Joshua Fortezza

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You need 2TB SSD and 16GB of ram to sync a bitcoin node now, let that sink in, with the current growth pace, running nodes will be unattainable for a large portion of the world.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but..... Trying to peer-pressure or gaslight people into degenerate behaviour such as gambling is a really bad look. That said. Have a great day.

@bendthekne3 We've sold $800+ computers to thousands of real, passionate Bitcoiners wanting to run Knots and BIP-110. Anyone who thinks this movement is faked or fleeting is either lying or uninformed.

based.

> other things we can do if necessary Because satoshi was not retarded and understood “fees are the filter” doesn’t necessarily apply when a money printer is involved appropriating purchase power in a nonconsensual manner outbidding monetary transactions in scarce block space.

in a world with extraordinary purchase power appropriation capability by the incumbent monetary monopolists, if you think "fees are the filter" you need your brain examined, retard. if you know, you knots+110. rug the ponzi.

@spoonmvn they run at a loss because they are simply the marketing/promotional/advertising/psyop branch of the money printing leviathan. it's just a line item expense for the money printing cartel.

I don't want to black pill, but my conclusion is that state actors represent a far larger proportion of activity across our information space than most could believe possible. They have deep pockets and only pretend to run businesses, media or otherwise. They instead run at a loss for decades on end, because their purpose is influence and infowar.

✅ 100% agree with Michael!

Easy to blame "jews" for financial plundering they perform on goyim. But the goyim are equally guilty. Similarly, we can blame core, Andy, mstr, Larry and his etf's. But the plebs should take personal responsibility, own up to bad choices. Do better. Self custody. Run 110.

If you are not yet familiar with the controlled demo of the towers and who Lucky Larry is, I don't know, probably you own MSTR, a Jade wallet, and you run Core v30 or some shit.

@EvanKirstel @WyomingBased

Wallowing Yellowstone bison absolutely yeets boomer.

I am one of these stupid Cat/Racoon/Frog/Dinosaur pictures on Twitter, that Tone keeps shitting on. One of the "Knots Ideological crazies". I was also one of the many plebs who very vocally warned about Craig Wright and BSV back in 2018/2019, and I was unlucky enough to get targeted and take the full brunt of lawfare and harassment over a five year period for speaking the obvious truth out loud. What was Tone doing? He was doing fluff interviews and posing for selfies with Craig, like it was all a fun and relative little joke. This is how principles, or lack of them, translates into words and actions. And it explains why Tone is defending Core's philosophical pivot, while harshly trying to discredit and ridicule BIP-100 and Bitcoin Plebs. Principles seem to be a foreign concept to him. Take that into account before you listen to any advice he gives.

Here’s my prediction for activation: Prior to activation: * Anti-BIP-110 inflooencers are going to be frantic until activation on Sept 1st. * very little miner signaling will happen ~1-5% because big miners have little to gain by signaling. After activation: * BIP-110 miners will lead out the gate with a couple of blocks that will significantly impact profitability of the major pools. * major pools will win a couple of blocks * BIP-110 miners will win an additional block * Antpool, Spiderpool, or F2Pool will defect to BIP-110 mining to unseat Foundry * All other miners will go BIP-110 once they see what has happened. * By Sept 2nd, BIP-110 will have ~100% miner signaling.

If you value your reputation, I think that now is the time to start to distance yourself from Adam Back and Greg Maxwell. It's about to get ugly

Literally one of the proudest parts of my bitcoin journey was my team telling me not to sign the Bitcoin Segwit2x agreement. One of 3 CO’s not to say yes to it. 😤

This is someone who did the work best he could and arrived at the correct conclusion Do the work to understand 110 isn't just wanted... It is necessary.

For the longest time I tried to stay neutral and unbiased on the Core v Knots debate, which ultimately turned into the #BIP110 debate. I genuinely tried to understand both sides. I listened to countless hours of podcasts and interviews from both camps, read the articles, asked questions here on X, and even used paid subs to Grok/Chat/Claude to work through the deeper technical questions. I spun up a Core node, then a Knots node, and built out a whole Bitcoin stack of services on a home-grown server so I could see it all for myself. I really, authentically, genuinely tried to give both sides a fair shake. But I simply could not get past the fact that ALL of the arguments made by the anti-110 side are easily countered by the pro-110 side. And honestly, I lost my patience with the pretentious elitism radiating from the anti-camp; the recycled logical fallacies, the cunning rhetorical devices, the arrogance and disdain for regular users of the network that you'd expect from progressive academia, not from Bitcoiners. Their blatantly obvious conflicts of interest, their connections to highly dubious individuals and organizations... it's just so obvious for anyone paying attention. Oh, and not to mention the overt concerted effort to thwart 110's momentum in recent days, reeking of desperation. The ONLY anti-110 argument I've heard that I agree with came from SuperTestnet, who pointed out that 110 doesn't have the same powerful economic and institutional support that 148 had (at least at the time of this post, 30 days out from mandatory signaling). Fair point. But 110 does have real support among a few miners, one or two pools, and everyday node runners, some of whom are more than willing to spend their own sats on rented hash to move it along. So all this to say: I DO NOT know with 100% certainty that BIP-110 will succeed. I have 100% hope that it does, but I can't predict the future (that siad, I do have a non-insignificant amount of sats wagering on the issue via Predyx). We have almost 30 days left, which feels like an eternity at this point, so anything could happen. Ultimately I have faith that #Bitcoin will survive, and that more and more people will come to their senses and use their connections, their networks, and their influence for the betterment of sound money. Money that doesn't carry the weight of shitcoining, shitscamming, shitstorage spammy garbage.

BIP110 isn't about stopping spam *alone*. It's also about raising awareness: the era of the lazy fence sitters, the data spam apologists era is over.