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@adam3us Unfortunately this is seeming like an intractable achilles heal of a public p2p time chain that allows arbitrary data. My gut reaction is to not only limit the op_return size in the mempool but ALSO to require it small for consensus. Why is this a bad idea?

becoming more convinced that there's something fundamental in conflict, and that the internet physics of this are that A) prioritizing fighting spam conflicts with B) privacy and uncensorability. Pick 1.

@Todd_MMiller @adam3us Also the ability to filter spam is not as simple as you imply, such that it becomes a centralized system controlled by a committee or coercive entity.

@Todd_MMiller @adam3us My understanding of the main argument against filtering in general is the more you do of it, then a slippery slope forms of expectations to do more of it and to include things that coercive or centralizing forces may demand.

@graveskies @LukeDashjr Yes I agree about inspiring folks to run a home hasher with an Ocean Datum template. I just got one running recently to do this.

I believe that's possible. However, running knots on their node isn't enough. We have to convince people to compete for the hashrate in any way they can. Ocean excluding all spam from a block is a great start. That needs to be more frequent. And soon. This is how we make the biggest difference. IMHO. I hope to at least run a Bitaxe soon. I have a couple of years before I can run a bigger miner.

Bitcoin is not a finished product. We may be on a detour to address spam, and part of the crisis did originate with (mishandling of) the Segwit and Taproot upgrades - but to improve the world, we still need more functionality. Stopping all improvements forever ("ossifying") is fatal. Part of addressing the issues with Core needs to be ensuring we don't repeat the same mistakes: if an upgrade introduces unforeseen vulnerabilities, those need to get addressed in a timely manner. All protocol changes require support from the entire community, so we developers are going to have to earn that reputation back. There are fairly simple, low-risk softforks like CTV, or even a consensus cleanup (though I have reservations about BIP 54), that should not introduce vulnerabilities, and could be a starting point to regain confidence after Core is out of the picture. The next step up is probably native zero-knowledge support, BitVM optimisations, and similar. This is when it *might* make sense to start considering Bitcoin L1 "complete", and capable of handling further improvements and even scaling on true trustless sidechains. We have a long road to get there still, and every step will take consensus - possibly quick mitigation of unforeseen outcomes - but we shouldn't lose sight of the end goal: a decentralised currency that nobody can undermine, and hopefully one day onboard the entire global economy. It's possible to accomplish, but we will have to work for it.

@RtoshiNakamoto @ZachSawatz3599 @adam3us @grok what method did Satoshi use to store his famous Times headline on the genesis block?

It already is so much more. Always has been. Satoshi used it for more than that. Bitcoin is a Decentralized network, all about Freedom. Even Satoshi’s famous Times headline in the Genesis Block — “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks” — was more than technical. It used Bitcoin as a political and social commentary tool, embedding a permanent message about financial corruption. Satoshi used Bitcoin as a timestamping service, message layer, incentive mechanism, and programmable contract system — not just money.

Bitcoin is owned by humanity, the protocol developers are stewards, and need consensus from users to change it materially. bitcoin is about money, spam has no place in the timechain. what defaults the bitcoin core project puts in the reference client matter in this.

@thetrocro @Dennis_Porter_ @LeonidasNFT This again is the fallacy of the chain being different than the token running on it. This is a corruption of the purpose of the chain, like anti-BTC business people being pro blockchain and anti BTC money. The money token is the ONLY point of the chain.

@Dennis_Porter_ @LeonidasNFT Censorship-resistant base layer.

An open letter to Bitcoin Core, Any serious attempt by Bitcoin Core to tighten policy rules or censor Ordinals and Runes transactions will be met with decisive action. If necessary, the $DOG Army will fund the development and maintenance of an open source fork of Bitcoin Core that strips out nearly all policy rules, and that thousands of people will run to make it abundantly clear that Bitcoin is and must always remain censorship resistant. The Ordinals and Runes ecosystem is tired of being gaslit for actually using BTC as money every day while contributing over half a billion dollars in transaction fees to strengthen Bitcoin’s security. I am not here to virtue signal like @adam3us or represent a bunch of broke, conspiracy theory lovers like @LukeDashjr. There are over twenty Bitcoin startups that operate economically relevant nodes and have collectively broadcast nearly half of all Bitcoin transactions over the past two years that would welcome the expanded design space for their applications and protocols that opens up if they were only required to adhere to consensus rules rather than arbitrary policy restrictions. I have also had the privilege of speaking directly with miners and mining pools representing more than 50% of Bitcoin’s total hash rate. I can state with certainty that they will accept any consensus valid Bitcoin transactions with competitive fees attached if the process is made simple and secure. There is no meaningful difference between normalizing the censorship of JPEG or memecoin transactions and normalizing the censorship of certain monetary transactions by nation-states. Both would set very dangerous precedents. The $DOG Army and the Ordinals and Runes ecosystem will not sit idly by while transaction censorship is normalized on Bitcoin. We will defend the principles that have always set Bitcoin apart, such as open access, censorship resistance, and neutrality at the base layer.

@LeonidasNFT Your saying there’s no difference between censoring monetary txs and filtering jpegs is precisely false. Satoshi was for filtering Lady Gaga because it’s not monetary. Your fees for jpegs is not monetary. You’re conflating paying the network with sending money. THEY R DIFFERENT!

@MZietzke @r0ckstardev You seem to be playing a semantics game and to be implying there is zero credibility to the idea that "Bitcoin the system" is designed to be, and should be used, exclusively for the purpose of the transmission of "Bitcoin the asset."

@r0ckstardev You are. Bitcoin the system is an incentivized timestamp server, and the incentives are established by the native asset, bitcoins. What Bitcoin the system does is timestamp transactions, and every transaction exchanges bitcoins even if it is a "non-monetary" transaction.

Bitcoin is money. And it must be preserved as such. Money is the ultimate tool for distinguishing what's important from what's not. Every civilization that successfully scaled needed to invent it. Those that didn't remained stuck at a certain level, unable to deal with the information overload. Its people became lost in the games of lies and deception, as they resorted to inferior substitutes to serve as currency. Bitcoin needs to do one thing - be a decentralized ledger tracking who owns how much value, independent of any trusted third party. That's it. As Bitcoin continues to be increasingly successful, it's understandable that specific people will propose changes to gain more power or to shape Bitcoin to suit their specific needs. However, just because they try doesn't mean they should be allowed to. If we let Bitcoin's purpose become diluted to accommodate every use case, we'll end up pleasing none. Demand for a decentralized, always-available, general-purpose database is infinite. Everyone wants to write THEIR data into such a source of truth. If the data they're writing represents monetary transfers of value (especially from those who have a lot of sats to those who don't) - we should absolutely encourage and facilitate this. But if the data they're writing is a personal expression of vanity or a scheme designed to trade their 1 sat for more sats from someone else, we should absolutely call them out. More importantly, we should actively work to prevent such schemes from succeeding and from being built on top of Bitcoin. If people want to play zero-sum games and build "decentralized world computers", Ethereum already exists. That experiment has run its course over the past decade, and even its benevolent dictator & prophet Vitalik had to admit failure and propose a new five-year plan to make Ethereum "as beautifully simple as Bitcoin". Use Bitcoin the way you use money in your life - to focus your efforts and separate truths from lies. Help others do the same. Remember: you don't change Bitcoin; Bitcoin changes you. And those wanting monkey jpegs on the blockchain, elaborate technical experiments, personality cults, or thrilling zero-sum games should be directed toward Ethereum, Solana, Cardano, or whatever shitcoin currently boasts the largest marketing and R&D budget.

@innerpathing @yoltartar Beautiful animations. I agree with your dad that they’re better than anything AI could make, and also there’s much more meaning because you made them. I like the rawness of the recording and agree with others that it’s more beautiful this way.

one time @yoltartar played me this song of his and i loved it so much that i demanded he record it and send it to me then i spent four weeks animating it and surprised him with it when we were next together i thought he would be like "oh that's so sweet!" but he was like "aah what? that was a rough recording!" which in retrospect was fair anyway here is the music video! 🌻❤️🌳

This so true for me. When I wanted to learn programming, it was always about the goals, many small goals. Yes in hind sight all the small projects and minor goals add up to a journey, but it’s always been about reaching the next goal. I learned so much more having a specific goal and learning whatever it took to get there, which was always way harder and involved more complications, constraints, and requirements than any tutorial could provide. In the big picture I don’t look back and value the journey as anything other than having accomplished so many goals.

" it's about the journey, not the destination" I have been an active learner in the field of software engineering for almost 20 years. And I can tell you very much so that the statement is complete rubbish. The destination is the goal, and if it wasn't the best part then the journey is worthless. People often mistake what is the journey versus what is the destination. For us engineers, the destination is the journey of self-directed learning.

Repaired a squirrel chewed cable and of course enjoyed the perfect autumn dusk.

@blitzcrafthq @DeborahSimpier @ttk314 @AltheaNetwork @DoraHacks @thedanielmark @fabianferno I was really impressed both by your Electra project and by your clear and comprehensive communication.

Super thrilled to have won this hackathon! Thank you @DeborahSimpier @ttk314 @AltheaNetwork and @DoraHacks for this amazing event! 🙌🏼 @thedanielmark @fabianferno

@AltheaNetwork @c14_team This is fantastic news!

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Roundup, the most widely used herbicide in America, contains glyphosate. Glyphosate exposure has been linked to all kinds of diseases, including Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. 95% of our corn, and much of our wheat, is routinely sprayed with Roundup. This is something every American should be concerned about. @joerogan #Kennedy24

who are you before you think "I am" ?

@alxheller Yea! This is a good one.

@alxheller Hypergamy is often what’s secretly going on in the subconscious, but I’m pretty sure that’s not what you’re getting at

not monogamy or polyamory but some secret, third thing