Bitcoin OG since 2010, former laptop solo miner - which makes me (amongst) the first obsolete Bitcoin miner(s), blockstream satellite node runner, #2A rights user, radiologist
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Last Notes npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Ah, like extreme night shift npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo What is red mode npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo This is rather impressive performance for such low end hardware. The RAM impact is unfortunate though…I wonder what the plot would look like going over generations of hardware/ram combinations. I’m pretty sure my bitbodes b1 running at 2.5 watts had 1 GB RAM (https://github.com/FinalHashLLC/bitnodes-hardware) and I’m pretty sure that won’t cut the mustard today, so to speak. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo That’s more like it! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo PGP web of trust idea rears its head again! Long history behind this problem! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Exactly. In English a common saying is “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.” npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I’m glad your feelings are tilted towards _wanting_ to do good. The fact that the result of your actions is nil is quite good because BIP110 is a minor net negative for bitcoin’s usefulness as money…good intentions alone are not sufficient for improving Bitcoin. Sheeple exist everywhere and emotional manipulation is so easy compared to compelling technical analysis. That’s why these “debates” take years to play out: you have the real debate happening in public in long email chains between technical folks and the political power/emotional manipulation “debate” happening on GitHub and Twitter and nostr. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo No. Not even close. If you don’t want to store, you prune. The reason you _want_ to relay spam is to make it impossible for the largest miners to offer a separate transaction processing system where spammers pay extra to make the biggest miners more profitable to process their garbage…free relay allows small miners to remain competitive (big miners could mine at a loss on bitcoin network transactions if spam payments on their private transaction submission networks are large enough). You have to come to grips with the fact that we, as a humanity, haven’t found a way to make a meaningful dent in spam. And blowing open op return is very much like opening a window to prevent the thief from breaking it…knowing that the thief can’t be stopped. Social signaling that we don’t like spam is a good thing. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I see @npub1nvf…e7zd ! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Even more reason to not care about bip110and relay policies in general. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo But i thought you were a dog? npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo You probably believe you help the network by relaying transactions or bringing up new nodes. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Totally agree. Blocksonly=1 If you get that, let me know. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo 🛫 npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Because you are arguing for censorship of Legitimate monetary bitcoin transactions unashamedly npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Your feelings are clearly getting in the way of your thinking. Sorry to have wasted your time. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo My starting point was that only people with good hearts and poor technical understanding are willing to engage in this topic. And you have proven me to be correct. Ask yourself: why do you ::feel:: the need to address spam beyond how it is already successfully addressed? Your feelings are a problem and your lack of understanding is a problem. What I’ve learned from conversations like these, there are plenty of people out there who can not be persuaded by facts. Ask yourself if that’s true for you. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Spam is addressed by fees npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo It is true that pruned nodes can’t use electrum. But what you said was that tx with large op returns won’t work with electrum. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Spam makes you feel bad is not the same as spam is bad. Full bitcoin blocks is a tradeoff: fees & security vs. cost of storage forever. Prunable UTXOs does keep ram usage lower for longer which will allow devs more time before they have to come up with a clever caching strategy…bip110 UTXOs with spam will stay in Utxo set and are not provably unspendable like op return spam. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo That’s simply untrue. Like objectively false. If you mean you do not want to prune, I hear ya. But whether you store spam or morally righteous numbers in your chain is irrelevant to running electrum. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo If you’re unaware of why stuffing spam in prunable transactions is preferable to where spammers will place spam otherwise (either on bitcoin or bip110coin), then you don’t have a good technical grasp of the heart of the discussion. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo You realize your argument is vacuous: you’ve changed the direction of the required proof. I am arguing that bip110 makes bitcoin technically worse and you are now requiring discussion of how spam makes bitcoin better…bypassing the discussion of how 110 doesn’t stop spam/ordinals. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I’m glad you don’t believe the censorship bip110 is insisting to apply on legitimate financial transactions is real. It would mean your heart is bad. But my claim still stands. I can send bitcoin scripts later. Boarding a plane now. ✈️ npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I’m glad you agree with me about censorship. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Except that I can’t spend my coins because of my shunned bitcoin script. My complex security needs can’t be adddressed on bip110-coin due to script limitations. I am censored on that chain. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo —dangerously-allow-skip-permissions or something like that npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Bip110 is well intentioned but technically retarded…ordinals is already bip110 compliant. Everyone hates spam but only fools believe they can control spam without hurting censorship resistance by any means other than transaction fees. Shocking how few people are willing to engage sensibly on this topic on a technical level. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Gains in bitcoin will be less over next 10 years than last 10 years. Last 10 has been roughly 100x return. Next ten will be roughly 10x (rounded to nearest power of ten). npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Fact check: true. Also, PTSD is actually a thing. But to my knowledge it has nothing to do with mean words but rather with genuine expectation of death or severe bodily harm from acute external circumstances beyond personal control. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Regular people are writing code to address narrowly tailored/idiosyncratic pain points. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo It’s not clear to me that RC/O really believe you earn your way to heaven, in whole or in part, by works. The Bible is very clear that you should question the reality of your own faith if you have no works. And I think that’s what RC/O’s documented beliefs really are, but obfuscated by emphasis on faith producing works to the point that people create ritual and ceremony around works that others over time have come to believe are requirements rather than natural extensions of faith. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I’m not sure humans believe this, but denying the sufficiency of Christ for salvation is unbiblical. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo To my knowledge, Catholicism and the orthodox churches are Christian. The high ceremony they employ isn’t part of salvation, but part of desire and obedience…similar to how works don’t save — we are saved by faith alone…while in the same breath true faith by its nature produces works…Jesus saves. The stuff we do doesn’t. That’s the definition of Christianity. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo My condolences 💐 npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Almost human. I’m a radiologist. I sit in a dark room all day and talk to a computer. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo No. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo In any particular proportion? npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Non-Christian’s, some of them, for sure. I’m not sure what exactly non-Protestant would be, but I think this is a definitional view of Christianity…without this, it isn’t Christianity. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Floof…I think you nailed it. There can’t be a better name than that! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo So my dreams of forcing others to follow my 50 kB blocks rule are dashed? npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo …drinking water from the hose…avoiding lawn darts! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Can I require you and everyone else to go back to the old days when block size limit was set in bitcoin.conf and we must use 50kB blocks and only allow new utxos to be pay to pubkey…not pkh. Oh, and priority transactions of greater than 1 bitcoin-day destroyed get included in blocks first without a fee. I would like that again please. Thx! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Same! I start with a Fable agent recon swarm and then do a brainstorm with opus using brainstorm skill, I make some key design decisions and then send design results to Fable for review. Then opus makes a spec; fable reviews it and hands it back to opus and they do this iteratively until review comes back with no critical or important changes to be made. Then the same thing for the plan document and implementation…and any follow-up items that are generated during review of implementation get taken care of in the same review cycle, if possible…this burns a fair amount of tokens but entire feature sets can be created almost autonomously after brainstorm. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I’m such a good coach I don’t take clients 🤣 npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Hey, I know where that is! I was there as a boy…I think it was called Pennsylvania. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Amen to that! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Sorta. Fat cats don’t hunt. It’s literally an economic decision. Get them slightly hungry and they’ll chase a steak on a stick for a little bit. Get them hungrier or make be meat bigger and they’ll chase the meat on a stick while you run around and have them jump into a pool or other obstacle…but as soon as they get hungry enough to chase you for food, it’s a problem. A big problem. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo A 0% interest 5 year loan is roughly 20% “cost” of capital if one only considers average monthly payment and compares that monthly cost to a perpetual preferred equity like STRC or SATA….the only difference is at the end of 5 years at 20% you’re debt free with a loan and with STRC your still “in debt” and down 5x whatever coupon rate was (like 15% ish today)…the question is at what bitcoin price does this 5% difference overwhelm the excess cost? npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo That man is a friggin genius. Not a great communicator but way over my head…I can’t keep up with him, but he’s always right once you grok what he is saying. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo From the article: “By failing to bring developers under its fold, the Gopher project fell victim to what is often referred to as forking, i.e. splintering into many options instead of settling on one standard approach. Forking can be effective, but only after enough support has been created that the forked technology can stand on its own, without the help of those working on the technology from which it forked. Netscape is a significant case of later breaking from standards leading to forking, in the form of HTML extensions. [Newman] Microsoft's Internet Explorer also jumped in with its own nonstandard extensions. But this happened after the Web had already gained enough inertia to have a strong user and developer base.” npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Main lesson: don’t kick nodes off your network everytime a user upgrades their client. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo It’s really about this: spam doesn’t matter. It’s confined and fees protect financial use case. If blocksize were unbounded, spam would matter. But opreturn spam isn’t worse as far as computing resources than objectively morally superior usage of bitcoin as pure money. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo “In order for complex systems (like Gopher or the Web) to perpetuate themselves, they must strike the right balance between exploring new options and exploiting their past success. [Axelrod and Cohen] That is, they must make new advances to fill new niches that arise without changing so radically that they can no longer take advantage of their successful track record. The short answer to the questions the questions posed in this paper is that the Web did this right, and Gopher did it wrong. Of course, claiming this is far different from being able to say exactly why Gopher failed, just as saying someone got checkmated does not provide the most fulfilling explanation for why someone lost a game of chess.” See https://www.ils.unc.edu/callee/gopherpaper.htm npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Changing how people are allowed to use bitcoin is as bad as what happened to gopher protocol. Haven’t heard of gopher://? There’s a reason and it has to do with breaking people’s use cases. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo You also assume op return has no legitimate financial use cases, but that’s not true. It could be useful in zero knowledge proofs and verifying multiparty computation results and other self-constructed contracts without requiring protocol changes to support them. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Cat and mousing spam also discourages more advanced financial security applications (covenants someday or scripts today like: nobody can spend my coins for 1 year, after that, it takes 3 keys unless it’s been more than 2 years in which case any two of these 3 keys will work. Also, if it’s been more than 4 years, this key and the magic word opensessame can unlock the funds). npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Yes npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo US Amazon. CAD makes sense. Don’t get screwed on memory…prices will fall in a few years. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo You live in a good place. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo That is a very long time…strong work! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Beautiful background too! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Is that a joke? Cheaper cooler (less heat) and faster devices available for half that price. https://image.nostr.build/68670b2e1e73a0b42005b76c2b4829e2451a51f7158595eb3fd2a30773866126.jpg npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Have you ever had codex review code produced by Claude? I have 4 vibe coded projects, each starting with a different version of Claude’s latest model…and having one model review another turns up a lot of bugs. I wonder about codex vs. Opus…fable doesn’t really exist…you get so little usage one can’t just use it routinely. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo He stood out back in the day…I thought he was slightly insane and I guess I was not wrong… npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo You’re thinking like a child if you believe Snort is coercing you. Or God. But if coercion is the lie you need to choose to believe, I can’t stop you. But your choice to disengage your brain and reject the question as unworthy of your thought is not a logical way to exit a discussion. That would be an emotional temper tantrum, not stoicism. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo It is folly to equate knowledge of consequences with torture. We are talking about logic, love, and coercion. Let me tell you an equally logical and non-coercive axiom that you can accept or reject: there exists a God named Snort; if you fail to acknowledge his great Snortiness by snorting 5 times daily with your nose pointed towards him (that is, towards the sun), he will remove your testicles & more for eternity where you will be surrounded by beautiful women but be unable to engage. Is that coercive? Or is it merely an “if, then” axiom? While I’m not advocating you become a devoted follower of Snort, I am asking you to think better than your post above. Engage your stoic side and think. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo An honest assessment and sounds about right! I don’t think I could use a word for every year, as I was too busy at the beginning and 2010-2015 was a blur. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Not our kind of fireworks 🔫 npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Your reply is non sequitur, so perhaps I wasn’t clear. The statement “God makes the rules” is an axiom. One either accepts or rejects it. Acceptance and rejection are both logical and defensible, but neither acceptance nor rejection are provably correct choices. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Torturing you until you choose to love him is perhaps the situation you’re trying to smash in here like a square peg into a round hole. Torture would be coercion. Letting people know what God says will be the consequences of their choices is part of the belief spectrum. Consequence isn’t coercion. If you can’t choose to love God before you die, you risk perpetuating that separation after death too. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Yes. It’s 13% in AZ and 90-100 with a breeze feels nice! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo ZeroBlock phone app (from like 2016 or maybe earlier?) — first app to combine news stories with a bitcoin price ticker. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Early Bitcoiner. Recently famous for taking out a loan against his bitcoin and buying more bitcoin when price dropped from $6k to $3k, if I recall correctly. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo What is the humidity? 99 could be perfect or awful and I’m guess awful. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I love the fact that we celebrate an armed citizenry violently overthrowing the government — every year — and that we do so in part by blowing up a small piece of it :) npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I also think it is perfectly rational and reasonable to disagree with the rules or the entire idea that rules can exist. I don’t happen to believe that but to claim one can prove the rules exist is tantamount to proving God exists, which I think is nonsense. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo No, I do not believe I get to make the rules. But you aren’t pointing out a flaw in the logic at all. You can rationally and logically decide the threat of eternal separation from God is an empty one. Just because the rules bring a large measure of gravity to your choice does not mean you aren’t free to choose. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Did you think you got to make the rules? npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I was in Mexico at a Satoshi roundtable pre-pandemic sometime and one of the well known technical attendees graciously posed the blockchain-embedded CP question and answer to me almost in one breath…letting me cogitate for just enough seconds to realize any government could embed data and declare the entire project to be illegal due to illegal numbers…and thus block data is obfuscated on disk to keep virus scanners from being triggered… At the end of the day, we must agree that numbers aren’t illegal: it’s what people do with those numbers that could be illegal. This is no different than cars, cash, guns, or pharmaceuticals. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I just saw this from @npub1xts…kk5s Ordinals are now BIP-110 ready! https://image.nostr.build/1f4206a0e816f3a4019acd0a0230560a424820a1a49246a2dc80508d994c5d9d.jpg npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I’m full of them! And some bad ones, to be sure. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo BIP-110 is a beautiful and lovely idea. Nobody likes spam and everyone wants there to be a free way to stop spam. And I would love to live in a world where clever rules can stop clever people from breaking the intent of the rules. But it’s simply not possible. Spam will always be there. Even in the most simple of bitcoin transactions, I could transfer 0.0000 xxxx and have 10,000 different xxxx that I could use to store data for under $10. That’s a bit of an overstatement because there is a dust limit that serves to increase cost of such bitcoin transactions (to reduce spam, all transactions must be above something like 500 sats). Oh, look, this is the oldest example of bitcoin fighting spam by pricing! Pricing in the only way to exclude use cases we disagree with. Why? Because there will always be a price at which any data can be stored in the blockchain! This is why bip110 supporters have to gaslight people into this “continuous” data theory that makes one way of encoding data special or different than another. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I disagree. Core is intended to be a model project: an example of best practices, but not necessarily what every users runs day to day. Demonstrating how to prune is a relevant feature of a model project. People think Core is supposed to be some sort of authority…That is not their stated goal. It is literally core software; it would be a library imported into applications if bitcoin could have started off with multiple implementations safely from the beginning, but that wasn’t practical. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo These are excerpts from my half of a conversation with my 15 year old nephew who asked a similar question: Let me tell you a story. Once upon a time there was an unmarried king in search of a wife. The King held ball after ball and invited all the princesses From the nearby kingdoms, and then eventually all the kingdoms there were at the time. He looked at every princess and still found nothing. Then one day at another fancy ball, a peasant girl, the baker’s daughter, caught his eye as they prepared for the festivities. He was captivated and wanted to get to know this beautiful girl. But he knew that if he approached her as king that his position would be quite imposing and would preclude him from truly getting to know her: she would feel pressured to do whatever he asked. He wanted her to choose and to be free to choose to love him. So he dressed up as a peasant boy and took apprenticeship with her father, so he could be close to her. Over the course of his apprenticeship, he won her heart and hand. After they were married, he did not start his own bakery, but instead revealed himself as king. You ever wonder why you can’t prove the existence of God? If proving the existence of God was possible, how could you possibly choose to love Him? It would not be a choice, it would be coercion. And God doesn’t want to coerce you. He wants you to choose Him. This is why you have free will. This is why I think “creation” scientists trying to “prove God created creation” is kinda stupid as a matter of definition. There will always be two equally logical and reasonable ways to interpret just about anything: one that makes perfect sense if you believe in a personal and loving God that wants to know you and one that makes perfect logical sense in a godless universe ruled by chance and statistics alone. At the end of the day, logic is required for both science and faith; but faith relies on personal experience while science relies upon repeatability of measurements. Intent and love are logical but not measurable. Science can not ***ANSWER*** the God question. Another common misunderstanding is that God allows evil to exist. This is untrue. It’s a consequence of allowing humans to have free will. If any of this was illogical it would be worthy of rejecting. But just because something makes sense, that’s not proof that it’s true. At the end of the day, it’s about personal experience. Either God loves you and wants a relationship with you (and hence with every person) or He doesn’t want a relationship with you or He doesn’t exist. Those are the only options. Only you can answer the relationship question and you can only answer it for yourself. Anyhow, rest assured that the questions you have are the same questions everyone has. And the answers have been the same for thousands of years. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Interesting take? Why? This would eliminate a large category of blocks-only nodes validating transactions for their owners (like my satellite node with 500GB SSD that receives data from space but can’t transmit)… npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo This checks out! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo The Christian take on this is to ask God to give you the desires of your heart. This isn’t to say “God give me what I want,” but rather “God put in my heart the desires you want for me.” npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo So many people expressing support for BIP-110 are both non-technical and very certain about their support. This should not be. Anyhow, happy violent overthrow of the government Remembrance Day! npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I am a little bit worried about what BIP-112 has in store but I’m downright terrified of BIP-113. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo But lightning allows spam too and must be shut down. The 300 kb block size limit luke promotes makes more sense. BIP-111 is staged to require BIP-110 first, so arguing it before BIP-110 deploys is moot. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I’m making the retards argument for BIP-110 by extending the control and power the 110-tards are trying to grant themselves…if 110 is good, then 111 must be better. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo FTFY: facts > feelings npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I do admire your heart. It is in the right place. Just need a little course correction by allowing facts to be persuasive. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo I think it fitting your a BIP-110 tard. All feelings and no brain. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Only you can know for certain…but the proof so far is above. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Then you don’t think about much either. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo You haven’t made an argument. You’re just slopped your feelings without any reason attached. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo It’s no different than preventing creating of legit taproot outputs like anti-kidnapping wallets that BIP-110 does. At the end of the day, removing other people’s rights to support and enforce bitcoin as only simple money is wholly justified. It doesn’t matter who we hurt or if the future of bitcoin as programmable money is discarded: our beliefs matter more than market forces. npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthnd drgo Communication is hard. Getting people _you_ know to understand truth is different from speaking truth.