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n0>1 4 months ago
What are you actually saying though? Be brave. Say what you need to say.
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JackTheMimic 4 months ago
Ahh, so like posting "Women keep leaving their shoes all over the place in my house." Totally reasonable and not conflating a small subset of specific women with a majority or even a plurality of them. Clear as mud.
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JackTheMimic 4 months ago
I literally have no clue. I have yet to meet a Bitcoiner that doesn't want or believe in, a free market.
Idk, I'm just done with this stupid crap, I'm going to just stop updating while everyone fights over bullshit. I dont need core devs protectionism as an excuse to take away configurations, and I dont need a priest to save me from CP on the blockchain while telling me that disobeying my government is a sin.
Crazy how the only jobs for anarcho-liber-teerians tend to be talking and organizing conferences. Neither of which entail actually learning economics or computer science; just pretending to have.
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kyle-moore 4 months ago
Yeah its hard to accept that the free market has demand for monero. Bitcoin only is not what the market says
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A.A.Ron 4 months ago
They do that at my house too.
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Chale 4 months ago
Curious how many still confuse free market with ideological control. A truly free market accepts competition, choice, and even divergence — including among bitcoiners.
Free market is competition, not a handful of devs making the only implementation of what was supposed to be an open protocol deciding which setting you' plebs are no longer allowed to change. #Enshitcoinification Running #Knots #MBDA
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MrTea 4 months ago
Maybe it’s your definition of free market 🤷‍♂️
Yeah I obviously think choice is great and people should run whatever they want. But in this case I was referencing the free market of Bitcoin transaction fees.
There are no sides. Unless you have different *consensus* rules from me, then we are both bitcoiners. I’m not debating you. I think you should run whatever node software you want. At the end of the day, transaction fees are the ultimate filter and Bitcoin is going to be just fine.
Even crazier how some will criticize self-sovereignty and continue failing to clearly define the word "censorship" so they can use it as a magic spell.
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theplatinumbear 4 months ago
Yep. Nostr is the true signal. And it shows you how earlier we are.
Fees are not a panacea. Those who can pay the most fees, maybe the same entities profiting from using Bitcoin as a JPEG dumpster. If not for Taproot and thus the inscriptions hack, we wouldn't even need to have this conversation. Bitcoin is money. Shitcoins are for monkeydickjpegs. #Enshitcoinification
Where in this world do we actually have "free markets"? Only thing I can think of are black markets and off the books p2p local exchange and barter
What if one of the parties paying the "free market" transaction fees has an endless money printer? Would those fees be a deterrent from implanting something that can be used against the network later? Think long about this from the perspective of the owner of that money printer, since this network would be a threat to that power and monopoly
People finding Bitcoin is the outcome of free market choice. If people start to fear an aspect of it, that same free market gives them the option to exit or build alternatives.
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Judge Hardcase 4 months ago
I know: virtually all nodes set dustrelayfee > 0. Crazy.
There are sides. You’ve chosen freedom without responsibility. I’ve chosen freedom through responsibility. I can steel man your position: people are going to do harm either way. We cannot stop them outright. So we should employ a change that reduces the harm they cause by redirecting it away from the most valuable area of the network. It’s a logically weak position, hence your attempt to straw man.
Mining is hyper competitive... It is kinda understandable that miners want to pump the fee market and are vulnerable to this "free fee market" narrative... They SHOULD probably rather use ocean/datum more to gain a competitive edge...
The idea that the free market or transaction fees alone will prevent spam is unrealistic. You cannot compare ordinary users who just want to transfer money with actors who treat the blockchain as a global billboard. What looks expensive for a simple payment may seem cheap when it buys worldwide, permanent advertising.
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Bitcoin Monk 4 months ago
I assume he is mistakenly referring to knots users. Correct me if I’m wrong.