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2026-07-15 14:27:16 UTC

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GM.
Fuck man instant ramen is up to $0.25 these days? I remember it being $0.06.
Fuck these money printing bastards.

2026-07-15 12:44:26 UTC

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Observing doesn't quite capture it I think, but running is also sort of vague as it requires actually looking at the procedures in the code to derive what it'll do. And advertising isn't really accurate as discussed.
Honestly if it were just this case we're talking about, "threatening" might be the most accurate. And actually given that a UASF always works by some sort of threat it may actually not be the worst terminology -- 148 was still at the end of the day a BIP that worked by threatening to enforce its rules and cause a chainsplit if any blocks didn't comply. It was never enforced because the miners adopted BIP-91, whose enforcement caused BIP-148 not to have any candidate blocks to discard.
Probably too much value judgements around the word threatening but it does seem like an accurate term -- not sure if any cases can be found when it wouldn't be.

2026-07-15 11:57:19 UTC

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Yea I'm just comparing to 148 where the big wallet providers were on board. Nodes are not created equal.

2026-07-15 11:56:14 UTC

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Yea, what's the appropriate vocabulary for nodes; enforcing? But they're not enforcing pre-activation. Just 'running'?

2026-07-15 09:49:40 UTC

GM folks
If you're still using Windows (directly on hardware anyway) we just got another good reason as to why you should strongly consider alternatives:
"Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaint"
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/07/14/0538220
33 years later, I can confirm that Slackware is still a solid system, and honestly, on most hardware, is actually pretty painless for how much of a reputation it has. No rolling release silliness, a great set of documentation (https://docs.slackware.com/), a great third party repo (https://slackbuilds.org/) with a great tool for managing third party software (https://sbopkg.org/) and still no silly systemd (if you don't know what this means, consider yourself lucky thus far).
#Linux #FreedomTech

2026-07-15 08:34:38 UTC

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I mean, Datum is fairly neutral being a protocol (and not a wallet). Ocean's recent move to make their default Stratum endpoint default to 110 was clearly an underhanded desperate move but I'd still personally not actually be opposed if only because as far as I'm aware it's them or you're mining someone else's block template. And again, still not a wallet/signer. Knots, well, yea, that makes sense. You can run it without 110 and it's FOSS but at the same time...why?
But yea, curious of others that may actually tilt things in the way Trezor, Ledger, and Mycelium did over BIP-148 by directing more users to their nodes and thus raising the economic/merchant weight of them.

2026-07-15 08:28:31 UTC

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Technically Knots is a wallet too (bitcoin-cli) though in practice usage here would be a very small minority. Bitcoin-cli is the most versatile wallet out there but its UX has been described as a 'war crime' by at least one musician I've come across. Doesn't exactly match with the start9 approach to node running.

2026-07-15 03:33:41 UTC

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Erik being the one who chatted with him about Bushido on that podcast which inspired the book. Just to fill in the blanks of how I got to this topic.

2026-07-15 03:32:36 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/6ecd48b8ce3fa64fa689e47d515217b5e9fa190a2cac96c5cc454fc3b5285320.mp4
Honestly we need more extreme around here. I've been going back to Svetski's substack lately and wondering if he'll actually follow through on Bushido part 2.
Not that I have a shortage of books to wade through. Miss his podcast too -- no sponsors, no influencer crap, just pure cancel me I don't care attitude.

2026-07-15 03:23:01 UTC

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You know of any supporting it though? I assume there'd be more hashrate by now if there were any...

2026-07-15 03:17:31 UTC

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Yea that was the sarcasm tongue in cheek part.
Don't let someone else's insecurity complex get you down. Or waste your time.

2026-07-15 02:48:01 UTC

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Perhaps I can rephrase. Not everyone's mother loved him.

2026-07-15 02:47:31 UTC

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Think you misunderstand what I'm saying here...I get sarcasm doesn't travel well on text, but try rereading that recognizing that I'm not on the side that likes to bully women or attack Bitcoin (or property rights).

2026-07-15 02:23:44 UTC

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Sounds like you need a boat with a hammock on it.

2026-07-15 02:22:29 UTC

From Craig Wright to Saint Luke on behalf of all sat stackers motherfuck you.
#nevent1q…sgr8

2026-07-15 02:17:56 UTC

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Gotta have some sympathy, not everyone's mother loved them.

2026-07-15 01:36:54 UTC

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There's toxicity but people here mostly know enough about how Bitcoin works to not repeat the stupid bullshit over there. I literally heard someone say 'one node one vote.' Fred Krueger meanwhile demandedthat op_return return to '81 bytes.'
Not that I agree with the 110'ers here but there's mostly more nuance and not quite so much total ignorance and following of kratter's kult of krazies.

2026-07-14 23:51:35 UTC

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If someone makes Krux supported hardware with a secure element they'll be my new best friend.

2026-07-14 23:46:59 UTC

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Ahh, I have a coldcard but wouldn't actually buy any signer again I think. Airgapped laptops are cheaper and far more versatile. And seedsigners give your portability.
Though I am a little bit of a sucker for a stateful signer meaning the seed can be kept offsite.

2026-07-14 23:06:49 UTC

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I try to avoid "providers" wherever possible as is. I guess on my phone I do make use of Olympus by Zeus for Lightning (because if not them it'd just be some other Lightning node(s) and they're not doing anything stupid I'm aware of), but otherwise it's my node, my electrum server, my open source local software.
Bitcoin doesn't need middlemen.

2026-07-14 22:17:08 UTC

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I literally have been hearing the phrase 'one node one vote.'
You can't make this shit up.
This is what happens when @nprofile…f70d goes offline.

2026-07-14 21:52:22 UTC

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Oh it's fun in the little boats. Especially practicing dry capsizing where you jump over the rail as it goes over so you can stand on the centerboard, only to jump back in as it starts flipping back over. Also just riding the edge just short of flipping hanging on by the toe with your whole body outside the boat to weigh it down (or just straight up using the trapeze...).
https://blossom.primal.net/187dbaee3e42a0261d07567ec01da0c4bc3a1b4479165d5988507963bb9776ec.jpg
But yes worth avoiding in a bigger vessel.

2026-07-14 21:36:52 UTC

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Wouldn't mind sailing again. Been over 20 years since I did – used to race 420's and the occasional Bluejay. Never did sail one quite this big, but the little ones were fun because of how tuned you had to be on keeping them from flipping (not to mention how fun the occasional flip could be, at least as long as it was a boat with air tanks).
Having a fixed keel just feels like cheating.

2026-07-14 21:14:37 UTC

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Hope you can take some time away from building to grieve and find peace. Sorry for your loss @nprofile…jejf

2026-07-14 21:11:10 UTC

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I'm not nearly good enough at chess to bother.
Not really good enough at Go either but I'd probably be more inclined to bother with that.
Not that I really mind the centralized platforms for such things. But it could be fun on Nostr to have more variety of UX that all speaks the same language on an open protocol.

2026-07-14 20:54:37 UTC

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Oh were you talking about that buzzing sound that has less than 1% of blocks in any of the past signaling periods which is heading for a "splat" in less than 4 weeks?
BIP doesn't seem accurate to describe it. It's not an improvement proposal; it's an attack.

2026-07-14 20:14:48 UTC

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Akshually peanuts are legumes...

2026-07-14 20:13:58 UTC

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I'm cooking my own fajitas tonight but thanks for the offer.

2026-07-14 19:22:13 UTC

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GM node

2026-07-14 19:19:33 UTC

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She looks fast with that wide shallow hull too.

2026-07-14 19:18:51 UTC

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GM
This boat seems entirely fitting for you. Tranquil water in a peaceful marina with a firecracker chillin' there.
Feel free to tell the owner I said they should give it to you.

2026-07-14 19:16:26 UTC

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Also, GM David.

2026-07-14 19:16:09 UTC

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54? Seems like a reasonable step to take cleaning up consensus and clean up some attack vectors.

2026-07-14 17:57:44 UTC

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Just to clarify -- the full public key does, right?
Very nuanced herehere, but it just does seem that if you have a full public key the private key exists but is simply unknown, which is not quite the same in the case of say, the unlikely scenario of quantum supremacy, or some other case where the secp256k1 irreversibility ends up broken.
Not a knock as I think this is unavoidable with any nested key scheme. Saw Nadav Kohen give a talk on it at MIT's Bitcoin Expo this year and understood maybe 10%.

2026-07-14 17:48:16 UTC

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Yea it somehow ended up suggested on YouTube to watch a video of a guy hearing it for the first time having only heard 'Pretty Fly For a White Guy.' Figured it was something that'd keep me awake even if it didn't help with the road rage at the semis both cutting me off and tailgating me while passing on the right as I struggled to focus.

2026-07-14 17:43:47 UTC

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No macaroni with your chicken cacciatore?
And what about clam pizza -- is it just the parmesan you'd say no to or all cheese? Because Frank Pepe's Pizzeria Napoletana has been serving that for just about a century in Connecticut.
Though if there's one thing I've found about Italy is that it's not nearly as unified as the map lets on.
That said I should clarify that I'm not talking about multiyear aged parmigiana reggiano, just the cheap 1-2 year and milder stuff. I can see the case against a particularly sharp cheese with seafood.

2026-07-14 17:24:45 UTC

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Having had to do a lot of work on the permanent structure, and having laid myvhead in many temporary places...sometimes especially when it's temporary.
Though, permanent is only ever at most matter of perspective anyway, if not an outright illusion.

2026-07-14 17:07:05 UTC

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This one. Which one is your favorite? 😉 https://blossom.primal.net/e16464880c6f17d7f810a335767af232cf22bb87babaf276962145d2aaa0c533.jpg

2026-07-14 09:00:47 UTC

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It is. But 2% would be too high from the look of things.
Maybe next time Dathon and Luke might try thinking before proposing a BIP.

2026-07-14 08:54:36 UTC

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If they have no incentive to activate then it's not clear why they ever would. The whole point of a UASF is to exert leverage on the miners.
Nodes can set rules but rules without blockspace do not a chain make.

2026-07-14 08:37:33 UTC

GM.
Just got back from a 4 and a half hour round trip all the way to Hartford and back as my kid's flight got rerouted. Gave me some time to catch up on some Heidevolk albums, relisten to the Offspring's Smash album, and gave me the excuse I needed to take off work (my sinuses are at war with my face).
Not too bad, though I'm glad to be done driving. My illness plus tiredness plus strobing truck lights were not ideal. Gonna sleep all morning now, so I guess GM/GN.

2026-07-14 03:15:32 UTC

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Lol, yea, nodes setting policy like they always have really riles you guys up.

2026-07-13 23:50:56 UTC

All right I'd better be working off some karma with this nonsense. My kid's flight just got changed for a third time, after two delays. It's now back to the original time but to a further away airport.
The universe is telling me that going to work tomorrow just isn't in the cards I think. Keep getting woken up trying to sleep early by these changes and I already took a few hours of PTO in the morning because fuck not sleeping and getting up at 0430 to work a 10 hour shift while sick.
I hate wasting PTO but yea this is nonsense. Feel free to bid Bitcoin up to 10 million...

2026-07-13 21:30:10 UTC

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Any word on why miners are not bothering to activate yet? Surely with only a 55% hurdle there's not a lot of incentive to wait until mandatory signaling. Is that 4% really what they're holding back for?

2026-07-13 21:28:06 UTC

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Nodes ignoring it won't stop it from happening.
Miners ignoring it will. Or, rather, will cause it to chainsplit. If enough of them ignore it that chainsplit may as well be a death sentence unless there's a PoW adjustment to speed up block creation.

2026-07-13 21:16:03 UTC

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We're not ignoring it. We're ridiculing it. There's a difference.
Our nodes are ignoring it though.

2026-07-13 18:51:09 UTC

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I definitely didn't mean Sven. I meant @nprofile…3kna Not sure how that happened. Sorry Sven.

2026-07-13 18:49:44 UTC

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Yea -- even below the carp, who do USUALLY stick by the bottom (though I have known some to flyfish for them, which is just baffling to me). I guess really carp are just water pigs.
Wish the waterways were clean here; I do love me some good catfish but don't eat nearly enough as the store only gets it sporadically and I always plan my meals before I'm there.

2026-07-13 18:44:03 UTC

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In other news I can't count. That's clearly 4.

2026-07-13 18:40:57 UTC

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And 3 carp!
Everytime I went carp fishing at best I caught a catfish. Caught a snapping turtle once (that was a bit sketchy til it bit through the hook). Believe I hooked a carp once but forgot to set the drag on the reel and it just dragged my rod into the water when it ran. Got it back a few months later after a storm washed it up on the riverbank. Sort of serves me right carp fishing with a bass reel...
Anyway, those carp look little.

2026-07-13 16:16:17 UTC

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The thing about inviting the world to play around with your magic internet money is, if it's truly without leadership, you don't get to step in and tell them they're using it wrong.
You don't change Bitcoin; Bitcoin changes you.

2026-07-13 15:52:14 UTC

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Those industry players were in many cases involved with BIP-148. If none of them find 110 of interest, then it's probably not an idea that makes much sense for the future of the money they've chosen to do business with. You might not need a majority, but you need at least enough to make the miners think twice about just letting y'all fork off.

2026-07-13 15:50:19 UTC

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Yes, actually. Because there's zero reason why miners would listen to a handful of loud small users when the vast majority of economic activity and value that pays their paycheck comes from other players. If those users would rather fork off, then they're free to do so, but the idea that miners would continue serving them despite demands that go against the miners interest is not a prospect I'd ever expect them to accede to.
Bitcoin is money. People are going to be cutthroat about it, and populism alone isn't going to sway anything unless there's economic weight behind it. It's not in any way shape or form a democracy, thank God.

2026-07-13 12:00:49 UTC

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I think if y'all had gotten say, Block, Coinbase, or even Strike, River, or one or a few of the big LSP's you'd possibly have a bit more attention from the miners. That, or even just some big whales who made it clear they'd be dumping their Bitcoin for the forked coin in the event of a chainsplit. Having blocks thrown out by people who aren't actually a major impact on the demand for blockspace you create anyway is not the biggest motivator.

2026-07-13 11:45:43 UTC

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It's pretty important information because it indicates that for all the fanfare about BIP-148 it was starting from a stance where many miners were already onboard, rather than the <1% in the case of 110. Indicating that the chainsplit, rather than being one thriving and one DOA, would have been a substantial split where both chains actually produced blocks (albeit both of them substantially slower for a little while until they hit a difficulty adjustment). There's also the matter of the rationale for objecting to Segwit having been something a lot more trivial, given the firmware based advantage Bitmain had with covert AsicBoost, rather than turning away a large portion of fee paying transactions at the request of a loud minority of nodes which don't account for a large portion of the economic activity on Bitcoin (thus neither generating a large number of fees nor placing a particularly large bid under the asset -- effectively being negligible in the event that they split off, and also mostly likely to just give up and return to the main chain when they do).
And the website isn't new; he just has that redirect url to get to that dashboard to save time as it has been one of his more popular ones.

2026-07-13 11:34:13 UTC

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The only case where it could cause issues is in the event that somehow the longest chain starts off as non-110 and then flips to 110 somehow.
But yes, it's safer than being on the one that is far more likely to be a dead shitcoin.
If you're worried avoid transacting for a few hours around activation just to be sure. Or, send your tx's in that time period with an op_if or an 84 byte op_return so they aren't replayable on the 110 chain if by some miracle it wins.
They're not even at 1% though -- I sleep easy.

2026-07-13 11:30:21 UTC

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It'll follow the chain with the most valid proof of work. Same with anything other than a 110 activated Knots node, which dill discard a longer chain if it doesn't signal for 110 at the mandatory signaling height.

2026-07-13 11:17:20 UTC

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I assume you've read Lyn Alden's books already (if not, that seems to be the obvious choice).
Most anything by Daniel Suarez I think is required reading for Bitcoiners -- particularly Daemon and Freedom given how much they relate to decentralized autonomous technology in an economic light. He's not on Nostr (yet), but perhaps I'll go remind him we're still here (he's on Twitter).
I haven't read it yet but have it on my shelf, @nprofile…g2cl published Praxaeology of Privacy entirely on Nostr for free; you can find it in his long form content or on his site. It is of course available for hardcopy purchase. Definitely non-fiction.
And then I particularly like @nprofile…lscy He can be a little polarizing and I'm sure he won't mind my saying so (he wrote an article called "Why you should sell your Bitcoin," after all), but I enjoyed Bushido of Bitcoin anyway. He's got plenty of shorter stuff on substack if you're not familiar (or sure if you're interested in committing to long form). Wondering what it's gonna take to get him to follow up on the fiction story he began at the end of Bushido given his sabbatical from the Internet.

2026-07-13 09:08:04 UTC

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God sounds like a toxic righteousness maximalist.

2026-07-12 18:14:40 UTC

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I am seeing where we get the discrepancy around signaling -- and it's because it was multiple BIPs for Segwit. BIP-141 signaling appears to coincide with the data on the dashboard I provided.

2026-07-12 18:12:26 UTC

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The Dashboard I'm getting data from is https://bip110.rip
And I did say blocks during signalling periods, not hashrate -- though it'd be weird if there was quite that big a discrepancy.
As for money and alternative use cases, I can't say that I follow that logic. Use cases do indeed cause there to be other impacts upon the price of money, but they don't reduce that value. Rather, they add demand (and using those things as money makes them less capable of responding to supply and demand in their arena, as we see with housing). The monetary premium may decline on a net percentage basis, but not on a gross basis. Someone using gold to make circuits doesn't detract from gold being used as money, but someone using gold as money sure makes it less accessible to be used as circuits. I don't concede that silver was demonetized by being useful industrially; I would argue the opposite -- silver got used industrially because it was able to be mined more cheaply. Fees could crowd out some monetary use, but I'd contend that Bitcoin as money has a lot more demand than jpegs do, and if it didn't, THAT'd be something worth reconsidering my whole framework around.
And regarding nodes, you're right that the notion of economic (merchant) nodes is not particularly one that can be measured just looking at them (especially because they're not exactly trying to broadcast that data about themselves anyway). It's more that the PEOPLE signalling that they will discard blocks matter. Whether through their own node, or by choosing to use someone else's node that does it for them is largely irrelevant. The leverage comes because miners care how much the Bitcoin they mine is worth -- they care a lot more if Michael Saylor is going to jump to another chain than they care if someone who is just holding a few thousand sats they got playing games on ZBD. Even though Saylor may not even run a node, and the ZBD pleb may have a full archival node with 100% uptime. One of them is putting significant demand on the finite Bitcoin the miners are being rewarded with; the other is not.
I'd also not concede that the price of Bitcoin has anything to do with BIP-110, Core 30, or any of that, at least in any recognizable form. The macro backdrop Bitcoin is operating in right now is night and day from the first 10 years of its life, characterized by quantitative easing and fiscal stimulus particularly in the early 2020s. The dollar is being constrained heavily right now particularly after the move off of LIBOR to SOFR, and while there is some balance sheet expansion (reserve management purchases) it's more as a pressure relief valve as the screws are put on the Eurodollar banks, rather than a turn around in overall liquidity. For what it's worth, I also don't tend to view the 4 year cycle as the best indicator, and have been looking more at Stephen Perrenod's math and modeling around harmonics relative to the power law trend, which, like the power law itself, operate in log time. The four year cycle seems built on the premise of the halvings, which simply don't have the weight they used to. Furthermore, they conveniently ignore the 2011 bull run, which Perrenod's work doesn't -- the fundamentals just make more sense to me, even if the math is admittedly a lot more to wrap one's head around. Getting to the point, his framework has us not in a bear market (or 2025 in a bull market) but rather this being some out of phase subharmonics, leading up to the first real bull run since 2017 coming next year. This may be a bit of astrology for men, and I'm not going around trading on it, but suffice to say I'm not sitting here wondering what's broken having expected the 4 year cycle to play out like it had. Even if Perrenod's work is nonsense, Lyn's pointed out quite well that any model that becomes apparent and trusted enough stops working as people start trading on it.
Anyway, I'm here less to throw shit at you and more to say it's not nearly as hopeless as your narrative has it or at least to share my perspective. Though yea, I'm not gonna promise not to be a punk about it ;-).

2026-07-12 13:07:15 UTC

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I like to just think it's because Elon's a drooling 110 supporter.

2026-07-12 11:48:27 UTC

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I haven't really been studying for the General but should start. I studied for the Technician for like an hour a day for a week and passed though. I hear General isn't too bad but a little more involved -- I had started trying based on the github for this book but it was missing graphics and just was a bit too hard to keep up given the gaps. Also...I don't have any any budget for equipment anyway.
Hambook is great though as a free resource from my experience with technician, and https://hamstudy.org is a fantastic tool with practice questions and full practice exams so you can really know you're gonna pass when it comes time to test. And you can test on zoom these days -- I decided to test roughly an hour and a half before I took my original test, and it cost me $5.
Basically, just do it already :-).
Also, GM Kip.

2026-07-12 10:48:36 UTC

GM
Might be about time to stop spending so much time trashing 110 on twitter (especially because they shadowbanned me anyway) and actually get back to studying for my General ham radio license. I notice the book is finally live over at https://hambook.org -- I should probably jump on that before the test changes after next year.
I'd be lying if I said that Chatcontrol wasn't part of my motivation here.

2026-07-12 10:42:38 UTC

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Idk, Derek, outside is where the aircon isn't. I get my prescribed sunlight for mitochondrial health but otherwise have been in a spicy love affair with my stand up unit next to the window.

2026-07-12 10:11:56 UTC

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Got a few options (which is how most things on Nostr go). Wavlake is probably the easiest -- they do take 10% of zaps for overhead but are a very established platform.
You can also publish to any RSS feed that supports podcast namespace extensions. More about that here: https://v4vmusic.com/pages/about.
Then there's https://ditto.pub/music which will point you to nodecast, sunami, or zaptrax as hosting methods.
As far as sharing it with us goes, just hosting via these methods makes it available on these platforms that all do use nostr signin options (as well as other alternatives). I'd say throwing links to your content in notes never hurts either as most nostr clients aren't going to put music front and center (ditto being one of the few I know that really features it in a built in way, and even that's a bit down a list of everything else it supports...which is nearly everything).

2026-07-12 10:00:46 UTC

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That UASF didn't actually activate though. The miners decided it wasn't worth a chainsplit because of the economic weight of the nodes that had activated.
And 90%? Curious when you'd point to for that; BIP-148 was getting 22% of blocks per signaling period in December and it went up from there.
Miners can absolutely be swayed by nodes. But they're swayed by nodes with more economic weight. Merchant nodes. When it's a bunch of start9's run by people who aren't transacting and most of whom admit they'll not be standing by the fork when it happens, there's no reason the miners would change their course. Nobody's talking about selling their BTC to buy the resultant forked coin, and the chatter about a PoW change to keep the fork alive has been admittedly minimal. 10 exahash (and certainly dropping once the rewards drop off precipitously in market value and no longer pay the cost to rent) leaves that chain taking ~3 years to reach its first difficulty adjustment without one.
Also, if 90% of miners opposed BIP-110, it'd mean BIP-110 had increased its support more than 10 fold at this point.
At the end of the day I don't have any skin in this game. I just see a lot of people being whipped up into a fervor of fear around a problem that is likely blown out of proportion, and worse, around a "solution" to it that isn't. I don't see it likely that you can ever prevent jpgs and other spam entirely in a low fee environment. You can of course lower the blocksize, to limit the fidelity of said jpegs, and to raise the average fees by reducing the supply of blockspace (and perhaps we should -- the raise with Segwit was something of a compromise with the big blockers anyway, and we have more proven out layers now). But rallying around moving data from one place in the block to another and convincing people its an existential issue has been peak silliness.

2026-07-12 09:44:45 UTC

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The more I'm looking at it, the more I'm starting to think my browser may be causing traffic from me to look weird. I just noticed that a poll I filled out on my phone 20 minutes ago was showing as available to vote on on my browser. Using Brave Origin, and none of my extensions are TOO wild (I've trimmed down a lot from a few years ago when accessing any site for the first time was an ordeal), but it does clearly seem to be interacting with twitter in some weird ways across devices.
Annoying I can't appeal the label like you can appeal an outright ban. But this is why we nostr.

2026-07-11 23:05:54 UTC

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You could do far worse than to just use the knowledge lectures of the various grades of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn for an intro. It'll have been how Crowley, Dion Fortune, Israel Regardie, AE Waite, Samuel Macgregor-Mathers, and quite a few other of the famed Victorian Era occultists got their basics down.
I used to have the whole first knowledge lecture down pat to the point I could write it from memory.

2026-07-11 22:10:45 UTC

Proof of walk https://blossom.primal.net/e9ac653240fab72a5a28e0774dda1f38d094d9fb3e80fc526b78dc3071f6bc30.jpg

2026-07-11 18:00:56 UTC

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The number of blocks mined leading up to segwit looked night and day different compared to 110. Even 8 months out Segwit was getting 22%+ blocks per signaling period. 110 hasn't hit 1% in any signaling period yet.
You know BIP110 doesn't stop jpegs. You know it doesn't stop ordinals. You know it doesn't stop runes.
So what exactly do you see as the benefit? Sheer quantity of data?
Honestly curious because I don't see the vast majority of that data sticking around once fees get off the floor anyway. Or even likely to get back to 2022/23 levels given that the NFT scamming has mostly run its course. And of course even then, the fee market did its job.

2026-07-11 14:46:13 UTC

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And, as anyone who understands the plumbing of margin accouns and collateral (regulations T, U, and X) that's money printing! Or at least, issuance of collateral that drives the broad money stock through private bank issuance of deposits.
All without the Fed.

2026-07-11 04:01:46 UTC

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Gettin' dat sunshine. My face ones blend together by my arms are like a Jackson Pollock.

2026-07-11 03:48:52 UTC

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At least while I was doing that one of the dogs saw fit to chew up a couch cushion on the brand new couch...
Starting to really miss sleeping under a tree...

2026-07-11 00:27:37 UTC

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Or we'll use Bitchat.

2026-07-11 00:22:19 UTC

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My wife and I installed a new ceiling fan. Only to find out that the outlet wires themselves aren't getting juice.
Took a few hours while the AC was off too. Gonna play some OSRS about it I think just to remind myself that productivity isn't everything.

2026-07-11 00:17:31 UTC

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Also, not for nothing, but BIP-110 will activate. It's just that when it does in about 27 days, unless y'all have somehow gotten 50% more of the hashrate, it'll activate and split off the chain.
The big if isn't so much about whether that happens, but whether it'll be known as BLV or BCashJr. I lean toward the former as I see a lot of Craig in Luke but BCashJr does have a nice ring to it.

2026-07-11 00:13:26 UTC

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Why would I do that? Because a pointless BIP activated that didn't break or fix anything that affects me?
There's no emergency. Y'all are the ones crying that the sky is falling because blockspace is getting used.
And then trying to act like a jpeg is doesn't count if it's not in op_return.
I'm not even running a URSF let alone selling Bitcoin over this sideshow.

2026-07-10 02:19:28 UTC

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Also, do people just not do threads anymore? 🧵

2026-07-10 01:50:47 UTC

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If that unsettles you and you want to explore the feeling further, check out Influx by Daniel Suarez.
Everything he wrote is fantastic but the premise with that one is that there's a lot more tech than the public is made aware of.
He worked with some military tech for years too so his sci fi tends to be relatively hard relative to a lot of other futuristic tech sci fi.

2026-07-10 01:41:20 UTC

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I suspect the gold window will remain closed.

2026-07-10 01:39:24 UTC

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You'd think they'd appreciate me letting them see my thought process on their surveillance machine.

2026-07-10 01:36:16 UTC

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I should just write shit and screenshot it to get around character limits.

2026-07-10 01:35:24 UTC

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Ahh that might be it. What spammers do that?
They just want my $8/mo.
But lol I even do it here. It's what I get for living on IRC for decades...

2026-07-09 22:12:24 UTC

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You can side with Bitcoin, or you can opt to throw away blocks on August 7.
There isn't really a third option.
Nobody's asking you to run a URSF. It'd be like jumping in a bunker because a toothless Chihuahua was chasing you.

2026-07-09 22:07:32 UTC

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I mean, the BIP-110ers are heading off to their own chain in a few weeks.
They decided that Bitcoin blocks aren't worth keeping and have chosen to throw them away.
The rest of us will continue to observe the chain with the most consensus valid proof of work.

2026-07-09 21:30:50 UTC

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I'm more a fan of Bitcoin myself.

2026-07-09 21:26:22 UTC

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And what I wouldn't do for that CRT glow.
Get the right model and they'd give you a tan!

2026-07-09 19:48:40 UTC

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@nprofile…rf6h maybe you can talk to Grok about this?😂

2026-07-09 19:48:03 UTC

Lol I guess Elon must be a BLV'er...because that's about all I post on twitter about. https://blossom.primal.net/a23a2554823f8f3a3b8186b10470cc2e464e4d965783ccdbae34be704214e976.jpg

2026-07-09 19:45:41 UTC

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You need a hanging Dutch oven from a tripod for this to be aesthetically correct.
But I'm sure it's delicious.

2026-07-09 19:44:36 UTC

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Well, one way or another they're getting spammed just to prove how dumb it is. If they're successful that spam will be on Bitcoin. If not it'll be on BCashJr/BLV (pick your name of choice for their shitcoin).

2026-07-09 19:10:14 UTC

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Someone's out to capture Bitcoin all right. It's the ones who are running thebonly implementation and mining pool that supports this dumbass fork.
They're just a lot more retarded than even Bcashers, with a single percent of blocks in any signalling period so far with only 2 to go.
Most don't know enough about Bitcoin to realize how cooked they are though. And the ones who do are too sour to do anything about it.
Have fun storming the castle.
https://fountain.fm/episode/jrpZk4wAFHaFGNzPUU2e
#nevent1q…lcja

2026-07-09 02:48:46 UTC

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Eh. Prohibition is a massive waste of resources and a source of all manner of government villainy. But under a backdrop of prohibition, I'm not gonna say hand everything over to the cartels either.
It's just one big vicious wasteful cycle.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, yea. But not because I'm a fiendish stoner.

2026-07-09 02:38:34 UTC

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On the model production side, I agree. Meta leasing compute though isn't necessarily a sign of weakness for them so much as recognizing that they can actually better monetize computer in smaller units than in running their own model on it.
I guess it just seemed like you were suggesting they had overinvested and were cutting losses; I suspect they're actually capitalizing on the demand for smaller units of compute by more people running these smaller open source models. And it means they don't need to try to compete with the other frontier models, which frankly, they're not nearly positioned to really do well.
But yes it is a symptom of the fact that open source models are at least competitive. I guess I'm just saying I'm not sure they're quite the winner that takes all; just the contender that makes some players really consider what role they want to occupy in the market. People do a lot of different things with AI; some of them can be done well by open source models. Some of them really just work best if you point them to a frontier model. The most effective people from what I can tell typically use a combination of both, and make use of them depending on what exact tasks they have to be worked on. You don't hire a nuclear physicist to clean toilets, and you don't hire a gardener to devise actuarial tables.

2026-07-09 02:30:55 UTC

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Uh oh. Boats are sort of a trigger for me ever since the accident...

2026-07-08 22:50:57 UTC

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No wonder Europe is where Vexl happens.

2026-07-08 22:39:01 UTC

Wife made some bulgogi venison.
Not gonna lie, Bambi's mom tastes pretty all right.
#foodstr https://blossom.primal.net/86c80db9ec086fe14a8dce92c943e99783c31e38301cec53be876f25aa8b636f.jpg

2026-07-08 16:59:40 UTC

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If you don't want to post without being paid to do so, the solution is simple: don't post.
I assure you plenty more will continue to do so.

2026-07-08 16:57:09 UTC

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If you asked everyone one Usenet in the 80's what return they expected for their posting I don't think one of them would have known what you were on about. Only in the post Instagram/Onlyfans age does this sort of harlotry seem commonplace.