GM, especially in Moscow, where it's 9am.

GM, we're already learning that identifying nodes is as important as identifying transactions in the Relay War.

GM. If you're comparing yourself to the average, you're doing it wrong.

I know that the new River report says that 50M Americans own Bitcoin, but that's probably an underestimate, as the real Bitcoiners have all lost their Bitcoin in tragic boat accidents.

Meh, Boomers are bad, but the previous generations that brought two world wars and central banks all over the world were worse.

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I wasn't a filterer until a week ago when I started looking at the data. But now I think nodes should have the option of using them much more than they are.

Nostr is the real world computer.

GM, part of learning how to think from first principles is killing your heroes.

GM, your mind is the biggest attack surface for the security of your Bitcoin.

The strategy of the day seems to be, "Let's explain harder." What if the people that disagree with you already understand? Maybe it's not a matter of explaining, but genuine fundamental disagreement?

GM, every bull market, somebody prominent goes bankrupt. I haven't seen one yet.

Update: There have been 11700 transactions since block 894289 that have had OP_RETURN size > 83. This is way more than the 30 from the first 4 months and it's probably because of @oomahq 's challenge to make the non-standard OP_RETURNs more than 50% of the total OP_RETURNs. Running the numbers on these, here are the fee rates that they paid compared to the median fee rate. On average the 11700 transactions paid 191% more than the median fee rates of the blocks in which they were included. Or put another way, these transactions paid a bit less than triple the median fee rate. 1336 paid less than the median fee rate 2197 paid between the median and 50% more than the median fee rate 3516 paid between 1.5x-2.5x the median fee rate 1554 paid between 2.5x-3.5x the median fee rate 3094 paid more than the 3.5x the median fee rate 1064 were mined by F2Pool 10636 were mined by MARA Pool You can look at all the transactions in the spreadsheet I put together:

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Non-Standard OP_RETURN transactions