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There is a tendency to believe that nodes and node counts generally represent individuals in some reasonable ratio. This is a false belief. A single individual or entity can control tens of thousands of fully functional nodes, at far less cost than assumed. This should be defended against in various ways.

@bitprojects_io @dathon_ohm @Bitcoinapolis55 would you consider doing an AMA on @stacker_news sometime about this?

TLDR: Nodes Matter but explain "Miners/Hashrate -vs- Knots Nodes (w/wo BIP-110 signaling)" Comparing to past BIPs is fine but not overly future forward when we are trying to TUSH PUSH BIP-110 into the End Zone, preferably way before September 2026. ==== Gory details: We have a Communication Issue on the Knots BIP-110 side. The language is not clear on the "all Nodes Matter" especially comparing to Miners and hashrate. I wish Dathon and Luke could be on the same page but it is a hard thing to wrap your head around and it was one of the things that first threw off Holdlonaut and me supporting BIP-110. Miners/Hashrate compared to Knots nodes w/wo BIP-110 adoption and signaling. I have heard Mechanic and Luke explain things using past examples and showing how we are farther ahead than some point in the past but is there anything written down that we can consume and more importantly act on, advertise, educate as in right now instead of posting on X? I am raising the alarm because after hearing about Core breaking code to force people to upgrade to Core V30+ without backward compatibility, how can we get people (Walker even) to upgrade to Knots instead of their desired (wrong) path? Dose Upgrading nodes running Core Pre-V30 to Knots make sense and how do we push for this important change? Friendly reminder: 1) Bitcoin Core Node 2) Bitcoin Knots Node - Which is 98% still Core Code with the 2% difference Luke has been protecting since 2011 and we are rightly fighting for, for 'like' forever. Me: "2%"

@bitshala_org @bala_1116 These are awesome! I posted about it on @stacker_news People will definitely zap you if you post details about what you guys are up to! keep up the great work! stacker.news/items/1463811/…

No internet? No problem. Bala just dropped the ultimate cypherpunk demo at the BOSS Summit: From Off-Grid to On-Chain He literally broadcasted a live Bitcoin transaction using Mesh Radio. No ISPs, no Wi-Fi, no cellular data. Just pure radio waves bypassing the traditional internet layer to hit the mempool. When we say we are building unconfiscatable money for uncertain times, this is exactly what we mean. Mind blown. Here is the repo used to connect meshtastic to bitcoin core:github.com/BTCtoolshed/Me…

@Vladcostea youtube.com/watch?v=NG1qoo…

Bring back this Bitcoin conference speaker aesthetic

Austin Bitcoin Club is this Thursday April 2nd. The topic will be bitcoin and AI, specifically how AI tools are being leveraged to help accelerate and improve bitcoin applications, tangibly today and what's expected in the future. Sign up! meetup.com/bitcoin-park-a…

Preserving bitcoin’s weirdness is almost as important as promoting its benefits.

@spiralbtc Or that Game Kyuubi's famous "I AM HODLING" post was inspired by a Billy Joel song... stacker.news/items/1353063

@spiralbtc Or that Vitalik got the idea for the term "toxic Bitcoin maximalists" because his dad was a huge Toxic Avenger fan...

📢@boomer_btc AMA on Stacker News starting now! Link below 👇

🚨 AMA with @boomer_btc starting in 1 hour!

Please welcome SHRIMPS🦐 to the family of stateful PQ signatures: 2.5 KB hash-based sigs across multiple devices. SHRINCS🛋️ gave ~324-byte sigs but is single-device. SHRIMPS🦐 addresses multi-device; any device loaded from the same seed creates sigs 3x smaller than SLH-DSA

@bergealex4 Is there a way for a user to export a V-PACK or VTXO json from arkade?

@linkinparkrulz_ @mynymbox Nice site! I posted a link to it on @stacker_news stacker.news/items/1462400/…

I wrote an article to pair with the official release of the PaymentCode dot io website. It is hosted on @mynymbox and has both clearnet and tor options for use. Thanks to all that helped, gave feedback and have signed the guestbook! I hope devs and users can make use of the site 🙏.

@mafintosh @keet_io I've been using meet since last summer. It is pretty awesome! Would you be up for doing an AMA about it on @stacker_news?

@keet_io is growing so fast its not even funny 😅

@hodlonaut reddit sucks. Its not a content thing. They just auto ban accounts without much karma or that are new and try to post. Stacker News won't ban you.

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@carlabitcoin Yes stacker.news/items/1460989/…

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