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Profile Code

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Last Notes

2026-09-01 21:11:49 CEST

https://youtube.com/shorts/wF8LPLzn83U

2026-08-26 10:13:32 CEST

What's happening on Nostr?

2026-06-24 14:40:07 CEST

When you send fiat to an exchange, use it ALL to buy bitcoin, then completely empty the account by withdrawing the bitcoin.
Don't trade, don't fuck around.
Then you'll have a UTXO in your wallet and its cost base is exactly the fiat deposit amount. Every fee in-between is irrelevant if you do it this way.
One deposit, one UTXO - cost base is easy. Keep your withdrawal to over 500k sats if you can, otherwise do multiple small fiat deposits and they all are added to get your cost base (if you do a full withdrawal).
Then if you decide to sell/spend any, you'll be in a good position to select the most cost effective UTXO to use, to minimise the tax that is being extorted from you.
It's best to use the per-parcel accounting method rather than first-in-first-out (FIFO), and stick with that one method.
If you don't keep track of your UTXOs properly, you'll have to default to FIFO method of accounting which is not great.
None of this is financial advice, because Bitcoin is a virtual currency, it's not real! 🤪

2026-06-24 14:26:31 CEST

New Parman Guide, it's been a while, sorry.
"Large QR codes and how to capture them"
armantheparman.com/largeqr/
https://blossom.primal.net/506c268e21714ae07c1d20065a1646be6f5c6f3e0022f409b776920a5274599c.png

2026-06-21 11:20:46 CEST

Ladies, if your husband introduced you as "my current wife", what happens after that?

2026-06-11 14:06:35 CEST

A node enforces the rules about a person's choice of money.
For example, if you buy something from me, and my node says I haven't been paid, even if you had one million nodes saying I've been paid, my single node overrides anything your nodes say.
I have nodes here for you, ready and synced (accepting bitcoin only for payment)...
https://parman.org

2026-06-11 13:47:13 CEST

If you and a friend each bought a ParmaDrive, then you could back up data to each other's machine and never have to pay for cloud data storage again.
You can access your data from other computers or your phone, even if you leave home.
If you like Windows, eww, you can still use Windows, and access the ParmaDrive server.
If you need help learning to use it, there is an option for that at checkout.
https://parman.org/parmadrive
https://blossom.primal.net/5d71769b3bf00fcc6329750937fc20b76aae83d34d946f98badbdff2db4a5990.jpg

2026-06-06 20:16:57 CEST

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Noticing you aren't in Zen doesn't mean others aren't.
I'm close enough, but it sucks the price is low.

2026-06-06 20:13:58 CEST

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It's not for passive income, it's for KYC free coins and support for BIP110 through mining

2026-06-06 12:51:17 CEST

Don't ask me who, but someone created this service where you can buy KYC free mined sats via hash rental.
Nothing technical to do except pay sats and submit a fresh address to receive.
The "fixed" option takes sats from a pool of sats that have already been mined - supply limited. Payment happens within 24 hrs.
The variable options available are "slow" and "fast", where you have to wait 5 or 30 days for the sats to be mined for you. The returns depend on Ocean's luck.
Sometimes you can get more sats than you put in, sometimes fewer. The slower option reduce wild swings in returns.
The difference between variable and fixed is that with fixed, you know precisely how much you get back, returns are within 24 hrs, and there are caps on the amount due to availability (fluctuates).
It's all explained on the site, and you can send questions by email.
Oh, there's also a "private deal" option which requires email enquiry to discuss and initiate.
All sats mined contribute to signalling for Bitcoin to be used as money (RDTS; BIP 110 via Ocean).
https://privatehash.net
https://blossom.primal.net/aa6aeee0bbe4db4b121db630b96328431b962bc3bedb083a15d3bed78774fe8f.jpg

2026-05-23 05:31:45 CEST

There are no more cycles. You buy bitcoin because it's becoming money and you're disgusted using money others can create for free.

2026-05-21 18:34:53 CEST

You can order a ready-made, fully Bitcoin-synced Laptop node (ParmanodL) which has the Parmanode software installed, configured, and tested, delivered to anywhere in the world (except Eptstein's Island, sorry Andy).

2026-05-21 15:19:17 CEST

People don't understand you can buy mined #ƨats with your KYC sats.
https://privatehash.net
https://blossom.primal.net/67d48ed572c6c23bb557d1f913b9105b717a8db2c228c7775232433f8426da79.jpg

2026-03-15 10:58:04 CET

BIP 110 - read it, don't be told how to think, Bitcoiner.

2026-03-13 15:30:39 CET

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Taking students

2026-02-21 19:48:20 CET

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You're disgusting spam apologizing with inquiry. Very transparent.
Go read bip110.org

2026-02-21 19:45:04 CET

There was beautiful and touching obituary to Matt Odell's reputation today.
https://youtu.be/5_aOb0Mru28

2026-02-15 03:37:13 CET

Running BIP 110

2026-01-30 03:58:32 CET

On BIP 110, miners, and chain splits...
It's helpful to separate miners who want fiat, and miners who want bitcoin.
It's fundamental, and no one does this.
Miners who want bitcoin, are part of the choice of soft fork, their opinion and the node they choose matters. Effectively they are nodes (Nodes are people who want bitcoin, and actively choose to enforce their rules).
Miners (who want fiat) work for Bitcoiners. Their opinions don't matter.
Suppose all miners were fiat people and not supportive of BIp110, and suppose every node runner supported bip110...
The nodes that the miners in this case run, say core 30, are irrelevant because these people don't want to accumulate bitcoin, and so they don't contribute to the value of that version of bitcoin (whichever version they choose matters little because they aren't accumulating the coin, they're selling it after mining).
If they choose against nodes, they are mining a coin Bitcoiners don't want - it has no value ultimately, even if it has the highest hashpower. It's a hash-secured worthless coin.
The valuable version (valuable because all people who want bitcoin choose to accumulate it) will have less hashpower. But because it's valuable, miners will defect to mine it and earn fiat (and difficulty being low will make it lucrative for those in first).
Ultimately, one must understand that mining doesn't give bitcoin value, it only helps it function, it's PEOPLE WHO WANT IT that give it value, and if these people run nodes, they get a say in what it is.

2026-01-27 11:04:38 CET

If anyone wants a video of how to enable BIP110 on Parmanode, here it is. Please share.
https://youtu.be/JpvNDL9Opns

2025-12-28 12:17:33 CET

The reason Bitcoin is not going up is because you're being stubborn and not getting a ParmanodL Bitcoin laptop node.
I'm not angry.
I'm just disappointed.
Especially you, @nprofile…d8n5

2025-12-25 15:46:35 CET

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Why not piano?

2025-12-25 14:59:56 CET

Buy bitcoin and play Bach.
Hurry up, life is short.

2025-12-23 15:33:46 CET

If someone were to be playing a racing simulation game like Gran Turismo, doing laps and honing their skills, a person watching might get insanely bored, but the person playing could be in the zone, forgetting all their troubles, and highly focussed, while having a great time...
This is what I think it's like to hear someone playing Bach, vs playing Bach yourself.
I promise, it's incredible. It's not just some melody you might like to hum along to or not - there is so much going on on so many levels.
I wish for you to experience it.

2025-12-23 06:17:01 CET

I'm sorry to have to bring you this news, but you need significantly more bitcoin than you currently have today.

2025-12-22 12:12:37 CET

Filters

2025-12-21 15:10:15 CET

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Glad to inspire you.
What was the problem with Parmanode?
If all you wanted was knots, it can do that, it's your choice.

2025-12-19 16:53:32 CET

All opinions of people with blue hair, or who run a Core v30 Bitcoin node, can be safely disregarded without any negative consequences.

2025-12-19 08:02:21 CET

The conversation in Australia has turned into arguing against statist cucks about extra gun laws (hardly anyone has a gun anyway).
Remember long, long ago (last week) when it was about banning social media for kids as an excuse to attack privacy on the internet for all?
Magically, no one is talking about that now, too busy fighting the fallout of leftist and bots about guns.

2025-12-15 17:56:17 CET

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Here, you'd be called a dumb cunt, but if well liked, a silly cunt.

2025-12-15 17:52:37 CET

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Two birds with one stone

2025-12-15 17:51:47 CET

The foundation of technical analysis...
If the price goes one way, then it keeps going that way, because momentum, but if it turns around, then it goes the other way with the new momentum, and keeps going that way.
Unless it turns around.
Triangles help, Daniel San. Always triangle. Close eye.

2025-12-15 13:26:15 CET

Everyone who is part of your inheritance circle can come to ParmaDon for assistance.
https://parman.org/parmadon

2025-12-15 13:15:20 CET

If your friend has never called you a cunt, then, I hate to break this to you, but you're not actually friends.
Of course the other possibility is that you're a really nice person 😬

2025-12-12 06:37:54 CET

Once upon a time, someone exploited a bug and got 184 billion bitcoins.
The VALID TRANSACTIONS were rugged by Satoshi to keep bitcoin going.
Today, another exploit (that Core refuses to acknowledge or fix) is damaging Bitcoin.
Similarly to the previous bug fix, where a malicious exploiter was rugged, should "valid transaction" be a reason to not fix Bitcoin?
It requires consensus that fixing a life threatening bug overrides immutability.
It's uncomfortable to talk about, but if you think about it, OF COURSE the survival of Bitcoin logically supercedes immutability.
And so, the debate should be about if this is really going to destroy Bitcoin if left unchecked. That conversation is being drowned out by appealing to less important principles of money.
I think we should first determine that, then encourage discussions about how to fix it, always remembering that the highest principle is Bitcoin surviving as digital sound money for the world.
It's OK to entertain an idea, like rugging malicious spammers, perhaps deciding against it, or not, or finding an alternative.
It was easier to fix when Satoshi was in charge and Bitcoin wasn't decentralised, now we all have to decide, all while the enemy is sending bots, and Adam Back, to muddy the waters and distract us from the most important conversations.

2025-12-11 18:01:54 CET

I have started a new service, ParmaDon.
https://parman.org/parmadon
https://blossom.primal.net/84f517463fee38aeeb9c04ffe8211cee0875e3dd734d22f9bb30588f0f9a4187.png

2025-12-06 08:18:13 CET

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Only AI could have responded with this detail so fast

2025-11-27 18:51:53 CET

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There are grateful women?

2025-11-27 18:50:00 CET

On Twitter, apparently it's supposed to be a tree, or two people holding hands.
Here, it can only look like one thing...
https://blossom.primal.net/3ae48c46629ed48aff14ea21ef30af0acb39611bf95e14b50e536779c16200fc.jpg

2025-11-22 15:45:36 CET

Do you think Parmanode is looking pretty? https://blossom.primal.net/0bbf12e3595eebef6a446dc0ab4ec0ed4060d0dc2e201bbfa65faa469720f0d8.png

2025-11-21 07:14:08 CET

People no longer saying "bingo card" was not on my bingo card for 2025.

2025-11-04 11:59:09 CET

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It's not Core vs Knots, it's Core fucked up.

2025-11-02 10:34:12 CET

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Unfollowed

2025-11-02 08:49:29 CET

Teachers - it's a privilege having the attention of young students and teaching them a class.
DO NOT abuse that privilege by introducing your personal political beliefs.

2025-10-30 12:55:30 CET

The problem with arbitrary data tolerance is that it doesn't contribute to Bitcoin being money.
It's like promoting the electrical conductivity of gold as a reason for it to be money.
You might think that's not so bad but...
The problem it causes, having arbitrary data, is subjectivity, and various attacks - it's easier to stand for none of it, and remain objectively supporting Bitcoin as money.
You don't need to define what spam is - it's a subset of arbitrary data.
You don't need to defend Bitcoin being a free speech platform (it's not), and explain why CSAM can't be blocked - it's a subset of arbitrary data.
You don't need to care that not all arbitrary data can't be stopped - your principles are what guides you, and with the right principles, if people concur, consensus is easy to achieve.
Right now, we're fractured, because people who don't want spam feel like they have to allow it because it's hard to define (and because shitcoiners and fiat maxis are disguising themselves as one of us, muddying the waters, looking at Lopp and others).
I'm saying this is unnecessary. Just be against arbitrary data; it's not part of Bitcoin's purpose.
If you desire extra "nice to have" features from arbitrary data, in addition to Bitcoin's pure monetary features, then you have to accept spam and CSAM, and unwanted additional attacks, and also damaging infighting.

2025-10-28 19:09:02 CET

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Wasn't well worded, I must say

2025-10-28 19:07:42 CET

All Parman.org products thus far have been ad/sponsorship free.
But starting in 3 days, they will continue to be ad/sponsorship free.

2025-10-15 10:22:12 CEST

Life cycle of a DCA transaction...
When your filthy bank releases your government tyranny tokens to your exchange after a malicious 24 hour hold (for your safety), the price of bitcoin pamps 10% moments before the tyrannical coins are shown in your Coinbase account.
You then no-look insta smash yolo market buy bitcoin.
But there's a problem...
Your Coinbase account page shows a bitcoin balance, but you're not looking at bitcoin, you're looking at Coinbase's database entry of what they owe you. So the job isn't finished.
You will withdraw, and then after you prove you have access to your email, and you're not using Tor, and you complete a captcha, and log in to authenticator and enter numbers, and then a phone text confirmation, THHHEEENN, Coinbase employees will go to their ParmanodL laptop and locate a UTXO from their watching wallet, and then make a transaction to your bitcoin address, and then export the tx to their ParmAirGap machine for signing, which then returns the signed transaction back to the ParmanodL transaction/node latop, and broadcasts the signed transactions to it's own bitcoin Knots server (on the same machine).
The node then shares the unconfirmed transaction to other nodes, and they "gossip" share it to all the other nodes in the world.
Eventually, your Datum instance on your ParmanodL machine will fashion from its filtered mempool a potential block and include your incoming transaction. One of your BitAxes will then mine the block and win.
It will then gossip the winning block before other miners claim victory, and all the nodes in the world will update their "tip" block. All miners will then attempt to win the next block.
You mining address will be paid a bit over 3.125 bitcoin which is allowed to be spent after 100 blocks, congratulations 🎉, but also in that winning block is the transaction that Coinbase paid your address.
Your ParmanodL laptop that has Sparrow open, and syncing with your fulcrum/electrs server, which syncs to your bitcoin Knots blockchain (all on the same machine), will notice the new payment in the fulcrum/electrs database and Sparrow will show the new bitcoin in your wallet.
Feeling deep and unshakable satisfaction, you then close all the apps, and leave the laptop open, connected to power, monitor dimmed, so that Knots running in the background will stay up to date, and go outside to touch grass, as they say.
You know you can totally shut it down, but you prefer leaving it on as is ready instantly when you need it, and you will for your mentoring video meeting with Parman next morning.
Tomorrow, you will do it all again.

2025-10-13 18:27:25 CEST

Humanity is going to do just fine without an immutable database of arbitrary data, but is completely fuçk3d if we don't have Bitcoin as MONEY.
We only get one chance.
Run Knots, hurry up.

2025-10-13 12:17:04 CEST

If you imagine being an outside observer of the entire universe, you'll see an incredibly vast and highly complex system that sparsley sprouts pockets of replicative self-aware blobs (life), unable to fully appreciate what exists, and mostly just absorbed with themselves rather than all that exists.

2025-10-13 12:05:23 CEST

Provide value to humans, receive value in exchange, store excess in sats.
Don't try to cheat reality with leverage and "borrowing against your Bitcoin".

2025-10-09 20:17:45 CEST

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Sorry I'm slow

2025-10-09 17:53:48 CEST

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You're wrong.
I'll explain if you want to know why, and if you're not a shitcoiner or spammer.

2025-10-06 11:50:09 CEST

Was blocked by Peter Todd today after I called out his evil for celebrating the attack on Russian civilians.
True colours on display, and no amount of contribution to Bitcoin should give anyone a free pass for being evil.
https://blossom.primal.net/190f57e5d2bf8e56f3c6c282c258532839f086b117bf1a888a1cf4d78fe1ab5f.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/ba999fc337007e282c2dd2c8205d428e1edd50aa745f30739c8c2b1ba3a8c44e.jpg

2025-10-06 11:08:33 CEST

I hate censorship.
Filtering out non-monetary data on Bitcoin is objective, and is not censorship at all...
Because Bitcoin isn't a general speech platform - it is a specific speech platform allowing the movement of bitcoin. There already exists an unstoppable speech platform, notes and other things transmitted over relays (NOSTR).
No transfer of Bitcoin from one address to another can be censored from Bitcoin. Payments are essentially censorship resistant. Arbitrary data is not, and should not be - that'd be inventing a different purpose for Bitcoin.
If a particular transfer got blocked because it has arbitrary data, the exact same transfer can be reattempted without the arbitrary data and it will get through.
Inscriptions data inside an "if false(data)" block is objectively not part of the attempts to make a financial transaction. It is objectively added on as arbitrary data. It can be filtered out without stopping the movement of that particular UTXO. The perpetrator can simply republish the transaction without the arbitrary data and the exact same satoshis will move where they want it to go.
Does this kind of argument have a place, Gloria?
https://blossom.primal.net/3eae7e92eac8d05be688f4a01f46c4d627125235045ead421c9f23201859f469.jpg

2025-10-02 05:16:35 CEST

https://blossom.primal.net/626bd236afe4ce4051b2ae93517b4146f23ae54f013f413c20078f629d65562f.png

2025-09-30 13:21:51 CEST

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Gay

2025-09-28 06:05:19 CEST

Did you know, door manufacturers, after October 31, will no longer produce doors with locks, because locks on doors don't stop crime.
I could explain but the way locks work is quite technical, you wouldn't get it.
Instead, I'll get Shinobi to run Adam Hack's X account to explain to people how locks technically work (eDuCaTiON) to distract them from what's going on.
There will also be debates and forums on spaces.
If you don't like it, just use windows instead of doors, or build your own doors.

2025-09-27 21:17:53 CEST

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Arbitrary data is not welcome, Bitcoin is money, not data storage.
It's about Bitcoin's purpose, not fluffy concepts of good and evil.

2025-09-26 05:01:04 CEST

"Grok please generate a text message conversation where Luke is considering a bitcoin hard fork."

2025-09-21 05:29:08 CEST

Get a girl who's a Bitcoiner and uses vim.
Nah, don't, that's a dude.

2025-09-20 18:24:17 CEST

There are a few people out there who don't make their own pastirma and frankly, it's a little upsetting. It's not expensive to make. Recipe...
https://armantheparman.com/pastirma
https://blossom.primal.net/d2f0393bebcedae723032d24aa49ddc7c787e24b2aa5386b3bc7b96f30108a3c.jpg

2025-09-20 18:21:42 CEST

"I'm happy to pay MY taxes."
GFY, dickhead, you'd also swallow for YOUR rapist.

2025-09-18 12:33:10 CEST

Bitcoin isn't supposed to replace banks.
The purpose is to end the CENTRAL banking scam.
Central banking is not the same thing as regular banking.
When designing a DIGITAL MONEY you need to eliminate the central coordinator of the money, which has always been necessary to protect against double spending.
It is that central coordinator, the central bank, that Satoshi eliminated the need for (a solution to the Byzantine generals problem). Nothing to do with the banking service which is highly valuable to humanity. Banking is just messed up at the moment because of malincentives and government protection policies, and broken money.
More in my essay...
armantheparman.com/tpwm/

2025-09-17 11:54:58 CEST

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I thought you had glitter balls and diamond hands?

2025-09-17 11:51:16 CEST

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I think so, not tested by me yet

2025-09-13 19:05:44 CEST

It's possible to install Bitcoin Core instead of Knots on Parmanode software, but you're going to get an earful from me...
https://blossom.primal.net/cb13bf86feae7456065e90d21c0fcd3520153218ec9e8ff16a68b20ca4e6d5d8.jpg
If the user ignores my warning, I'm not leaving them alone. If Core can change defaults, so can I.
https://blossom.primal.net/79a18c648fb239f562dc619348a995c95176cedcf58300b07552e5fa9ff405de.jpg
Honest improvement...
https://blossom.primal.net/de37f5211604a0d1fad16beb0602d6e400d97d11677d039185622223de7e924e.jpg
There is a single click upgrade (yes, upgrade, not update), to Knots. Takes 2 minutes and the blockchain is preserved.
aaaaand, it's live.
version 3.66.0

2025-09-10 20:05:10 CEST

You wake up and 1 Bitcoin hits 1 Bitcoin.
What do you do?

2025-09-10 10:58:31 CEST

Consensus lives in a network of human minds ("philosophical consensus"), partly represented by the choice of code that's run (or adhered to) by such a group, and another part unrepresented, unwritten, and sometimes not apparent.
It's NOT the code that's in charge, with the ideology being secondary (subservient to the code), it's the exact reverse.
One example of a hidden fracture in ideology was when big blockers and small blockers shared the same general ideology and were in consensus according to the code, but there was a fracture that only became apparent in 2017, and the code changed for each group to reflect their ideology.
Currently, a new fracture is appearing.
On one side, people believe stopping spam is censorship (even though the purpose of fees is to limit ddos spam attack, not stop).
On the other side, people believe Bitcoin is money first, and storing data is a byproduct of that function, not a primary purpose, and so it's not censorship to limit spam.
Just because the code can't enforce this ideology precisely, doesn't mean we change our ideology (it's like changing documentation to hide a bug).
These two ideologies are why the change to Bitcoin Core is contentious.
Without understanding this difference in ideology, there's no point trying to have logical debates.

2025-09-08 08:25:13 CEST

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Mempool policy rules in matter.
Otherwise we wouldn't be fighting about this.
Don't get sucked into the argument that "this is trivial because it's not a block validation rule change".
This is a massive and dangerous change for Bitcoin.

2025-09-08 07:06:40 CEST

It's not easy being on the side that defends making it easier for CSAM to be relayed through everyone's node, for some imagined/debatable benefit (i.e. less miner centralisation).
It's time to take a good hard look at yourself and accept you were wrong. If you weren't taking a side, it's time to step up.
You don't have go deeper into Core Derangement Syndrome ™.
Just switch to the correct side, and join us calling out the stupid arguments of Core Groupies.
This is not a Knots vs Core debate, you don't have to like Knots. It's a "Core is wrong" debate.

2025-09-05 02:07:37 CEST

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Bitcoin Core can reverse the stupid changes

2025-09-05 02:06:50 CEST

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So is Bitcoin Core removing the stupid changes

2025-09-05 02:06:26 CEST

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They don't have to be real sickos, they can be state attackers, then they come after us with the public on their side

2025-09-05 02:05:34 CEST

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I think just removing the witness discount would suffice. Why do you want to get rid of it?

2025-09-04 20:35:45 CEST

Bitcoin Core will be used as a mule for free, unstoppable CP/CSAM by sickos or state actors, in order to attack Bitcoin and prosecute those who knowingly allow it.
This is the attack...
Once op_return is removed, plain JPEG images (not part of multiple fragments inside scripts that need to be pieced together and decoded, but plain JPEG/GIF/MP4) will be sent through your Bitcoin HardCore node version 30+, from one paedophile to others, possibly sold (Knots runners won't touch them, ever). Your Core node will happily pass it along, providing anonymity to the criminals (or state attackers, or Epstein's old clients).
They will pay a well below market rate initially (eventually zero), and never even need to get the transaction mined - key point. The original filter that Satoshi introduced, FEES, will be effectively bypassed...
After some time, these low-fee CP/CSAM txs will be dropped by Bitcoin Core nodes, but if they don't, the sicko(s) can do an RBF of the transaction (or if they have chained them, an RBF of a single low-fee unconfirmed parent), to cancel and invalidate the transaction so they don't have to actually pay for any of the downstream higher fee large transactions.
They will have successfully used your computer to transfer and potentially sell horrible images, without paying (so forget "filters don't work, they'll get on chain anyway"), thanks you being complicit, and thanks to all the Core devs who allowed this in. And those gaslighting against us saying this is wrong.
Then public opinion will turn heavily against Bitcoiners, if it isn't bad enough now. We already know it's going to get worse as most miss out.
@adam3us has pointed out, incorrectly (I'll explain), that this attack can't work, because of some "package relay". Sounds like this is a filter to stop RBFs of a parent if there is a long chain of transactions dependent on it.
A clever idea, but it can't work, Adam. Do you know why? Because your resistance itself is a form of FILTER, and FILTERS DON'T WORK, remember? You can not use an argument against us if that same argument is used to defend yourself.
An attacker can get their cancelling RBF transaction mined by going directly to a miner. Then the scumbags get away with using your Bictoin Core node for CP/CSAM transmission - it's irrelevant whether it gets on a block or not, it doesn't need to, the paying paedophile got his images.
Ironically, filters not working is the very reason we need filters.
There are 3 solutions.
1) Bitcoin Core reverses this STUPID rushed decision, introducing completely unnecessary risk to Bitcoin.
2) We all run Knots, and it becomes the reference client.
3) We move away from Core to Knots, and maybe others will pop up, and there is no reference client, meaning fewer meaningful changes to Bitcoin become likely.
Bitcoin doesn't need changes; it needs general light maintenance, so just maintain it, don't change it!
x.com/adam3us/status…

2025-08-31 09:10:21 CEST

Today on "Old man yells at society" ...
Self serve checkout at Safeway, staffed by 5 people ushering people to checkout... "Paying by card?"
STFU, everyone is paying by card, you're just in the way.
Just make each machine accept card or cash and you save paying the salary of five people.
They tukerrjowbs!!

2025-08-28 12:49:57 CEST

I think we shouldn't get sucked into the distracting technical debate about OP_RETURN -- there is a principle that's at stake:
Do not make meaningful changes that nearly all users are against, for debatable marginal benefit, EVEN IF it's "better" technically.
That's not your place, nor your role, open source developer.
Satoshi gave Bitcoin to humanity so we all own it. You are putting your speech on OUR PROPERTY; you are a steward, not the boss.
As people migrate away to other versions, it becomes clearer to see that the consensus rules are no longer in the Bitcoin Core code as they once were (reference implementation). They are now in all our nodes, all agreeing with each other's DNA expression, with the resulting phenotype being the timechain.
To come to understand this, consider if Bitcoin Core changed the consensus rules unilaterally - that can't change what all the users run, where the true rules are.
And so, the more diversification away from Core, the less of a central point of failure/attack it becomes, and the better for Bitcoin.
Everyone should celebrate the reduction of Bitcoin Core as the first choice of Node flavour.
Core groupies are spending all day on Twitter fighting... but why? Why do they care? Why are they seemingly so coordinated? It would be a far more natural a response to not care and let people run what that want to run. Something is fishy about the behaviour.
"Oh, it's not your property, you can just fork, or make your own version from scratch"...
EXACTLY. You can only pick one...
1)
Bitcoin is not all our property, we can all fork or use Knots (OK, then why are you fighting on Twitter with Knots users? Why are their nodes being ddos attacked? What's the incentive?)
2)
Bitcoin is all our property and you fucked up.

2025-08-28 08:45:53 CEST

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Mandatory viewing

2025-08-27 16:11:59 CEST

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Strategy has zero Bitcoin

2025-08-22 10:04:06 CEST

Why aren't you constantly violently sick in your stomach that you, your parents, your grandparents, humanity, all worked their butts off, and central banks just print their money out of thin air for free, and tell you with a straight face that it's so you can have a job, and keep prices stable.
MOTHER FUCKEN WHAT?
Buy #Bitcoin to destroy these fuckers, and then we also incarcerate them all for good measure.

2025-08-20 14:58:46 CEST

You're a fucking retard -- experts say.

2025-08-20 09:19:58 CEST

ParmaKnots dot com has a privacy policy which is implicitly accepted by you if you buy anything at all, or even just browse the website...
"PRIVACY POLICY: Your data will not be shared with anyone under any circumstances - those asking for information or wanting to buy data can fuck off."
https://parmaknots.com

2025-08-19 10:26:25 CEST

Switzerland is a waste of energy. It could be used to mine bitcoin instead.

2025-08-18 12:43:18 CEST

Releasing today, ParmaKnots ™ - A home ParmanodL server in MiniPC form.
ParmanodLs also available here. I did a custom web design, hope you like it, feedback welcome.
https://parmaknots.com
For those who are not in to clicking...
https://blossom.primal.net/af22d86fa6fede795dd41b85601a67197365240aa504ae1b35adc30307236243.png

2025-08-12 12:20:43 CEST

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Your mother 😭

2025-08-12 12:17:05 CEST

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Fuck

2025-08-12 02:36:55 CEST

Parmanode runs Bitcoin Knots by default.
It's possible to run Bitcoin Core if you must.
Version 30 will not be supported.
If you want that, install it yourself, you're not going to use my software to do it.

2025-08-10 23:02:12 CEST

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Pay up

2025-08-10 23:01:23 CEST

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https://blossom.primal.net/1e62d20342a7f3a0f3ad932929510a94c665bbfe0628f8e0dfe724ebffd7941b.jpg

2025-08-10 23:01:02 CEST

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Seriously...

2025-08-10 22:51:32 CEST

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1 sat, please, and 10 more for incorrect syntax, penalty.

2025-08-10 22:50:41 CEST

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1 sat, please
And
100 sat penalty for calling it a horse

2025-08-10 22:29:04 CEST

White to play and win. Winner earns 1 #ƨat zapped from Parman. Wrong answers must zap me1 sat.
https://blossom.primal.net/acc41c102c4a35ea1867da08cc7f65f1d128011357d94b3f61ab9eed2a3b9128.jpg

2025-08-10 19:06:53 CEST

It's happening.
I'm moving away from VSC and Cursor to a full VIM IDE.
Wasn't satisfied with VIM integration in VSC/Cursor, needing mouse more often than I'd like.
Combined with some tools including Tmux, I see a bright mouseless future, and Holy Panda keys.

2025-08-09 10:05:33 CEST

Did you know that BTCPay server with Parmanode is freakin great and will continue to improve?
Installing is easy AF.
Connecting lightning liquidity to BTCPay is made easy AF.
Back up and restoring database is made easy AF with Parmanode custom backup script.
Lightning channel backups are easy AF.
Lightning Watchtower easy AF.
Might do automated backups next, and then ParmaSync to a ParmaTwin (yours or a friend's remote encrypted server) nightly.
Be entertained.

2025-08-06 16:35:01 CEST

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Not on purpose by the way it's just a pattern I've noticed

2025-08-06 16:34:05 CEST

I make friends by viciously picking a fight with someone, and then apologise 😅

2025-08-04 15:11:59 CEST

THE PROBLEM
To flourish, humanity needs to go back to free market money (not issued by central banks or governments, but arising from the market) that can’t be manipulated by central banks and/or governments, nor eradicated. This money also needs to be digital, to facilitate international value transfer, yet scarce (digital tokens have always been “copyable”).
Gold used to work well, but being physical, as trade expanded beyond the local town to international trade, peer-to-peer exchange of gold became impractical. The solution to that weakness was to centralize it (using bank ledgers instead, or bank “notes”), and digitize it (digitization of notes/contracts), allowing banks to become intermediaries of all non-P2P transfers of money. Gold’s physical nature led to the introduction of gold-backed paper/digital money, but then ultimately to fiat money — government-issued money not backed by anything at all, not even gold. Fiat money costs nothing to produce, is not scarce, and allows governments to avoid market forces. It allows the government to always expand, facilitating a relentless and gradual march to worldwide totalitarianism.
Satoshi Nakamoto solved this problem with Bitcoin.
THE SOLUTION
Using a distributed ledger (ledger, meaning a record of all the transactions; distributed, meaning existing in many places at once, all in synchrony), and disappearing from the public, he spawned a money that has no central authority, no CEO — no one at all, who can be asked/forced to shut it down. Every single node needs to be eradicated to eliminate Bitcoin, and there are thousands scattered all over the planet.
That lack of central authority in a digital token would leave a problem — double-spending. How can anyone be sure of the true state of the ledger? What if a token existing in wallet number one that has been spent, is spent again from wallet number one? Who decides which payment was first, and which was later (and is illegitimate)?
This was solved partly by creating the timechain (“blockchain”). Transactions are put in blocks — data grouped together, like pages in a book — and each block includes the hash of the previous block.
With the blockchain, the order of these blocks can’t simply be changed around without anyone noticing. If somebody changes transactions in block number one, then the hash of block one will change. The hash of block one is part of the data of block two. That means changing block one will cause the data (the hash) in block two to be wrong. That makes block two invalid. If block two is invalid, then every block after that would be invalid. You can’t have block 750,000 be valid if block two was not valid:
The blockchain makes the ledger tamper-evident.
The second part of the solution to double-spending was proof-of-work. Note that a re-ordering (or rewriting) of blocks is actually quite easy (and almost costless) to do — it just requires a computer to redo the hashes and link the blocks together. If a new version was presented to you, there isn’t a way for you to know which version is correct — without proof-of-work. What Satoshi Nakamoto did was use PoW (invented previously by Dr. Adam Back) to make these hashes costly to produce.
This costliness was introduced by adding a rule to the Bitcoin protocol, placing restrictions on what hash results are valid, necessitating multiple brute-force attempts at hashing in order to meet the requirement. Random brute force attempts by a computer, that cost electricity, is how it’s done, but it is often explained in a way that’s wrong and hated by informed Bitcoiners. “Bitcoin miners are looking for solutions to difficult math problems.” They are not math problems.
If attackers were to modify block one, they’d have to also find a valid hash (by entering and iterating some meaningless data until the hash is valid), then enter the new hash into block two and in doing so invalidate the hash of block two. They’d have to change block two in such a way to make it hash correctly, and then put that hash in block three, modifying block three.
Then they’d have to repeat the work done to hash block three, and so on, all the way to the current block. The energy expended in mining Bitcoin blocks thus protects the network from attack by making it too expensive to repeat all the energy use. To rewrite Bitcoin from block one would require a repetition of the entire world’s cumulative energy expended on Bitcoin so far.
Proof-of-work makes the blockchain tamper-proof.
The other purpose of PoW is to solve the “Byzantine Generals’ Problem.” This arises in a distributed network of computers all needing to know the current state of affairs, and no message between computers can be trusted to report the current state (just like the predicament of the Byzantine Generals).
The Byzantine Generals’ problem is solved by creating a rule that the chain of Bitcoin blocks with the most cumulative work is the valid chain (often approximated as “the longest chain”). This eliminates any requirement to trust an authority to state which version of the timechain is the valid one, should there be any discrepancy, and simply relies on everyone agreeing to that rule of “most work = the valid chain.”
Another problem that Nakamoto considered when creating new money is the problem of fair issuance, and how to do it in such a way to maximize adoption. Nakamoto achieved this by staggering the release of new coins, allowing some of the later adopters access to newly issued coins.
50 bitcoins are released to miners every block, which occurs on average every 10 minutes, and that number of coins issued is halved every 210,000 blocks which is roughly every 4 years. Due to the programmed halving of issuance, there will come a day (estimated in the year 2140) where no further division is possible past the smallest unit (1 Satoshi = 0.00000001 bitcoin), and therefore the supply is mathematically capped and very close to 21 million coins.
The difficulty adjustment was also crucial to prevent the supply cap of 21 million coins from being brought in ahead of schedule — it’s interesting to note, for the experienced Bitcoiner, that the difficulty adjustment does not affect the supply cap of bitcoin as such — it just prevents a change to the schedule of release. Even if there was no difficulty adjustment, the 21 million cap can not be breached.
Finally, the creation of this money affected something outside the code – game theory. In the same way that the human genome is ultimately responsible for magnificent monuments and works of art, those things are not actually found in our genetic code. This is described by “The Extended Phenotype,” a book and term coined by Richard Dawkins. Bitcoin’s code results in humans acting in such a way to ensure its success. When you learn about Bitcoin in-depth, and the game theory surrounding it, you naturally come to this conclusion:
The only thing that can stop Bitcoin is worldwide coordinated authoritarianism, and the only thing that can stop worldwide coordinated authoritarianism is Bitcoin.
https://armantheparman.com/tpwm/

2025-08-04 11:08:39 CEST

Termites. Fuck. Gonna cost me sats.