Too few people understand that what really controls Bitcoin is sybil nodes not used for actual economic activity. Coretards are going to be so broken later this year.

What's more important to Bitcoin's future: 1) figuring out how to build scalable self-custodial systems that can survive in a hostile environment, and hopefully help prevent protocol consensus being captured by state politics, and BRINGING THAT TO THE MASSES OR 2) crying on social media to a tiny group of a few thousand out of touch people all coping with the fact that Bitcoin is growing beyond them, and they are not the center of its universe anymore, for internet micro celebrity points Hmm? Which one do you think leads to a future of Bitcoin thriving as a global apolitical money?

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I gave this presentation on the PlebSec Congress livestream "remote conference" in 2020. No one seemed to care about the realities laid out here th...

I'm running Core 30.0. Feels good man. Cry harder useful idiot statist cucks.

Nostr devs are fucking retarded.

Nostr shouldnt be organized like Twitter, it should be organized like Reddit.

Here's the second article in the Bitcoin Layer 2 series for @BitcoinMagazine. In this piece, I go over Statechains, a proposal originally designed by @SomsenRuben in 2018. Two different implementations were later made by CommerceBlock in 2021 & 2024. Find the article below:

Bitcoin Magazine

Bitcoin Layer 2: Statechains

The second article in the Bitcoin Layer 2 series. This article covers Statechains, originally designed by Ruben Somsen, and implemented by Commerce...

LOLOL. Literally first 10 seconds of Mechanics new deranged rant: "You might be surprised about how I feel about Bitcoin, because there's what I say publicly, but then there's how I actually feel." Okay, so you're a liar and disingenuous. Got it.

I love when people call me a spammer/scammer/jpeg person/etc. People demonstrating a willingness to lie/invent nonsense is just telling on themselves with regards to their own character. The last time I sold or profited from an NFT was in 2016. Every other one I've ever owned I still have, and I always will. They are not investments to me, or something to profit from. They are novelties. They are gifts from friends. They're stupid little mementos from different periods of history in Bitcoin I've lived through. So to all the clowns who constantly whip out those labels because they are incapable of making any logical or principled argument whatsoever: I challenge you to show me a single example of me shilling jpegs or scamming people. You can't.

Wake me up when any business that matters (I.E. not OCEAN) is running Knots.

Here comes the first article in the Bitcoin Layer 2 series for @BitcoinMagazine. Here I go through the Ark protocol, the newest Layer 2 protocol for the Bitcoin Network. Ark is both very different from, but also similar to Lightning. Find the article below:

Bitcoin Magazine

Bitcoin Layer 2: Ark

The first article in the Bitcoin Layer 2 series. This article covers the Ark protocol designed by Burak, being built by Ark Labs and Second.

Kicking off a new @BitcoinMagazine article series today. Bitcoin Layer 2s. Blockchains definitively do not scale as a transactional architecture to anything close to a global scale, as such, we need to layer up other systems on top of them. Find the intro article below:

Bitcoin Magazine

Bitcoin Layer 2: The Key To Scaling Bitcoin

Bitcoin and other blockchains are robust and decentralized systems, but they do not scale. In order to make them work, a layered approach is necess...

Hope everyone in Vegas enjoys the Republican National Convention. Time to rock a Beefsteak.

Shalom.