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A #bitcoin mining sim where #nostr users compete against each other for sats while learning about bitcoin and nostr. At least 5% of game proceeds are donated to OpenSats each epoch, with a new epoch starting every week!

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Admittedly, I really enjoyed this timely discussion with nostr:npub16le69k9hwapnjfhz89wnzkvf96z8n6r34qqwgq0sglas3tgh7v4sp9ffxj.

Danny asks great questions, with intelligent follow-up points for clarification… and does both with a chill vibe.

The What Bitcoin Did podcast is in great hands! ⚡️

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🏆 Leaderboard Update (Epoch progress: 44%)

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1 nostr:npub1k9m5lltujywlffwk6tanm8fsq8vwfqd8u78dwk4v63w4cnl08vnsml7cul (20) 168 (1,895 sats)

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Down by approx 1 million huh. I think MSTR and the ETFs account for a lot of that. Perhaps not directly, but maybe 2 or 3 degrees of separation. They are buying up and holding, and there's no btc being sent to exchanges to replace it.

🥳 Epoch 17 has now finished!

The final leaderboards are below. Congratulations 🏆 to nostr:npub1gfak3pv6x8g3sf78jfp498dlm90jp28ana7ee2tm6zpuu9uff5vqj9l6xq (block leader and donation leader) and all the other players!

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1 nostr:npub1gfak3pv6x8g3sf78jfp498dlm90jp28ana7ee2tm6zpuu9uff5vqj9l6xq (6,260) 509 (9,629 sats)

2 nostr:npub1sl5chdns2f75gdum6uaxeys2l6c322tupsr9pnqcyyur3rtxzm6q5enwpw (2,781) 253 (4,786 sats)

3 nostr:npub1k9m5lltujywlffwk6tanm8fsq8vwfqd8u78dwk4v63w4cnl08vnsml7cul (3,720) 194 (3,670 sats)

4 nostr:npub1kqsmt5ech8u2cjm620tm4ytekzgkmulvr9wa4k93hvf3jwn32gxqjxfsd8 (120) 11 (208 sats)

5 nostr:npub18jn9r45nl77ger9qgngs2hncp9az270psljddtrl4hcf646utwzsz8f66y (20) 11 (208 sats)

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1 nostr:npub1gfak3pv6x8g3sf78jfp498dlm90jp28ana7ee2tm6zpuu9uff5vqj9l6xq 507 sats (5%) 🙂

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3 nostr:npub1k9m5lltujywlffwk6tanm8fsq8vwfqd8u78dwk4v63w4cnl08vnsml7cul 193 sats (5%) 🙂

4 nostr:npub1kqsmt5ech8u2cjm620tm4ytekzgkmulvr9wa4k93hvf3jwn32gxqjxfsd8 11 sats (5%) 🙂

5 nostr:npub18jn9r45nl77ger9qgngs2hncp9az270psljddtrl4hcf646utwzsz8f66y 11 sats (5%) 🙂

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This is an interesting article: https://dba.xyz/a-bitcoin-l2-thesis/

But I have two objections.

#1: the author accuses bitcoin of having a "lack of programmability." It doesn't. Bitcoin Script is computationally universal because it has all the logic gates, and the bitvm whitepaper proved that you can get around the script size constraints by transporting state from one transaction to the next. So bitcoin script is fully programmable: anything a real computer can do, bitcoin script can do. It just requires lots of transactions (i.e. it's expensive).

#2: the author ignores the lightning network on the grounds that he wants to "mostly focus on fully programmable L2s."

But the lightning network is just as programmable as bitcoin is. A lightning transaction is just a bitcoin transaction that you haven't broadcasted yet. So you can do just as much programming therein as you can do in a "regular" bitcoin transaction, and even create a bitvm-like chain of transactions executing a complex program, all built on a lightning transaction and therefore on a layer 2.

I want to see work done in that direction.

It's funny how people that criticize Bitcoin conveniently ignore or disregard parts of it 😄

twas a mere figure of speech sir