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Yeah, also wasn't there a flaw in that protocol
Besides, what you said is false too because anonymity set can't be larger than the number of users. You can shuffle a million time, but if there are 50 users and 40 of them are very bad people it's not going to help much right? On the other hand, you can churn Monero transactions a few time and get an anonimity set that's significantly larger than that.
Honnestly I think Bitcoiners silently dropped privacy as a goal.

2026-04-26 16:19:14 CEST

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Not as insane as centralized/multisig money... Hence bitcoin (is this community seriously devolving??)

2026-04-10 04:24:12 CEST

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Well, at least I can still write sentences with proper arguments to communicate with my peers. So, don't be surprised if the dumbfuck is still there tomorrow morning, looking at you from the mirror of your bathroom.

2026-04-09 11:28:36 CEST

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Though in Monero every coin is tainted.
I once bought some on an exchange, withdrew it, and later redeposited it to same sam CEX to sell it back. If you know monero, it means they can see it came from them, right?
Still got a proof of fund request for that little $100 stack. Dropped that exchange ofc but clearly the conclusion is: every monero is tainted. Cause "tainted coins" in practice means: it get you signaled as a bad actor.
After all, the new normal is that you are a criminal unless you can prove otherwise. Though at least it's fungible right. 😂

2026-04-03 06:12:04 CEST

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Ahahaha 🤣🤣🤣

2026-04-03 06:11:11 CEST

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Note the "a subject that *may* not exist"... Great job at acknowledging you're not a person!! 🤣🤣🤣

2026-04-03 05:43:00 CEST

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@nprofile…fm4n : and this is engineered.
#nevent1q…f9yh
https://blossom.primal.net/0c981d184e66ebf73fa811ab63c841a944ff4d7182cb5992817fef734f34c152.png

2026-04-03 03:25:22 CEST

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But why 🤔

2026-04-02 17:27:46 CEST

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Good to see someone being grounded about that tech. 100% agreed 👍

2026-04-02 06:06:22 CEST

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Just going to put that here: It's the proliferation of their *own* money that they cannot control that is causing that state of the world. Just thought it's something to mind, cause for all the good I see in Bitcoin, it won't stop them from printing their shit.

2026-04-02 06:04:02 CEST

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Legend

2026-04-02 06:03:05 CEST

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My dude still lives in the 80s 🤣🤣🤣

2026-04-01 21:41:07 CEST

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Happy New Year 😁

2026-04-01 21:39:29 CEST

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yeah sure cause maximalism didn't look like a religion enough as it was 🤔

2026-04-01 21:26:43 CEST

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In a feudal system, laws are only for the plebs. The fact that the ruling class will always have access to financial privacy & tax evasion as a privilege is how they get to beat society at the money game.
They can do it openly among themselves, to no consequences. But if one of us dare claiming just the same right they gave themselves, suddenly we are treated as a bad actor. Rigged game. 🤔

2026-04-01 21:21:22 CEST

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Really can't understand that mindset. AI have been feeding out fiat speculation and the biggest gov subsidies ever. It also has totalitarian implications. It's literally shitcoiner than shitcoins.
At least, some (rare) altcoins have produced decentralized infrastructures and/or interesting crypto. 🤔

2026-04-01 02:50:51 CEST

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Right but iirc it's when you're already part of an investigation where your data is relevant? You message here makes it sound like it could be part of security routines?

2026-03-30 03:21:59 CEST

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Mondays? 🤔

2026-03-29 03:12:15 CEST

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Is that really what he meant? I mean it's really weird indeed but I wonder what did he has in mind precisely, in term of implementation...

2026-03-29 03:10:05 CEST

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Actually most maximalists won't criticize monero and give it a pass. As for which coin with prevail, it's not only about their intrisics qualities, but also about how the general context will evolve. The more adversarial the gov, the more monero will grow. The more friendly the gov, the more bitcoin will grow.

2026-03-28 02:23:06 CET

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lame 😤

2026-03-28 02:17:44 CET

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No. The first clue was: the guy is a fucking politician, my dude!!

2026-03-27 08:51:41 CET

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I think that's both a logical & a technical fallacy, because dozens of thousands of nodes are already verifying the blockain. If there was any fraudulous transaction in there, we'd know, or else it's utterly broken.
The idea that everyone needs to verify the blockchain is not only preposterous, it's also a complete misunderstanding of Satoshi explicit design, and reading that kind of crap from a new node implementation isn't great at all. 🤔
If you understand Bitcoin, then you know that *you can trust the network as a whole not to include any fraudulous transaction*, you're definitely no just "trusting someone else", duh!

2026-03-27 08:43:24 CET

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An intelligence test is by definition impossible, because real intelligence implies the ability to dodge an intelligence test if the context requires it. 🤯

2026-03-27 08:37:21 CET

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I think resistance is good in that it signals distros they'll loose their users if they try to enforce age verification, but as usual I despise people pushing confusing/disingenuous/false assertions for the sake of the cause.
There are many ways to resist, and frontal opposition is not always the best strategy for a given entity. Some of them will leave obvious loopholes. Some of them will pretend to try & fail. Some of them will stop halfway, and others will make sure to produce an open alternative on the side.
Just because an entity or a person isn't obviously vocal doesn't mean they don't care. Just because some isn't frontal doesn't mean they are a traitor to humanity. Don't judge the results before the action even happens.
Resistance is good, but finesse is key!
#nevent1q…fp6a

2026-03-27 08:26:49 CET

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Just going to put that here: "implementing are verification" is misleading, other distros are just using vanilla systemd that has a added a field for birthdate, which not only you don't have to fill but also there's no UI to fill it now.
Ofc some of these distros will end up complying, but it'll probably be opt-in & let you decided whether or not you want to fill it, and/or enforce it only in specific region.
Real enforcement won't happen at the OS level but at the website level, where websites will lock you out if you don't have the age AND are in a legislated region.
Anyway it's just too early to know which distro will do what, and using systemd is not a relevant signal these distro will mess with you for the time being...

2026-03-25 11:01:50 CET

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Good luck with that :p AI is a coinless shitcoin my dude 😂

2026-03-25 11:00:31 CET

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I think it's just a way to let technical divergences play out in a more sane/secure/informed way than with Knots, without producing too much risks for an hard fork.
Personally I'd be up for *really* having multiple implementations building consensus. Naively, I don't think an implementation causing a minority hard fork is all that bad since miners have a huge incentive to fix asap anyway. 🤔

2026-03-25 00:03:02 CET

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To their point they didn't say core should stop existing 🤔

2026-03-24 05:01:38 CET

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Bitcoiners 5 years ago: multisig bridge are evil scams!!
Bitcoiners now:

2026-03-24 04:59:30 CET

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Remove the word 'genius' & it doesn't contradict the fact that it totally sucks anymore.

2026-03-24 03:36:59 CET

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Very interesting, would love to talk with him, unfortunately he didn't even try to address the technical points raised Ver, which is a little weird for a cypherpunk technical guys who has the whole bitcoin picture in his head.

2026-03-24 03:03:17 CET

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It's really weird to prefer the centralized version vs. the decentralized one. What about security lol. Also, you might very well know the people running your fedimint (that's actually the original use case), and not know your Cashu provider.

2026-03-24 02:59:44 CET

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Your can avoid both by having your VPN spying & routing you 🫵

2026-03-24 02:54:45 CET

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#monero giga-pump 🤔

2026-03-23 16:01:39 CET

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Is that a new kind of insult or something?

2026-03-23 16:00:15 CET

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What? lol

2026-03-23 14:45:44 CET

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Never say never, but you are a wise man. 🫡

2026-03-23 14:44:10 CET

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With all due respect, if pointing out at other, unrelated attack vectors is a valid answer then let's all drop all form of security consideration altogether.
The alternative is of course to give it a serious thought through adversarial thinking and poking at the holes... As I already stated it's not just buffer overflows: for example your API sends request and it's really great to send messages back to home such as e.g. a hash of a block. Way different from exploiting a codec.
Generally speaking, the idea that WASM is fully isolated is incorrect because in order to be useful you give it access to interfaces that are not necessarily well secured. As soon as you give it an API, and maybe memory chunks that could be interpreted on the other side, it opens interesting opportunities... Especially as abritrary execution is already available free!
Agreed that UX can mitigate that, but even then I see it as a big welcome sign for all sorts of abuses. And you can be certain people will click on it. ;)

2026-03-23 12:58:55 CET

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I understand your point, but this is not adversarial thinking.
What I see is that it's opening the door for me to run arbitrary code on juicy target (bitcoiners/developers) machines. I also have an amazing delivery vector — no need to click on a .exe, no need to open a attachment, just a client opening an event in the background.
Now, I just need to find a way to break that compartimentation, and I'm pretty sure the API, if not some implementation bug, is going to give me just that... ;)
(And to be honnest, I didn't dig into it in details so I might be wrong; I'm sharing first impressions after a quick read, but I can already see the opportunity there!)

2026-03-23 02:07:57 CET

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This is Javascript all over again: I can run malware, spyware, viruses, mine Monero... Except I don't even you to connect to my website: all I need is a trending note... Why?? 🤔

2026-03-22 21:48:38 CET

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lol. Very smart to blame it on the AI agent. Now there's some real intelligence at play here. 😂

2026-03-22 02:15:58 CET

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Man you really need to chill 🤔🤭

2026-03-22 02:06:15 CET

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All problems left pending & unresolved in Bitcoin have already been solved by Monero...

2026-03-22 02:02:09 CET

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Chill man 🤔

2026-03-22 02:00:13 CET

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Cause people want private communications 🤔

2026-03-22 01:53:24 CET

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I think it's true of any cause & any ideology — anything that can excuse bad behavior works.

2026-03-21 02:33:01 CET

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A good cause = a perfect cover for all the sociopaths out there.

2026-03-21 02:27:30 CET

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This one makes me think hard 😂

2026-03-20 03:07:26 CET

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email's not very secure in the first place 🤔

2026-03-19 22:07:29 CET

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She didn't contradict the White House but she didn't support them either. In other words she knows it's bullshit but she can't say so without resigning... wonder why she doesn't, though?

2026-03-19 21:40:03 CET

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Mining pools doesn't control anything, any miner is free to switch mining pool anytime. Also, concentration of wealth & decentralization of the infrastructure are two different things. Reasoning from facts doesn't prevent cherry picking 🤔

2026-03-19 03:16:00 CET

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Also having a way to mirror youtube channels in nostr and watching the vids without ads could be a killer feature :p

2026-03-19 03:14:28 CET

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Interesting, though your conclusion is just wrong: Nostr became easy to use only recently, and many people who tried & left because of the poor UX now need to be convinced to come back. As someone who wanted to use Nostr, left and came back, I know for sure that whatever is being done nowadays is indeed working.

2026-03-19 02:43:03 CET

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Very interesting, thanks! Though now I need to be convinced that such a quantum computer could emerge within two decades. I'm always given this as a fact, but it seems a very weak asumption.

2026-03-18 06:44:48 CET

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I've tried a lot of distros as well. Smaller distros usually end up breaking in bad ways because maintaining the whole thing durably is just an insane amount of work.
At the end, sticking with the basics saves you a lot of time & trouble, and lets you focus on actually doing thing with your machine.

2026-03-18 02:46:18 CET

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its funny they made the deficit so small

2026-03-18 02:41:36 CET

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Just use Kubuntu🤔

2026-03-17 11:30:08 CET

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Bear market rally. Big player's pocket are far from full.

2026-03-17 11:25:09 CET

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Can't Primal access that same data in the first plact though?

2026-03-17 11:15:03 CET

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what's the deal with spark?

2026-03-17 11:11:55 CET

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"Reuters took into account Banksy's privacy claims — and the fact that many of his fans wish for him to remain anonymous. Yet we concluded that the public has a deep interest in understanding the identity and career of a figure with his profound and enduring influence on culture, the art industry and international political discourse.
In so doing, we applied the same principle that Reuters uses everywhere. The people and institutions who seek to shape social and political discourse are subject to scrutiny, accountability, and, sometimes, unmasking."
Too bad they don't feel that way about the pedos who run the world. Scumbags.

2026-03-17 02:36:08 CET

I just spent 15 minutes on spark memes & bashing, and I still don't know what it is, how it works, and what's precisely the problem with it... People bashing & meming might feel good about it, but they are definitely not promoting education. 🤔

2026-03-15 14:28:58 CET

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The first cup moistens my lips and throat.
The second cup breaks my loneliness.
The third cup searches my barren entrail, but to find therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs.
The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration; all the wrongs of life pass out through my pores.
At the fifth cup I am purified.
The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals.
The seventh cup - ah, but I could take no more! I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves.
Where is Paradise? Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither.

2026-03-15 14:26:38 CET

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Drink the 7 tea & you will find bliss

2026-03-12 02:46:12 CET

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fastest EV adoption is in China ;)

2026-03-11 02:03:21 CET

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And then some Epstein leak will reveal that these guys pushing for total control are actually the pedos. (confidence: 80%)

2026-03-10 10:38:13 CET

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Einstein? 🤔

2026-03-04 06:14:18 CET

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OMG, people trying to sound smart debating terms they don't understand. 🤦
Permissionless means that everyone can use bitcoin, run a node & mine without an authorization from a central authority.
Does anyone here want a government to KYC us before we can even use bitcoin?? (except for Luke & Mechanic, who might actually mean that)
Some of you guys should start by learniny the basics before trying as heroic bitcoin defenders lol. (obviously, not talking about @nprofile…vnu3 here...)

2026-03-02 09:24:47 CET

And the follow-up, because it's so gross I just can't keep it to myself:
"Thank you for the reply and uploaded information. We will review if you have returned to ******* and will contact you if you haven't."
#nevent1q…n5rk

2026-03-01 16:14:34 CET

Just received that bitcoin ad. They're really giving their all on that one!
"Thank you for the reply. We apologise for our reply. To complete the verification, please still provide the following: We have noticed that you are in ******* for a while now. Can you please advise on the length of your visit? Have you moved abroad permanently? When are you planning to return to *******? You have 14 days to complete the process otherwise your Curve account may become blocked."
(Yes, they took 3 months to process my reply and now are pressuring me for delays they can't handle anyway. That's the kind of company they are 🤔)
#nevent1q…e4gz

2026-03-01 05:30:07 CET

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If it weren't temporary it would kill all chances of ever scaling bitcoin 🤔

2026-03-01 05:28:41 CET

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Interestingly, previous Jack's company also had intelligence at its core, as we've seen with the Twitter leaks. 😂

2026-03-01 05:20:24 CET

https://image.nostr.build/69786b07bf30f16f7bf48c94ba4dea2d6c5588ac6fd8c3215225fc3313fac8b8.png https://image.nostr.build/27dc9159a4ac0cc14c0660f854de44450a98af6d3ef9e705cb5a482776e1dcac.jpg
Browsing Afternic with Brave browser since today, was perfectly fine last week... Talk about enshittification! (Afternic is one of the biggest domain name market place, owned by Godaddy)
#nevent1q…g3rv

2026-03-01 01:13:36 CET

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Fully agreed, multiple layers of divide & conquer strategies. We need level-headed peers who stay unswayed by it, and know how to expose their views without picking a war. 🤔

2026-02-28 18:43:33 CET

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Who said we can't do anything about it though? Certainly not me. ✊

2026-02-28 06:45:10 CET

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When both side are wrong, picking one is wrong. "The community" is mostly busy building or living their life & lost interest in that little war a long time ago.

2026-02-28 05:41:32 CET

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I didn't dig deep, but what the timelines seems to show is that, each time Epstein provided money to members the community it was short-lived,. You'd imagine that's because someone ended to run a background check and detected the red flags.
Cypherpunks are first and foremost a bunch of security-oriented paranoid that will instantly consider how someone like that could be leveraged against them & bitcoin.
Now, Back on the island is a whole other thing and it definitely calls for transparency. I also wonder how fast after that he did cut the financial ties.

2026-02-28 05:32:08 CET

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I think it's a fallacy. Just because it's not perfect doesn't mean it's not helping. BIP110 would definitely reduce spam. It's just that the cons are unaxceptable & the whole process is fucked up anyway.

2026-02-28 05:28:50 CET

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Just because you failed at doing the right thing doesn't mean you should suddenly engage in doing the wrong one. Tearing the community apart in a sloppy engineering contest & personal attacks is not going to fix anything.

2026-02-28 05:25:27 CET

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I would agree with you here. I think he had to put significant efforts into it, and I think it would be both harder and more expensive to make it BIP110 compatible.
So basically he's making two points:
- A motivated state actor will always be able to put contiguous csam on bitcoin if they decide to do so. — you just won't fix that.
- If we make it more expensive for spammers, we might end up in a situation where the spam becomes more damaging in order to get in anyway.
However, he's also showing that counter-measures make spamming significantly more difficult. The problem being, once someone writes and standardize a work-around, it becomes easy again (just more expensive).
Personally I would still favor easy/non-damaging counter-measures, but not as aggressive as BIP110 that will clearly come back to bite us.

2026-02-28 05:12:31 CET

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Resist to what? Personally, I would resist to bad engineering & bad faith, which in my view is *both* core v30 and BIP110.
If we keep going down that path, it could very well kill bitcoin. I want quality contributors & quality contributions. I think everyone should enforce have the same high standards.
I still think spam issues can be mitigated, but this needs to be done well by someone who's level-headed, not as some personal vendetta that doesn't care for the consequences.

2026-02-28 00:50:18 CET

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Actually current block subsidies are about $200,000 so it's about $475 per transaction. It's impressive how much of the security is paid by monetary emission. Though otoh bitcoin price doubling every 4 years is enough to compensate the halving.

2026-02-28 00:30:33 CET

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I saw that, not sure how accurate the "I could do one that respect BIP-110" claim is, since he didn't, but I guess that would be more of the same tricks.
I still fallback to the same idea that, just because you can't make it perfect doesn't mean you shouldn't try to improve it. I still think OP_RETURN should be capped and doing crazy shit should be made hard. Otoh I don't need to be convinced BIP-110 is a bad upgrade, since it's been my point all along.

2026-02-27 23:42:26 CET

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No, what he's saying is that making it BIP-110 compatible requires more tricks but is nonetheless possible without breaking continuity.

2026-02-27 18:42:00 CET

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I am not completely convinced of that continuity is meaningless. While are right that states & adversaries use csam against freedom projects, that's not a valid reason not to have measures against it. On the contrary, it is then quite logical to raise some defenses to limit their leverage.

2026-02-27 04:35:03 CET

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This is not true: OP_RETURN has been uncapped at the consensus level since its introduction in 2014, the attack vector was open all along and everyone technical knew about it, including the press.
You are actually contradicting yourself by affirming both "OP_RETURN is not the only vector" and "v30 opened this attack vector"... in the same message 🤦.
You also reject that capping OP_RETURN would be a sufficient change, but pretends that RDTS is doing nothing more than reversing Core v30... 🤔
Since you can't ignore that your arguments are loaded with technical and logical fallacies, and since you are essentially taking your peers for manipulable morons, I can only conclude that the good of Bitcoin isn't the point here. Sad to see a long-term contributor go down such a path, but at this point this is clearly malicious behavior.
Thank you for your past contributions. May you someday come back to your senses. 🫡

2026-02-26 14:18:33 CET

Ideology is the mind-killer. Ideology is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my ideology. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see ideology’s path. Where the ideology has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

2026-02-26 14:03:22 CET

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Not at all, it was very interesting. If people can't read then they are the ones cutting themselves away from quality knowledge, and there's no fix to that. 🤔

2026-02-26 13:19:30 CET

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This is exactly how you're supposed to feel during a bearmarket. That way, big finance can hoard up the coins while retail stays out of the game til the next FOMO 🤔

2026-02-26 09:50:01 CET

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What I don't understand is, if contiguous, illegal content is the major concern here, why not exclusively focus on capping OP_RETURN and going for the kill? Why mixing it with additional restrictions that are addressing a different, less pressing issue, and that will objectively cause the whole thing to fail, when you had a clear shot at getting the high priority issue fixed?
Also, we've been aware of this attack vector for so many years? Why is it suddenly an emergency now, when even the press has been talking about it for at least a decade & contiguous illegal content could have been posted on chain anytime by a well organized adversary?
Finally, why pretending it's just reversing what core v30 did, when you can't ignore this bip is doing much more than that?

2026-02-26 06:07:01 CET

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Curious if you can use this in a private way, possibly paying with lightning?

2026-02-26 00:28:19 CET

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You are just being voluntary obtuse in order to win an argument. Anyone can pretend not to understand a point. Also, you talk like you are charge, but it's not like anyone is going to adjust anything at that point, right? It's just one small group trying to impose their views to everyone else no matter the disagreements, and going to fail achieving anything at all for that very reason. 🤔

2026-02-25 18:13:03 CET

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Thank you for the good work! 👊

2026-02-25 18:09:13 CET

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I feel like I didn't address your point. The bip110.org page clearly states that it is incompatible with BitVM, which I consider as a monetary use case.
The second thing, that's more technical and feeling a bit lazy to explain in detail, is that it forbids OP_IF in new tapleaves. Now, they say old transactions can still spend if they have that OP_IF, but it's not exactly true. Transactions can be chained — using pre-signed transactions — into multi-steps trees that are commited to ahead of time, and if one of these has as OP_IF in there, it'll be forbidden to be spend. I think it's a relatively marginal case, but I wouldn't say it's esoteric either. Bitcoin is an open system of programable money, and it's pretty likely that various people had build homemade contracts or small systems here and there having this in. If BIP110 were to pass, we would see some of the cases appear from time to time about funds blocked by it, from people being oblivious of the situation or the details of the forks.
Clearly this isn't my main reason to oppose BIP110, but it shows how sloppy that whole thing is. I'm much more concerned about the signal it would send to other builders working tirelessly to scale this thing, if a BIP hurting their work were to pass... Building on Bitcoin is demanding enough as it is; but having to secure funding for a tech that has just been made indefinitely impossible by some reckless fork is going to be a whole new level of pain.

2026-02-25 17:48:26 CET

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Well, I think I did both in my previous notes. BitVM, Ark and lightning are all going to suffer from this, and we're not talking about some speculative work, we're talking about updates that have been researched & pending way longer than BIP110. The update process in Bitcoin is not about pushing & bullying but about proving to the community that your solution is the absolute best one we can think off, and that the downside have been carefully thought about.
So not only BIP110 is a bad upgrade, but it would indefinitely prevent other, much better designed upgrade that have properly been trying to build consensus for longer than it has. 🤔

2026-02-25 16:27:42 CET

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Wouhou! My first zap, thank you friend 👍

2026-02-25 16:25:25 CET

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Ah, thanks! Wallet wasn't linked. Mind trying now? 🙏

2026-02-25 16:23:49 CET

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Sorry? 😁