Sometimes, we have to look back to see how we need to help things move forward. Ian Fleming hitting life out of the park.

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Ian Fleming’s typical day at his estate in Jamaica where he wrote all his James Bond stories, need to emulate this

Gm nostriches, Monday morning and lying in bed with #coffechain, ah the joys of the first Monday of the school holidays, while heading to the fiat mine, no massive rush to peel the children out of their beautiful, recuperative slumber (getting back into “why we sleep”). Feeling the aches and pains of the weekend with continued painting, and the line no one wanted to hear “the front now looks like it needs repainting”………… “here’s a brush”. 😐 Solid Monday in the mine, the next #bip110 thought experiment in the chamber, feels like enough to keep me engaged in the fiat mine before bringing the kids in with me tomorrow while the “backseat painter” is off doing “her thing”.

Some interesting writing to be done regarding the #bip110 implementation. Compliant blocks from large miners are an interesting sign, really wondering whether the Bitcoin holder masses need to put more money where their mouths are and splurge on some home mining equipment, so if worst comes to worst, we can all fire up some hashrate for when the corporate, fiat maxi miners run around with their tail between their legs not knowing which chain their fiat overlords want them to mine so the network can be maintained. The independent miner movement could be the progression of the “nodes have the power” of 2017. The corporate miners are forever fighting an unwinnable fight, fiat sustaining their ever reducing revenue. The grass roots miners have no such bind, they mine for heat, they mine to secure the network, they mine to add the blocks/transactions they want added. There will be books written about this, blockwars 2.0, Spam wars, The Bitcoin holders strike back? Who knows, but looking out for a miner myself.

Gm nostriches, interesting time in “the parade” yesterday, love the pro choice perspective, although find when choices are different than the blue hairs like they really don’t like your ability to choose…… Unsure if all those in the march were quite aware of what they were supporting “Israel (and the UK) is a terrorist state”, hmmm, is that still pride? “Free Palestine” simple question, anyone know how your life choices would go down on the West Bank? Yeah, it’s as if you accept what you’ve been told and not really explored the implications of what you’ve now “believe”. Anyway, critical thinking is generally in a bear market, band wagons are very full, and if I can put off a difficult decision today in favour of a little fun, where is the harm in that. If nothing else, some preparation for when we head to Brighton at the end of the week. A little more paining today but first #coffeechain

Ga nostriches, after some interesting #bip110 commentary from @jimmysong , thought I’d return to a Nov 2025 pod with @Cedricyoungelman , the foresight on this was wild and can’t give enough credit to them both for exploring this, sounding the alarm before so many were fully aware and it became quite so existential. “We need to smash core” or at least show them that if they make changes the nodes runners don’t like, they won’t get eternal Glory (a), they will have some find somewhere else to sell their services.

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Take a deep breath, let a bit of peace seep into your bones

Gm nostriches, happy Saturday, looking like another beautiful day outside, some more ladder based fun to be had, finally finished painting the house white to find “one more patch”, then some wood that needed attention and some more trees that needed trimming, compared to desk work, this is my happy place, but the body says “day of rest, day of rest” “Pride parade” taking place in Nottingham today, honestly thought pride month was way back when…….. probably going to get in hot water for not donning my rainbow shirt and joining in. I’ve seen the look in those council office workers’ eyes, dancing on the back of a lorry. They are there because they have no choice, volunteer or face a visit from HR, that is not freedom of choice. Wish me luck freaks.

Can you take me higher? There will be signs. @Ben Justman🍷

This just keeps getting better, first CSW, and Udi returns to the fray to provide support for the anti #bip110 army. It’s getting to a point where I just feel sorry for them. Bring out your best, I’m still waiting.

Another awesome @Daniel Prince pod with @Luke de Wolf, #bip110, not a classic intelligence test, but maybe a proof of work test for all those node runners polishing their self sovereignty halos, without really asking why. Have you actually explored what it is and what it might do and what not updating might do. Ngl, the chain split is a concern but it has happened before and will likely happen again, it may happen but what is important is how everyone learns from the experience. The risk management perspective for the public miners can’t be overlooked (Luke’s the man for this). Is your profitability where @OCEAN ‘s is? if not, you’re neglecting your fiduciary duty and also introducing risks of mining on an orphaned chain, also those could happen either way, but cutting out bit op_return would just reduce this risk. Finally, very low brow, but the whole “it’s a database” crowd, why are they so keen on storing non financial data on the proof of work chain?

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Once Bitten! A Bitcoin Podcast. • BIP 110 Fence Sitter Flip Flops No More - Luke DeWolf #619 • Watch on Fountain

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