, but I promise I have earned my position at the top table for oversight of the world as it changes.

Once again, I deeply respect and admire you and everything you do.

My understanding of your statement is you can do this anyway via another method, so what’s the problem allowing this to happen via OP_RETURN.

This is bad, please allow me to set out my stall.

I don’t want to store cat JPEGs or inscribed love letters on my nodes. Bitcoin is a financial transaction system, that is all. I appreciate it has always been possible to inscribe data on the blockchain from the genesis blocks “Banks on Brink of second collapse” to Len Sassaman’s ASCII art image.

But taproot, in an effort to optimise storage and move closer towards a Turing complete engine by creating and combining scripts within Merkle trees, gave an unintended consequence. Cat JPEGs stored natively on the blockchain.

This exists, we can’t stop it, many parties, including miners and NFT artists want this. I don’t. Let Ethereum have the monopoly on cat JPEGs, I’m not looking to compete with Ethereum. That is my 3 - 5 votes out of 20,000+ active nodes at any time.

So, we are here, we have cat JPEGs and we have love poems stored on the blockchain, so allowing love poems in the OP_RETURN doesn’t matter because we can do this anyway.

I disagree. For me we need to be making it harder to store cat JPEGs and love poems, not easier and continue to do this granularly until it is eliminated. That is the direction I want to head in.

So my question is, what can’t we do with the blockchain that we would be able to do with an unrestricted OP_RETURN. If you don’t know the answer, that’s fine, just because you’re a core developer doesn’t give you the ability to read somebody else’s mind.

The other argument I’ve seen from Lopp is that he has a lot of Bitcoin and not much shareholding in Citrea, the company pushing for this change. Why would he damage his Bitcoin for such a small company.

This argument also, doesn’t hold water. Nobody expected Taproot would allow anybody to store cat JPEGs, the unintended consequences of change is always there.

I am in no way a developer, but I did code back in the 1980’s to early 90’s. I built, ran and maintained a Hungarian mainframe called a VT6000 based on Bull Mitre architecture for our global public electronics company, “Densitron”, which my father founded and still exists today inside one of my other companies.

The machine ran MMT2 O/S and COBOL compiler. I was one of two people extending the functionality of a global accounting, stock control and ordering system called RelAcs (Real Time Accounting System). My colleague, a Hungarian called Charlie Lugosi was highly skilled, way beyond my limited abilities. We both broke the system in every conceivable way countless times trying to improve or maintain either the machines micro-code, the OS or the applications.The machine had 2 x 300MB CDC disks, 1MB RAM and a 2MB cache. It supported up to 16 dumb terminals.

By comparison, modern code like Bitcoin is unimaginably more complex, but the principles still apply. You never fully understand the consequences of a change until it is in production and being used in the real world.

Jameson Lopp would absolutely break Bitcoin if it benefitted him, somebody broke Bitcoin to allow cat JPEGs, probably unintentionally. Somebody let a virus out of a lab in China, probably unintentionally.

Unless there is a very good reason to reduce the restriction on OP_RETURN size, then we don’t do it, because nobody knows what the consequences of this is, and Bitcoin core developers have no special insights that non core devs don’t. And Bitcoin code, by nature is very conservative. Which is why Taproot caused more problems than it fixed.

As a core developer, if you are now involving yourself directly. If you don’t know “why” we want to remove the OP_RETURN limit, you should be finding out, not discussing “well it’s broken anyway, what harm can it do” with idiots like me.

I am a voter and a customer and a user of your Core software, I can vote with my node and give my "free" business to other Bitcoin suppliers like Knots. I and my colleagues are who you are working for, albeit selflessly and unpaid. I am the one you are your core colleagues are accountable to.

If you are fully open and honest with us, you have our respect, support and admiration, if you treat us like we don't matter, we all leave and you are left in an empty ivory tower.

Most of us are here because we see the problems with legacy social networks and are eager for change. So much so that we're building this future ourselves. The road ahead is uncertain and won’t be easy, but we’ll get there. It will take many different opinions and fresh ideas to succeed. These conversations are essential for Nostr. Keep them going.