Congrats to every fence-sitter on the spam issue. Bitcoin is now officially used predominantly for non-financial purposes. If you’re economically illiterate — which I suspect most Bitcoiners are — this means Bitcoin’s monetary premium is now being heavily diluted. We can’t comfortably call Bitcoin digital gold anymore when gold’s monetary premium sits around 90%. In a little more than 3 years, Bitcoin went from ~99% monetary premium — almost perfect money — to arguably below 50%. We’re heading straight toward the digital silver narrative. If the trend holds, even digital copper won’t sound preposterous. Still wondering whether we need BIP-110? Keep the blinders on, plebs. You’ll never be free. View quoted note →

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Nym States 1 month ago
I'm sorry you thought "almost perfect money" could be established in under 20 years. Bitcoin is software; a messaging network. Networks evolve and need time to grow. Your fear of mortality won't change this. Your fear of not being able to control how others use a network won't change this. It does no good blaming others for the fact that you've made the grave mistake of basing your identity/existence on an emergent form of money View quoted note →
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Me 1 month ago
I'm running knots, but my question is, what happens if BIP 110 fails? Will I be forced to store spam on my node even if I am running knots? Is it the end of the road for bitcoin if 110 isn't adopted?
To be honest, if BIP110 fails to be adopted by say October this year, I think Bitcoin will slowly but irreversibly head to a world of irrelevance, and I’ll probably sell most of my bitcoin around the next ATH.
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umni 1 month ago
Thought experiment move all transactions in and out of micro strategy and all ETFs on chain do any of the problems we currently see fade away?