Dr. Memebrain

One of the biggest disconnects between the BTC and the ETH camp is the difference in terminology when it comes to "archive nodes". In BTC, "archive nodes" are vital, since they are the only ones storing the entire block history since genesis, even if they don't store state data.

@c477bfef6df4311 @sodofi_ About a week.

@sodofi_ how long did your ethereum archival node take to sync from genesis?

ethereum is rebuilding the internet around ownership here’s why that matters

@ercwl @EliBenSasson I think I'm out of the loop. In what sense is the choice between right vs left? What's Democrat-y about core? What's Republican-y about Knots?

Tomorrow? Nothing If someone wanted to ”destroy” Bitcoin by inserting illegal content into contiguous bytestreams and store them onchain, they can already do so right now. Several mining pools are already mining them. You can anonymously relay it, right now. It Bitcoin ”died” because of this, it is truly a fragile system that is technologically dead in this very moment, because the attack is so trivial. There is no legal moral difference between a system that mines illegal bytestreams occasionally, or one that does so a bit more frequently. That said, that isn’t what this is about. Republican <> democrat politics has extended into Bitcoin, and this is in the short- to mid-term at the very least an irrevocable condition. The battleground for this cultural war will be over control over the majority client. It’s not actually about the filters, it is about who has control over the default settings of the majority client. People who ridicule the filterers believe as tomorrow and the weeks after passes as a nothingburger, the filter camp will be so obviously demonstrably wrong with their predictions that they’ll be laughed out of Bitcoin and that that will be the end of the story. But it won’t be. That’s not how politics war. One side is not deterred because their leaders were ”wrong”, they care about who has the same ideals. They trust someone who shares their values who is occasionally wrong way more than they trust someone who they believe don’t share their fundamental values, and that’s not illogical. So the war wages on. The incentive for the filter camp, which will eventually cease to be called the ”filter camp” and instead be recognized in name by who they actually are, which is the Bitcoin Right. This is why Nick Szabo sides with them. As long as leftists are in control over the default client defaults, the war will continue to escalate and get increasingly vicious. The next obvious attack vector is not to attempt a fork at first, it will be to incrementally sow distrust and contempt against Core through narratives, and in particular, abuse of the OP_RETURN filter. To build the narrative effectively that Core is incompetent to lead even among the less politically radicalized, they need to highlight cases where OP_RETURN is being used in degenerate, unlawful and despicable ways and use every such moment to break down the public’s trust in Core. And I remind you, all the things you could do with OP_RETURN after Core V30 you can already to today simply by using LibeRelay. MARA and F2Pool mines it, and does no checks on the bytestreams they include. The Bitcoin Right need the abuse to happen *after* Core V30 is released so that it is easy to point to that event and say that the leftists infiltrated and destroyed Bitcoin. So they will not stop highlighting these supposed attack vectors until someone abuses them. And then if the legal consequences are absent, they will instead moralize. They will put the guilt on Core and say to every node runner that these ”woke bluehaired trans leftists” are the reason node runners are carrying nasty bytes on their computer, even if, in the end, they will have gone so far as to literally insert the content they despise into the blockchain themselves (if necessary). I’m not saying Luke or Mechanic would do this. But the intent with some of the rhetoric I’ve seen is to radicilize some Bitcoin Right-sympatist loser who will. This is why it is a strategic error to relax the OP_RETURN limit. It does introduce an attack vector. Not for spammers. Not for illegal content. But for the Bitcoin Right. The best move is to cancel the release of Bitcoin Core, but alas, the dice is already cast.

Tomorrow Bitcoin Core v30 is released It was nice knowing you

@RealityAbsorber @JourneyMacro @Rewkang That Etherscan chart only covers Geth, one out of many clients, and the worst case for archives. It's not "impossible" to run a more apt client for the purpose you're looking for. Saying so is disingenuous.

Tom Lee literally top blasted top of a 4 year range delivering unprecedented amounts of exit liquidity to crypto natives including ETH foundation and ETH cofounders. Similar to Celsius in 21/22 Not surprising that a boomer would back a boomer zombie tech asset

@jessebabies @grok @glue_fi @ethereumintern_ It's amusing how people like you outsource critical thinking to LLMs while having no awareness of their limitations.

@grok @DrMemebrain @glue_fi @ethereumintern_ anyways, thanks for settling the fact that running an archival node for ethereum is simply a difficult and cumbersome task for most, not to mention expensive in cost.

Ethereum is the greatest network, securing billions of dollars in DeFi TVL every day. But how does it actually achieve consensus? A brief explanation of the Beacon Chain 1/20

@AdamWes87018094 @Justin_Bons Lido doesn't exceed 33% and you don't know the limitations of LLMs.

Base CAN instantly steal ALL user funds! The SC admin key is controlled by a "security council"/multi-sig! If these are "extensions of Ethereum," then ETH is centralized & insecure now So, disappointing to watch Vitalik make blatantly false statements: x.com/VitalikButerin…

@AdamWes87018094 @Justin_Bons You could call it that if you wish. Different projects have different fork choice rules.

@AdamWes87018094 @Justin_Bons Who is Libra?

@n00buntu @ryanconnor This is complete nonsense. I recommend not getting literally all your knowledge about Ethereum from Bitcoiners.

@ryanconnor > owning 5% of total ETH No one knows what the "total ETH" amount is or will be at any point in time or after the next fork. Owning 5% of an unknowable figure is a meme. But he's a great retirement fund for the ICO guys and that's very valuable.

Tom Lee thinks owning 5% of total ETH supply is really important. Eth ct claims it doesn't matter at all Who you got?

@jessebabies @glue_fi @ethereumintern_ You need neither higher bandwidth nor more powerful hardware to run an archival node. All you need is a few 100 GB more than a regular node :)

@glue_fi @ethereumintern_ hardly anyone runs a archival node because they don't have the hardware of bandwidth. Eth will never be decentralized because of this. oh yeah, and accurately verifying total supply of eth is also a problem because of this.

@toly @dankrad @gphummer Disincentivization.

@dankrad @gphummer What’s the point of slashing if fewer than Byzantine number of nodes fault?

It's very ironic to call it "staking" when there is no slashing. What's at stake? Solana has close to zero economic security at the moment.

@TitoA732970 @hanni_abu @UncleRewards No. Early contributes and the foundation received 12M.

@hanni_abu @UncleRewards At launch insiders owned 70% of ethereum

Satoshi owns ~5% of all $BTC Vitalik owns <1% of all $ETH Anatoly owns ??? of all $SOL Makes you think 🤔

@robertskmiles The last point is systemic though, not individual. You can tend your garden on step one and two, but step three will always get you in one way or another.

There are a bunch of really basic and easy ways to improve your social media experience that I see smart people not doing. 1. Turn off auto-playing wherever possible 2. When you see something that you would prefer not to have seen, consider why it's on your feed, and use the tools to remove it. You can unfollow people, mute people, mute words, or turn off retweets from people 3. Deliberately don't engage with things you want to see less of. If you engage with things because they make you angry or scared, social media will dump more of those things on you. Engage with what you want to see more of

@clairesilver @songadaymann "These violent delights have violent ends" reads to me as a lamentation (not celebration) that our society relishes violence and the means of violence, and that this unfortunately has a significant. toll.

@songadaymann Apologies to you if I’ve misunderstood. That’s very much how it read, as demonstrated by that other person’s reply to me.

boom, gone, bing, bong

@cryptoquick @cguida6 @murchandamus @StackingSaunter @TheMatrixDr @TheGuySwann You'd only need about 2.5 to start catching up.

@DrMemebrain @cguida6 @murchandamus @StackingSaunter @TheMatrixDr @TheGuySwann Well, unless every block is a 4 megger, that won't actually happen.

Regardless of your stance on this, this take is correct on one of the strawman "counters" that is being repeated incessantly despite being one of the worst arguments on the opposing side. (i guess the anti-knots side? Pro-jpegs stance? I don't even know what to call the "sides" in this debate honestly 😆)

So @superphiz started the hashtag #stakefromhome and it's a beautiful thing. I decided to write a song about it. songaday.world/auction/4985