James Deane
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James Deane
@JamesDeane_ca
Instigator, Social Artist, Investor, Burner, Entrepreneur, and sometimes I take pictures.
vancouver Katılım Mart 2013
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I didn’t want to write this.
One of the deepest lessons I’ve learned from researching sentiment data is how irrational and angry people get towards the bottom of Bitcoin bear markets. People that are historically aligned often fall into conflicts that wouldn’t exist near tops.
The BIP-110 debate increasingly feels like one of those moments.
I wanted no part of that.
I’ve been publicly cancelled before, and I have no desire to go through that again. I know how painful it is to have an angry crowd criticizing and shaming you, which gives me a strong bias to avoid situations exactly like this one.
But I’m pushing against that bias because (for better or worse) I have a novel dataset that offers a unique lens on the BIP-110 debate.
I’m going to attempt to keep this unbiased, but before I do, I’m going to lead with what will be my highest-conviction opinion of the entire piece:
People like Mechanic and Luke Dashjr understand Bitcoin’s consensus mechanisms better than I do, while Adam Back and Jameson Lopp grasp Bitcoin’s technical nuances more deeply than I ever will.
I am not here to pretend I understand these dynamics of this debate better than the people who have spent years studying them. That’s not why I’m writing this.
“Then why should I care what you have to say?”
Because there is another side of the debate that is also important, and it’s on this side I have a different perspective.
The social layer.
For those of you new to my work, I’ve been researching the language, narratives, and emotional patterns of different groups throughout Bitcoin. I’ve been (obsessively) studying the emotional regimes and crowd psychology associated with the space.
That includes the people now publicly associated with both sides of the BIP-110 debate… and the differences between these groups are striking.
I believe I would be doing a disservice by keeping that data to myself simply because publishing it might piss people off. So there will be no paywall on this piece, no call to action halfway through, and I won’t ask you to become a subscriber.
I simply want these charts to exist publicly, where anyone can examine them or interpret them differently than I do.
I will try to present it as fairly as I can, but I am not neutral, and neither is anyone reading this.
People will inevitably see different things in these charts.
This data cannot tell us who is technically correct.
But it can help us to surface clues about how the debate is evolving, who thinks they are winning, and why I believe one of these groups is currently experiencing an engagement-reinforced narrative environment.
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@ronmortgageguy The real reason - Big Bank guy is the Prine Minister.
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Bank Stocks At All Time Highs But Canadian Residential Real Estate In The Crapper: How Does That Work?
Mortgage Defaults up, Foreclosures & Power Of Sales way up, Residential Property Values way down
Why are the Big Banks bullet proof?
Couple of reasons
Some surprising
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James Deane retweetledi
A rhetorical L by the Bitcoin (BTC) community that we should learn from was allowing “spam” to be a legitimized talking point.
These transactions aren’t spam. Spam evokes email spam, which has basically no marginal cost and is often malicious in intent. It was a word intentionally used by the BIP 110ers to frame the other side as defending “bad” things.
What these transactions really are is “junk”. Innocuous, perhaps unwanted, but not malicious. And much like “junk mail”, the sender is paying a transaction fee. They wouldn’t send it if the (postage) fees were higher or if the economic opportunity of the transaction were smaller.
It’s not spam. It never was. I refuse to change my mind about it.
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@blockchainchick Maybe the hodlers will run a go fund me campaign.
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First time I've seen Michael Saylor take an indirect stance on Core vs. Knots.
Is it a fair argument to say we don't need a spam filter since fees are so low?
Michael Saylor@saylor
After a decade of blockspace fears and non-monetary-use panics, Bitcoin still has no spam problem. Fees are 1 sat/vB: anyone can move any amount globally with immediate processing for ~$0.30. The free market has always solved Bitcoin’s blockspace challenges. $BTC
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@digitalkm1 @BrantlyMillegan This is where the action is at.!
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@BrantlyMillegan Bitcoin Ordinals
docs.ordinals.com/overview.html
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@Sean_Speer @SteveSaretsky Yea, but that’s how they got re elected. Paying the old geezahs
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A reminder that if the Trudeau government hadn’t reversed the Harper-era reforms to the OAS eligibility age, Ottawa would now be saving roughly $5–8B per year and about $10–15B annually by 2030. That’s roughly the equivalent of 0.5 to 1.5 points on the GST.
Canada Spends@canada_spends
In just 10 years, federal spending on OAS programs has nearly doubled. Since 1980, it's increased over 1100%. Our bill is growing at ~5.7% each year while our average GDP growth over the same 45-year period has been ~2.3%.
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Since "pleb" is legacy Core Bitcoiner vernacular, what should BIP110 supporters call themselves?
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watching people become unpaid foot soldiers for BIP-110 is wild
they'll spend hours defending the idea that other people shouldn't be allowed to use block space they paid for.. all while calling it "freedom"
if your version of Bitcoin needs gatekeepers, exceptions, and approved use cases...
you stopped defending Bitcoin a long time ago
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@Brad604 If
If
If they win…
There next opponent is most likely France.
Multiple championships in there past, and no losses at all so far this tournament.
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Heading out to a watch party today for the 10am kick-off for Canada.
I just really hope that people have realistic expectations for today's game. This is an actual David vs. Goliath match up on paper. Canada is an extreme underdog today. Like people who bet on Canada are about to win a lot of money if the miracle happens. If Morocco does not win, that will shock the entire Football World.
Just want to state realistic expectations in case you are pissed off if Canada loses today.
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@kbessey Always reply to "is this available" messages.
I usually say something like, "Yes it is, I'm showing it on this day, may i suggest this time for you", and i pencil there name in my showing schedule as tentative. If i don't hear from them in three days, they're removed.
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Heard a number of people complain about how facebook marketplace leads never work out.
“Is it available” template message drives people crazy apparently.
We rent a ton of homes to people using facebook marketplace.
Keaton Bessey@kbessey
“Applicants must submit an application before scheduling a showing. It saves a ton of time.” We let anyone who books into our showing calendar view the home. After 12,000 showings and hundreds of properties rented, we’ve learned that most people don’t want to waste their time going to a showing if they know they don’t likely want it or won’t likely qualify.
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An interesting anecdotal tidbit on the whole Core vs BIP-110 saga, especially if you use Start9 OS.
As you can see in the first screenshot, I do not have Knots installed. However, they are displaying it on the Updates tab which should be for installed packages only. They also don't allow you to update past Core 29.3.1. If you want to run a newer version, you are forced to sideload. You're telling me you couldn't ready a distribution package for something that has been out since October 2025?
Considering Start9 is basically the defacto recommendation to run nodes, suppressing default service versioning while recommending a non-installed version is antithetical to self sovereignty and freedom tech. "Start9: Sovereign Computing" is their tagline after all.
It also makes me understand why there many be so many Knots v29 nodes showing on @w_s_bitcoin's dashboard that haven't signaled for BIP-110.
Will definitely no longer recommend Start9 at the @VegasBitcoiners meetup as I have for over the last two years.
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the .eth comes off, the end of a chapter for me
I have decided to move on from ENS, given recent events and other reasons. I'm grateful for my time with ENS and I wish everyone well going forward
This includes winding down @ethidorg. I and my incredible teammates are open to new opportunities, DMs are welcome. My team has been amazing! Any of them would make a great addition to your team: @0xthrpw @encrypteddegen @sat_eth @jalilwahdat @quantumly 🔥
Re our projects like @grailsmarket, @ensmarketbot, @efp, etc: Thank you to all of our users, we appreciate you! Most of these projects will sunset over the next few weeks (tho code remains open source), more information will be posted later
Godspeed everyone 🤝
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@cbcwatcher This aircraft has been in the skies over Vancouvers multiple times in the past two weeks.
Just recently in the search & rescue of the missing boaters.
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Canada just dropped $7.5 million on a shiny new U.S. Black Hawk for 'urgent' border security... that Transport Canada immediately grounded because it can't legally fly here
RCMP's response? 'Not our job, dude. Contractor's problem'
Meanwhile they're happily paying daily minimums to keep the grounded bird on retainer...
Nothing says 'tough on borders' like panic-buying American military surplus to own Trump, then shrugging when it violates our own rules
Carney clownery: anouncify, spend big, achieve nothing, blame someone else 🤡
At this rate, the helicopter's only mission is draining taxpayer cash and look good for Carney government phoo-ops 🇨🇦🚁💸
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@DavidBurkett38 By giving the referee sole jurisdiction over the clock, and keeping it private it keeps the two teams competing the game right till the very end.
Maybe you like the count down, but that’s not the game, the game is kicking the ball.
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@DavidBurkett38 Soccer doesn’t manage game time like other sports intentionally.
To prevent the teams for using a “work the clock” type of strategy.
Most pro sports devolve into some kind of clock management game within the game at the highest level.
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Is this the same sport that can't maintain a basic stop clock so they just add a few minutes to the end of the game to kind of make up for it?
Adonis Storr@theadelites
I cannot believe we have got to the point where a ball lightly touching the tips of someone’s hair is being measured by a Snickometer in order to disallow a goal. The ball’s trajectory and spin were not affected at all. The offside law was created to stop goal-hanging - it was never intended to be an exact science. It was never created so that one day artificial intelligence could measure toenails offside and use a snicko to check if someone’s touched a ball. It was created to stop strikers from man-marking goalkeepers all game. VAR was meant to be reserved for clear and obvious decisions. We used to understand that football is better and more entertaining when goals are scored. That meant that for offsides: in case of doubt, the benefit was given to the attacker while in-line was always onside. Now we’re using 3D generated AI technology to check toes to the millimetre and extreme microphones to measure minuscule decibels with the aim of disallowing goals and ruining football as a spectacle. Do they ever ask if we want these changes, do they market test any of it? What an extra time awaited us for the #Portugal v #Croatia game, unfortunately we will never get to see it thanks to the madness that VAR has descended into.
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