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When the label woke is applied to everything it loses its meaning. More honest reporting would use the words disgusting or gross.

Fairy dust. Logical qubits are too noisy to be any use and we need too many physical qubits and the insane cooling capacity at scale to make them work…and even then the error correction is significant. Even if we get all those problems solved the only real threat is to old P2PK addresses which would be potentially devastating to the price but not to the system, unless quantum can crack private keys faster than 10 minutes.

No one should be panicking over this.

Trump uses his first veto of his second term to fuck over a bunch of rural trump supporters to stop a completely non controversial bill. MAGA is learning the hard way. Wonder if the bitcoiners will stop calling him the first bitcoin president and start being accurate. #shitcoin president.

While Keonne and Bill rot in jail it really makes you wonder how bitcoiners who have seen so much so clearly could be taken in by this grifter.

When people getting mad about fraud in Minnesota ask them how they feel about Philip Esformes not being in jail.

It comes in waves. I have only noticed my wife stressed by our children as they have become teenagers. I don’t think a human disconnected from external reality is in a good place.

I don’t think you can conclusively prove anything from a clickbait video. If you can’t recognize propaganda because you want to agree with the team it is supporting you are also part of the problem. There is a lot of trust me bro and ranting in this production. This all smells like a ploy to get my pillow guy a shot at the governorship.

Some one needs to tell him that you never sell bitcoin.

So trump is a ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ . Good to know.

Yes. Here is the package insert for Pfizer https://www.fda.gov/media/151707/download the safety data is on pages 6-21. It’s all the same trials they just separate the data because efficacy and safety are concerned with different data points.

Later package inserts got updated safety data once they learned about further risks for specific populations.

My point was there are no specific safety trials because they measure effectiveness and safety concurrently. How would a safety specific trial differ from the current standard?

I don’t agree with forcing anything on anyone. I’m simply pointing out that the studies are double blind placebo whereas the evidence for harm comes from retrospective analysis of alleged harm.

Why would they run separate trials for safety and efficacy when the same trial can test both? A vaccine that is effective at preventing a disease by rendering the patient dead is of no use. Likewise an injection of something that is completely safe but offers no protection from a disease is a waste of time. Testing for safety and effectiveness is how vaccine studies are designed.

Now there are always ethical questions with any double blind placebo test. A child injected with a dangerous vaccine dies and everyone loses their mind…likewise the placebo child dies of polio but the neighbors kid gets the safe effective test and lives. Sometimes to advance you have to make some hard choices.

This is inaccurate. The Pfizer Covid vaccines underwent a fairly large double blind placebo controlled trial. The original polio vaccine was a massive trial where the control group got saline and got sick/died and the vaccinated group did not.

The irony of this comment is that the studies of vaccine injury are always retrospectives. There are no double blind placebo controlled studies that the antivaxers can use to prove injury or lack of effectiveness or secret 5g brain control or whatever.

You can’t remove all vectors to pollute the utxo set without removing all the functionality that makes level 2 scaling possible. That’s the point of having a garbage can like feature in the form of op_return.

The issue of course is that you cannot stop arbitrary data and op_return was put in place to provide a printable place to put arbitrary data vs having it pollute the utxo set. Locking down the system to remove all vectors of injecting data would remove nearly all functionality of Bitcoin beyond the most basic uses and doom the scalability of the system. It will be freedom money for the few and relegate it to the same fate of the gold standard if it even makes it that far.

The best way to make sure bitcoin is used as money and not arbitrary data is to use it as money.

This is a break down of why you shouldn’t run software that one dude with bad security practices pushes out.

Your book is on my list(takes me awhile to get to non audio books these days unfortunately) I think the moral arguments that favor bitcoin as an anti slavery technology vs the fiat system is a very powerful one. It is inherently beyond politics which is important in the current climate. The rise of the Bitcoin philosophers is a development that I have been happy to see.

Sorry may have got my end times nuttery mixed up, it’s been a minutes since I was in those texts. Newton “calculated” 2060, in his 1733 “Observations Upon the Prophesies of Daniel” so we still have time to get right with god.

The main point still stands. Religious nuttery is a waste of time and we are all poorer for it when one of the greatest minds in history spends more of his life chasing after delusions than in the pursuit of scientific and mathematics discovery.

Cope harder. I have no idea who you are, but if you had anything to do with all this “winning” please stop.

I assume they thought at the very least they would get some developer protections. As far as I can tell we are getting surveillance and shitcoins. It’s worse than nothing.

My #bitcoin journey began embarrassingly a long time ago. As a very online person and somewhat advanced in years, I was a lurker on the early Bitcoin talk forum. I was at the time fairly non technical. I tried to get mining to work but as I had just figure out how to install Linux it was beyond me. I promptly ignore it for a couple more years. During this time I felt the cognitive dissonance of the idea of bitcoin and my reality the entire time. I was actively a bit upset that Bitcoin existed, it’s hard to explain but I was weirdly angry.

In about 2013 or 14 I got interested again and was a regular on the Bitcoin subreddit. The only smart thing I did during that time was to take a 0.1467 bitcoin tip I received and send it to cold storage. It was the only tip I managed to save from that period and it’s pretty insane when I think about the wealth I left on that account. Every other action I took during that period resulted in less bitcoin today.

I made countless other mistakes with trading, key management, exchange hacks, and eventually shitcoin buying. But since I still have the private keys to that Reddit tip I stashed away I’m not a complete idiot.

I have since transitioned my entire world view to a bitcoin standard. Sadly it took me far too long. I am playing catch up.

Now I DCA weekly via strike and am building my self custody stash. When I exit the fiat system entirely I hope it’s because I am spending my days pushing Bitcoin forward in a meaningful way.

I’m living a nice and wholesome life

I wake up every morning without setting any alarm and do what I love all day long

But I’m still pissed off that I joined a revolution that never happened

Everything we used to say that would happen with Bitcoin went down the drain

Now it’s a stonk, just an instrument to speculate on in hopes of making more US dollars

It didn’t progress towards becoming a currency that competes with the dollar

It didn’t progress technically to encourage freedom fighters around the world to use it

Outside of making more dollars, there’s nothing that it does that other networks do better

It doesn’t have a killer use case anymore

The user experience sucks compared to fintech

All we have is hope that the ship will eventually turn around

But even the OGs who joined for ideological reasons seem to be selling

So who remains to defend the principles of the early days?

Who will still want to end the Fed when the Fed is making you more US dollars?

I don’t even see my friends around anymore, they either turned into insufferable suits or else they left the space

It’s depressing, really. This is not what many of us signed up for and I feel deceived

I spent nearly a decade promoting Bitcoin as freedom tech, but now the FBI is allegedly happier when their targets use bitcoin instead of cash (as suggested by Peter Thiel)

I feel sorry for some of the people I onboarded, who used custodial Lightning wallets that probably rugged them

I sometimes feel like a fraud who pushed false advertisement

But ultimately, I wish more bitcoiners demanded a change. Anything that lets developers build cool stuff and new use cases.

CTV, CAT, BIP300, I don’t even care at this point. Just push the boundaries, make Bitcoin technologically exciting again.

The bankers might fuck us, the old cypherpunks might sell out, but at least give the rest of us some cool toys to play with.

But no, “there’s no consensus”

Fuxking bullshit

Feature bloat is not how you make an unstoppable financial base layer. This all smells like sour grapes.