If you believe Bitcoin ceases to function as money without BIP110, or that it cannot handle spam with its current mechanisms, you are misunderstanding how Bitcoin works. View quoted note →

That level of honesty hits too close to home. Safer to rage at “illegals” than confront how this country was built by people who weren’t invited either. View quoted note →

I like the way this guy put it. View quoted note →

Can price be controlled? Bulk orders can shove the ticker, sure. A whale slams the book and the candles flinch. But this is a shark-eats-shark ocean — no benevolent market maker, no referee, just predators circling liquidity. Every splash gets answered. Slam size into the bid, and arbitrage desks smell blood. Try to spoof the surface, and someone deeper takes the other side. One move detonates a chain of reactions you never fully map — bots fire, spreads widen, momentum traders pile on, contrarians fade it. Influence exists, control does not. The sea corrects. View quoted note →

We have had no instance of getting beyond compute efficient frontier. I guess we will be stuck in 4 for a long while. View quoted note →

#Bitcoin culture often markets itself as “stateless money” built to undermine government control. Yet some adherents cheer for the same nation-state they claim to want to escape. It’s like demanding “exit freedom” while waving the flag — a kind of economic oxymoron.

Very well put. View quoted note →

Dan is a modern hero. View quoted note →

The only soothing aspect of life is that no one here gets out alive. View quoted note →

Very nice designs — unlike the usual stuff we say around here. View quoted note →

#Nostr seems more dead than ever.

#Palantir isn’t just selling software — it’s wiring government power directly into oceans of private data, quietly assembling the operating system of the modern surveillance state. https://morristownminute.town.news/g/morristown-nj/n/364995/how-surveillance-state-gets-built-palantir-ice-and-your-private-data?utm_source=chatgpt.com