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I find this argument useful. I simply can't find the counter argument clearly documented anywhere.
This argument is also signed by a bunch of technically competent people.
I've seen lots of ad hominems by the developer of Knots but not a clear argument? Happy to be pointed to something written down.
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2025/06/06/relay-statement/
Can you find me? I need to test too but can't find anybody
Not anymore, just brike $12.5k on CoinBase
Not managing to connect between to Android phones running OxygenOS from OnePlus.
https://image.nostr.build/ca357b9bc7554ef165d549c5ed6d850a40d0bb70648123cbac533ad5237d64ea.jpg
From the Financial Times Editorial Board:
"[US and European countries] should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity."
#palestine
https://www.ft.com/content/f5fd6f8d-06a7-4d1f-b842-752e3aca9272
Very interesting! They tried to have their cake and eat it. Suspect the law will just change.
#nevent1q…ln9v
They could make that case in court surely? I mean it contradicts what they say all the time about wanting to take over the whole of Gaza. They can defend that too if they want. This is something that signed up to. So if they are innocent why do they not follow your process they signed up to?
Interesting article touching on how Trump's association with Bitcoin is problematic.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-05-05-why-bitcoins-growing-pains-are-exactly-what-it-needs/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1746466669
https://tidal.com/browse/track/55391801?u
You made me play it now...
More announcements from them:
#nevent1q…myxy
Blockstream seems to be ramping up and splitting off separate businesses.
Also investment products and new offices in Tokyo.
#blockstream
https://blockstream.com/press-releases/2025-04-28-blockstream-shares-key-strategic-update-growth-expansion-2025/
@nprofile…6av2 want to post here too?
Interesting Blockstream news:
https://x.com/Blockstream/status/1917232694032732639?t=9d7KIX_1T4VjTlAPKY1aQQ&s=19
What could it be?
#blockstream
It avoids costly verification of every transaction in the block. I do this when I start a new node. I find a valid block I've verified on an existing node and run it from there. You may want to find a slightly older block (a day or two?).
You can set a block hash to be assumed valid (assumevalid in conf file). It will not verify blocks before that point. This speeds up download significantly. So find a block that you deem valid and add it to the config file.
What's politicised? Why do you think the charges of genocide are absurd?
Have to agree it's bad. Stick to "Following". "For You" is crazy for me.
What? How? Trump is bad for bitcoin.
Yes I use the Bitcoin Core Hardware Wallet interface.
https://github.com/bitcoin-core/HWI
Bitcoin is a system that cannot be controlled by any single person. It's no more anti-state than the Sun is.
It's neutral. How can it be anti-state? The network just continues regardless what the state does.
I was replying to your annuities note. I think it would be interesting if centralisation can be avoided in life risks. Not sure if it could be but hope so.
You raise 100s of other points but I have continuosly simply argued one point: You have wrongly stated they revised their figures by half. This does not address anything about the general accuracy of their figures or anything like that.
This is a very very simple point and if you cannot argue based on this simple point I am very sure you simply are inable to argue anything sensible on any of the other more complicated points you raise. I am done with this conversation.
I think Bitcoin and bitcoin needs to thought of as neutral in terms of politics. It remains a set of rules without rulers and hence the protocol (Bitcoin) and the money (bitcoin) does not need any politician to continue.
Tying it to any particular candidate/party/ideology does it damage because it is neutral to politics and has potential appeal to all on the political spectrum and in all countries not just the US.
"Its count includes bodies that have not been claimed by families, or were decomposed beyond recognition, or whose records were lost in Israeli raids on hospitals -- plus individuals with incomplete records."
So the records are not complete but it does not mean they do not have a dead person!
They have not revised their figures by half! What you said is simply plainly wrong!
How can you change the meaning of the words??? They may have incomplete information for some of these. They DID NOT REVISE their numbers down by half!
I'm saying the data can be incomplete and be correct. Also it's understandable that things can be incomplete given what Israel has done to Gaza.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-deaths-women-children-360c6aabc03421c718d4a8452cec2c67
Your words were:
"...Hamas, itself, has revised that number down by 50% last month?"
I say yet again that Hamas has not revised it's number down. The Gaza Health Authority simply states it does not have complete information of all deathhs as you point out. This is NOT the same as revising their numbers.
As pointed out by others in the thread these numbers are very likely underestimated.
That does not say they adjusted their estimates. Just that they do not have complete data. Which is to be expected given Israel is basically destroying all health infrastructure including health infrastructure.
That article says the UN inflated the numbers. I don't agree even with that. That article does not say that Hamas reduced their numebrs as you clambed in your earlier notes.
You are claiming Hamas halved their own numbers.
None of those articles say that Hamas halved it's estimates.
Where are you seeing that Hamas has revised it's numbers??? That didn't happen.
"The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry stated on Saturday that the death toll in Gaza has reached Gaza death toll since Oct. 7 reached 38,443, Hamas-run Gaza health min. said since the war started on October 7 of last year."
https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/other/gaza-death-toll-since-oct-7-reaches-38-443-hamas-run-gaza-health-min-says/ar-BB1pUEWC
Large central relays and spam as a centralising force on relays may be an issue? This seems to be what killed SMTP.
Looking to hear from anyone what the visa options are.
Developed countries typically have requirements for immigration that are difficult for many in developing countries to meet.
One of my favourites
https://xkcd.com/552/