💰The most important thing to understand about Bitcoin is that it's meant to be used as money. Bitcoin is more akin to gold and silver than a stock or an investment vehicle. The fact we can use it to transact with is what's groundbreaking; not its dollar-denominated value.

same in Norway. they decided to show ads instead of the openings show.

If I saw a malicious soft fork emerge with thousands of nodes being run in a non-astroturfed capacity I'd be championing a URSF movement *immediately*. I wouldn't be sitting around mocking it and pretending it'd just fail. The fact that this hasn't happened with BIP-110 is because it's a good idea and the opposition doesn't have any cause to unite people around - all it does it reduce arbitrary data in Bitcoin which simply makes Bitcoin work better as money.

Imagine not having been blocked by Andy Back yet.

Dishonest people can go fuck themselves. I have no time for them at all. Also, it’s very much at odds with being a bitcoiner. It’s something shitcoiners and fiat cucks do.

Bitcoin isn't a bubble, it's a fucking tsunami, and BIP110 is the tectonic plate movement that sets it off.

I'm norwegian. If this happens, the only social media I am using is Nostr.

I've been gone for a while. Are you telling me almost 25% of all nodes are signalling readiness for BIP110?

Stacking KYC free sats at a loss is nothing new.

Siden folk tester ut den nye X oppdateringen vil jeg også prøve. Jeg skriver dette på norsk, hvilket språk leser du det på? Det skal visst oversettes automatisk.

What message is being sent by Iran here?

The biggest trick the devil ever played on me was convincing me I was worthless. I'm still healing.

I just saw a guy on the street taking a selfie while holding up his passport 🤣 #KYC

Happy Easter everyone! Christ is risen!

People are taking shots over the Monetary Maxis' recent enthusiasm about plebs renting hashpower and making their own blocks. Newsflash: That's exactly the same thing Foundry, Antpool, F2Pool etc are doing. Buying compute from people paying zero attention to the blockchain and using it to find blocks. Somehow it's bad when plebs start doing it and decentralize where all this compute is getting pointed? I said it at the start of OCEAN - most people *hate* decentralization when it actually manifests in any capacity. Set datacarriersize to 42 instead of 83? That's censorship! The success/failure of BIP-110? It must be gauged entirely by whether or not two giant mining pool signal for/against it. Spam filters? No. Everyone needs to have identical mempools and any configurability in that regard ripped out because idk it means better fee estimates or some other laughable rationalization. Running some client other than Core? Truly the most heinous act. It's just scammers trying to milk Bitcoin's upstanding purpose for their gain with no regard to the damage they're doing. Do not be deceived.

Anyone else trying to find out how they can benefit from Claude accidently leaking their code, as a non-techie? Suggestions are welcome!

God might have said: You deserve that feeling of freedom again. Here, take it.

This is, according to @adam3us, Shinobi “debunking” and “ripping apart” my article “The Network”. I’ve been celebrating Easter with family, but since Shinobi actually seems to pretend he has done some slam dunk debunk I will take some time to address it: The part Shinobi is talking about is one IRC exchange, from one paragraph, in a 10,000-word article drawing on IRS filings, podcast transcripts, IRC logs, news articles, GitHub records and named on-record sources. Shinobi ignores all of it. The funding structure, the two-tier cohort outcomes, the conflict of interest Newbery's own co-founders confirmed was never examined. The fact that the man who recruited Zhao, mentored her, and arranged her prior funding , cast one of the three votes that made her their first fellow, and that no recusal process was ever raised. He has predictably chosen the narrowest available technical argument and declared the whole investigation invalid. On the IRC episode he chose to engage with, the article's claim is NOT that the PR's addr relay semantics were malicious. Shinobi spends a big part of his “ripping apart” post pretending the article said it was malicious. That is a convenient misrepresentation, since arguing against something the article doesn't say is considerably easier than engaging with what it does. What the article does is document that Newbery publicly admitted directing Uttarwar's PR strategy: "I suggested to amiti that 22245 be separated from 21528, so I apologize if that was confusing for people", while in the same session dismissing jonatack's technical objection as confused and using a sarcastic analogy to do it. Shinobi restated the technical content of the PR while confirming the mentorship relationship. He did not address the conduct. More fundamentally,he responded to one IRC exchange as though it exists in isolation, ignoring the context that makes it significant: Newbery had recruited Uttarwar, co-organised the residency she was accepted to after meeting him, and arranged her first funding by both their accounts. And two days before the IRC episode he had personally rejected the grant application of the contributor raising the technical objection. Shinobi still describe the situation as simply “a senior developer advising a junior”. On laanwj: Shinobi’s characterisation of his response as an "autistic sperg out" is his own invention. The log shows laanwj telling Newbery "you're being really aggressive now”, and then quitting the channel after Newbery continues to claim laanwj is accusing him of dishonesty. The lead maintainer of Bitcoin Core said, in public, that Newbery was acting really aggressive. Shinobi replaced his words with his own diagnosis. Shinobi called me a "fucking clown," a "fucking gaslighting propagandist," said the work is "LLM slop," and used "autistic" as a pejorative against the lead maintainer of Bitcoin Core. This is worth noting because the article documents exactly this pattern: critics of the network's direction are met with personal attacks, their legitimacy is denied, their work dismissed as motivated by bad faith. Shinobi actually illustrated the chapter about the armor while trying to rebut the chapter about the pipeline. Shinobi is not a neutral observer here. He writes for Bitcoin Magazine. The investigation will later write about the media apparatus that helped build the armor and framed technical challenges as culture-war attacks. Shinobi’s response to my article: ad hominems, broad dismissal, zero engagement with the pipeline, the funding, and the primary sources it's built on, fits the template the article describes with noticeable precision. Still, this is enough for Adam to point to as evidence of the article being “conspiracy slop”. 🤷‍♂️