Boosty McBoosterson

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This Week in Bitcoin • 91: The Wrong Kind of Hawk • Listen on Fountain

Power shifted, expectations broke, and markets blinked. Short-term thinking is being rewarded again, even as the long-term bill quietly grows. Epis...

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6100 for 61! Since Jack Dorsey gets to rename bitcoin denominations I will call this "61 centi-sats." Also, this week's irony: Core merges a highly controversial change blowing up the OP_RETURN limit despite all the NACKs and contention, with no time for consensus either way to form. Then they say this is so that people will stop using the TapRoot/Segwit exploit to do inscriptions and other abuses of the witness data. But do they merge the fix for the inscriptions exploit? No, because that PR is "too controversial." Am I supposed to believe they actually think that people abusing the 75% discounted witness data for their "fun projects" are suddenly going to start paying more to use OP_RETURN instead? Really guys?

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This Week in Bitcoin • Merged and Divided • Listen on Fountain

Bitcoin Core merges bold and contentious updates; I get into their reasons why. Plus, Inflation eases for now, but the trend is clear. Why we can e...

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