Sjors Provoost

Lol, I have to zap myself 100 sats to share this episode :-) https://fountain.fm/episode/CKRxIzMnQXrzl5OFLhV7 nostr:nevent1qvzqqqpxquqzqgeclsy02vvsc9h03f3xnyv0k3zmldu8sk8nlc7s8qah45uaxqtv6pr7g3

"The dollar is king, we're gonna keep it that way. Just saying, if people wanna challenge it, they can, but they're going to pay a big price. And I don't think any of them are willing to pay that price." - Donald Trump Now you know. To be fair, it was in reference to BRICS and you can't accuse the man of consistency. https://fountain.fm/episode/gzfxBKiY94NTCUKySPQ2 nostr:nevent1qvzqqqpxquqzqq93dm3dzs9u6zxvlmzypvng57z33y2v0xkm24wsv2p6sf4ffhyzglzr7g

Still can't believe X users have their (eye) balls scanned. https://fountain.fm/episode/rgEmfe8E7ivWuORiUdA1 nostr:nevent1qvzqqqpxquqzq6vgy2dhvqehrwy32c6k7j87m3w0cvra4vjwqudysl8au5ntala9wmvfly

Whaha, I've been in DC more often than Odell and I'm a foreigner. https://fountain.fm/episode/0SwABFKl22JmThk9ARlz nostr:nevent1qvzqqqpxquqzp8ym3whkh9m8lsrz3vfka4ul5edy899r0yuvl3e2w47mxsrmgnpwcrmfnv

Removals after removal are my favorite type of removal. And I have a PR on top of this that removes even more :-) #MakeBitcoinCoreMaintainableAgain nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpamvs5te0hrehvy2la54am0l23qehs653dsyczpxhfddzssgvfe3qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qpqwza5u64kwj20tjckup2zsxl0zjnwessln9xwfjvuaa83r3ag30ysh5phvg

There seems to be genuine confusion about how open source works. In particular some people believe that Bitcoin Core developers have a fiduciary duty, either towards them personally or towards some general notion of the Bitcoin network. They are surprised that I and some others respond to this rather aggressively. Remember that this is the argument Craig Wright tried to make. He failed, but not after millions of dollars were burnt on defending these developers. And not after several quit because of the stress. Don't go down this path. To put it as a catchy phrase: open source means you can do whatever you want with the code, not with the people who write it. Open source lets you fork code, and modify it to your liking. That's pretty much what I do every day, which isn't to say that I don't also try to make sure other people like it. I get paid in Bitcoin and OpenSats keeps their whole treasury in it, so the idea that I want destroy potential future income is rather retarded. Part of CSW's demands was that Bitcoin Core wrote specific (confiscation) code for him. Eventually he just hired people to write it for him, as one should, but somehow that still wasn't enough for him. I get a very similar vibe from people who run Knots but yet don't find that enough. Should we worry about a new round of lawsuits?

Someone, probably a US based catholic young male, subscribed my email to a bunch of lists in order to spam me. I can't be bothered to trace the IP they used for this. But Luke, control your herd.

Guess who's back? https://bitcoinexplainedpodcast.com/@nado/episodes/episode-98-return-of-the-op-return

> this will be my last comment on this topic Well, that aged like a Higgs boson... Bitcoin Explained episode 98 coming soon(tm). nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpp59a0hkv5ecm45nrckvmu7pnk0sukssvly33u3wwzquy4v037hcqy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgewaehxw309ahx7um5wgh8xurjdamx7mmnwshxump0qqsgk9glfs557ye2yljmx5vt7grf8tf9w6ut07gupdsgwvzwy3psdzqnmh4tm

Yippee-Ki-Yay! nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpamvs5te0hrehvy2la54am0l23qehs653dsyczpxhfddzssgvfe3qy28wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytncxpnzummjvuhsz9rhwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjmcqyrd9ydd6eyv89jkh3gpe0xfsns3zvnr4q77uscr624rlppg0gh5c6sgnmve

Excellent take by me! :-) The fact that many Bitcoin Core developers are paid by someone, when that someone is NOT YOU, does not make YOU a customer that gets to demand things. You need to hire developers directly if you want to work on your behalf. nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpc3xpfa0xwem5vq8gygug4ne8nh4354tg0zevk7mke2ljruh8xdvqy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qpqewxx4342477wnl2ctl4qh44mfr8wftd5znchxdwstrkmtpa6f5hsc3x62e

On Consensus and Humming in the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) Classic read. https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7282

Well, according to AI - which must be right - this way the best quote from me in the nostr:npub1hkuk45c6c6h3y0rks0z4wa0wyyud5ru0qy0rn9x4dgnjwrnfy46s5a432p podcast: https://riverside.fm/guest-page?sessionId=2c859898-b88a-4016-abb6-c0fc6e8cb3c8&clientId=3d897568-30e6-4244-8a6d-59ebb8c8855b&archiveId=sjors-qg14v9s75&t=080a6fc0b5a20ddcd074

People seem to be confused about the fact that although Bitcoin Core is open source software, the bitcoin/bitcoin Github repository is a private space, not a public square. As a private space it has rules. Very few, and there's not much enforcement, but they're there. And those rules are not decided by users (in fact, ultimately Microsoft controls the domain). People are free to fork the code and create an alternative space to work on that code. There they can have whatever rules they want. You can make it completely private. The MIT license is very permissive, you don't even have to share the resulting code. You could also allow anyone to comment and sell viagra pills. Up to you! Such code forks are not ideal though. It could create confusion around where to download the "real" Bitcoin Core. Slightly different codebases make things difficult to audit. When implementations diverge too much, it will make future soft forks hard to coordinate. But if contributors to Bitcoin Core can't get any work done when doing so in public, they'll have to find another way to get work done. So as a user, you should not be happy when brigading happens on the repo. Those are precious developer days being wasted, in which actual bugs are not being fixed - or even introduced because tired developers make mistakes. Even if you disagree with a specific change, you have an interest in that being communicated in a non-disruptive manner. nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpp59a0hkv5ecm45nrckvmu7pnk0sukssvly33u3wwzquy4v037hcqy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qgewaehxw309ahx7um5wgh8xurjdamx7mmnwshxump0qqst63zxyrpgzjmy9wx5fcs8pkqk27wa2msp6vzf7xcjtgydgm4mwysvfdctu

Ethiopië is niet eens een voormalige kolonie, maar de Tweede Kamer wil er zich mee bemoeien. Tekst van de motie: Vragen van de leden Diederik van Dijk, Stoffer en Flach (allen SGP) aan de ministers van Buitenlandse Zaken, van Financiën en voor Buitenlandse Handel en Ontwikkelingshulp over het bericht ‘Cryptomijnen in een land onder hoogspanning’.
  
 • Bent u bekend met het artikel ‘Cryptomijnen in een land onder hoogspanning’?[1]
 • Welke Nederlandse of Europese wet- en regelgeving, dan wel IMVO-normen, zijn van toepassing op Nederlandse ondernemers en bedrijven die actief zijn in het cryptomijnen in derde landen?
 • Wat is precies de toegevoegde waarde van het cryptomijnen in Ethiopië aan de lokale economie en samenleving?
 • In hoeverre profiteert de lokale bevolking van Ethiopië van de praktijken die in het artikel genoemd worden?
 • Kan het kabinet toelichten wat volgens haar de wenselijkheid is van het cryptomijnen in Ethiopië door Nederlandse ondernemers en bedrijven?
 • Hoe ziet de inzet van het kabinet eruit om de beperkte elektriciteit die voorradig is in Ethiopië ten goede te laten komen aan de bevolking zelf?
 • Acht het kabinet het noodzakelijk om met extra regelgeving te komen om de negatieve gevolgen van cryptomijnen in derde landen te verminderen, en zo nee, waarom niet?
 • Wat is het morele oordeel van het kabinet over het artikel, met name met het oog op de schrijnende armoede en grote maatschappelijke problemen die een land als Ethiopië teisteren?
 • Hoe verhoudt de ontwikkeling die in het artikel genoemd wordt zich tot de Nederlandse hulp aan Ethiopië? Werken deze elkaar niet tegen?
 https://www.tweedekamer.nl/kamerstukken/kamervragen/detail?id=2025D19807&did=2025D19807

And now for something ... completely different: https://youtu.be/2URXWmTiajA

Roger Ver 'calm and politely' calling out Bitcoin Core censorship, even of people who've been around since the early days. He calls out their conflicts of interest and corruption, their deviation from the original version of Bitcoin... And they always go off on these super technical tangents. And they're mean on camera. "Won't even answer a single question". Install Bitcoin ABC, now! (yes, it's still actively maintained) P.S. wow people were young back then https://youtu.be/dUxXGmgv5mo