Luke

@Blockstream @adam3us Address the Epstein visit and cloud mining ponzi pls

Bitcoin is leaving exchanges, dominance is climbing, and institutional adoption is focused almost entirely on Bitcoin. @adam3us on why Bitcoin is at a good entry point.

Why I think many who are less optimistic about BIP110 than I am are mistaken - The "Economic Node" concept. This emerged as a way to dismiss obviously frivolous nodes that get spun up in an effort to astroturf forks within Bitcoin. Very quickly during the fork wars people realized - "Hey, these nodes might not actually represent any real activity within the Bitcoin ecosystem, they're just there to warp the stats on node tracking websites and make something look like it has more support/opposition than it does." I will point out that that is *not* what has happened with BIP110/Knots in general - those are real people which @start9labs can attest to, having sold millions of dollars worth of servers to people over the last couple of years who overwhelmingly bought them in order to run Knots. That is not fake and is corroborated through various imperfect heuristics. However the point I want to make is that the most intimidating of economic nodes - i.e the ones run by mining behemoths like Antpool or exchanges like Coinbase - are not where anyone should look when attempting to gauge support for a soft fork - especially a controversial one. (At least not until very late in the day.) These nodes obviously represent a huge on-chain footprint, but conversely, they are run by companies who will be the last to take a stand on anything controversial as it has the potential to create drama for them over a decision that isn't theirs to make anyway. However the lesser economic nodes aren't concerned with that. They don't have legal/PR depts or shareholders who need to sign off on these things (or who will sue them if they do something "reckless". They can just adopt a new client if they think it's good for Bitcoin. When Bitcoin is in crisis mode with difficult decisions to make, the institutions are going to be the last to choose a direction and that is a *good* thing. Ideally soft forks to start as grassroots movements, and while the nodes indicating support for them may not be run by billion dollar mining empires/exchanges, as long as they represent real Bitcoiners, the change will be coming from the correct place - from those least likely to be under duress unlike large industry players who necessarily always would be.

@csuwildcat @GhostofMapl None of you are serious people

@GhostofMapl Ho Lee Fuk

Well, now it's all starting to make sense.

@geerlingguy I was planning on buying their products to use along with HA after my research. What do I do now?!

From my research, Reolink was supposed to be one of the best local-friendly cam companies... Strike 1: I can't set up my new Reolink camera without the App initially (web UI disabled by default). Strike 2: Can't add RTSP user even in app, so I have to use admin for RTSP?!

Where are the 51% of adults living if not at home?

I run

@Loriss65 @ocean_mining I guess I took him out of context, oh well

@lukej_sgf @ocean_mining Laugh out loud, too funny.

@PaulSpacey Investigate relative infrastructure investment by sport in US compared to the rest of the world.

Messi has shorter limbs and would have ended up around 4’7” in height if he didn’t get injections at Barca as a kid. And people keep talking about “we just need our best athletes to choose soccer over NFL.”

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Jk, I verify my stack, mine from my own templates, receive Bolt12 payouts multiple times a day, and purchase goods and services multiple times a week.

Correct. I only receive transactions.

@TeddyBitcoins source: 🚬

Most of the bip110 crowd doesn’t even send transactions on bitcoin.

@CptAncapistan Something seriously wrong with ancaps

Look, I’m not happy about some of the casting choices either, and some of the press interviews have been cringe, but there’s a legit chance that this is going to be a fucking incredible movie.

@_BitcoinCapital Non-malicious near-empty blocks are good for bitcoin. I'm sorry if this is hard for you to grasp.

2018-2025 ALL Bitcoiners: "Empty and near empty Blocks are NOT good for adoption" 2026 BIPcoiners: "the emptier the Block,the purer the Block. Virgin Bitcoin needs Safe space Blocks"

Every world cup I am reminded why am not a soccer fan. Something like this happens at least 20 times a game. I was glad when Switzerland got a red card for throwing himself down and kicking his leg out. Pathetic.

We cannot ignore these nodes. They will reject our blocks unless we signal for BIP110

.@adam3us does this often

The company responsible for 25% of the nodes on the network runs BIP110. Probably nothing!

@adam3us @BTCBeliever21 @JasonGnarlee Are you ever going to address the Blockstream cloud mining ponzi allegations? Seems like they should be easy to refute. Or are you going to be cowardly and non-transparent like you were with your little alleged side visit to a a certain island?