Dear Peter. Can you please explain to me how Ukraine can defeat Russia? Why it's not clear to me... in 3 years of war it is estimated that he lost a million soldiers. He lost all the territories he wanted to defend. Crimea, Donbass and even the invasion of Kursk went wrong. All this with the help of all the countries of NATO included the United States that have provided him with intelligence coverage, weapons of all kinds and financing of billions of dollars. Putin won this war with his hands behind his back against 33 countries born. Without doing the destruction on a clean slate in the Zionist style. And without using the 6000 nuclear warheads he has in his arsenal. If you want you can take Kiev in 3 days but you've never done it. Now with all these true and verifiable data (outside of the Western propaganda that Russia was already dead in 2022) and without the support of the United States, how does the Ukrainian defeat Russia? Can you explain it to me?

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He also said in the comments that "Ukraine meanwhile is a very cheap way to keep Russia at bay"

Clearly all these hundrends of thousands of Ukrainians that died was their cheap way to keep Russia at bay. And they failed to that too...

Psychopath is the least one can say...

he did the math

Their religion is prehistori. We did the rules after WW1, they don't care about manners. They don't even care about that territory or people. They want all. They want you too,.enslaved or dead. You are at war even if you don't like it

We are in a war. Did you expect any good manner? They are fighting against every human that is not them, life or death

Bullish AF, that's 80% of the economy here

He was entertaining, that's for sure.

"I am the King of Kings of Africa, the Dean of Arab rulers, and my position does not allow me to step down from his podium!"

-M. G., that one time at Doha when his speech went overtime and the Emir asked him to cut it short and step down.

Bro was coked as any Eurotrash, I'm sure...

Good luck with that

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The maintainer exodus is concerning - Wladimir van der Laan (lead for 9+ years), Samuel Dobson, and Jonas Schnelli have all departed. These maintainers serve as gatekeepers with actual power to merge code, while contributors merely propose changes. This is a topic rarely discussed because the core of Core is not something you want the world to know about regarding their politics, risks, and threats. That's the main maintenance garage for the only workable money vehicle in human history.

Both Core and Knots ultimately represent centralized decision-making structures:Core with its 5-person bottleneck and Knots with its single-developer approach. The recent OP_RETURN controversy perfectly illustrates this tension, with Core's removal of the 80b limit triggering a 137% surge in Knots nodes (from 674 to 1,890 nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7cnjvghxjme0qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcqyr7at68k4cxms9a7pdca5gzf3svqd95d3fj9j4vuyj0nyta8x3j2whad7ya nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7ct5d3shxtnwdaehgu3wd3skuep0qyt8wumn8ghj7ct4w35zumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcqyp60l3gucvq4pnmekm9nzmf6zh8nx24jngu0aj0tfp9tz4gad5v9v94ulq2 nostr:nprofile1qyvhwue69uhkyat8d4skutndva6hjtnwv46r5dpcxsuqz9nhwden5te0vfjhgcfwdehhxarjd9kzucmpd5qzqxvfqd89dw8kqmrjfaz6zt8gfggcg93p4tm3s2slv4jrszuugfmt74rjkj ) as users actively choose which monetary values they want preserved.

While Bitcoin Core currently benefits from nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyehwumn8ghj7mnhvvh8qunfd4skctnwv46z7ctewe4xcetfd3khsvrpdsmk5vnsw96rydr3v4jrz73hvyu8xqpqsg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q8dzj6n 's principled funding (providing over 60% of its $8.4 million annual development budget), this centralized patronage model fundamentally contradicts Bitcoin's sovereign design and creates vulnerability to future influence shifts. The passionate debates between Bitcoin Core and Knots supporters may appear toxic to outsiders, but these confrontations serve as essential alarm bells that educate the ecosystem about threats to Bitcoin's monetary properties.

This is Bitcoin's true governance at work. While development teams may act as centralized decision-makers, ultimate power rests with individual Bitcoiners who collectively determine which vision prevails through their choice of software. Every node operator independently decides which implementation best preserves the monetary properties they value - whether that's #Core 's more permissive approach or #Knots ' stricter filters against non-monetary uses. This symbiotic relationship between Bitcoin and its most principled defenders ensures long-term resilience against changes that might compromise its fundamental value proposition. demonstrating that #Bitcoin needs sound money maximalists, imo, as much as maxis need Bitcoin to preserve the world's only truly sound money.

Usually misunderstood. Only applies to fiat money combined with a commodity i.e. coins being clipped.

Thier's Law more applicable to Bitcoin.

There is no bad money in a free market of money.

Fun fact.

Found in a 1995 book of "useless" Japanese inventions, there was this: the selfie stick.

When it was originally released in the early 1980s, the stick was sold under the product name “Extender” as part as a kit that also included a remote shutter button.

I never imagined that I would have to explain to people on this app why your teeth are not a store of value but here we are.

Muammar Gaddafi with one of his lady bodyguards, Cairo, 1994

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In your opinion which is the greater issue in the Bitcoin Network between these two: the miners' subsystem centralization or the clients' subsystem centralization?

Thks

I wouldn't buy a used car from Ergodan.

And if I bought one from Bibi he would send someone to steal it back.

I can't imagine any of those snakes trusting each other enough to turn their back, or even lower a weapon.

Turkiye also saved Israel twice despite their differences for influence in Syria, like with Saudi Arabia also.

We'll see...

I don't know. Could be many things. Could have sell off Palestinians for this, or something in Lybia where Turkiye has presence, or something with Cyprus/Greece or even Armenia... I don't think it will end here...

This dude is making favors to the Qatar, Turkiye, Saudi Arabia, UAE block...

Now that PKK stopped fighting with Turkiye and sactions are lifting from Turkiye controled Syria, something will come next. I don't know if we are going to like it...