It’s weird that society is now at a point where we can pick (some) traits for our kids (including biasing towards height/attractiveness/intelligence!) but the outrage machine hasn’t caught on yet.

I think people here underestimate just how many users Twitter/X has lost over the last year (not counting AI bots…). Looking back at people who were a major part of The Conversation a few years ago most of them simply don’t post anywhere anymore (or a few do on Bluesky). Turns out a bad algorithm is worse than none. Nostr isn’t losing the user race, people just stopped posting.

It’s a real shame the US outlawed this starting next year. Bigger shame the Bitcoin community isn’t constantly beating the drum, too….making it illegal to pay with bitcoin (via a payment processor) without KYC is nuts! View quoted note →

The feed is: “Trump and Musk are bypassing all the controls we had in place, they’re literally overthrowing the constitution by ignoring Congress” “Trump and Musk are saving democracy by throwing out all the unelected officials that actually control the government and installing the will of the people” Y’all need to chill the fuck out, dear god everyone has lost their damn minds.

If this is true bitcoin will fail. View quoted note →

We’ve got to years to pass the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act. We can’t let this pass us.

Okay, my mentions are now filled with spam. I guess that’s cause I “picked bad relays”? How do I (a normal user who doesn’t have the time to investigate the relay offerings out there) fix this?

Run a bitcoin payment processor so that normie merchants can accept bitcoin and we can spend bitcoin (which was half the damn point)? Congrats you have to ask for the socials of people paying 🤦‍♂️ View quoted note →

I once had a discussion with a GNU Taler dev, who argued with a straight face that the government should have a (limited) backdoor into financial systems despite voters sometimes electing bad people because, and I’m dead serious here, the German voters would never elect someone with as authoritarian tendencies as Trump. I guess he missed his history lessons…in literally every year of school there lol View quoted note →

No, Roger is not facing 109 years in prison. That’s not how federal sentencing works, that’s never how federal sentencing has ever fucking worked. Stop quoting morons who don’t know how things work.

And that’s 100k

I responded on Twitter too, but this is such a strange rant to me. Bitcoin Core (contributor)’s current push for better mempool policy is *directly* related to multi-party UTXO ownership and scaling. It specifically substantially improves lighting in practice today, and will certainly be required for any future scaling technologies. In the mean time, lots of folks (like James) continue to do research into how to scale Bitcoin (and cryptocurrencies generally). There’s no reason to care if that happens from Bitcoin Core contributors or others, and we’re still really far from having any particularly good ideas on this front. As that research continues, there’s no reason for concrete software towards short-term soft-forks. View quoted note →