theonevortex
Vortex | BIP448

Former host of The Bitcoin News Show. Creator of https://bitcoindev.org. Bitcoin Is. And that is enough.

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2026-07-31 15:27:17 UTC

My heart goes out to all those affected by the cold card compromise. Hopefully we can get covenants activated on bitcoin for better reactive security in the future.

2026-07-26 13:31:53 UTC

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Enjoy your bcashjr fork.

2026-07-26 13:30:43 UTC

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Enjoy your bcashjr fork.

2026-07-22 16:49:44 UTC

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lol best of luck with your 1% hashing power.

2026-07-22 13:58:45 UTC

For those that weren't around in 2017 like I was, I can absolutely tell you, mechanic was nowhere to be found in 2017, despite him trying to rewrite its history today on X.

2026-07-22 13:17:24 UTC

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LOL WTF are you even talking about. You think 110 people selling their 10 btc in total is going to change anything? LOL.

2026-07-21 04:44:03 UTC

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2026-07-19 22:57:36 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/0375bec90a06af298e74532ddc14fbc500532d95fabe5ab2ea2f8424e0ad5a65.png

2026-07-15 14:15:56 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/d6d6ee659d0d137bb31e50862085e54fd5746a0fdc93c2c430c4f747bc346a8c.png

2026-07-14 17:17:38 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/61a530c83ead2ec976964cd7e5ba65393a2ef0f8118e508fb1a40916903cbff2.png

2026-07-14 16:29:48 UTC

Less than 1% only a couple weeks away from flag day. The network consensus has spoken. BIP-110 is DOA.
https://blossom.primal.net/8d25f054531985644567ab430e5d141bc14766c80353e6114dd8abcb2142f039.png

2026-06-24 14:07:41 UTC

Important note here kids about basic physics, a car traveling 0.3mph will eventually catch up to a car going 99.6 mph lol.
https://blossom.primal.net/6780132bcb549643897148f164dff4ac6cc31aaa3d6bf3a811fbfde72a01e92b.png

2026-06-19 21:42:15 UTC

Isn't it curious that twitter polls don't translate into miner signaling? Who could have seen this coming?

2026-06-18 13:45:44 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/871f6867a85122faa011056fc9bf8bff0e8bddb78f3baab840073dc0d21988f2.png

2026-06-17 20:42:57 UTC

This is what less than 1% signaling and desperation looks like.
https://blossom.primal.net/f9703bc23c22adf1f2c89cbf2f82ca6fcd516f4d7751513f1ddf9a0d4e052e6c.png

2026-06-15 04:11:29 UTC

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Agreed.

2026-06-14 18:00:27 UTC

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Nah just seen this movie many times before.

2026-06-14 13:47:07 UTC

Yep, been calling this for years. Mechanic and Luke following in Roger's footsteps perfectly, final step is a hard fork to their own coin.
https://blossom.primal.net/03bd40c26c69c9d03d28c0bb5a4976240abe2ae047b7a82c2df4934bc3eda0d1.png

2026-06-12 20:58:28 UTC

No Roger Ver, I mean Faketoshi, I mean Mike Hearn, I mean Paul Sports, oh sorry I mean Luke, Bitcoin will not die just because it won't change the way you want it to.
https://blossom.primal.net/e2a3841e8389a31de8b699f36b16786f836bf00819d11070a0d5bf3bd88f1c71.png

2026-06-02 15:37:56 UTC

NEW RECORD!
https://blossom.primal.net/81df7cc1c072c25fed58cea6d87f2a2ee949a564175c09822768f71b490e3cf0.png

2026-05-31 17:12:35 UTC

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O Bitcoin é resistente à censura e não se importa com redes sociais.

2026-05-31 02:41:11 UTC

LOL now mechanic is wondering why he got banned from r/bitcoin. You can't make this stuff up, continuing to follow in Roger's footsteps all the way through.
https://blossom.primal.net/e11bbfaf9598aff45203a95dcdedfe135152f7d0c3b2eedb54f359b179f742f0.png

2026-05-30 15:41:28 UTC

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All that shit is fake, stack real bitcoin.

2026-05-30 13:53:27 UTC

Stack real bitcoin, not that fake shit.

2026-05-18 14:50:44 UTC

LOL remember this Luke? Yah bring back this Luke.
https://blossom.primal.net/e23064e11b7fa42b60a8dd965a2c8741629dc309a0a9fb738c787624429fdbb1.png

2026-05-12 14:43:56 UTC

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No.

2026-05-11 14:16:46 UTC

Luke de wolf wrote a book called defending bitcoin, yes the guy who is vocally in support of 110 wrote a book about bitcoin security lol, what could go wrong.

2026-05-01 15:34:43 UTC

For months on end hodlonaut literally attacked, smeared and harassed bitcoin devs and contributors and is now wondering why they don't like him. LOL.

2026-05-01 15:26:20 UTC

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LOL good luck with your shitcoin

2026-04-30 13:34:49 UTC

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LOL keep on living in your imaginary world and see how that goes for you.

2026-04-30 13:33:24 UTC

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I don't think ecash will hurt bitcoin at all however that's not Paul's plan, laid out very clearly on his website are his plans to sabotage bitcoin and take over its market cap. Of course this will never happen but never the less the plan literally reads like a Dr Evil manifesto, I encourage you to check it out it's hilarious.

2026-04-29 14:22:33 UTC

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Because they're extremely useful and make pretty much every operation on the chain more efficient. Patience is key when dealing with open source projects.

2026-04-29 14:12:17 UTC

Still no github, no code, no plan, but taking donations when there's absolutely nothing that's "Production Ready".
https://blossom.primal.net/ba857c6fa6afe9908619b24184a44c8e50ad745fa077c03ab96996507774ce6c.png

2026-04-28 14:10:26 UTC

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Don't care when actually as long as the network gets them, and it will.

2026-04-28 14:09:49 UTC

LOL. Who could have seen this coming?
https://blossom.primal.net/2ff7a9fc3d2aa969ad84399cd4a88b663d7b0b637e30befa1343c40d46c34c6e.png

2026-04-27 14:14:36 UTC

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Never say never, covenants are going to happen one way or another, even if not through CTV, for example TXHASH has gotten more eyeballs recently.

2026-04-26 22:39:58 UTC

Paul's fork "ecash" is ridiculous, it is literally Dr. Evil energy.
Take the name that Satoshi used. Take the coins that Satoshi mined. Use both to fund a project explicitly designed to dethrone the network Satoshi built. And do all of it while saying "I hope Bitcoin succeeds, I plan to hold my BTC".
Like if you wrote it as a parody of villainous overreach against bitcoin, you'd probably tone it down because it'd feel too on the nose.

2026-04-14 15:55:29 UTC

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Gee thanks wikipedia.

2026-04-08 15:47:56 UTC

Will have a few things to say. https://blossom.primal.net/03cb84cee8a523f50038946946ab886605710e346f5c17c4fb3e8c14f4725a74.png

2026-03-25 13:45:27 UTC

Ah yes the politician that likes to flip flop back and fourth on his stance on 110 because he does zero technical research is wondering why the people who were against 110 might be against another core wrapper grift.
Go figure.
https://blossom.primal.net/25c63eb592d7382e0fb35ad7406d2be41613174a6dda03cd7d04fcd4517a3727.png

2026-03-24 14:30:53 UTC

It took you a year to create a new website, logo and a donation button? With literally no code to speak of?
This is what a grift looks like.
https://blossom.primal.net/2cb7bb322fe7779e997bc4bb429d5c258ef84c529be01b2bb7ec3ff420c48cd7.png

2026-03-24 04:40:40 UTC

Is this a joke?
Fork core and immediately ask for donations?
I can understand wanting multiple implementations and forking the open source project that is bitcoin core to do something different to advance the protocol and then afterwards asking for donations to complete the idea or take it further and/or expand upon it.
I can also understand wanting to be conservative, and wanting to work on older versions prior to v30 without more advanced SFs in the future, there's a market for that.
But slapping a shiny new name, logo and website on a straight fork of core, with a donation button as the first thing you see, and where 2 of the 4 main supporters literally won't let you reply to their tweets unless you follow them...
That looks a lot more like a virtue signal powered LARP begging for money than "multiple implementations".
https://blossom.primal.net/b1ce6945dad33e0b686a8159ff2549b41b527e8930f41792ae32170dead02c1a.png

2026-03-05 14:51:30 UTC

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Yep luke and mechanic got people really whipped up into a frenzy of emotion where literally nobody on that side is thinking with logic.

2026-03-05 14:50:34 UTC

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Satoshi is bad people?

2026-03-04 17:53:39 UTC

Bitcoin is programmable money.

2026-03-04 04:25:45 UTC

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Then why even reply? Bitcoin being permissionless and censorship resistant is what makes it shine as a global money, that away and you're just left with a really shitty paypal.

2026-03-04 04:03:34 UTC

Imagine being a bitcoiner and thinking the word permissionless is bad. Wow. Censorship resistance is one of the defining principles of bitcoin and always be.

2026-02-20 20:08:47 UTC

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No. Luke unilaterally pushes whatever code he feels like to Knots with ZERO PEER REVIEW and idiots like you run it not understanding that.
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqstluxg6nry9pnp5ddsfkwj5mlfgsychs9asetpjmq2jq7uvm6d9uc36zl6y
https://x.com/theonevortex/status/2024701834116682108

2026-02-20 17:50:22 UTC

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Yah no shit which is why peer review is so important and why I'm calling out the fact that Knots DOESN'T HAVE ANY.

2026-02-20 17:06:13 UTC

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Also I don't think you understand that push is a technical term in GIT to apply changes to a repo. I'm not saying he's pushing changes on to users I'm saying that he's pushing changes to the Knots repo that he alone owns and controls with nearly ZERO PEER REVIEW.

2026-02-20 17:03:24 UTC

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I am not being unfair, NOBODY REVIEWS LUKE'S CHANGES.
Look at the Knots specific PRs that shipped in recent releases like Luke's own policy level changes:
#136 (permitephemeral)
https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/pull/136
#148 (minrelaymaturity/minrelaycoinblocks)
https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/pull/148
#205 (wallet migration bugfix)
https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/pull/205
These were all merged by Luke with zero independent reviewer approvals on each of them and these aren't cosmetic changes they're policy modifications that affect transaction filtering and relay behavior.
In Core, changes like these would require multiple independent reviewers before they could ship.

2026-02-20 16:24:17 UTC

So get this...
Apparently all the Knots people don't understand that Knots is just Luke's personal project that he unilaterally pushes changes to whenever he feels like with no public community review whatsoever.
I believe in multiple implementations and running whatever you want but...
Knots is NOT safe IMO and I'd never trust it with my coins.

2026-02-17 16:48:18 UTC

Bitcoin is programmable money.
More features like better self custody and vaults as well as scaling lightning are important in making it an even better money.
It's early days and bitcoin isn't finished yet.

2026-02-17 15:35:27 UTC

LOL the filteroos aren't going to like this tweet by saylor!
https://blossom.primal.net/4bc8ba0feea6c0347f352d942d35c00dc7ff61862c692b3a04438f70e7cc6f47.png

2026-02-17 05:17:50 UTC

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Yah that makes no sense since fake utxos are down exactly as v30 intended.

2026-02-17 05:16:38 UTC

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Yah we'd need covenants and channel factories to truly scale LN to billions.

2026-02-17 05:16:10 UTC

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it depends on your use case. A 100k sat channel works fine for occasional small payments. For routing or regular use, you'd want significantly more. The protocol lets you go as low as 20k sats, but that's more of a theoretical floor than a practical one.

2026-02-15 19:16:35 UTC

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Much LN capacity is not tracked and hidden.

2026-02-15 19:15:49 UTC

We have clear, verifiable evidence confirming that v30 was a response to network changes, not the cause of them.
You can clearly see that op returns and spam were spiking well before v30 shipped from this on-chain data.
https://blossom.primal.net/860b2358e510504d95cd52366a6fa7f73060f88b34cf63774c5e0780b6d2eda2.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/12531f4817fc5eedd749fff56850ca17d231b4d52a73c52e1607bee066d49596.jpg
https://blossom.primal.net/06749d540398fe453700b1a2d6286e89c037e697931c5809f50c0d6c8038f4ea.jpg
Sources linked in reply below.
https://x.com/BitMEXResearch/status/2022069199036690815
https://x.com/murchandamus/status/2022930707820269670
https://x.com/OrangeSurfBTC/status/2023094761310302514

2026-02-14 15:13:26 UTC

BuT LiGhTnInG nEtWoRk iS dEaD...
https://blossom.primal.net/c59ed9b81b1d8073e24339b616ae38191514c8f8d80a7fbb769a6b46aac93b71.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/3d14b5a8d8297bbe34dc4ad37495d0046b347a0831393b1e413f624c6b7c210b.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/76c51b4c425636c67948bf134a072e185f68de4d5bb92a3a145a1471937c568d.jpg

2026-02-13 16:22:00 UTC

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*if only he'd

2026-02-13 16:21:31 UTC

LOL hodlonaut flip flopping, such a politician, if he only he'd of actually pay attention to technical information instead of politics and cancel culture he'd have a lot easier time.
https://blossom.primal.net/c69af00f4457e2ef8b77ba89b3c805bc1a1463c03137ba47b1e01f8160a942b5.png
https://x.com/hodlonaut/status/2022284973835768136

2026-02-11 15:53:42 UTC

It seems BIP 110 folks are perfectly fine with breaking bitcoin's neutrality, removing important upgrade paths, destroying people's vaults, confiscating coins and causing a split. Awesome.

2026-02-10 00:26:41 UTC

Remember when everyone was like "hey devs shouldn't 'tinker' too much" when CTV was being proposed, and now people are literally going along with a far more significant update and endless SFing to stop spam. The irony is too much.

2026-02-08 15:18:06 UTC

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lol muted

2026-02-08 00:55:29 UTC

Bitcoin is freedom money.
Bitcoin is fuck you money.
Bitcoin is NOT a democracy-good-feelz money.

2026-02-06 00:15:54 UTC

With the removal of the op return limit in v30 Core recognized that it's important we keep block space a decentralized market and not incentivize a private mempool with backdoor channels to miners.

2026-02-05 22:22:10 UTC

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You don't remember agreeing huh, well were were you even in the discussions on the mailing list, in IRC or in delving in the first place? Do you even understand this discussion goes back to 2014? Or are you just an internet troll who can't even code?

2026-02-05 14:40:32 UTC

hodlonaut was a clown in 2017, and he's a clown now, the only difference is instead of begging for money he's begging for attention.

2026-02-04 05:52:48 UTC

See what Knots / 110 folks don't seem to understand is that Core tried to take a stand at the relay level (safer) and literally everyone ignored them.
So doing it at the consensus level (far more dangerous) would certainly cause a split, which is exactly what 110 is going to do.
And even then it doesn't actually prevent spam as Peter Todd proved when he embedded the entire 110 pdf doc in a 110 compliant transaction :/
So when the split inevitably happens and a future market forms, 110 will be on the losing end.

2026-02-01 15:33:52 UTC

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There is no "project owner" because a maintainer is about as far from an "owner" as you can get, at least learn how FOSS works before making such an ass out of yourself.

2026-02-01 15:32:46 UTC

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No you are wrong. Increasing the op return was issuing harm reduction into a new reality whereby the social contract of a public mempool had been already broken by miners like mara with slipstream. Learn your history because right now you have no idea what you're talking about.

2026-02-01 15:31:10 UTC

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Muting your ridiculous conspiracy theories.

2026-02-01 15:30:36 UTC

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A core dev advised a company using bitcoin how to use bitcoin better, OMG NO YOU DON'T SAY! You are a clown 🤡

2026-02-01 03:39:31 UTC

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But hey have fun forking yourself off the network.

2026-02-01 03:39:07 UTC

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Satoshi himself created op return, learn your history cause right now you have no idea what you're talking about.

2026-02-01 03:38:21 UTC

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Yah that's not what I said but hey keep misunderstanding me and putting words in my mouth and see how well that works out for a discussion.

2026-02-01 03:36:55 UTC

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It's not just 6, the maintainers DO NOT control the project just like in any other FOSS project and are elected by the rest of the Core team based on their actual work. Learn this.

2026-01-31 23:35:39 UTC

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Once again Core is one of the most transparent FOSS projects on the planet so you don't have to take my word for it. If you don't agree with this then that's your problem.

2026-01-31 23:33:51 UTC

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There are no leaders, those maintainers didn't get magically anointed they proved their worth and were selected by the entire Core team like pretty much every other FOSS project, you clearly have no idea how Core's development process even works. Like I said, go back to basics before buying into psyops.

2026-01-31 23:31:17 UTC

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Once again whether it's what Citrea "needed" or not it's what the reality of the network demanded and that's the point, the change is harm reduction to prevent large miners from gaining an advantage, not "sanctioning spam" and certainly not "gaslighting everyone".

2026-01-31 22:06:39 UTC

Bcash purists - "Bitcoin is cash"
BSV purists - "Bitcoin is satoshi's vision"
Knots/110 Purists - "Bitcoin is money"
We've heard it all before.
Ideology after ideology.
When people are unhappy with what bitcoin is they try to change it using fear, ideology and anti-core rhetoric but bitcoin changes you, you don't change bitcoin.
The reality is bitcoin is, and that is enough.

2026-01-31 21:39:31 UTC

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It's pretty clear what that means, it means there's no leaders. There are maintainers, but these people do not speak for or override the rest of the core developers. If you're curious how core development actually works there are plenty of how-to articles to help you because it seems you need to start from the beginning.
https://blossom.primal.net/068ebedce8cfd2319d96bafab74e18792eba905c733e62581b3c921d0efa16a2.jpg

2026-01-31 21:38:05 UTC

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Core is the most transparent software dev group in the history of FOSS so if you can't figure out that there are literally 100s of contributors from their open github then I don't know what to tell you except for learn how to read.

2026-01-31 21:37:05 UTC

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Core is a decentralized group of devs with contributions from 100s of people all over the world, check the github. If one person said something that doesn't represent all of Core, you've bought into the psyop, congrats.

2026-01-31 21:34:52 UTC

It's pretty simple, all Tone is saying is he does want more people to run nodes, but would prefer the people running those nodes be more technical, which is exactly the opposite type of people that node in a box companies attract.
https://blossom.primal.net/d239d81a660d7d6c6e7cf239a105b80617ca4eb29f1a8a3552c185857c5d6609.png

2026-01-31 19:14:11 UTC

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LOL Core is a decentralized group of developers that have no affiliation or contact with Citrea and these ridiculous conspiracy theories type of FUD helps nobody.

2026-01-31 18:59:32 UTC

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Missed another one:
-Viruses will take down AWS

2026-01-31 18:57:18 UTC

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Whoops forgot one:
-The CSAM in bitcoin will make running nodes illegal

2026-01-31 18:56:22 UTC

Points that have been walked back from the Knots side so far and counting:
-Core v30 will kill bitcoin
-Spam will kill bitcoin
-They won't fork

2026-01-31 16:17:40 UTC

Reminder:
The social contract wasn't broken by Core, it was broken in February 2024 when MARA launched Slipstream.
Slipstream is a service to mine any consensus valid transaction for the right fee, bypassing normal mempool policy entirely.
This contract was technically enforced by mempool filters like the 83-byte OP_RETURN limit, however Mara’s Slipstream proved that these filters were just "gentlemen's agreements" that large miners could bypass at will.
Core's op return changes 20 months later weren't "enabling spam", they were acknowledging this broken contract and that the filter had already failed because you can't enforce gentlemen's agreements when miners are openly advertising they'll ignore them.
These changes once again even the playing field for those wanting to get their transactions mined.
It's harm reduction, plain and simple.

2026-01-30 18:40:19 UTC

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The only thing I've found so far is this on prediction markets, but rest assure there will be future markets at some point with only a 55% activation threshold. https://beta.predyx.com/market/will-the-reduce-data-temporary-soft-fork-be-consensus-enforced-on-the-most-work-bitcoin-chain-tip-by-march-1st-2026-1762275376

2026-01-30 18:14:58 UTC

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Wrong, it's signaling now with over 1k nodes, there WILL be chain split in September.

2026-01-30 16:54:52 UTC

We are all Satoshi except Luke, Mechanic, Roger, CSW and Mike Hearn.

2026-01-29 21:22:13 UTC

The data doesn't care about your feelings on "spam". It only cares about resource costs.
If you want to run a node, you should be thanking the devs for op return because it’s the only reason your RAM requirements aren't 10x higher today.
If you can't distinguish between disk bloat and state bloat, you aren't ready for this conversation.

2026-01-27 00:45:40 UTC

People seem to forget and/or take for granted that Core is one of the most transparent software dev projects in history, especially relative to its value.

2026-01-25 16:00:39 UTC

110 does literally nothing to make bitcoin more of a "money", it already is money and 110 arbitrarily restricts script, confiscates coins and risks splitting the network, no thanks.

2025-12-21 16:28:56 UTC

Got news for you Carter, LN is doing just fine without your acknowledgement by pretty much every metric imaginable.
https://blossom.primal.net/a73d3b52ed3a2ecf9690adb54935bd86b739966f15836326379e9c1dd8962d59.jpg

2025-12-21 15:41:27 UTC

Yah almost like the rush to put in filters that could be as easily bypassed as the ones in Knots.
For those paying attention at home Samson is still just a larp who is too afraid to let anyone reply to his posts except the simps that follow him.
https://blossom.primal.net/b92a60019c77608b0c1c28325ac53b975bd0d35e23add83ef5d7ab0c29a2d0b3.png

2025-12-20 17:17:28 UTC

The Quantum FUD is just that, FUD, and Mechanic and Luke are still following in Roger's and eventually faketoshi's footsteps.