Amazing convo you two @Desert Dave @Chris Guida 🙌 @Chris Guida you actually inspired me here to give vibe coding a try to learn how software development works. Got myself a Claude subscription, excited to try it.

I guess you guys need to learn how to attach a large op_return to your transactions now. Shouldn’t be too hard for a community who fell in love with data usecases. 🤭

Bitcoin-BLAKE2b should adopt XBT as a ticker. Hear me out. BTC already identifies the Bitcoin-SHA-256 chain. Once there are two competing Bitcoin consensus networks, using BTC for both just creates unnecessary confusion and endless arguing. XBT on the other hand is already an established Bitcoin ticker, used in financial infrastructure and APIs. The X prefix also has a deeper meaning: it is used for non-national (stateless) monetary assets like gold, silver and Monero. That makes XBT a much better fit than inventing some shitcoin-sounding ticker like BTB or B2B. XBT = Bitcoin-BLAKE2b XAU = Gold XAG = Silver XMR = Monero And if the market eventually trades BTC/XBT, that pair would give us a clean market signal for which Bitcoin people actually value more. The name Bitcoin-BLAKE2b was organically adopted by the community thanks to the great essay by @Roughnecks. Maybe you guys could call our bannermen for this one too? What do you think? Link to the essay:

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Roughneck Chronicles 4: Antifragility Test

“What are you looking so miserable about? There's a whole ocean of oil under our feet.” -Daniel Plainview The trauma of the block size wars of ...

When doing IBD our nodes will fly through 2026 - unlike NFTcoin nodes… That is if someone is naive enough to still run a node there. 🤷‍♂️ View quoted note →

“Thank you Larry Fink for your great service to Bitcoin”? Too soon? 🤔 View quoted note →

You can’t make this shit up. This is the culture of Bitcoin-SHA256 in 2026. The ethos has been flipped on its head. I’m glad I abandoned this ship. The iceberg is just over the horizon, it seems. View quoted note →