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Yeah I made that post because it needed to be said. TBDXXX was a stand in name until Burak came up with a real name. Making a post declaring that new name was something I felt was important for the future of discussion around it.
Yes, the p2a address type was created for use in packages
- HackerNews hasn’t been about hacking for many many years now. It’s about corporate engineers clamouring for the next $250k paycheck. That’s because they reached scale.
- I’m beginning to think in general that there’s no efficient way to accelerate the transition or onboard normies. Just know that gravity will prevail.
- People cannot see the flaws in any existing system, until the moment that they are ready. They need to have an epiphany, not just stumble upon a small comment on an existing site they read.
- People disagree that there exists a problem, let alone that there is a solution to said problem. And worst of all these poor people disagree that they should even entertain discussion about alternatives. As you say, to them it’s disrupting to the comfort of their current existence, to even have the conversation, rather than do any legitimate research or have any debate.
- People will need to be find their way by their finger being burnt by the existing structures. By seeing its flaws first hand.
- This is why I believe that the theory saying how Bitcoin will suck-up everything into a black hole, I believe, are wrong.
- The existing system from the coming years is not compatible with this growing network. Both will likely run in parallel but they will not be interoperable as they are today. The existing system and those who are aligned with it, will defend it to the end. That alternative is not a black hole, the existing system is the black hole for itself.
- Perhaps I will write-up a long form article on this theme in the coming days. I know there’s a lot of metaphorical content out there already in the community, but this one topic I believe is under-appreciated. Especially as we are witnessing it first hand, in examples like this with HN
It will cause a lot of confusion for old folks but for noobs the effect of the changes will be negligible. Anyway, thank you SN for changing your old rules.
Do not let that become a chip on your shoulder. Everyone will become more interested when things align for them to do so. I was in Bitcoin for a long time before everything clicked. Don't be in a rush. Have patience. You also place too much power on why someone is in Bitcoin. Why should it matter? If they see that it can benefit them either long term or even short term then who are any of us to gate keep that? Just because Bitcoin is not used in the exact way you want, or people don't understand it in the exact way you do does not mean you should give up on their path to understanding it.
I don't understand why so many Bitcoiner's want to take the path of being so jaded. Is your goal to get people using Bitcoin or not? Did you contribute to Bitcoins yearly growth in adoption or not? Those are the only two things that actually matter in any of this. Not why someone uses Bitcoin or if they are a maxi and not if someone hodl's. Literally not relevant to Bitcoins adoption.
Bitcoiners are going to have a real difficult time accepting people who don't care about being sovereign and don't care about self custody, but you're going to have to accept those people to. After all, Bitcoin is for everyone.
tl/dr none of your business why someone is motivated to learn about Bitcoin now. Take the opportunity and be an educator or sit in silence.
Ron has been my guru since the day he demanded all the bacon and eggs.
[Final]
[Planned]
bug fixes:
features:
local dev:
Beside SN stuff, I am also working on a prototype for a prediction market using the lightning network: https://delphi.market/
I am using the LMSR by Robin Hanson as an automated market maker. I hope this will make it possible that liquidity only has to be provided to the market once at creation. After that, the LMSR algorithm should make sure that the market does not run out of liquidity.
Some impressions:
https://imgprxy.stacker.news/481peu0UCLfk9DWp_Evy4LPmnVSg9IIhEzCGgrBDZZw/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLnBvc3RpbWcuY2MvVHdQend5WUMvMjAyMy0wNy0yNi0xNTI4NTgtNTQzeDM0Ny1zY3JvdC5wbmc
https://imgprxy.stacker.news/SlL_A3b7AfBxeqqvX8mZ4XmgqS8CQA2GYwYc01PE5Bw/rs:fit:600:500:0/g:no/aHR0cHM6Ly9pLnBvc3RpbWcuY2MvNTlEMmhKblovMjAyMy0wNy0yNi0xNTMyNDMtNDg3eDM4NS1zY3JvdC5wbmc