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Last Notes npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv spanking works npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv mmmmmmm.... pretty sure the State is your enemy, unless you voluntarily pay your taxes, and I bet you do it begrudgingly. That's theft. That's an assault on liberty. That's what makes an enemy. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Death by some crazy person is 1000% preventable if the medical industry actually helped people instead of bankrupted them. If there was actual care instead of farming for co-pays and fighting denied claims. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Your local government would rather tax your Bitcoin at 18% than see you die with it, and get nothing. Or worse, to see you flee with it and pay another country's taxes with it. They're not going to kill you for it. The criminals will kill you for it. Protect yourself from the criminals. Privacy is only one means of protecting yourself. Be hard to attack in all ways. Be dangerous, not just hidden (be hidden too). Be physically secure, keys divided and distributed, be unassailable. Privacy is security theater. You exist, it will be known if you keep doing it. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv I will admit though, that you can't go backwards and un-leak your identity and so you should protect it now, when it's not something that is a threat to you. It's just alot of work and the threats are so very fuzzy and hypothetical. Use all the tools you can to protect your privacy, but really, that goes for everything. Use every tool you can to protect yourself from an uncertain future. Guns, Farms, Solar/Off-grid, non-kYC Bitcoin, Bitcoin in general, encrypt everything. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv As for your idea that they could just kill all Bitcoiners... That very much depends on where you are and who it is that might be coming for you. I think most of us already know if we live in a place where a gang might roll through and round us all up. If they're not rounding up whole neighborhoods, if they're actually trying to identify Bitcoin wealth and bury it, prevent it from being used, they will have a very hard time. A Bitcoin wallet can be accessed by multiple people across the globe from one another. Kill one, there's a backup key and person too. It doesn't work as game-theory to fix Bitcoin undermining the fiat printer. Its is very difficult to prevent Bitcoin slipping through your fingers if you squeeze it. This lack of friction is why it's better than gold shipments as payments, even though gold is more private and just as scarce for now. China banned Bitcoin and they're not shy about forcing their citizens to behave a certain way. They would like to ban holding Bitcoin, I'm sure. It's not feasible to enforce it, and doing so without enforcement would betray their weakness in this regard. If your local government is just performing a genocide, then Bitcoin and privacy is irrelevant. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv You're not wrong, but that's not for Bitcoin to solve. Different tools for different threats. You don't resist the government with a pistol. But you can protect yourself from specific and real immediate threats. Bitcoin protects you from real and immediate monetary fuckery. But if your community is at war with you, if you're at odds with the political reality of your tribe or local mafia, you need much more than Bitcoin or private communication. You need to leave. You need to find allies. Private communication is a very important tool for resistance fighters and refugees and such. I was mostly arguing with Monero bots who think privacy is important enough to sacrifice some of Bitcoin's monetary foundations, auditability and scarcity, so we can bundle privacy ideology and sound money ideology at once. They're trying to get their private money on our sound money so they blend in better, and their privacy is improved. That use case is not the general one and it would make Bitcoin worse to bundle it with Bitcoin. I've learned as a long time software architect, you should not try to do 2 things at once, you'll do them both poorly and introduce many issues and ultimately you'll have to start over and do both things separately. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Signal is PGP over texts and now its simply a good UI on end to end encryption with PGP basically. We still have to build privacy tools, yes, but there's no friction to using Signal vs Messages. It's just people don't really care. That's the thing.... people don't care about privacy. They care about sound money. They care about having the power to decide, even if you know I have Bitcoin, try and get it from me. You won't be able to. Even the strongest government in the world will have to convince me to help them acquire that. Privacy is useful and some people want it. Sound money is essential and one is a slave if you don't have it. Priorities. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv 7 obviously npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Trump's election was 4chan escaping containment. Nick Fuentez is 4chan attending your dinner party. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Liquid is a consortium and so there are some small number of corruptible or capturable individuals out there that are very closely related in business and could collude or be forced to betray you. Coinjoins are obvious and flag you as sus, many times requiring you to prove you're not doing illegal shit, in some jurisdictions, before those coins are accepted. Bitcoins are tracable so they aren't totally fungible. L2 things, the mints and such - those are the way to go for privacy. They're not totally private but it is pretty hard to imagine having enough data from enough nodes to put together the trace. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Privacy is everything you do. Your phone/device from the raw chip up to the OS. Privacy is a spectrum from Ted Kaczynski up to Samsung Google phone. If you never interact with anything or anyone, ever, you have perfect digital privacy. You'll notice quickly that you don't care about privacy when you have Trust. You only want privacy from those entities you don't trust. Those who run the networks or build the phones or who monitor your financial records and who threaten you for tax income or to enforce other laws. I don't know if I recommend going through all the trouble for non-KYC Bitcoin, especially meet-ups with strangers. I don't trust them. non-KYC Bitcoin still has privacy leaks if your ISP knows your name or if you're using the non-KYC bitcoin to pay someone, that someone likely knows your name and if they get spied on or captured or corrupted, you're still boned. If you want privacy from the tax authority trying to implement a wealth-tax, a confiscation of your Bitcoin, non-KYC Bitcoin helps tremendously. If your local government or criminal affiliates are likely to literally steal from you or kidnap you and disappear you, then non-KYC Bitcoin is important for you. However, If you want to THEN spend your Bitcoin without leaking your identity to a 3rd party, that's still almost impossible. Any spending to anyone betrays your identity and links it to this Bitcoin, unless its paying for a VPN service or some online only or digital service or product. You'll likely be giving them an address at least, if its not digital/online only. The best privacy you can have in Bitcoin is both non-KYC Bitcoin and good UTXO management in order keep differently sourced Bitcoin in separate outputs so anytime you link yourself to these UTXO, by spending and receiving real physical goods or services at your actual location in real life, you're only linking a small amount of Bitcoin to your identity. However, its really not possible to spend Bitcoin and remain anonymous. Even if the exchanges didn't need KYC. Someone would still know something and good ol' fashioned police work and parsing through logs and testimonies, would reveal you in some chain of transactions. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Privacy is your job. Bitcoin can be used privately. Bitcoin needs to be transparently and auditable non-fiat. It can't do that privately. We need to see how many sats are there, in all UTXOs, at any time. Lightning is quite private or could be very private without this problem impacting the base layer. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv We can't ossify the client when everyone needs to upgrade to the post-quantum soft fork in a few years. Stop making mountains of molehills. Nothing Core is doing is changing what is possible, only what is by default permitted and acceptable if you run their software. Nothing Core is doing threatens anyone. If national regulators are going to give you any trouble, then your problem is with those regulators and your personal OPSEC practices, not Bitcoin or Core. Core isn't the government of Bitcoin. Nothing they do speaks for Bitcoin nor does anything they do bring any additional risks to users of Bitcoin. Run what you want, but lets stop calling people names and hyping up conspiracy. There's no gain to 'controlling' Core. These people have different ideas and we should accept that. You're acting like the cancel culture woke assholes who think they know best and anyone who disagrees is a racist and a secret nazi or some shit. Give it a fucking rest. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv fucking right. My childhood right here. Pippi was an O.G. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Perhaps not 100 years ago, but during the post-Roman Empire times in Europe, there was a lot of decentralization and many people were left to live their lives without large and funded authorities to bother them, to a large degree 'authority' was just a local ethnic chief or a general or noble/land-owner. Evaluating our freedom from the perspective of how many and how powerful of authorities exist to force your compliance. How much choice do you have in compliance? In purely technical terms, there were many fewer authorities enforcing anything upon people's of the past just because governments had fewer resources in the past because the GDP of the people was smaller and less effective. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv I recommend staying away from Passion/Love until you're willing to take huge risks and own your success or failure. Love for your craft is often times abused by those who would get the rewards instead of you. Doing what you love is not enough. You must do it for yourself, not for others who would be satisfied with AI slop instead probably. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv disagree. as time goes on, the world proves us correct. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv There is also the pretty serious risk that enough money bet against something assures it happens by way of incentives. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv lol, debate.... Who is debating? There's nothing to debate aside from the desirability of the outcome and there will be no talking authoritarians out of authority. What a waste of time. Who agrees to show up to these things? Just say... https://tenor.com/view/bugs-bunny-no-bugs-bunny-no-noo-nope-gif-17634468831385926907.gif npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv It's not an alternative to States. It's an alternative FOR States to choose, opposed to empowering centralized monetary powers. First they will buy it but the end goal for sovereign Bitcoin based balance sheets and households is to peacefully destroy those centralized monetary powers, not the States themselves. We have history books full of Revolution. We don't want that but if we have to do that, we now have a new choice available to the following replacement State. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv 100% But Iraq was for supply for Europe to counter Russian supply dominance there. Venezuela is for the US domestic refiners and supply at home, lower oil prices here and national security dependence still vs China influence over it, and control of it. It's not ideal, but this is actually in the best interest of America and geopolitics is Anarchy. There is no universal morality. Live by the sword, die by the sword, and all that. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Bro. Epic. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv one does not quit playing UO. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv UO Outlands - Is the best UO that has ever existed. Free to Play uooutlands.com npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Bitcoin doesn't send any signals to lawyers and police and governments other than fuck off. Fuck you. Get Fucked. Go to Hell. and Up yours. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv How strong is your income stream? Are you banking rent that takes no effort, and will continue despite any health or age or changing interests? Already have something to leverage that you don't want to sell because you live in it? Strong Equity because you bought it 15 years ago? DO IT, duh. but thats alot of ifs for most folks. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Yeah, you should read a bit more. Once you know a large amount of detail about a topic, you'll see how wrong every mainstream media article about it is. That's how it is for every topic. They get 60% right, enough for the layman to accept it as generally correct, but wrong enough to suit their interests. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Anarchy is not the absence of Order. You're thinking of Chaos. Chaos is not Anarchy. Chaos is war, disruption, disorder, death and violence. Anarchy is not an ideal to strive towards. It's a rejection of imposed order like a Religion or a State. It is a recognition of the Truth. That the natural world is Anarchistic and we do best when we work with it, not against it. ie: Capitalism not Communism. Protocols not Services, etc. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv what about onlypans.com npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Nope, I was wrong, I was thinking of the Delay and Notify part of buying a new hardware device. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv I believe there is also a like 6 month wait period option, to unlock the whole balance, if spending within daily limits is too restrictive. These are just company policies, you can spend the entire balance, theoretically, with the phone part plus the Block server-side part. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv You're right but to be perfectly clear, they can spend within the set limits, using the phone part with the cloud part. That is a recovery scenario that is well defined and part of the trade-off. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv It depends on who you plan to leave it to, and their capabilities. If you have kids and they're too young, or your spouse is not confident and so not comfortable, you want some UX solution, some corporate assistance. This isn't for everyone but it is a tradeoff that is acceptable for alot of types of people and it's not a bad tradeoff, not really. We're not all the freedom fighters and underground anarchists we like to think we are. The loss or privacy is the most significant issue. It doesn't feel like holding your own keys, it feels like custodial Bitcoin. That's weird if you've been using hardware wallets before now, but it's not inherently bad. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv How about we skip to the end and just abort America? npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv If you don't want to buy another of the same hardware, when you've lost it, you shouldn't make that hardware part of your cold storage operation? The scenario that would be covered by this is when you have a phone key and the bitkey cloud key, without the hardware. You can spend down within limits, or you can restore things with new entropy generated by some new hardware, which right now only one device exists with all the required features. Losing the hardware does make you dependent on a specific vendor, yes. That is the design choice made early on, that you involve a vendor to hold your cloud key and make sure you can recover from the loss of the hardware or phone key, or both, Involving a 3rd party is literally the point. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv I felt like this from the very beginning, when it was just, oh this is not a good change, I want to filter these out of my node.... But they wouldn't listen that there is no filtering these out. Then of course it inevitably escalated into the law is coming for node runners, BEWARE. Fuck off. The law can suck my nutsack. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv say more npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv I appreciate your position and the respectful discussion. The main thing I am critical of is the idea that you think you can stop the jepgs or 'non monetary data' on Bitcoin. Even the softfork plan would not accomplish much. Harm minimization is an overall good, here. The miners are mining them. Your node is getting filled up more with the filters, long term, as the transactions are confirmed and the dApps use alternatives that cause UTXO set bloat. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv I don't see any single difference to Bitcoin itself from allowing the OP_RETURN to store more data except that if we don't allow it we are more likely to be less utilized now and in the long run and perhaps the world builds on other rails in the decades to come. Don't we want to be more utilized? People are so selfish about their current node costs or their current transaction costs. Eventually we need to pay enough fees to secure the network from attack as our security subsidy ends. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Ok, there ya go. We've arrived together at the Truth. It is censorship, and that's the point of it. Thank you. I don't disagree that we need to adjust things. A discount for witness data doesn't seem appropriate anymore. However, you do want the censorship, you don't just want to keep the transaction propagation costs away from your personal node. You want the dominant implementation to be on your filtering configuration to effectuate censorship. You want to effectuate censorship of some 'bad' transactions. That's a bit awkward for anarchists to swallow, to say the least. It's not inaccurate to say this, as established. There's no threat to Bitcoin from these transactions. It's about costs and paying them for things you don't approve of. You don't want the network to pay, for your node to cost more for things that you don't approve of. Bitcoin isn't what you approve of it being. It is what it is. It is what we make it. It isn't only what it was intended to be. It isn't a Constitution. It's alive. It becomes what we make it. I look forward to a world where it eats everything. Every title, every payment, every major legal document or contract. Why not? Technically, not morally. Why, technically, could we not? Are we not preparing for millions of tx per sec on lightning? Oh are we afraid of the little government man who wants to hassle us for some garbage data on our nodes? Defend yourself. Bitcoin shouldn't have to shapeshift to protect you. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv If the result wasn't censorship of these transactions, then you wouldn't want to do it. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv You're setting up a straw man, do you realize? There's no such thing as censorship within a decentralized network. Every node does what it wants to do and doesn't by itself have power. The RESULT is very similar, if there are defaults set up in a reference implementation or if enough nodes do this. So the people who maintain that reference implementation have to think about the result of their filters in aggregate. Not simply on that one node that's running the software. You are just running a node, but they have to consider the aggregate. Because it results in censoring these transactions when enough nodes don't propagate them. Back channels are required to get around that emergent censorship of these valid transactions. If the RESULT of these filters, given enough nodes implementing them, is a censoring of them from the mem-pool, other than using a black-market for transactions, then where would we say this censoring is coming from? It's obviously right that it's not censorship for you to do this in your node configuration, but it also is very similar in result to censorship in the end. If the major implementation of our nodes is maintaining a feature that results in censorship, that is similar enough to a government managing policies about what we can do on Bitcoin, for me. I don't like it. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv They could try more to stop it, but also, they can't stop us all. I can run other models that would also do this, offline, on my own hardware. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Well yeah... who would borrow (short) Bitcoin? Financing (especially government financing) will always be using fiat money and the dollar is 1000x better than what they have. I am hopeful for the people of Argentina, still. This is improvement and a huge win as far as I see it, in getting the financing without the anchors of international watch-dogs with liberal woke agendas. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv You do realize that's exactly what we have now: "A single organization dictating what my mempool should look like." If we stop filtering by DEFAULT (PLEASE READ THIS WORD) and let everyone do what they want, then no one person or implementation of filters or set of nodes is going to dictate anything, where our current implementation of DEFAULTS (THIS IS THE IMPORTANT WORD IN THIS SENTENCE) is precisely a single dominant organization setting up the policy that blocks some transactions from propogating without back channels. These transactions are financially viable. People demand them, god help them. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Did you read my post? You're free to do what you want, you don't get to make CORE write the code to do it. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv I was under the assumption that they were always going to need this to dollarize and it's a huge win to actually get it without giving up something, like in an agreement with the IMF who would want assurances about x, y, z. Which is always an anchor on the economy and the country which ultimately dooms these nations to repeat bankruptcy. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv It's more about the default. Defaults matter. You can roll your own node software with a small change to the main repo, in your own repository, no one is even trying to stop you. What people are trying to stop is the DEFAULT being relaxed because defaults matter and make up a large amount of the market. Pressuring Core who are also free and independent and not working for you or your specific interests, to maintain a default because you like it, even when there are externalities and costs and long term downsides for Bitcoin because you disapprove of the content that would be permitted once the defaults are relaxed is kind of censorship isn't it? Wanting a governing body to maintain a definition of what is spam and what isn't is exactly the type of thing Bitcoiners should be digusted by and fight against. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Did Bitcoiners forget the whole point is that we don't give a shit about what anyone defines as 'moral and ethical' content. If Bitcoin was at risk from the public mob or the government, for whatever 'moral and ethical' considerations they concoct, you wouldn't care about it. Bring it on. Let them try to prosecute Bitcoin because of NFT 'illegal' or scammy or anything. Bitcoin will survive, but you may not. Take responsibility and defend yourself. Bitcoin isn't going to do it for you. It's only a tool. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv So he's still at large, but they got his Bitcoin? npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv The Socialists of South America continue to be hostile to Capitalism. They're wrong too. Just because it sounds good, doesn't make it good. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv So is this about Bitcoin or about judging the 'others' who don't think like 'us' npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv It's a bug fix. It's not a big change. We have created two different mem-pools. This is a bad outcome and needs a bug fix. It forces developers to hack around and find private and privileged access to the mem-pools they need. Users will have to go through centralized companies to get this access for themselves, to use these apps. Instead of these apps being decentralized and serving the politics of Bitcoin they will be centralized and serve standard politics. You've stopped nothing, you've only made things harder for everyone. Present and future node operators and developers and users. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Why is discrimination necessary? If it was necessary I would presume we need a fork to make this consensus. This is the same type of thing you would have heard from the State if we gave them an option to help design the new system. "We need to have the authority to stop bad TX." However, here, you're just putting bad TX on a more exploitable and longer-term more costly location, UTXO set. Costly for yourself, as a node operator. There is no option on the table to make Bitcoin purely monetary, you get that right? That's gone. We already added features, changed consensus. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv removing the filtering entirely unifies the network, where some nodes and miners didn't see entire classes of valid transactions. unification of the network is important when considering potential issue that lead to forks or attacks that cause forks on purpose. removing the right to configure this is also a consideration towards this end. We don't want people to self segregate. Division among nodes when that division is not consensus is not good. It doesn't help anything. It doesn't stop the spam. It just divides us up and the spam causes more issues elsewhere, not on your node today but on all nodes tomorrow (UTXO bloat) npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv ChatGPT made this for me: Someone please tell me what's wrong with this summary of the OP_RETURN filtering debate: Knots vs Core Summary by Category of Impact Network health: prefer fewer private relay rails → lean Core. Ops & tooling simplicity: prefer defaults, fewer custom flags → Core. Brand/policy signaling: want to state “money-only” → Knots Data placement hygiene: avoid UTXO/witness camo → tolerate larger OP_RETURN (Core) Regulatory sensitivity: minimize visible relay by default; accept trade-offs in propagation/estimation → Knots End ChatGPT. It seems to me that Knots is better at telling Regulators "we're trying to stop the 'bad guys'" as well as being better at some arbitrary 'brand' image of a money only network. (Which I disagree with but that's neither here nor there) Otherwise, Core's change to filtering makes the network more unified which is very important to consensus if we are ever attacked. It makes the tools and standards simpler to implement correctly, if you're going to build on Bitcoin. As a developer, this is important or people will hack things however they can. Finally, the most important issue is the long term UTXO bloat that comes with work-arounds. The UTXO set is forever growing in Bitcoin and is a serious problem for the long term, if it grows faster than our development of better hardware, smaller machines and less wealthy users will be forced out of running Bitcoin themselves. Now, this must also be balanced with the increased node requirements from allowing more space in the OP_RETURN. But one of these options is a one time increase in through-put (view and discard) resource requirements for nodes, today when these resource requirements are low, and the other is a forever growing in-memory dataset. Wouldn't any policy the pushes people away from using UTXOs be better? Feels like I'm being gaslit about some small resource requirements today, for our nodes over spam thats paying; In order to implement policies that make Bitcoin easier to attack long-term. It divides and centralizes the network more. It incentivizes back-channel transaction mining. It bloats a very sensitive long term and forever growing in-memory UTXO set. A small amount of power, over a long enough time, could fill up the UTXO memory set and dwindle our nodes to a special few that could then be captured or otherwise corrupted or destroyed. I'm sorry if I've missed something important but I tend to oppose any 'control' and so I default to skepticism when people want to shape the TX's that are 'legal' without it being a consensus thing. This feels like the current pop culture (authoritarianism) leaking into Bitcoin. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv White Anglo Saxon Protestant, New England elite that have historically dominated American politics and the CIA. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv WASPy fuckers aren't helping the common man out, either. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Ah, I see, you feel attacked, you mean. No worries, we don't want anyone to feel even slightly uncomfortable, so carry on hating conservatives, I guess. No reason for me, a conservative, to have anything to say in response since that might make YOU feel attacked... lol npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv My values are simply to keep your promises. We have two different definitions of marriage, and that's fine, but we don't have to hate each other over it, like you're trying to. Charlie Kirk wasn't trying to enslave 50% of the population to their male guardians, you nob. You know it. He simply considered marriage to be a different thing than your secular government certificate. He is saying the joining of two families and two individuals, before God and on God's terms, as defined in the Bible; well it has these terms. Take them or leave them. You don't get to define marriage from your perspective and ignore other people's culture and what they mean when they speak the word. Just like the woke mob don't get to tell me what to call a biological female when I refer to them. You purposefully reject other people's points of view and then accuse them of hate! You're in the same camp as the murderer of Charlie Kirk. There's no way to have a discussion about anything if you define it so that you get to hate Charlie Kirk for 'wanting to enslave 50% of everyone'. It's so absurd that I shouldn't even give you the time of day but since you seem to be a legit person and not a bot, maybe you can hear this and learn. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Doesn't he hold you to your vows? Or does he let you act like a child and betray your promises? That's what we're talking about, not a King making the rules. Vows, before god. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Don't get married if you're not into it. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Inheritance is hard. People we love, technically speaking, aren't going to be as comfortable with using software at all. to knowing what is important or not. they use the app as an individual who helps socially secure recoverability as well as be defined as the heir. the ease of this and the security of a hardware source of entropy makes it very attractive for even tech folks. all of the hard power benefits of self custody direction of funds and control and also providing corporate service for recoverability and inheritance both, at the cost of privacy for your utxos. thats fair enough for non dissidents, i think. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv yah i start by asking it to build the prompt that will build the content. have it prompt engineer it and also write in the end. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv also, chatgpt seems to give me 1000 words no matter what its always 1200 words or less npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv outline and planning. chatgpt needs all your requirements well documented, you can't just start asking for shit, its gonna make up what it hasn't been told is your goal. Typically devs don't plan because they have to learn the plan as they develop the real requirements as they go along. llms work best with too much input and if you already know 99% of the tech stack and patterns and deployment env. you'll use. they save you the typing, not the knowing what is needed. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv What stops them today is this default. What stops them after is desire and incentives and sunk costs. The more apps that build around this, the worse it is to get them to fix it. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv theres a violent golf cart mafia? wat npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv It's highly likely to be a 'Mainframe' db. The option to use a relational model and SQL script is available once IBM db2 was introduced but it's very likely these systems are older than that and are not using second generation upgraded options. And it benefits everyone if there's no clean way to cross reference and identify fraud, so yeah, why upgrade? Unlike in a business, where it benefits the shareholders to cut fraud and control expenses. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv I don't disagree with a very legal and open drug policy, but that's not the problem. The problem is that on the Mexican side of the border, the criminal organizations are in power and no amount of legal competition in the drug trade is going to fix that without the Mexican government having the incentives to secure that area. It is mostly impacting Americans and their streets, so Mexico looks the other way. It costs too much pain at home to fix. America should have declared these criminal armies a threat many many decades ago. Like other non-national threats, if the local government isn't going to do anything about it, America will just walk right in and do something about it. Also, no one wants Fentanyl. It is used to dilute the real drugs. It's fake chinese drugs, like other fake chinese products. Why do we want these in America, even if you want legal drugs? We want American drugs, good ones, legal ones. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv shapeshift npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv It's crazy that Mexico has ceded the north of their sovereign territory to gangs and criminals. It wouldn't be so hard to stop fentanyl if Mexico fulfilled its responsibilities in governing and securing its territory. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Indeed. They are taxes that raise revenue the same as the other taxes but they unavoidably benefit the workers of America who will see additional jobs and local value-add industry creation. All things being equal, less taxes is better but after 50 years of globalism and hollowing out of America's middle class and middle fly-over country, I'm into taxes that benefit America against a world of nationalist populists who took advantage of the US in globalism's name to benefit their own workers and industry. This game exists, we need to play it instead of pretending we're above it to our own disadvantage. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv While a 'progressive' tax system sounds like an enlightened thing it is ultimately a way to give someone power to manage outcomes. The power enable tax policy to choose winners and even punish political opponents with disruptive audits, as we've seen this very election cycle is the great evil of this system. While it sounds like the poor people get ripped off here, the rich people actually have less power in a national sales tax. With a complex administrative tax regime, wealthy people can afford to find and arrange their assets to avoid the taxes. Poor people cannot, even if the tax code is structured to be kinder to them, they don't have the means to work that system, when they don't have the resources or expertise to do so. A national sales tax would be difficult to game, if done correctly, and placed on all goods, not just retail goods, but also homes and other investments and high frequency trading, etc. If it was truly universal, it would give rich people no real options. Pay the tax or don't buy assets/don't cash out gains. There's no way to trick a system that's that simple and universal. There will be some people who are not immediately better off. We should consider all time ahead of us, and not specific individuals alive today. Of course, I don't have to get elected, so.... npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv you slept in npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv because coffee is nectar of the gods npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv People really don't want to do business in Bitcoin units because Bitcoin is not the only money out there, and never will be. It cannot ever be the only money by way of it's open source. It was copied immediately. It will always be preferable to spend the bad money, take loans for it, make contracts to pay people months and years in advanced in bad money. We will probably always be looking to spend some stable-coins, preferably decentralized autonomous stable-coin type things from locking up Bitcoin on lightning somehow. Like the money we have now is borrowed-dollars coming from real bond assets being locked up. Bitcoin is replacing bonds, not dollars. The dollar's current global power comes from the bonds, not the token that spends. If you want to evade taxes to prevent the government from having that power to spend, you don't need people to accept Bitcoin, you just need them to accept decentralized payment rails. You need to use decentralized stable-coins and then you're as anonymous as can be, in the payment, but the vendor gets dollars back to a USD bank account without the privacy leak for you. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv You're not wrong, but Bitcoin is like a gun. It's not really super useful as an individual, alone, if your threat model is the massive government you live under. It's about cost-benefit, and we win this calculation. So what, if they know where we all live. They have to come confiscate it. If they want to spend their resources confiscating, they will take from Blackrock and Coinbase and real sovereign Bitcoin owners will be far too expensive to attack in aggregate. Be expensive to steal from! It's so easy. Make an exit plan, like if you were living in Syria or something. Guess what, they can't stop you. That's why they won't come for you. Like trying to squeeze water, it will escape through your fingers. They'd rather have your sales taxes and none of your Bitcoin than to see you escape entirely. Don't stick your head out, and be the first target, but there is no hope for the State in your proposed scenario. Let them come. They make it obvious their weak position when they do. This isn't 1933 where the only people who understand money and gold and realpolitik of international political and banking relationships were insiders and experts. If you prepare for conflict, you prevent it. Bitcoin is maximum preparation. Come what may, I have the options. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv too perfect, prove you're not a robot npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Most people want to think their Doctors are this ethically pure, like wonderful life saving, selfless person. Man, they became a Doctor to get money and status. They're monkeys, like us. They're meeting Mommy and Daddy's expectations. Doctors are people too. They've just spent alot more time studying and doing what the 'establishment' tell them to do. They are in bubbles, like everyone, and have their own interests and incentives and bias. That bias is dangerously predetermined by schooling and insurance policies. (They like to get paid.) They go along to get along with poisoning and farming the public for healthcare income. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv omg I need it. Is this fake or real? npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv GM☕ npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Nope, I was wrong, you had me by 2 months. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv I think I posted the first Roll Tide on NOSTR, last year. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Lord Malacath npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv You're not describing a State, you're describing a culture. One that respects the property rights of others. The protocol to enforce this requires neighbors and militia, self interested in mutual protection. A State can enforce this protocol, draft its citizens, tax and spend, but it doesn't have exclusive ability to accomplish this. We do all want such a community to exist within, but assuming a State as the only technological means of collective organization assumes there must be something, ie the State, ABOVE the individuals. This permits it to prioritize itself. It's existence must be, before peace can be. This is not so. This prioritizes the State over the people and the individuals. This inevitably corrupts every state, everywhere. The argument, as I read it, is this. 'State' as a word, as a concept, is dated. It assumes itself, technologically, in order to organize people into peaceful coexistence. That is a lie. We organized before we made a State. The State is a technology, nothing more. It was the best we had and so it has been seared into our minds as foundational. It is not. The Nations of peoples, our tribal allegiances, and our mutual interests are foundational. The State is just tech we use and it does so much harm with this idea that it must always be, that we solved this problem 500 years ago with modern nation states and to ever be without an authority over us, is impossible. We must strive to be Nations, not States. People before and above any organizational principle or protocol, adopted with Consensus, with liberty to divide, to fork off, to be free of capture and enslavement to a secular majority or oligarchy of the State. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv and Google has said they will stop making Chromecasts, also. The best 'tv' device IMO npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv of course not, you still need to make yourself dangerous and costly to attack, the same way Bitcoin must do that. but that is also something individuals can do. It is only our modern world that would have you believe that it is natural for individuals to depend on others for such critical defense. A few individuals with nuclear weapons can keep even the greatest army in the world at bay. North Korea is no shining example of freedom for its citizens, but geopolitically, it is the most free nation on earth. It can hack, steal, launder, and organize itself and its society as its leaders see fit. It can do anything it wants because its too costly to attack. Bitcoin does that. You can do that, too. Many insurgents around the world do this quite easily, and they prove very difficult to destroy. Being free is uncomfortable, but it is possible. Will the masses choose this? Never. But that is only to say that most people don't want freedom, most people want safe slavery. What do you want? npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv The arbiter will be protocols, not coercion through violence. You don't need a violent monopoly to do enforcement of a protocol. Violent monopolies take over the things people were doing anyway, to give themselves legitimacy. People do the things they want, without coercion, even governing our society. Yes, people like and want governance. They don't want governments. Bitcoin has shown us how to develop a consensus and enforce it, without any empowered agency or government. We can see with languages, that we naturally participate and adapt to protocols, without a central arbiter of what is 'English', etc. The only functional difference between current forms of government will be the centralization of it. Instead of every government function being held by the same small group of powerful people, each protocol will run on the nodes or brains of people actually using it. There would be decentralized governance, divided among many protocols. I do agree, that we shouldn't tear down what we have. The protocols to replace them don't exist. We don't want chaos. We want anarchy. Anarchy is simply being free to try alternatives, and if they work, being free of the coercion of the existing government. That last part is the trick. How do we try things and keep them, if they work, when the existing governments claim that the only functional system must involve centralization of power in their hands? At that point, when we have our alternative, like Bitcoin, we must reject them and fight them. It is inevitable. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Oh my. That looks like the legit, never frozen, fried okra. You can't get that shit at any restaurant. Proof of Work, here, folks. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Anarchists build things that don't rely on Authority. Non-anarchists build things like Facebook and AWS and Azure. Anarchists build NOSTR and Bitcoin. In order to engineer a system that rejects Authority, you must be a person who can imagine a functional and peaceful world without Authority. That's an Anarchist. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Anarchy isn't chaos. Anarchy is the market. Is the market (in it's totally free form) anti-social? Does the anarchy of a free market produce chaos? It produces innovation and it allocates wealth to the best among us, and it does all this without empowering any individual to a privileged position. It permits radical reorganization. It's anarchy, but it's not chaos. It's order that is natural and that survives on its merits, not because order is enforced. It's still order, but it's righteous unlike authority, which is the alternative. The question for you, do you want an authority in your life, or do you want Anarchy? npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Retarded anarchists built Bitcoin and NOSTR and TCP/IP. What have Libertarians ever done? npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv We are Bitcoin Nation. There is no State. There is no body. We each choose the protocol we enforce at our node. The resulting consensus is downstream of the individuals. In a State, helpers are directed and their actions downstream of State interests. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Weekly works for me - You can't quit, sorry. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Nooooooo ... npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv Does anyone know of another 'single provider signal booster' regulated by the FCC other than Nextivity's CEL-FI GO X? There's 20 of the cheap broad spectrum weak ass boosters, but only one actually effective booster available? Hurray for our "free market' FCC regulated capitalism. npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv fail npub1acvd0s49qpxwzggjq6cx63vpmmw3rw0yw3u40ltesylq5ext5r5s6rfyc6 acv This will not scale but not because the technology has failed. This won't scale because many people want to fight and rage. We few that are here now are not rageful, but hopeful. We're building, not burning. Once it's built, it will serve the rageful and the hopeful alike. They will each find their people, and find each other too. Treat the rageful with patience and they may eventually see there is hope, if they decide to look forward instead of back.