monero grows 8 times faster on disk than bitcoin, for the same TPS. monero is also harder to prune and can't support SPV. even your nodeless wallet has to scan every block since the wallet birthday, so it's heavy. on monero you are gambling that consumer grade hardware and internet service improve faster than the rate of adoption. maybe it will. monero adoption is mostly slow and steady. their only fallback plan is even shittier payment channels. BTC community decided NOT to make that gamble at all, instead focusing entirely on lightning which has been a disaster, and fake sidechains, and a bunch of other stupid centralized things. everything they did was overwhelmingly centralizing. they are allergic to any expressiveness which could enable real sidechains, shielded CSV, or anything else. with monero, maybe you will drown in excessively large blocks someday and maybe you won't. on bitcoin you are already giving up and shoving everyone into spark. both of these plans are dumb compared to real sidechains, where you can try everything and ignore anything you don't care about.

can we be done with non-mining node fetishism now? no, you cannot sybil attack the bitcoin network with a raspberry pi. now fuck off.

"we can sybil attack bitcoin if we run enough non-mining knots nodes" is a hangover from segwit propaganda. most people who believe it were naive to bitcoin until after 2019 and still don't know how it works

I made a Japanese castella cake yesterday

miners care more about BCH than they do about BIP-1-stupid, and BCH people cared about core being corrupt first

I know it can be tough but it's important to stop giving attention to pro-110 people. they were always forum sliding. the entire conversation topic is stupid and useless, and these people are only here to bury more important discussions under a sea of distraction.

self custody goes up -> people use more blockspace -> fees go up -> people move to altcoins it happened already

part of me thinks both the $ECX paul drivechains fork and the BIP-110 fork are just ways of cashing out on a soft fork proposal that didn't achieve broad consensus. but paul did way more labor and his messaging is more honest. View quoted note →

nigga and wtf health? he's gonna tell me what to eat now??

I find it appalling that there are now several "bitcoin wallets" in common use which can just be fucking shut off at a moment's notice and nobody stopped this from becoming common. there are 100 podcast fucksticks. what are they doing all day? they could have easily said "don't ever use this shit."

RIP everyone holding L-BTC rn (fake bitcoins!!! you are a retard)

ten years. the rot goes back ten years. it's all because of maxi culture.

bitcoin maximalism culture is to blame for: - a fatally defective maxi-branded hardware wallet getting relentlessly shoved in everyone's face for years - centralization via lightning companies which should not exist - a thousand excuses for scaling via custodians - darknet marketplaces abandoning bitcoin and never adopting lightning - teaching normies and plebs that bitcoin is for stupid arrogant pricks - wall street deciding the outcome of every bitcoin fork from now on - blocking real sidechains in favor of centralized pretend sidechains - blocking covenant opcodes in favor of centralized pretend taproot emulated covenants - collapsing miner's fee revenue and giving all of it to competing proof of stake networks - the BIP-110 distraction industrial complex - attempting to centralize nostr

bitcoin maxis are all scammers. their whole culture has been poisonous for over 10 years and needs to be torn down. I am not sorry for anyone who listened to them and got scammed. reassess the current technology landscape. it's all built on a foundation of lies.

covenant opcodes help make self custody safer, scale bitcoin, and unlock other valuable use cases. people have been advocating for them for years. they are held back entirely by shitty obstructionist maxi behavior and lying scam grifters.

they bought coldcard because of virtue signaling and now they are posting pictures of stamped washers because of virtue signaling