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It was great chatting with @CincoDoggos about AtlasPool and Bitcoin solo mining. Thanks for having me on the Bitcoin Mining Show! youtu.be/T94F1xZrapY?si…

In 2019 we removed machine-id from @DevuanOrg and we will remove age verification now. "AgelessLinux" is based on Debian, a foundation made to spy on users in a way or another, because it tracks machine-id. linux.slashdot.org/story/19/11/30…

Throwback Thursday to Jason (@wk057)'s killer presentation last year at @btcplusplus, where he unpacks DATUM's origin story and the design decisions which led him to write an entirely new protocol. Highlights: • sovereign templates via your own node (no pool censorship) • ~25× bandwidth savings • improved privacy from your ISP • lower stales/rejects • lightweight (you can run it on a Raspberry Pi), and • 638+ mainnet blocks already mined sovereign-style. Learn about the protocol that sparked the bourgeoning revolution in mining.

@w_s_bitcoin Awesome data visualization. Posted it on SN: stacker.news/items/1457457/…

Bitcoin Node Count Dashboard — Walkthrough wickedsmartbitcoin.com/node_count

Check out @AtlasPool_io on The Bitcoin Mining Show! We sat down with Matt, creator and web wizard, and discussed verifying your pool’s trustworthiness, mining access for underserved areas, and more! Thanks to everyone for your patience! youtu.be/T94F1xZrapY?si…

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It's the immutability of the Blockchain that is the real problem regarding CSAM - you don't have to shut down the entire internet if you find internet CSAM or sex death videos or the like. The CSAM has to be stopped, as well as other potentially illegal files, before it gets mined in a block. Period. I don't think filters after the fact will ultimately be enough, because the mined block on the chain still holds the illegal asset. I really really really would like to know any legal analyses any of these well funded entities that are even indirectly linked to Bitcoin have done regarding potential illegal files being mined into a block. I expect they figure at worst as a corporate entity they will have to pay a fine, and that is worth any risk. But sometimes a court will regard the corporate entity as a fiction for a real person, and then the real person becomes the party to the suit and exposed to potentially, serious jail time. A serious judge concerned about the content on the Blockchain won't give a fuck about how "no one is in charge", "it is decentralized", "people can run filters" - they will simply want the illegal material shut down, along with punitive measures. If they have to put an injunction on mining and on running nodes in their particular country, they will. They will make using Knots, Core, everything illegal if it allows access to the mined illegal material. Is there any way to filter what is about to be mined before mining it? The woke people will scream this is censoring, but this is a trillion cap market, and all people connected to it in the United States are going to have exposure to the law. Bitcoin is not above criminal law. Whatever the White Paper says, it is not a legal document, even though the "system" relies on a lot of legal conceptual thinking. Courts won't give a shit about the White Paper - they will say, to whomever is being prosecuted, do you have a way to shut down the access of this immutable chain to illegal material. Period. They will not care how it is done, whether it is cypherpunk principle friendly, or not. Honestly, whomever is funding Core Developers may become the targets of a prosecutor, because they are funding the people with the keys to change things about the system, and have allowed a system to roll forward knowing the risk of illegal material to be on there. Someone could creatively style a RICO action and pull in a huge network of people - miners, individual node runners, these OpNet people if the illegal material is encoded in a DeFi application based on their work. I would suspect individual holders of the bitcoin will be fine, and individual assets on the chain will be fine, but I suspect a legal threat is going to be made at structural elements that would enable another illegal use, even if one somehow gets cleaned up. The courts do not want to be pulled into controversies over Bitcoin over and over again on a piecemeal basis. Maybe they will a few times at first. But ultimately, the attack will be at the entire system. Too many parties are involved in Bitcoin now, it is not a small, insular community where X knows Y, and things like this can get policed internally in a community by norms of expected behavior, and ostracism of someone who doesn't behave properly, etc. The Bitcoin environment is no longer anything close to a single community, it is a huge multi-national marketplace that could lose money fast enough to be another "too big to fail" episode, except with no recovery option for anyone who loses money in any way tied to Bitcoin. This can can't be kicked down the road any longer because the insular community no longer exists. At least, I wouldn't kick it down the road. It has to be addressed, as a legal issue that comes from outside the Bitcoin encompassed way of decision-making. @NickSzabo4 @LukeDashjr @Bitcoin_Lawyer @bc1plainview @hodlonaut @AaronRDay @EA_Rice @Excellion @secsovereign @LawrenceLepard I have to say at the bottom of this that this post does not constitute legal advice or authority and you should consult always with your own lawyers before making any decisions on any topics mentioned here. The views above are mine and mine alone and do not represent any organization with which I am affiliated with, but are an outcome of individual study of the material mentioned. The material is copyrighted, but feel free to forward as you see fit.

Updated chain growth vs projected storage improvement chart using more historic input data and better modelling. #bitcoin won't die. Worst that will happen is near term people will have to upgrade their node hardware sooner than they hoped.

If you support @bitcoincoreorg devs, you better watch this video. Thanks @mattkratter for the vid and @jonatack for being honest and transparent. youtu.be/pH6kScdk58g?si…

More Bitcoin Core Corruption (New Jon Atack Interview)

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Hard to beleive that this is one of the most proprietary controlled things on the entire planet.

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Production Hashcore 3 18 TH in the palm of my hand… This is a marvel of American made engineering

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Big hugs to all the lovely mums out there today