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2026-02-23 19:44:14 UTC

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IMO the argument is centering around semantics when it should be argued from metaphysics and consistency. Lopp’s metaphysics and his advocacy don’t line up, he sells Bitcoin as hard, ossified physics, then argues like a technocrat. Mechanic is at least coherent inside his living‑polity frame, he just hasn’t shown why that metaphysics is actually true of Bitcoin rather than simply assumed.

2026-02-22 05:58:22 UTC

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I never said Bitcoin was perfect or fell from heaven; that’s your strawman, not my position. I’m saying it’s a specific kind of infrastructure that lets anyone cheaply verify their own money and history, which is very different from ‘just another software project.’ It doesn’t have to be perfect to serve that role; it just has to be stable enough, verifiable enough, and widely used enough to be a real substrate. There are other projects that try similar things, but they lack the security, history, and adoption to serve as that substrate. If you want to argue against that model, do it directly, but yelling ‘it’s just software’ doesn’t touch the actual point.
Thanks for drawing extra attention to my position, though

2026-02-22 01:26:40 UTC

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You went straight to the heart of where we actually disagree: metaphysics. I don’t see Bitcoin as a living organism that “changes itself to thwart attacks”; I see it as something more foundational than that, a fixed substrate of block time and block space on which a digital‑native civilization can live and evolve. In that frame, we (humans, miners, apps, cultures) are the living things. Bitcoin’s job is to be the reliable physics those living systems adapt within, not to constantly adapt its own physics in response to every conflict.
I think you’re right that Bitcoin started in a very anarchic governance phase, and you’re also right to push back against it sliding quietly into a pure technocratic regime where a small center steers everything via Core defaults. Where I diverge from both BIP‑110 and v30 is that each, in different ways, treats the base layer as a policy instrument—one via consensus, one via powerful defaults, rather than as almost‑untouchable ground truth for anyone who wants to verify.
It may be that Bitcoin isn’t yet in the “civilization substrate” phase I’m describing, and that the 110 vs v30 struggle is part of how its future governance form gets clarified. I can respect the role you and Luke are playing in the here‑and‑now; I’m just aiming at a different end state: consensus rules that ossify into boring physics, cheap verification for as many humans and agents as possible, and culture/policy carrying the weight of our disagreements about how to use valid blockspace.

2026-02-21 23:37:02 UTC

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I get why people are emotional about this; a lot is at stake. I’m not interested in picking a side in the tribal fight. My focus is keeping full verification cheap and keeping consensus out of culture‑war battles. Policy, client defaults, and node culture should carry the weight of defending against bloat and abuse, while the base rules stay as stable and apolitical as we can make them. My loyalty is to the long‑term health of the timechain and the people running verifiers, not to personalities or factions.

2026-02-21 22:59:04 UTC

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Exactly, if the core design is set in stone, then consensus shouldn’t be used for culture‑war experiments like BIP‑110 and defaults like v30 should respect the long‑term costs to verifiers.

2026-02-17 20:45:03 UTC

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Zero is no thing

2026-01-21 01:30:05 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/b06e24b132793152a420cee5accc44b2177f76a316e49d6fd0ab53d857114a20.jpg

2026-01-10 16:58:18 UTC

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we should start exporting the Bill of Rights. Less vague.

2025-12-07 03:51:38 UTC

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@nprofile…4ygn this is the GOAT’d music video for your #Spedn track.
@nprofile…26we orange pilling an entire community in one shot at a traditional community festival. The signal here is off the charts !.
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2025-12-07 03:40:33 UTC

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One day, hopefully soon I will visit Akatsi and we will feast and drink together.

2025-11-22 23:58:34 UTC

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Honored to help sponsor Bitcoin education and adoption efforts in Akatsi, Ghana for their annual traditional festival. Made possible by The lightning network and NOSTR. These guys are building a bitcoin circular economy from scratch. Amazing work.
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2025-10-26 16:25:15 UTC

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Zapping Sats to the other side of the world on a whim to support @nprofile…p302 creation of a bitcoin circular economy.