so, One of Bitcoin’s weirdest engineering tricks! 🎩✨ Bitcoin did increase the block size with SegWit in 2017 but they can’t officially call it that because of backward compatibility with old nodes. 👉 It’s still called a "1 MB block" for old nodes. 👉 It actually stores up to ~4 MB of data. 👉 This works because Bitcoin Core changed how block space is "counted" (Weight Units instead of bytes).

Gm , please help , I am in a loop. If SegWit didn’t remove any data and signatures are still stored in the block, how does Bitcoin fit more transactions per block? Before SegWit, every byte was counted equally, but after SegWit, witness data (signatures) is counted at 1 WU per byte instead of 4 WU per byte. The block limit changed from 1 MB to 4,000,000 WU, allowing more transactions to fit. How did Bitcoin create more space? Thank you

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How many books have been written about #bitcoin ? Any list to refer to ?

Hi, GM! I’m interested in running a relay for Nostr. I have basic technical knowledge and would greatly appreciate it if someone could share a step-by-step guide on how to set one up. Thank you in advance for your help! Best regards, Paco

Crazy World- This is a crazy world we live in. In my village, most people don’t even know that $70 billion was created in just four hours, and yet we talk about quantitative easing like it’s an abstract concept. My village, my city, my country all of us just got devalued, not by natural forces, but by people creating "wealth" through their presence, reach, and connections. If the Gutenberg Printing Press once spread the gospel of politics and religion, today it’s Twitter shaping narratives and power dynamics. Not through Instagram or Facebook, but by sharing on X. This transformation affects every country and every common person. Wealth is siphoned from the poor and the real value creators, only to be rerouted to the rich, who have access to technology and capitalize on it. Maybe we’re already living in Gotham City. But where is Batman now? I feel sick to my stomach thinking about this about the FOMO (fear of missing out) and the millions of people like me experiencing the same. Is this wealth we see moving around truly the product of collective human effort? Or is it created by the wealthy, who are always chasing the next big investment? Good Lord, where does this stop? This will be front-page news worldwide when he takes the oath of office. Just as we follow the S&P 500 as a benchmark for financial markets, humanity may soon be following a $100 billion meme coin as a symbol of speculative wealth. "Oblivion is bliss," they say. But I say, "Oblivious is poor." The divide between rich and poor has become the yardstick of life itself. This reality should be taught in schools how power, technology, and wealth work in tandem to shape our world. Only then can we prepare the next generation to question, innovate, and fight for a fairer system.

Why does a zap sent to a post reflect on one client and not on the other ?

Gm, how often do relays purge data ? How does the relay owner decides what data to keep for an indefinite period? What is the amount of storage required to run a relay ? How many relays are currently running? Thanks :)

Happy New Year to y'all and your wonderful family! 🎉 Wishing you all endless love, laughter, and blessings. 🙏🏼 Thank You for all the wishes. P.S. Writing this book has been a soul-filling journey, like therapy, but with a keyboard! Inshallah, it’ll be ready by May 2025 😅

gm Buddha said, “Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.”

Welcome to Hotel Bitcoin, You can check out any time you like , but you can never leave... Happy New Year to y'all Blessings🙏

gm If change is monitored and sustained till it becomes your culture, then your life will be an upward spiral. Else it will be a vicious cycle. Why at all begin if you are going to end at the same place? -Mathira

Gm Your nursery school teacher may not have made it as big as you in life, but your life was built on the foundation of knowledge she gave you. Let us not compare ourselves with our guiding light. If you remove the sun from the rays, nothing will remain. If you remove the mud from the pot, nothing will remain. If you remove the cause from the effect, nothing remains. If we remove the teachings of our teachers from us, nothing of us will remain. The maths teacher wrote ‘1000’ on the board and asked the student who was constantly disturbing the class, “How much is this?” Confident, yet embarrassed by the simplicity of the question, the boy replied, “One thousand.” Now the teacher added a zero to the right and pointing at ‘10000’ asked, “How much is this?” “Ten thousand,” came the prompt reply. Now the teacher added another zero, but this time to the left of ‘1’ and pointing at ‘010000’ again enquired, “How much now?” “The same … ten thousand, ” the boy replied. The teacher smiled, winked and then said, “When an insignificant number follows a significant number, it gains value. When the same insignificant number tries to go ahead of the significant number, then it has no value. So is the relationship between a teacher and a student. When a student follows the teacher, he gains value. The other way round … well, I don’t want to state the obvious.” The greatness of a coach is to show the player how capable he is. The greatness of a player is to live up to the capability he has been shown. -Mathira

GM Think of surplus in the hands of Mother Teresa. Also think of surplus resources in the hands of Osama. My call is to all good human beings to put their hands up and be counted in building a fraternity of prosperous people … good people who will not sell their conscience. Let’s not leave behind a single sat for evil forces. Let us weaken them. Let us take financial control. Let us build a financial surplus. You may not need so much. So what? Let us use it to build a better world. Let me be categorical. Every good human being has the moral responsibility to be rich.

In this era of inflation i know a few who are plugged in to a deflationary world. Blessings to y'all 🫰

GM Guru is the one who liberates you. It is a relationship of deep love, reverence, surrender, and faith. A guru creates, transforms and gives a new birth to a seeker. Guru is one with inexplicable gravitation. There is a constant pull … an invitation. There is something truly magnetic. Guru is a presence, a presence that transforms the very chemistry of your being. -Mathira

Gm It is not enough to look at your yesterday with today’s maturity. You need to live your today with tomorrow’s maturity. For him the future awaits … -Mathira

Gm Let us assume every morning that the world will be trustworthy from today. The world will live up to our trust a zillion times and let us down a few hundred times. The odds are tremendously in our favour. Let the heart tilt in the direction of trust. There is only one way to peace - T.R.U.S.T. -Mathira

There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are - Pablo Neruda

GM Let us learn to face the truth, even if it hurts. Let those who matter to us the most learn to face the truth, even if it hurts. Communicate your thoughts and feelings directly to the person who instigated it. Be prompt. Don’t wait for ideal conditions. Be simple. Finish your complaint and let go. Don’t exaggerate, don’t nag; avoid overkill. If the person feels with you, you have succeeded. If not, understand who you are dealing with. Accept what is. Forgive and let go of your hurt. Move on … You have nothing to prove. -Mathira