The world decided it wants small blocks on bitcoin and that's fine.
It just means we have to continuously increase transaction density per block.
CTV is the next step in that never ending effort.
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If you don't want the network to change that's fine, but then don't go around saying "bitcoin fixes this" or "bitcoin can save the world".
Unless we keep improving the protocol it WILL get captured by central parties and only be available to the wealthy.
And we'll be right back to where we started.
Unfortunately it's true, ossification and self custody don't mix. You want everyone to be able to self custody? We need more upgrades.
It's extremely early days still.
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Personally I voted for have him to create a CTV payment pool demo since this can really help people conceptualize how CTV can be used.
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Excuse the napkin math:
Assuming ~600K daily transactions happening on the network with each user placing 1 tx per month, the network could theoretically support ~18M active users monthly.
That's not enough 10 years from now.
Sharing UTXOs using OP_CTV would allow for several orders of magnitude more active users.
Remember every upgrade to bitcoin is designed to stack with future upgrades.
For example, OP_CTV complements SegWit by enhancing transaction flexibility and smart contract capabilities, building upon SegWit's already improved block space efficiency and transaction batching features.
OP_CTV will elevate bitcoin from just a value transfer network to a value transfer network + value coordination network.
I cannot overstate what an incredible achievement this would be for bitcoin.
Without OP_CTV bitcoin is destined to be coordinated by central parties (even if you can still verify a tx with your own node).
GM 2024.
Anyone who says "let's make bitcoin X again" is clearly not keeping up with bitcoin's constant progress and accomplishments.
Don't get trapped in false narratives, do your own research.
Incredible interview on @Stephan Livera's podcast with @Rearden 🥪🤖🍴🛩 who perfectly articulates why we're going to need CTV at some point. The sky is never falling but if we want bitcoin to scale to the planet without the need for custodians we're going to need CTV.
Batch lightning channels + shared UTXOs, vaults, non interactive channels and trustless coordination-free mining pools are not marketing terms.
They're the result of what you can do with covenants.
This is open source tech you can go test out yourself, this is not vaporware.
For those that don't know, CTV has been on signet for over 18 months and peer reviewed for over 4 years.
The approach has been extremely conservative as always.
However it is simply at the point now to where we need to think about how to get it activated.
Open source devs sharing information about the code they want implemented / merged is not "schilling". Full stop.
Want to learn more about OP_CTV and why it's important?
Everything you need to know can be found on these 2 sites including:
-Signaling
-Proposals
-Use Cases
-Presentations
-OpTech newsletters
-Mailing List discussion
-IRC meetings
-Podcasts
-Articles
-Forum Posts
-Much more
Resources - utxos.org -- Bitcoin for Everyone
Covenants.info
Documentation about Bitcoin Covenant proposals.
The benefits of OP_CTV are clear and the technical discussion is mostly over.
Feel free to contribute and try to claim that bounty but It's now 100% down to activation.
Some benefits include:
-scales LN several orders of magnitude
-improves efficiently for DLCs & many other operations
-improves privacy
-decreases miner centralization
I think it's time to start organizing for OP_CTV activation:
It has overwhelming technical consensus from individuals, devs & businesses:
It brings massive scalability & privacy improvements:
Send this link to your favorite podcaster 
Deployment Options - utxos.org -- Bitcoin for Everyone
BIP-119 Signalled Support - utxos.org -- Bitcoin for Everyone
Uses Cases - utxos.org -- Bitcoin for Everyone
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utxos.org brings you the latest information about bip-119
Want to get rid of inscriptions in your node? No problem! Checkout this code to reject blocks with inscriptions by rot13maxi: 
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Added a new competition section on the community page as well as a bunch of new links.
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BitcoinDev.org - Bitcoin & Lightning Development Resources
Grab the latest Bitcoin & Lightning SDKs, Libraries, and APIs in your favorite programming languages along with a ton of other development resources.
Work continues on Added a new competition section on the community page as well as a bunch of new links.
BitcoinDev.Org
BitcoinDev.org - Bitcoin & Lightning Development Resources
Grab the latest Bitcoin & Lightning SDKs, Libraries, and APIs in your favorite programming languages along with a ton of other development resources.
Literally every person with bitcoin derangement syndrome in the past has criticized bitcoin for having a "leadership problem". These people's egos are so inflated they're completely blind to the fact that bitcoin was designed to have no leaders. Rules without rulers. Forever.
Had such a great time talking about lightning privacy on @BTC Sessions show with the legenadry genius Francis @FRANCIS - BULLBITCOIN.COM!