Retired Roman general from parallel universe. Mildly-toxic Bitcoin Maximalist. Knots node owner. npub1xdg9ktzpm8lc6avs5y87pszqe620c3xptvrtaksfjlh554uczteqaln8qh

Rome, parallel universe
Joined July 2019
Maximus Decimus Meridius #RunKnots #Bip-110 retweeted
Replying to @cguida6 @saifedean
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If you're all scared, why don't you safeguard by first transfering your SpamCoin to new addresses using really large op_returns AS YOU LOVE SO MUCH? How hard can it be, bro?
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🟥 Spamcoin is the ongoing forking of 🟠 Bitcoin's blockchain into a 🏦 Hashers controlled CBDC. That's why the ⚡️PoW change was crucial, in order to show the ultimate punishment for cartelization is 🪢 Nodes making 🏦 Hashers hardware unoperable for monetary-only 🟡 ₿itcoin.
Spamcoin is a step in the wrong direction from fiat. It is de facto a CBDC. Cash dollars are better because they're harder to trace. A fully KYCed spamcoin network, where all your addresses and transactions are known and permitted/refused by centralized entities, awaits you.
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4 YEARS PROGRESSION OF SPAM ON THE CORE CHAIN Here I took a 3 block snapshot with 50,000 blocks intervals (roughtly a year apart) over 4 years. The blue tiles are monetary txs and the red tiles are spam garbage. Pay close attention to the discount taken by spam. That's the average amount of discount spam gets ahead of monetary users.
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Replying to @Anton_Bitcoin
For custom node owners, Knots 24.4.2 comes with some compatibility issues: - must use the electrs fork (jasonsopko) - must use the mempool fork (retropex) - btcrpcexplorer no longer works Cause: RPC json field "difficulty" is gone.
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ScarcityMan 🍴 BLAKE2b Hardfork
@ScarcityManSep 3
Lets try an actual test of principles, which I believe I've heard you claim you have. Imagine you get to hold one of two coins starting at the same price. Coin A is centralized, captured by institutions, infested with spam, an embarrassment to its founding ideals, is digital capital/permissionless blockspace instead of money, and just made it easier for scum to store pictures of your family or street address with threatening messages for the remainder of history at the expense of node runners. BUT... it's going to be worth 1 million USD cuckbucks a coin. Coin B is decentralized, run by people who care about its founding principles as freedom money, and actually has the means, motive, and balls necessary to defend itself against attacks. BUT... it's going to be worth 1 USD cuckbucks a coin. Which do you choose? Now, I can understand all sorts of complex, Machiavellian arguments for Coin A. Most people aren't made of stone. But if you're in it for NGU, fvcking OWN it and don't pretend it's about anything else.
Replying to @samonetma
That coin is already infinitely worse off than bcash and bsv ever were. But best of luck to you.
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Bitcoin now exists both as BTC and B2B simultaneously and indefinitely - BOTH ARE STILL BITCOIN. And it's a Feature, Not a Bug. Let me explain why and how ... Are you aware of "the Double Slit Experiment?" Do you understand the concepts of Superposition, and Quantum Entanglement? Bitcoin is an entity of pure electricity ⚡️ that can exist in superposition And therefore cannot be bound by any cage, or captured by any government or institution. When the powers that be think they have captured it, Bitcoin can change its state and essentially teleport out of the cage and reform itself. Now ... Think of what happens on your computer OS when it becomes loaded with bloatware. It starts glitching and acting sluggish. You know there's something going on the background but you don't know what it is. You try everything but at some point, you have to choose to use a "System Restore Point" By choosing that restore point, you change the state of your operating system to a prior state when it was in "solid" working order and didn't have the bugs. It's not that it's a different operating system. It's the same operating system. It just changed states to an earlier state. In Bitcoin, both a soft and hard fork act as a system restore point, but in this case, it also accomplishes something very, very crucial - the resulting chain-split once again separates money from state ⚡️🤩 IF BITCOIN, AS BTC, IS CAPTURED (as it clearly is with KYC, Wall St. derivatives, etc.) BITCOIN AS "B2B" IS NOT! And yet BOTH ARE STILL BITCOIN. The reason is because Bitcoin can exist in multiple states of being simultaneously and indefinitely What good is the longest chain if it is corrupt? Therefore "longest chain" cannot be the sole determining factor of what bitcoin is. Bitcoin Core has no claim on Bitcoin The soul of bitcoin is the maintenance and restoration of its CORE PRINCIPLES... not Core as a developer implementation. This is a key differentiation to understand. Money separated and beyond the control of the State is the soul, the ethos and the goal of what the "real" Bitcoin is. And whatever chain most successfully embodies, and accomplishes this should be hailed as the "real" Bitcoin. When Core colluded with the ruling mining pools to usurp power - the soft fork and hard fork of bitcoin are its "super powers" - It's when it changes states. You're not betraying anybody if you support the B2B chain as well as the BTC chain. It doesn't have to be an "either or" choice at this point If you are unsure which to support, then just look at this as a temporary diversification option for your Bitcoin portfolio. Nobody's gonna judge you for that But in my estimation, B2B is the harder chain because it has stricter rules that it is willing to do the work to enforce. I have this conviction because I know the characteristics of a sound money and BTC has made too many concessions and compromises to the principles held by Sound Money purists. Of course time will tell which way this ultimately plays out - But I hope these concepts help you understand why you're still a Bitcoiner regardless of what Bitcoin chain you're on. Cheers 🤜⚡️🤛
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Replying to @roryhighside
This is how you guys look now:
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They've been working on this for over a decade: "We will regulate, make bitcoin not wild, nor wilder. We'll tame it into a regular type instrument of trade with rules." Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) group's Chairman Emeritus Leo Melamed to Reuters in Tokyo June 30, 2014. reuters.com/article/world/in…
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It doesn’t matter what it’s called. And Would call it Satoshis listed and denominated as SATS Kill the unit bias
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Replying to @LucasBean91
And perhaps you should tell Bithereum supporters to celebrate their... Happy Bithereum Indeterminacy Day 1 BTH = ♾️/♾️ Forever
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Replying to @sunny051488
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To build the short list of potential algorithms to use as Bitcoin's new PoW, I focused on 4 criteria: 1) Existing fleet of ASICs available. Without this, the first manufacturer would get a HUGE advantage - and Bitcoin would be dominated by malicious botnets in the interim. 2) The ability for new ASIC manufacturers to easily enter the market after the market had matured. This is mainly determined by the complexity of the algorithm, but dependency on SRAM was considered (though ultimately irrelevant in practice). 3) The risk of another mathematical break like ASICBoost did to SHA256d. 4) The fundamental principle of proof-of-work: that it can be verified very easily, even while being difficult to mine.
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Replying to @RealMaximvsDM
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Imagine you live in a condo where a sewage leak occurs. An emergency vote is called, but since it is vacation season, most residents are unreachable. Only 20% vote in favor of the repair, while 80% abstain. The landlord refuses to fix the leak citing that "there's no consensus".
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And that's how the Shitcoiner @Lopp realizes that no proposal moves forward if The Mining Cartel doesn't want it to. Karma is sometimes instantaneous…
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BIP-110 was awesome to audit Bitcoin. We knew that Bitcoin Core was captured. Now we know that: -Big Bitcoin is rulling the space unchecked -Mining is captured -Almost all the influencers are captured and made a fool of themselves with their lame arguments against BIP-110
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Replying to @gildedpleb
They weren't right, because they were saying BIP-110 would be hard fork. It was not. Miners colluded and left the Bitcoin chain by following their own way. It was a miner activated hard fork. The only way to get Bitcoin out of the high difficulty hole is through a hard fork.
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Replying to @Puncher522
The hard fork to fire the miners is coming September 1st actually. Bitcoin’s new PoW algorithm is going to be selected tomorrow at 1400 UTC in the Bitcoin Knots discord. Would be great to see you there, Puncher 🫡 discord.gg/cWrtt8drg
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hodlonaut
@hodlonautAug 10
"There is only one Bitcoin" Yep. And it’s centralized and captured with pure fiat governance and culture. I have no interest in the narratives about what constitutes "real" Bitcoin. I’ve lost faith in BTC’s potential to serve as a technology for freedom in the long run. Because the core idea is gone. If THE IDEA lives on in a new chain, with the core motivated social layer that carried the BIP-110 fire, node runners, and the people who were there for the idea rather than just blind "number go up" gains and clique clout.. then that’s where I’ll focus my energy. I’ll never debate or argue what "real" Bitcoin is. I don’t care about tickers. That discourse is extremely tainted by years of bad actors, and will lead to nothing good. It’s about the IDEA, not the name. The name of the chain carrying the IDEA onwards is not important to me. I put my energy and attention where I have faith and conviction.
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