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There still seems to be no serious recognition that a million of these things are the most powerful military tool imaginable. Even 50 SONAR miniguns lining the deck unloading at full tilt wouldn’t save an aircraft carrier from a swarm of these. The economics of war have changed dramatically without it having been seen in practice. But the ability for a small country to punch well above their weight has certainly changed. The US shouldn’t build a single more ship that isn’t just meant to carry a bajillion of these 😆 View quoted note →

Tell your friend that if he can’t figure out how to adjust his life to afford $5 a day, then he will never change his life for literally anything and he shouldn’t complain when no progress is made. At some point you either be a man and just fucking do the tiny things that need to be done to fix your life, or you just don’t. But it’s absolutely a choice. He is *choosing* not to. Simple as that. View quoted note →

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Google absolutely is piss of shit 🤣 View quoted note →

This is 100% true, except that the incentive is to still use witness data because there is a discount. Of course we would prefer this replace the other method if that was expected. But I think the claim that they will switch to using OP_RETURN and pay higher fees is just unlikely. I think we keep the exact same number of people using the witness to store data on chain, plus another market of people storing it in OP_RETURN. That’s just a deduction based on incentives so maybe I’m wrong, but I keep hearing people say “this is better so we want them to switch to this,” but I can’t come up with a reason they would, especially when taproot wizards have been very explicit about trying to be as poor stewards of the chain as possible, on purpose. They created an even worse way for no reason at all and used that as well. View quoted note →

GM Everything feels so bullish to me right now it’s crazy.

You’re misunderstanding the ethical problem in question. Nobody is telling other people what they can or can’t do on the chain with their transactions, it’s the other way around. Core is pushing a PR through that removes a configuration option allowing *users* to decide what transactions they accept on *their nodes.* I agree there is an ethical question here, but nobody jumped into core here and said “nobody is allowed to do these transactions and you have to force this onto all the nodes.” Thats either you completely misunderstanding what is happening, or a disingenuous argument that you’re repeating. The “filteroors” have done exactly nothing here and demanded nothing from anyone. Core has made it their mission to dictate to people who want to prioritize monetary transactions over jpegs that they won’t be able to do it anymore and the option to even manually change this is being removed, and the limit sent to infinity. So I agree with your premise, but not the reality of who is demanding what. View quoted note →

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Kids make you feel both younger and older at the same time 🤣

For everyone getting on me about the OP_RETURN stuff: I’m 100% open to being wrong, I was wrong about CTV and how I thought it could be maliciously used, but I’ve also only heard a handful of the exact same arguments about this issue for years and have been very clear why I don’t think they are sufficient and why I believe some of them are not even relevant. • “Filters for what goes into the chain are censorship,” this is false and filtering what can be done on chain is literally how and why Bitcoin works in every way that it works. This completely begs the question about what is spam and what is an exploit, which is the whole debate. • “You can get around it” isn’t relevant either, as standards make a difference, which is exactly why the discussion is around changing the standards. Same as someone can jump over my fence, but that doesn’t mean having one vs not being allowed to build one has no effect at all. • “Your node doesn’t do anything,” Is the same argument I was told during the blocksize war. I’m aware it doesn’t alter the entirety of the network and it’s just my node, so don’t tell me like you’ve discovered some new information, but it is still *my* node and someone proposing to remove my control over what I should or should not accept and propagate isn’t why I run a node. I use my node to mine and wish to build my own templates. Explain how putting Bitcoins use as money ahead of as a place to store jpegs is bad. I don’t care how ineffective you think it is, but why is it bad for Bitcoin? • “Just run Knots.” Correct, I will be now. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have an opinion about changes being made to core, and when feedback is asked for I’ll give you my honest opinion. If that bothers someone then being part of a decentralized protocol is probably not the best path for them. All anyone has done since I got into bitcoin was argue. That’s how decentralization works. • “They paid a fee and it’s valid.” See point 1. Every bug and malicious transaction and spam in the past was always valid and paid the proper fee. Again, completely begs the question as to what is spam and what the highest purpose of Bitcoin is. This is a conversation about the purpose of Bitcoin, and yes that’s subjective, but that doesn’t mean it’s arbitrary or it doesn’t matter. Convince me that allowing random data in unrestrained sizes will make Bitcoin better money, or the technical argument doesn’t matter, imo. Technical conversations matter only after we decide what is *worth* building technical solutions for and what the purpose of any technical change is… so again, it begs the question and comes back to the same old disagreement. This is how I see it and I don’t see how this is at all an unreasonable perspective. Just my 2 sats

I'm in Bitcoin for ideological reasons. If you try to counter my arguments with "you're just an ideologue" I'm just going to agree with you. Bitcoin is about a system to protect and enforce a foundation of liberty for the world. I wouldn't fight for it otherwise. This is why there is no option for pessimism or defeatism. There is only what path we must take and what we have to build to win.