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2026-02-21 21:42:51 UTC

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there were cleaner options for fixing transaction malleability. the maxi crowd got distracted by "would you like segwit or segwit 2x" and they completely fell for it. the kind of persuasive technique that works on a child.

2026-02-10 21:21:12 UTC

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I don't want to cram L1 with coffee purchases either. put the coffee purchase on a merge-mined sidechain, and prune it via UTXO commitments. enable miners to control the peg, instead of a closed federation, and let miners harvest the transaction fees instead of some centralized pseudo-bank. people who insist on running their own nodes can ignore any sidechains they don't care about.

2026-02-10 20:18:29 UTC

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>do some reading
you mean like the lightning whitepaper?

2026-02-10 20:17:09 UTC

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people are not going to switch from banking to banking with an orange B logo slapped on it, unless they are retarded and want to accomplish nothing. you need scalable decentralized self-custody before people come.
we've been through this before. people came, there was no scalable decentralized self-custody, they correctly observed that the UX was fucking trash, and they left. want that to happen again??

2026-02-10 19:57:42 UTC

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you went with small blocks and now you are stuck scaling via custodians and trusted third parties. you are obviously on the side of the institutions now. it's extremely centralized today. choosing small blocks didn't protect you from the bad ending.

2026-02-10 18:59:19 UTC

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this is clearly a lie. almost all bitcoin transactions go through a centralized third party. there is not enough room on L1 for everyone to own their own lightning channels or make their own regular BTC transactions. you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

2026-02-10 18:48:45 UTC

anyone who says this should be clubbed to death with a hardcover copy of "Human Action" by Mises
#nevent1q…u87t

2026-02-10 18:15:36 UTC

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anything that scales via custodians and centralized third parties is categorically a shitcoin. that includes bitcoin today. bitcoin is a shitcoin now.

2026-02-10 16:56:06 UTC

"we won the blocksize wars." what did you win? you got an entire type of person to stop using BTC, and now almost all bitcoin payments are handled by centralized third parties. it's more centralized now. you are worse off than before.

2026-02-10 16:37:32 UTC

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I tried pressing the "transaction fees should cost more than node hardware" issue many times and the only responses I ever got were "custodians and centralized third parties are not bad." I hate these people so much

2026-02-10 16:32:02 UTC

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i'm posting it AGAIN https://apathy.tv/w/phyBdcp4hwKK6yFuh7t3zz

2026-02-10 16:27:27 UTC

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>Rep. Thomas Massie is a RINO.
good

2026-02-09 21:18:05 UTC

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he needs a girlfriend

2026-02-09 01:52:41 UTC

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I was promised signature aggregation years ago. doesn't it make it cheaper to spend like a hundred donations all at once?? it's on the BCH roadmap by the way

2026-02-09 00:16:46 UTC

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core turned into a bureaucracy where nobody wants to be held accountable for any change, and miners are too cowardly to have an opinion about anything. if this doesn't change all it does is justify the existence of altcoins

2026-02-08 23:27:38 UTC

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buzzwords don't make any of that shit happen
#nevent1q…kg73

2026-02-07 18:58:35 UTC

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you can't replace the legacy financial system without replacing legacy financial instruments. by gimping all the tools at your disposal, chasing competent people away, and establishing a culture of saying "no" to everything, you're gonna be stuck with centralized lightning companies and custodial tradfi, and nothing else. some of the things knotzis like to say "no" to will get you out of this mess, while at the same time enabling some people to do things with bitcoin that you dislike. you'd rather have a centralized pet rock that bleeds hashrate. this isn't what most people want either, and you will lose.
start thinking about saying "yes" to some things and people will take it more seriously. merge-mined sidechains are a great way to keep "arbitrary data" out of bitcoin L1 while permitting miners to optionally harvest fees from it, then you get programmable smart contracts as a bonus, which often are undeniably useful. things like CTV and CISA make bitcoin a better money, so start saying "yes" to that too. you can't win friends or hashrate by saying "no" to everything.

2026-02-07 18:35:07 UTC

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over half of the miners are merge-mining rootstock. your BIP will never get enough hashrate

2026-02-07 17:57:46 UTC

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bip110 will kill bitvm, preventing us from having merge-mined sidechains and rollup chains. it will also make taproot less useful, which will have cascading effects on arkade and spark. it's designed to damage every scaling solution that isn't lightning and it has nothing to do with the pet cause of playing wack-a-mole against art NFTs. you're being duped.

2026-02-07 17:26:23 UTC

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knotzis think every bitcoin transaction that isn't lying notwork channel maintenance doesn't count as a real bitcoin transaction. knots will lock you into the status quo and chase away anyone who isn't working on lightning. you will be completely stuck with technology that has proven to only scale up via centralization.

2026-02-07 08:20:45 UTC

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the biggest weakness isn't inscriptions. it's the total lack of scalable decentralized self-custody. bitcoin today scales via centralized lightning companies. it's an emergency you ignore. core intentionally doesn't fix that and knots doesn't fix it either.

2026-02-07 05:35:37 UTC

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I still don't know what objectivism really means but I read atlas shrugged. I liked the part where they are torturing the guy and the torture machine breaks, and they are so retarded that he takes pity on them and tells them how to fix the torture machine.
what pisses me off the most is when people criticize the book, you can clearly tell they didn't read it. if they did, they would have mentioned a lot of different things where she fell short or did something dumb. I was fucking livid that she could only be bothered to credit aristotle, and not max stirner.

2026-02-07 04:43:48 UTC

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toxic bitcoiners permit an overabundance of centralized and permissioned L2s. they are the reason bitcoin is drowning in centralization right now. they are not an immune system. they are AIDS.

2026-02-07 04:40:41 UTC

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if by working fine you mean overreliant on centralized L2s to scale then I guess it's working fine. I don't see knots ever addressing that situation so you're all set 😁👌

2026-02-05 18:46:45 UTC

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mr. "I don't keep any records" will be fine until suddenly he wants to buy anything bigger than a mid-tier smartphone, then he's fucked when he tries to calculate his cap gains.
the threshold needs to be so high that it doesn't burden people who aren't capable of complying with today's rules. the threshold is like a prison for anyone who doesn't want to give money to koinly or a CPA, or learn how to do fifo queues in python

2026-02-05 16:59:14 UTC

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the name "bcash" was a prejorative invented by greg maxwell and adam back on reddit.com and used to discredit the first serious fork that attempted to overthrow them. nobody who actually uses BCH, supports it in anything, lists it on exchanges or inside wallets etc. calls it "bcash"

2026-02-05 16:56:27 UTC

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the tricky part is people are using it to justify stupid things like knots and bip110. they still don't think they were wrong about the original reasons to oppose blockstream/core a decade ago, and they are wrong about why they oppose today

2026-02-05 03:47:47 UTC

dear maxipads,
the alts are going to be especially vulnerable this year. take the drivechains and use it to slaughter them

2026-02-05 00:03:02 UTC

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2026-02-04 21:21:35 UTC

I had a closer look at bip110 and thought about it for longer. We can imagine what it would actually do if it got activated and think about the motivations, or we can be more realistic and view it as nothing more than discourse warfare.
It looks like it is trying to surgically disable anything that represents a competitive threat to the centralized lightning company ecosystem. The main competition right now is bitvm-based solutions including merge-mined sidechains and rollup chains. I think these solutions are not perfect but they are not as bad as lightning, for reasons I have discussed before. Lightning doesn't scale without help from many centralized lightning middleman companies. It is fertile ground for this kind of business model. Users can instead rely on the miner-controlled sidechain idea and get more of their security from miners. Bitvm in its current state does not complete the miner-controlled sidechain idea, but there is a risk that further developments can narrow the gap and make alternatives look more appealing. Even in its current state it represents the only reasonable alternative totally outside of the lightning ecosystem. The competitive threat must be neutralized in order to protect centralized lightning companies.
We have simpler examples of centralized lightning companies. The original Wallet of Satoshi and apps like Strike are still being used as custodial lightning wallets. Then we have the unholy combination of Liquid and Boltz representing a fake sidechain paired with a centralized lightning bridging service. These would all be unharmed. Newer "fancy" entrants such as Spark and Arkade improve on the Liquid/Boltz idea by parking your money in a centralized L2 statechain outfitted with an expensive escape hatch. They still have a centralized operator dispatching lightning payments on the user's behalf.
Spark and Arkade rely heavily on taproot not just for basic statechain functionality but also features that more closely resemble defi. I think that bip110 could gimp taproot enough to disable these features. Spark and Arkade would be reduced to parking spaces next to centralized lightning rails. This benefits any custodian offering tightly controlled bitcoin-flavored tradfi, such as Strike and eventually more banks. Monetary activities beyond the scope of simple bitcoin payments will be handled the old fashioned way by custodians.
I do not think bip110 will activate. The miner's job is to maximize fee revenue. Most miners want to continue getting revenue from merge-mined sidechains and rollup chains reliant on bitvm, witness stuffing, and even large OP_RETURN. They care less if a tapscript makes Luke Dashjr cry than if it pays a competitive fee. The bip doesn't make any sense in the reality of miner economics. I do not think bip110 is intended to activate either. The low activation threshold alone will tell you that. It's completely obvious that this is just a narrative play.
Proponents of bip110 are trying to redefine what counts as legitimate use of bitcoin, and it just so happens to fit tightly inside the lightning monopoly. At scale, wealthy people will be permitted to do simple bitcoin transations or maintain lightning channels. The poors will do only the most basic payments via centralized government-compliant lightning companies which may or may not let you unilaterally exit to a congested L1 and get eaten alive by fees. Some people will use unregistered cashu mints that don't make Lightspark's whitelist, until they either get rugged by the operator or their coins get transferred to Uncle Sam's strategic reserve. Lending, trading, and other monetary uses will happen inside 100% custodial walled gardens. Despite all this there will still be art NFTs, which they don't actually care about.
The bip110/knots people can assuage some of these doubts by acting like they actually want to improve bitcoin as money instead of just demolishing everything that isn't purposed to enshrine the disappointing lightning status quo. They can start by recommending suitable bitvm replacements such as bip300/bip301. They could advocate for features that improve privacy or monetary use cases such as CISA or CTV. They need to stop mischaracterizing legitimate smart contract use cases as non-monetary by dishonestly conflating everything with art NFTs and memecoins. I want to see them stop terrorizing the only people in the bitcoin ecosystem who understand ZK proofs. They are not doing any of this, and is unreasonable to let them throw the brakes on everything and give them a year to stall and pretend to care. I don't think they care about any of these things at all.

2026-02-04 19:19:46 UTC

it's a real trip being someone who disagreed with core for 2017 reasons, then seeing people disagreeing with core over 2025 reasons but still agreeing with them completely over 2017 reasons. you're hating them wrong!

2026-02-04 17:44:49 UTC

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@nprofile…5wv7 got this from https://sentimentalcorp.org
https://apathy.tv/w/gEp7cAKwsZwVk1BFv1KsAW
#nevent1q…g7h2

2026-02-04 07:56:47 UTC

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this reminds me of when I was a teenager and we would make a game out of "if you eat this candy bar you are gay."

2026-02-04 04:25:31 UTC

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talk to mining pool operators

2026-02-04 04:04:05 UTC

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they will tell you all day how bitcoin should only be the world's best money, but they don't even act like it

2026-02-04 02:25:47 UTC

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there are still some people who have not looked at his career and thought about the way he behaves. luke is the kind of person who breaks things that do not belong to him, and he thinks he is always right. he violates the non-aggression principle.

2026-02-03 23:04:13 UTC

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I am patiently waiting for BTC people to stop being retarded and build good stuff. until then it's the gorilla channel. if I want to see interesting being built or getting used I watch BCH, XMR, and ETH people.

2026-02-03 22:46:44 UTC

luke is abusing the current narrative in an attempt to grab power. he wants to replace core with himself. then you will be stuck with the status quo of centralized L2s and no new opcodes ever again, plus confiscations and the abolition of censorship resistance. god told him to do it.

2026-02-03 15:42:27 UTC

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bch people waiting for apology 💀🪑

2026-02-02 17:08:46 UTC

the same clueless people who missed their chance to fire core in 2017 are now scrambling to replace him with crazy luke, and none of these people even know what the word "sovereign" means

2026-02-01 17:56:51 UTC

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his greatest sin is promoting boltz/liquid as a scaling solution and making wallets for it. he brings centralization to the ecosystem. you should have rejected him earlier instead of quibbling over his price speculation tweets

2026-02-01 17:44:49 UTC

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BCH people (esp when they ejected the BSV nutters) are the realest niggas and I will die on this hill. they fired core and put back all the opcodes. you can make anything on it. and there's no segwit taint, none of them waste time on idiotic centralized L2s, and they are primarily medium of exchange people. it's exactly what I was thinking bitcoin should become when it was newer.

2026-01-31 23:54:42 UTC

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not paying the miners hurts you. you're outside of their security model. your security model becomes some random creepy weirdo with a VPS, or an obedient corporation. that's just how lightning scales. why even bother going through the motions of shitting on proof of stake if it's just gonna be like that? but go ahead, bend over backwards trying as hard as you can to not pay the miners.

2026-01-31 23:14:54 UTC

maxitards get in front of bitcoin and sell it as something it is not. centralized, full of middlemen, tell you that you are sovereign or free from tokens when you are not, build systems that don't pay miners or protect your freedom. they hand out fake bitcoin wallets like it's candy. then viciously attack any bitcoin improvement proposal that might threaten to unseat the parasitic middlemen (boltz/liquid, spark/arkade, cashu/fedimint, blackrock/grayscale) who shouldn't even be here in the first place. they think they are doing good, but they don't comprehend their own words. lightning melted a fucking hole in their brains.

2026-01-31 22:04:13 UTC

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I used to be more charitable to calle. I didn't really think he was one of the people passing it off as something it wasn't but I wasn't thinking about it very hard. he was and still is 100% enabling others to refer to cashu tokens as "sats" and use other bitcoin branded verbiage to talk about his centralized altcoin thing. he is part of the affinity scam.

2026-01-31 21:49:28 UTC

cashu is absolutely nothing they claimed bitcoin was. it clearly has all the properties of a shitcoin. but now they are openly passing it off as just as good as the real thing. at this point it is functionally a blatant affinity scam.

2026-01-31 20:44:27 UTC

cashu is fake bitcoin. it is tokens. it is centralized AND ruggable.
you don't have a functioning immune system anymore. you have AIDS.

2026-01-31 20:33:30 UTC

people plugging their moltbot into a cashu mint and gloating about being sovereign and not exposed to tokens
where do these "people" keep coming from? there's no shortage of these fucking morons

2026-01-31 18:14:05 UTC

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gemini administered a cefi lending program that had an oopsie poopsie and ended up freezing everyone's funds for like a year. but the zcash people are cozying up to them anyway

2026-01-31 06:01:42 UTC

"only use mints you trust" - a completely retarded and meaningless statement that applies to absolutely nobody

2026-01-31 05:59:25 UTC

bitcoin before lightning shit the place up: "don't trust, verify"
bitcoin after lightning shit the place up: "only use mints you trust"

2026-01-31 05:23:16 UTC

https://video.nostr.build/10cc50d5c9eca4f7297ec710d9abffed90e076177cad3bf2d1e03ed8787324c0.mp4
https://apathy.tv/w/phyBdcp4hwKK6yFuh7t3zz

2026-01-30 20:47:05 UTC

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he accused me of not studying austrian economics before muting me. but I'm probably one of the 12 people on nostr who read human action cover to cover

2026-01-30 02:12:19 UTC

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the lower it goes the more these bikeshedders suffer. I can enjoy that

2026-01-29 17:15:30 UTC

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cashu is a ruggable shitcoin

2026-01-27 16:50:38 UTC

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I am interested in seeing how expensive it is to use citrea, how much L1 blockspace it will consume, and what is the compression factor (x rollup transactions consuming y base layer bytes)
I think miners get paid more for citrea transactions versus lightning or ark-like constructions, which is probably a good thing

2026-01-27 06:33:44 UTC

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this is equally as stupid as the adrenochrome campfire stories. it actually follows the exact same formula down to the letter.

2026-01-24 21:22:20 UTC

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I think he is slowly starting to wake up. something will make him peak soonish

2026-01-24 21:15:02 UTC

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woooooow. if only someone said this would happen. if only there were a group of people who described, in excruciating detail, exactly how and why this was going to happen and what we needed to do to avoid it.
@nprofile…3wt4 is still a lightning dupe but for some strange reason I believe he can change
#nevent1q…nlfu

2026-01-24 21:11:58 UTC

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>Just out of curiosity, how do you find my posts
ok so there's this thing called microblogging. and there's a few buttons beneath whatever you post. sometimes the buttons look like speech bubbles or arrows or quotation marks. if someone else clicks on some of these buttons, sometimes it makes me see your post. I know it can be very confusing but you'll get it

2026-01-24 19:49:44 UTC

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lightning can't scale without centralized entities. it's 100% a waste of time. people have been trying to make you understand this for 8 years. arkade and spark too. btcpayserver won't save you from anything. you won't be able to make anything better without a consensus change.

2026-01-24 19:45:08 UTC

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good

2026-01-24 15:51:27 UTC

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there's not that many things I can say I hate more than boomers

2026-01-23 21:48:22 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/8fb414f21912b1a0911fdaeeca378ff316ed1f8496bb54e8fc9d4919d557126b.gif

2026-01-22 01:11:06 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIj9uNC4ES4

2026-01-21 23:55:28 UTC

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stop changing your portfolio all the time. read a john bogle book and make something simple, then take 1 or 2 percent of your income and play with that.

2026-01-21 17:08:36 UTC

https://video.nostr.build/194ddcc49714dba07a5a62acac9199bb9567de2699b16ac44d86768939daae3c.mp4

2026-01-20 18:12:59 UTC

I want all the speculators and perpetual optimists to get their shit pushed in. they deserve it for being dumb and annoying.
I want miners to keep bleeding until they become interested in consensus changes that increase fee revenue.
I want all the people who keep bikeshedding these consensus changes to lose all their credibility or ragequit.

2026-01-20 03:32:31 UTC

every time I accidentally see cable TV in a restaurant I keep asking if this is really my culture and if the people who laid this down thought they were doing a good thing

2026-01-20 03:27:49 UTC

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I cannot live at equilibrium with people who intentionally have children they cannot afford without federal entitlements

2026-01-20 03:18:06 UTC

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I don't think bitcoin mining will become more decentralized. proof of work mining has increasing returns to scale and it's subject to geographic centralization as well. I don't even think proof of work is theoretically able to be the most decentralized consensus mechanism overall

2026-01-19 01:53:27 UTC

oh allah, please give @nprofile…5z2h a big titty goth gf

2026-01-17 21:20:09 UTC

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I prefer the base layer to be a highly functional blank canvas. ordinary people should be able to come in and create whatever they want, including their own ideas for shielding technology or even wallet formats. the market will decide what gets used. let people build things. if too many opinionated design patterns are embedded into the protocol, you have to switch to a different currency to get a new thing.

2026-01-17 20:42:00 UTC

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I didn't say that ethereum makes monero redundant

2026-01-17 19:53:55 UTC

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ethereum makes zcash redundant. it already has people making shielded pools on it via zk-snarks, and it's arguably less scummy because no dev tax. nobody needs zcash.

2026-01-17 19:53:21 UTC

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a person who stakes a large amount of coins makes the exact same APY as a person who stakes a small amount of coins. it doesn't matter where they are physically located and it can be done with cheap hardware that is available everywhere.
I would argue that the need to purchase commercial real estate in a location with the cheapest electricity, and fill it with rare specialized hardware, does a great deal more to make the rich richer.

2026-01-17 02:07:53 UTC

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your AGI computer wife is waiting

2026-01-17 02:07:17 UTC

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you keep saying this but every time I went there and looked around, the people were all just as bad as the average reddit user. the "good" areas were more ghost towns than the "good" areas of reddit and there were even fewer of them

2026-01-16 22:55:27 UTC

@npub1p3z…tqmk have you seen chobits

2026-01-16 22:54:13 UTC

respect reddit moderators
https://video.nostr.build/9deeba5837b0173393aedc814ae5771e74baaad7cb71a33167cde4c20f69ae00.mp4

2026-01-16 15:11:36 UTC

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before homeless people had phones I could remember them using the library, or a church basement would have a room full of donated computers next to their soup kitchen. in france they also did public minitels that were pay to use.
I have a kaios phone but the web browser, email client, and map apps are all terrible. I have seen some flip phones that can run android apps and still work well on american cell phone networks but they are also pretty terrible. half of them cost more than a budget smartphone anyway. there are decent seeming flip phones in the world but they never have all the bands necessary for at&t/t-mobile

2026-01-16 04:13:54 UTC

>I speculated a certain way and made lods of emone
>if you had only speculated differently, you would be rich like me
>I want to repent for speculating in a socially unacceptable way
>I am smarter than you because I didn't change how I speculate
>I am smarter than you because I changed how I speculate

2026-01-15 18:57:43 UTC

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ecash apologia terminates at a banking middleman fantasy
#nevent1q…ckjw

2026-01-15 14:26:15 UTC

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south korea won't exist in 50 years

2026-01-15 14:24:31 UTC

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I don't think this has anything to do with that. he's just trolling. he craves internet attention. so he brags very loudly about muting people, then he mutes too many people, then he brags about unmuting them so he can brag about muting them again.

2026-01-13 17:26:01 UTC

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the best thing you can do with bitvm right now is build an inefficient federated bridge. that's not good enough

2026-01-13 04:27:32 UTC

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we both know this is a nonsensical fantasy. nobody actually knows someone who operates an ecash mint

2026-01-12 21:53:53 UTC

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fedimint is one of the shitcoins that the lightning network dragged into the bitcoin ecosystem. instead of one person rugging you, it's one person pretending to be four people rugging you. hooray, ruggable bitcoin!

2026-01-12 16:58:49 UTC

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the only reddit clone worth a shit right now is rdrama

2026-01-11 06:55:21 UTC

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this is total mega 1000x shitcoinery you worthless mute button fondling cunt

2026-01-08 21:16:06 UTC

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I agree! to cover 8 billion users, we are going to need:
- great script restoration
- state carrying covenant opcodes
- zero knowledge proof verification opcodes
- hashrate escrows and blind merge mining
- repeated conservative blocksize increases
and none of this will ever happen. instead we will have bitcoin-branded shitcoins to help us pretend that lightning isn't a failure.

2026-01-08 20:15:58 UTC

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spare me your chatgpt copypasta. I'm aware of what happens when an autistic computer nerd opens his own channels and sends a lightning payment himself.
I am suggesting for the 800th time that it's impossible to get everyone to use it like that. they will instead send L-BTC tokens to Boltz who will dispatch a lightning payment on their behalf, or do something equally idiotic like that.

2026-01-08 16:47:55 UTC

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KYC is deadly

2026-01-08 16:14:22 UTC

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LN itself, no. but it's never going to be possible for large numbers of people to gain access to LN without pairing it with IOUs and centralized third parties.
I see a lot of maxis blaming existing and proposed new protocols for inviting "shitcoins into bitcoin," but LN has already done this and they think it's sacred.
the original bitcoin maximalists accepted that altcoins can be good and bitcoin needs to stay competitive. but now they create their own altcoins which are very bad and they lie to themselves about doing it. their attitudes about altcoins have become stupid and contradictory.

2026-01-08 14:16:43 UTC

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you shall have no other gods before BTC. anything that BTC cannot do that an altcoin can do is forbidden. (cashu and L-BTC are altcoins but they are magically exempt)

2026-01-06 20:15:39 UTC

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tail emission is better than nothing but I don't feel certain it's going to be good enough.
I like the idea of burning fees and giving block producers only new coins

2026-01-06 14:43:46 UTC

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you would not have time. you now need 10 years to complete a bikeshedding ritual, get distracted by something dumber, and do another bikeshedding ritual. it just takes way too long to add an optional address format now. that's why they're pushing so early.

2026-01-06 05:27:53 UTC

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>30,000 Haitian immigrants doesn't do anything on its own to prevent you from living your own life or practice your own culture
this is incorrect, but since you haven't figured it out already, I hope at least you won't find out the hard way.

2026-01-05 21:58:33 UTC

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this is a dangerously stupid argument. there are people who will say "what even is culture, italians and irish are so different already, we can just flood your little town with 30,000 haitians in the space of three years." and then it is done.
I am not accusing you of using the argument like that. but we both know what's going on, and there are reasonable individuals who look at it and say "these idiots are trying to kill me. I might as well become a nazi." and that's what happens to them.

2026-01-05 20:37:21 UTC

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I don't want certain cultural values to change in my community. some of these cultural values are very important for my safety. if my community gets an influx of outsiders and it happens too fast for assimilation to take place, the culture may change in ways that are harmful to me.
I can tell myself that it's not my race that matters, it's my cultural values. but I don't see everyone else in the world doing that. most cultures will use their race as a team to a greater degree than mine. a white nationalist is just a person who chooses to do what he sees almost everyone else doing.
how else are we supposed to prevent assimilation from being bypassed, so that our cultural values will not be changed by outsiders in harmful ways?