Steven von Niceness

I don’t normally get involved in the farce that is party politics in UK but I’m delighted to announce my full support for independent Count Binface, of the Buckethead-Such Dynasty, and their longstanding commitment to something, anything. Fu, fu, fight! clactonandfrintongazette.co.uk/news/26269076.…

@secsovereign You already told us ai writes your stuff, get it back on context, if you even can at this point

Sometimes people ask why I've dedicated my life to Bitcoin. How I can wake up every day and work on this from the moment I get up to the moment I go to sleep. This is why. Research on family income and parenting behavior shows that when families cross roughly $40-70k per year, something changes. Parents become more introspective. They start examining how they are raising their children. They have enough margin to ask whether what they are doing is working, and enough stability to change it if the answer is no. Below that threshold, survival dominates. Stress hormones. Short time horizons. Reactive parenting. Not because those parents love their children less. Because the nervous system under chronic financial pressure cannot access the reflective state that peaceful parenting requires. Separate research tracked childhood experiences against adult outcomes across 17,000 middle-class insured adults. They called it the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study. What they found was a dose-response relationship between early trauma, being yelled at, hit, witnessing violence, living in chaos, and adult rates of addiction, mental illness, criminality, and chronic disease. More exposure, worse outcomes. Consistently. Across every demographic they measured. The mechanism is neurological. Children raised in chronic stress show measurable structural differences. Smaller hippocampus. Reduced prefrontal cortex connectivity. Overactive amygdala. These are not metaphors. They are physical changes that shape what the adult can think, feel, and do. Children raised peacefully develop the opposite architecture. Higher emotional regulation. Better executive function. Greater resistance to manipulation, addiction, and criminality. Not because of genetics, but because of what their early environment built into them. The civilization you get is made of the children you raise. And the children you raise are made of the margin you have. Which means if you want to fix crime, addiction, mental illness, and the general coarsening of the culture, you have to fix the money. Not the money supply. The money itself. Sound money returns purchasing power to the people holding it. Debased money is a hidden tax on exactly the families sitting at that threshold, extracting the margin that would have gone toward a calmer home, a present parent, a child who arrives at adulthood intact. Bitcoin is not an investment thesis. It is the prerequisite for a civilization where adults can reason rather than just react, where communities can organize around genuine trust rather than manufactured fear, where children arrive at adulthood with their capacity for empathy and long-term thinking intact, not burned out by chronic stress. That future is before us. We have only to take it. Fix the money. Fix the childhood. Fix the world.

@Fundamentals21m This is just as much bs as bip110

Absolutely legendary.

@BitMEX_Jon @giacomozucco @ocean_mining It won’t be a multi coin pool. This is capitulation

@giacomozucco @ocean_mining Running a multicoin mining pool is fine, however businesses that help facilitate attacks on Bitcoin should not be encouraged by Bitcoin supporters

Today we are announcing that OCEAN’s backend will be upgraded to follow multiple chains independently in the event of a BIP 110 chain split. If a split occurs, DATUM miners automatically continue on whichever chain their own node enforces, and OCEAN will credit rewards to a split share log for that chain, subject to the chain’s continued operation and to our Terms of Service. OCEAN will effectively operate as two pools from the split point. Updated Terms of Service addressing split handling will be published before block 961632. We are building all this so our miners can receive rewards based on their own actions without adversely affecting other OCEAN miners.

@giacomozucco @ocean_mining Ngl, this is one of the things I was hoping bitcoin wouldn’t lose. This is great

Very elegant solution, fully consistent with OCEAN's vision: miners running their own nodes are adult in charge of their block templates, not blind pool-dependant hashers, and the pool is just a service to reduce variance, not a decision maker calling the shots. This doesn't mean that should miners decide Bitcoin rules: as clarified with the NYA failure at the end for the "block size wars", miners just follow Bitcoin's economy. But mining pools should serve miners first, who should in turn serve the economy. This could even be a good way to deal with other controversial consensus changes in the future.

@adam3us @giacomozucco Not gonna speak for him but have you thought there may be a third way? Or at least that core are asshats AND bip110 is not going to work? you guys are so entrenched in your team sports you think everyone has to pick an extreme

@giacomozucco for the record fixing what i said, given start of this was pre 444/110 in knots earlier drama, and i think what happened is giacomo bias shifted a bit towards core away from knots with 444 but still continued to critique both. details in this thread x.com/adam3us/status…

For anyone interested about the truth: Adam Back is absolutely, overtly and veritably lying about me *ever* supporting BIP110, or even being "a fence sitter" about it. I have always strongly, clearly and unequivocally opposed any similar fork proposal since the very earliest suggestions. I have always been, and remain, consistently opposed to: - using consensus rules to tackle specific types of onchain spam, - defensively addressing any kind of "illegal data" moral panic in any possible way (mempool policies included), - enforcing any controversial consensus change (including the ones I agree with, unlike this one) without clear full-ecosystem agreement. It's a bit unfortunate that a very influential voice in the industry is lying about me, since I have a smaller reach to debunk him. Maybe some of you can help me by spreading the correction. Thanks.

@adam3us @giacomozucco His arguments have nuance. I’m sure that’s why you made this error. It’s not your strong point.

@giacomozucco let's say this, you were fence sitting, arguing against both sides, and given illogicality of it, generated a lot of argument. genuinely even figured out how you fit that seemingly illogical bias towards knots/110 (my impression) in your head, after our lengthy discussion in DC

@gooch_steven @Osinttechnical The state doesn’t care about socialised costs. Putin is in charge, nobody else has a choice.

@Osinttechnical One ship hit closes the Strait of Hormuz. 105 hit in the Sea of Azov and they keep coming

Ukrainian attack drones hit another 15 vessels in the Sea of Azov overnight, including 7 oil tankers. Ukrainian forces have now hit 105 vessels in the area over 8 days, collapsing Azov/Don/Kerch Russian shipping traffic.

after bip-110 fails plebs have to call bitcoin a database

@SpectrGen @mattkratter I see what you mean. I guess people are free to make their own mistakes. I’m sure this doesn’t mean they believe any less in bitcoin. Maybe they want to swing trade mats for more risk without risking their stash. I’d prefer it to shitcoining which just leeches from bitcoin.

I never said I wanted to prohibit Saylor from leveraging Bitcoin. I was rebutting your comment that buying MSTR is equivalent to "believing in Bitcoin." If you believed in Bitcoin's goals, you wouldn't be investing in paper derivatives that deteriorate its' monetary properties. Holding both is a contradiction.

It's Monday, so time to check in on the weekly humiliation of $MSTR holders. They got diluted again over the weekend. Bitcoin yield now negative for the quarter (-1.6%) and falling since June 1. Strategy now holds a much bigger melting ice cube of USD. Amazing work, Saylor!

@SpectrGen @mattkratter Most of it I disagree with on the grounds that it’s deciding what someone else does with their bitcoin I’m not talking about ordinals or btc as a database but what a Hodler does with their own bitcoin eg borrowing/lending. Thats up to them.

@Billyndroid @mattkratter On the contrary: MSTR and Strategy is an attack on Bitcoin. Give me a moment of your time and I’ll prove it to you 👇🏻 x.com/spectrgen/stat…

@dathon_ohm @blank21M @_colourorange What’s plan B if they don’t?

@_colourorange It seems we are holding steady at around 1% signaling. I expect miners to flip the bit rather suddenly, once the pressure from the node operator community becomes overwhelming.

as of block 957527, 11 out of 1362 blocks (0.8%) have signaled for BIP110 extrapolating this to the entire signaling period, we can expect signaling period 15 to reach a whopping 16 signaling blocks, an all-time high previously set by signaling period 13 wickedsmartbitcoin.com/bip110_signali…

@TrueOracleTarot @BitcoinSapiens No internet or power means most of us are already dead.

@BitcoinSapiens ☑️ One cant use crypto if there's no internet or power.

JASON LOWERY: “Blaming Bitcoin to protect your failing hegemony is not going to help you, your financial system is still going to collapse.” “Bitcoin didn’t cause a bunch of bankers to debase savers and to destroy the purchasing power of the currency.”

@ExplainingBitc1 @MichaelDunwort1 Completely agree. The debate has mostly been juvenile or at least condescending of the other side.

@MichaelDunwort1 “BIP110 has absolute zero chance of success, it’s DOA. Thats why I’m dedicating 18 hours of my life every single day for many months replying to everyone who thinks it’s a good idea and explaining to them that it’s not a good idea but it’s too complicated for them to understand.”

I’ve been told for 12 months to fork off. Literally begged. Now all of a sudden: “It’s dangerous!” “Malice and an attack on Bitcoin” “Some other slop complaint goes here” Push push push push, wait wait don’t actually!! It’s good for Bitcoin, maybe not your bags, but it’s good for Bitcoin. Long term, this is a winning excercise for everyone regardless of the side your preference sits. Iteration for information is a good trade when resolving a security hole.

@ToneVays @read89md @ocean_mining Same

@Billyndroid @read89md @ocean_mining I'm praying that they don't 🙏

Unless Mechanic & Luke are fired by @ocean_mining board after their attack fails, growth of the pool would actually be concerning for the future of the Bitcoin network! - Bitcoiners might want to reconsider chaising the extra yield as it endangers their entire HODL value!

@ToneVays @read89md @ocean_mining That won’t happen. They will abandon a new chain in droves imo

@read89md @ocean_mining Ocean is also paying the salaries of the top two attackers on bitcoins entire decentralization structure. If they succeed then in my view Bitcoin trends to 0! * I have 0 interest slightly improving miner Decentralization for Developer Centralization!

@tempstat @knutsvanholm I’m more MAGIC INTERNET MONEY with an edge of MaGic INteRnEt MONEY

@knutsvanholm I always thought of it as ..MAGIC internet money

It's not, primarily, Magic INTERNET money In's Magic Internet MONEY Huge difference

@herogamer21btc Contrast that this to the ordinals guy discussing his sexual fetish towards dogs.

This is the Bitcoin developer that BIP-110 supporters want the trillion $ Bitcoin network to be steered and maintained by. 🥲 Can you propose any other candidates instead?

@prieff @ToneVays @GrassFedBitcoin On both sides, unfortunately. This is what this has come down to. The narcissism of these bitcoin influencers is off the charts though. Don’t trust, verify.

@ToneVays @GrassFedBitcoin He doesn't like facts or the truth. He told me that I don't even run a node and then blocked me. Such a persuasive guy. Attack the person and ignore the thinky thoughts. Quite a bit of that happening these days sadly.

5yrs ago @GrassFedBitcoin started his YouTube channel! Not long after I was asked to watch his 1st video which I did & commented that I agreed w/ his recollection of Blocksize Wars! This week went back & time stamped those parts! 👉"Segwit had Consensus" youtu.be/Lf5rqg61aYU?t=…

@giacomozucco @ToneVays Never ceases to amaze me how this is not brought up more often

@Billyndroid @ToneVays At least he doesn't see it as a sexual intercourse partner, as the inventor of "ordinals" does! 😅

WTF! Is this real?