saylor seems to be advocating for a hard fork that forces people to move coin.
burning those who do not comply.
this breaks the fundamental social contract and value prop of bitcoin: sovereign ownership and property rights.
it must be opposed. strongly.
https://blossom.primal.net/09bdeb018313b0eeeca3d178fb0b183bd4fb75bb29df30bb7d0dfe79d12402ed.mp4
I haven't listened to a Saylor interviews for some time now, but I feel like every interview I've watched with him he says at least one retarded thing.
Last interview I watched, he seemed to think bitcoin was centralized because developers could just merge code at will, and because of that we shouldn't support them financially, because ossification would be preferred.
He does seem to learn and change his tune, at least early on. I have mad respect for that though.
Have you been on any other podcasts recently besides this one, you can recommend?
Found it quite one sided, but it was quite enjoyable. Sometimes it feels more like noise than signal when it's two groups just disagreeing for 2 hours.
sorry, ignore what I wrote, I'm retarded.
Does he not describe a majority hash power consensus vs a minority node/user consensus? If the users does not take action, there wont be a chain split. There is no rough consensus, and their wont be a split. Am i missing something?
And the minority hash power would be economically incentivised to move to the other side to avoid being reorged. I don’t understand why we would get a split if the majority of miners are going with bip 444. Would it not require a URSF or some sort of code change from the anti 444 group to force a chain split? Am I missing something?
You say "overwhelming consensus", but by whom? If most miners chose 444, non compliant blocks would be discarded by them, and your core node would go with the longest chain, no? If that was the case you would need something like a URSF to force a split, right?
I want the tokens or a prediction market so I can see the actual consensus. Something more sybil resistant than loud twitter users/bots.
This is starting to feel a lot like the block size war, not on content, but by the type of people who support each side, and their arguments.
Back then it was.
x: bigger blocks will lower fees
y: not long term and it's a bad way to scale
x: fuck you, you want high fees.
Would be cool if you could have tokens for each side as in 2017, but I guess that's not possible when it's a soft fork that's not guaranteed to split, right?
Just shouting into the ether in hopes of someone seeing this and zaps me a few sats, so I can see if I got the wallet setup correctly.
GM folks.
I don't want to be that guy, but any chance the minimums are coming down? 100k Euro is way more than I can justify with my salary, especially because loans seem more attractive when uncertainty is higher.
The bitcoin dominance candle was pretty wild. Too bad it didn't stay that way.
True. Maybe it was because I had only been in bitcoin about a year at the time, but when the big blockers broke off from bitcoin, the signal-to-noise ratio went up a lot. But your right, probably not what you want if you want to hard-fork and you know you are the minority.
I wonder if we'll see more hard-forks in the future. It seems like we already have a hard time agreeing to activate soft-forks that are a lot less controversial. Doubt it'll be any easier in the future.
Next week is going to be interesting. Last recovery from $110k was quick, lets se if we can beat it 😃
I can't decide if I like hard-forks more. Seem like a cleaner solution. You want a braking change, or can't get a soft-fork through, make a fork, it either gains adoption and becomes bitcoin, or it dies a shitcoin.
We also canceled it last year because the price dropped a little in the middle of the month, no?
Probably also easier to dispose of because a plastic bag and some cardboard takes up less space than a hard plastic container.
The Charcoal Cut.
The Dark Degreaser.
The Big Beautiful Block.
The Charcoal Cleaner.
The Abyss Black Block.
The Black Abyss.
The Fat/Grease Saboteur Soap.
The Soulless Saboteur Soap.
The Soulless Square.
The Black Stripper.
The Diabolical Degreaser.
The Charcoal Cut.
The Dark Degreaser.
The Big Beautiful Block.
The Charcoal Cleaner.
The Abyss Black Block.
The Black Abyss.
The Fat/Grease Saboteur Soap.
The Soulless Saboteur Soap.
The Soulless Square.
The Black Stripper.
The Diabolical Degreaser.
Does this graph exist as a traditional interactive chart? I know it's used as a header on the homepage, but would like a more interactive version, but haven't been able to find it.
Your welcome!
It's a 4k monitor, hadn't actually thought about that.
If you just change the url to a new image I guess your not in control of downloading the actual image, but the browser, so I can se how that isn't that easy to change. Haven't really looked at the code. Might not be worth it.
Looks really nice. I have 2 comments though, hope you don't mind. First of all my internet is fucking slow, so the background image loads in in chunks. Waiting for the new image to download before swapping it in, would probably make it look a lot better for people with slow internet that uses it on a secondary monitor.
I also find the spacing on the blockheight numbers to be too wide on wider displays. This can make it a lot harder to read. I understand if you don't agree, this is about taste, and not a clear improvement.
holy shit. I had forgot just how bullish Odell was. nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx might need to rewatch this next time he's struggling with being humble :p
Think this might be the podcast. Could be fun to relisten, all I remember is Odell yelling "your not bullish enough" xD
But at least its security theater, so you're also no safer.
Richard Heart Sued by the Sec. The one thing that stood out the most was that he raised 1 billion dollars in three years scamming. He also used the hacked Legder database and sent email spam and phsycial spam to all the addresses promoting Hex and pulsechain. If scamming/spamming was an Olympic sport he would win a gold medal. Sec is so incompetent they allowed this to go on for three years. protected 0 investors. Wouldn't be surprised if this just ends in a big fine aka a fundraiser for the SEC. Clown show all around.
Richard came into the space talking a big game about Bitcoin only. He basically told everyone what they wanted to hear. Convinced everyone he was smart and did what he could to build trust. I believe the whole time, his plan was to release his own coin to scam people and cash in on what he was doing by becoming a figure in the space.
The lesson here is Don't Trust. Verify.
https://nostr.build/av/d2cdf9c2c2ac9901b320f50a0f4e96a8bd89d8b8ae339d9ac18f60cb5e950848.mp4
Didn't he have a livestream in the 2018 bear market literally crying because he thought he had been such a good bitcoin promoter, but the price just kept dropping, and it wasn't unfair that scammers would just make a shitcoin and be millionaires overnight ?
I don't think he had this planed out from the start, I just thing he's greedy and realized scamming people through shitcoining would be far easier and more profitable than stacking sats and staying humble.
I've found this to be a 'pretty great starting point' :p 
Started to see duplicates like this on primal recently. They seem identical and always right after each other. I don't know how nostr works behind the scene, so I have been wondering if it's been a relay issue or something like that. Happens a lot, but not every post.
Wouldn't that just give people a way to get a blue-check without KYC ? I'm sure the anti-blue-checkers wouldn't mind that.
I’ve always thought the issue was the fact that you don’t directly gain anything from donating. I think this is the reason shout-outs are a more popular option (Haven’t actually looked at the stats.)
I’ve been thinking about this idea of giving people achievements for donating x sats a minute while listening to a new episode within a week of the release.
you could then expand this x podcasts in a row, or y hours of listening (while streaming sats).
Basically, just gamifying listening and paying for podcasts. What makes this idea interesting to me is selling merch based on these achievements, so if you listened to > x% of all episodes of a podcast released in 2023, you can buy a unique t-shirt or whatever for that year, and so on.