Bitcoin class of 2011.
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Last Notes npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker There is something to be said for reproducible builds, but that problem is miniscule compared to the very real problem of a small company making mistakes like coldcard did. They don't have the team going over every line of code for every update. A big company behind your wallet that is responsible to stockholders and has millions or billions of investment at stake won't be making such mistakes. I wish Walletscrutiny took that criteria into consideration. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I was very lucky, but the Coldcard fiasco cost me a lot, nonetheless. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker There are other options to self custody. Look at Bitkey. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Banks steal all kinds of things from deposit boxes. Anyone keeping bitcoin keys in one Is a fool. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Zero insurers will be interested the moment that they learn that user understanding of technical concepts including cryptography play a major role in these coins' safety. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Yeah, but we made fun of Pomp quite a lot. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Lol, yeah, there's no need at all to securely store secrets and have them accessible when you need them. What were we all thinking? npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Those people do great escaping with Bitcoin. Just ask the HRF. They did a huge paper on it. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I see. So instead of taking a Porsche and covering it in vantablack stealth tech so it can't be seen by radar, let's just take a beat-up old black tricycle and do the same to it. Surely that'll make it much better! npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker It was never bad in any way, but it was also never easy to import those seeds back into it to make them useful. You really need a dedicated thermal printer for it, so you can print out a QR code for every key you generate there. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker "Bitcoin provides no privacy" - Lie #1. It can be more private than Monero if you know how to use it well. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Uh-huh. Clearly. I'm as dumb as a rock and you're a genius. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Crazy to think she accomplished all of that after jiggling her naked bits in her first few films around 1962. Had such a great body... npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I do. But I'm not retarded so I run a Bitcoin node instead of that one. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I came to ask about this too... Keychat is Nostr-based and the best chat I've ever seen. Zero KYC. It literally can't be improved upon. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I'm not knocking intent or bravery, just results. This is not the effective battlefield to be fighting flock on. The 4th amendment is very clear on this point and if you believe in your republic, it is clear that legislators should be making this bullshit illegal. It should never have been approved at all and someone needs some jailtime for implementing them. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker That whole world of exchanges, Saylor, the price of bitcoin in dollars, absolutely all of that doesn't apply to a bitcoiner. You're living in a different world than me and nothing you are saying has any importance in reality. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker More fair to say that shitcoiners are flooding nostr. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker People are rising against flock, but to say it actually works is a stretch. Have you been to deflock.org yet? There's like 17 of these things surrounding my house alone. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Anyone who moved to other chains has automatically and forever outed themselves as very much not smart. They gave up the greatest store of wealth mankind has ever created for a scam, plain & simple. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Just since 2011. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker When BIP110 fails miserably, absolutely nothing with bitcoin will change. Not one thing. Most of us won't even notice. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker https://nostrvpn.org/ npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker But it's not Bitcoin, so HARD PASS. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Fun little game! I was always horrible at mario but this at least keeps my entertained. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I just can't take the thought of forcing a circular economy on any place within the 1st world seriously. Circular economies work great, and exist today, in places where the money is broken. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I must have failed to lay it out properly then. The fact that profitability is no longer as important as being present at the source of energy isn't up for debate. Every scale of bitcoin mining that isn't in your own home is currently either at a power generation site, or it is moving to one. Furthermore, every power producer, including all the biggies like texaco, BP, shell, even government-owned sites, they're all working on putting an appropriate amount of bitcoin mining equipment in their mix because before bitcoin existed, it was never possible to have a buyer of last resort for their product. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Seeing that they control an address with lots of coins in it is LIGHT YEARS ahead of what we had in the legacy system. It's a damn good start, and once companies normalize this much transparency, the rest is incremental, small asks. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker The tree of Tyranny must be watered with the blood of the Naughty from time to time... npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Wow that is steady. Never seen one one dying with such grace before! npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Dallas npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Awesome. Get that boy on Defcad.com asap! npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Interesting. Do you think my Texas heat will kill it? npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Beautiful. Where does it grow? I would have assumed not in a desert but you've got palm trees there... npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Anyone else experiencing some major Cringe whenever they hear "Proud to be an American" this year? (Which you can't avoid today in the US) npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Um, you're not sure that *all the energy producers in the world* intermittently mining with their excess energy would be enough to offset what you think will be lost? npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker but-why.gif npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I doubt everything this israelishill says, but at least this time I think it sounds pretty awesome! npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker No, it's not obvious, for a few reasons. Did you know that there have been days of fees far exceeding block rewards? On April 20, 2024, miners earned over $80 million in transaction fees in a single day, far surpassing the $26 million earned from block subsidies. It doesn't matter than this was just a spike in the ordinals craze... The point is that the mining infrastructure THRIVED with all that traffic and payments still go through that day. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker "an insidious effort to have prediction markets replace representative democracy as a governance model" npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker ...But...they...have...their...own...coin.... I mean WTF? npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Why are shitcoins like solana, stellar, ripple & polygon on here? I mean who asked them? npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Mine as even more convincing than that... It used my name and the sender's account was labeled as "[email protected] " at the top. I mean it couldn't resist sending them my 5m sats... Who could?? npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Ok, but that didn't really remove their power, did it? The subject at hand was the clergy's loophole to be able to control other men. Look no further than the Vatican or any theocracy to see that they still have power today. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker "who is going to pay miners? " npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Oh good. How so? npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Good to know. Been meaning to try it out for years myself... This time I think I will. Cheers! npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Yes, let's quote the organization behind bitcoin cash about lightning statistics. That'll surely win me away from lightning! npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker That's exactly what they pointlessly tried to do. And they still don't understand that they've failed to do that at scale. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Sigh... Or maybe you are half the Austrian you claim to be. (Ok, technically you didn't, but you still would have been exposed to it.) Since I was already aware of Mises/Rothbard/Austrian economics before bitcoin, I knew right up front that money lives and dies by the network effect, so they exist in competition and there could only be one. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Do you recommend powder of gummies? Why? npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I hate to barge in but you do realize that politicians weren't the only type of power back then, right? npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker But I don't store money anywhere but my hardware wallet. The only value that gets stored for me at banks throughout each month is negative. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I did coinjoin before cold storage, many many moons ago, thanks. And of course I have no aversion to using banks. Banks will exist in a bitcoin-only world if for no other reason that giving us credit. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker LOL! You think that the present day fees are representative of bitcoin's TX throughput? ;p npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Lol; the old "Everyone I don't like is hitler" response. I'll take that as a formal admission of defeat. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker But it's not a ghost town, sorry. You're just wrong about that. I think that just because you don't see all the different uses yourself you imagine that they don't exist at all. Even in the country of Peru alone I bet there is more bitcoin traffic than your mind would accept as a global number. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Then I'm guessing you were there to shitcoin. All the bitcoin maximalists I followed in those days would have argued against this narrative, excepting, of course, Roger Ver & Erik Voorheez, who later went on to shitcoin themselves. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker And yet, it's a sidechain. You keep advocating for them. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker By the way, you said: "Altcoins were supposed to be demos that, when proven reliable, were to have their features integrated into Bitcoin." npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I can't believe it. How are you defining whales? npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker And by the way, liquid is a sidechain. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I can't image why you think "people must use lightning through a trusted third party (like lightspark)" First of all, who is lightspark? Never heard of them. Secondly, assuming your point is about custodial lightning solutions, why not use liquid, or eCash like Cashu? Or run your own lightning node and be your own custodian? Or just stay on chain for now because the cost of a TX is almost always 1 sat per byte these days. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker If you think Saylor and even core devs like Zhao have "Sabotaged bitcoin's future" then you think far too little of bitcoin. It's more resilient than you imagine, and has only gotten stronger each day of the last 17 years, not weaker. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker That's not a chad move, That's getting bitcoin banned in every jurisdiction like monero is. Meanwhile, bitcoin is extremely private if you know how to use it well. (Such as self-custodial lightning or eCash.) No need for monero once those are better implimented. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker The argument for bitcoin always has and always will be that it is mankind's one single shot at trying to separate money from state. The challenge is that money itself, the very concept of it, is a network good, meaning that it lives & dies by the network effect. The more people that trade their dollars or altcoins or any other tokens in for bitcoin, the stronger it becomes, and the more successful we are at separating money from state. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker This point was brought up by roughly 50,000 pre-bitcoin maximalists during the years of 2012-2017. I have missed it! Very, very cute little misunderstanding you've got there, which led to the creation of most altcoins. But once you research bitcoin more you'll become a maximalist yourself. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Of course! Bitcoiners are all trying to separate money from state, but the challenge is that money itself, the very concept of it, is a network good, meaning that it lives & dies by the Network Effect. The more people that trade their dollars or euros or altcoins or any other tokens in for bitcoin, the stronger it becomes, and the more successful we are at separating money from state. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker We're not even from the same planet, you and me. Money is the most killer app in my entire galaxy, and for humanity's entire freaking existence, it was something the state had to run or at least had the power to take away from us and force us to use their unbacked tickets that they inflate to infinity 100% of the time. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker "all real world commerce has fled to other useful blockchains" npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker There's just this chute in my apartment I drop things down... npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Nice! Where do you insert the pineapples? npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I'd have to actually go to a dump first. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Did I call for gatekeeping? I'm just calling them hypocrites and asking how we mute them better. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Tell me you don't know what censorship resistance is without telling me you're a flaming retard. Those are EXCHANGES, not bitcoin. Jesus! npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Mad respect for you for owning up to that! If I drank alcohol I'd have bought something from you long before now. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Altcoins have been around since 2013. I played with quite a few that year. When Ethereum launched, I was an insider in the right place at the right time, who could be sitting on $Billion$ right now if I didn't have my "high & mighty" bitcoin maximalist attitude. I'm not sorry. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker THANK YOU. Finally someone gets it. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker No, I don't like BCH. Pinoys are awesome. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Not a bot farm. Thousands of real users. Maybe even on path to become larger than us. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Such naivety to think that geniuses would want anything to do with government. These people have higher standards than that. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I see what's going on here. You are convinced that if bitcoin users use lightning, they are no longer self-sovereign because of the 2nd-tier custodians. I guess there was a time when I would have argued that point too, maybe back in 2016. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I'm quite cool with Cashu too. In fact, the more options we have that use Bitcoin as their underlying money, the better. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Almost, mostly against me. But it's pretty clear that no one else here is a blocksize war vet and don't feel as insulted as I do. Guess I'll just have to get with the times. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Wow, you guys just have no grounds in reality. Bitcoin is still an open source project and ossification is protection from the bigger threat, which you seem to welcome. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Lol, no. The problems you think lightning has are way overstated. If you think it's parasitic in nature, then you are calling me a parasite for collecting fees on my node. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker It's awesome at decentralization. No other money had that feature before. Decentralization has a price, which is measurable in transactions per second. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Wow, I forget sometimes that this knowledge isn't obvious, even to normies. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Oh sure, I've asked every merchant in the world, they all gave me a detailed report... npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker That was a typo? I understood it perfectly. 👍 npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker All of the communities at http://FBCE.io use lightning. It works great for these people, as well as every schoolkid in El Salvador who learns it in their classrooms. It works great for Steak & Shake, where I can walk in and buy anything on their menu in seconds. Why don't you go test that one out for yourself if you don't believe it. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker That explains a lot. Every day of 2017 was a day of bitcoiners suffering psychological attacks on every level from the mainstream media to our own "trusted" companies like Coinbase & BitGo. They took over forums like bitcointalk and r/btc. These guys were all so pernicious it felt like a real war at times, because they could just not act in good faith. That kind of focused energy against you takes a toll. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I know the argument but I disagree. Unless someone invented a way to made On-chain payments scale without the centralizing tradeoffs, Bitcoin had no other way to make it to visa-level TX activity. Now we've surpassed that, and as a lightning node runner it's given me an income, too. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker You've got a great way of looking at it, but as a veteran of the blocksize war, this just feels wrong. I guess time will sort out the bad actors among them. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker The side that is muting you now. You sound so desperate that my face experienced 3 separate cringes during that rant. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Missed that... I guess because my feed was crowded out with so many BCHNostr posts. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker Yeah, I'm sure a bunch of normal people are here because of BCH. That must be it. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker It is nature healing, I guess. I do hope this brings them back to bitcoin eventually. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker I agree; but that particular group doing that particular thing is insulting since they spent years declaring that lightning doesn't work, so you need BCH. npub12u423pq5c6c5gvyzlekk5u9s5ksnyd27yemuvu3l9gpqpcnx545s6f8pyh LukeParker We were mad at BCH people since 2017. Try to keep up.
