Can you guess which Bitcoin Core developer said this in 2013?

At this point, if I was a Bitcoin Core developer, I’d just quit and get a better paying job at Google or whatever Because no matter what you do, you’re under attack. The users have ridiculous expectations, wouldn’t chip in $5/month, but criticize you for making any money off your work and make up conspiracy theories to suggest the exchange that pays you wants to destroy Bitcoin. You’re supposed to live like a monk, bow your head to any user of the free software you’re working on, never have any opinions of your own which contradict some high priest influencer or book-selling Austrian economist. You also can’t do anything meaningful due to a culture of not bringing any controversial changes. So your contributions are trivial and hardly a footnote in the history of Bitcoin, while the project at large needs to scale and become more private. Fuck this shit, life’s too short.

The OP_Return size drama started because Citrea needs higher limits to inscribe ZK proofs for their layer 2 They can inscribe that extra data in other ways which require more resources from node operators, or they can bypass the node policies entirely by paying miners. It’s reasonable to remove the limit, since it can’t prevent larger data inscriptions. If anything, it keeps the Bitcoin network honest and predictable. But the Ocean miners/Knots node runners are the perfect example of why Bitcoin most likely won’t scale and become fungible. Instead of addressing the issue for what it is, they talk about filtering dick pics and other kinds of undesirable jpegs. Make no mistake: Citrea is building a financial layer for bitcoin, so it can be used as money in ways that the Bitcoin chain currently does not enable. Ironically, the filterooors pretend that they’re saving Bitcoin’s use case as money. You can’t make this shit up 😂

Bitcoin Takeover Podcast graphics: somewhat artistic, edgy, unconventional Other podcasts related to Bitcoin: bland, corporate, too focused on branding

You hate Bitcoin Core because they don't engage in transaction censorship to validate your purity tests. I hate Bitcoin Core because they don't seem to care about making Bitcoin private and BTC fungible. We are not the same.

Bitcoin would be more efficient as a Proof of Work/Proof of Stake hybrid, in which the miners & the full nodes share the rewards. This way, there's the thermodynamic security, plus an inventive to keep your node running & HODL. Reaching consensus on upgrades would also be easier, and non-mining nodes would matter more. Preferably, such an upgrade would also restore CPU/GPU mining to allow anyone to participate.

I’ve never seen a more anti-cash city than Amsterdam. Most small businesses don’t accept it. Restaurants act like they’re doing you a huge favor, they always say they have no change. You can’t even buy bus tickets with cash. Supermarkets that accept cash will verify every bill as if you’re trying to use counterfeit money. Wtf?!

“Ethereum conferences are for sissies and soyboys”

At this point, I’m going to assume that everyone who’s against the OP_Return increase is a spook trying to do the kind of social damage which prevents us from ever upgrading Bitcoin in a significant way That, or a useful idiot who learned about Bitcoin from memes. But with this amount of infighting for such a trivial issue, we’re never gonna get scaling upgrades or base layer privacy. Probably not even covenants.

The biggest philosophical difference between Monero and Zcash is that Monero is anti-Bitcoin, fueled by a CryptoNote whitepaper which criticizes Bitcoin’s design and proposes “healthy competition”. Zcash is Bitcoin-friendly, originating from a soft fork proposal for Bitcoin.

After Vitalik, whom should I interview next? https://www.youtube.com/live/l8vt5P3chwk?si=yxXpWJ-L3Z34B3cg

The horror of learning how Bitcoin really works 🙈 After years of listening to influencers who served you shitty metaphors that made you believe a Raspberry Pi gives you control over the network and the miners don’t matter 🥲

Ethereum might just be the biggest Bitcoin sidechain

My interview with Vitalik Buterin is now fully transcribed and timestamped. See what he had to say about the Lighting network and what kind of hardware it takes to run an Ethereum node:

Bitcoin Takeover

S16 E24: Vitalik Buterin on the Future of Bitcoin & Ethereum - Bitcoin Takeover

Vitalik Buterin is the creator of Ethereum, but also one of the biggest Bitcoin maximalists. In this interview, he talks about his journey.

Will interview Vitalik tomorrow What should I ask him?

Bitcoin is destined to replace fiat money. The whitepaper is clear, Satoshi’s writings (especially his answers to criticism on the Metzdowd cryptography mailing list) are even clearer. The whole “store of value” meme might make early adopters rich, but it neuters the invention of its true potential.

I wish Hal never posted this.

Just onboarded my 16 year old cousin to Bitcoin He says he wants to put all his savings in BTC, then buy a car when he turns 18 If you want to welcome him with $1 or whatever you can spare, this is his address: bc1qs62ms0jrp47g3qhgpp857zuuwpzwdq3vm3jds5

I’d rather be a shitcoiner than a suitcoiner

The F in ETF stands for fool Don’t be that guy.