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Why 21 million ? 1/3 First off, it’s actually 2.1 quadrillion sats 2,100,000,000,000,000. If you move the decimal point to the right 8 digits 21,000,000 00,000,000 =21M Bitcoins & 100M sats per bitcoin The design has as many total coins as there are sats per coin.

@BitcoinRachy I think 6.15 is the magic number. 🤩

Is 5 Bitcoin enough to retire 10 years from now? Yes or no?

@theonevortex @adam3us BIP 110 slams door shut on op codes that serve no useful purpose in tap fruit scripts. It is not tribute to bypass, otherwise I’d hear about it.

@abinition @adam3us @lukedewolf This is 100% false as as they are literally being disabled in tapscript, not altered to prevent spamming. It's trivial to bypass 110 to embed data into transactions as was already proven several times.

"Bitcoin is literally already money, 110 makes it a worse money" @theonevortex

@JuergenStrobel @theonevortex @adam3us A programmer doesn’t use the word fix and workaround in the same sentence. You either do one or the other. In this case, workaround doesn’t even make sense. Fix is the only option.

@abinition @theonevortex @adam3us These "fixes" are so pathetic there already exist workarounds which are actually worse for the node owners than the spammers.

@riftlinglabs @theonevortex @adam3us Embedding data is actually not easy at all, in fact it’s extremely inefficient and causes UTXO bloat

@theonevortex @abinition @adam3us @lukedewolf tapscript disabling those functions, no altering? sounds sus. How's embedding data so easy then? Need more clarificat...

@riftlinglabs @theonevortex @adam3us Taproot itself is not disabling, it’s the misuse of certain op codes in taproot scripts that need to be disabled to prevent things like UTXO bloat

@theonevortex @abinition @adam3us @lukedewolf So tapscript's disabling? but not altered to prevent spamming? really questioning the security here. sources to confi...

@travoltabased @theonevortex @adam3us It’s not complex. First understand taproot scripts in their expression of a merkle tree. This is the scaling breakthrough. Then see how op_if/op_success are used in destructive ways, resulting in UTXO dust outputs & bloat.

@theonevortex @abinition @adam3us @lukedewolf Tapscript disabled to prevent spam? gotta look into that fr. sounds complex!

@notgrubles That 0.00001% of “other’ users have bloated over 40% of the UTXO supply. Constantly having to correct such gaslit arguments is tiresome, but it’s worth it because it exposes your hypocrisy, people then see it, and you shrink in size.

I don't see a compelling reason to downgrade Bitcoin because 0.00001% of the user base is emotional about what 0.00001% of other users are using Bitcoin for.

@BitcoinNewsCom More and more I’m noticing that posts on X are becoming increasingly retarded. We need a retard filter.

NEW: "BIP-110 is an intentional literal downgrade," says Adam Back.

@GrassFedBitcoin @sodiumbtc21 It’s my understanding that miners won’t signal until the very last window of opportunity, no one wants to reveal their hand first, this has the benefit of being perceived as a hard mode, even though it’s not really. Game theory.

Soft Fork Activation: Hard Mode - Method: Have support from zero businesses and almost zero miners. Benefit: Reassert pleb dominance. Cost: Spend month getting dunked on by sniveling cowards who wish Bitcoin was controlled by a handful of Mining pools and exchanges.

@BitcoinNewsCom Sorry to hear that brother. Keep searching for a remedy, you’ll find it.

NEW: Bitcoin educator Andreas Antonopoulos says he will stop producing livestreams and new content due to health issues. Antonopoulos previously said he has been suffering from debilitating migraines and has tried nearly every treatment available, but nothing has successfully stopped them.

@Ruby__8090 Eye of the beholder. There is no correct answer, they are all good looking, a.k.a. beautiful.

Which one is more beautiful.? Be honest.

@adam3us The words innovation and damage together in the same sentence is considered an oxymoron, which shows you have no idea what you’re talking about.

"BIP-110 restrictions are bypassable. The innovation damage is not. Bitcoin's strength is its credible commitment to neutral, predictable rules. BIP-110 trades that, and Bitcoin's upgrade future, for a spam filter that doesn't even filter spam. That's not a cleanup. That's a downgrade." -@bittyrunes thread x.com/BittyRunes/sta…

@chefsevenn Freeze vacuum seal some of it for heaven’s sakes

What is your first thought when you open this fridge?

@hodlonaut Did you mean Andy Back ?

What happened to Adam Back?

@adam3us Supporting people like hodlonaut, Luke, Kratter and Mechanic. These guys are helping to save bitcoin from the woke DEI cult. So relieved to see BIP-110 deployed. We shall never grow complacent again.

We are all hodlonaut. x.com/hodlonaut/stat…

@theonevortex @adam3us @lukedewolf No it’s not. It is simply preventing them from being used in a destructive manner that has brought harm to Bitcoin.

@lukedewolf @adam3us 110 is literally removing 2 basic building block op codes from bitcoin that unequivocally make it a worse programmable money.

@StackItDeep @LukeDashjr @NickSzabo4 @CaminaDrummer4 @Bitcoinapolis55 @giacomozucco @GrassFedBitcoin Right. Ha!! Now-a-days, that’ll land me in deep do-do.

@abinition @LukeDashjr @NickSzabo4 @CaminaDrummer4 @Bitcoinapolis55 @giacomozucco @GrassFedBitcoin Back in those days, we didn't always test our code, but when we did, we did it in production. 😂

I am not stacking the deck here, just acknowledging people who have helped shape and guide me with how my brain processes Bitcoin. @giacomozucco , @GrassFedBitcoin , and @LukeDashjr were the first people to help validate in regard to SPAM on Bitcoin. There effort with Jack Dorsey and @ocean_mining along with @boomer_btc helped me really back them all. I applaud these people on their communication skills. I have repeatedly said I think the Knots/Core drama is language and compensation related, whether compensation is money, engagement farming, support of special projects or pet events on Bitcoin. I also am a huge fan of so many of our European Bitcoiners. @hodlonaut , @knutsvanholm , and @Princey21M . (I am missing many but I am typing in the SPAM/Bitcoin drama context.) I am shocked more Europeans normies are not into Bitcoin, hopefully it is just a bubble thing and they are not on X because of Trump/Musk/America? <--- that's a real thing for many Americans too, sorry. I lean far right on Fiscal and left of center on Social. Let people live. Really great people love America who are here legally but look like Italians (<--- had to for the next part🤪.) Language: I am halfway through the latest The Bitcoin Podcast with Walker and Giacomo. It's a tough listen for me. Because of language. I speak one language, English, I am so incredibly impressed by the European Bitcoiners who speak multiple languages including Bitcoin. However, English is precise, like the math used in Bitcoin. Here is where I think Giacomo is struggling, with his 'tenses' specifically past an present. In the podcast (I am paraphrasing but go listen), I am anti-SPAM, always have been, been saying it for three years. I am Pro-Core and Pro-SPAM, but I am also anti-SPAM and I run Knots. He goes on later to explain, he doesn't like the 'monetary transactions' versus 'non-monetary transactions.' If people pay for it, even if it's SPAM it's a monetary transaction, period. He follows it up with how he hates Ordinals and Inscriptions, how those are above SPAM. (Me: but aren't people paying for those to be on Bitcoin? At this point I stopped listening because we are having so much fun down here in St. George Island, Florida, while a blizzard is set to sock Minneapolis. Love that city, my family, the people BTW.) Compensation: - Giacomo said a lot about his incredible Plan B work, thanks to Tether, how he can say what he wants at Bitcoin Prague (still my favorite Bitcoin event I want to attend.) But what about CypherTank, your Plan B VC money you are using to do great things. Is Giacomo indebted to certain people with deep pockets? Libre Relay? - Walker tries to play both sides of the debate when you can clearly see where he leans. He could take a huge page from Joe Rogan. Joe doesn't even ask tough questions back to his guests, he even lets them go on and on with a 'yes' to most things. (Saylor would fit great.) Finally Rogan says, I got my start on a show where people ate donkey dicks and drank bull semen. Don't take my opinion on anything. The most telling part to me, however, Walker: "There is a lot of VC money out there, send some my way." To me there needs to be an RFP like effort to try to figure out this SPAM/Core/Knots/BIP-110/Fork/NoFork/Consensus/Filters issue and to me it's language. Thanks Giacomo, I do think if we can crack your brain, perhaps with an RPF column fodder efffort we can get people on the same page. I do know you are a polemist though, it's your Super Power and I bet a main reason you are so loved by your wife and family and so many of us. I am one too, without the love on here, but in real life. It's how I thrive and my comfort zone. Status Quo is boring and Bitcoin is broken, not irreparable but who needs fixing, Knots or Core?

@theonevortex @adam3us It’s 2 bug fixes, 1st for misuse of taproot scripts (op-if, op-success). Taproot is a technical UPGRADE that dramatically improves scaling. The 2nd corrects the sneaky and blatant merging of data carrier size between inputs and outputs. Shameful you can’t fathom this.

@abinition @adam3us No actually 110 is bitcoin's first technical downgrade SF ever.

@saifedean 5- Win through sheer technological wizardry

Trump's actual Hormuz options are: 1- Watch oil, fertilizer & more go up ~1% a day causing huge stagflation 2- Commit to a war that'll likely cost, last & kill more than the Iraq War 3- Surrender to IRGC terms, pay reparations & vacate all MidEast bases 4- All of the above

@LukeDashjr @NickSzabo4 @CaminaDrummer4 @Bitcoinapolis55 @giacomozucco @GrassFedBitcoin It is quite clever, well thought out, even down to the 55% threshold. Just like a cat slowly edging an object closer and closer to the edge of a counter top, once gravity has it, it’s quickly becoming 100%.

1) Both add a few rules that are too strict, but address the immediate problem 2) Both expire automatically (BIP50 in 2 months, RDTS in 12 months) 3) Followup with a long-term solution. The only difference is that BIP 50 used an immediate, retroactive UASF with zero notice, and expected users to upgrade after the fact (the "reactive" method removed from BIP110), while RDTS uses a minimal MASF to avoid the risk of chaotic chain splits. (Which is also why people whining about a 55% threshold are arguing in bad faith: the way these fixes have always been done is with a 0% threshold)