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AncapAnon - Activate OP_GFY now!

You can call me a doomer, but I have become weary of Bitcoin activism. There is something about the space - the micro-fame, incentives, IDK - that leads all but a select few down the wrong path. Many such cases today, unfortunately. In my personal life, I have tried very hard over the years to orange pill those close to me with very little success. You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink it.

2026-06-03 23:24:01 CEST

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Can you share more details? Wouldn’t the whole tree need to be published to prove non-inclusion?

2026-03-08 17:18:38 CET

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Thank you Max. I don’t want to discourage your experimentation with publishing on Nostr but is there an epub or audiobook version?

2026-03-08 17:12:52 CET

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Network effects are strong so there is no choice but to be patient. As with Bitcoin, people will come for ideological reasons or when they have no other choice.

2026-03-08 17:06:28 CET

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I’m in the non-engineer vibecoder camp working at a mid-sized company alongside a 12-person engineering team and I definitely agree. The main unlock of vibecoding is letting your non-dev team members work on the long tail of tooling and internal system features that never make it out of the backlog. There are an endless numbers of these little things that only one person cares about because it would save them an hour a month. The engineering team’s role in this is to build the architecture and guardrails to not let this turn into a mess.

2026-03-08 00:46:08 CET

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Indeed both suck.

2026-03-08 00:25:45 CET

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Thanks for the thoughtful response!

2026-03-07 23:36:33 CET

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- “It’s OK that the policy I supported led to the murder of 168 little girls, the regime they lived under would have oppressed them anyway.”
#nevent1q…a63p

2026-03-07 23:33:26 CET

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You argue as if you were from Tel Aviv - every accusation is a confession.

2026-03-07 23:08:42 CET

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I bet their parents are also waiting for the American and Israeli “rescue operation” to succeed, creep.
https://blossom.primal.net/ea4b619f93893265829fac978e620088c89823899aa07e6066634f1c646924a5.jpg

2026-03-07 22:53:42 CET

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We could out price them without the witness discount, root cause of our current situation. The witness discount created block space that is for the most part not usable for normal financial activity.

2026-03-04 05:26:22 CET

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that last link is for his latest episode in which he address the China issue.

2026-03-04 05:25:43 CET

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His Youtube channel is The New Atlas. One of the few geopolitics channels that does not seem like pure slop/clickbait and his predictions have been accurate. I do find him to be too much of a Third Worlder statist and commie-adjacent but I can tune that out for the analysis of current events.
https://youtu.be/HMQQr-St-08

2026-03-04 05:16:15 CET

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I don’t like it because it’s a honeypot. It will get captured the moment it becomes a target due to heavy adoption by the “wrong” people to scale or gain privacy. The idea that 15 corporations most located in GAE-adjacent regimes would be able to resist pressure is risible.

2026-03-04 05:01:18 CET

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Can you comment on Brian Berletic’s take on this? He says China is providing Iran with the support it can, and that overextending itself outside its near abroad would be foolish.

2026-02-27 03:17:39 CET

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💯. It kinda fits in point #1 but culture is also very important.

2026-02-26 12:40:36 CET

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Yes. A change due to composition was expected but alas it is also structural.

2026-02-25 15:33:42 CET

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Very cool!

2026-02-25 15:21:08 CET

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The main blocker for my productivity is my compulsion to stare at the terminal output while the agent churns through a complicated prompt. How do you stop yourself from this with so many agents running at once?

2026-02-24 04:44:37 CET

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Bring it on, I just received some dry powder.

2026-02-24 04:39:24 CET

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This was a good pod. I’m glad he has dealt with most of his weird verbal ticks and rambling - I used to read his stuff but found his interviews painful to listen to.

2026-02-22 18:02:16 CET

Agents are in some ways just like junior employees: they will produce shit if you let them. But if you spend the time giving them proper direction, they will produce wha you are looking for.

2026-02-18 03:36:32 CET

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That is most likely the case but I’m not enthused about getting into a bare knuckle brawl for just a temporary change. Removing the unused witness stuff from the soft fork scope is strategically useful as it removes a piece of FUD from our adversaries and puts Core in an awkward position vis a vis policy if and when scammers start using that for their spam.

2026-02-18 01:14:53 CET

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One is Coinkite. I don’t want to name the other one because it’s a one-guy shop through which he sells merch to fund non profit work.

2026-02-17 23:50:18 CET

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@nprofile…stwk, to expand on my last comment: the need for it to be temporary seems solely tied to the desire to disable unused segwit versions. I think there is a good case for not doing that. Specifically, policy already filters these transactions. If, as @nprofile…hyal is anticipating, spammers start using unused segwit versions, a successful soft fork would force Core’s hand and make them adopt the traditional stance on filters, if only to protect upgrade hooks. What are your thoughts on this?

2026-02-17 23:34:33 CET

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I don’t believe the psychopaths that presume to rule us have good intentions.

2026-02-17 23:33:01 CET

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“The purpose of a system is what it does.”
— Stafford Beer

2026-02-17 23:28:58 CET

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It will hurt my bags but I can’t help but be glad that noderunners will not be passive and hand the decision over to miners.

2026-02-17 23:24:49 CET

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Shameful behaviour.

2026-02-17 23:19:08 CET

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Life is good but Tor is not doing so well these days, at least for me. I’m also surprised that two websites I used recently to buy Bitcoin-related products do not work with Tor.

2026-02-17 14:28:17 CET

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Jan 6 was an op. Once you internalize this, your bafflement will cease.

2026-02-16 23:06:09 CET

@nprofile…kuzl, it’s strange that your website uses a protocol that is unfriendly to VPN and Tor users.
https://blossom.primal.net/fc8634d1a436be60ce3a292eed4cd8da200b658208e92dd5eba01486d98daf71.jpg

2026-02-16 17:50:30 CET

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Right but that pertains only to undefined witness versions. If you limit the BIP to OP_IF, OP_RETURN and output sizes in current witness versions, there would be no risk of HF or ossification. I understand that cutting off the current avenues for spam would incentivize use of undefined witness versions. But these are restricted by policy in both Core and Knots. If scammers migrate to v2+ we can force Core to take a stronger stand on policy, since they do really want to protect the upgrade hooks currently afforded by it.

2026-02-16 15:52:43 CET

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OpenClaw is not a “borderline obsolete AI model” for the simple reason that it’s not a model at all. TBH, I’m in a bit of a Gell-Mann Amnesia moment right now, as I have found what you have to say about China very interesting.

2026-02-16 15:43:19 CET

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If you don’t want to buy peer-to-peer, you should try to buy your bitcoin from Bull Bitcoin, which has recently expanded into Europe. I use them in Canada and they are excellent.

2026-02-16 15:31:16 CET

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I support the changes addressing contiguous data storage proposed in BIP-110. Specifically, disabling OP_IF in taproot, and limiting OP_RETURN and output sizes. I would support going further, by getting rid of OP_RETURN completely.
At the moment, I have two concerns that I hope you can address here or in one of your next videos:
1. Why make it temporary? It undermines the credibility of the changes and its expiration is “hard-forkish” in that the rules would be relaxed after expiration.
2. Why disable future witness versions? I think we have learned our lesson with SegWit and Taproot, and any proposed v2 will have to be evaluated for its potential for spam.

2026-02-16 15:08:59 CET

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SegWit was fine, except for the witness discount. It was an unnecessary and ultimately pointless concession to the big blockers. Plus it did not achieve its stated objective (rationalization really) of incentivizing input destruction over output creation. Instead, it created a supply for otherwise useless block space that has been taken over by inscriptions.

2026-02-16 14:58:38 CET

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If we didn’t have government, who would protect all the pedo psychos, amiright?

2026-02-16 14:57:13 CET

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devolution through devaluation?

2026-02-08 18:39:45 CET

On a trip to visit extended family. It used to be that I was the crazy Bitcoin person and was expecting to have to answer some questions after the crash. Instead two normies told
me this was their chance to buy now that sats are cheap. More bullish than ever.

2026-02-04 02:50:47 CET

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Trump is a gun grabber. And why do you want to get a crappy M16 from the feds paid with taxes? Buy your own.

2026-02-04 02:47:54 CET

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this is the most solid technical analysis I have seen this year.

2026-02-04 02:42:39 CET

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also dint forget that some are just complete dorks and dont even realiza what they are saying or getting into: nevent1qqsvrjnjeagsyflpm2xn96krgcg50m28ggm7e6kv3n0ywxds5u0cgusyk3tg0

2026-02-04 01:54:55 CET

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add the relatively minimal level of cultural enrichment they have been subjected to.

2026-02-04 01:53:43 CET

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What the fuck is this supposed to mean?
#nevent1q…cwnm

2026-02-04 01:46:34 CET

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I don’t know anyone in the area, but if you still have assets or income outside the US I highly recommend you get professional advice and not DIY.

2026-02-04 01:18:41 CET

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“asset class” influencers are not to be taken seriously. thank god for the bear market, I need a timeline cleanse.

2026-02-04 01:10:44 CET

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competition for antichrist title is fierce these days.

2026-01-28 17:27:41 CET

Hey @nprofile…0fx3 do people drop in to your Nashville campus when there are no events scheduled? I will be in town for business in the second half of May, but unfortunately there are no events scheduled. Would love to check it out and meet people.

2026-01-27 20:50:18 CET

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This is a great example of when and why to sell some of your corn.
#nevent1q…lc9h

2026-01-27 14:20:20 CET

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I take the moderate position: it was a bio weapon experiment gone wrong that was turned into a psyop to cover up the wrongdoing and force people to get the shots.

2026-01-27 06:00:53 CET

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Grok, with some additional prompting:
Uncle Rockstar (@r0ckstardev) is the shadowy, meme-slinging cypherpunk Bitcoin godfather who codes like a demon, trolls like a legend, and somehow keeps the entire Lightning Network from imploding while calling himself your “Uncle.” A core BTCPay Server beast and former Strike wizard, he’s the guy who’d rather drop savage one-liners about fiat slavery than chase clout, yet still racks up 46k followers who treat his every tweet like gospel from the orange-pilled mountaintop.

2026-01-27 05:55:17 CET

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I did not like it either, but for different reasons. They tried to portray a 60’s and 70’s era communist revolutionary as this goofy dope fiend with a good heart trying to raise his daughter the right way. A proper understanding of the history of this era shows these people were insanely violent, with the blood of innocents on their hands. To make things worse, they ended up in leading positions in academia and politics (e.g. Angela Davis, Bill Ayers), not as outcasts. Lockjaw character is a caricature of leftist tropes about their adversaries.

2026-01-27 04:58:48 CET

How did Rumble manage to produce such a shitty UI? Completely unusable. Can’t wait for a Nostr video platform to gain traction.

2026-01-27 04:54:47 CET

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Why should I take the “professional assessment” of someone involved in the evil clown show of Afghan and Iraqi COIN seriously?

2026-01-26 15:08:49 CET

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What did I miss? The point of your post was clear, I just don’t agree with it.

2026-01-26 14:46:55 CET

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Bitcoin spending does not need to be encouraged. You will have no choice but to spend your bitcoin once merchants decide they want to HODL it and not fiat.

2026-01-22 14:35:21 CET

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Demand to hold BTC soaks up excess liquidity in the short term. But in the long term, it undermines the demand to hold dollar instruments. This in turn reduces the exchange rate of the dollar, accelerating the increase in CPI, all else being the same.

2026-01-13 03:18:26 CET

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Fair enough, but why call it digital money, if it’s a Bitcoin-backed money market fund.

2026-01-12 23:32:34 CET

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TBH, this was a bit painful to watch. I wish you had enough time to ask him why we need his “digital money” synthetic financial product when Bitcoin itself is already that.

2026-01-12 02:31:31 CET

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Then they fight themselves?

2026-01-12 02:30:04 CET

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Crips vs Bloods
#nevent1q…mkhz

2026-01-12 00:44:04 CET

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It’s astonishing to me how supposedly independent-minded people keep falling for regime propaganda again and again. In case the visual style of this “art” is not a cue that his us pure propaganda, know that it has already been shown that this “stunning and brave protester” is located in Canada and is a twitter Zio-shill.
#nevent1q…tj5d

2026-01-12 00:37:07 CET

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Your post is not going to age well. You must be spending too much time with Elon’s slop algorithm to fall for such an obvious psyop.

2025-11-01 17:49:45 CET

One thing I'm reminded of each time I have suffered the loss of a loved one: grief opens your heart to other noble emotions towards those that remain.

2025-10-18 23:58:14 CEST

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Hillary Clinton energy.

2025-09-30 17:16:30 CEST

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If not forbidden, it will be mandatory.

2025-09-27 20:04:26 CEST

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Hoppe and @nprofile…g92w called it early.

2025-09-27 20:02:26 CEST

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A hard fork cure for spam is worse than the disease. - This message is brought to you by a monetary maxi.

2025-09-27 19:48:45 CEST

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The least-bad case for them is that they redirect money from fools who think they are too late for Bitcoin away from shitcoins. Then again, there is a case for saying stonks are shitcoins.

2025-09-27 17:39:54 CEST

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I gave up because of the dogs. I’m now a perennial enjoyoor.

2025-09-27 17:34:20 CEST

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Yeah, those trying to rope you and OpenSats into the recent Core drama are way over their skies.

2025-09-17 14:33:08 CEST

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Reason why statists are obsessed by trains. They are offended by the idea that you can just drive wherever you like and things will work out just fine.

2025-09-17 14:29:02 CEST

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You can reconcile the two when you recognize that the important distinction is between coercive collectives and voluntary ones, not collectivism vs. individualism.

2025-09-14 07:21:25 CEST

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Too bad it is being misused in a dishonest argument. Or, are Tor-only nodes not real nodes?

2025-09-10 07:09:51 CEST

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Indeed but this seems to be downstream from more people - whatever their interests - getting the news they care about from X. You can apply this to many other current affairs topics that “blow up in everyone’s feed.” That doesn’t mean it’s manufactured.

2025-09-10 04:39:04 CEST

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Why do you think that? The cultural underpinnings of this rift have been simmering for years. Think what you want about the controversy, I see no indication of it being manufactured.

2025-09-01 18:39:26 CEST

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Mask off since March 2020.

2025-08-30 21:30:24 CEST

The Bitcoin spam debate has descended to new lows. The latest: non-specific claims of words as violence/stochastic terrorism and trying to ascribe the actions of some (alleged) internet crazies to an entire faction. Old leftist playbook.

2025-08-27 23:21:32 CEST

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I’m a big fan of @nprofile…c0cf but I don’t get the leftist dog whistling about brown people getting killed when talking to a generally based bitcoiner audience. Reinforces the dumb progressive idea that what the GAE is doing is about racism, when it fact it is an equal opportunity mass murderer.

2025-08-27 16:14:20 CEST

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I’m generally skeptical of the human rights NGO complex. It often serves the GAE agenda by focusing on government abuses of designated enemy regimes while ignoring abuses closer to home. Very old playbook.

2025-08-26 07:45:37 CEST

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Google and Apple would not be in the position to do this without government protection from competition.

2025-08-26 07:40:52 CEST

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Nature is healing.

2025-08-26 07:38:21 CEST

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Learning that what they were told to get them to enlist was all BS would convince them otherwise.

2025-08-26 07:29:15 CEST

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Not illegal, just not customary. I would never order a steak other than medium rare. But IMO the fat content of 80/20 ground beef calls for something closer to medium for burgers.

2025-08-26 07:15:51 CEST

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142,210

2025-08-13 16:04:34 CEST

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This illustrates one of the problems with representative democracy. Who is going to vote himself out of a district in which an incumbent has 98% chance of re-election?

2025-07-11 00:36:13 CEST

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This is exactly backwards… they print to support endless war.
#nevent1q…aw5q

2025-07-01 16:57:06 CEST

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I value both. You are the one complaining about wrong “narratives”, not me.

2025-07-01 16:44:33 CEST

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You should file a complaint with Bitcoin’s marketing department. Seriously, it is refreshing to hear @nprofile…yw8h instead of the usual bitcoin treasury slop.

2025-06-19 04:48:27 CEST

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red neck sous vide == reverse sear

2025-06-19 04:43:59 CEST

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The ratchet effect described by Higgs in Crisis and Leviathan.
https://mises.org/mises-wire/ratchet-effect-why-its-so-hard-shrink-government
https://blossom.primal.net/d221484742af429ec87db4791776bd5192b23533ddca880431e05dbf00f9d311.jpg

2025-06-19 04:24:54 CEST

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Marinas and yacht clubs are chock full of shitlibs. Nice boats too.

2025-06-13 08:06:49 CEST

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No matter who you vote for you will get John McCain.

2025-06-04 22:16:53 CEST

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Three years is too long. Rug pulling will continue until all exchanges copy Bull Bitcoin model.

2025-05-01 23:23:12 CEST

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maybe you don’t know as much as you think you do about Bitcoin Core.
sipa is not a maintainer, stepped down three years ago.

2025-05-01 14:31:34 CEST

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Okay, perhaps one of several reasons why filters may be ineffective is that they cannot be changed fast enough. And, dependance on constant updates is a potential attack vector. It is still a stretch to describe the position as wanting static filters. And automatic updates by a trusted party would be crazy. Nobody of any note is talking about that or changing consensus - another strawman.
The meta point is that misrepresenting the other side’s arguments (i.e. straw manning) is not an effective strategy for persuading informed fence sitters. That is true even when you are right about the specific issue at hand.

2025-04-30 21:38:10 CEST

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Honestly honoured by your response and love your podcast.
I was not arguing for or against the effectiveness of filters in my post. I’m saying that @nprofile…ych7 and co want filters that change over time, not **static** filters. Representing the contrary IS a strawman.

2025-04-30 15:57:45 CEST

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That sounds like a strawman to me. The start of the dispute was a PR to update datacarrier size to consider Taproot. Furthermore, I haven’t heard claims that spam would be prevented, only mitigated.