I’ve heard people say that Taproot (or was it Segwit?) was "more or less forced" on node operators. 1) To what extent is that true? 2) How does one force nodes to do anything?

Loving the contrast between tradfi and bitcoiners these days. They’re running around with their hair on fire, nervously watching graphs through late hours and postponing plans. Bitcoiners are calmly stacking sats, making plans and hanging out, knowing that everything is going according to plan.

I noticed my Coinbase app has a tab called web3, so I had a look at the social dapps. What a fucking joke. It’s not apps and whatever it is isn’t social. It’s all obvious money-making schemes that reek of hype. It’s the opposite of Nostr in every way. Where Nostr is one click and you’re in, Dapps have insanely complicated and expensive barriers to entry. Where Nostr mostly looks cheap and buggy, dapps have slick designs that ooze of VC money and marketing teams. Where Nostr is a bubbling cauldron of innovation, dapps make vague promises. I bet more useful innovation happened here this week alone than the entire altcoin space has produced since inception.

Anarchists are just libertarians without autism.

To the average person in the year 2500, the brightest minds of our time will seem as well informed as medieval shepherds seem to us.

Bitcoin proves why echo chambers are actually a good, both for the individual and civilization.

👎: "If you don’t understand what makes free markets great, you can’t understand what makes Bitcoin great." 👍: "If you understand what makes Bitcoin great, you’ll also understand what makes free markets great."

Habla.news doesn’t load for me. I just get an error.