“You predict the phases of the moon. You measure them and count how often it did it like this or like that. You observe that it keeps on doing it, and you think, wow, this is fascinating. It seems to obey you because now you can tell anyone when it’s going to come up. If the people around you haven’t figured it out, they might think you’re magic.” — Alan Watts, Cosmic Network

Bitcoin is an electronic cash system, not an electronic jpeg storage system.

You can lead a pleb to #Bitcoin, but you can’t make him stack.

#Bitcoin is having a Hegelian dialectic with itself, which is good and healthy.

Adam Back (@npub1qg8j...24kw) has now joined the anti-spam side of the node war.

Excellent. 49 states to go.

Node War II will have the same winner as Node War I: The conservative side that seeks to not change Bitcoin.

One positive side effect of the current node war is it’s driving more people to run nodes, whether Knots or Core.

Bitcoin is a p2p electronic cash system.

“You know in a famous debate that was settled by the sixth patriarch of Zen, there were two monks arguing when a flag was flapping in the wind, whether it was the wind or the flag that was moving. And he said it’s neither. It’s the mind.” — Alan Watts, Reality, Art, and Illusion

Excellent video on the Core v30 debate cc: @Bitcoin Mechanic, @OCEAN

One of the best “Why Knots not Core” explanations I’ve read

“They’re running Knots now, even though all the Chaincode Labs devs on our payroll promote Core”