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paul's hard fork is not any less sane or rational than what most of the bitcoin ecosystem is already doing. there is already a critical mass of people openly tolerating bitcoin treasury scams. there are now multiple centralized L2s controlled by creepy companies alongside literal fake bitcoin affinity scams being passed off as the real thing. monero and freaking tether have soaked up all the real activity that remains. all the usage patterns have lead to an extended fee market collapse. the users have never been dumber or less sovereign. best of all, there are people demanding to ossify, as if we're somehow in the ideal state and it should never change. it's simply disgusting.

2026-04-25 08:41:56 CEST

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I know rationally that terrain theory is the answer here, but have you experienced TRT or just "doing roids?" it's difficult to describe the psychological and social effects. if you can experience the effects, it makes it more apparent why low levels are less optimal than high levels and what that really means.

2026-04-21 19:44:49 CEST

if you don't like the Arbitrum situation, don't copy them! stop making centralized or permissioned L2s on bitcoin. activate covenants and unlock something better.

2026-04-20 19:00:32 CEST

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they made it illegal to discriminate against foreigners i.e. they banned freedom of association

2026-04-20 18:45:03 CEST

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anything outside the overton window needs to get pushed back in, ignored, or addressed by violence. I say let dissimilar people have freedom of association. destroying freedom of association creates more political violence than anything else in the world

2026-04-19 01:49:02 CEST

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I have only ever seen XMR and BCH people take this exercise seriously. real niggas. everyone else is a poser in my opinion

2026-04-17 23:53:45 CEST

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this is the result of putting store of value before medium of exchange and listening to charlatans like saifedean

2026-04-15 06:32:30 CEST

I'm here to say FUCK Y'ALL. there is no microblogging frontend as good as pleroma-fe.
you go on and on about the primal cache and treasures or whatever but do you have niggacorn? didn't think so.
https://image.nostr.build/331c85332394313431d337a71a998746bfaefaf4d2ba7bec7950ef276063a8ab.png

2026-04-14 05:55:05 CEST

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let me know if this is just some bitchass californian person's retarded social commentary disguised as an innocent moviefilm

2026-04-12 16:15:31 CEST

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it gets left like this on purpose to make people look busy. then they can attract investors by saying "look how clever we are and how hard we worked!" if this is allowed to continue, anyone might introduce better primitives and building blocks, which will invalidate the previous work and put someone out of business. people who want more primitives are attacked, names are invented for them, and scary bedtime stories are told about their motivations.
it's okay for bitcoin itself to invalidate previous work and put someone out. but don't you dare add an opcode that invalidates MY work and puts ME out. ossify today and enshrine MY work as the everlasting standard.
if bitcoin had an immune system, people would instantly notice when this happens. it has AIDS.

2026-04-12 15:58:47 CEST

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2026-04-10 19:31:20 CEST

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if the best we can do right now is spark, we are not ready to ossify. the growing adoption of centralized L2s should be treated like an emergency. it's broken now.

2026-04-10 03:17:51 CEST

this is aggravated sexual assault on an infant. 80% of American males are rape victims. if you find the time of day to make antisemitism about anything else you have the IQ of a ham sandwich
https://blossom.primal.net/74e93172a5068143cb0d597ec8cf63f37180d3e0ebe351e9614ba3cf14cb5ff8.jpg

2026-04-10 02:07:29 CEST

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I think the spaceman stuff is fake and they are really just designing and testing stuff that will be used in weapons... but I also think the earth is a globe. what do I win?

2026-04-08 08:04:26 CEST

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make that three because of mostard. not sure if still maintained
to complete everything we need to convince the ethereum community to give up on farcaster

2026-04-04 23:08:44 CEST

90% of the flesh and blood human support for knots/bip110 comes from dupes who still haven't figured out that node count is a gameable metric and that's why there's proof of work. you have to literally not understand the whitepaper to support this stupid crap

2026-04-04 04:41:36 CEST

the lack of simple upgrades that make bitcoin a better money, including CTV and CISA, can only be explained by incompetence or perverse incentives. take your pick. core and knots give competent people the middle finger

2026-04-04 03:01:08 CEST

the hilarious idea that core/knots devs and podcast fuckboys are only downplaying quantum computing because they 're not competent or coordinated enough to implement a wallet format

2026-04-03 23:27:15 CEST

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2026-04-02 21:38:11 CEST

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a bean pretending to be a rabbit pretending to be a strawberry. in one word, schizophrenia.

2026-04-01 16:59:03 CEST

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2026-04-01 08:05:39 CEST

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you can just leave it like that from now on

2026-04-01 08:03:40 CEST

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did you smoke weed for the first time too?

2026-04-01 07:06:46 CEST

if I were larry ellison, 30,000 would not be enough

2026-03-31 18:55:55 CEST

we have interviewed former oracle employees. they were all fucking awful. my boss hired one and he had to be terminated 20 days later

2026-03-31 15:55:48 CEST

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who is posting quote portraits? what are you my grandma? gonna go teach 7th graders?

2026-03-31 06:46:14 CEST

>The issue with F-Droid is that all apps are signed by the same party (F-Droid) which is also not the developer
eeeeeeeew!
https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/

2026-03-31 05:16:21 CEST

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2026-03-30 18:01:41 CEST

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we got a primitive that lets one user reuse a UTXO many times. okay cool. I don't appreciate the rube goldberg scaffolding that evolved around HTLCs but it does free up some room I guess. it doesn't scale users. it still requires each user to have their own UTXO. this is the foundation of most of the lightning criticism.
what we need now is a primitive that lets multiple people reuse a UTXO many times. we are emulating it with presigned transactions in a centralized way, we get too many trust and liveliness assumptions as a consequence, and we do it in constructs that don't pass the fee revenue to miners. we need a primitive that achieves this for real.
paul's mistake is selling his own version of a completed solution. he should focus more on the primitive, then step back. and I don't think it should be hashrate escrows, it should be more similar to covenants.

2026-03-30 17:06:38 CEST

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I think HTLCs work for payment channels but not UTXO sharing. Peter Todd wrote an essay about this somewhere. the lightning idea goes in the payment channels category and the sidechain and statechain ideas go in the UTXO sharing category

2026-03-30 16:42:37 CEST

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the two-way peg can be done without consensus changes and is being done in production right now, with additional trust assumptions, via bitvm. this is what the merge mined sidechain called rootstock is using. curiously the luke dashjr crowd wants to destroy bitvm. citrea also keeps a two-way peg to another blockchain but it is not merge-mined and has some centralization issues. if you want something better than bitvm or citrea it requires consensus changes such as hashrate escrow or covenant opcodes.
this isn't an exotic idea with nothing to show for it. before the lightning obsession people would talk about the two-way peg to a sidechain all the time. blockstream suggested it was impossible and tried to sell us federated pegs as a substitute but I think they were just having perverse incentives. we know it's not impossible.

2026-03-30 16:00:01 CEST

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satoshi openly praised merge-mined sidechains like namecoin. he just didn't have a way for real sidechains to be denominated in BTC at the time

2026-03-30 08:32:55 CEST

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merge mined sidechains and a decentralized two-way peg. it mimics exactly what already happens naturally, it just ensures that the bitcoin miners get all of the fee revenue instead of altcoins and trusted third parties. there's already a huge amount of capacity for running blockchains. it's just splintered across too many different alt currencies and consensus mechanisms. they could have all been real bitcoin sidechains paying bitcoin miners for security.
paul storcz talks about this a lot. but you do NOT have to use his hashrate escrows idea to make this work. there are other methods. it can be done using covenant opcodes
tari doesn't have to deal with the two way peg problem. they just accept the sidechain being denominated in a totally new currency. bitcoin will need to avoid that

2026-03-30 08:07:57 CEST

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bitcoin doesn't have to be one blockchain

2026-03-30 07:54:36 CEST

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WAOW
YOU ARE VERY SMART
EXIT THE MATRIX MANG

2026-03-30 06:33:12 CEST

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2026-03-30 06:20:31 CEST

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sure, because the users run away. they switch to a different method of transacting that doesn't compensate bitcoin miners at all. just listen to the actual people who try bitcoin. they will all tell you the same thing. they try it, experience fees, then move on to something centralized or an altcoin. the users who lived through those really big spikes are observed swearing to never use bitcoin again.
this is the fee revenue problem. the market won't bear high enough per transaction fees to replace the block subsidy. altcoins and centralized trash are there to soak it all up. there is no way out of this problem without some kind of consensus change.

2026-03-30 06:00:59 CEST

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2026-03-30 01:16:51 CEST

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for someone to reach a high level of privacy with lightning, they'd have to be as autistic as you are. and using it like that isn't scalable either. there's reasons why people still don't rely on it for distributing cocaine even after 8 years of make-work development...
are we really going to have the "fees are only a dime today" discussion? this is only possible after bitcoin has bled users to other cryptocurrencies. you know that. you're not a dumb person.
https://blossom.primal.net/cbaa2d4182e2eaaa8fdd2498953538cc5b57cf7a5a1021e63e5dfbc7a5ccec32.mp4

2026-03-29 20:20:12 CEST

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2026-03-29 18:08:06 CEST

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KDE is great but as others noted there's a 50% chance you end up in the alternate universe where it's unbearably buggy. I need the features so badly that I just take my chances with it every time

2026-03-29 03:32:46 CEST

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bip110 won't get enough hashrate

2026-03-29 01:35:42 CET

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>A cheap computer running a full node has the same vote as a data center
you're wrong. drink bleach
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2026-03-28 17:55:58 CET

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a huge chunk of linux developers just do whatever IBM or some other large corporation tells them to do, then they call people fascist/nazis for disagreeing with it. they did the same thing with wayland being forced on people prematurely. they did the same thing when roving gangs of transsexuals would take over projects under the guise of rewriting them in rust.

2026-03-28 17:29:31 CET

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keeping blocks excessively small and wasting an absurd amount of effort on lightning was the wrong way to do so and a gateway for more institutional control over bitcoin. for fuck sake you had people openly writing books about how a bitcoin transaction should be as rare and expensive as chartering an oil tanker and somehow this is a good thing. that means everyone will use a trusted third party. the use of trusted third parties has increased dramatically for the last several years. bitcoin is becoming more centralized and institutionalized now.

2026-03-28 17:21:38 CET

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and you don't seem to understand

2026-03-28 17:19:46 CET

systemd developer team discovered a way to nail jello to a wall
https://blossom.primal.net/453eb89f4236b90b3e728ba74da575bf48dcb015b698bdac1841818f871b77ac.webp

2026-03-28 08:17:47 CET

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yeah but
https://blossom.primal.net/460505b37ba946c5fd07bbae67af95086bdd9c5cb9c241f3b56afb4fcf682fb4.mp4

2026-03-28 07:44:15 CET

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stole these from the members only church of the subgenius forum

2026-03-28 05:03:35 CET

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2026-03-28 04:55:48 CET

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2026-03-28 04:43:24 CET

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it makes zero sense to be a bitcoin maxi anymore. bitcoin is intentionally as useless and centralized and retarded as possible. you get everything you want the instant you stop being a bitcoin maxi

2026-03-28 03:15:38 CET

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segwit was activated by miner signalling. but if you want to keep living in a fantasy world where bitcoin can be sybil attacked by a bunch of broke retards who own cheap computers, go ahead.

2026-03-27 21:49:45 CET

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I agree. there's a small chance that extremely simple opcodes will trickle into BTC at a glacial pace. there will never be a surviving chain split again, and people who want a lot of features will most likely switch to the best altcoins

2026-03-27 21:38:52 CET

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kill yourself clanker

2026-03-27 21:15:12 CET

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psychological tolerance to MDMA is permanent. you have max 12 "magical" experiences in your whole life and that's pushing it. I resent the idea of people wasting these experiences. read the autobiographical section of pihkal and look for advice from ann shulgin.
I have two pieces of blotter art signed by ann shulgin. I bought them immediately after she died
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2026-03-27 20:37:02 CET

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there are very important reasons why DNM participants overwhelmingly prefer monero over bitcoin privacy solutions. it's a shame that bitcoin maxis refuse to understand these reasons. if they understood it, they would act in favor of network upgrades

2026-03-27 19:56:21 CET

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when the buyer requests to purchase something, can you inspect the buyer, decide he looks like a bitch, and refuse to fill the order? what do you see?

2026-03-27 19:43:18 CET

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have you (or your friend's pet hamster) ever actually needed to use this process and how did that go?
is there room to exercise discretion over which buyers you will accept for an order? are there distinguishing marks that make you not want to fill an order for a buyer?

2026-03-27 19:41:23 CET

>The lack of fatherly discipline is a fiat phenomenon
oh my fucking god dude
it's not beneficial if 99% of your brain is bitcoin branded
#nevent1q…tqdr

2026-03-27 17:32:06 CET

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the fediverse isn't one cohesive thing. it's splintered into neighborhoods due to coordinated defederations. these neighborhoods don't even prefer the same server implementations and some types of events don't even propagate correctly.
imagine if there were completely different subcultures on nostr using completely different relays, and if you get caught using one relay you get banned from another.

2026-03-27 17:22:01 CET

@nprofile…hrj3 how does xmrbazaar deal with dispute resolution? do you have any experience with a scamming buyer?

2026-03-27 17:20:03 CET

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try grav instead of wordpress

2026-03-27 17:16:20 CET

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I caught second hand autism from looking at that spreadsheet. niggas gonna use the most convoluted shit imaginable just to buy a girl's feet pics. time spent on lightning is a waste
https://blossom.primal.net/3bb03fc36d82952307a2c8c4c5583d7edd43f4f0edd091d1649f5d9d55a69e8a.mp4

2026-03-27 17:01:47 CET

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token protocols on bitcoin for over 10 years. the majority hashrate always approved of it. the people whining are new users who don't know the history. they don't know they are a minority in an echo chamber

2026-03-26 22:50:11 CET

the @npub1xsg…zazx homepage includes a guy with a Yakub PFP
https://kagi.com
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2026-03-26 06:11:12 CET

>the core trannies added shitcoins to bitcoin last week. someone stop them!!!
this is the easiest way I can tell you are a newfag who didn't start learning about bitcoin until after 2019. token protocols were possible on bitcoin from the beginning. USDT actually began as a token on bitcoin back in 2014.
convincing your little retard friends to run knots on a cheap computer isn't going to magically shut down these token protocols. you need hashrate.

2026-03-25 18:57:34 CET

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there's nothing to take over. it's just a name anyone can use. it's been a really long time since project chanology

2026-03-25 13:53:08 CET

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centralized rube goldberg machines and affinity scams with the B logo drawn on them

2026-03-25 05:35:23 CET

I can't relate to people who complain about "the algorithm" because I got rid of everything that has one

2026-03-24 20:49:44 CET

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liquid is an affinity scam

2026-03-24 20:45:59 CET

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you can't sybil attack the bitcoin network. a person could go to AWS and spin up 10,000 core v30 nodes. they will have no hashrate. they don't change the rules. maybe you would feel more comfortable with another network that works the way you think bitcoin works. might I suggest ripple or ethereum?

2026-03-24 01:09:01 CET

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I think super testnet knows one 🙃

2026-03-24 00:36:15 CET

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number of DNMs using any of that shit = 0

2026-03-23 22:23:10 CET

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still a bit glitchy

2026-03-23 20:28:29 CET

I don't wanna deal with Artix it's unstable
I deal with enough bullshit from endeavour
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2026-03-23 20:23:36 CET

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now I am become reddit, destroyer of hobbies

2026-03-22 18:50:18 CET

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my NIP-05 is my video hosting website

2026-03-22 18:06:38 CET

christians and bitcoin maxis have things in common. they believe they are entitled to every square inch of epistemological reality. if you don't let them have all of it, they will claim you are oppressive, morally defective, misinformed.
everything I don't like is satanic (a shitcoin) for made up circular reasons

2026-03-22 07:12:33 CET

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I know but i2p torrents are faster than tor

2026-03-22 00:34:50 CET

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nuclear family is the worst kind of family

2026-03-22 00:33:14 CET

cryptocurrency journalism be like "today something irrelevant happened in the world and this is why a rich person scratched their balls"

2026-03-21 21:07:25 CET

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2026-03-21 20:00:50 CET

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2026-03-21 18:19:14 CET

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downloading 10 GB file over tor 💀

2026-03-21 17:59:20 CET

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he used to help maintain a pleroma instance dedicated to transphobic feminists

2026-03-21 17:56:55 CET

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there's a handful of pleroma instances with cool people on them but the rest of the fediverse is trash

2026-03-21 05:06:49 CET

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apple products were kino in the windows 9x era ngl

2026-03-21 05:05:51 CET

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2026-03-21 04:14:16 CET

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2026-03-20 18:25:44 CET

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2026-03-20 02:46:31 CET

I lost brain cells listening to John Carvalho on @npub12qz…pdx8 's show

2026-03-20 00:46:51 CET

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idk I think it's a matter of "utility" + "appeal"
BCH already has enough utility but it will never get enough appeal due to being a product of a contentious chain split. supporting it is often a career destroying move. it became radioactive.
If we're looking for something that slots into "throw my hands up and use another coin" I think ethereum and monero fit better here

2026-03-19 19:32:01 CET

wishing dylanmtaylor a very drink bleach immediately
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