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2026-03-11 01:11:37 UTC

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@nprofile…pplq I’ll be interested to hear your thoughts on Aaron Day’s and Steve Patterson’s observations and theses on Hijacking Bitcoin.
I’ve had many of these observations over the years: Big blocks should have helped to scale up transaction speed, per Satoshi’s original intent to keep Bitcoin a medium of exchange.
I’ve become uncomfortable over the past couple years as I’ve seen the many points of centralization in Bitcoin’s evolution, something which I witnessed significantly in 2018; and have been convinced of in 2025, seeing the problems in Bitcoin Core.
Now, the revelation of how Jeffrey Epstein sponsored and funded the change to MIT hosting the Bitcoin Core development at the exact same time that he funded the development of CBDCs, and The Bitcoin Foundation died.
Some sober realism about the state of Bitcoin is in order.
This may take more honesty and courage than we can muster, to save.

2026-02-28 15:04:51 UTC

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And yet you can’t answer the question: How does it serve Bitcoin’s function and quality as money, to violate the role and responsibility of Core’s job, and condescendingly force a change in Bitcoin’s protocol, to enable arbitrary data to be stored in the network?
It’s not a lark you’re pissing away. Bitcoin is important to some of us.

2026-02-22 02:51:02 UTC

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Why are you taking a position on this, if you cannot explain the value created by increasing the size of OP_RETURN to such a large size it can accommodate spam and (as we have seen happen before) illegal content?
What is the mission critical functionality that requires an arbitrary, open data field, where we previously needed none and had none? Why is it needed now, though it has been rejected in the past?

2025-07-06 17:49:45 UTC

Yesterday someone activated dormant bitcoin, 8 wallets of 10,000 bitcoin each, and moved 40,000 of those bitcoin (to another address, not on any exchange, so no effect on Bitcoin price.) The bitcoin had sat there untouched since 2011, and are believed to have come from early mining pools.
So far, noone has any idea who this is.
Someone asked, “What if it’s Ross Ulbricht?” (That would be truly amazing, and seemingly impossible.)
If cashed to dollars, would be over $8 billion. So the owner of these is a billionaire.

2025-03-26 04:08:08 UTC

I was wondering, “Does the word boysenberry come from the French word Bois for forest?”
Perplexity said, “The term boysenberry originates from its creator, Rudolf Boysen, a Swedish immigrant and horticulturist who developed the hybrid berry in California during the early 20th century. The name combines Boysen (his surname) with berry.”
The hybrid berry includes raspberries, blackberries, Loganberries and dewberries.

2025-03-24 16:12:15 UTC

Educating myself on Bitcoin custody technologies. Building a business --- How long until we see revenues? Kira, Ian are 7.5 years old, Forest just turned 5, Jane just turned 3. Best time in the world.