"CR" for short. Edited "Kicking the Hornet's Nest" (everything Satoshi wrote publicly in chronological order). Made the Nostr Wiki at https://nostrwiki.vercel.app and Nostr bridges: Nostrdon (with Mastodon) & Hostr (with Hive). Home page: https://crrdlx.vercel.app
I can't decide which I like better, #bitcoin devs who:
A - have strong views, voice them strongly, engage in the discussion, and don't give a damn what others think about it
B - keep their heads down, their mouths shut, ignore the noise, and just quietly do their thing
HBIT glitch reveals Hive people being awesome
A few days ago, I was tweaking the @Hivebits (HBIT) bot. I had it in a rather glitchy state. At one point, it got thrown into a loop. I noticed it in the Discord log, ... read full note:
My Actifit Report Card: May 9 2025
I saw or read a comment this morning somewhere about one person making the big changes in the world. I thought of this quote 379 from this little book and of Satoshi Nakamoto. #bitcoin
. My ...
... pope prediction...I guess we'll find out starting tomorrow. I predicted Luis Antonio Tagle will be the next pope.
We shall see...
The players: https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/world/pope-francis-successor-frontrunners-intl-dg
My post:
Those who want the OP_RETURN limit to be relaxed say, "Let the free market decide: if someone pays to store some data in a block, so be it. The free market has spoken by voting with their coin."
Those who want the OP_RETURN to stay as it is say, "Let the free market decide which bitcoin software to use, Core or Knots. If people choose to use Knots, the free market has spoken against Core's blockchain bloat and data storage.
The free market has spoken by voting with their feet."
To me, both seem to say the same thing: let the free market decide. Am I wrong?
NPR spends a lot of effort downplaying the funds they get from the US government as supposedly not amounting to much at all. In fact, they say "less than 1%". Get ready for some whining to come along soon over this supposed "less than 1%" funding.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/media/trump-cpb-pbs-npr-funding-cut-hnk-intl
My thoughts from a few months ago: