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You’re confusing routing with enforcement.
Bitcoin isn’t a packet network, it’s a global arbitration system with finite capacity.
Layering only works while users can still enforce their claims on L1 within the required time window. When that becomes too expensive, the system shifts from trustless to trusted.
Your probabilistic outcomes assume proof of work is obtained already, but layers create new trust games on top of future blockspace, not PoW.
The security model degrades under congestion. Because it doesn't scale, by design. Layers force you to trust your cosigner and compromise your prior PoW assurances.
The base layer size still determines how many people can retain real sovereignty. Layers force you to trust your cosigner and compromise your prior PoW assurances.

2026-03-11 11:47:13 UTC

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i have a deadline to share my paper on this in May, til then my advice is, well, actually do the math

2026-03-11 10:42:09 UTC

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I cant speak for others, but no, I am arguing that onchain scale ultimately limits active users to the millions, and if you compress too many in a layer, you quickly get cascading issues interacting directly with onchain blockspace limits. 2-week windows become too expensive to enforce, channels become trusted, etc.
It's just admitting that Bitcoin has a size. You can increase blockspace, but you can't gain meaningful scale via layering to even 10 million active users in current conditions.
Will users tolerate regular blocksize increases so layers can slowly scale at pretty much the same proportion to onchain? Or will they tolerate their channels requiring regulation due to being trusted?
Note, I AM a Lightning provider since the beginning.

2026-03-10 17:39:36 UTC

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All layers introduce counterparty risk via shared msig constructions, and then use some form of onchain enforcement to mitigate betrayals.
That's why layers dont actually scale Bitcoin, because their assurances require onchain txns.

2026-03-10 10:50:51 UTC

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Layers are just unconfirmed transactions. They do not provide scale, they provide coordination of trust.
You're just arguing for bigger blocks in the end, which is fine, but also requires coordination or trust to pull off, and can only do so much.
What you're missing about our work is that being trust-compatible enables actual scale, and having a credible exit from that scale is all you need to commoditize central providers.
You're just reciting your script while remaining ignorant of the design.

2026-03-10 06:16:23 UTC

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Sorry, I don't have time to dismantle all of your preconceived personal limits and misconceptions about our work. Your posts are hot air. Just propose something specific instead of nihilizing everything.
Trust is society, you must design it into any network.

2026-03-09 19:23:00 UTC

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show me what you got

2026-03-09 19:20:53 UTC

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You're still conflating money, payments, settlement, and credit. This is why your replying with weird hot-air "fallacies" and metaphors.
Bitcoin does not need to scale (it could never) for every economic interaction on-chain. Layers, altcoins, stablecoins, etc, already concede that.
Bitcoin only needs to be censorship-resistant sovereign money with large-enough proof of work.
Lightning "scales" payments by reusing liquidity and delaying final settlement ... thanks to trusted unconfirmed transactions, not amazing protocol design.
Atomicity scales further by digitizing trust explicitly, so obligations can be routed, netted, and settled incidentally instead of pretending every meaningful economic act must be immediate final settlement. It's a mutual credit system. It coordinates trust where it exists, not as a last resort.
An occasional block increase does not solve for global retail, commerce, or finance. It just moves the bottleneck while increasing centralization pressure on validation and propagation.
The real fallacy is thinking Bitcoin failed because finance cannot be made fully trustless. Trust is not a bug in finance, nor for massively scalable payments. It is a requirement. Trust is the subject.
The gap is whether trust is explicit, contextual, and user-controlled, or, managed by institutions and platforms.
The next step is not pretending the base layer or LN should become Visa. The next step is building open payment and credit systems that preserves Bitcoin as the settlement anchor, to the degree its users require, not a crusade for Bitcoin domination.
#nevent1q…mhe9

2026-03-08 09:12:35 UTC

Minimizing Violence Through Systems Design
https://pubky.app/post/gujx6qd8ksydh1makdphd3bxu351d9b8waqka8hfg6q7hnqkxexo/0034RZVYA7780
https://blossom.primal.net/f59d89bab86e0e8a6c16441af94623799a9963016200ba17594bfdb7061e4175.png

2026-03-08 06:31:03 UTC

Good morning, you should be building on Pubky.

2026-03-07 06:53:23 UTC

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You have Bitcoin goggles on, so you deny yourself understanding.
"Bitcoin doesn't scale" is not a mantra, it is an objective fact that any rational engineer can observe about its design.
You can just use math; it isn't actually debatable. I will make anyone look like a fool for such beliefs if given a fair format.
Further, Bitcoiners have some retarded views on what things like money, payments, and settlements are, so they support dead-end research that appeals to their emotions and hopes.
You. Will. Never. Scale. Bitcoin. Trustlessly.
Thus you will always need to digitize trust explicitly.
It's your lack of creativity & experience that makes you think any of this is coping or naive.
I am offering a solution that maintains P2P sovereignty, not excuses.
#nevent1q…z2ek

2026-03-06 17:46:40 UTC

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I'll just build it and show you instead of try to explain it further. Have fun waiting for covenants or whatever it is you do.
Freedom can't compete without coordination and trust.

2026-03-05 18:55:01 UTC

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Do you actually know our design for our system, and specifically for how to employ P2P credit?

2026-02-26 08:00:22 UTC

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You’re mixing up the bootstrap server with the actual architecture.
Yes, most users are on pubky.app right now. We’re early, so of course there’s a default host. That’s onboarding convenience, not a system dependency.
Your account isn’t “on pubky.app.”
Your identity lives via PKDNS in the millions of DHT nodes that do already exist. Your pubkey points to where your data is hosted, and that location is controlled by YOU.
So if you leave pubky.app, or Synonym's server, you don’t lose your identity, nor your continuity of threads, etc. You just point your key at a new homeserver (self-hosted, private, paid, all are supported). Same key, same social graph, new data location.
The DHT’s job is just like DNS. It answers “where do I find this user’s data?” It’s not meant to carry traffic or connect devices.
If Synonym disappeared tomorrow, users would lose a popular host, not their identities. They’d re-host, update their record, and carry on.
That’s we separate the parts:
- PKDNS
- homeservers
- indexers/apps
So decentralization isn’t “how many homeservers exist today,” it’s whether users are willing to self-host if no one else will host them.
The protocol itself, the entire system, is decentralized, but it supports centralization safely because PKDNS provides a credible exit path, unlike any other system.

2026-02-22 09:13:20 UTC

A list of products you are probably neglecting as a Bitcoiner, and as a proponent of freedom software in general.
https://blossom.primal.net/6f652f81cbc62cf919c6493ce6a92735362c4dab3f196f3fc10cee39b7f95c95.png

2026-02-19 11:13:43 UTC

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You need to isolate the problems you’re describing. You’re mixing impersonation, data integrity, and discovery into one bridge issue.
Your pubky (a public-key-signed DNS record in Mainline DHT) tells anyone where to find the canonical endpoints for your data. Any app can resolve those endpoints and verify it is looking at the user-designated source, even if that source is a trusted third party.
Integrity is a separate layer. If you want verifiable data, you still need explicit mechanisms such as cryptree structures, versioning, snapshots, mirrors, etc. Discovery does not replace integrity, it enables it.
If the complaint is: I trusted a third-party proxy account and now they are censoring or exploiting it, this gives you a way to set the record straight. You can publish canonical endpoints and authentic data. It does not and cannot prevent bad actors from continuing to impersonate you. Protocols cannot stop attempts at impersonation, they can only make authentic identity cryptographically distinguishable.
If the complaint is: impersonators exist, there is no digital way to prevent someone from copying your public data. The enforceable boundary is signature verification and canonical resolution. If an app refuses to verify, that is an application design choice, not a protocol limitation.
If the complaint is: I want trustless bridging inside legacy apps, then those apps must adopt identity resolution and verification models like this, or accept the tradeoffs of custodial bridges.
Not your key, not your account.

2026-02-15 17:13:20 UTC

Introducing BoomerTabs!
BoomerTabs is a Chrome extension for people who always have too many tabs open.
The goal was simple: make tab management faster and less annoying.
What it does best:
- Replaces tiny-labels with larger, readable tabs
- Supports multi-row layouts so you can actually see more
- Lets you drag, drop and organize tabs, including between rows
- Supports tab groups with color cues and inline collapse/expand
- Includes fast search so you can jump to the tab you need
- Handles zoom levels properly, so the UI doesn’t break at different scales
If your browser usually has dozens of tabs open, this makes a real difference!
https://github.com/BitcoinErrorLog/boomertabs
You have to install manually with the ZIP for now, but I did submit it to the Chrome Store for review!
(Yes, this is a Sunday vibe-coded project)
https://blossom.primal.net/6c2f29a7e59fda3869bc774b96a951f50f8e6aef073962fd7d7ac1eb93973cc0.png
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2026-02-11 12:09:53 UTC

Join us for a public Pubky Dev Call -- TODAY!
We’ll walk through recent updates, roadmap updates, and hear directly from the community.
- Pubky overview
- Pubky SDK walkthrough
- Events demo
- Homeserver Dashboard demo
- Q1/Q2 Roadmap
- Q&A
Google Meet:
https://meet.google.com/qfp-dihh-gbi
X stream:
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1zqJVdjrWMlKB
Starts in 5 hours from this post!
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2026-02-05 15:39:54 UTC

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You can have as many servers as you want. Just set up mirrors and add those to your pkarr record.
Nostr is a subset of Pubky capabilities.

2026-02-05 11:51:40 UTC

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Darth just has a grudge against me, so his judgment is a bit clouded.
I didn't cave to his abusive behavior, so he won't be nice til he feels like he denominated me, which is never gonna happen, so here we are!
Learn for yourself:
https://pubky.app/post/gujx6qd8ksydh1makdphd3bxu351d9b8waqka8hfg6q7hnqkxexo/0034M0VM2ETV0

2026-02-05 11:18:44 UTC

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But don't worry, Saylor definitely has the bitcoins.
#nevent1q…kgzy

2026-02-04 21:12:24 UTC

Finding things in Pubky gets easier and easier the more people use it.

2026-02-04 18:19:46 UTC

Nostr vs Pubky: The Basics
https://pubky.app/post/gujx6qd8ksydh1makdphd3bxu351d9b8waqka8hfg6q7hnqkxexo/0034M0VM2ETV0

2026-02-03 17:16:07 UTC

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I think everyone else still sees it 🤷‍♂️

2026-02-03 11:32:36 UTC

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Pubky is now open!
Pubky SDK is ready to build with!
Pubky Ring let's you keep your keys cold!
https://pubky.app
https://medium.com/pubky/opening-pubky-4bdca7dc4c77
https://pubky.org

2026-02-03 11:31:11 UTC

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Pubky is now open!
Pubky SDK is ready to build with!
Pubky Ring let's you keep your keys cold!
https://pubky.app
https://medium.com/pubky/opening-pubky-4bdca7dc4c77
https://pubky.org

2026-02-03 09:12:32 UTC

Pubky is literally a permissionless protocol. This image represents our free hosting service.
Nostr users have blinders on to anything competitive, when they should be supportive and looking for people to team up with.
I have 13 years of history in these communities; never scamming, never lying, always trying to help and build open source stuff.
Why assume anything nefarious from me, ever? It is weird and makes things very awkward when you say incorrect things and FUD our work.
It makes no sense and makes nostr look like a pile of tribal cowards. Why would anyone want to be that?
Nostr is not Bitcoin, you dont have to pretend "maximalism" makes sense.
#nevent1q…mrn8

2026-02-03 01:24:14 UTC

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You are confusing offline signing with online authentication.
Amber signs Nostr events locally because Nostr requires signing every event. Pubky does not. Pubky establishes revocable sessions so apps can authenticate without repeatedly touching the identity key. Ring needs network access to complete the login handshake, not to export keys or sign content.
You make a key, you sign in to a homeserver, you take the key offline, you are done.
No more keys needed until you want to sign in to another server or app.
You only need to be online to auth or update your server location. Otherwise the key is mostly not used.
Pubky allows actual cold keys that only need to be warmed if you move servers or add more apps. You can keep Ring offline 90% of the time.

2026-02-01 19:32:37 UTC

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Join us on Pubky!
Pubky SDK is ready to build with!
Pubky Ring let's you keep your keys cold!
https://pubky.app
https://medium.com/pubky/opening-pubky-4bdca7dc4c77
https://pubky.org

2026-02-01 19:32:25 UTC

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Join us on Pubky!
Pubky SDK is ready to build with!
Pubky Ring let's you keep your keys cold!
https://pubky.app
https://medium.com/pubky/opening-pubky-4bdca7dc4c77
https://pubky.org

2026-02-01 19:31:46 UTC

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Join us on Pubky!
Pubky SDK is ready to build with!
Pubky Ring let's you keep your keys cold!
https://pubky.app
https://medium.com/pubky/opening-pubky-4bdca7dc4c77
https://pubky.org

2025-11-11 22:49:07 UTC

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Sir, I wrote BIP177.
My opinion is fully specified!

2025-11-11 22:01:28 UTC

BREAKING - @npub1qny…95gx supports BIP177 in recent public statement:
"If you guys wanna call sats bitcoin I don't really give a shit... Stay humble, stack bitcoin."

2025-11-11 12:01:33 UTC

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MADMAN

2025-11-04 06:58:55 UTC

Top is in.

2025-11-03 15:36:53 UTC

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No, that isn't the problem...

2025-11-03 15:06:49 UTC

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No. It is simple because any design that implies trust in miners must accept that also means trust in government, and trust that nothing would convince them to rug pull.
This is a horrible assumption.

2025-11-03 14:28:33 UTC

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You could just ask the miner to run a mint for you and get a better UX.

2025-11-03 08:29:51 UTC

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If the goal was to prove that people will build outside the status quo, Nostr succeeded.
But if the goal is to create a scalable, censorship-resistant web that normal people can rely on, then it hasn’t even begun to meet that bar.
What I’m pointing out isn’t that Nostr shouldn’t exist. It’s that its design inherently caps its scalability and censorship resistance. The same loose structure that makes it "easy" to build on also makes it impossible to coordinate, enforce quality, or provide credible exits.
Success measured by enthusiasm is one thing. Success measured by capability is another.

2025-11-02 14:33:10 UTC

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If you trust miners you dont need drivechains. Just tell them not to replace your txn and include it someday when they can. And also accept that as settlement when people pay you. Zero-conf txns solve your needs.

2025-11-02 08:41:30 UTC

Only fair for me to post this here too:
https://x.com/BitcoinErrorLog/status/1984626185930781122

2025-11-01 16:55:31 UTC

The birth of Lightspark, led by David Marcus, was the top indicator for LN.
He is like a vulture that arrives to pick the bones of a trend 2 years too late.

2025-11-01 16:53:04 UTC

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It is all the same shit rearranged. Nothing can anchor to bitcoin without trust.

2025-11-01 15:48:31 UTC

Drivechains are a trainwreck.
https://pubky.app/post/gujx6qd8ksydh1makdphd3bxu351d9b8waqka8hfg6q7hnqkxexo/003452JMEVW7G

2025-10-19 11:36:08 UTC

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RAID Shadow Legends

2025-10-17 08:37:43 UTC

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How much was spent on Web5?

2025-10-15 05:43:31 UTC

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looking forward to being invited onto his podcast to talk about Pubky

2025-10-05 13:38:31 UTC

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Well, "just a discovery mechanism" is a bit of an understatement!
PKDNS uses literally the oldest, most decentralized, and thus, most censorship resistant form discovery on the planet. This is in contrast to Nostr which assumes a centralized trusted source, or Bluesky which explicitly provides a centralized trusted source.

2025-10-03 07:08:22 UTC

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Why is it that every proponent of filters is incapable of making genuine arguments instead of acting like spiteful children?

2025-10-02 09:45:43 UTC

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this is nonsense, sorry.

2025-10-02 09:40:25 UTC

Nick Szabo, here, is demonstrating, and recommending, handwaving as a security strategy.
He conflates a metaphor people can "understand" (locked doors) to support the idea of censoring specific bitcoin transactions at the mempool level.
But filters aren't locks. They aren't even doors. They are fences in an open field. They don't prevent trespassers, they increase people walking on the grass.
We already know how to censor bitcoin txns we don't like, because we already do it successfully! Miners know there are certain poisonous, yet valid, transactions. Through meatspace, they enforce exclusion of such txns.
Sadly, this whole "spam" "war" requires Bitcoiners to take a ride together that ends up supporting the idea of miners being heavily regulated by governments, and the idea that we must be good at censoring txns we do not like.
Because, unlike pleb nodes, it is miners that decide what gets into Bitcoin. No one else.
Arguing policy is pointless, just make the config you like and convince miners to run it...
...But if you do, know that you are doing evil, and acting as useful idiots for the state.
https://blossom.primal.net/79577a02d241731e6d8d6a8554f920dcc3c0b9f30edf414b457a8af9a02b547e.png
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2025-10-02 08:45:41 UTC

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Shouldn't you be blaming the miners for including the txns you don't like?
Or, shouldn't you be providing an actual solution that prevents txns you don't like from being possible inside of bitcoin blocks?
Arguing policy is pointless, just make the config you like and convince miners to run it.

2025-10-01 07:27:24 UTC

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She didn't say anything bad. The idea is that ALL transactions can be subjectively judged, and there will always be txns people don't like. We have NO WAY to know how people are using txns, or even how they value those txns. All txns are "NFTs" and none are explicitly more "money" than the others.
This orients the conversation correctly, away from policy discussion, toward protocol discussion, forcing opponents to properly propose REAL solutions for data on Bitcoin, instead of handwaving policy drama that fixes nothing.
Currently, this is mostly a culture war over default settings in an app.

2025-10-01 07:16:26 UTC

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Seems like the invite codes are working great as an idiot filter in this early stage!

2025-09-30 16:20:26 UTC

Let's see a bet (bounty?) on Polymarket that someone will post the EPSTEIN FILES onto Bitcoin.
Bonus points if they use the new OP_RETURN policy for a really big file, thus frustrating literally everybody except good progress-minded people!

2025-09-29 08:18:41 UTC

Next month, I'll be on a Lightning panel in Lugano with @nprofile…kjyr , roasbeef, and Christian Decker.
Whether you care or not, that's decades of unique cumulative experience in the Lightning business. We all have things to say.
Also, @nprofile…zx3h will have to acknowledge my existence for a few days as moderator.
What an event!

2025-09-26 09:39:15 UTC

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There's nothing worse about Core than it has been for years now. Nothing changed.
Luke and Ocean are retarded anyway.
Also, why is everyone pretending libbitcoin doesnt exist?
You wanna support something meaningful? Fund Eric Voskuil.

2025-09-22 08:47:33 UTC

https://pubky.app/post/gujx6qd8ksydh1makdphd3bxu351d9b8waqka8hfg6q7hnqkxexo/0033YQYXVJ91G

2025-09-16 08:09:22 UTC

What should a society do if there is a growing class of dumb/ignorant/violent/crazy people?
It's not the same thing as managing homeless or economic class wars, even if it may have derived from it.

2025-08-30 08:29:57 UTC

Matt Odell is a coward and a liar.
We interacted on Nostr about Pubky differences a month ago, and I've done interviews with him in the past, but he refuses to have me on his show again.
Why?
Now that he is aligned with Primal, a Nostr app, and has seen some of my arguments, and Pubky tech, he seems to be scared and unwilling to have a candid conversation with me about comparing Pubky to Nostr.
He claims to support freedom tech, even if it is better than Nostr, so what is the problem?
So, @nprofile…zx3h you get the #coward badge until this changes!
https://blossom.primal.net/f34a6204e3f555d198e6c430dae148523e14f806d71902fc49c28edd5b96a415.png

2025-08-26 08:21:39 UTC

What should my new vlog/podcast thing be about?
I think it's time for me to make a podcast series of some kind again.
I have ideas for themes & topics, but I'm interested in what kind of content YOU might like to see from me.