Tauri
Tauri | Bitcoin BLAKE2b

I guess you guys need to learn how to attach a large op_return to your transactions now. Shouldn’t be too hard for a community who fell in love with data usecases. 🤭
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2026-08-31 20:03:09 UTC

Bitcoin-BLAKE2b should adopt XBT as a ticker. Hear me out.
BTC already identifies the Bitcoin-SHA-256 chain. Once there are two competing Bitcoin consensus networks, using BTC for both just creates unnecessary confusion and endless arguing.
XBT on the other hand is already an established Bitcoin ticker, used in financial infrastructure and APIs.
The X prefix also has a deeper meaning: it is used for non-national (stateless) monetary assets like gold, silver and Monero.
That makes XBT a much better fit than inventing some shitcoin-sounding ticker like BTB or B2B.
XBT = Bitcoin-BLAKE2b
XAU = Gold
XAG = Silver
XMR = Monero
And if the market eventually trades BTC/XBT, that pair would give us a clean market signal for which Bitcoin people actually value more.
The name Bitcoin-BLAKE2b was organically adopted by the community thanks to the great essay by @npub1ehr…qsdz. Maybe you guys could call our bannermen for this one too? What do you think?
Link to the essay: https://x.com/Roughnecks110/article/2087128292444996022

2026-08-31 18:49:13 UTC

When doing IBD our nodes will fly through 2026 - unlike NFTcoin nodes… That is if someone is naive enough to still run a node there. 🤷‍♂️
#nevent1q…qphw

2026-08-31 16:00:42 UTC

“Thank you Larry Fink for your great service to Bitcoin”? Too soon? 🤔
#nevent1q…dek4

2026-08-31 10:37:54 UTC

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Nice. When for iOS?

2026-08-31 08:52:37 UTC

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Then that workout didn’t happen. 🙂‍↔️

2026-08-31 08:50:27 UTC

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A fire spreads frighteningly fast when all the firemen pack their shit and leave, handing the job to people who insist that fires can’t be defined as good or bad - that they’re simply a force of nature we shouldn’t fight because doing so would be “unnatural.”

2026-08-31 07:46:31 UTC

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@npub1gdu…6nak is also to blame. Afaik he never took a principled stance against spam even though it objectively degrades Bitcoin’s quality as money. And also to my knowledge, he never attacked Saylor for openly Saying Bitcoin isn’t money and stablecoins are the future.

2026-08-31 07:44:14 UTC

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Or we were slowly infested by parasites and they waited for their moment to play their hand.

2026-08-31 07:43:15 UTC

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I’m amazed too

2026-08-31 07:09:27 UTC

You can’t make this shit up.
This is the culture of Bitcoin-SHA256 in 2026. The ethos has been flipped on its head. I’m glad I abandoned this ship. The iceberg is just over the horizon, it seems.
#nevent1q…tuld

2026-08-31 07:06:27 UTC

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Can’t believe this is a real tweet, but it’s 2026 and here we go 🤦‍♂️

2026-08-30 20:31:51 UTC

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What stops you from Blake2b?

2026-08-30 20:29:44 UTC

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Congrats man! Hopefully the next one will be for Bitcoin-Blake2b. 🙌

2026-08-30 20:28:19 UTC

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And where are they now?

2026-08-30 14:34:50 UTC

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A lesson learned.

2026-08-30 12:16:32 UTC

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Yep, ded again. Try YakiHonne.

2026-08-30 11:17:44 UTC

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IT’S ALIVE!

2026-08-29 20:15:51 UTC

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I’m up for working with Monero people. You guys have your priorities straight.

2026-08-29 06:55:47 UTC

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No, you still need asics, but it removes the first mover advantage for new manufacturers, makes the machines incredibly dumb ones (as rigs) but more efficient at hashing than previous ones. Think of BitAxes, but on industrial level.

2026-08-29 06:51:32 UTC

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And I’m pretty sure he’s a fed too.

2026-08-28 20:37:01 UTC

Which of the 5 CEOs of Bitcoin had “no comment”? 🤔
This meme might have meant something before 8/8/26.
#nevent1q…8y2t

2026-08-28 20:28:10 UTC

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Not even that for too long. Let’s abandon this train wreck.

2026-08-28 20:25:27 UTC

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Sometimes but not often, plus you dodged my question. Muting you now, since you are a waste of time.

2026-08-28 20:18:10 UTC

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Wrong

2026-08-28 14:00:02 UTC

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Also one in 2010. Can you sync to the 2010 version of Bitcoin? Does this mean modern day Bitcoin is an altcoin to Bitcoin in 2010?

2026-08-28 13:55:46 UTC

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You’re not running Satoshi’s code tho. There was a hardfork in 2013, remember?

2026-08-28 13:50:56 UTC

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The New Testament

2026-08-28 12:51:42 UTC

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> you don’t have conviction in your ideas (other than being convinced to run off the cliff together).
Do you often contradict yourself like this?

2026-08-28 11:37:00 UTC

Is this “Bitcoin Alliance” thing the new marketing name for Poolcoin/Spamcoin? 🤔
#nevent1q…xcqd

2026-08-28 10:16:28 UTC

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The fork continues all the way back to the genesis block. That’s why it’s Bitcoin and not some other altcoin printed out into existence.

2026-08-28 08:25:00 UTC

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The white paper is the first-principles document. It is the blueprint: the design, the purpose, and the assumptions behind Bitcoin. Some of those assumptions turned out to be wrong; most did not. The assumptions that were wrong nevertheless helped shape Bitcoin into what it is today, and we can debate whether that is good or bad.
But the white paper still provides the rationale and context behind a pile of code that can otherwise be changed infinitely to do whatever its maintainers or users want it to do. Without the context provided by the paper, the code alone tells us very little about what Bitcoin was actually designed to be.

2026-08-28 07:21:41 UTC

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Yeah, I’m sure.

2026-08-28 05:19:16 UTC

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No. But the opposite is still true.

2026-08-28 05:17:38 UTC

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https://mempool.guide

2026-08-28 05:09:51 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/24fec74f959ace474a0cd61bccf9c0c059d33e7387246edef2866222644fc198.jpg
The guys “staying in Bitcoin”.
You’ll have a great time.

2026-08-27 20:39:15 UTC

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The CC disaster and what followed was the 6102 attack - the trial edition.

2026-08-27 20:33:47 UTC

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Thank you for the warning

2026-08-27 20:32:58 UTC

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That’s ok too.

2026-08-27 20:30:51 UTC

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People can have agency

2026-08-27 20:10:09 UTC

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Thanks and I still believe that one day you will fight again on our side.

2026-08-27 20:09:09 UTC

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You can follow along when you feel ready and that’s ok.

2026-08-27 20:07:26 UTC

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I believe it’s official now.

2026-08-27 20:06:15 UTC

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Why do you care?

2026-08-27 20:05:30 UTC

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Wdym by hosting miners?

2026-08-27 20:04:18 UTC

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Why do you care? Move on from us, let us crash and burn if you think that’s what it is.

2026-08-27 12:46:21 UTC

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I imagine they always wanted to try this.

2026-08-27 12:42:47 UTC

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"blocks are additionally limited to
800,000 weight units, roughly 290 to 330 kB of transactions per block on the
current transaction mix. The limit lifts at expiry together with the other
RDTS rules" https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/blob/ce671c29ff5d9962378e2c30f9f1b31f067919a6/src/consensus/consensus.h#L17
As for other changes like SegWit discount removal or Taproot related up/downgrades, those are gonna be debated and addressed in the future. For now the HF client is complex enough, so only widely accepted changes are implemented. The changes are temporary for security reasons. We don’t know the full scope of changes may have on the network/monetary economy in the long run, so we prefer to proceed with caution and with what we have agreement on regarding RDTS.

2026-08-27 12:14:41 UTC

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Yeah, I agree.

2026-08-27 11:32:39 UTC

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I’ve never seen such disaster, not even in movies 🤯

2026-08-27 11:27:34 UTC

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Let’s work together on Bitcoin-BLAKE.

2026-08-27 11:24:09 UTC

Bitcoin-BLAKE2b will launch with the block size reduced to 300 KB. The change will automatically expire after one year, just like the other RDTS (BIP-110) changes.
This will provide a good opportunity to trial the effects of smaller blocks. If it works as intended, the reduction could be extended for longer periods, potentially resulting in a smaller blockchain, faster and more accessible IBD, and better incentives for more people to run their own nodes on much cheaper hardware.
If it doesn’t work as intended, the automatic expiry will restore the block size to up to 4 vMB under the SegWit standard, and we will still have learned a valuable lesson.
It’s also worth noting that this was not an arbitrary decision made by Luke or the other two developers working on the hard-fork client. It was put to a community vote and received overwhelming support.

2026-08-27 08:18:12 UTC

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Any progress?

2026-08-26 15:31:29 UTC

Monetary transactions will never out-price spam. But spam _is_ out-pricing monetary transactions.
https://blossom.primal.net/da8008f974a06902f2146890007b019c338001b4f5941da1181699c462fc6baa.jpg

2026-08-26 14:24:19 UTC

Bitcoin-BLAKE2b is what I signed up for when I sold all my shitcoins back in 2022.
Go ahead, laugh 🥱

2026-08-26 14:15:02 UTC

Translation: “all PoS validators agree that Bitcoin is working as intended. Stop doing unreasonable things.”
https://blossom.primal.net/5b869691d821a18af91b0e46e25e4343970ae232554b58346ce4a5c2f8e9f379.jpg

2026-08-26 14:14:24 UTC

Translation: “all PoS validators agree that Bitcoin is working as intended. Stop doing unreasonable things.”

2026-08-26 13:35:48 UTC

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Ah, makes sense

2026-08-26 13:01:05 UTC

Can we have more of this and less of “Bitcoin works as intended”?
#nevent1q…s7p2

2026-08-26 12:45:48 UTC

The pleb energy behind Bitcoin-BLAKE2 has been amazing to watch.

2026-08-26 09:49:47 UTC

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What’s XCancel?

2026-08-26 09:48:28 UTC

Useful for Bitcoin-BLAKE2 miners.
#nevent1q…nwnf

2026-08-25 18:18:18 UTC

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It was a house dog. His owner went and collected the package after the dog finished its work in front of the bewildered gaze of the driver 😂

2026-08-25 15:25:28 UTC

A dog stopped in front of a car.
The driver stopped and waited for the dog to move over.
The dog looked straight in the eyes of the driver.
Didn’t move.
Then took a huge shit.
Boss move. 😂😂😂
Real story I just witnessed.

2026-08-25 14:27:46 UTC

Man, this song hits different today. 🔥
https://suno.com/s/6SI1HI5GxPKblNMt

2026-08-25 13:46:05 UTC

Rebel kids don’t follow trends
Not when I was coming up, we questioned everything
Seems that’s coming to an end
Everything is so bottom up, it’s so easy to offend
I’m not playing by those rules (your rules)
I know who stacks the deck, I’m not a damn fool
I play by my own rules (my rules)
Let live and show respect, I guess I’m old school
You wear rebellion like it’s fashion
And life is just a stage
I live my words, I’m no attraction
I’m full of passion and rage
Let me hear your voices say
“I’ve been led astray, I’ve been led astray”
https://music.apple.com/bg/album/rebel-kids/1893702981

2026-08-25 13:32:35 UTC

How can you speak about morals
When your actions are a disgrace
You’re resting on laurels
You can’t save face
How can you speak about justice
It’s with an unjust brush that you paint
If life is a mural, it’s not for you to taint
https://music.apple.com/bg/album/lifes-a-mural/1893702981

2026-08-25 09:52:28 UTC

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Same thing was in Korea as far as I remember (was there 12 years ago). I remember being very annoyed and confused why no bins at all, yet amazed how clean it was.

2026-08-25 09:49:21 UTC

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My take is: I’d take whatever she’s taking 😂

2026-08-25 09:33:49 UTC

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I’d answer it this way: a good money needs to satisfy two distinct forms of demand: it must be able to hold value well, thereby satisfying reserve demand, and it must be practical to spend casually on goods and services, thereby satisfying exchange demand. What value it holds in fiat terms is largely irrelevant to that distinction.
Take Monero, for example. In recent years, it has held its value significantly better than Bitcoin and has appreciated more, even during a bear market. Despite its relatively small market cap, it is also far more commonly used as a medium of exchange, whereas Bitcoin has increasingly been used primarily as a vehicle for speculation.
The fact that Monero has been delisted from most major exchanges, yet continues to thrive through its circular economy, demonstrates that NGU is not a winner-takes-all game. Its privacy, reduced dependence on captured perimeter rails, and more sovereign way of use - with way fewer paper claims and more genuine peer-to-peer exchange - arguably make Monero more likely to separate money from the state than whatever Bitcoin-SHA256 has become.
I still believe Bitcoin has superior qualities from a sound-money perspective: a fixed supply whose scarcity can be credibly verified, a much smaller hardware footprint that is better for node decentralisation, stronger finality guarantees, and, because of its transparency, potentially better prospects for acceptance by large economies.
Yet Bitcoin’s base-layer governance and mining have become so centralised, the chain is filled with spam, while its economy has become so heavily papered, that these technical advantages risk becoming practically meaningless.
I still hope we can change that with Bitcoin-BLAKE2b.

2026-08-25 07:12:28 UTC

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Bro 😂😂😂

2026-08-25 07:10:04 UTC

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I’m tired boss.

2026-08-24 14:40:24 UTC

Love the honesty here.
#nevent1q…r4s0

2026-08-24 11:15:07 UTC

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Holding your phone to film instead of covering your head 🤦‍♂️

2026-08-24 11:12:21 UTC

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I don’t care. The writing is on the wall for them.

2026-08-24 10:48:57 UTC

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Btw I don’t want miners to abandon the spamchain and pivot to Bitcoin-BLAKE2b. I want them to die on the Titanic (not literally ofc).

2026-08-24 10:43:30 UTC

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Someone who cares about separating money from state and not about NGU.
#nevent1q…gnx7

2026-08-24 10:37:43 UTC

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The engineering class declared the Titanic “unsinkable.” I wonder whether they truly believed it. Some probably did.
So imagine those same engineers aboard when the ship struck the iceberg. Would they try to get into the lifeboats, or stand on the sidelines ridiculing the people scrambling for a seat?
Knowing how humans usually operate, I suspect some of them would do exactly that. Prime example here:
#nevent1q…q7qx

2026-08-24 10:32:16 UTC

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No, I want to fire the miners, not hand them a lifeline.

2026-08-24 10:26:35 UTC

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Do you find this funny?

2026-08-24 10:22:24 UTC

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I don’t want to instal other apps or anything else Bitcoin related. I’m purging that stuff. All I want is to get my 15k sats back to give them to some other pleb (or you) who will appreciate them more than me. I don’t intend to use the coinos wallet after that. I’ll be disconcerting all my Nostr wallets that support sha256coin.

2026-08-24 10:05:52 UTC

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Any luck with fixing the issue? I still can’t use the wallet. People keep sending sats to it too.

2026-08-24 10:02:24 UTC

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Probably, most bad apples are fairly easy to spot early. But there are a few exceptions like Giacomo “Spooko” Zucco who were hiding their true identity/agenda much better, and only discarded their disguise at the very last moment, when they gathered maximum amount of trust to cause maximum amount of damage.

2026-08-24 09:08:21 UTC

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Mossad op probably

2026-08-24 09:07:43 UTC

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Won’t stop a ballistic missile tho

2026-08-24 08:57:27 UTC

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Most of the trolls I interact with are either stupid or corrupt

2026-08-24 08:56:45 UTC

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Agree 👍