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- Core's plan was always to roll out 80 byte OP_RETURN incrementally by starting with 40 to see if it broke anything and then ramping shortly up to the intended 80.
- #Bitcoin Core, having finished that project, has had 80 byte OP_RETURN for nearly a decade now. 85%+ miners have been set to 80 bytes for the same amount of time. Read the commit log. Read the bitcoin-dev mailing list.
- Luke admitted on Shitter/X that he only went along with the Core team because he had his own fork where he would make up his own standard.
- Now that Jack has invested in Luke to decentralize mining, he's cast a shadow over the Ocean.xyz launch by hijacking the conversation and torpedoing their marketing to serve his own vendetta against the Core team.
- Whirlpool transactions are trivial to detect and Luke could whitelist them no problem. Instead we get gaslighting about decentralization and freedom while Luke kneecaps #Bitcoin fungibility.
- What's more centralized? The development process in bitcoin:master with a decade+ track record, ~1000 developers, and 20,000+ code reviews, or Knots, where one dude makes god commits daily, breaking critical aspects of #Bitcoin?
- Until Ocean.xyz launches #StratumV2, it's just another gatekeeper. Ordinals is going to run out of customers like every other shitcoin. We don't need to compromise Core just because Luke didn't get his way 10 years ago.
- GFY.
So many. I was really worried at first and I wasn't sure if it was going to be temporary or forever, but I consider it one of the best things I have ever done. I didn't like the person I was online, I didn't consider that me. But eventually you are your actions no matter how much that truth hurts or you fight it. The personal introspection aspects of it was reason enough to be glad I did it. Other than that, the endless breaking news cycle combined with overall anger and hate did not do play well with me mentally. I keep joking with @k00b that I would love to see a stacker.olds that only shows the top posts after 3 days would be really interesting to me. That way I don't get sucked into the latest, breaking news knee jerk reactions.
If you're curious more about my thoughts on leaving twitter, I wrote a blog about it here: https://abytesjourney.com/leaving-twitter/ . I really enjoyed writing that so I recommend reading if you're curious and I would love to hear thoughts!
Yes and no.
- Ignore what all media says about El Salvador situation. Just go there and live for a couple of weeks (or forever) and see how is it yourself.
- It was too early from the perspective of education. Those people were pushed too fast into a technology and system that practically they do not understand.
SV gov together with that law it should also introduce a massive educational program for the people. They did nothing in this sense.
I mean at least basic education for regular people, not macro economics and stuff like that. How to use BTC/LN, wallets, backup/restore, safety etc. - Price is just a distraction, even for those poor people that their life depends on each sat. They should consider BTC in their wallet as "savings" and all the rest as "consuming". In this way they will learn how to save more money /energy for the future. Volatility is just a myth, used against BTC.
I am in direct contact with some guys from SV and things are good and became easier every day. Is just a matter of time and education. You can't change a whole fiat system in 1month/year... takes time and most important: users education.
One of my favorite comments on SN by @DarthCoin about how to use the site:
I hope I will not reveal some algo secrets with this, but I found something funny and maybe useful for others on SN, especially for new stackers here.
Every morning I go to SN pool and hit the zap button. Once.
Then read the new posts from "all" and if I found something interesting I zap it.
You should be the first one doing that and you will see why later.
If there are already some comments, zap also those, especially those that weren't already zapped (if are good).
Also post a new comment in the new posts if nobody did it already. Of course if is really necessary, not just for the sake of commenting.
Go to Saloon and talk with the funny nemo. Not too much, otherwise will zap you like crazy 😂😂😂
Post a good meta that people are interested too and engage in discussions. Not just post and leave. Engaging will bring you more visibility for your post.
If you see that got more sats, go bacl to SN pool and hit that "donation" button again. You can do this anytime, many times per day. Don't worry are not lost sats, but contrary!
Do this all day, when you have time.
Then wait for next day. Surprise! Your initial "donation" to SN pool is back, sometimes even more than you expect.
Why?
Because all the sats in SN poll will be redistributed for your previous "activity".
As bonus, you have infinite cowboy hats!
Stackers, learn how to use SN...
I do not use SN to get rich... I don't need that, but all these SN sats I use them later to onboard many nocoiners, every fucking day.
So basically Twitter is trying to become the equivalent of China's WeChat. A piece of centralized spyware with your "whole financial life" consolidated into one application. Hard pass. The difference between WeChat and X will be customer service—X won't have any; and the difference between X and banks will be consumer protections—X won't have any; and the difference between X and a CBDC would be both. The backend of each abusive iteration will carry minimal differences, and all feed into Ai models that inform the logic gates, and subject civil liberties to scaphism. The X platform is still bleeding users (thankfully) as Apptopia data shows and the BusinessInsider report detailed. I left X earlier this year after Musk's censorship in foreign elections—really the final straw for myself—the Turkish election being the most egregious. Musk has morphed into another toxic fiat creation. Would be nice to see bitcoiners get off this douchebag's dick, but too many are cult of personality addicts smoking an NgU pipe. Money and genius are indistinguishable mutually exclusive things to these people. Anyway, Stacker.News birthed the better more viable model directionally. Let the social tech and tradfi industry (most of which struggles to survive without 0% rates) fight one another for fiat rail supremacy. Let them box themselves in with walls too. No need for a FOSS petard in this case, just let them starve. Rant over.
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