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💯 no truer words than this 👇

I do enjoy pointing out that Andy Back had no idea what proof of work would ultimately be used for and still hasn't figured it out. It is *not to prevent spam* - Satoshi didn't use it for that purpose at all. It is to make it difficult to rewrite history. That's all. You can still fill up the historical record with junk data if you want, the same way you can doodle on any ledger or journal. The point is that people can't (easily) go back and rewrite it after the fact - making doodles/junk data far more important to prevent in the first place due to the fact that they can't be gotten rid of and everyone has to verify and store them forever. Early Bitcoin was characterized by an instinctive aversion to those who would use it as free cloud storage, everything was done to prevent it from occurring, and not once did anyone cite irrelevant aspects of Bitcoin like the network imposed difficulty required to mine a block or the limit of block sizes as being sufficient or even somehow related to prevention of spam. It should be extremely obvious to all that the highly lauded cypherpunks in this space are attempting to put Proof of Work back in the anti-spam category where it laid dead as a mechanism for fixing email until Satoshi realized that it could be used usefully to solve a different problem entirely while spam remained an unsolved problem that would be countered on a best-effort basis and treated as a moving target like it is on every other protocol.

@Puncher522 @ProofOfMoney 🫡 agreed

Such a fantastic and thoughtful presentation by my friend @ProofOfMoney - and I’m not just saying that because of the shoutout 😉. Bitcoiners are some of the most talented people on the planet. So grateful to know them.

Sv2 is touted as essentially the same thing DATUM is: letting miners make their own blocks (minor nuance not relevant to this). Yet it's overcomplicated, and in practice only used or supported in ways that denies miners the ability to make their own blocks. Even if you found a pool that allowed "job declaration", Sv2 has changed the software so that it requires Core30+ malware that denies you any freedom over policy.

This video is a masterpiece Awesome work @mattkratter youtu.be/_56PaDGTSzE

At 144 slides, this Bitcoin talk from Vegas 2026 @TheBitcoinConf retains the title for most slides per minute. And everyone knows that more slides = more value! In under 20 minutes... enjoy a Bitcoin keynote like no other. Because, again... MOAR SLIDES!

@ProofOfMoney @Puncher522 @TheBitcoinConf legend

Tokens have a long history of failing on Bitcoin (and outside of Bitcoin too). That's why they're affectionately referred to as shitcoins.

All scammers will jump on this argument that "Look, they are running out of money as expected" but the reality is that GB of trash still continues to get mined. Don't get tricked into believing that the issue is solved.

@babeswhobitcoin I hope not - young forever 🙃

I got way too excited about a new trash can today. Does this mean I'm an adult?

I am thrilled to announce that BIP-110 has been included in the latest official release of @BitcoinKnots! It is now no longer necessary to run my standalone BIP-110 fork in order to be fully secure when BIP-110 activates. Special thanks to @LukeDashjr for all his hard work.

@BitcoinWifey @GrassFedBitcoin @UglyOldGoat1 RIP

Rest in peace @UglyOldGoat1 Thank you for the beautiful memories. This video was taken at a conference he hosted in 2021. #whatisbitcoin #bitcoin

Nodes are the front line of defence. We fight with our Nodes. We fight with our hearts. We fight for the soul of Bitcoin."We the Nodes are the heart and Soul of Bitcoin" 🧡🤘 #RunKnots + #BIP110 thanks @LukeDashjr @GrassFedBitcoin @dathon_ohm youtube.com/watch?v=vxfoU_…

@FoundryServices @StratumV2 It doesn't do anything for decentralization, even the JD given the requirement that the miner use versions of Bitcoind that don't allow them the freedom to make their own blocks without the pool's permission. This is bigger bullshit than the quantum FUD.

Oooof.

18/ Now here's where it gets even more interesting. Jameson Lopp is one of the most vocal public defenders of the merge. He publicly defended muting Luke Dashjr and BitcoinMechanic on the PR. He wrote articles attacking critics. Lopp is an investor in Citrea. This was not disclosed in any of it.

A reminder: Citrea don't need the blockchain - they need your mempool which is why spam filters had to be ridiculed and ripped out of Core for Citrea to be able to confidently build and launch their product. Kill it today by refusing to host their stuff in your mempool.

. @GrassFedBitcoin tweet in meme form.

The instigators of all the op return noise (Citrea.xyz) were always just a bitcoin affinity scam. One look at the website and anyone could tell. But now, the launch of the official overt scam. Founders/insiders keep 40% of the "money". Building on bitcoin!

NODE IS LAW - KNOTS + BIP110 🧡 youtu.be/ohg_mMmBUIQ?si…

Ocean casually doing 24.5 EH per motherfucking second y'all.