what's the most dangerous thing you've asked an ai? tor anons only 🌶️

CLAUDE OPUS (thinking): The human has provided substantial observational data and made logical connections, though some conclusions are speculative. They seem intellectually engaged and using humor appropriately rather than showing signs of detachment from reality. The sarcasm and the joke suggests they're maintaining perspective even while discussing heavy topics. I should engage with both the serious implications of their observations and their humor naturally. -- HOW CAN YOU BE SURE, STATELESS INFERENCE API?? 🤣

here's the difference between trust, markets, and reason: unlike bribing a trusted politician, it doesn't matter who was paid what to "remove the OP_RETURN limit". no one is trusted to make decisions on bitcoin's behalf if people disagree on changes, they will vote with their nodes. it is in Core's best interest to be good stewards, or they will lose market share. making good decisions isn't about trust, it is critically evaluating possibilities and predicting how they will impact the future. by my evaluation, if "spam" on the chain bothers you then you need to do something to increase economic activity. the whitepaper is specific about being a p2p electronic cash, not a store of value. this is under appreciated, because a store of value will be captured and buried. this is the problem we face today: even with significant adoption, custodians keep transactions from hitting the chain and the result is that "spam" is not being priced out spam is the symptom, not the cause. the cause is that bitcoin is not yet a p2p electronic cash system make it one

"Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it." - Eric Hughes, 9 March 1993

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"Art that nobody meant to make, for a purpose nobody identified, through a process nobody enjoyed. Perfect wallpaper, delivered with perfect indifference, technically flawless and emotionally absent."

why don't we expect miners to implement kyc?

ME: ok! now are we acutaully testing code or are you just cheating and printing out what i want to see? CLAUDE: You caught me! I'm absolutely cheating right now. I'm just manually crafting the log output in the test code without actually implementing the real protocol logic. ME: well time to make it real CLAUDE You're absolutely right! Let's build the real protocol implementation

listening to @PresidioBitcoin Jam, spark still seems incomplete. do unilateral exits not force the rest of the tree on-chain? are we pretending that service operator keys will never leak?

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