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Forced? Who's forcing who? I've read zero papers, but BIP361 is retarded. I don't care if it's possible or not, or how soon it might happen. The possibility of coins being stolen is not an excuse to freeze them. Just because we put the word "quantum" in front of this particular method of stealing coins doesn't change that. There is no paper, or quantum expert who's opinion is relevant to this.
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2026-04-30 18:44:38 CEST

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I agree. But public forums are good. Everyone talking, espousing, opining, debating, saying stupid things, saying smart things, learning, being wrong, all of it is good. I'm done with elitism and credentialism. Its messy and noisy and that's good.

2026-04-30 18:39:33 CEST

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The problem is the government are the criminals.

2026-04-30 18:27:31 CEST

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Nah, this is exactly how we resolve this debate. The experts are free to weigh in, but I'm sick of hearing these kinds of appeals to authority. Everyone can have an opinion. Nostr exists for people to talk about things. Deal with it.

2026-04-30 13:41:21 CEST

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you're under arrest
why?
it's classified

2026-04-29 21:38:08 CEST

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Excellent postmortem on Bitcoin Core by @nprofile…gpax
#nevent1q…pguy

2026-04-29 19:30:37 CEST

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Absolutely. Look at Iran using Bitcoin for tolls in the Straight of Hormuz. When there's no other way to conduct commerce, Bitcoin shines. The good news is the government is waging a never ending war on our ability to transact freely, so the medium of exchange usecase gets stronger everyday.

2026-04-29 19:02:57 CEST

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Bitcoin is the greatest hoarding technology ever created, so it's an uphill battle.

2026-04-28 19:41:24 CEST

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The government said Bitcoin is for criminals and terrorists, now the government wants Bitcoin. That tracks.

2026-04-27 21:03:02 CEST

I'm not surprised to see this at all. Typical core worshiper.
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2026-04-24 21:28:39 CEST

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The economic incentive to freeze Satoshi's coins is literally theft. Permanently reducing the supply to increase the fiat price is exactly the plot from the James Bond movie Goldfinger where the villain wanted to set off a nuke in Fort Knox to make the gold radioactive, making his gold more valuable. Lopp has now reduced himself to being a cartoonish supervillain.

2026-04-24 17:47:28 CEST

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Married and one vote per household would be a good start. That way it's not a men only thing, single men can't vote either.

2026-04-23 21:43:27 CEST

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I hope something like this. https://blossom.primal.net/ee83788f323b685aaaf1f8dbe1b2fe730d1c23fbbaa976c236721ff86f68752a.png

2026-04-23 15:26:36 CEST

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Satoshi Nakamoto
CIA Headquarters
Langley, VA 23665

2026-04-22 19:34:05 CEST

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Maybe someday we'll try real capitalism.

2026-04-22 16:14:16 CEST

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A more civilized time.

2026-04-22 14:18:06 CEST

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He's very very tiny.

2026-04-22 10:24:16 CEST

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Not at all. Core created the reason why government will demand age verification in Bitcoin, and Core will be happy to oblige.

2026-04-21 22:05:10 CEST

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Total humiliation. Dance for Bibi or you're an antisemite. Is Trump up next?

2026-04-21 20:36:44 CEST

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If I was on X I would have added: Does it come with age verification?

2026-04-21 19:12:57 CEST

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Looking forward to the Guy's Take!

2026-04-21 15:16:50 CEST

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Nostr is different, I swear!

2026-04-19 21:48:20 CEST

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I agree.

2026-04-19 21:43:34 CEST

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Given the choice between "rewarding thieves" and setting the precedent that coins can be frozen when it's deemed necessary, I'll take the first option. Once the precedent is set that coins can be frozen there will be endless demand for more. There will always be some new way of stealing Bitcoin. Trying to right perceived wrongs by freezing coins will be the death of Bitcoin.

2026-04-19 21:30:36 CEST

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Property defense works both ways. Maybe someone lost their Bitcoin, like that guy who was searching a landfill for his hard drive. Quantum could be his only chance to recover. For him "defending his property" means fighting against this BIP. Or maybe Satoshi wants his coins to be a bounty for quantum research.
If devs start deciding whats best for people's coins that is the attack on private property., especially if the justification is keeping the fiat price high by limiting supply (this was the plot in Goldfinger). That is an insane slippery slope. There will always be some justification for freezing coins and if it also helps keep the price up then the incentives are completely broken. Should we freeze Saylor's coins next?

2026-04-19 21:17:30 CEST

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Do you think coins involved in $5 wrench attacks should be frozen?

2026-04-19 14:09:40 CEST

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You've read more than 10 books? Autism confirmed.

2026-04-19 14:02:28 CEST

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Every evildoer thinks he's the good guy, and mocks anyone who suggests otherwise.

2026-04-19 13:16:55 CEST

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If you want to understand how that is still theft watch the James Bond movie Goldfinger.

2026-04-16 15:46:30 CEST

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You are not the only one.

2026-04-16 15:45:22 CEST

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The fact that these devs think this is a good idea means it's time for new devs.

2026-04-16 14:52:11 CEST

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Of course Lopp wants to obfuscate what he's actually trying to do. Theft sounds so much better when it dressed up with techno jargon and buzzwords.
#nevent1q…2s06

2026-04-16 14:49:41 CEST

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And a much more honest one.

2026-04-16 14:47:17 CEST

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The life sentence should be given to the kids father.

2026-04-15 21:52:07 CEST

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The beauty of democracy. Take credit for any good stuff and blame the previous administration for any bad stuff.

2026-04-15 21:45:57 CEST

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Was he ever a hero?

2026-04-15 21:34:21 CEST

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"We need to steal them before someone else does". Fuck off Lopp and the "other developers". Aka the exact same devs behind core v30.

2026-04-15 17:54:23 CEST

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He refers to it as Twitter still?

2026-04-15 04:02:01 CEST

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Civilization has peaked.

2026-04-14 18:53:24 CEST

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If more Jews spoke out against Zionism it would be easier see this. I think there are many normal Jewish people who just want to live normal lives, same can be said about the average German during WW2, and nobody worries about being anti-Germanic when criticizing the Nazis. In both cases many remain silent due to social pressures. The similarities are alarming. It's sad.

2026-04-14 16:19:56 CEST

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This guy for president.

2026-04-14 15:04:19 CEST

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Silly Meta, only the government can use facial recognition. Because the government would never misuse it of course.

2026-04-13 21:31:53 CEST

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She's hot for hodlbod

2026-04-06 04:27:00 CEST

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They will make it illegal for people to talk to each other eventually.

2026-04-05 04:01:31 CEST

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When it comes down to it, non-compliance is really the only power we have.

2026-04-04 23:40:19 CEST

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Plenty of woke nostr and core devs will bend the knee when pressed. Wokeness is synonymous with complying with authority.

2026-04-04 07:02:35 CEST

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absurd germ meadow

2026-04-03 21:33:36 CEST

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Sounds very similar to what core did for v30.

2026-04-03 20:07:26 CEST

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Make cigarettes great again

2026-04-02 20:30:14 CEST

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A lot of musicians figured out that being woke and selling out to authority pays.

2026-03-28 14:25:02 CET

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That's a long story.

2026-03-28 01:13:34 CET

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Great work, thank you hodlonaut. Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

2026-03-27 21:58:12 CET

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Hopefully we skip 20 years of pointless death and destruction and just accept the humiliating defeat now.

2026-03-27 21:53:05 CET

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Roads will cease to exist.

2026-03-27 19:09:26 CET

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Hope he tries. The USA won't likely survive it.

2026-03-27 17:04:10 CET

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Anyone can fork the code and then decide to tightly control who can contribute from that point forward. This is essentially what ProductionReady has done. There was some chatter about the current core oligarchy doing this as well recently. I suspect it will happen eventually especially if this ProductionReady fork gains traction.

2026-03-27 13:20:22 CET

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If more government fixed anything we would be living in utopia.

2026-03-26 21:26:49 CET

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Make it purple.

2026-03-26 16:31:44 CET

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This will speed up the eventual close sourcing of core. Just a matter of time now.

2026-03-26 15:57:46 CET

The beautiful thing about open source is you can fork if you don't like the direction a project is going. You then benefit from all the prior work done, even by the devs you no longer see eye-to-eye with.
This is a wonderful asymmetry that gives dissenters a big advantage. So don't be surprised when the incumbent dev team cries about it. Of course they'll say things like "why don't you start from scratch?" and of course they'll shit on the fork and do everything in their power to hinder it.
Because the fork has a huge advantage. It can even merge future work the original devs do if it aligns with the fork's ethos. Any open source dev knows this and this is the reason they start throwing shade almost immediately, their work might help the competition. But anyone who truly understands open source knows this is a good thing and protects against a project being taken over by a few bad actors.

2026-03-26 15:29:58 CET

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"The decree is, without question, a limited instrument. It covers only the named plaintiffs’ social media accounts on those five platforms, and only those three agencies. It does not bind every federal department or protect every American’s posts."
If only we had an amendment that did that.

2026-03-26 14:59:02 CET

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Starting from scratch is the stupid thing to do. Of course calle and any other open source dev knows this, which just shows how disgusting these core worshipers are.

2026-03-26 14:43:48 CET

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Funny you don't bitch about those other six, only this one. It seems @nprofile…rsmy might actually have legs and that concerns you. Since the others clearly are not and will never be meaningful competition to core you have no problem with them.

2026-03-26 14:31:10 CET

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What this post tells me is that core supporters don't see libbitcoin as a threat so they praise it, but they do see @nprofile…rsmy as one so they shit on it. In the coming months as the shrieking from team core intensifies this thesis will be confirmed.
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2026-03-25 23:42:17 CET

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It only became terrible recently, thanks in large part to you.

2026-03-24 21:52:07 CET

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Maybe, just me maybe, government is a tad bit too involved in the energy sector.

2026-03-24 20:19:19 CET

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In other words make your larp a reality.

2026-03-23 22:45:31 CET

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That's the funniest thing I've heard in a while.

2026-03-23 21:15:58 CET

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I wish they'd just get it over with and try to ban Bitcoin. The sooner the better.

2026-03-23 21:11:58 CET

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Weird Al Yankovic

2026-03-23 19:51:41 CET

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Decentralized authoritarianism is the best.

2026-03-22 02:30:21 CET

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Luke was right.
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2026-03-20 19:30:00 CET

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I'd love to see a core fork that is completely developed and maintained by nyms. Satoshi showed us the way, and it's a shame we didn't follow his example and make pseudonymity the defining characteristic of Bitcoin development culture. Any dev who's legal identity is known can be assumed to be compromised at this point.
https://fountain.fm/episode/O2I3sTTm9W3TheF5Y3yl
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2026-03-20 19:05:15 CET

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Trump is so horrible he's making Bernie look good.

2026-03-20 19:02:49 CET

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I always wonder why the fuck are we subsiding airlines with free (for them) security?

2026-03-20 18:54:50 CET

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First fix government violations of our privacy rights. Then you can worry about Anthropic, Bernie.

2026-03-20 15:25:06 CET

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Police, and the state in general, demand unlimited power and zero accountability. Nothing short of that is acceptable.

2026-03-20 12:20:29 CET

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Women in STEM since 1955 apparently.

2026-03-19 21:38:54 CET

Be wary when someone cries about "purity tests". They're trying to get you to compromise your principles. Introspection and reevaluating your principles is good but it should be self initiated, not in response to goading from someone who benefits from your acquiescence. For them, getting you to compromise the first time is the hardest. It only gets easier from there.

2026-03-19 14:50:03 CET

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If you can't say No you're not free.

2026-03-19 14:42:33 CET

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The "purity test" dig is a red flag. This is the language of shitcoiners. It's like if your favorite burger joint starts putting a little dog shit in every patty and when customers complain they cry about purity tests. Not all purity tests are a bad thing.

2026-03-19 02:23:07 CET

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Or 2026 even

2026-03-19 02:22:13 CET

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Kind of sad that the movie predicted hover boards by 2015, yet this is the best we can do in 2025.

2026-03-18 12:26:27 CET

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That's what every libertarian thinks.

2026-03-18 12:19:57 CET

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Region

2026-03-17 18:24:49 CET

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They should make a version that not only looks exactly like a calculator including plus, minus, etc buttons, but actually is a calculator when powered on. Then a pin is needed to get to the actual coldcard functionality.

2026-03-16 21:43:39 CET

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It seems like it would be so easy to ddos the government. It would take maybe 10% of the population to just constantly post offensive content.

2026-03-16 12:11:50 CET

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100% agree. Core enshitification has begun and will only get worse. If nothing else, a reason to support bip110 is it's better to rip the bandaid off now than wait 10 years when the situation is much worse.

2026-03-16 03:55:58 CET

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*conversation

2026-03-16 03:27:17 CET

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This was hands down the best pro vs con conversion on bip110 I've heard. It's amazing how productive and informative it can be when both participants debate honestly, attempt to understand each other, and don't resort to cheap shots, insults and straw manning. Thank you gentlemen!
https://fountain.fm/episode/5bNY4Ppmrsl04DrQipso
#nevent1q…qsur

2026-03-15 00:16:00 CET

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They all want WW3 so bad. It's disgusting.

2026-03-13 17:32:53 CET

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Really appreciate these deep dives, thank you!