Its really obvious who actually pays attention right now and who is just getting their information tenth-hand from this site. Bitcoin Core GitHub has always been for technical discussion relevant to the specific PR to avoid it being impossible for them to get any work done. There are many other places to have broader discussions (e.g. the mailing list, IRC, delving, etc). Bitcoin Core is *finally* enforcing this rule, which is incredibly healthy for the project as it allows developers to stay focused, and people are upset because they only get bad takes on this site and don't actually research what happened. If you went and looked, you'd see that people who got banned were repeatedly making off-topic comments and didn't stop when it was made clear they should. That deserves a ban in *any* community. As for the specific thing going on, yes, sadly having a relay policy in Bitcoin Core that accepts all the transactions that people want to make (in this case Citrea wants to make) is a *critical* feature of the Bitcoin network. It ensures small miners (like Ocean!) are able to compete by making sure all transactions are available to everyone, rather than only available to large pools like @MARA via their Slipstream product or ViaBTC via their accelerator.

What is the (Micro) Strategy liquidation price up to?

While everyone was distracted, Bitcoin Core doing the important work

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Can't inscribe with core v29.0 without --no-backup · Issue #4335 · ordinals/ord

A bug introduced in Bitcoin core v29.0 prevents ord from being able to import the recovery key into its core wallet: $ ord inscribe --file test.txt...

I really love when people obsessed with censoring the blockchain get mad about getting banned for brigading and trying to prevent others from doing their work.

Honestly incredibly excited that Bitcoin Core folks are finally more strictly creating an environment where contributors can focus on code rather than letting things get bogged down in stupid drama. This is incredible news for Bitcoin.

Is there a reason why people are pushing CTV currently over TXHASH? It seems like the second is strictly more flexible and I haven’t seen a reason why we should prefer not-that. Maybe @stevenroose ?

For Americans, I cannot recommend the FCC complaint form enough. Fill it out and suddenly your ISP will harass *you* to get your internet issues fixed.

I appreciate that finished electronics are now tariff-exempt as it ensures no one would ever dare dream of trying to build electronics in the US, and luckily they don’t have to!

I wish I had some bad news to announce cause man this week would be a perfect time for it.

Since when are funds held with a custodian “self-custody”? I guess we need a new word for “custody” now that it has absolutely lost all meaning.

Gonna end up kicking out everyone named Muhammad. Horrendous for long-term competitiveness of the country. View quoted note →

I’m always astounded that windows, still, in the 21st century (let alone a quarter of the way through it!) thinks that cooperative multitasking is an acceptable thing to do. Like…. What?! (It only does this within a single application across its threads, but, still…what?)

SFO has had private security, not TSA, this whole time, and while it’s not wildly better, it’s definitely the best security at a major US airport. View quoted note →