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bitcoin maximalists are all lying scum

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2026-09-10 00:38:49 UTC

99.9% chance the "MoE of the future" will be a stablecoin. the fact that it's a stablecoin will be completely invisible to the end user. you can thank blockstream et. al. for guaranteeing this future. there was a tender moment lasting only a few years and they completely ruined it. our toys will remain as an agorist sandbox on the fringes, with most people only pretending to interact.
#nevent1q…7mlc

2026-09-09 14:49:02 UTC

I want Spark and Arkade to die. They are centralized money parking lots sitting next to LSPs. Exactly the same retarded idea as liquid+boltz combo wallets. They exist to justify lightning, and they are needlessly complex because they are trying to emulate covenants. This is the ugliest and stupidest way to achieve UTXO sharing.
#nevent1q…0hvt

2026-09-09 14:08:41 UTC

The complexity of lightning is absolutely staggering. It has an unbelievable amount of technical surface area. You have been papering over it and hiding this complexity from the user behind centralization and central points of failure. It has spawned the most disgusting anti-bitcoin things conceivable in an effort to justify its own existence, and now all of these abominations are exploding and collapsing under the weight of the hidden complexity. PLEASE stop. It's been ten years of this shit. You are starting to learn the hard way. This is your final chance to admit you are wrong about lightning and leave it behind before it hurts even more people.

2026-09-08 22:12:29 UTC

rootstock getting shitloads more attention now. @npub1jvx…7yqz must be over the moon

2026-09-07 21:27:43 UTC

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2026-09-07 02:53:13 UTC

toxic BTC maxis don't know what good looks like anymore. at all. the past couple of months should be proof of that. it's not even that fucking hard. just return to first principles and stop being a hypocritical sellout retard.

2026-09-07 01:39:36 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToyjyCnjrUo

2026-09-06 20:53:22 UTC

I've been saying liquid is a stupid idea for a long time now. that includes aqua wallet, bull bitcoin wallet, misty breez, boltz, and whatever is trying to replace boltz. it's all garbage. please stop using fake sidechains.

2026-09-06 07:28:15 UTC

why are women fascinated with narcissism and armchair diagnosing all different kinds of men with it all the time? like why narcissism in particular? why are they so fixated on attaching this label?

2026-09-05 03:22:34 UTC

I need someone to drive to my house right now and bring me a bottle of riesling

2026-09-03 14:36:16 UTC

why do people think anyone wants to see their stupid wordle grid thing pasted all over the place? it's like seeing zyn pouches stuck to the bathroom wall. I don't want to see it.

2026-09-02 01:18:15 UTC

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#nevent1q…cp76

2026-08-29 23:44:02 UTC

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2026-08-28 05:12:30 UTC

:niggacorn:

2026-08-28 03:11:10 UTC

sonny why ya lookin at chinese models on the computer?

2026-08-25 06:42:30 UTC

>the service provider we use for non-custodial accounts
the bitcoin community would have beaten this man to death with hammers back in 2013

2026-08-25 02:57:06 UTC

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I hope you're joking

2026-08-22 05:32:55 UTC

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you bought into lies and propaganda left over from 2017 when people said that non-mining nodes can force segwit to become activated. idk if you were actually here in 2017, probably not lol. basically a knotzi is a coretard where the training data got frozen during covid.

2026-08-20 15:58:03 UTC

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they did scummy things with BAT. if you tried to use their BAT integration to donate to a person who had not signed up to receive BAT tips, brave would just pocket it. later on brave was caught sneaking their own referral code onto several URLs including binance and coinbase. then they got caught installing a wireguard client on windows that was configured to run at startup without asking user permission. they are very forward thinking and that deserves to be recognized but they are unscrupulous.

2026-08-20 14:10:39 UTC

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domains are the second blockchain usecase ever, and they are the only thing I know to reach for when tasked with defending the concept of the NFT. brave seems scammy and bloated but they are the only major browser that is forward thinking enough to try to bake this stuff in and begin to take it seriously. I used the AAVE frontend over IPFS one time. it was pretty neat.

2026-08-20 01:24:43 UTC

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2026-08-19 13:34:54 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6cafh777lA

2026-08-18 03:18:42 UTC

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the tragedy of sidechain proposals is that they have so little competition. it's either drivechains or rootstock right now and barely anything else has escaped the drawing board. lightning really stole way too much mindshare.
I am not endorsing "bitcoin pure" at this time but it's another idea.
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I still kind of want to count what paul is doing as just a well intentioned stunt to attract attention to different methods of scaling and adding stuff.
https://blossom.ditto.pub/25aaa8e2dbabed7e95d647b1279d2bdaa05e309067ae05ca909c71c0be214ee4.jpeg

2026-08-18 02:15:39 UTC

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I am still looking out for a more comprehensive solution. one coin that does everything and you can just ignore whatever you don't like about it. when there are "everything" coins the only significant differences between them will be monetary policy and consensus mechanism

2026-08-15 04:05:17 UTC

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oh come on dude this wasn't even trezor's fault

2026-08-14 13:17:59 UTC

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at any given moment there will always be a nonzero fraction of the BTC community who understand a facet of a problem extremely well and have a good idea to solve it. it is never guaranteed they will convince the majority. when they don't get their way they leave. constant brain drain. paul is gathering most people who understand what sidechains really do and he is evacuating them and BTC will lose these people. I will sound like a broken record but again, this sort of thing has already happened multiple times.

2026-08-13 14:44:12 UTC

immediately after the BCH split the BTC community started tolerating way more infrastructure that can be easily shut off and central points of failure. almost as if all the people who actually gave a shit about that had departed from the community. now you've got stuff that users see and touch just not working anymore because it relied on something centralized that got shut off.

2026-08-13 03:34:15 UTC

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the whole concept of boltz existing at all is completely asinine. you don't want ANY architecture that allows for things to be completely shut off. boltz was solving a manufactured problem in an effort to pretend that lightning and liquid are viable technology.

2026-08-13 03:10:22 UTC

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what's that supposed to mean

2026-08-13 03:08:36 UTC

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do you take monero

2026-08-13 02:10:31 UTC

home cooked food brings me so much happiness. there are only two pestos in the store with no sneed oil. one of them is really expensive and the other one sucks. if you don't like it you have to stand there and pick basil leaves, but you control the cheese
this is chicken piccata, but I had no pinot grigio. the sauce used that cheap california champagne that people get for new years parties. I had an extra bottle because a couple people ditched.
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2026-08-13 00:04:50 UTC

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we don't need boltz. we need a simple sidechain primitive

2026-08-12 16:55:19 UTC

https://cyberchud.kiwifarms.gg/chudbound2.html https://blossom.primal.net/45cb9362c222733b4d2f60efe239f63fec7ea3cf4b3dbaf7c1dcdd0eae04f7da.png

2026-08-12 13:37:46 UTC

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never send me copy pasted LLM output again you fucking mush for brains retard

2026-08-12 04:32:40 UTC

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this is exactly how the solana devs would gather everyone to fix consensus failures which they would have all the time. they would go in discord and dictate to everyone what the new consensus rules would be and how to upgrade to a different client.

2026-08-11 19:29:11 UTC

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you will always accumulate some degree of kernels, or nullifiers, or a UTXO set. there are ways to compress it periodically and make it grow at a negligible rate, or push some of the data storage onto the user. if there is indefinite state growth but it's been made really really tiny, you will most likely win the original gamble and you'll be fine.

2026-08-11 16:45:06 UTC

monero grows 8 times faster on disk than bitcoin, for the same TPS. monero is also harder to prune and can't support SPV. even your nodeless wallet has to scan every block since the wallet birthday, so it's heavy. on monero you are gambling that consumer grade hardware and internet service improve faster than the rate of adoption. maybe it will. monero adoption is mostly slow and steady. their only fallback plan is even shittier payment channels.
BTC community decided NOT to make that gamble at all, instead focusing entirely on lightning which has been a disaster, and fake sidechains, and a bunch of other stupid centralized things. everything they did was overwhelmingly centralizing. they are allergic to any expressiveness which could enable real sidechains, shielded CSV, or anything else.
with monero, maybe you will drown in excessively large blocks someday and maybe you won't. on bitcoin you are already giving up and shoving everyone into spark. both of these plans are dumb compared to real sidechains, where you can try everything and ignore anything you don't care about.

2026-08-10 19:19:27 UTC

can we be done with non-mining node fetishism now? no, you cannot sybil attack the bitcoin network with a raspberry pi. now fuck off.

2026-08-10 14:54:02 UTC

"we can sybil attack bitcoin if we run enough non-mining knots nodes" is a hangover from segwit propaganda. most people who believe it were naive to bitcoin until after 2019 and still don't know how it works

2026-08-10 13:52:10 UTC

I made a Japanese castella cake yesterday https://blossom.primal.net/ab013c366acd3898e070503649c142782b986bd9803df74bd5ebd3f80b0a8972.png

2026-08-09 18:00:20 UTC

I know it can be tough but it's important to stop giving attention to pro-110 people. they were always forum sliding. the entire conversation topic is stupid and useless, and these people are only here to bury more important discussions under a sea of distraction.
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2026-08-09 01:51:32 UTC

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I have karagarga too but I can't get it into this thing cos they use cloudflare or something idk but my thing searches all of these at the same time and deduplicates the results. it's fuckin awesome
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2026-08-08 03:14:48 UTC

self custody goes up -> people use more blockspace -> fees go up -> people move to altcoins
it happened already

2026-08-07 14:20:23 UTC

part of me thinks both the $ECX paul drivechains fork and the BIP-110 fork are just ways of cashing out on a soft fork proposal that didn't achieve broad consensus. but paul did way more labor and his messaging is more honest.
#nevent1q…3a9s

2026-08-05 01:21:06 UTC

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absolutely infuriating how some people are using the situation to craft a narrative in support of custodians

2026-08-04 19:21:36 UTC

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he pulled 77 out of his ass because it's a big number. this is so stupid it's unbelievable

2026-08-04 03:49:36 UTC

RIP everyone holding L-BTC rn (fake bitcoins!!! you are a retard)

2026-08-04 03:47:15 UTC

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this will help you understand how lightning works
https://blossom.ditto.pub/5fad9403de6ddacccd2588b1756725346399a04366c84a4e8b7d41f3fc9dec93.mp4

2026-08-04 03:45:56 UTC

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it's very easy
https://blossom.ditto.pub/cbaa2d4182e2eaaa8fdd2498953538cc5b57cf7a5a1021e63e5dfbc7a5ccec32.mp4

2026-08-03 19:38:48 UTC

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aqua and a few aqua clones depend on boltz to be online. spark wallets operate on a similar principle. either he is acknowledging the shared characteristics or he is confusing which ones use boltz specifically. it doesn't matter

2026-08-03 18:48:46 UTC

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it doesn't

2026-08-03 18:19:36 UTC

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I'd like it if centralized services capable of being shut off get shut off forever

2026-08-03 18:04:53 UTC

finally. people were not going to wisen up and stop using centralized lightning slop wallets until they got turned off. I've been waiting for this day.
#nevent1q…lfkl

2026-08-02 20:31:52 UTC

ten years. the rot goes back ten years. it's all because of maxi culture.
https://blossom.ditto.pub/e3ca63d955905dcc3c345b951ee56b5392b5f75b93516f7e477ef257fa0535f8.png

2026-08-02 20:18:41 UTC

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one of the worst currencies I have had the displeasure of wasting my time on and I have tried so many different ones

2026-08-02 19:13:56 UTC

bitcoin maximalism culture is to blame for:
- a fatally defective maxi-branded hardware wallet getting relentlessly shoved in everyone's face for years
- centralization via lightning companies which should not exist
- a thousand excuses for scaling via custodians
- darknet marketplaces abandoning bitcoin and never adopting lightning
- teaching normies and plebs that bitcoin is for stupid arrogant pricks
- wall street deciding the outcome of every bitcoin fork from now on
- blocking real sidechains in favor of centralized pretend sidechains
- blocking covenant opcodes in favor of centralized pretend taproot emulated covenants
- collapsing miner's fee revenue and giving all of it to competing proof of stake networks
- the BIP-110 distraction industrial complex
- attempting to centralize nostr

2026-08-02 17:33:18 UTC

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it looks like a calculator from the dollar store

2026-08-01 17:14:42 UTC

bitcoin maxis are all scammers. their whole culture has been poisonous for over 10 years and needs to be torn down. I am not sorry for anyone who listened to them and got scammed. reassess the current technology landscape. it's all built on a foundation of lies.

2026-08-01 16:00:30 UTC

covenant opcodes help make self custody safer, scale bitcoin, and unlock other valuable use cases. people have been advocating for them for years. they are held back entirely by shitty obstructionist maxi behavior and lying scam grifters.

2026-08-01 15:28:48 UTC

they bought coldcard because of virtue signaling and now they are posting pictures of stamped washers because of virtue signaling

2026-07-31 22:17:43 UTC

https://blossom.ditto.pub/6fdd4a46d4d42518640209c34a2a316e6e03afb167e7b38853771ccac4fcf9af.mp4

2026-07-31 22:09:50 UTC

bitcoin maxis suck. they have been having way too shitty behavior for too long. they are arrogant and stupid.

2026-07-31 18:20:08 UTC

hermes on the verge of being able to pay its own bills like a grown adult
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https://app.apathy.tv/gitea/goatmeal/nanogpt

2026-07-31 08:55:06 UTC

I love the service at nanogpt
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2026-07-29 20:18:53 UTC

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ffmpeg 8 with whisper support -> speech to text
seriously what DOESN'T ffmpeg do at this point
you will become one of us, with ffmpeg commands seared into your brain

2026-07-28 06:39:26 UTC

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and he's pumping my bags :niggacash:

2026-07-28 04:26:26 UTC

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anyone who successfully acknowledges what's going on stops being a bitcoin maximalist. everyone else is being paid not to notice.

2026-07-28 03:22:08 UTC

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I learned that a lot of the things people call date rape drugs are primarily taken on purpose for recreational effects

2026-07-27 23:14:10 UTC

:niggacorn:

2026-07-27 22:49:47 UTC

@npub1q3s…d26p see it's still different enough that it matters
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2026-07-27 22:45:47 UTC

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2026-07-27 21:53:48 UTC

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legal entity. a ghost. don't look at me, the ghost did it. the ghost cannot exist without government saying it exists.

2026-07-27 20:30:27 UTC

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wall street can send shills into the community to make stupid things happen and bikeshed any good ideas. then they can pump their pretend bitcoins to solidify the outcome. oh, and from now on they decide who keeps the BTC ticker. treasury companies and ETFs are an attack vector, not a trojan horse.
maybe they were inevitable and cannot be stopped in a free world. but it was extremely stupid to let them happen before scaling was truly ever solved. now it will never be solved. scaling will be done with trusted third parties. you were supposed to have this ready before they sink their teeth into it.

2026-07-27 02:57:44 UTC

BTC has so thoroughly abandoned its purpose that disinterested normies outside any crypto echo chamber openly talk about how much centralization it now has and how it's not even safe to buy drugs with it. you simply can't hide this failure from the public anymore. the narratives attached to it are a complete embarrassment. BTC is controlled opposition. bad people are constantly injecting it with stupid ideas and propping it up via wallstreet instrumentation. it is featured first in the public perception in order to mislead the public on what freedom money should look like, until stablecoins can take over.
bip110 isn't going to fix anything. under bip110 you still have the same trusted third parties doing the same stupid centralizing bullshit. before bip110, almost everyone uses bitcoin through a trusted third party with no room or opcodes for anything else, and after bip110 it will remain the same. bip110 only exists to distract people with utter nonsense so none of the actual problems get addressed. it was coded and astroturfed by complete spooks with FBI connections. they have no intention of actually activating it, just to distract and damage the community further.

2026-07-26 23:29:20 UTC

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yes it would be very funny and I have been saying this for a while. there is nothing in the $ECX vision that would break if they also did bip110 cusf. I still think it won't happen, because the bip110 loony bin is filled with people who still want to waste their whole lives on lightning.

2026-07-26 20:00:35 UTC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams_(1990_film)

2026-07-25 02:41:53 UTC

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there is absolutely nothing at all in the bip110 vision to save bitcoin from its fate as controlled opposition, permanently and totally overrun with trusted third parties, completely starved of fee revenue

2026-07-25 02:21:18 UTC

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https://blossom.ditto.pub/9f4361f6dfe66e659489b8775652e1ca5437c966bbe19fa83046be8647cd9792.jpeg

2026-07-24 20:00:05 UTC

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did breivik really kill the sons and daughters of friends of the disaster? what sort of people were they?

2026-07-23 17:27:53 UTC

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don't let apple or playstation into your house

2026-07-23 13:58:22 UTC

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stronger sidechain primitives... but the cultural rot cannot be fixed. people are deeply embedded in the community who benefit from the solution never getting implemented and if it does, they lose their business. the real bitcoin immune system is when you start sneering at anyone who develops lightning things and trusted third party things and other time wasters. these obstructionists are the problem.

2026-07-23 07:12:22 UTC

the number of people you have to call shitcoiners just keeps growing and growing. unlike the amount of money in the lightning network, or the amount of fee revenue being collected by bitcoin miners. the only thing you know how to increase anymore is the prevalence of trusted third parties.
#nevent1q…f33n

2026-07-22 18:26:13 UTC

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everyone fudding covenants and other forms of expressibility is just trying to protect trusted third parties and their business models

2026-07-22 18:22:31 UTC

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ok ok gosh. I'll just keep using altcoins then. don't gotta tell me twice.

2026-07-22 13:58:21 UTC

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oh my goddddd. I will play with this later. I just tried swapping out metronome to prosody because of changes in ootb yunohost they dropped metronome

2026-07-20 20:48:33 UTC

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this is an incredibly useless comparison. you are comparing a rail for USD/EUR, with a currency that has many rails

2026-07-20 19:47:04 UTC

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https://blossom.ditto.pub/a9497678d7cdc764f38fc8f4cc7ff32700f190d9a7d0aee1b10d9bdcca68fdc3.gif

2026-07-20 01:49:06 UTC

https://blossom.ditto.pub/61338793ccd3b5a3fc8a822f84655c395ecb1787e5896ae6338f92c91d90f033.mp4

2026-07-20 00:49:37 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/9e9802dd80797ae5eb9cd3c5808e5fa9102e2fc4da0eea900ae12fea7fd100b1.webp

2026-07-19 22:09:37 UTC

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not really, he is in the drivechain talk telegram group and he keeps contemplating going on nostr but he wants to keep getting attention from twitter and telegram instead

2026-07-19 20:34:30 UTC

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say the N word or I'm muting you

2026-07-19 20:31:13 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXAVZvfs81o

2026-07-19 18:46:20 UTC

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can't you just clean the entire kitchen with a toothbrush like a normal person 🙄

2026-07-19 03:59:27 UTC

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this already exists. any prediction market application is just a meatspace errand crowdfunding application if you know how to use it.

2026-07-18 22:52:29 UTC

paul sztorc (yay I spelled his name right this time) the drivechain guy did an AMA on stackernews today https://stacker.news/items/1527224

2026-07-18 22:42:35 UTC

https://blossom.ditto.pub/a4cca0eb492d756c021595b21d502bdaee71514c2594ff8afe4d8bc68c61e480.mp4

2026-07-18 22:36:05 UTC

kiwi farms onion link in case anyone needed it: https://kiwifarmsaaf4t2h7gc3dfc5ojhmqruw2nit3uejrpiagrxeuxiyxcyd.onion/

2026-07-18 20:20:10 UTC

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I feel the same way but I am still excited. pleroma-fe is the best microblogging frontend in the world and it can only get closer to the real thing as time passes.

2026-07-18 20:18:39 UTC

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they already told you why. you just decided to not understand it and make up a different reason in your head

2026-07-18 09:17:20 UTC

if bitcoin knots had state carrying covenant opcodes or other strong sidechain primitives added to it I would run it and say nice things about it. I would never complain about all the other shit they are trying to do. it wouldn't matter anymore. they won't do this. they don't want to do anything actually constructive, they just want to stall everything and prop up centralized L2s and bleed users to ethereum and tron every day.