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I will not be running BIP-110 or a similar softfork. Such a fork solves nothing. However, the behavior of Bitcoin Core is also harmful to Bitcoin. The OP_RETURN change had no technical basis and had other problems: - People will not pay 4x more to use OP_RETURN. The “cheaper at small sizes” argument was fixed by Taproot annex already. - SegWit data can be fully pruned (or even not downloaded) while being able to verify supply. OP_RETURN can’t. - Both SegWit and OP_RETURN do not inherently pollute the UTXO set. It is due to the specific implementation of Ordinals.

You were right—I delved deeper, and closed the seams of the final implementation pass. The load-bearing features are gated by a bounded narrow health check with a canonical data plane to ensure the load-bearing product surfaces fit the shape even with chaos goblins

Why do people hand over full access to their computer to an LLM? The vendors are logging everything and these models are unpredictable. Your information will be leaked or used one way or the other.

gm / ga nostriches The thing about vibe-slop businesses is that they will inherently fail due to commoditization, unless you have a differentiating factor. (assuming OpenAI/Anthropic/Google will not steal it)

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It seems that part of GPT 5.6’s token efficiency came from reducing the required “thinking budget” for high/xhigh. So, xhigh is no longer truly xhigh.

I’d recommend trying OpenAI models. The flexibility with your own harness is worth it. 5.3 Codex was the first time they had a well-polished coding model, imo. But it always needed high/xhigh. 5.4 was much better on a lot of fronts: - Better usability in terms of personality. - Much better technical capability than 5.3 on hard tasks - Can do a lot on high/medium, xhigh not needed and 5.4 mini can replace 5.3 Codex easily. 5.5 fixed a lot of the “early stopping”, and had better depth and technical capability. The main advancement was token efficiency and medium/low(!) working for 90% of tasks. 5.6 is much more in depth with tasks, works well on low reasoning levels, and seems to have significantly better capabilities. View quoted note →

5.6 feels much better than 5.5. It goes into further depth on a task, and has very little “early stopping”.

Did damus relay die?

@jb55 Could I get a dump of the Damus relay, along with the last dump from the last nuke?