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Software Engineer working in Fintech to pay my mortgage. #orthodox #england #noderunner #bitaxe #miner #datum #RunKnots

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2025-11-07 23:07:11 UTC

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Only the 4th one. IYKYK

2025-11-04 14:19:14 UTC

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After a long career subverting the civilisation they inherited, the boomer retires with all the wealth they bled from their descendants and with a smug smile they say to themselves, "I deserve this."

2025-11-04 09:49:45 UTC

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Is that just adding an additional relay address in the URL?

2025-11-03 21:56:02 UTC

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Annnnnddd I just saw the service status on my albyhub affecting nwc 😅 that explains it!
This is perfect timing to share something I have been thinking about. NWC over pear stack for P2P connections!
This could remove the need for a relay to facilitate connections using NWC. My first draft proposal can be found here: https://github.com/bjrb20/nwc-pear

2025-11-03 21:50:06 UTC

@nprofile…5jyy after a few days I notice that apps connected to my alby hub (@nprofile…plng, @nprofile…xl8h, et c) become really slow when try to zap and sometimes fail. If I then renew the NWC connection it all speeds up fine. Any advice on steps I can take to resolve this?

2025-10-29 23:27:57 UTC

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I came for the NGU but stayed for the Node wars

2025-10-29 22:41:26 UTC

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Pure signal 🙏

2025-10-10 09:46:28 UTC

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I do my best Saylor impressions and ask them "How many chairs are you sitting on right now? Are you all in on the chair?"

2025-08-04 16:19:39 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/ce235755bdb876217e483c2670483c567b68da6326dccc6849a047013e5fb22e.png

2025-08-04 11:56:43 UTC

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I love a good Rhodesia edit 🙏

2025-08-02 13:37:30 UTC

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I use Primal but didn't realise they had a wallet built in? It's been a while since I set everything up and I used AlbyHub. Does that also give them a lightning address too?

2025-08-01 18:56:23 UTC

What is the best way to onboard someone onto #nostr so they can receive #zaps these days?
Not worrying about self custody etc just the least friction to get them into nostr and able to receive sats?

2025-06-13 11:59:59 UTC

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This is essential what X has become. Engagement farming slop content for payouts.
I think a better option is just remove the like button altogether and you show love with zaps.
"Zaps are the standard," if you will.

2025-06-10 10:27:11 UTC

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Kill your heroes

2025-06-05 08:46:07 UTC

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Yeah the hype wore off fairly quickly

2025-06-01 07:34:18 UTC

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First thing I see when I open nostr 😔

2025-05-31 17:51:07 UTC

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Get on zero.
Zero fiat.

2025-05-31 17:04:51 UTC

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Love to see this, we need way more awareness about vaccines. Don't trust, verify.

2025-05-30 14:06:14 UTC

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When you scan that QR it will display as sats in 99% of wallets, but it was a baller move tbf

2025-05-30 14:03:58 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/04c2e2c23873039e22863d9abcea2af50297899f6995efcb8b2f3b540c407075.png

2025-05-30 14:01:42 UTC

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Totally agree.
I've yet to see anything interesting come out of the conference with the exception of @nprofile…3eea saying fuck the state on a panel.
They had advertisements boasting about services to bypass the mempool and get non-standard transactions mined with 3 mining pools that control more than 51% of the hashrate. Literally promoting and celebrating attacks on Bitcoin.
Every Bitcoiner needs to take their next step asap. Take custody, run a node, start mining, sell your fucking house, whatever it is just do it.
We are all Bitcoin.

2025-05-29 10:57:51 UTC

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It also needs to be a routing node so make sure it is setup for incoming traffic 👍

2025-05-28 13:32:33 UTC

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On a similar topic, what would you say the best option for running a core lightning node is, if you don't have a static ip from your ISP?
I've been playing around with putting it behind a VPN and configuring port forwarding but not sure this is the best option.

2025-05-25 11:39:07 UTC

@nprofile…566r once again dispelling the myths and FUD about filters. Miner centralisation is the biggest risk in bitcoin and the only way we solve it is by making hashers run thier own nodes again. https://youtu.be/vz46-6K6_U8?si=jd_Xvlzt2QUveV4R

2025-05-25 07:12:41 UTC

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Vaccines taking the credit for the work of clean water and sanitation

2025-05-24 22:22:24 UTC

If only miner's nodes and "economic" nodes matters what is the argument against the big blockers?
These entities can afford to run expensive nodes and pleb nodes don't matter right?
I'm interested to hear the spam apologists' reasoning for keeping blocks small if our nodes don't matter.

2025-05-24 22:19:41 UTC

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There are plenty of people much more knowledge and articulate than I am who have done an excellent job explaining why ignoring spam, and in this case enabling it, is a massive problem. I think it's imperitive that someone in your position takes the time to hear the opposing case (if you haven't already) considering 10% of node runners have already switched to Knots in the wake of this. @nprofile…n29e and @nprofile…566r in particular are worth taking the time to listen to.
Even if these spam attacks only come in waves and then disappear they are still massively harmful. I don't need to tell you fiat money is infinite and this means that funding these scams will go on as long as the money printer exists. If a new wave of jpeg tokens push up fee prices then vendors in poor countries have to compete with that rubbish to manage lightning channels and any other number of issues. That doesn't mean we don't think it's valuable, it means we think it's too valuable to be abused like this.
What can be mined is currently decided by less than 10 entities which in itself is a catastrophe waiting to happen. Spam can only be mined as easily as it is because pools have so much control they can make guarantees to include it in blocks they know they will find and control the template for. Mining needs to be much more decentralised and in that scenario 99% of what can be mined will be the default mempool policy of Core, which should be aggressively filtering spam not bending the knee to it.
Filtering has always been a part of bitcoin and is clearly effective as 99% of what is in blocks falls into the default mempool policy of Core. Spam is a continuous arms race but it is one where every time they find a new attack we can easily create a new filter and crush that particular scam and they have to explain to their investors why they need to build monkey jpeg viewer v15. It is a battle that is always worth fighting.
Also I apologise if I came across as disrespectful in my first response. I have massive respect for your work but I just think you are wrong on this and we cannot afford for someone as influential as you are to be complacent about what is happening here.

2025-05-24 20:12:12 UTC

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This comes across as cope.
A dollar bill can be scribbled on to a point it is no longer usable as money and a monument can be defaced so badly it is no longer recognisable.
We've seen what happens when you reduce efforts against people who attack our monuments and open the door to them. They pull them down and throw them in rivers, or melt them down in furnaces, destroyed forever.
When some radicals attack your monuments you don't throw your hands up and say maybe it just wasn't as valuable as we thought, you increase patrols and throw out harsh penalties to make it harder for them.
Core are doing the former and trying to negotiate with terrorists instead of the latter and telling them to fuck off and doing what they can to prevent harm.
It the same suicidal altruism and cowardice that has destroyed the West playing out here. Grow a backbone and defend the good thing we have before it's ruined.

2025-05-24 13:49:23 UTC

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I don't have it to hand but there is a study (or might have been a meta study) that shows how diversity leads to lower birth rates.

2025-05-24 10:45:54 UTC

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This is why getting more developers working on knots is imperitive. You need to begin fostering a culture around the implementation that keeps it close to bitcoins roots and nodes at the top of the hierarchy.
It would also be good to move away from centralised platforms like GitHub and Google mailing lists. Maybe a nostr git implementation (where we can zap PRs and releases directly) and a Keet room?

2025-05-24 10:36:56 UTC

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They still think if you cut a pizza in half you have twice as much pizza

2025-05-23 22:14:52 UTC

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Millenial here (35), resigned myself to the fact I will never receive a pension despite ridiculous tax burden.
I'm in that lucky spot where I get hit with a 60% tax rate (and lose access to all child care credits) so if I cancel my pension contributions I lose the employer contribution as well as more than half my contribution to taxes.
Although I don't like paper Bitcoin I have just decided to throw it all in a SIPP and smash buy MSTR, hopefully it wont be seized and it'll be worth something in 20+ years when I start to draw it down.
Despite being a high earner, the mortgage on a 1930s house outside of London is 2/3rds of my take home pay. Add council tax, bills, etc for 2 adults and 2 kids, we live a pretty modest life.
Britain is completely broken, I have no idea how anyone my age on an average salary can afford to function.

2025-05-23 12:00:53 UTC

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It's not a bug, it's a pseudo anonymity feature 😉

2025-05-23 07:48:18 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/b11281c0ef80c7aabeadeefd8bcefccff54b76f1ab2a77be2d3800f2ce190233.png

2025-05-23 07:01:31 UTC

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Same, I don't get the hate

2025-05-23 07:01:06 UTC

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Agree the naming is terrible

2025-05-23 06:55:27 UTC

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Coinbase? Never heard of it

2025-05-23 06:41:32 UTC

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One of my colleagues is still waiting for the bear market to rotate his collection of alts into Bitcoin...
He's been waiting since 58k 😂

2025-05-23 06:39:01 UTC

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Man, if knots ever cracks 51% the memes are gonna be so good.

2025-05-22 17:49:20 UTC

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Liberal* 😅

2025-05-22 17:49:01 UTC

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What lol. Farage is a massive library.

2025-05-21 13:03:08 UTC

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If you went to London or any other big city, yes.

2025-05-21 10:14:58 UTC

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Same story in the UK, all the talent is leaving for Dubai, Australia, USA, etc, tax burden higher than ever, cities have very few British people in them.

2025-05-21 05:56:22 UTC

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That really sucks, especially when it's someone you've used and trusted before. Hopefully it'll all be done soon 🙏🏻
Congratulations on the birth of your daughter, we just had a little girl 8 weeks ago now. 👶🏻

2025-05-20 15:47:52 UTC

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"Buy cheap, buy twice." Sometimes it's cheaper in the long run to go with the more expensive option if it saves you this kind of headache!
Sounds like a hell of a journey but I'm sure you will look back on it as a great experience in years to come.
Hash power heated studio sounds so cool, very jealous.

2025-05-17 15:36:08 UTC

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I think he's on the something here

2025-05-16 21:05:14 UTC

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Many such cases
https://blossom.primal.net/d0368df6a43b07f318a7d1580b0ede588dc44fef095078056644d424ce5a83f3.jpg

2025-05-16 21:03:24 UTC

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=73d6h_go7QI&pp=ygUYTG9jayBzdG9jayByaHltaW5nIHNsYW5n
Beautiful

2025-05-16 20:59:25 UTC

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https://c.tenor.com/rhJuUFW10eIAAAAC/tenor.gif

2025-05-16 19:51:16 UTC

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"Whatever we do with bits vs sats as units of account, just don't let the British decide", he said in English.
🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

2025-05-16 08:42:48 UTC

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From my understanding they are complimentary rather than competitive. Lightning uses multisig to create channels, where Liquid uses the to create a federation.

2025-05-07 18:45:08 UTC

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This man has 10 kids. Clearly he knows how to handle women 🤣
#nevent1q…rm9r

2025-05-07 08:53:22 UTC

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Damn, at least buy it a drink first dude

2025-05-07 05:54:08 UTC

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Bitcoin is money and attempts to use it as anything else should be made as difficult as possible, lest it becomes inferior money.

2025-05-07 05:48:11 UTC

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GM mate

2025-05-06 20:06:09 UTC

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$4m or 2000 sats

2025-05-06 10:38:19 UTC

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Those sheep will follow once the new paradigm sets in and the current one is totally unsustainable.

2025-05-06 10:01:33 UTC

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Very true, most normies are so used to getting their services for free they don't even care it's at the cost of their souls.
They have inadvertently become slaves to these "free" platforms and drive their growth by being food for the algorithm. Google and X I'm looking at you.
There was a great clip of @nprofile…zj6n doing the rounds a while back where he described it perfectly.

2025-05-06 09:58:38 UTC

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My thinking here is that once you have a truly free market enabled by bitcoin, we will have an abundance of the things we need and that unlocks the v4v model.
Currently everyone is working stupid hours and scraping their money together so the idea of giving someone money for something they put out for free seems absurd.

2025-05-06 06:10:06 UTC

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I think you are right as things are today on a broken money system but as bitcoin fixes things and people's purchasing power grows over time rather than being stolen, value for value models will become the norm.

2025-05-05 15:35:40 UTC

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Your mempool should be as configurable as possible. OP_RETURN should be 42 bytes by default as it was originally.

2025-05-05 15:30:04 UTC

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How do you zap if you don't hold any of your sats? 💅🏻

2025-05-05 13:14:11 UTC

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But Lyn if we tested the water after filtration you will find that there is still some contaminants in it.
Clearly that filter does not work and you should just remove it.
In fact you are censoring valid water that someone likely paid to put into the water supply, are you some kind of communist?
Rather than discriminate against certain particles we should just make it easier for them to get into the water and connect any waste pipes directly to the water supply.

2025-05-05 12:04:52 UTC

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I need to go down the ecash rabbithole

2025-05-05 10:17:23 UTC

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I didn't renew the road tax or insurance on my car this year and just stacked more sats

2025-05-05 06:48:55 UTC

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There is a lot of nuance around how it makes node running more difficult but ultimately yes it does.
It also creates more competition for block space if people are using it for non monetary purposes, pushing up transactions fees.
There are companies interested in shitcoining on the bitcoin network and will likely get paid in fiat to facilitate it.
There also seems to be a cohort of well intentioned Bitcoiners lapping up the FUD around spam filtration. The idea that it either doesn't work or is censorship doesn't stand up to scrutiny.

2025-05-05 05:53:36 UTC

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TLDR:
This change treats bitcoin like free cloud storage for any kind of data rather than as money.

2025-05-05 05:51:04 UTC

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Op return war 2 seems like it's downstream of the mining centralisation issue, or at least facilitated by it.
Am I correct in thinking that we will also need miners to switch to knots to limit spam getting into blocks? Even if knots nodes became the majority and weren't relaying spam around the network, miners would still be writing it into blocks if their mempool configuration accepted these transactions?
My question is how do we do more (than ocean has already done) to turn hashers into miners again?

2025-05-04 20:24:10 UTC

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You mean to tell me that lightning makes shitcoins irrelevant?

2025-05-04 20:22:28 UTC

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The same with movies and TV series.

2025-05-04 20:20:41 UTC

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Slow process over many years and being a curious person asking a lot of questions.

2025-05-04 16:19:34 UTC

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This is my 2 your old when I tell him to go back to bed at 5am

2025-05-03 18:49:10 UTC

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https://i.giphy.com/Atc9QCyWLGHgLZhHDp.webp

2025-05-03 18:44:52 UTC

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I had the same thought but I'm not sure if the nostr git implementations are good enough yet?

2025-05-02 21:30:34 UTC

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Yes but that doesn't really do much to decentralise block template construction assuming bitmain run the standard core mempool settings.
I guess if you hashed for ocean and used one of their options that at least goes some way towards it, but ideally just run a node and datum so you are a miner once again and ocean are just splitting rewards to reduce variance.

2025-05-02 21:25:52 UTC

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It was my end! All fixed now.
https://giphy.com/gifs/starwars-star-wars-episode-3-3o84sq21TxDH6PyYms

2025-05-02 21:10:22 UTC

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Yeah Bob is a legend

2025-05-02 21:09:38 UTC

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I think the issue is without knots you can't really configure much of your mempool policy

2025-05-02 21:06:40 UTC

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I get it, it's a huge topic. I've watched a lot of what @nprofile…566r has had to say about it on his YouTube channel and I think he lays it all out very honestly and makes an iron clad case.
Ultimately, spam filters have always been a part of bitcoin, but in changing bitcoin for lightning a bug was introduced that allowed a new way to spam. We should just add a filter to cover that too.

2025-05-02 21:03:30 UTC

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@nprofile…w0uz I'm unable to zap you 🤔

2025-05-02 20:56:17 UTC

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The way I see it, the only thing that needs to happen is to add @nprofile…vw43's anti inscriptions filter. This is essentially a bug that was introduced as a result of changes that were needed for lightning to work and it makes sense the fix the bug.
Once that is done I think bitcoin should ossify as much as possible and the innovation should happen higher in the protocol stack.

2025-05-02 20:18:11 UTC

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Yep, bitcoin is money as the white paper stated, and that is the intention of the protocol.
Censorship and spam filtration are not the same thing.
Censorship is X node/wallet/address cannot broadcast transactions to my mempool.
Spam filtration is I will not include non financial transactions in my mempool, even if they are otherwise protocol compliant.
The irony is with knots you can do whatever you like because it's completely configurable. You could set mempool policy to only include non-financial transactions if that was your desire.

2025-05-02 19:07:39 UTC

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I dont think it will cause a hard fork but this kind of war will have to be re-fought repeatedly if we want to keep bitcoin as a decentralised money.
The less decentralised it becomes and the less money it becomes, the more risk that bitcoin fails to deliver what we all want it to.

2025-05-02 18:25:25 UTC

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@nprofile…qjzy just to be clear this comic is showing that filters do work, even if they are occasionally bypassed

2025-05-02 18:14:22 UTC

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I hope it is true, but I think like all good things it has to be fought for and we can't just rest on our laurels.

2025-05-02 18:09:29 UTC

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Sounds pretty awesome 😎

2025-05-02 18:07:58 UTC

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This is a common question people have about bitcoin, it's essentially "What if the core team were corrupted" and the answer was always, "That's likely to happen one day, but the code is open source so we can switch to another implementation."
What's happening currently is essentially a test if that statement is true.

2025-05-02 12:26:40 UTC

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This comic is about filters
https://blossom.primal.net/f70933dcd316500dc51a91605947b32bfdfcc214882b336040d066587a0c5125.png

2025-05-02 10:54:09 UTC

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Just imagine how much fiat was printed to spray those lines in the sky

2025-05-02 09:22:16 UTC

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If abuse of the blockchain continues to get worse and nodes become harder and more expensive to run, it becomes decentralised in name only, just like all the shitcoins.
If we allow scams to be run on bitcoin, ordinals, inscriptions, runes etc people in fiat land will continue to get rugged and people will rightly associate bitcoin as a scam, just like all the other shitcoins.

2025-05-02 00:32:05 UTC

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Knots is a lot more configurable too

2025-05-02 00:28:43 UTC

Maybe the fence was doing something after all? 🤔 @nprofile…ulq2 @nprofile…vvhl
https://blossom.primal.net/f70933dcd316500dc51a91605947b32bfdfcc214882b336040d066587a0c5125.png
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1mnxegjQooWGX

2025-05-02 00:14:22 UTC

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I'm not familiar with that, is this kind of thing not mitigated by the dust limit?

2025-05-02 00:11:32 UTC

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Which part?

2025-05-02 00:05:00 UTC

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A guy climbed over my fence the other day, clearly my fence doesn't work anymore so the landlord has had it removed but now loads of people are wandering around my garden.
Maybe the fence was doing something?

2025-05-02 00:03:23 UTC

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Those sats will be worthless if Bitcoin gets turned into a shitcoin

2025-05-02 00:00:53 UTC

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Shitcoiners have inflitrated core and @nprofile…5h0z is funding them 🤷‍♂️

2025-05-01 23:58:42 UTC

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Removing OP_RETURN limits will ultimately not change anything because garbage data is already being inscribed in blocks at a lower cost as input data. It does however set the precedent that node runners should not be able to configure these things and that the blockchain is for any kind of data, not just financial transactions.
Does that make Bitcoin a better money? No.
- It makes people using bitcoin as money have to compete with people abusing bitcoin with shitcoinery for block space and increase fees.
- It bloats the UTXO set making nodes more expensive to run, ruining decentralisation, the thing that makes bitcoin not a shitcoin.
Adding an anti-inscription filter will make it harder (not impossible) to attack bitcoin in this way and sets a precedent that the blockchain is strictly for financial data. This aligns with the intention of the protocol as stated in the title of the white paper "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System"
Does that make Bitcoin a better money? Yes.
- It makes it harder for people to use bitcoin as something other than money, keeping the block space almost entirely for financial transactions.
- It will prevent further bloating of the UTXO set, giving improvements in storage some time to catch up and ensure nodes remain (relatively) cheap to run.

2025-05-01 18:42:19 UTC

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Just to be clear, I didn't mean we shouldn't also discuss on nostr, just that the bulk of people seem to still gravitate to X.
It's a shame considering this is the defacto bitcoin social media.

2025-05-01 18:36:48 UTC

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We should still make spam as difficult as possible to mitigate the Blockchain being used as free data storage. Filters are the main tool to do this.
We aren't on a bitcoin standard and people will use abundant fiat to pay people to shove crap into the Blockchain, causing unnecessary competition against people using bitcoin as money (the intended purpose of the protocol)
A junk transaction is protocol valid but if it is not a legitimate financial transaction and we should attempt to filter it, the same way we filter junk emails, junk mail, junk nostr posts, etc